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Waking up, Hermione was overjoyed to be using her new shower. She took her time bathing. The water was so relaxing and she never wanted to get out of the shower again. Unfortunately, life was calling. Calling in a cold, unwelcoming voice.

"Breakfast has been done for a half hour. Not that I'm worried about you starve or anything, but this food is getting cold and cold food is repulsive!" Malfoy shouted up Hermione staircase. Turning off the shower, Hermione took her time getting out of the shower and drying off. Hermione applied minimal makeup, consisting of only the slightest bit of mascara and a light pink-peach eye shadow. Hermione studied the effect and left the room. She opened her drawers and carefully picked out an outfit. Being the weekend, she was allowed to wear whatever she wanted. Hermione decided on a light yellow and pink striped shirt and a plain pair of jeans.

"Do girls always that long? You look like you normally do. In that amount of time, I would expect a girl would look like a model. Perhaps that's just impossible for you, Granger", Malfoy sneered, as he opened a book, not bothering to look up.

Hermione chose to ignore this comment and ate her breakfast. She found Malfoy had definitely exaggerated; her food was nowhere near being cold. She ate it quickly, eager to get away from him.

Malfoy finally looked up as Hermione crossed the room, "Where are you going?"

"Why would I tell you that?" Hermione asked coldly.

"I thought we were supposed to make rounds today. Has that suddenly changed?" Malfoy said pointedly.

Hermione scowled, "Of course. Are we going to do our rounds now?"

Draco pretended to take a minute to think, "Well, I'm not looking forward to spending my first few hours of the weekend with a mudblood but I guess if we must, I'd rather get it over with."

Hermione nodded and walked out the door. Malfoy followed her, maintaining a set distance away from her. Hermione scanned the corridor for misbehavior, not expecting to see anything out of the ordinary. Malfoy walked behind, completely unfocused.

"If you're going to patrol the corridors, at least act as if you doing something!" Hermione snapped at him. Draco glared at her and went back to looking off into space. As they turned into the next corridor, Hermione was surprised to find they might actually have to deduct points on their first patrol. She walked closer to the students and sure enough, they were busy setting off Weasley products that had been officially banned from the school.

"Those products are banned. I'm sorry but I'm going to have to confiscate them and take away five points each from Ravenclaw for ignoring school rules and regulations", Hermione informed them in the most authoritative voice she could manage. The two Ravenclaw boys pouted as they handed over their joke boxes. Hermione tried handing them to Malfoy but he avoided the boxes like the plague.

"You're expecting me to touch that?" He said with disgust. Hermione rolled her eyes and shoved the small boxes away in her bag. She kept walking until she heard Malfoy's voice come from behind her.

"You're just going to ignore the kids in the corner? I thought snogging in the halls would have made you stop for sure", Malfoy said uninterestedly. Hermione turned around to see him looking quite bored.

"There were no kids snogging in the hall!" Hermione said, knowing that she would have observed such a scene. Malfoy didn't answer and before Hermione could register what was going on, Malfoy's mouth was press to hers. A small gasp issued from Hermione as Malfoy kissed her. Hermione stood still, staring at him. Malfoy pulled Hermione into him and tried deepening the kiss. Hermione, snapping back to her sense, pushed away from Malfoy.

"What was that for?" Hermione demanded. Malfoy sneered at her.

"I was bored and wanted to know if what they say is true and it was!" Malfoy laughed harshly.

"What is true?" she asked, deeply confused.

"Mudbloods are horrible at snogging."

For some unknown reason, Hermione was offended by this comment. She had never considered herself the best kisser but surely, she wasn't horrible.

"You just caught me off guard. That's all" Hermione huffed and walked quickly away from a sneering Malfoy. She was thoroughly embarrassed.

Hermione,
We heard the news. Bad luck! Remember, if Malfoy does anything, send an owl our way. We won't hesitate to teach the ferret a lesson. He'll be way trained once we're done with him!

We also thought that you might need something to keep your sanity so we're also sending you a few sugar quills. We observed throughout our years in Hogwarts that, when you were upset, you seemed to like these things. Hope you still do.

PS. Don't worry, we didn't do anything thing to them.

Your devoted fans,
Fred and George

Hermione walked faster to put distance between Malfoy and herself. How could she have let Malfoy get under her skin like that and for something that was so...unimportant? It sure didn't feel unimportant at the moment. Hermione could exactly understand why she was putting any value into Malfoy's criticism of her kissing. After all, she was one of his worst enemies. Wasn't the job of your worse enemy to get under your skin and make you feel inferior so that they could slowly gain power over you? Hermione knew this was true but that didn't make Malfoy's words go away. They haunted her ever thought. Trying to rationalize the situation, she thought that perhaps Malfoy's words were of such importance to her because she knew that he had been with many girls and could, therefore compare her kissing to a dozen other girls.

Hermione made up her mind that her last thoughts about Malfoy had to be right. It was only because of the other girls that she felt Malfoy's comments might actually be accurate. In a gloomy mood, Hermione ended her rounds and left Malfoy to go find Harry and Ron. She quickly walked away to the Gryffindor tower, not wanting to send any more time than necessary with Malfoy.

Upon approaching the portrait of the Fat Lady, Hermione realized that she didn't have the password to open the portrait. The Fat Lady looked at her expectantly for a while before giving up and returning her attention to her reflection. Hermione slid down the wall and sat on the floor in a defeated manner. Fortunately, it was the weekend so Gryffindors were constantly coming in and out of the common room.

"You don't have the password? I thought Heads had the password to all the dormitories", a soft, sweet voice said to Hermione's right. Neville was standing in front of the portrait, looking down at her. He held out his hand to help her up.

"No, we don't get the passwords. Only the teachers have those. "

Neville nodded, "Well, you can have the Gryffindor password. It's bravery."

Hermione smiled, "A bit obvious this year. Oh well. No one trying to guess the password would probably think of something so simple and straightforward. Clever!"

Neville walked with Hermione into the common room. Hermione smiled widely. It felt wonderful to be back in her house dormitory. The sun was shining in through the windows, making all the scarlet and gold in the room glow warmly. The room was always inviting, but Hermione had always thought that it was even more so when the sun was creepy into the room.

Gryffindors were scattered lazily around the common room. Most were either playing a game of wizard chess or talking calmly to one another. Sweet smells of summer were still floating in through the open windows. Hermione looked around for Harry and Ron but didn't see them. She climbed the boys' staircase, greeting various classmates on her way to Ron and Harry's dormitory. She walked into the room after knocking and found only Seamus and Dean.

"If you're looking for Harry and Ron, you've just missed them. They went down to the grounds. I suppose they'll probably be by the lake", Seamus informed her.

"Thanks!" Hermione said and went back down the staircase. She left the Gryffindor common room and hurried down the changing staircases. Outside, the weather was warm with a refreshingly cool breeze. Hermione drank in her surroundings before setting off to find Harry and Ron. The day was gorgeous so Hermione wasn't hurrying. She found Harry and Ron sitting under their favorite tree. The tree provided the perfect amount of shady and a nice view of the lake. Hermione sat down beside the boys.

"How was Malfoy?" Harry asked.

Hermione sighed and decided it was probably best not to tell them about what had happened. She knew Ron would take everything badly. Harry would take it better, but only slightly. After all, excluding Voldemort, Malfoy was Harry's worst enemy. Hermione resolved to tell Harry once Ron was gone. It would be nice to have someone to talk to about Malfoy.

"He was fine. He acted like he always does."

Ron nodded, "You'll tell us if he's ever too unbearable, right?"

Hermione nodded and closed her eyes, enjoying the cool breeze that was washing over her face. Ron settled again and went back to talking to Harry about new Quidditch tactics. Harry shot down most of Ron's ideas. Even Hermione, who didn't know very much about the sport, could tell that some of the ideas were rather ludicrous.

"'Mione, I think we're going to go back up to the school. Are you coming with us? "Ron asked.

Hermione nodded and followed them into the castle. Luna Lovegood was absently sitting on the steps in the Entrance Hall. Luna waved happily when she saw them and floated over toward them.

"Nice day, isn't it? Perfect for finding Witherwelts. They're rather hard to catch" Luna looked at each of them eerily as if she was almost looking through them. "I think I overheard a girl from Ravenclaw talking about you, Ron."

Ron brightened, "Who was she?"

Luna shrugged, "I not sure of her name. She seemed to like you."

Ron frowned, "Not even a name? What did she look like? "

"She was taller than me."

"Well, that's not very hard to be", Ron said grumpily.

"Ron! He didn't mean that, Luna", Hermione said, shooting a warning glance at Ron.

Luna smiled, "That's okay. I am short, Hermione. "

Ron sighed with exasperation, "What else about the girl did you notice?"

"Well, she had brown, curly hair and she wore Ravenclaw robes. That's all. Hermione, I think Draco Malfoy likes you. "

Hermione blushed, fearing Luna would say something about the kiss.

"Why would you say something like that?" Ron asked.

Luna cocked her head slightly to the right, "Why, because he kissed her."

Luna skipped away gracefully. Hermione sighed and waited for the inevitable.

"HE DID WHAT?!"

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A/N: Review again and I'll love you always and forever!

Sorry if the story is moving a bit fast. Tell me if you don't like it. I'll try to change it up a bit if you don't.