I liked writing this chapter a lot, so I hope you guys like it! I guess it's a little bit fluffy, but there needs to be a little fluff :)

Breathless from laughter, Hermione and Draco slumped against a wall near Snape's classroom, making sure they we're out of ear-shot from the door. After finally getting his laughing under control, Draco groaned and put his face in his hands.

"Granger, that was the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me, I'm never going to be able to live it down. I am a Malfoy, for crying out loud. I do not just laugh at stupid things."

Hermione laughed and shook her head. "You are such a drama queen! No one's going to care, they just think we cast cheering charms on each other. It's actually a really believable story."

"I guess so, but it's still going to be humiliating. It's your fault anyways."

"Why does it always have to be someone else's fault with you?" Hermione sighed.

"Because, I'm Draco Malfoy. I'm perfect." He flashed a dazzling grin in her direction.

For some reason Hermione felt her stomach flutter a little bit. Much to her annoyance, she had been finding certain aspects of Draco to be, well, attractive. His smile was one. He didn't smile very often, but when he did, Hermione had to admit it looked pretty good. It changed his face completely, so he looked like a whole different person, someone who was much nicer than he acted.

I mean, he really is rather good looking… Hermione turned red at this thought. What was she thinking? Draco Malfoy may be attractive, and yes he may be nice to her sometimes, but she can't just go around acting as if she liked him or something!

"Right Malfoy, you are perfect," Hermione said sarcastically, trying to cover up her embarrassment.

Draco's eyebrows shot up at the unexpected praise. "Well thank you, Granger. I'm glad you're finally beginning to u—"

"Perfectly annoying," she added, cutting off the rest of his sentence. She laughed at his crestfallen expression.

"Once again, you're becoming meaner every day," he sighed dramatically.

"It's about time the tables turned a bit," muttered Hermione quietly, not intending for Draco to hear. He did however, and again a regretful look crossed over his face. This time, however, he didn't disregard her statement. Instead his face became slightly tinted pink as he began stammering:

"Oh, uh, about that. I, uh, don't know… For being mean… I guess…"

Again Hermione cut him off by saying, "It's okay, you don't have to explain."

"No," he cleared his throat. "I guess what I was trying to say is… I'm sorry."

Hermione didn't know what to say. Did Draco Malfoy actually just apologize to her? And he looked like he actually meant it, too.

"Wow, thanks Malfoy. I can honestly say I wasn't expecting that."

Suddenly his usual arrogance came back to him as he said, "Good. It's what I do, I like keeping people on their toes." He winked.

Hermione felt herself flush slightly and prayed that he didn't notice.

"Anyways," he continued, "now that we're out here, we should discuss 'Operation Moonlight', I think we need to do something again. It's been too long."

"Hmmm, what are you thinking?"

Draco shrugged. "I don't know, I was hoping you'd have something, you're the smart one here."

"Oh, so now you admit my intelligence is greater than yours?"

"Sure, I'll do anything to help my cause. Now think of something good."

Hermione chewed her lip, deep in thought. "We should… uhhh… tie bows onto all of Hagrid's flobberworms?"

Draco stared at her, stupefied for a moment. Then, for the second time that day Hermione witnessed the self-proclaimed master of controlling his emotions burst into laughter. He fell over backwards, clutching his stomach.

"You're killing me, Granger!"

Hermione looked highly affronted. "Well fine," she huffed. "Why don't you think of something then?"

Draco sat up again, successfully quenching his snickers. "No, I think it's brilliant! I'm completely serious," he added after seeing Hermione's skeptical look.

"You promise?"

"I swear Granger. It's so random that it would be amazing, no one would expect anything like that! The only hard part will be getting out of the castle…"

"We can think of that later. Do you think we should go back to class?"

"Nah, there's only a few minutes left anyways. I think I'll head back to my common room. What about you?" He stood up and reached his hand out to help Hermione up.

"Um, me too." She grabbed his hand and tried to ignore the way her heart started beating a little faster. "I'll see you later." Hermione scurried off quickly.

Draco wandered through the halls, lazily making his way back to the common room. Classes had begun to let out and people slowly trickled out of the surrounding classrooms. His mind kept wandering back to Hermione and what had happened today. She made him laugh, which in his opinion was no easy feat. For some reason that he couldn't explain, she somehow made him completely forget everything bad that had ever occurred between them, and just allowed him to enjoy her company. Draco was feeling happier than he had in a while. Though he didn't want to admit it, he thought that she was affecting him as much as he was affecting her. Not paying attention to where he was going, Draco accidentally ran into a first-year Hufflepuff.

"Oh, excuse me," mumbled Draco, not realizing what he had said until he noticed the student staring at him wide-eyed before running away.

Did I just say 'excuse me?' What was that? What's happening to me?

He glanced around, hoping no one else had noticed what he had just done. Usually he sneered at anyone who ran into him, regardless of whose fault it was. Now he was just throwing around apologies haphazardly! Is it possible that Hermione could have gotten to him this much in such a short time? He saw the Hufflepuff boy look at him and then whisper something to his friend.

Yep, I'm screwed.

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