A/N: Hey all, you all okay? I'm going to be updated as often as possible as I am going away for about 4 days, meaning that I wont be able to do anything.
Thanks to all that chose Total Eclipse of the Heart (Which was all of you!)
Disclaimer : Don't own it ( No matter how many times I offer to relieve JKR of the burden.)
Draco had woken up earlier than planned and it was because of two things. One was that he had fallen off his bed and the other was that all he could hear was Hermione singing in the shower.
"Grr, damn her, damn her all the way to hell," Draco muttered as he picked himself up off the floor. Draco was annoyed, and Draco didn't like being annoyed. Then again, he also didn't like being woken up at ungodly hours of the morning by people singing in the shower—and it was a song he didn't know. The nerve of her!
Turn around
Every now and then I get a little bit lonely and you're never coming round
Turn around
Every now and then I get a little bit tired of listening to the sound of my tears
Turn around
Every now and then I get a little bit nervous that the best of all the years have gone by
Turn around
Every now and then I get a little bit terrified and then I see the look in your eyes
Turn around bright eyes
Every now and then I fall apart
Turn around bright eyes
Every now and then I fall apart
What the hell is she on about? Draco thought to himself.
And I need you now tonight
And I need you more than ever
And if you only hold me tight
We'll be holding on forever
And we'll only be making it right
'Cause we'll never be wrong
Together we can take it to the end of the line
Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time
I don't know what to do and I'm always in the dark
We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks
I really need you tonight
Forever's gonna start tonight
Forever's gonna start tonight
Wow, I suppose her voice is good. But this song...argh! It's annoying, Draco thought whilst he stood out side the bathroom door waiting for Hermione to come out so he could snap at her.
Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total eclipse of the heart
Turn around bright eyes
Turn around bright eyes
Turn around
Every now and then I know you'll never be the boy you always wanted to be
Turn around
Every now then I know you'll always be the only boy who wanted me the way that I am
Turn around
Every now and then I know there's no one in the universe as magical and wonderous as you
Turn around
Every now and then I know there's nothing any better, there's nothing that I just wouldn't do
Turn around bright eyes
Every now and then I fall apart
Turn around bright eyes
Every now and then I fall apart
I hope that song isn't about me! I mean it all fits: "No one in the universe as magical and wonderous as you"—yeah, that's m,e and "bright eyes"? Well, they are kinda bright. Hang up, does that mean—ugh, Granger fancies me! These were the thoughts that ran through Draco's mind as Hermione opened the door.
Hermione stepped out of the shower, wrapped a towel around herself, unlocked the door, and found an angry Draco standing there. He looked as if he was going to scream and shout.
"Hey, you okay? Erm, Draco! Hellooo! What's that face for? I haven't been in the shower that long," Hermione said whilst waving her hand in front of his face.
"It's not the fact I wanted a shower, it's the fact I was woken up by your singing and by falling out of bed. By the way, what the hell is a total eclipse of the heart?" Draco asked. Hermione turned red.
"You heard me singing? Oh gods. Even Harry and Ron haven't heard me sing. Damn you, Malfoy!" Hermione said, turning redder by the second.
"I don't care about your singing. All I care about is that you don't sing at the top of your lungs at six-thirty in the morning. Why the hell are you up now, anyway?" Draco inquired.
"Duh, it's Hogsmeade today. Didn't you know?" Hermione said absently, checking that her towel was still there. It was, thank God.
"No, I didn't. Why didn't you tell me? Oh God, I only have a few hours to get ready! Well, don't just stand there—I have to get a shower!" Draco said, running a hand through his hair and looking scandalised.
"You sound like a woman. Jeez, I thought lads just threw on the first thing that fell out of their wardrobes, don't they?" Hermione asked, hardly able to keep her laughter in.
"No, they bloody well do not. Just 'cos your friends do that doesn't mean I do," Draco snapped.
"Well, sorry. Here, have the blooming bathroom," Hermione said as she walked out of the doorway.
"I am doing," Draco retorted before stalking into the bathroom.
Half an hour later Hermione was dressed and about to put her makeup on when Draco knocked on her door.
"What do you want?" Hermione snapped as she opened the door.
"Pothead is here. He says, 'Can Ginny tag along with us to that place?' What place?" Draco asked, looking annoyed.
"Erh, well, she can't really. I don't think I can Side-Along Apparate with two people. I'll have to ask someone from Gryffindor if they want to come with us so she can come," Hermione said, mainly to herself.
"Why, where are you going?" Draco asked.
"Muggle London. I want to pick up some stuff," Hermione told him.
"Oh. Well, I co—bah, it doesn't matter," Draco began
"No, what?" Hermione asked, folding her arms across her chest.
"I was going to say I'd Apparate Ginny over if you wanted ,but I don't like that idea—she might kill me on the way," Draco said with a weird look in his eye.
"Huh! What's got into you? You don't usually offer to help anyone from Gryffindor," Hermione said.
"I told you I've changed. I just don't want the whole school knowing. Anyway, ask someone from Gryffindor instead, then," Draco said, turning around.
"Draco...I mean Malfoy. Please. I'll let you watch another video and I'll buy popcorn," Hermione bribed. "Oh, and if you come you'll have to wear Muggle clothes."
"Fine," he sniffed.
Hermione laughed and pushed him out of her room. She continued to get ready; she cast a simple spell on her hair and it hung straight with a slight curl at the end. She didn't really bother with makeup, she just added a bit of lip gloss and eyeliner. She had decided to wear black jeans and a black turtleneck jumper. After pulling on some warm boots and taking her coat off the hook on the back of the door, she was ready to go. She looked at the clock on the bedside table and saw it was only nine-thirty. Hogsmeade trips didn't start until ten-thirty. She decided she would read until it was time for her to go. Picking up a book, she walked over to the door and opened it.
"Hey, you ready?" Draco asked, standing up.
"Yeah, but we have an hour until we're allowed to leave," Hermione said as she sat down and opened her book.
"We have breakfast, you know. We do have to eat—well, I have to eat. I mean, if it weren't for the fact that you'd die of starvation if you didn't eat once in a while, you wouldn't waste precious reading time on eating, now would you?" Draco joked.
Hermione just glared at him before placing her book down and following Draco out of the portrait.
When Hermione arrived in the great hall she saw Harry and Ginny laughing and Ron was bright red.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Hermione asked, seating herself next to Harry and Ginny. Ron was beginning to return to a normal shade when Ginny spoke up.
"Well, there's a certain word that makes Ron turn red," Ginny said, laughing.
"And this word is?" Hermione prompted.
"Luna," Harry said, looking at Ron who turned bright red and tried to look away. Hermione saw this and burst out laughing, making all the Gyffindors look over at the four of them.
"So I take it you either asked Luna out or you've grown even more obsessed with her," Hermione said, regaining her self-control.
"Iaskedherout," Ron blurted all at once.
"What was that, Ron? I didn't catch it," Hermione said, even though she knew exactly what he had said.
"I asked her out," Ron said more slowly , growing red.
"And—what did she say?" Hermione asked again.
"Yes," Ron muttered.
Hermione cheered at this, making Ron carry on going red. If such a thing was possible, he looked as if all the blood vessels in his face had burst.
"Oh, Harry, Draco will be Side-Along Apparating with Ginny to Muggle London. He sort of offered this morning," Hermione told him as she pulled a piece of toast onto her plate.
"What? Why is he tagging along?" Harry asked, bemused.
"Because if he doesn't then Ginny won't be able to come, so stop moaning. Draco has changed for the better and if you tried being nice for once you might notice that!" Hermione snapped. She was fed up with all the Gyffindors insulting the Slytherins. Some of them were okay; take Blaise, for example—he wasn't a Death Eater and he didn't want to be one. Although Harry and Ron didn't know this. But they shouldn't have to know. They shouldn't insult people.
"Anyway, we have to go in ten minutes, so make sure you're ready," Hermione said before getting up and walking over to the Slytherin table. Many calls of "Mudblood" came from the occupants of this table and Hermione could see Draco getting annoyed and flexing his hands into fists.
"Oh shut up, you immature people. Get new insults—I've heard that for the past seven years now and it doesn't make that much of an impact any more. I was called worse names in Reception," Hermione shouted at the offending Slytherins. They all gawked at her with wide eyes; it was rare that any of their victims stood up to them in that manner.
"Malfoy, get your butt off of the bench now. We have to go," Hermione snapped before walking off.
Malfoy was beginning to get up when a Slytherin asked him, "Draco, mate, why are you following orders from her?"
"Because I am. Mind your own business," Draco snapped before following Hermione's steps to the entrance hall.
When he got there he saw Harry, Ginny, and Hermione waiting for him.
"It's nearly time—you all ready?" Hermione asked, and then Filch and McGonagall came to dismiss them.
Okay, I need your help again - I'm getting a bit stuck on ideas, so if you have any or want anything in the story -let me know and I'll attempt to work it in.
Next chapter they are in Hogsmeade.