Sorry for the late update, since my mom and sis have their vacation at the moment I'm not able to go online that often...
Anyways, remember last time, I left Hermione with answering Draco's question?
I'll let her answer now, and we'll see what happens next.
Hermione doesn't really know what to answer, she's quite a bit stunned by Draco's straight forward questioning. She looks at the sky, where the stars now get shaded by clouds.
"I... I wouldn't have written that letter if I didn't have certain feelings for you, would I?" she asks back.
Draco smiles a little and scoots closer to his Muggleborn. "I suppose that's true." He says softly. "You know, ever since I first saw you, I've had these feelings already, though at first I didn't know what they were, I'm a Malfoy, I'm not supposed to have feelings towards a Mud... I mean, Muggleborn, right?" he asks. "But after the years went by, I became more aware of these feelings and they became more difficult to supress each time, that's why I became more and more hostile towards you every time I talked to you, to stop my feelings, to tell myself that it's wrong to love you and either way, you wouldn't love me back, as so I thought, I now see that I was wrong..." he looks at Hermione, giving her a smile from which he never thought he'd give her that, warm and friendly.
Hermione blushes a little. "It's quite the same here. I always kind of liked you, but my friends completely hated you, so I told myself to do the same, but every time I saw you I had the slight hope that you'd treat me differently, not cold and angry, but at least a little bit friendly, quite saddening to notice that this never happened. Terrible we have to find out in our last year huh? I mean, we probably will never see eachother again after school." She whispers, giving Draco a sad look.
Draco watches her, her eyes show that she really feels bad about this and he strokes his hand through his blond hair, a bit confused, not knowing what to say. "I suppose... that if we... ehm... well, I mean, if this really works out, there is no reason for us not to see eachother again, right? If we become a real couple, I can come to visit you and you can do the same!" he says with a light and friendly tone.
"I'm not too sure," Hermione answers. "I don't think your parents will ever accept me, and I'm not too sure if I'll ever be able to accept your parents, they're Death Eaters..."
Draco chuckles. "Well, luckily you won't have to date any of them." He jokes.
Hermione laughs, she never knew that Draco could be funny in a non sarcastic way, it makes her feel so much more comfortable, and yes, he's right, she doesn't have to like his parents, she likes Draco and he likes her, that's all there is to know.
"You're right, you really are ok, Draco." She murmers.
Draco nods. "I know... you aren't bad yourself." He says with a faint smile and he tries to kiss Hermione, getting interrupted by very heavy rain. "Great..." he whispers, cursing softly.
"We'd better go inside before we catch a cold." Hermione says, also a bit disappointed.
Draco sighs and gets back up on his feet. "You're right, would be strange if you and I are both sick right? People would think strange things of it, completely incorrect, of course." He jokes and they start running towards the castle.
Hermione enters the Gryffindor common room, completely soaked and freezing cold, she and Draco parted when they reached the Great Hall, not wanting to run into Filch, he'd be sure to tell everyone about their meeting and that's the last thing they want.
"Where did you come from?" she suddenly hears, she looks around, seeing a redhaired girl, she recognizes as Ginny, sitting on one of the comfortable chairs.
"I went for a walk." Hermione says, this isn't a complete lie, since it started out as an innocent walk, she doesn't have to tell the girl she met Draco.
Ginny stands up and walks towards the window. "I see, it's quite bad weather huh? You'd better put those wet robes off before you catch a cold." She says, seemingly buying Hermione's story.
Hermione nods. "Yeah, I'd better do that, and I might go to bed as well, howcome you're up so late by the way?" she now asks, remembering that it's after midnight.
"Couldn't sleep..." Ginny simply says, following Hermione upstairs.
"Same here."Hermione answers.
Draco enters his private room in the Slytherin dungeon, falling backwards on his bed, still wearing his wet clothes, he still smiles a little, he can't imagine what he just did, expressing his love for the Gryffindor Mudblood, why does it make him feel so good? Too bad the stupid rain had to mess things up before he had a chance to kiss her, he wants to know if her lips would feel as good as he'd expect them to be. 'Would they feel like in my dream?' he wonders. He licks his lips, imagining feeling Hermione's there.
His pants become way too tight around his crotch, but instead of ignoring it or taking a clod shower, he decides to do what he never felt possible of doing, unbuttoning his pants, peeling them down together with his underwear and wrapping his fingers around himself, a soft sigh of relief escaping his lips while he starts moving.
Hermione is the last of the Dream Team to enter the common room the next morning, yawning as she says: "Morning guys."
"It's about time too, what took you so long?" Harry asks, knowing that she's usually the first to be up and ready because she doesn't want to be late, not even five minutes late for breakfast. "You look tired, had another nightmare?" he then asks.
"Nightmare?" Ginny asks.
"Nothing serious." Hermione quickly says to Ginny. "And no, I just didn't sleep all too well. Couldn't concentrate on my homework yesterday, so I went for a walk, got suprised by the rain, got back to the common room went to bed and couldn't stop thinking about my homework." She says, she feels bad about lying, but it's always better than saying she met Malfoy yesterday and that she was quite confused after nearly kissing him.
Ron grins. "That's so tipical for you." He states out.
Hermione laughs as well, she knows, that's why she said it, she knew she wouldn't get any questions if she'd say that. "Well, we're goig to be late, come on!" she says, starting to walk towards the exit of the common room.
When they enter the Great Hall in silence, she secretly looks in the direction of the Slytherin table, Draco is talking to his house mates, Crabbe and Goyle, who sit on either side of him, as personal bodyguards, Hermione thinks grinning. He looks a bit different today, nearly relaxed, she notices, before walking towards her own table.
"Well, Transfiguration today, wonder what McGonagall will let us do..." Ron says, trying to start a conversation.
"Dunno, we'll find out soon enough." Harry answers.
Hermione's eyes start to sparkle. "I hope we'll have to summon things like last time, that was a lot of fun!" she says excited.
"Yeah, especially since you were the only one who got it to work, how on earth do you do that? I mean, you can do everything!" Ron says, not really meaning it as a compliment, more sarcastically.
"Just pay attention and put your concentration to the right cause." Hermione says.
Ron nods, acting like he will try to remember that for the next time.
Draco already entered the Great Hall when he notices his girlfriend walking in. He doesn't have time to look at her, because Crabbe says something to him, he didn't hear it, so he has to ask for the repeat of the sentence, something he rarely does.
"I said: was it you who entered the common room so late?" Crabbe asks.
"Oh, yeah, that was me, went for a walk..." Draco quickly says, thinking back. Last night was quite nice, not only did he confess his love for Hermione, he also got rid of the annoying tightness in his pants he always tries so desperately to supress, now he feels wonderful, he looks at the door where Hermione was just a few seconds ago, but she's gone, he looks at the Gryffindor table. Hermione's got her back towards him, but seeing her movements, she can tell that she's feeling quite excited about something, probably today's classes, Draco thinks while grinning slightly.
Yeah I know, another short chapter, can't help it, parents can be a real pain from time to time.
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