Chapter 3

Night

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters but who can make a plot as gr8 as this? Me, of course...

A/N: This is where it gets good. I was listening to Jennifer Lopez's song "Get Right" while i wrote this so it may sound a little odd at first.

Hermione yawned and ran her fingers through her hair. Draco just watched quietly from across the room. She looked around the room for something to sleep on. She spotted a ripped burlap sack and three bags of flower petals.

'Well, I guess this will just have to do.' she walked over to the bags of flowers and the burlap sack. She then went back to her corner, fluffed up her bag, and covered herself up in with the sack.

"Hey mudblood, where am I going to sleep?"

"Well, I see you have a nice cold corner over there you can sleep in."

He got the bag of flower petals and laid down on the cold stone floor.

"And don't try anything stupid."

Draco's thoughts:

'That stupid Hermione and her stupid ideas...Why couldn't I be the one to find the sack? Now I have to sleep in this cold corner with nothing to keep me warm.'

Since the greenhouse had automatic timed lights, they went off at twelve o clock and it was about that time.

He looked over at Hermione in the dark.

'Man, it's so cold.'

"Hermione...are you asleep yet?" no answer.

"Hermione?" still no answer. He crawled over to her and tapped her on her shoulder.

"What?"

"I'm cold."

"And, what do you want me to do about it?"

"Give me the burlap sack." she sat up.

"You want me to give you the burlap sack? No. I'm cold too. You should have found it first." she laid back down.

"Come on, I'm cold." he grabbed one end of the sack.

"No! It's mine!"

They fought over the sack until it finally ripped in half.

"Now look what you did!" yelled Hermione. "This is why people think you're mean all the time. I actually seen the human side of you when we fought over the jelly beans but now you're just acting like a spoiled little brat!" That really hurt Draco's feelings. For the first time in his life he noticed how stupid he was acting.

"Look, Mione, I'm sorry okay but I'm cold and like you said, I'm only human."

Hermione looked down at the torn burlap sack.

Hermione's thoughts:

'Well now neither one of us can be warm. -sigh- I guess there's only one way to stay warm now...Oh, I'm so going to regret this later in life but if I want to live...'

"Well Draco...um...the only way to stay warm now is to huddle together."

"No way! I'm am not huddling together with a mudblood...or at least not you anyway. You'd bug me about it everyday in class whenever you got the chance."

"Well fine then. DIE. Fine by me." she mumbled, grabbing both parts of the burlap sack. She tried to put them together and lie back underneath them.

"So that's it huh? You don't care if I die?"

"Not really...Go to bed."

"But-"

"Good night, Malfoy."

Hermione's thoughts:

'I really do care if he dies. I don't want him dead. I wanted to help him by letting him sleep next to me but I guess he'll never accept me...I wish he knew just how much I like him. I mean, we were actually having fun for a minute and he even called me Mione. If only he knew...'

Draco's thoughts:

'Man, I'm so freakin' cold! Hermione's all warm over there. If only she knew how much I wanted to be her friend. I can change, but only for her. No one else. In fact I will change...I want to be more than friends, maybe even her lover? What am I thinking...My father would KILL ME if he found out! He doesn't have to find out then...maybe I can get away with this one. Even if he does find out, she's worth it.'

Draco watched Hermione shiver a little in the corner. He crawled over to her and got under the sack.

"Draco, what are you doing?"

"I'm trying to keep both of us warm." he answered honestly. Hermione didn't know what to say so she just gave into his charm even though this felt kind of awkward.

He wrapped his arms around her slender figure and as awkward as it felt, he pulled her closer so that he could feel her body heat. She was now speechless. She could feel his warm breath on her neck and it kind of aroused her.

"Now remember, this is only temporary. Don't think I like you or anything, okay?"

"Same here..."she said in a shaky voice.

They fell asleep.

A/N: okay, the next chapter as you can imagine, there will be a lot of tension between them. It will get better though, don't worry...