This is a continuation of the last chapter posted. These will be the only ones directly linked to one another. I meant to upload it yesterday, but I got sucked into my book and only remembered as I was about to fall asleep. Anyway, here it is. Unbetad, so mistakes are my own. Uploading it on my phone too, so I haven't read it over. I will go back over it and alter any errors when I get on my laptop.

It wasn't for the best. Not in the slightest. She still saw him around school until their final day. It felt like before they had even started dating, before they even really started speaking to one another. Stolen glances, a small smile, a wish that there was a whole lot more.

But she knew what it felt to have more with him and if she was to say that she didn't miss it, miss him. She'd be lying.

Her friendship with Ron was strained, although that was down to her distancing herself from him. Yet she noticed his friendship with Daphne seemed to blossom.

There was more smiles directed her way and Hermione hated it. Jealousy was a cruel thing.

When they arrived at the platform at Hogsmeade Station to get the train back to Kings Cross, her eyes caught his and she smiled in his direction, her heart fluttering when he smiled back.

Summer began and she wished she could see him, spend time with him away from Hogwarts, but they were no longer together. She had made sure of that.

When his owl arrived at hers, she had been surprised, but fed it a piece of Honeydukes finest after taking the piece of parchment attached to its leg.

Hermione, I hope you're enjoying your summer. I'm heading to Diagon Alley next week, care to join me? Draco

That was how it began, a few owls here and there, a couple of trips to Diagon Alley and she had even convinced him to venture into Muggle London for a bit. It was like having him back, only they were nothing more than friends. Despite them holding hands occasionally.

As summer began to come to an end, the owls from Draco became less and less until they stopped, and she never saw him anymore. She wondered what she had done this time. It wasn't as though they had been dating, and as far as she was concerned, their friendship was a happy one.

It had been on the train back to Hogwarts in September that someone from Slytherin stopped as they walked past the compartment she was in. They looked at her curiously before uttering the words; "You're Draco's ex, aren't you? Did you know he's dating Daphne now?"

There wasn't a malicious bite to his tone, he genuinely seemed curious and maybe a little concerned. Hermione simply shook her head before turning to look out the window. Now it made sense why the owls had stopped.

It had been confirmed when they were walking out of the Great Hall that evening and he was holding Daphne's hand, talking to Blaise Zabini.

He ignored her, even though she knew that he knew she was there.

It had been difficult to say the least, seeing them together, because she certainly made it clear that they were together. Draco seemed more reluctant though.

Hermione had decided to try her best to get over him, forget him. So she tried dating Ron. Which honestly, was ridiculous. Although they had repaired their friendship, they weren't meant for a relationship.

In the beginning of December, she found out that his relationship with Daphne had ended. She had no idea why, but it had. The look on Daphne's face said it all.

He owled her a week later, asking how she was and she spent three days debating whether to reply to him or not. In the end, she decided to ignore it. He had ignored her for long enough, she could do the same. It was going to be much easier with the Christmas holidays approaching.

That was until he started to sit near her in every lesson they had together. Or beside her in the library when she was doing her homework.

In the end, she couldn't not talk him, he was there all the time.

It hurt, being ignored by him and not having a clue as to why. She had thought they were friends, but he had gone and done something to prove her wrong.

So she told him. She told him going from speaking to him as often as she had to him completely ignoring her without an explanation hurt her. How she stayed up at night trying to come up with every possible reason as to what she could have done wrong. She thought over each and every letter she had sent him, none had anything hurtful on. It hadn't been until she was on the Hogwarts Express and that Slytherin had told her about him and Daphne that she realised why he had been ignoring her. Could they not be friends even when he had another girlfriend?

At first, he hadn't been sure what to say, he just sat there looking at her, his guilt as clear as day across his face. A minute or two later, he apologised. Told him how Daphne hated her and he knew that if continued to talk to her, their relationship wouldn't have lasted.

She laughed in his face then and told him that it had clearly gone well for them.

After that, he apologised every single day, even if it was as they were passing on their way to class, he would apologise to her.

Slowly, she began to trust him again. She made him promise that it would never happy again, because she cared for him a lot. Which he did. He promise he wouldn't hurt her again.