Chapter 7

I woke up about 9 the next day showered and dressed. I pressed my ear to Draco's door and heard nothing so I went down to get breakfast sorted. I put some oil in a pan then put some eggs, bacon and mushrooms and fried it all up. My mum was setting the table with juice and cereals; she'd also put some toast in the toaster. When I was done I put it on serving plates washed me hands and went to get Draco up. I knocked on his door and didn't hear anything, I opened the door a little and looked in, and he was still asleep. I went over and gently shook him,

"Draco, breakfast is ready if you want some," I said quietly. He stirred and opened his eyes.

"Hey sleepy head, do you want breakfast?" I asked.

"Morning, I'll be down in a bit start without me," he croaked. She left and sat at the breakfast table; she waved her wand at the food and did a spell to keep the food hot. She piled her plate up added some tomato sauce ands started on her fry up. Dad came in and sat down reading his paper and mum was in and out cleaning.

"Morning dad," Hermione said cheerily.

"Morning sweet," he replied over his newspaper.

"Morning Mr and Mrs Granger," Draco said brightly.

"Oh please, call us Chris and Jacqui, how did you sleep Draco?" She asked.

"Very well thank you, would you like any help tidying today?" Draco asked politely.

"Thank you for the offer but I'd hate for your first day being house work, you go and have fun. Hermione they have that ice rink open in town if you want an idea of where to go,"

"Could be entertaining," Hermione smiled at Draco. Draco had started eating breakfast. It seemed strange seeing Draco in jeans and a casual shirt, hair styled casually. After we finished breakfast and cleared it away I drove my mum's car to town. (I did an intensive course in the summer)

"I didn't know you could drive Hermione," Draco said.

"There are a lot of things you don't know about me," I said with a wink.

"True, I wasted too much time being a nasty ferret to find out things" Draco said sadly.

"Hey, you were young. Anyway that's enough negative talk lets have some fun,"

I pulled into the car park and reversed into a space. Just then my phone rang; it was mum asking for some groceries on our way back.

It was nice having Draco on his own, he relaxed a bit and we chatted more casually about teachers and comparing growing up stories.

"So apart from the Hogwarts letter, when did you know you had magic," Draco asked.

"When I was about 8 my family and I went on a picnic to this park, I had been looking forward to it for weeks because they're both full time dentist we didn't go on outings very often and I'm not saying that I missed out or anything. Anyway it came to the day and it was raining really heavily. I was really disappointed I remember staring out the window at these black clouds wishing for the sun to come out. I stared and stared and I saw a break in the clouds so I wished for the sun again and the sun started to appear and eventually the clouds went away. I got to go on the picnic anyway," I grinned at the memory.

"That's cool, I realised when I flew on a broom for the first time without bragging or anything I just had the instinct, not quite as cute as bringing the sun out," he smiled and it was a very nice smile too. We had lunch at KFC then we went ice skating. I'm not very good at it but Draco surprised me he was really good.

"All those skating sessions on the lake" he explained. I can skate around a bit but not very fast so I was going at my own pace the next minute Draco was next to me skating quite casually then he offered me his hand. I took his hand and he sped around the rink my feet just about kept up. It was such good fun. He let go of my hand before I knew what he was doing causing me to skate into some guy. I blushed as the guy pulled me up and hastily skated off. I saw Draco who was laughing his head off, gripping onto the wall. He looked quite mad to people who wasn't in on the joke. I tried to pull an angry face didn't quite work as I just ended up joining in the laughter. Both mad then. I skated to him and punched him lightly on the arm and skated away as fast as I could. I couldn't see him so I slowed down, mistake he came up behind me.

"That's it Granger, I'm going to get you," he said trying to sound serious. I tried to speed up but it was no good. He over took me grabbed my hand as he went and dragged me around the rink again. I couldn't breathe for laughing so hard. Eventually we headed back to the car to go to the supermarket. I pressed play on the CD player wondering what my mum had listened too, Michael Bublѐ started singing to my delight.

"What is this?" Draco asked.

"Muggle music, do you like it?"

"Not bad actually" he said.

"Glad you approve," I said admirably.

I started singing along to Michael, getting into the swing of it. Draco looked at me.

"You're crazy Granger" He said.

"I know," I stated grinning. I was most disappointed when we pulled up at ASDA; I was enjoying the car journey. Draco at ASDA was the most entertaining thing. The muggle way of life clearly baffled him. We weren't too long but we got what mum asked and headed back home. We put the groceries away then went and sat in the lounge.

It was an interesting morning living as a muggle but it was fun spending time with Hermione. She looked nice today in jeans and a winter jumper well suppose I never saw her out off uniform. We were in the lounge awaiting the arrival of the cousins. Hermione put on this machine called a WII. It was fun we played something called 'Mario Kart' she was beating me so badly till I got the hang of it I just beat her when the door bell rang. Shame I couldn't enjoy my victory for long, her cousins arrived. They were all really friendly and cool. Tim and Summer we're really nice we all sat around chatting her cousins we're easy to talk too. Her aunt and uncle were both nice too her uncle was really funny. Not long after Nina and her husband Shane arrived with Ella and Jake. They we're both really cool too Ella and Jake we're really hyper when they got in but I guess they were just excited about Christmas. It was a fun night, we played a few muggle games but they were easy to pick up it was a laugh. Now I've never really had much to do with children being an only child in all but I liked Ella and Jake. Ella was really confident for a 6 year old and Jake was just mad but it didn't bother me even if he did call me Dray.

"Its fine I get called Mya," Hermione said when she heard him.

When they went to bed with a promise that Santa was packing his sleigh ready for tomorrow night we played on this dancing game on this wii thing was really funny. We all eventually followed Ella and Jake's example and went to bed.