Chapter 10

It was a month later and Draco and I had made grate head way in being civil, even nice to each other sometimes. We had taken to studying together for Potions and DADA since we were in the classes together.

I was waiting for Draco after dinner for our study date. That wasn't a date just us studying, as I had to remind myself every once in a while.

"Sorry I'm late; Pansy would not leave me alone. I had to convince her that she would not want to be with me in our dorm since you would be here." Draco said sitting down next to me. "Not that it's an awful thing, but you know to her it would be. Plus I was looking forward to this all day."

"Really, pure blood Draco Malfoy was looking forward to spending time with mudblood Granger? I do believe hell has finally frozen over." I said pulling out my Potions things and taking a drag off my cigarette. "Do you mind if we work on our Potions paper first. I wasn't really paying attention during class."

"Now I do believe hell has frozen over," Draco said pulling the cigarette out from between my lips. "Were you to busy counting the seconds until you could have your next one of these?"

"No," I said taking it back. "I just found Slughorn to be a little boring, that's all."

"Yeah alright." He said opening his book. "I'll be sure to let him know that. Now how much do you have?"

"Uh, I have my name, the date, and the class." I said blushing. "I told you I want paying attention."

"Ok, well you can read what I have so you can get the gist, ok?" He said handing over his paper. "I still think spending your summer with your punk boyfriend has been a bad influence on you."

"Oh and you being my boyfriend would be better?" I asked over his paper.

"No that's not what I'm saying." He said looking slightly uncomfortable. "I just said that he's a bad influence on you. That's all."

"Sure." I said smirking at him. "Just like I said Slughorn was just boring."

"Whatever." He said looking at his book. "You almost done?"

"Yeah here, so we have to write about the effects of Drought of Living Death?" I said pulling out a quill. "Seems easy, we did make this last year."

"Yeah" He said as he started a new paragraph. "So you got it?"

"Yeah I got it." I said.

We spent a while in silence with only the sound of scratching quills and the pops of the fire. Occasionally I would catch Draco watching me before he would look away. It would cause me to smirk at him and playfully blow smoke in his direction.

"Granger can I ask you something?" He said after a while.

"Sure, what?" I asked not looking up from my paper. "What?" I asked looking up at him when he didn't say anything.

"Why do you smoke?"

I stopped writing and set down my quill. "It's just something I've picked up from being with Justin. I don't think it makes me look cool or anything like that, I just find it soothing and calming sometimes."

"You know it's not a good habit, right?" He said looking concerned.

"Yeah, but how do you know?" I asked confused. "Cigarettes and smoking, it's a muggle thing."

"Well I don't tell anyone, but I spent my summers in muggle London, with some friends." He said setting his paper on the coffee table. "And yes there muggles."

"How do you have muggle friends with your pure blood elitist father?" I asked really confused, putting my paper away knowing that I wouldn't be working on it any more.

"He doesn't know. He thinks I'm spending my summer at one of our vacation houses, but really I'm just in London. I like having the secret you know, having something that no one else knows. It's like having a little power over him."

"Yeah I know what you mean." I said thinking about my secret relationship with Justin. "But it also good to have someone else know your secret."

"Yeah it is. You just can't tell anyone." He said his face becoming serious.

"I would never tell a soul." I said placing my hand on his but quickly removing it.

Buzz, buzz, buzz.

"Oh uh that's my phone." I said reaching into my pocket. "I should take this."

"Yeah ok." Draco said picking up his things. "I'm going to take a shower."

"Ok," I said opening the phone. "Hello?"

"Hey 'Mione how are you?" Justin said turning down Social Distortion's Don't Take Me For Granted.

"I'm good, just working on homework." I said pulling out my Potions things again. "What's up?"

"Oh just needed to hear your voice," He said. "Also I wanted to tell you about how mine and Johnny's band is gonna to play at the warehouse."

"No way really; that's awesome!" I said, Justin and Johnny have been saying they were going to play at the warehouse for a long time. "When?"

"Halloween, we're opening for Blacknight." He said practically yelling. "Can you believe it? My band gets to open for my favorite band? It's my dream, I can't wait."

"That's amazing I wish I could be there." I said getting slightly disappointed.

"Yeah I wish you could come too, but Jessica says she can tape the thing for you when so you can watch it when you come back. And if all goes well we might get to play with them again." He said trying to cheer me up.

"Yeah but it still won't be the same." I said with a sigh. "Well it's still an amazing opportunity."

"Oh yeah we're all supper excited about it. Hey sorry but Johnny just got here and he wants to practice so I got to go." He said. "I love you, I miss you, and I wish we could talk longer but I've got to go."

"Ok, that's ok I've got homework to finish." I said as I picked up my books. "I love you too, call me later ok?"

"Ok, bye." He said before hanging up.

Sighing I made my way up to my room. When I opened the door I heard the shower turn off so of course I looked in the direction of the bathroom. And I got an eye full of Draco sexy as hell Malfoy.

My door to the bathroom had been left open and Draco didn't know that I was in my room. So when he stepped out of the shower he was bare ass naked with small beads of water rolling down his body. All I could do was stare and stare and stare at his amazing body. I couldn't look away until I reminded myself that I had a boyfriend, an amazing hot ass boyfriend that I loved.

Quickly I moved over to the bathroom door and closed it, hoping that Draco wouldn't notice. Which he had, of course.

"Granger?"

"Yes?" I asked laying my head against the door.

"Can't keep your eyes off of me can you?" he said with a deep chuckle. "You can open the door now."

I opened the door and saw that he had a towel around his waist.

"Sorry, but I didn't mean to the door was open and I just happened to look in and…yeah," I said slightly blushing.

"It's ok; it was my fault any ways." He said as he grabbed another towel and dried off his hair. "So what did Justin want?"

"He just wanted to tell me his band is opening for our favorite band on Halloween." I said leaning up against the door frame. "He wished I could go see it but knows that I have school."

"Really, that's good for him, I guess. You never said he had a band; well when you did talk about him." He said sitting on the sink counter.

"Yeah well this the first time that they're actually playing somewhere other than there living room." I said with a laugh. "But they are pretty good."

"Oh I bet," He said with a smirk. "So how much more do you have for your paper?"

"Not much, you?"

"Just one last paragraph, do you need the bathroom?"

"Uh I can wait," I said standing up from the wall. "Let me know when you're done."

"Ok just give me a minuet." Draco said getting up off the sink.

"Ok."

I walked back into my room closing the door behind me. The moon was full again and it light up my room casting shadows and making it glow. Sighing I went over to the window and looked out over the grounds. I was in the place I loved more than my own home sometimes, but my friends weren't talking to me and my boyfriend was off having fun without me. I couldn't help but feel sad that I couldn't be with him, but also I was so confused about what was going on between Draco and me.

We had agreed to be civil to each other, but it felt like we had become more than that. It could have just been the fact that I couldn't talk to my friends so when he offered I pounced and we talked a lot. It was weird at first but after a while it was like he was a real friend.

"Hey Granger, bathrooms all yours."

"Ok." I said turning away from the window.

My mind was going in forty different directions and I needed to relax and the best place for that was the shower. I grabbed my towel and things and made my way into the bathroom. Looking at Draco's door I sighed once more. That boy was more confusing than I thought.

-Thanks for all the awesome feedback guys. I'm really glad you are liking the story. I wanted to write it because there's really nothing like it on here and I wanted to read a story like it. I'm working on Chapter 11 now and it should be up soon. So thanks again and keep on reviewing also if you have any questions don't be afraid to ask and I'll try to get an answer to you.

-Ben Hallport