Chapter 6: Joining the outsider
Disclaimer: refer the previous chapters
A/N: A bit humor in this chapter! thx 4 reviewing!
Sunlight peeked into Draco's room from a hole, beside the bed and onto Draco platinum blond hair and his pointed face. He squinted and then rubbed his eyes and sat up. He stood up and started to make his way through the common room, when he saw Hermione sitting on the couch, dressed, and reading a book. She looked up, as if she could feel his gaze. Her eyes widened and her hand flew to her mouth. He looked at her confused while she looked at him horror-struck. Her hand flew back down and she opened her mouth and shrieked.
"M-M-MALFOY PUT ON SOME CLOTHES! MERLIN'S BREAD!"
Draco immediately looked down and saw himself wearing only a pair of purple boxers...short ones.
"AHHHHHHHHH…" They both screamed simultaneously. Draco sprinted back to his room while Hermione's hand flew to cover her eyes.
After a few minutes Draco came down, more covered than necessary, with a towel. He looked at Hermione. They both blushed and Draco sped towards the toilet.
Hermione got up and decided she better go to breakfast before anymore awkward things may happen. She entered the great hall, which was only half filled and sat down next to an angry Ginny.
"Hey Ginny, What's up with the attitude?" enquired Hermione. Ginny mumbled something, which was not audible and stabbed at her food as if trying to kill it.
"Sorry, what was that?" asked Hermione with an amused smile. Ginny hardly ever got angry, she was either busy with one of her numerous boyfriends or studying or bickering or bossing Ron, and when she is angry it should be important.
"It's Harry" she said angrily. She was still crushing on Harry.
Hermione sighed "Did he do something?"
"No, but that is what I am worried about" said Ginny finally talking and seemed to change her mood from angry to sad.
"What do you mean? Worried he would do what?" asked a Hermione, who took a sip of pumpkin juice from her goblet.
"See, he is paired up with Cho and you know how he used to feel about her! What if they start to go out together, again!" said Ginny tears starting to well up.
Hermione sighed "Ginny, there is no use worrying about it when it hasn't even happened yet!" said Hermione exasperated.
"And what the hell is Cho repeating her 7th year for?" asked Hermione.
"OH! Her parents made her. They want her to repeat a whole year for a D in potions" answered Ginny now moving on from cursing Cho to Cho's parents.
"Oh ok" said Hermione piling food on her plate.
"Who are you paired up with then? I was too depressed to care when I found out mine was Malfoy!" she said his name with malice.
Ginny giggled "You got Malfoy? Well I got Zabini" she said the last bit with a bit of a pout.
"And speaking of Malfoy, Here he comes" Ginny said. Her eyebrows furrowed.
"I can't help but pity him, poor bloke, without friends!" Ginny said shaking her head.
"Don't you think Malfoy has gotten a lot hotter?" asked Ginny with a mischievious glint in her green eyes.
Hermione gagged. But, stopped when she saw a Slytherin approach Draco or now that he reached the great hall entrance, Draco had just entered, she saw it was Ginny's partner Blaise Zabini.
Draco entered the great hall dreading to eat without anyone to talk to. As he entered, Blaise came walking to him, smiling?
"Look, Draco, you've always been my best friend- he said looking at Draco, who nodded this seemed to make him more confident- "well, and I would hope that I could still be…you are worth way more that those, who are against you" he said
"So, ur…friends?" he asked extending his hand and rubbing his the back of his neck in a sheepish manner.
"Blaise, you realize that none of the Slytherins would be very pleased with you and may also be against you?" asked Draco. He wanted Blaise's friendship greatly but, it wasn't fair not to ask him.
"Yes, and I told you your worth it, man! So..yes?" said Blaise firmly.
With raised eyebrows, Draco grinned and said "Blaise, that's the corniest thing, I have heard from a Slytherin" and took Blaise's extended hand.
Draco felt a great weight lifted from his heart and couldn't stop grinning and started to eat with Blaise for company. He couldn't remember ever enjoying Breakfast so much and the incident in the morning had long been forgotten.
Hermione and Ginny watched the exchange and the two boys didn't seem to realize that the hall had gone quite. It seemed to Hermione that Draco seemed much more human to her. Ginny looked at her after the exchange between Blaise and Draco and both of them smiled.
"Looks, like I don't need to pity him anymore" she said as, Ron and Harry late as always came running towards them, Ron pulling on a shoe and hopping a little.
"Sorry, we're late…slept in" said Ron and started to stuff his face with Harry following his lead. Ginny and Hermione looked at each other and shook their heads disapprovingly.
A/N: Ahhh...Draco gets his best friend back!so what do you think??? review!!!!!!!!!!
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