1 Day… or 24 Hours
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Chapter 4: The Third Hour
Time: 9:35PM
Honeyduke's was Hermione's version of her favorite muggle game, Candyland. Every wall was lined with sweets of all shapes and sizes. Gooey candy and sticky candy. Candy that would make you turn into something unpleasant, and candy that would make you feel happy. Yummy candy, and candy that shouldn't even be called candy. Honeyduke's had it all.
The pungent fragrance of chocolate was the first thing Hermione noticed as she ran into the store which Draco just broke into. She ran into the middle of the store and twirled around in a circle mirthfully, giggling with ecstasy. The smell of the chocolate and delicious candy was overwhelming for Hermione and it was making her delirious.
Draco watched Hermione spin around with amusement from where he was standing in the doorway.
"What are you doing?" he asked, laughing a little bit, and then quickly faking a cough to cover it up. Hermione's happiness was spreading.
"Doesn't this make you feel like you were ten again?" Hermione asked, "You know, breaking into candy store?"
"Doesn't that make you feel like you are going to vomit?" Draco asked, referring to her spinning.
Hermione stopped spinning and began to walk around, bumping into everything within a 10-foot radius of her.
"Whoa!" Hermione bumped into a shelf containing millions of jars of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, sending a few of the jars to come falling down on her head.
She reached her hands out to try to catch them, but ended up loosing her balance and falling into the arms of Draco.
"Whoops, got a little dizzy there," Hermione remarked as Draco settled her on her own feet.
"Who knew Hermione Granger would go crazy in a candy store," Draco mumbled as Hermione walked over to the chocolate lollipop isle.
xoxox
9:45
"Draco!" Hermione yelled gleefully from across the store, her voice reverberating across the walls.
Draco, who was caught up looking at the many different flavors of candy apples, pretended he couldn't hear her and went back to counting the apples.
When there was no response from Draco, Hermione tried again, "DRACO!!!!" she said a little louder.
Realizing that she wasn't the type of person to be ignored, Draco took a couple candy apples and went to go find Hermione. "What now?" he yelled.
He found Hermione in the last isle jumping up and down, trying to reach something on the top shelf.
"Ahem," Draco cleared his throat to get her attention.
Hermione stopped jumping, and turned towards him. "Oh, thank Merlin you're here!" Hermione said walking over to Draco, "You're tall, can you reach the kilometer long licorice for me?" Hermione pointed towards the big coils of red licorice on the top shelf.
Draco was tall, but he wasn't that tall.
"I can't reach it," Draco said. The shelf with the licorice was at least 4 feet above Draco's head. "Do you have your wand?"
"No, I left it back at the door. I don't feel like walking all the way over to the door to get it," Hermione stated, as she stared up at the licorice trying to figure out how to get it.
"Is the licorice that important to you?" Draco asked.
"Yes. It is very important," Hermione asked, still willfully looking up at the licorice.
"Fine, get on my back," Draco said, kneeling down so Hermione would be able to get on his back.
"What?" Hermione looked at him like Voldermort had just come out of Draco's ears and was dancing in circles around Draco.
"You know, wrap your legs around my stomach with your stomach pressing against me," Draco said, unaware of how uncomfortable he was making Hermione.
"I'm too heavy for you," Hermione said, her cheeks turning the color of a true Gryffindor.
"Don't be silly. Get on me!" Hermione's eyes popped.
"Jeeze, a little anxious are we?" Hermione asked, her wit coming back.
Draco stood up, straightening his back and stared at her, impatiently. "Do you want your licorice or not?"
"Fine," Hermione carefully walked around to the other side of Draco and slid her arms around his shoulders, jumping up onto him.
Draco grunted.
"Draco!" Hermione squealed.
"What?" Draco asked, slightly annoyed.
"You grunted!"
"And?"
"People normally grunt when they lift a heavy object, and you grunted when I jumped onto your back!"
"You're not heavy," Draco said, positioning his hands on Hermione so she didn't keep slipping.
"Then why did you grunt?" Hermione asked.
Draco didn't answer her.
"Draco?"
Sighing, Draco answered in a quiet voice, "It wasn't a 'I'm lifting a heavy object' grunt, it was more of a 'I'm a teenage male lifting a really pretty girl even if she is a muggle born and it's turning me on' grunt," Draco shut his mouth. He could not believe he just said that.
Hermione became uncomfortably aware that Draco's hands were on her butt to keep her up and tried to squirm out of his hands. "Umm, you know what Draco, I don't really want the licorice anymore, so umm, you can let me down if you want."
Before an incredibly embarrassed Draco had time to release Hermione, she had half way squirmed out of his grip, causing Draco to topple backwards on top of her, only making matter worse.
"Hermione pancake, Hermione pancake," Draco heard Hermione mumble from underneath him.
Draco quickly rolled off of Hermione and sat up, mumbling a shy "sorry".
"S'okay," Hermione answered sitting up, too. She didn't exactly mind having Draco on top of her, except his elbow was digging into her upper womanly parts in a quite uncomfortable way.
After a painfully still silence, Hermione said, " So, maybe the animated gummy bears would be a better choice?"
xoxox
10:10
Without realizing it, Hermione and Draco had both drifted towards Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, which were still scattered over the floor due to Hermione's dizziness. It wasn't their fault that opposites attract.
Hermione was busy looking through the pile picking out all of the jellybeans that somewhat resembled strawberry.
"Are you going to take all of the red ones?" Draco asked, amused at Hermione's behavior.
"Uh-huh," Hermione said, not even bothering to look up.
After she had a pile of at least 50 in her hand she sat down on the edge of the shelf. Carefully picking one of the jellybeans that looked safe, Hermione cautiously put it in her mouth, chewing slightly.
"GROSS!" Hermione yelled and quickly spit the chewed up jellybean out of her mouth, unfortunately landing smack-dab on Draco's forehead.
Draco stood paralyzed, and Hermione looked apologetically at him as she released the remainder of her jellybeans onto the floor.
"Sorry," she mumbled as she offered him her unused handkerchief.
Draco didn't say anything; his facial expressions spoke a thousand words. Without taking his eyes off of Hermione, he slowly raised his hand and wiped the jellybean off of his forehead.
"What flavor was it?" Draco asked slowly, once he had removed the detestable bean.
"I really don't know, and I don't care to find out, either," Hermione laughed, trying to lighten the mood.
xoxox
10:20
After the jelly bean incident, Hermione and Draco had gone separate ways to find the rest of the candy that they wanted, and decided to meet each other back by the entrance when they were done.
Draco had arrived first and sat down next to a statue of A.T. Honeyduke, the owner of Honeyduke's. He rummaged through his bag of candy and pulled out a package of animated gummy bears.
"Don't eat me! Don't eat me!" they all squealed when they saw Draco reach for the bag of sugary goodness.
CHOMP. No more animated gummy bears.
Hermione came over, her hands so full of sweets that she had to cradle them up against her chest so they would fall, and unconsciously sat down right next to Draco.
"What all did you get?" she asked between bites of her 'Peppermint Ice-so cold that you will get a frostbitten mouth'.
"I already ate my animated gummy bears, and I also got some Chocolate Frogs, Drooble's Gum and Fizzing Wizbees," Draco replied as he opened a Chocolate Frog.
"What card did you get?" Hermione asked curiously about the Wizard Trading Cards you got inside each Chocolate Frog.
"Voldermort," Draco replied, coolly.
"Oh my Merlin! Are you serious? Let me see!" Hermione gasped as she leaned over, practically on top of Draco, to see the card.
Draco could smell Hermione's hair as she bent over to see the card. He swore she put drugs in it; the smell was so addicting. She was intoxicating to him.
"You liar!" Hermione said, as she slowly got up, only 5 inches away from Draco's face.
"I know," Draco said little-by-little closing the gap between their faces.
CRASH!
Hermione and Draco pulled apart right before their lips touched and looked to where the noise came from.
The door of Honeyduke's had swung open do to the strong wind and knocked the statue of A.T. Honeyduke down, shattering it into a million pieces.
Hermione looked at Draco with her eyebrows raised while biting her lip. "We didn't do it."
"No, but we were just about to do this," Draco said as he leaned in and pressed his lips against hers.
xoxox
10:35PM
A/N: Jenn here. I know what your thinking; Hermione and Draco are going to kiss and erase all of the bad things that have happened between them and they will forget about their past and become fervent lovers. Maybe they will. Maybe they won't. You'll just have to keep reading to find out!
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