A/N: AND I'M BACK! Sorry, if you guys didn't know already, I was at WWoHP! Now, enjoy the chapter, and remember to REVIEW!

"So…you wanna go flying?"

"To be honest…no."

"Eh, well, we're gonna go, anyway."

"Thought so."

"Don't worry…it'll be fun! And anyway, I'll save you if you fall." Draco smirked.

Hermione paled. "I'm going to FALL?!"

"Uh…no? Hey, aren't you a Gryffindor?"

"Fine. Let's get this over with."

Hermione climbed onto the broomstick behind Draco and held on to him.

Very tightly.

"Can't…breathe…" Draco wheezed.

"Sorry, am I holding on too tight?"

"Just… a…bit…"

Hermione loosened her tight grip. "Are we too heavy? What if we break the broomstick? Is it expensive? Will we die?"

"Merlin, Hermione, what is that phrase muggles use, again? Oh, yeah. CHILL."

"I AM CHILLED! I AM, LIKE, TOTALLY, ONE HUNDRED PERCENT CHILLED-wait, how do you know that? I thought you, like, hated muggles and stuff."

"My parents did. I…I don't think it really matters, if someone is muggle-born or not."

"But you called me a mud-"

"Don't say it!" Draco snapped. "Anyway…I thought we were letting go of the past."

Oh yeah, that's right.

But it's harder than it seems…

"You can open your eyes, now."

Hermione opened her eyes. "Ah! We're so high up!"

"Yes, well, we are flying." Draco said sarcastically.

Hermione ignored him. "Get me down! I wanna go down!"

"Aren't you a brat?" Even so, Draco dived towards the ground. Hermione let a blood-curdling scream.

They reached the ground, and Hermione and Draco climbed off. "Merlin, Granger, you sounded like you were being tortured." Draco realized what he said just a second too late. "I'm sorry-"

But a second could mean everything.

Hermione felt her fury from before come back. "Yeah. I was tortured. And you? Yeah, YOU stood by and did NOTHING! Have you ever been tortured? No. It's horrible. Do you want to try? Do you want to experience it, again and again and AGAIN, every…single… NIGHT?!"

Draco squinted his eyes and snarled, rage building up inside him. "For your information, Granger, I do know what it feels like to be tortured. And no, I don't experience it again and again and again every night." Draco mocked. "But for the first 17 years of my life, I lived in fear, scared that Father might torture me again, scared that he will kill my Mother like he threatened to every…single…DAY!"

"AT LEAST YOU HAD PARENTS! I had to wipe my mother and father's memories, so they would completely forget about me. Forget that they even had a daughter, that I EXISTED!"

"Well, maybe that's for the greater good. Who would want a know-it-all, annoying mudblood daughter like you?"

"Who would want a spoiled, arrogant son like you?"

"I hate you, Granger. I shouldn't have gone on this date. I should've just left you to die."

"But you wouldn't. You couldn't. You're a coward!" Hermione screeched. Then, she turned her back to him and apparated back to her apartment.

Draco's POV

"You're a coward!"

Draco walked around the park, Hermione's words still echoing in his mind.

Stupid mudblood. She thinks she has such a hard life. At least she's liked. She's best friends with Potter, isn't she? At least I have parents. What a joke. They're in bloody Azkaban!

Hermione's POV

"-scared that Father might torture me again, scared that he will kill my Mother like he threatened to every…single…DAY!"

Hermione lay in her bed, her face in her pillow, Draco's voice still loud and clear in her head.

Stupid Ferret. He thinks he has such a hard life. At least he had parents. At least he had a choice. But NO, he's a coward! I bet his life wasn't that hard. He's just exaggerating. His father probably told him to clean his room or he won't get a new broomstick or something like that. And he would just leave me to DIE? I thought…I thought he was actually good. I thought he was a different Draco Malfoy than the one I used to know.

Seems like I thought wrong.

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