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A/N: Hey, sorry for the long late. I now have a beta, miss Evol Love! Thanks so much girl! You da best! Anyhoo, Raven was my 50th review so, Raven, I hope you are happy with the part you have in the chapter!

Pansy woke around seven the next morning. She looked to see Neville snoring lightly. She smile and got out of bed. After a quick shower and getting dressed she wrote a letter to Neville explaining where she was going.

Nev,

I will be with Hermione.

Love you,

Pans

She tiptoed out to the common room. Draco was sitting up looking at the fire.

He turned when he heard her.

"You leaving?"

"Yes. I'm going to talk to Hermione."

Draco looked down. "Oh, could you tell her that I am sorry and that she doesn't have to forgive me."

Pansy walked over to him and put an arm around his shoulder. "Of course, but Draco, She'll forgive you. I know she will."

"I wouldn't blame her if she didn't."

Pansy sighed and walked towards the door. "Give her time." She said. She paused at the doorway, then left.

Walking down the deserted corridor, Pansy got her thoughts together.

'I am not going to defend Draco because that will make it worse. I will just

let her know that he is beating himself up for it. No, that may not work either. I don't think I'll bring it up, I'll see if she wants to talk about it.

Yes, that may work.'

When she reached the picture of a lion stalking a zebra, she knocked.

"Coming!" came a distance yell. Two seconds later the portrait hole swung

open.

"Gin, thanks for-" Hermione stopped talking.

"Well, I'm not Gin, but can I come in?" asked Pansy.

"Why?"

"Because I need a girl to talk too. Boys just can't talk about fashion or

girl stuff. And it sounds like Ginny's coming over as well, so we could have

some great girl time."

Hermione bit her lip. She didn't have a grudge against Pansy, they just

never got along.

"Alright. I don't see the harm on having girl time. Gin should be over

soon. She said she might bring Luna."

"Sweet!" Pansy said while walking passed Hermione into her common room.

Hermione walked behind her. "Do you want anything to drink?"

"I'm good for now, thanks. Nice pad."

"Thanks." They stood there looking at the floor. "Look, Pansy, about

Draco…."

"Say no more. He can be a real git sometimes. Trust me, I know." Pansy

smiled. "He didn't mean for it that to happen. He forgets that not all the

girls are in for that sort of thing. That is one of the reasons I broke up

with him. He just wanted to be physical but I didn't."

"Really?"

"Yeah. I am not slut as everyone thinks. I many snog quite a few boys but I

never slept with any."

"Oh, I'm sorry. I want to forgive him, but I think I need to think about

it."

"Don't worry. We'll have a great time today and talk about embarrassing

things about the boys!"

Hermione looked bemused. Pansy giggled at her expression.

Suddenly a knock came from the door. Hermione walked over and opened it. In came Ginny and Luna.

"Hey you two! Thanks for coming! Pansy is also joining us, so we can have

some girl time!

"Good!" came Ginny's reply, "Because I brought my make up and nail

polish." She held up a pink beauty bag.

"And I brought music." said Luna.

"Great!" Hermione said leading them to Pansy. "Pansy, this is Ginny and

Luna. Gin is engaged to Harry and Luna is engaged to Dean."

Ginny walked up to Pansy, "Nice to meet you."

Pansy smiled, "You too! I just want to apologize for being mean to you the last seven years."

Ginny waved her hand, "Don't worry about it. We won't hold it against

you."

Luna glided over, "How's Neville?"

"He's fine. He says Hello."

Luna nodded turning back to Hermione.

"Let the fun begin!"

Two hours later Hermione, Pansy, Ginny, and Luna were laughing. Feathers

littered the ground from the pillows they fought with. Ginny was wearing a mud mask and Luna was having her toes done by Pansy.

"And I told Neville that I wanted to have 5 kids. He nearly fainted."

Pansy was saying.

The other three girls burst into laughter. "I told Harry I wanted two and he

jumped up and down with glee. I think he was expecting me to want a lot of

children."

"Okay Luna, your toes are finished." Pansy said, putting the cap back on

the polish. Luna stood and showed the other girls her black toenails sprinkled with white polka dots.

"Ooh!! Pans, you have a gift!" Ginny exclaimed.

"I try."

"Gin, your mask can come off." Hermione said. Ginny ran to the bathroom

and they heard running water.

When she came back she said, "It is almost time for lunch, let's do our

hair and make up!"

Thirty minutes later they walked down to the great hall. Pansy walked to

Neville in a red tunic and black leggings. Her cropped black hair was pinned

at the sides and her eyes were lightly shadowed to make her blue eyes pop.

Ginny ran to Harry in a orange sun dress. Her red hair was braided medieval

style. (A/N: You know, the two braids the come together in the back…) Her eyes were shadow in peach sparkle so when she fluttered her eyes, they would sparkle.

Luna skipped to Dean in a jean skirt and a green tank top. Her blonde locks

were curled and framed her stunning blue eyes. She had only put mascara on, but her eyes were stunning none-the-less.

Lastly came Hermione. She walked over to her table to see that Draco wasn't there. She sighed. Her friends had done her up for nothing. Her once bushy hair was sleek and pulled into a side pony. She slid her hands down her dress. It was different shades of blue and had blue-green flowers growing from the bottom. She walked over to sit between Ron and Harry.

It took a minute for the boys of the Great Hall to close their mouths and turn

back to their girls. The four girls at table 7 looked at each other and

grinned. Hermione looked up when she felt a pinch of sadness and a wave of

pride in her chest. Standing at the doors was Draco. He stood there looking at her. His silver eyes looking her over as if memorizing her. She felt heat rush to her cheeks.

Pansy saw Draco too. She stood, saying "Neville, I'm going to talk to

Drake."

Neville looked at Draco as well. "Okay, love."

Pansy walked over to where Draco was standing. "Hey."

"Hey." He said without looking at her.

"She misses you, but give her a day or two."

Draco looked at her, "Thank Pans."

"Don't flatter yourself. you still could lose her."

"I know." Before he could say more Professor McGonagall stood up.

"7th years! You will be having a bonding class today, but instead of your

partners you will be paired with another person. This will allow you to talk

without hurting your partners feelings and meet other people. Meet at the Lake in five minutes!"

All the students groaned. Many stood, Hermione included, and started for the Lake. As she passed Draco she hesitated before walking on, "Hermione!" He called.

She turned and watched as he walked to her.

"Hermione….look I'm sorry…. I don't-"

She put a finger over his mouth, "Later. We will talk later." When he

nodded she walked away.

At the Lake McGonagall was pairing everyone up. Hermione found that her

partner was a Hufflepuff named Raven. "Hello, I am Hermione." Hermione

held out her hand.

Raven shook it. "I know. I'm Raven, who's your 'soul mate'?"

"Draco Malfoy."

Raven whistled, "Tough. I got Cormac Mclaggen."

Hermione shuddered. "More power to you."

Raven laughed.

"He isn't that bad." Hermione looked at her questioningly. "I mean, he

doesn't pressure me to do things. Just to have all boys so they can do

Quidditch, but I think I'll take a potion so it will be girls. Just to mess

with him."

Hermione laughed. "That would be so funny! I don't know what Draco wants.

He doesn't talk about it. Or we haven't."

Raven nodded, "That was the first conversation I had with Cormac. Other than that, he lets me be which is nice, but I don't know. I want a guy who will talk to me, but hopefully in time that is what will happen. How about you?"

"Oh, everything. We talk-well not at the moment, but it is good. He gives

me space, but when I need him, he's there."

Raven cocked her head to the right.

"Why aren't you talking?"

"Oh, I may have overacted, but he wanted to move on with our physical

relationship as soon as we had our first kiss. I kicked him out. I don't

know, it was just a lot for me to handle. I mean, I liked kissing him, but

that was a far as I wanted to go. Does that make sense?"

"Yeah. I mean, it sounds like you did overact, but he should have gone at

a slow pace instead of racing through everything. But he is a guy, Hermione.

What do you expect?"

"Yeah, I guess you're right."

"If Draco Malfoy let you kick him out and didn't throw a fit, he must

really care for you."

It was Hermione's turn to ** her head, "What do you mean?"

"Well, he dated my best friend Julie, and when she wanted to be done he

throw a HUGE fit."

"Oh." I hope she's right. Hmmmmm……

Raven didn't get to say anything else because McGonagall called the Bonding

Class to an end.

"Well, see you around Raven."

Raven nodded to tell that she heard as she walked away.

Hermione sighed. She walked to the castle when she saw blonde hair in front of her. "Draco!"

He turned. "Hermione?"

She ran up to him. "Walk with me?"

Draco smiled. "I would love too."

A/N: Well, there you are. I hope you liked it! But I won't know until you review!