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On with the story, so I was a little disappointed that not many people commented on my running joke about Draco being pale, never the less I'm sure you noticed it but forgot to put it in the review. And I know people are out of character, mainly Harry I think, but its either I write them like that so they fit the plot. Or I write them totally in character and the story will be all higgldy piggldy and not flow. So enjoy the next chapter!
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~ Last time ~
Hours later Hermione was just sprawled on the bed. She was tired of working so decided on a break. However more thinking was involved now then when she was studying. She had so much to mull over. Everyone had to be wrong, Malfoy can't have changed. But considering the other eight members of their dorm were persistent on her apologizing, they couldn't all be wrong surely?
The door being pushed open interrupted her thoughts. And the person entering was the exact person she needed to see.
"Malfoy." Hermione whispered.
"Yes, Hermione?" he replied just as quietly.
"We need to talk..."
~ Present time ~
"About?" Draco inquired.
"I'm not sure if you are aware, but everyone has been irritating me today, demanding for me to apologize to you." Hermione spluttered.
"Oh yeah, I heard about that."
"Well I guess I have to apologize to you to get everyone off my back-"
"Aw, wifey, I thought you'd be a little less reluctant when apologizing to me." Draco teased.
"See! I don't get it! You still tease me when we're in private but when people are around you act all sad and lowly to pit them all against me!"
"That's not how it is at all, Hermione." He said while walking closer to her which caused her to start to back into the wall.
"I only tease you in private, because that's my way of showing affection." He breathed down on her while caging her to the wall using his arms.
Hermione was too hot under the collar now. She was pinned to the wall by Draco Malfoy who just confessed that he only annoyed the hell of her to show that he by some miracle, he fancied her?
"I um… Well sorry anyway. I best be off then." Hermione replied flustered and slipped under Draco so she could exit the room swiftly. Draco was just puzzled, at the fact that Hermione left so eagerly and at the fact that he had a sudden urge to kiss her while they were intimate.
~ In the common room ~
"Are you okay, 'Mione?" Ginny asked. Hermione had literally stormed into the room and knocked over anything blocking her path.
"Hm? Oh yeah I'm just peachy." She replied sarcastically and sat down opposite Ginny, hugging her knees.
"You sure don't look peachy. Had another bout with Draco?"
"What? What brought you to that conclusion, Ginevra?" Hermione said defensively. Ginny just responded with an unimpressed look that read, 'its so obvious.'
"Is it that obvious?"
"Yeah it really is. So what happened then? You're going to have to tell me eventually." Ginny said and placed her book onto the nearby end table.
"Well, Malfoy came into the room and it was erm… awkward to say the least. And then um, well I apologized to him and…"
"And?"
"He pushed me into a corner, and it was really intimate and…"
"You had the urge to kiss him?"
"Yes," Hermione responded, not really aware of what she had just said. "Wait no! That's not what I meant!" she quickly justified.
"Come on, Hermione. We've been friends for ages, so I think I can tell when you're lying." Ginny replied nonchalantly.
"Oh," Hermione answered defeated, "look, just don't tell anyone."
"Of course not. I won't tell ANYONE that you are SECRETLY PINING FOR DRACO!" Ginny said and yelled out some of it; which caused most of the other people to run out of their rooms worriedly.
"What happened?" Blaise yelled while shooting out of his room.
"Is everyone okay?" Harry also shouted, and he and Cho hurried out of their room too.
"Bloody hell, what's going on?" Ron screeched and pushed his door open so aggressively the hinges squeaked.
"Seriously, if you guys are planning some weird attack can you at least do it while I'm not in the bathroom." Pansy ordered with a disgruntled look on her face while she was fixing her robes. Neville and Luna came out of their room too startled. Everyone just stared at Ginny waiting for some kind of explanation.
"Sorry about the yelling. I just wanted to bring your attention to something." Ginny smiled wickedly and looked at Hermione. No one had noticed that Draco was quietly making his way into the common room either, as they were all facing the opposite direction. Except Hermione of course, who could see him peeking out of the door.
"Ginny, don't." Hermione tried to alert her friend. She could see Draco now in full view, yet everyone else was oblivious to his presence.
"Oh fine then," Ginny sulked, "I won't tell them that you are secretly crushing on the Slytherin Prince himself." Ginny continued to grin evilly.
"Ginny! How could you!" Hermione screamed, tears already pouring. She felt totally humiliated now, and ran past Malfoy and into her room crying. Everyone's eyes followed her running and then realised why she was so upset.
"Oh um, Draco. I didn't err see you there." Ginny blushed ashamed.
"I thought you didn't, or else confession time would have ended already." Draco said and followed Hermione into their room. He slammed the door hard, everyone else in the room just shifted about awkwardly.
~ In the Malfoy room ~
Hermione was curled up on the bed with a box of tissues in her hands. She felt so embarrassed that her whole dorm knew her secret, and Malfoy was there too. Could this get any worse for her?
"Hermione?" Draco questioned quietly, he didn't want to startle her.
"Leave me alone!" she sobbed, he was clearly the last person that she wanted to see.
"Come on, you look like you could use a friend right now." He tried to reassure and moved slightly closer to her.
"I could, so why are you here then?" she spat, "No snide remarks Malfoy? Going soft are we?"
"No, because making anymore snide remarks will obviously not help this situation. But this will." He replied and sat down beside her. He draped his arm around her shoulder and forced her closer to him, so that she was inclined to rest her head on his shoulder. However Hermione didn't budge.
"I wouldn't pick your shoulder to cry on even if it was the last thing on earth."
"Now, now wifey. I don't bite honestly." And he pushed her head onto his shoulder.
Hermione stopped crying now. Having her shoulder lovingly rubbed by Malfoy and her head resting on his shoulder felt too weird. Not bad weird. Just weird weird.
"Feeling better now?" he asked.
"Erm, a little." She tried to smile at him.
"Well let's get you washed up then." Malfoy continued and proceeded to the bathroom. He returned with a damp washcloth in hand and started to clean her face.
Hermione was definitely confused now. She just stared at him, unsure of what to do.
"There, all better. Now you look even more beautiful." He complimented in an effort to cheer her up. Hermione just looked awkwardly to the floor.
"Oh wait, I missed a spot." Malfoy said and lifted her chin up so it was level with his own. He raised the washcloth then just grinned. Instead of washing her face, he simply threw the cloth onto the floor and kissed her.
Now Hermione was not confused. More like totally shocked. At first when he kissed her she just sat there like a lost goldfish. However he wrapped his hands around her waist and drew her even closer to him so they were practically stuck together. Hermione didn't know why, but she enjoyed his kiss, his touch. Hermione didn't know how, but she was actually kissing him back. She wrapped her hands around his neck and continued to kiss him. Draco deepened the kiss even further and ran his hands through her wild hair.
Draco started to kiss her neck, plant small sweet kisses there, sometimes even bite her skin ever so slightly. At this break of lips, Hermione pulled away and jumped off the bed.
"Wait, why are you doing this?" she asked.
"I thought I made it pretty obvious." Draco answered sarcastically and raised an eyebrow at her.
"Well no not really…" Hermione trailed off unsurely.
"Oh, well I thought it was obvious." Draco answered and moved closer to her. Hermione tried to back away but just found herself moving closer towards the wall.
"No not really." She said scared because he was inches away from her and she was nearing the hard walls.
"Oh," he whispered then pushed her against the wall while pressing himself against her, "well I have a crush on you of course." He continued to whisper directly into her ear so that his hair brushed against her cheek.
Hermione was blushing tremendously now. She was so close to him and he had just admitted his 'undying' love for her.
"Don't let this be like last time," he said.
"What do you mean?" Hermione questioned.
"I mean, last time I had you caged to the wall you rejected me. Don't let it happen this time." He winked at her and crashed his lips to hers once more.
Hermione knew that Draco obviously liked her, and she obviously liked him. So the real question was: how come they had never done anything about it until now?
~ End of chapter ~
Woop, some Dramione action at last! I hope you don't think that Ginny was being a bitch by the way. Because actually it was a good thing that she said what she did, otherwise there would have been no Dramione action. Anyway, Draco loves Hermione, Hermione loves Draco. We're sorted now, right? WELL WRONG! Some more twists and turns coming up. I hope you enjoyed this chapter! PLEASE REVIEW!
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