"No way, Hermione," Draco said his mouth wide open. They were in the Slytherin common room, as usual. If Hermione had ever brought Draco into the Gryffindor common room, a mob probably would have burned them both alive. The green and silver hangings were all around them, giving the room a spooky green glow to it. However, Hermione thought this more of home than she did of the warm Gryffindor atmosphere. Hermione was sitting on the floor, her essay for Arithmancy class in front of her. Draco was sitting across from her, his Study of Ancient Runes and Astronomy homework taking up most of the table. This was something she was very fond of for Draco for. Ron would never have been able to sit with her and do homework. Plus, Draco challenged her intellectually, and they would usually get into some argument about a fact, which was fun for her, especially since she usually beat him.

"Why not, Draco? It would relieve some of the stress you are feeling," Hermione said as she scribbled another thought onto her outline parchment. She knew he was stressed from the way he was snapping the books closed and throwing them open. He did have a lot on his plate, but Hermione was glad of it. He had another life besides her, he wasn't clingy. It made being with Draco more fun and unpredictable.

"That's a crazy way to relieve stress," he said to her, raising an eyebrow and putting his silver quill in his ink bottle. He rubbed his temple and sighed as she set her own quill into her ink bottle.

"I can't believe I am even considering this," he murmured. She crossed the room and sat by him on the couch seductively. Hermione kissed him on the lips, holding his face, and then traveled down his neck to the spot on his collarbone that made him go crazy.

"Do it for me?" she asked him in the cutest voice she could muster, which wasn't too hard for her. Draco usually thought everything Hermione did was cute in some fashion. He moaned a bit as she kissed his collarbone again and she could feel his heart beat start speeding up.

"What will he think about this?" Draco sarcastically asked as she continued kissing him, pressing him into the couch a bit so that he was on his back and she was hovering over him. Hermione knew that with a couple more kisses, he would easily give in to her wishes.

"I think he will like it. Ron would really appreciate it, I'm hoping," Hermione said to him and kissed him again on the lips, letting her brown, apple scented hair fall near his face. Draco put his hands on her hips and sat them both up, kissing her in the process. He then pulled away and tucked an excess hair behind her ear and a soft smile appeared on his lips.

"Alright, I'll do it. Just…don't torture me anymore with your damn kissing," he said to her and she kissed him quick on the lips as a thank you before hopping off the couch and returning to her place on the floor.

"Well, what do I say, then? 'Hey, sorry I kinda stole your girlfriend and stuff but I want us to be friends, Ron. Whaddaya say?' Doesn't exactly roll of the tongue," Draco said as he looked at her with a worried look on his face.

"I don't know, just say that it means a lot to me that you two are friends and since it means a lot to me, it means a lot to you and that it's time to put aside your differences and be friends," Hermione said to him, not taking her eyes off of the essay she had begun to write. Draco watched her as she wrote; she was positively beautiful when she was working. She was wearing a pair of his green boxers as shorts, the pair he hadn't worn yet and she had stolen, and a scarlet Gryffindor tank top. The colors clashed, but still. She had her hair off to one side, and some of it tucked behind her right ear. She was leaning against the table on her left elbow as she wrote, her hand playing with her hair. Her eyes scanned the page as she wrote, examining every single letter as she wrote it.

She finally looked up at him and smiled.

"What?" Hermione asked with a smile on her face. Draco smiled softly and returned to his work, shaking his head.

She's perfect. he thought to himself with a soft smile. Hermione noticed and dropped her gaze back to her paper with a smirk on her face. She moved her hair a bit more so her neck was exposed, teasing him. He was about to go over to her and kiss her to death. It was hot when Hermione was teasing him.

"Hermione!" a small voice came from the girl's dorm, ruining their moment. Not many of the girls in Slytherin spoke with her, especially since many of them were Pansy's friends and Pansy was still upset about Hermione taking Draco from her. When she hung out with the Slytherins, it was mostly all guys, and maybe Ginny. Hermione didn't mind at all, she got along better with males anyways.

Confused, Hermione turned herself around to see none other than Pansy coming towards her. Hermione thought there was going to be a fight or something and automatically tensed up. Obviously, so did Draco because when he heard the voice, he dropped his quill on his paper, causing a giant ink spot.

"Damn it!" he shouted as he tried to remember the spell to get rid of it.

"Tergeo," Hermione muttered at his paper and he looked at her with a thanks. However she was looking at Pansy, who had just plopped down next to her. She was smiling at Hermione though, and this frightened her a bit. Pansy never smiled at Hermione. For a while, she wondered if Pansy was even capable of smiling.

"Hey, Pansy," Hermione said slowly, giving Draco a shifty look. "Um, what's up?"

"Nothing, really. I was just wondering…is Ron dating anyone?" Pansy asked her, her eyes full of eagerness. Hermione's eyes grew wide and she looked at Draco, who was looking down at his paper, suppressing his laughter by biting his knuckles and writing very fast. Hermione's eyes narrowed at him as he looked up at her with a smirk, giving her the 'you're-on-your-own-with-this-one' look. She turned her head back to Pansy, who was still waiting patiently for her answer.

"Ronald Weasley? My Ron?" she asked her. Pansy frowned a bit at the phrase of 'my Ron' and dropped her gaze to floor. However, she nodded, which surprised Hermione more than anything. Pansy and Ron, no way!

"Oh, I didn't mean it as though he's mine. I just meant the Ron I used to hang out with. But, no, I don't believe he is dating anyone," Hermione said to her. Pansy automatically lit up and looked at Hermione with that smile again. She rose to her feet, but didn't take her eyes off Hermione just yet.

"Thanks, Hermione. That's all I wanted to know," Pansy said and she began to walk off towards the portrait hole.

"Wait! Pansy," Hermione started. As much as she was mad at Ron for being cruel to her, she couldn't let him do this by himself. Pansy spun around happily and tilted her head as she looked at Hermione. Hermione liked this Pansy, she was more fun and exuberant.

"Go easy on him, okay? He's really shy, and he doesn't want you to cling on him all the time. Go slow, he may come around," Hermione said with a soft smile. Pansy nodded and practically skipped out into the corridors.

"Babe, do you think that was a good idea? I mean, look at them. Polar opposites," Draco asked her once the portrait hole closed and Pansy was gone. Hermione looked up at him and smiled.

"If someone had told you two years ago I'd be sitting in your common room, wearing your boxers and doing homework with you as my boyfriend, would you have believed them?" she replied to him. Draco smiled and nodded.

"Point taken," he replied as he shoved his homework into their appropriate books and laid back with his arm over his eyes to block out the light. Hermione smiled and began to pack up her things, knowing he was too tired to do anything else tonight. She hadn't been at the Gryffindor common room in a couple days anyways, since her and Ron had had that fight. She couldn't really bear to face him, but now it was time to face the music. Draco was falling asleep; his chest was rising and falling slower and slower. Hermione walked over to him and put on her Crocs, then bent down and kissed him lovingly on the lips.

"I need to go to my common room. Meet me by the Great Hall tomorrow, and we'll face him together," Hermione said. He took his arm off his face to look at her and kissed her on the cheek then laid back down and drifted off. Hermione smiled and bit down on her lip a bit, then quietly slipped out into the corridors.


The next morning, Hermione waited impatiently for Draco at the entrance to the Great Hall. Every once in a while, she would peek her head around the corner to see if Ron was still busy eating, talking, or reading, and was momentarily relieved to find that he was. She knew he would be at the table for a while, having been his friend for so long, but she couldn't help it. Hermione Granger found herself nervous.

Finally, a pair of pale, large hands with long fingers slid around her waist and kissed her neck. Usually this would have made her melt, but not this morning. That uncomfortable knot in her stomach was getting increasingly bigger and she turned around to face him.

"We should just go, this is a bad idea," she said to him as she headed away from the Great Hall, trying to pull him along. He walked a bit, but then went ahead of her and put his hand up to stop her from walking any further. Hermione's brown eyes looked up at him, her nervousness was apparent in her gaze. He kissed her and then grabbed her hand and began to walk right into the Great Hall.

Everyone in the hall knew something was about to go down. Usually, the couple walked on the side of the Slytherin table that was farthest away from the Gryffindor table, because sometimes Ginny would come talk to her or something and that's just usually where they sat. But today, they walked in the aisle between the two tables and then stopped in front of Ron. Ron was facing them and he swallowed what was in his mouth and looked at the two of them. The hall went dead quiet, and even Draco felt the nervousness rising in him.

"Can we talk?" he questioned curtly, staring right at Ron. Ron's glance shifted from Draco to Hermione and back. Hermione stood there; almost cowering like a frightened puppy, hoping Ron wouldn't launch himself across the table and start with the beating. Instead, with a straight face, Ron nodded and began to walk down to door of the Great Hall. Draco gave a reassuring smile to Hermione, kissed her cheek, and followed Ron out of the hall.

"I hope you didn't just start a bloodbath," Ginny said from her spot at the Slytherin table. She had started dating Blaise, something Ron hadn't been too fond of, but Ron had already had his talk with him. Blaise looked up at her, and she could tell he was panicked as well. The hall was still quiet until she looked around and everyone began to whisper excitedly about what was going to happen outside.

"Me too Ginny, me too," Hermione said as the boys disappeared from everyone's sight.

AN: I know, two chapters in one day! I just can't help myself. It's summer vacay and I'm bored. Kinda what happens when you're in a small argument with your boyfriend and your best friend is on his Xbox. (I have dork friends, I know)
I'm going to try and post as much as I can, too keep you guys happy and myself from going crazy with boredom.
Cause only boring people are bored, and I am NOT a boring person!
Hope you guys are liking it so far. R&R as usual please!

-CarsonRae