ok so how did you like the last chapter. Was it satisfying to see how Ron and Hermione are starting to grow apart. Well they will be offically done in this chapter. But who's shoulder will be there for Hermione to cry on? Oh an I also appologize ahead of time how short this is.

Chapter Four

I stood by the carriages feeling the tears slide down my face. And it felt like forever until I felt a hand on my shoudler.

"Hermione are you okay?" Draco said turning me around.

I just leaned into him and cried. He walked me to our own carriage and he just watched me as they started to move towards Hogwarts.

After a few minutes my tears slowed down and Malfoy asked, "If I may, what happened?"

"Ron doesn't think I want him anymore. He asked to stay with me tonight and I said no, and he tried to have sex with me yesterday and I said no too. He thinks that I don't want to be with him anymore."

"Well," Malfoy began, "Do you?"

"I'm not so sure anymore," I said, "I thought I was going to get married to him. He was going to be the father of my children. But if he is going to over react about this, I just don't know. I want to be with him. I want to have his kids, to be his wife in the future. But I just don't know if I can last anymore."

"You're a smart girl," he said.

"Tell me something I don't kn-"

"You don't know, " he finished, "Well you don"t know how smart you are for saying no. If you said yes then you could have felt violated, even though you had said yes. You could have ended up pregnent now instead of later. And you are smart for saying no, even if Weasle can't see that yet."

I just started to cry more and Malfoy had to put a spell on me once we got into the castle so that I couldn't cry anymore. But my face was still tear stained.

"Well," I said, "I guess I will see you after the feast."

"Yeah," Malfoy said, "Ready to spend every night for the rest of the year being my room mate?"

I knew he was kidding, so I laughed. Not happy laugh. A sad, empty laugh. Then Malfoy did something I never thought I'd ever do with Malfoy. He hugged me. He told me, "Give it time, and everything will turn out right the way it should." He let me go just as the other students began to enter the Great Hall.

I sat down at the Gryffindor table and watched as Harry and Ginny sat on either side of me. Ron went down enough so that he couldn't see us and we couldn't see him. Nevil sat across from us, and next to him were Dean and Seamus.

Harry whispered into my ear, "We are on your side for this one." I leaned into him for a second and said, "Thank you," then leaned back to my normal sitting position.

Once all the students were filed in the sorting began. I didn't pay much attention though, my mind just wandered. I glanced and saw that most of the professors were still here. Mr. Weasley was sitting next to Hagrid and Flitwick, and on the end was Aberforth. However on the other end of the table next to Slughorn was Firenze the centaur. I wonder what he could be teaching.

After the sorting McGonagall stood up and said "Welcome all to another year at Hogwarts. Fist let's introduce Proffessor Weasley, our new Muggle Studdies teacher, as well as Proffesor Dumbledore, he will be teaching Defence Agaisnt the Dark Arts. And last but not least Proffesor Firenze who will be our new Divination teacher, as our old professor has had a nervous break down over the summer."

Everyone cheered for the new teachers, and most of the younger kids whispered about Aberforth. Some of the kids even made a few worried comments about the Dark Lords followers my try to get Mr. Weasley. It made me glad that kids cared. I knew Mr. Weasley would make a great treacher.

After another moment of silence the feast beganI piled my plate with food, and Ginny said, "Has anyone noticed where Ron went."

Harry just said, "He's not here and that's all that matters right now." I nodded towards him in thanks. I didn't want Ron there. If he were here with us then he would go out of his way the make thing akward at the table. We all chatted about the summer and about the new professors and about what classes we were going to take.

Just as Neville had asked about my holiday Professor McGonagall began speaking, "Now students the new term does in fact start tomorrow, however we've decided that as it is starting on a monday for classes, we will be giving you friday off, and all years may go to Hogsmead, without permission slips that day. However, this will be a one time thing. Good evening. I wish you all good sleep."

And just like that the food dissapeared, and students began to walk out of the Hall, and off to the common rooms. I said good night to my friends and then waited for McGonagall. When Malfoy and I had first entered the school she told us to wait for her, and she would give us our password. I wandered around waiting for the rest of the students to leave. Just as I was about to go around another table Malfoy bumped into me. "Hey watch where you're going," he teased. I laughed and he and I walked over to the Head Mistrius.

"I trust that you each had a wonderfull dinner," she said to us.

"Yes," Malfoy said, "It was very good.

"One of the best meals I've had in a while," I said.

"Good, very good," she said, "Now your password is Reklaw. Now go on up to bed."

Malfoy and I turned to leave, and just as we were about to leave the Great Hall McGonagall called back to us, "It got pretty dusty up there over the holiday, so I suggest you two grab some brooms and sweep a bit before going to bed. Good night." Maloy just looked at me and shrugged and said, "Well there's a broom closet just before the Grand staire case so lets grab some brooms from there and then head on up to bed, I'm tired."

I floowed Malfoy out of the hall, and over the the closet. Malfoy opened it up and what we saw made me want to throw up, punch him in the face, and scream at the top of my lungs. I saw Lavender Brown and Ron trying to suck eachothers lungs out. Neither of them noticed that we were standing there, so I grabed a broom and ran for it. I heard Ron yell, "WHAT THE BLOODY HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING MALFOY!"

Then all I heard was a hit, a scream, and something knocking agaisnt the brooms. I didn't turn around around to see what happened. I just kept running. Running right up the stairs, to our portrait of Lupin, yelled the password and ran in, not bothering to tell Remus what the matter was. I began sweaping at an ungodly speed and dust rose up everywhere. I soon got fed up and just put a spel on the broom to do the work for me. I used another spell to blow the dust off the gold and silver couch, and onto the floor and sat down and closed my eyes. All thoughts of caring about what the room looked like out of my head. I just cried and cried and cried. i didn't even notice when Malfoy came in, but he just stood and watched me cry. After a while the tears just seemed to stop and I couldn't stop hiccuping. That's when Malfoy sat down next to me.

"You know it's like three in the morning right," Malfoy said.

"Does it look like I care right now," I said through hiccups.

"I handed it to him," he said.

"You did what," I said.

"His ass, I handed it to him," Malfoy said, "Weasle will be lucky if he can see or breathe in the morning."

I began to cry again, but not as violentsly as I did before. This time the tears slowly slipped down my face and Malfoy tried hard to wipe each and everyone away, but it was no use. So instead he wrapped his arms around me and we both began to fall asleep.