It was the day of the winter ball and Hermione was with Liana in her Hermione's room getting ready for the ball.
"Li! That dress looks fabulous on you. Green looks great on you." Li was Liana's new nickname that was especially made by Hermione and that everyone just caught on to. Hermione would have picked the name Ana but Li absolutely hated the "Ana" part of her name and preferred to rather be called Li or Liana.
"Thanks 'mione, your dress looks great too. Who would have known turquoise would look so great on you. I always pictured you wearing a red dress of some sort."
"Truth is, I sort of don't like the color red that much." said Hermione while Liana had began to giggle at the irony of her statement.
"But thanks for the complement. So Liana, who is the lucky man that will be accompanying you to the winter ball?"
"Some Slytherin guy. I don't even know his name; Draco set me up with him and said I had to take him. I had wanted to go with Blaise Zabini but he is going with the slut of our house, Pansy Parkinson. What about you?"
"I'm going with Malfoy." Hermione replied simply while putting on her diamond earrings. Liana then stopped putting on her makeup and looked at Hermione.
"You're going with Draco…" Liana said very slowly while her eyes were slowly getting bigger "SHUT UP! Are you kidding me? I can't believe he didn't tell me. Oh he is goi-" Liana was then cut off by Hermione.
"Stop rambling. Its true now get over it, we need to hurry up and get ready for the ball. We don't want to keep our dates waiting for to long. I mean we are already late." This had seemed to shut up Li and they finished getting ready within the next 15 minutes and were with their dates while hading down towards the great hall.
On their journey down Hermione took this chance to admire the beautiful decorations that were all around Hogwarts and the people she was walking with. Hagrid had done a very good job on decorating the castle. Garlands of holly and tinsel had been twisted around the banisters of the stairs; everlasting candles glowed from inside the helmets of the suits of armor and great bunches of mistletoe had been hung at intervals among the corridors. Indeed it was a wonderful sight.
Hermione's date and her new best friend and Li's date sure were a sight to see. The four looked absolutely ravishing. Draco was dressed in an elegant black tux. Who would have known that tuxedos were also big in the wizarding world? Actually they were bigger. Liana was dressed in a floor length, form fitting velvet green dress that was conveniently strapless. Liana's date that had the nick name of "Zebra" was dressed in a white and black tuxedo. Hermione had made he assumption that he was called Zebra because the only colors she really did see him where was black and white. But she had also begun thinking the rest of the way down on why they hadn't called him a Penguin or a newspaper. Why a zebra?
They had finally reached the Great Hall and they could hear the music from the dance blasting in their ears. Draco then leaned down and said into Hermione's ear. "Hermione you look wonderful this evening, care to do dance?"
"Umm…ok." said Hermione with a slight blush on her face. They had begun to head toward the dance floor and after about 10 songs in a row of them just dancing they decided they should get something to drink and then return shortly.
"Draco you're a great dancer you know."
"Yup, I know."
"Ha ha…you're so funny" said Hermione with a straight face and a voice dripping with sarcasm. Then she began to laugh at her not so funny joke.
"Why are you laughing?"
"Because I am so funny." said Hermione between breaths. Draco did not think that her joke was even remotely funny but her laughter had soon become contagious so soon they were just laughing and couldn't stop.
All of sudden Hermione stopped and began to listen to the song playing. It was "sing, sing sing" by Benny Goodman, one of her favorite songs.
"Draco, do you know how to swing dance?"
"Of course I know every possible dance, there is."
"Prove it and dance with me this song."
"Okay, but no one is even swing dancing out there."
"Scared Malfoy?"
"You wish." He then grabbed her and they began to swing dance to this 7 minute song. The other dancers on the stage had seen what they were doing and had begun to form a big circle around them. Turned out Hermione was a really good swing dancer and Draco was equally as good.
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"Hey Harry, what's that big circle over there for?"
"I don't know Ron let's go check." said Harry who had happened to be very curious as to what was going on over there. Ron and Harry had became on talking conditions mainly because they had to see each other everyday and there was no use being mad at each other. But Harry was not totally going to trust Ron with all his secrets just yet. When Harry and Ron had finally arrived, Draco and Hermione were almost done with their song. Harry and Ron had to push and shove so that they could actually see who this dancing couple. When they finally did arrive to the front all they saw and heard was Hermione hugging Draco with a huge smile on her face and the whole crowd going wild.
As soon as Ron saw what was happening he ran and attacked Draco while Hermione was still hugging him. Unfortunately, Ron had a very bad aim and instead of socking Draco and hitting his nose, he hit Hermione on her eye hard enough so she was knocked out cold on the ground and bleeding.
Draco being the guy he was automatically picked her up and he ran off toward the hospital wing full speed in his arms bridal style, leaving a very shocked Ron to stare at Draco run off. Ron looked around and noticed that he was the center of attention and everyone seemed to be glaring at him. He couldn't take it so fainted with a loud thud on the ground.
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Draco had just deposited Hermione onto her bed and Madame Pomfrey was healing Hermione. Unfortunately, Hermione would have to wake up on her own and no one was sure when that was going to be.
"Draco!" Draco turned around to see his cousin rushing to him with a very worried look on her face. "Is she ok?"
"Hermione is fine; it's just that Madame Pomfrey is not to sure when Hermione is going to wake up. She says her unconsciousness can last up to 3 months. That stupid son of a bitch Weasley had no right to do that to her, he should friggen die."
"Whoa Draco what has gotten into you. Did you or did you not say yesterday morning that you hated her? Why the sudden change in tone? Do I sense maybe a little crush coming along?"
"No! I umm…don't know what you are talking about." Draco said not bothering to look in Li's eyes.
"Uh-huh sure, if that's true then why wont you look me in the eyes?" Draco then looked into Liana's eyes and said sternly
"You know me way to well."
"I know." Liana replied with a slight chuckle. "Oh, and about that hope for death on Weasley. After you left, Weasely was really shocked and ended up fainting and hitting his head. He might be on his way over here to get some pain reliever medicine." Just then the Hospital wing's doors were opened and in came Harry dragging Ron.
"Mr. Potter! Have you no sense of judgment as to levitate Mr. Weasley here and not drag him here." Them she levitated Ron to the nearest unoccupied bed which happened to be right next to Hermione's.
"Madame Pomfrey! You are not seriously going to place that low life piece of dirt next to Granger. Do you no know how Hermione got into her position?" said Draco then letting Liana finish his sentence for him.
"Weasley punched her in the eye then was stupid enough just to stand there while Draco was smart enough to bring her here."
"I'm sorry children this is the last bed available and I can't do anything about it. Now if you will please return to the dance. Miss. Granger and Mr. Weasley will be fine in my hands." Then the three kids reluctantly left toward the dance. But unfortunately their good day was ruined all because of the worthless Ron Weasley.
A/N: Man, it's been a really long time since I updated huh? I am so sorry but I have been busy with other things and had no time to update. Well please give me at the least 6 reviews on this chapter explaining to me what you thought.
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