Hermione Granger woke up feeling less than was the day she needed to start meeting with the mystery artist she had tp put on a show with. She wasn't particularly looking forward to it. Ever since seeing Malfoy and Harry get all buddy buddy with each other she just felt like throwing on her panda eyes and telling everyone to fuck off like she did when she was being Taylor Mommsen. Maybe that would be the sort of style she would go for today when they rehearsed. Keeping her mocha skin and curly hair as she did it would be a challenge though. Something about the bouncing curls just made people less inclined to believe she was pissed off, but she wanted to keep to the look she wore when she was simply being a song writer. Her own look. No different then how she looked naturally really, just hair dyed black and make up applied, which made enough of a difference that no one would recognize her straight away. She turned on some Pretty Reckless not caring if she woke up Malfoy.
Not far away Draco woke up feeling just as unenthusiastic, and a touch confused. The familiar singing voice of a girl he had dated was blaring from across the had never imagined that Granger listened to this type of music, let alone sang it as he could clearly hear she was doing. Quite well actually, she had some lungs on her. He got up and walked across the hall to where her door was open. The normally quiet book worm was wearing a black T shirt that said bad ass and a pair of short pj pants and dancing around to Miss Nothing screaming the lyrics at the top of her lungs. He watched her fascinated, some of her dance moves were down right slutty, and her voice was incredible. An idea was forming in his head, one he didn't know how to feel about. He walked over to his own room and put on his own music, stuff he had written himself.
Hermione stopped her singing and looked over surprised as she heard Black Viel Brides coming from Malfoys room. The sound of one of her exes voice startled her. She walked across the hall to see Draco screaming along to the music in nothing but a pair of pj pants. She admired his abs and tattoos for a moment unable to help herself. "good morning" she said loudly over the turned it down and smiled at her hesitantly completely freaking out inside. "I had no clue you were into muggle American music" She said smirking at him. He smirked back at her trying desperately to hide the overwhelming panic inside him.
"I went to America after I left home, and the music just kinda stuck with me" He said shrugging. She smiled at him, genuinely this time.
"I know what you mean, American music just feels more lively and free" She said pensively "Well I have a lot to do today, chat with you later" She said walking into her room and closing the door. There was something about Malfoy that reminded her strongly of someone else, she just couldn't place her finger on who.
Draco found himself freaking out. Hermione was Taylor, there was no denying it. That smirk, the way she talked about music, the way she sang, it all added up. What would she do if she found out that he was Andy Beirsack though? They hadn't exactly split on good terms, they hadn't been a couple in the traditional sense either. She already had plenty of reasons to hate him, without him secretly being her ex on the list. He heard a knock on the door and pulled a surprised Harry in before he could say anything. "Good morning to you to" Harry said remaining fairly unruffled. "Whats got you freaking out?" he asked sitting himself down in the only chair in the room. Draco paced in front of him nervously, how do you broach the subject of your ex girlfriend who happens to be a famous rock star to her best friend who happened to be the chosen one? It all came out in a whispered rush.
"Hermione is Taylor Mommsen, and I'm Andy Beirsack ,and we kinda dated, but now we have to do this concert thing together and she doesn't know and I don't know who else she could be" Draco said pacing faster as he talked. Harry stared at him for a moment, before laughing hysterically.
"Oh dear lord! How did you figure it out?' Harry asked still laughing. Draco stared at him in wonder, why wasn't he panicking? Did he know something he didn't?
"I heard her singing..." Draco said still freaking out.
"Well, you're going to have to tell her" Harry said in a somewhat serious tone.
"But she'll hate me! More then she already does!"
"You forget that I'm her best friend, I know how she's going to react better then you do" Harry said rolling his eyes, this statement didn't calm Draco down.
"But I know the side of her that's Taylor, way too well, she might actually kill me" He said his eyes widening at the thought.
"You do have a point there" Harry said looking thoughtful "I'll be there then, I can keep things calm" He said confidently. Draco thought of the violent screaming fights that had occurred and did not feel even half as confident as Harry.
"I'm not so sure about that" he said going paler by the minute. Harry rolled his eyes at him again, it was getting to be a habit.
"I managed to keep her and Ron friends, for years, I can't even count how often they hated each other." Harry said thinking of the many, many fights.
"They fought?" Draco asked confused, the golden trio had always appeared to be inseparable to him.
"Like cats and dogs" Harry said absent mindedly going through some CDs that were by the bed. Draco sat down on his bed rethinking just about everything he had ever believed about Harry and his friends.
"Is Weasely at least exactly who he seemed?" he asked feeling strangely unobservant.
"Mostly, except he's actually a very smart strategist, and very open minded to most people." Harry said separating out specific CDs from the collection. Draco only hummed in response. The supposedly uncorrupted one was loosing sleep because he killed people, the innocent bookworm was actually a naughty rock star, and the one that seemed like an angry idiot was a brilliant, open-minded, strategist. How in hell did the three of them manage to keep everyone one so fooled? "Here, all these CDs were done by Hermione" Harry said handing them to his shell shocked companion. Draco grabbed them and shuffled through them anxiously.
"Awe fuck, I've dated her more than once and didn't know it" He whined, Harry laughed at him. "I actually know her as all three of these women..." Draco said even more shocked "I've helped her write music.." He sat feeling both uncomfortable, and strangely honored.
"So, when you guys dated, did you love each other?" Harry asked casually, Draco blushed.
"Very much so, both times we dated, but there was always something ripping us apart." he said thinking fondly of the two women who were actually one "We wrote lots of break up music about each other though, and some of it was rather mean" he said frowning deeply, she had actually helped him write horrible things about her without knowing it, and probably vice verse.
A knock on the door startle them both, Draco opened it to Hermione who was looking rather pissed, and much more like the women he had known in her heavy eyeliner and black hair.
"Hi Andy." she said rather coldly, staring at him with sad betrayed eyes.
"Looks like you don't have to find a way to tell her" Harry said flipping through a book on quititch he had found.
"I can see that Harry, thank you for pointing out the obvious" Draco said a little irritated.
"This is going to be a long couple of months" Harry said sighing.
"Harry, could you please leave? I have lots of, very private, things I need to discus with Draco, I'm going to be civil I promise" Hermione said pinching the bridge of her nose.
"Ok, are you going to be ok Mione?" Harry asked concerned, she looked as if she was going to cry.
"I'm fine, just give me awhile to speak with him alone please" Hermione said stiffly, Harry came up and hugged her.
"Try not to be to hard on him Mione, you kept secrets too" Harry whispered in her ear before leaving, she nodded and waited untill he was out of the room to look at Draco.
"Do you hate me now?" He asked sadly, he had never wanted her scorn.
"I never hated you before, why should I start now?" she asked the tears spilling over. His heart broke a little when he saw the tears spill over.
"Well that's good I guess, because i could never bring myself to hate you either" He said quietly, trying to not cry himself. She just stared at him for a moment, bottom lip trembling, before she gave up and practically tackled him.
"I've missed you" she whispered hugging him tight, he hugged her back gratefully.
"I've missed you too" He said pulling her as close as humanly pulled away a little studying his face.
"So this is what you really look like?" She asked laughing a little, he smiled at her.
"Not quite, like you I opted to dye my hair black and wear eyeliner" He said running his fingers through her hair. She grinned at him touching his face tentatively.
"You definitely kept your face to be Andy" she said smiling at him, he smiled back.
"You kept your pretty blue eyes most of the time" he said staring into her eyes peacefully. She smiled for a moment before frowning.
"We really do need to talk, and its not going to be an easy talk." She sighed, he nodded in agreement. "I should be mad at you." She said narrowing her eyes at him "But i just can't bring myself to be mad right now." She said burying her face in his chest. He smiled down at her, knowing he should be mad to, but not willing to fight with her.
A couple of hours later they were talking about how they should talk about what they needed to talk about. "I've got it!" Hermione said excitedly after a long silence. "Our music, I know that I write down my every emotion in my music, so it at least discloses many of my secrets, and that way we can do it steadily." She said feeling quite proud of herself, Draco smiled at her.
"That will be perfect actually, my music is a bit like an encoded diary." He said grinning at her. She grinned back, her stomach dropping a little when she thought of the things he was going to find out.
"And we start rehearsing tonight, it will be perfect."