A/N: hey! ....yeah i know, i owe you guys a lot for that long wait you went through... so here, i know this took a while, but, at least it didnt take as long as the last one. I swear i'm trying my best! i really love you guys... i checked my reviews one day after i updated it, and you gave me eleven. ELEVEN!!! in a day! man, you guys are awesome! :D i hope i get 180 reviews by the end of chapter 10! ... maybe i'm hoping or expecting too much, but you guys... you just blow me away! and, telling me that my work's the closest thing to Rowling's? oh my gawd, you guys ROCK!!! mwah! Ü hmm, well...give me reviews, i'll give you the story boiling in my head. :D

lildaisygirl24: Hermione is definitely NOT weak and defenseless. Maybe she is on the inside, but there'd be hell before she'd agree to show it to anyone, especially to DRACO MALFOY. right? :D

luvbug21: if you're a good reader and a wonderful reviewer (well, as long as you review religiuosly and be HONEST), i'll do my darn best to try and insert that scene somewhere within this story. :D

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Chapter 10

what was happening to her? ... Hermione couldn't understand... everything was just so dizzying. One thing was crystal clear in her head, though: Malfoy.

Draco Malfoy.

The sound of his name ringing endlessly inside her head seemed to be like a whole group taunting her. Draco. Malfoy.

His face... his intricate features seemed to be carved into her memory... The way his cold, grey eyes glinted at some angles when a fraction of light crept in... the small arch in the center of his sharp nose... the well-defined shape of his face... from his jaw to his hairline, his cheekbones to his seemingly elegant neck... He had such features of an angel. Draco Malfoy, Hermione decided, was Living proof that looks can indeed be deceiving.

His smell.. his scent... it was different. It was a deep musky smell... his masculine perfume absorbed by his skin, giving off a captivating and hypnotizing scent when inhaled by another living thing (especially women)... a scent that you just couldn't get enough of...

It was as if Draco Malfoy was taking complete control over her thoughts. Her head spinned as she remembered every single detail of what happened... His body... and his actions... The situation replayed endlessly in her mind... Just how detailed everything happened seemed to be engraved in her thoughts...

She didn't know which was worse: having actually kissed (or been kissed by...?) Draco Malfoy, or the possibility of having enjoyed kissing him. (...was that confusing? sorry.)

"No." she said aloud. She was angry, her cheeks were burning in frustration. She couldn't believe how helpless she was, how weak she was... physically and emotionally...

Hermione heard the faint sound of the portrait door being swung shut. (a/n: did i say that

right?) 'Malfoy must've left already...' She thought to herself, interrupting her previous

depressing mood.

She checked her watch: there was still about a quarter of an hour before breakfast. Enough time for her to take a quick bath and dress up. She decided to stop wallowing in her own problems as of the moment and decided to get ready for the day.

It started out horribly wrong, but she was bent on keeping the rest of the day acting as if

nothing had happened. Imagine what Harry and Ron would say or do if i tell them!

Hermione bit her lip as she walked back into the scene of the crime (the bathroom), but forced herself to ignore the chill that ran down her spine at that moment. She double-checked that the doors on both ends of the bathroom remained locked, becoming quite paranoid. She then began to quickly undress and dipped into the now lukewarm water.

Hermione began to relax as she felt the soft, foamy bubbles against her skin. She looked at the bath as some sort of cleansing, not only for physical dirt or grime on her skin, but cleansing for the earlier incident as well. It was stupid, she knew, but it kept her mind calm.

'Draco Malfoy...' she thought to herself. And it stopped there. The anger seemed to have faded away for the moment. She knew it would be back later, as soon as she saw his despicable face in the great hall. But to hell with him, she didn't care.

She grabbed the warm towel and began to dry herself up, as she patted the droplets of water all over her body. "Malfoy's just a fucking prick." She told herself.

She grabbed a clean set of underwear from her top drawer in her room, and put them on. "He's only trying to piss me off, it's no use biting on the bait."

She hurriedly dressed up; she put on her robes and peered onto the mirror to groom herself, still thinking about horrible things that could befall on Malfoy.

"I wish he'd fall off the stairs and break his neck... Or maybe Crabbe and Goyle might trip and fall over him, that'd hurt him bad too...Oh my God!" she suddenly, as the brush she was holding fell from her hand. "I can't believe I'm still thinking about him!" she gasped.

"Aargh," she picked up her brush and lay it on her dresser, frustrated with herself. No way was she going to continue thinking about Malfoy. It was a surefire way to darken anyone's mood.

"I don't care if he kissed me..." but her words trailed off, as her eyes widened in horror.

It suddenly hit her. A horrible realization dawned upon her that she, goody-two-shoes know-it-all, Head Girl Hermione Granger was kissed by the Slytherin Prince. Draco Malfoy. The Slytherin sex god, or rather, the Hogwarts sex god. Yes, he was the hottest resident in Hogwarts, infamous for having knocked up almost half the female population of the school.

She couldn't believe it. If word got out, her own reputation would be ruined. Everything she had been working on during her entire stay at Hogwarts could be ruined in a matter of seconds, just because she had been lip to lip with Draco Malfoy for less than a minute.

In their common bathroom.

While they were both half-naked, and she was pinned to the wall.

Who knows what other details Malfoy might add to spicen up the story?

Her name, Hermione Granger, would no longer be a name worthy of respect since she had succumbed to the devilish sex-driven actions of Draco Malfoy.

"Damn!" she cursed.

Hermione Granger kissing any boy would have already been a big deal. She wasn't the type who'd warm up to guys in that way. It was definitely worse that she'd done it in a common bathroom in her underwear.

But she could've handled it if it had been another guy.

But not this. Not malfoy.

And what would be the effect to Malfoy's reputation? He would be glorified by all his little Slytherin followers, as he could say that he was able to pin down even the most reserved girl at school; the girl whom all the teachers praised as she was the smartest and most respectable girl at school. None other than his worst enemy(Harry Potter)'s best friend, Hermione Granger.

The thought enraged her.

"He kissed me..."

And she knew it wasn't just any kiss. It wasn't just an abrupt brush on the lips. It wasn't just a peck. There was no denying the fact that it was a full blown passionate lip locking experience.

"He kissed me." She said hotly.

She was angry, a bit afraid and confused. Draco Malfoy, the Slytherin sex god had kissed her, while they were both half naked in their own common bathroom.

But one thing struck her: did she kiss back?

a/n: did she kiss back? What do you think? what do you think will happen next (or want to happen next)? Ü ...maybe I'd write whatever you reviewers would vote to happen next. Ü

damn, I wish i had done that kissing-on-the-bathroom encounter at night. Things wouldve been so much easier for me, and for Hermione. Plus it wouldn't seem so fast. I mean, think about it. It had just been the 2nd day. Geez. stupid, how stupid of me. Then again, it could mean that Hermione and Draco both couldnt help themselves. Depends on how you look at it, i guess.

i was thinking of adding a part where we it'd be in draco's point of view. But then the story's supposed to be focused mainly on Hermione. So i dunno if you guys would like that. So i cut it from this chapter, thus the reason why it's short. Do you want me to have is POV, or do you want to keep Draco a man of mystery? (mysterious is SEXY!) Ü ...Tell me what you'd like, and I'll put it in the next chappie.

sorry. i think that chapter kinda sucked. i admit, i kinda rushed it, and yeah, look what

happened. darn it. and help me, i've got another horrible writer's block. :P

review! i wont update if you guys dont give me a good number of reviews! [evil laugh]

bwahahaha! ...lol, just kidding. :D but i'd appreciate it, really, if you reviewed. ...I'm the type of writer who gives the reviewers what they want... and reviews DO inspire me to write more!