Chapter 10

Ron came storming through the kitchen where Hermione and Molly were still finishing doing the last of the food. He stopped when he noticed Hermione.

"You came." He said with a smile, walking over to her and giving her a hug. "I will be right with you; I just have to go see to something first." He smiled again and continued his stopping out of the back door into the garden. Millie walked into the kitchen, looked around and seeing that Ron was not there walked out the back door as well. Hermione noticed that Millie looked rather concerned as she had walked after Ron and then a see looked quickly out of the window to see Ron walking straight over to Draco.

"Oh no, Draco." Hermione said simply and was out of the door in a flash following them.

Molly looked around the room rather confused looked out of the window, and saw what Hermione meant then followed them all trying to catch up.

Ron walked over to the very large bell tent that Arthur, George, Bill, Percy, Charlie and Draco had only just finished putting up. His face seemed to be turning the colours of his hair the closer he got to Draco. As soon as he was in ear shoot he yelled, "Hey ferret, what the bloody hell do you think you are doing here? Gate crashing? You weren't bloody invited!" He was right next to Draco now, who was calm while Ron was shouting at him. "I asked you a question!"

"Bro calm down." George said as he came over "He's been helping, this thing wouldn't be up without him right now. Percy was useless." He said nodding his head over to his brother.

"Hey!" Percy yelled as he and the rest of the Wesley's walked over them.

"Sorry bro but it's true." George replied

"Okay, so he's helping. That still doesn't bloody explain what he's doing here in the first place." Ron was clenching his fist now, a look of pure fury on his face. Millie, Hermione and Molly had all joined the group now and Hermione had walked straight over to Draco and put her hand in his.

"He's here with me Ronald." She said calmly, staring him straight in the eyes. "You told me in my invite 'feel free to bring someone' so I did."

Ron's face loosened a little at this news but quickly tightened up again.

"But why the hell did you have to bring him?" He said his voice getting a little louder. Millie had moved to Ron's side by this point and had her hands over his clenched fist trying to hold his hand instead.

Suddenly there was a pop next to Arthur as Harry had apparated from out of the house, at this new bout of volume from Ron. Hermione quickly looked at Harry but continued talking, "I brought him because, we're seeing if something could happen, and I thought that here would be a nice relaxed way." She was nearly glaring at Ron now clearly trying to keep her temper in check; Draco squeezed her hand in reassurance. Ron looked over at Harry,

"Can you believe who Hermione brought?" He asked him clearly looking for him to be as out raged at this piece of information as he was.

"I can yes. Ginny told me that he would be coming, and in all truth I'm happy for them. It's about time something did happen." He coolly replied looking Ron right in the eyes so Ron knew he meant what he was saying, "And I'm also glad that they thought here would be a safe place for them to try as well. I know you don't like him, and that this is yours and Millie's party, but be a good friend and be happy for her. It's not like you have to talk to him if you don't want to."

Hermione smiled at Harry, thankful that for this he was on her side. She also had a thought to thank Ginny for telling Harry that Draco was coming, while also scolding her for not telling Ron and saving themselves all the drama that had just happened.

"You knew he was coming?" Ron had loosened upon hearing Harry say this; he looked at him as Harry simply nodded in response. "Oh. Well how come you didn't tell me?"

"Frankly I didn't think you'd explode like this upon seeing him. I thought you at least fake being nice for Hermione's sake." Harry raised an eyebrow at Ron.

"Well I didn't see him first; Millie did and she came and asked me what he was doing here as she looked upset about it." He turned to face Millie, "Why were you upset that Draco was here?" He had a concerned look on his face now.

Millie looked over at Draco and then back at Ron, "It's nothing bad, not really. It's just that we have a … well a past, from back in Hogwarts." She looked a little sheepish admitting it, "I never told you about it and I was just a little taken a back seeing him. I didn't think it would ever come up."

Ron looked at Millie, "You two have a past?" He held Millie's gaze for a moment before looking at Draco, who looked calmly back at him, before retuning to look at Millie.

"Yeah, we kind of dated for a few months in my fourth year. You three would have been in your last year if you had of been there. It was a few months before the big battle at school." She was looking between Ron and Draco at this point, her expression willing him to say something. He looked down at Hermione who just smiled at him and squeezed his hand.

"It was years ago. We haven't spoken since school finished." Draco said looking at Ron who was still staring straight at Millie.

"So there's nothing now? You're not even friends?" He said to Millie, as if he hadn't even heard what Draco had said.

"I haven't spoken to him since he finished school." She said re-saying what Draco had said. "I was just surprised to see him, but he's here with Hermione so everything is ok. Harry was right we can stay away from him all party;" She looked at Hermione to say this, as if needing some help to calm the storm, "We'll keep things pleasant?"

Hermione nodded in response to this, "Exactly. Ron and I can go have a chat in a minute, just us. If you two don't mind." She looked at both Millie and Draco who both just nodded at her, "Then when we come back we can all just enjoy the party. Sound good Ron?" She let go of Draco's hand and started to walk towards Ron, who stopped looking at Millie and smiled. Hermione stopped in front of him as he smiled and they hugged each other.

"Okay that sounds nice."

Just as Ron had finished talking, they heard shouting coming from the front of the house.

"Hello, anyone home?"

Molly snapped back into organiser at this and yelled, "We're round the back!" She rubbed her hands together, "Right you two go have your chat inside please, while the rest of us can finish sorting all this out as it seems people are starting to arrive now. Wesley's, you boys will please go get all the tables and chairs that are needed. Millie my dear can you please run inside and ask Flier to come help us with the food etc." As Molly finished Neville and Luna came into view smiling at everyone.

"I know we're a little early but we wanted to see if we could help." Luna said.

"That is lovely my dear, all help is needed right now. We are running very behind. Neville my dear can you please help the boys, and Luna can you please follow me into the kitchen to finish the last bits off? Oh the napkins I've left them in a mess in the living room." She said tutting at herself.

"It's ok," Luna said "I'll go pick them all up for you." And with that she ran off inside. Millie followed her and the boys started to move tables into place. With everyone moving around Ron and Hermione walked inside to talk, and Draco was left standing there wondering what to do.

"Come on Slytherin." George said as he walked past him and clapped a hand on his shoulder, "You can help the rest of us men move things." He laughed and Draco chucked back at him and followed to help them.

A/N

Please R&R guys I need some more feed back with this chapter, as I don't think it turned out as well as it was in my head so please tell me what you think.

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