OKAY SO I'M BACK AND THIS IS MY THIRD CHAPTER. JUST SO YOU KNOW I AM TRYING TO MAKE HERMIONE MORE LIKE HERSELF IN THIS STORY SO TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK.

Hermione was crying on the floor when all the sudden the portrait swung open. She looked up with tears blocking her vision. She blinked a few times in order to clear her version, making more tears fall slowly down her beautiful face. She realized it was none other then Draco standing in the portrait hole, when he realized where she was he ran over to her and dropped to his knees next to her.

"Hermione! Hermione are you okay? I saw you running when I walked out of the great hall to find you and I ran up hear to see what was going on." He took her in his arms, and rocked her gently until she finally pulled away and sat up. She was looking straight into his silver eyes and admiring his elegant and handsome face.

"I-I-I-I h-hexed-d y-y-y-your f-f-f-father" she stuttered at the words, sniffling every time she took a breath. She looked down at the floor waiting for him to react.

"My father? When did you see my father? And what did he do to make you hex him?" he tried to sound like he wasn't angry. He wasn't angry at her of course but just the fact that his father was near his Hermione could throw him over the edge.

"I-I-I d-d-don't t-t-think I c-can s-s-s-say" she said giving him a look that told him that it was more like she didn't want to actually say it. He understood right away and summoned paper and a quill right away. She looked at him confused for a moment.

"I need to know what happened and I think its better for you if you write it down." He said holding the quill out to her. She took it with her shaking hand and began to write it down. He did not feel right looking over her shoulder so he sat there, admiring her brown, perfectly waved hair and the way she leaned into him while still writing everything so perfectly legible. After a few minutes, she handed him the paper and leaned completely into him while he read.

She tilted her head back so that she could see the expression on his face while he was reading. She saw the way his eyes scanned the page and the way his eyes fired at the words that he didn't like. She also saw the way his hair was fallen perfectly onto his face and the way his silver eyes sparkled. After a few more minutes he was done and he placed the paper on the floor and brought his sparkling silver eyes to meet Hermione's chocolate brown eyes.

"Hermione, I'm sorry you had to deal with my father and I'm proud that you hexed him, because he honestly did deserve it." He stopped talking for a second but Hermione knew that there was more he had to say by the way his smile faded a little bit. "Hermione I never want you to think that I would be mad at you for protecting yourself. Yes he is my father, and even if I was close with him, which I'm not because he is an awful example of a human being. Anyway what I was saying is that, I love you and all I want is for you to be safe, and if I have anything to do with it, my father will never come near you again." He finished with his smile getting bigger and his eyes sparkling and filling with love. Hermione had to admit he knew how to put things the right way and she loved that about him.

"No, you haven't even told your father or mother about us yet and I do not want you getting hurt for me." Hermione said very sternly, which she do know that she got herself together.

"Beautiful, I am planning on telling them soon since we are almost done with this school year. And I was going to talk to you about this later but sometime during the summer, since our years at Hogwarts will be over" he took a pause making sure that she was soaking up all the words. "I want to get a house together, I have the money and it really wouldn't take that long, that is if you want to of course." He finished kind of hesitating at the end of his sentence.

"OF COURSE I WANT TO!" she screamed with delight. Before he could even begin to respond, she turned around, put her arms around his neck and kissed him. The shock of it made him fall backwords while kissing her back. They were lying on the couch kissing each other passionately when there was a knock on the door. Hermione checked the time and then said

"Oh I forgot to tell you with everything going on but that's Harry and Ron I invited them to eat dinner here, wand please" she said while getting up fixing herself and hold out her hand. He did as she said and she went to go open to the portrait door for her two friends.

"Harry! Ron!" she said while hugging her two best friends. They hugged her back and they began to walk into the living room. Before n in sight she stopped the too boys.

"What's up Hermione? Why are we stopping?" Harry asked curious at what she didn't want them seeing.

"This is a non-magical discussion so please give me your wands." Hermione said holding out her hand to her two confused-looking friends. Harry did as she asked but Ron did not.

"Ron, give her your wand. You trust Hermione don't you?" Harry said to Ron and he nodded and handed over his wand to Hermione. Without another word, the three walked into the living room and too Hermione's surprise Harry sat down and nodded at Draco while Ron stood there, his face getting almost as red as his hair.

"THIS IS WHY YOU TOOK OUR WANDS! SO WE WOULDN'T HURT THAT GIT!" he screamed while pointing a finger at Hermione. Draco got up and Hermione shoot him a look and he sat back down.

"Please Ronald take a seat we need to talk." She said throwing Harry a 'help me out here' look. Harry smiled at Hermione and nodded his head. The raven haired boy got up and grabbed Ron by his arm and yanked him into a sitting position on the couch.

"Thankyou Harry" she said while smiling at him and going and sitting next to Draco. ?He knew not to hold her hand or anything before she told them what was going on.

"Well Harry, Ronald I know you don't want to hear this but me and Draco are dating." She simply said like it was a normal conversation. Harry stood up, walked over to Draco and shook his hand saying

"I had a feeling otherwise you would've been complaining about him" Hermione smiled at her good and understanding friend Harry and glanced at Draco and then looked at Ron. He was turning red from anger and his fist was clenched.

"MALFOY! OUT OF ALL PEOPLE YOU CHOOSE MALFOY! WHY? HOW COULD YOU!" he screamed as he was being held back by Harry. Hermione looked at Draco worried and then got and idea. With a flick of her wand Ron was sitting back on the couch, unable to move anything but his head.

"I THOUGHT THIS WAS NON-MAGICAL! HUH? GUESS YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU PLEASE!" he screamed and Hermione just stood up and walked over to him. She looked him straight in the eye and said

"Listen Ronald I can date whomever I please and if you were really my friend you would just be happy that I am happy with him. You're opinion does not matter in my decisions and I hope you can understand that because I really love being friends with you" she was pleading him with her eyes, which in any second could fill with tears depending on his answer.

"Okay 'Mione if you trust him then I'll have to trust your judgement, but if you hurt her your DEAD" he said the last part starring daggers at Draco. Hermione flicked her wand so that Ron was able to move freely and then squealed while hugging him. Draco walked over to him and shook his hand saying

"Don't worry I will never hurt her" Ron nodded and smiled a light smile at him. They were all chatting and eating until it got late and Harry and Ron headed back to the Gryffindor common room.

"Well that went well" Draco said as he was sitting at the table after he finished doing all of his homework. Hermione doing to the same got up and walked over to him planting a light kiss on his lips.

"Yes it did, but since tomorrow is Saturday we need to go talk to Dumbledore about your father, since he already knows about the letter." He said while walking away from him. "Oh and I'm tired so I'm going to bed goodnight" she said but then suddenly felt warm arms wrap around her waist.

"Yes we will go talk to him tomorrow and I'm going to bed too so we can walk together, plus you don't think you were going to go to bed without a good night kiss right?" he said while pulling her into his arms and carrying her bride style up the stairs. As the were in front of her door he placed her on the ground and gave her a warm passionate but yet light kiss, and they went into their rooms both knowing that they were going to dream of the other.

SO? HOW DO YOU LIKE IT? PLEASE R&R =)