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"Are we going to the out to dinner on Friday?"
Harry, Ron, Ginny, Blaise, Draco, Hermione, Pansy, and Lavender were all in an abandoned common room one Thursday. Hermione was grading papers, Draco was testing potions on tadpoles and the rest were just sitting in the circle talking. Hermione looked up from her papers.
"Sounds good to me. How about you Draco?"
"I had no other plans."
Harry nodded and looked to everyone else and when they nodded he clapped his hands. "Good. I will make reservations and let's say we meet down here at around five thirty so we can get drinks before hand."
Everyone nodded and Hermione went back to her papers.
There was a knock at the portrait door. Hermione got up, with a paper in her hand and went and answered the door. Out side the door stood, Casey and Melanie.
"What are you two doing here?"
"Professor McGonagall said that my parents were here."
"Yeah, and that my mom was here."
Hermione looked at both of them and stepped aside, "Come in."
Casey and Melanie came in and hugged their parents. Casey sat down on the floor while Melanie sat in Harry's lap. Hermione smiled and went back to her papers. Melanie noticed what she was grading.
"Aunt Hermione?"
"Hm?"
"Do you by any chance have my test graded yet?"
Hermione looked up at Melanie. "Now would that be fair if I told you and Casey what your grades were before everyone else."
Casey held his hands up defensively, "No one said I wanted to know my grade. You can keep it if you want to."
Hermione chuckled. "Now why would I want to keep a 94 paper?"
Casey looked at her skeptically, like he was afraid she was lying to him. She held the paper so he could see, and sure enough he had gotten that grade. He grabbed it and looked over it. Ron laughed and congratulated his son when he was showed that paper.
Melanie was sitting off to the side with a sad look on her face. Hermione noticed this and shook her head.
"How can anyone with a 102 on the hardest test this year look so gloomy?"
Melanie yelped and jumped up and grabbed the paper Hermione held out to her. Hermione just smiled and looked at the other three adults in the room.
"Yes! I told Craig that I had done well. I told him! Now he will be sorry."
Hermione looked at her, "Now you will have to talk about your grade till after I hand them out to the class tomorrow, K?"
"Ok. I can wait."
The grandfather clock in the corner chimed, indicating it was time to turn in. Harry and Pansy stood up. Harry stretched and held out his hand for Melanie to take.
"Me and mom are going to walk you to the dungeons, ok?"
"Yeah. Good night everyone."
Ron and Lavender did the same, offering to walk Casey to the tower and he gladly accepted, leaving Hermione and Draco all alone.
Hermione went back to grading her papers. She was really into it when a large hand stopped her smaller one from writing. She looked up at Draco, and he was smiling down at her. She smiled and put her quill down. She let him kiss her for a minute before she pulled back.
"I have to finish grading those tests. I told Melanie they would be done by tomorrow."
"You can do that another time; they are your next to last class tomorrow."
"Draco…"
"I want to spend some quality time with the woman I love."
"Draco…"
"Nope. This is you and me time."
"Draco?"
That was not Hermione.
Draco and Hermione both looked towards the door. There was Noah. He looked worried. Draco got off Hermione and Noah jumped up on the back of the couch.
"He knows you're here."
Draco froze. "What?" He said barely above a whisper.
"You got a letter. I read it, like I always do, just in case, when you aren't around, and it said something about coming to get her and about how he couldn't wait to see you. He signed it Love Daddy Dearest."
Draco slumped back on the couch and put a hand to his forehead.
"Holy shit."
Sorry it took me so long to update. School has been a bitch, but I am on vacation this week so I should get at least another chapter out. Hope you enjoyed. Aren't cliffies a bitch?
Toodles
Chocolate hugs and Cherry kisses
Nikki
