Chapter 4
"So, has my brother made a move yet?" Ginny asked from her bed.
"Not if you count him holding my hand." I said and looked down at my phone.
"Is everything okay?" Gin asked and nodded toward my phone.
"I thought that my mom would have called me this week. She's been calling me every week and giving me updates on what is going on with my dad." I said and looked at Gin. "I don't want to talk about this." I said and shivered involuntarily. I tossed my phone down on the bed. "Let's talk about something else." I said.
"Sure." Gin smiled.
"I don't like the look on your face." I laughed.
"Ah, you know me too well. What's going on with you and Malfoy?" She asked me.
"What? Nothing, there's nothing going on." I shook my head.
"Okay, I can see that this is going to take a while." Gin said and leaned back on her pillow. "I see you stare at him all the time."
"What? I do not stare at him…" I shifted my eyes.
"Hermione, we've been friends for quite a while. I know you, now tell me or I'm going to start guessing." She smiled wickedly.
"Gin, seriously there is nothing." I said.
"Are you having naughty dreams about him?" She wiggled her eyes at me.
"No! Ewe, Gin!" I threw my pillow at her.
"That is nothing to be ashamed about!" She laughed. "Come on, Hermione." She sat up again. I saw her move shift into Best Friend Mode and I breathed out steadily.
"I don't know what's going on. I just keep like, looking at him. And I noticed that you were right, he did get tall. And to make matters worse Pansy Parkinson keeps giving me death glares." I said and tangled my fingers in my sheets.
"She's just ugly. That's the face she always makes." Gin smiled.
I laughed, "Seriously, I think she wants me dead." This time Ginny laughed.
"She's jealous." Gin said.
"About what, you think?" I asked her.
"Probably because you keep staring at her man with longing eyes, I wouldn't happy either."
"You think she's noticed?"
"Um…yeah, Parkinson watches Malfoy like a hawk as well as the people around him. She's a dizzy braud."
"Yeah, she defiantly is. But Draco doesn't like her." I said.
"Oh, Draco doesn't like her? And how do you know that?" Gin asked.
"No, he always brushes her off." I said.
"Oh, Draco always brushes her off?" Gin smiled.
"Ugh, I said his first name, didn't I?" I asked and put my head in hands. "I'm losing my mind."
"You like him." Ginny said.
"No, no I don't. That's crazy and hearing it said out loud just makes it even crazier. Like, it's almost funny!" I threw my hands up over my head.
"Damn, Hermione…"
"Shit, I'm screwed." I said and fell backwards and l laid flat on my bed because I had thrown my pillow at Ginny.
"What is it about him?" Ginny asked.
"He seems different. I know that sounds stupid but he hasn't been such an ass lately." I said.
"Well, maybe…"
"No, don't even say it. I'm going to sleep." Ginny tossed me back my pillow.