Chapter 8 Denial
3 weeks have gone by, and Hermione and Draco are still continuing their affair in secret.
In class...
Ginny is trying to get Hermione attention, "Hermione? Hermione?! HERMIONE!?"
Hermione tares her eyes away from Draco, "Huh, what?"
"Did you hear a word I said?!" Hermione continued to say nothing.
After class Ginny drags her to a quite space, "So, come on, explain! You've been acting weird for weeks."
Hermione tells her everything that's happened over the past few weeks, "Are you mad at me Ginny?"
"I'm just upset you didn't tell me Hermione! What was going through your head!?" Draco spots Hermione and Ginny talking and hides in the bush.
"I don't know Ginny, I guess I thought that if I can't be with him properly, I'll be with him like this. But it's killing me Ginny! All those horrible things I said to him, I didn't mean them! I only said them because I though he hated me, and I him to think I was over him, but it wasn't. I love him, I STILL love him Ginny!" she begins to cry.
Ginny hugs her, "Come on, Hermione don't cry! I'm sure he feels the same way, or he wouldn't have doing this for so long!"
"I suppose, but then why did he dump me?!"
"Yes, it's strange…."
Draco thinks to himself, "I ended it with you because you are in danger being with me! Can't you see that?! I have never stopped loving you! But we can't be together out in the open, it's too dangerous for you Hermione!"
Hermione starts calming down, "Maybe I should just tell him, tell him how I really feel I mean…."
"That's a good idea! Who's he going to the Ball with?"
Hermione can't bear to say it, "Parkinson, but only as an act!"
"Err, always baffles me that when men get a taste of caver they can always go back to eating trout. But anyway, tell him at the Ball that would be so romantic!"
Hermione laughs, "I know, she's such a pig! Yeah, that's a good idea! Ginny, will you help me get ready tomorrow night, and I want to look my best when I tell him."
"Of course I will Hermione. Tomorrow night will go perfectly! You'll tell him you love him, he'll tell you, and Miss Piggy will be left on her own! By the way, are you going to the Ball with anyone?"
"Yeah Ron, but only as friends, he's been so lovely to me these past few weeks! Come on Ginny, let's go into Diagon Alley and pick out some dresses! I've been saving up for weeks!"
"Same here, let's go!"
Once they have left and are out of sight Draco comes out of hiding, "Great, now what am I going to do, I can't tell her that I've been planning with the Dark Lord against her and her friends, she'll hate me, but I can't tell her I love her….."
