Ch 11 "The Ball"

Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling owns the Harry Potter books not me.

A/N: Well thanks to all my reviewers so far I really appreciate it. Love u all! Lol. Well here is the long awaited chapter with the first dance of the all. I'm thinking about having two more dances in this story. But tell me if you guys want me to write about that many dances. I am thinking about a Christmas dance then a Valentine's dance. And they are not gonna be chapters that are right after another. Well just tell me what you think. And I know I'm gonna write a chapter when it becomes the New Year in the story. Speaking of the New Year, Happy New Year to all of you!! And now on to the chapter!! And remember to review!

" I know I've not wanted to tell you, Harry, or Ron, only because I knew you would want to kill him or something.

But we are going as friends and we told each other we would only dance to some of the songs together and then hang out with our friends the rest of the time."

"Well I still can't believe you're going with him since you've only been friends for like a week."

"And I wouldn't be that surprised if you still don't believe me days, weeks, or months from now. But hopefully one day soon you'll be comfortable with me being Malfoy's friend."

Ginny just nodded.

After their chat, Ginny left to go to the Griffindor common room. Hermione stayed in her room and thought about hers and Draco's friendship. She was feeling that she was liking him more every day. She just loved being in his company. She wasn't so sure if she was ready to date him though. She knew a strong friendship with him right now would be good; so if they did ever date and it didn't work out, she would hope that they could still be friends.

She then fell asleep with a smile on her face.

Not that long after Hermione had dozed off for a nap, Draco came into their common room to look for her. When he saw that she wasn't in the common room, he checked in her room.

He knocked softly. There was no answer, so he quietly opened the door. And that's when he sAw Hermione laying on her bed with her eyes closed. He smiled toward her, and then closed the door once again and walked to his room.

For a few minutes he read from one of the books on his bookshelf in his room.

Then he walked down to the common room and sat on one of the couches and looked into the fire while he thought about Hermione and the friendship her and him were starting to form between each other. He couldn't help but smile thinking about the evening ahead of them both.

About an hour later Draco heard footsteps and looked behind him to see Hermione coming down the stairs.

Finally it was two in the afternoon. Many girls had already started getting ready.

Hermione and Draco both decided they probably should start getting ready. As they got ready in their separate rooms, they got even more excited as they time went by.

Hermione changed into her beautiful sky blue dress robe. Her hair went next. She decided to curl it. Then she took a small amount of her hair on both sides of her head and pinned them together in the back with a flower clip. Then she found her necklace with the stars on it again, and put it on her neck. Makeup was last. She found her bluish-silver eye shadow, pale pink lipstick, black eyeliner, and mascara. She applied the eyeliner first, then eye shadow, mascara, then lip gloss. She looked at herself in her vanity mirror. She thought the makeup she was wearing really brought out the color of her eyes.

Then Hermione sprayed a little bit of vanilla body spray on herself while slipping on her white sandal-heeled shoes.

She took one last look at herself in the full-view mirror that was in her room. She smiled at herself because she was happy with how she looked- how she looked for Draco.

Then she left her room and went down the stairs to see Draco waiting for her by the couch.

Draco slipped on his midnight blue robe. Then he went to the bathroom to get his hair.

Over the summer he had gotten his hair cut, and it was a lot shorter than in the past. So he no longer gelled it back. He just put a tiny bit of get in his hand sand then put it in his hair making a tousled look to it.

Then he sprayed some of his favorite cologne on. Going back in his room he slipped on his dress shoes and picked up his wand. Then he said a spell to produce flowers at the end of the wand.

"Orchideous!"

Flowers sprang out of the wand, and he took hold of the flowers. They were for Hermione.

He finally went downstairs and sat down on one of the couches to wait for Hermione.

Shortly after she came down the stairs smiling down at him. He couldn't help but smile back since she looked so beautiful to him.

Its kind of hard thinking we're are only going to the dance as friends.

When she finally got to him, he gave her the flowers.

"These are for you Hermione."

"Aw thanks so much Draco. You didn't have to but thanks again." replied Hermione said smiling. She took the flowers and went to put them in some water in a vase on the table.

"You look great Hermoine."

"Thank you. You look pretty handsome yourself Draco."

"Why thank you."

Finally they left the room and out the door to the Great Hall for dinner.

Dinner was delicious as they ate at their regular house tables.

As soon as all the food disappeared, all the 3rd years and down left the room unless they had been asked as a date by an upperclassman.

The tables changed to the small circular ones. And a dance floor took up a quarter of the huge Great Hall.

"Well I better go you three, since I need to dance with Malfoy for the first dance. I'll see you guys later." Hermione said without a trace of hatred in her voice. She didn't even bother trying to act like she hated him.

Harry and Ron seemed upset at her leaving. She had no clue if Ginny had had led it slip about how Hermione and Draco had become friends.

She found Draco sitting at a different table with Pansy Parkinson, who was trying to flirt with Draco. But Draco just tried to ignore her.

"I'm going to go dance with Granger now Pansy."

"But Drakie, I thought you were my date."

"Not really. I came here with Granger. We're friends now. And I don't care how much you or any of the other Slytherins don't like it."

And Draco stood up and went to Hermione who was a few feet away.

"Hey Hermione."

"Hello Draco."

They walked to the middle of the dance floor just as the first song begun. Hermione was happy that there was a do now playing songs sung my muggle singers instead of The Weird Sisters singing. The plans had been changed two days ago.

I don't want another pretty face
I don't want just anyone to hold
I don't want my love to go to waste
I want you and your beautiful soul
You're the one I wanna chase
You're the one I wanna hold
I wont let another minute go to waste
I want you and your beautiful soul

I know that you are something special
To you I'd be always faithful
I want to be what you always needed
Then I hope you'll see the heart in me
Draco put his hands on Hermione's waist while she put her hands on the back of his neck. Draco then pulled her a little closer to him, and Hermione laid her head on his shoulder as the song played.


Am I crazy for wanting you
Baby do you think you could want me too
I don't wanna waste your time
Do you see things the way I do
I just wanna know if you feel it too
There is nothing left to hide

As these words were sung, Hermione brought up her head from Draco's shoulder, and she started to sway her hips slightly. Then Draco followed her lead.

As the final words of the song went by and they both continued to sway their hips to the beat, Draco took Hermione's hand and swung her into him in an embrace. Then the song ended and Hermione looked up at Draco with a smile on her face.

The dance went on with the two dancing a few other songs together. And Hermione hung out with Ron, Harry, and Ginny. She danced with Ron once or twice since Ginny and Harry went to the dance together.

But as Hermione walked up to the common room after the dance with Draco, she knew her feelings for him were changing fast. She could feel it inside herself.

Song lyrics: Beautiful Soul by Jesse McCartney