Chapter 7
Hermione had barely been home 5 minutes, before there was a flash of green and Draco stepped out of her fireplace. She was laid out on her sofa facing the ceiling; she turned to the fireplace when she saw the flash of green noting who it was before resuming her staring at the ceiling. As Draco stepped out he came straight over to her and sat down on the floor next to her.
"Right, come on, spill." Draco said as he shuffled about on the floor trying to get comfy "What's her name?"
"Mildred Dawn." She answered with a sigh.
"That sounds familiar, was she in our year?"
"No, a few years under us in school. Why? You know her?" She asked turning her head to face Draco, a puzzled expression on her face
"Umm, maybe. Was she in Ravenclaw?" He looked her square in the eyes as he asked this
"So you do know her," Hermione said sitting bolt upright and turning to stare at him. "What was she like? And how did you even know her?"
"Well I wouldn't say I know her," He paused "I used to know her body." Draco said still looking at her.
Hermione's eyes went wide as she looked back at him. "Oh" She composed herself, as hearing this had hurt her more than she thought this kind of new would. "So were you dating? Or just hooking up?"
He sat there looking at her for a second, a look of concentration on his face. He took a breath before speaking. "This is going to sound so bad and will remind you of all the reasons that you hated me, but I can't remember."
Hermione looked at him, a disbelieving look on her face. "Really… you can't remember?"
"I remember sleeping with her, but not why we were doing it." He looked at his knees "This is really bad."
Hermione was still looking at him, but now she had a new expression on her face. It was the look of that she was formulating a plan. "Are you saying that you don't want to come with me to the party?"
Draco looked at her to see she was smirking at him, "What are you planning Hermione Jean Granger?"
Her smirk widened "Nothing! Well maybe something, but it's a small thing really it is."
"So … what is it? I am a Slytherin after all. I could help."
"If you want to help, all you have to do is show up." She continued to smile at him "Because Ron will introduce us all and you being there might make it very uncomfortable for her, so she'll either be a mess for most of the night, tell Ron and make him feel strange, or the best I could hope for is that it makes her stay away from us all night so I can enjoy my night and really be happy for them but from afar." She was slouching back in the sofa now, a deep look on her face as she half smiled while staring at the ceiling again.
Draco was still looking at her, a smile started to creep onto his face. "I do love it when your Slytherin side comes out." He said as he sat next to her "So I don't have to say anything to either of them?"
She turned to look at him. "No and hopefully neither of us will have to talk to either of them for most of the night."
"Are you sure you're happy for him?" He asked her concern now on his face.
Her face lightened and she smiled at him "I am happy for him, I really am. It's just since Ginny said 'who would have thought Ron would win' It's been in my head and I can't get rid of it." She was slowly starting to get annoyed with herself now after admitting that. "I mean why am I still single? You know what don't answer that. I'm not in the mood for an answer."
"You are single because you care more about helping people as whole. As well as the few who are your family. Rather than the rest of it all; and no one has come along that understands or appreciates that." He answered her with a kind smile towards her. He held out is arm for her to come and get a cuddle. She leant into him and his arm curled over her shoulder. "And in all truth you never had to worry about it because Gin was right, no one thought Ron would be the one to win. I mean you're you in your entire amazing ness," He paused "and he's the weasel." He said with a shrug.
She lay down on his lap so she could look at him. "You know she was on about?" She replied eye brow raised.
"I know it seems silly, and in a way it is. It's like we never left Hogwarts, but that's just the way it is. Ron was the only guy you've really dated, and you sort of stayed friends or at least on good terms with each after that while Harry and Ginny never broke up so you've never really seen it happen. If you're really happy for him then the only reason it's getting to you is because you haven't really dated anyone since while he's getting married. That's all." He'd been stroking her hair gently while saying this trying to keep her calm while he was talking, it seemed to work as she was still lying still on his lap only now she was looking up at the ceiling again. She sighed when he had finished speaking.
"I guess it makes sense, in a childish kind of way. Also in an annoying way as well." She turned her head into Draco's chest, while he continued to stroke her hair. They sat in silence for a while before Draco noticed that Hermione had fallen asleep on him. While he was looking at her, he couldn't help but think how beautiful she looked sleeping on him and how right it felt to him. He hoped that going to Ron's party with her might give him the courage he needed to tell her how he felt and do something about their relationship. Not wanting to wake her, he got a cushion from next to him and put it under his head. Then he fell asleep as well.
A/N
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