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"I like her so much better when she's asleep." Draco said as he looked back at a softly snoozing Hermione. She was lying on her side on the cushy seat in the back, a blanket from her room thrown over her body clumsily so her jean covered legs were exposed.
"I thought you didn't like her at all?" Blaise asked, amused.
"I don't." He said, rolling his eyes. "I hate her a bit less, then."
"Okay."
Blaise leaned forward and turned on the radio, rotating the dial quickly so it played softly in the background. Draco was driving now, and he seemed much more confident about it then he had at the beginning.
"Have you ever wondered if…" Blaise looked unsure of himself and Draco was sure he knew where this was going. "Do you think Granger might have issues? She seems kind of unstable. Massive mood swings."
Never mind. He had no idea where this was coming from or going to. "Yeah, she's mental. What else is there?"
"Draco you know she's not really mental-not yet anyway. Seriously, for a few minutes think about it. It's not like she'll hear you, she's asleep. Have you wondered if you'll drive her insane?" Blaise closed his eyes and leaned back comfortably on his seat.
"Nope, never thought about it. But thanks for planting that thought in my head." He said sarcastically, "why would I think about Granger's welfare?"
"When do you not think about her or Potter or Ro-Weasley? You're always thinking, talking, hexing or plotting ways to hex them." Blaise said, a smirk gracing his lips. He knew he had Draco now.
"What do you want me to do, have tea parties with you?" Draco snapped, taking a turn more sharply then necessary. "I'm not interested in that kind of thing, sorry."
Blaise blushed, "no. But there are a lot of people who have lives that don't revolve around hating the Dream Team."
"My life does not revolve around those blood traitors. The Weaslies ar-"
"I've talked with Ron and he's a lot better company then you are half the time." Blaise snapped, "in fact if I hadn't been forced to endure all your jealous whining I might have been friends with him."
"You say Granger has massive mood swings? You're worse then a pregnant woman." Draco muttered, scowling. He looked over and saw Blaise turn away from him and look out the window. As he turned back to look out the front he saw Hermione's eyes widen and shut quickly. He pretended not to notice.
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The next morning Blaise was driving again and he pulled into a cheap motel parking lot off to the side of the major highway they were on. Hermione sighed and rolled over in her sleep, falling off the seat with a thud, hitting her head on the metal piece underneath it. Draco jerked awake at the noise and hit his head on the window. Blaise laughed at this and when he raised his hand push some hair from his face he hit the middle of the steering wheel. They all jumped and managed to hit their heads on something as a horn blared through the parking lot and a few shouts reverberated in the air. A couple stuck their heads out of their car and yelled for quiet. All three of them were disgusted to see that their hair was messy and neither was wearing a shirt.
Hermione jumped to the front of the car and turned off the horn, which had successfully overlapped Draco and Blaise's obscene shouts at the two.
"Shut up!" She hissed, "they're going to kick us off the property."
"That's a real shame." Draco said sarcastically.
"Well if you want a shower, technically it is." She snapped, "we'll check in really quick, have a shower, change and then get out of there. There are scheduled stops in our book. I want to shower."
"Agreed," the other two boys said.
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"What do you mean we can't check in for half an hour?" Hermione asked, making the woman at the desk quail under her glare.
"Sorry dawl," she said, blowing a bubble and popping it, "but we don't do no half hour check ins. You're just gonna have to pay for the night."
"We'll be really quick," Hermione said, leaning in close. "If you don't give us a room, I swear we will find somewhere else to it in this cheap, crappy motel. I don't think your other, erm, residents will be happy if they find us in their room."
The woman scanned the trio. Hermione's bushy hair and pursed lips, Draco messy blonde hair(though he still looked amazingly sexy) and two bruises formed on his head, and Blaise, with his dark hair standing almost straight up and his dark eyes boring into her. Not to mention their day old wrinkled clothes.
"You three seem like you go at it pretty damn hard, so I'll give you a discount. But you'll have to pay the price for it, 'K' dahling?" She said, using her inch long red nails to click across her computer screen.
"Sure, whatever we can get. I'm tired of the car, I feel so dirty." Hermione said. Blaise began smirking as the woman's jaw dropped a bit.
"How long have you been going?"
"About a full day." Hermione sighed and Draco snorted, covering it with a cough. She shot him a shut it look. "Not as long as we could've gone, considering our stamina and stuff, but I feel like I'll explode if I don't find somewhere else. I banged my head on the floor this morning. How I got in that position I do not know, but I did."
"Oh wow." The woman said, her gum dropped from her mouth into her lap. She picked it up and put it back in her mouth. "Oh wow."
"I know." Hermione said, elbowing Draco. He and Blaise were shaking from the effort not to laugh out loud. What was his problem? He was being so rude. What was so funny? She threw down some bills, making a note to get Draco and Blaise to pay her back later.
"Here is your receipt," after several tries she picked it up from the desk and handed it to Hermione, who was careful to avoid the massive nails attached to her hand. "Have a nice time."
"Yeah," Blaise said, snatching the receipt and dragging her away.
"Wait!" The woman stood up and ran over to Hermione. Her stiletto heels and tight dress making it very difficult. "Hun I got a question. I've seen some pretty ugly girls come in here with some pretty delicious men, but dawl, how did you manage to get them to hook up with you?"
Hermione's jaw dropped and her face flamed red, like fire catching to an oiled log. "Excuse me?"
Draco stepped forward, smirking. "You haven't seen her without clothes on." He winked and dragged a mortified Hermione away as Blaise followed, sniggering.
"You imbecile! She thinks we're sex fiends right now!" She hissed, cuffing his ear.
"Now? Did you hear yourself at the desk? 'We couldn't gone longer with our stamina?' You told her we've been going at it for a day!" Blaise laughed, he found this situation all very funny, as did Draco.
"Oh." She said, her eyes widening. "Oh dear."
"It was all your doing." Draco smirked, "so our room is 227…"
They followed the maroon colored hallway and she couldn't help but think of Ron. She wondered how he and Harry were faring with Pansy.
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"You're joking." Pansy had said as she stared at the two males, grinning at each other. They both looked over at her and the grins faded.
"I forgot about her." Ron said, wrinkling his nose with distaste.
"Thanks." She said sarcastically. "Just so you know, I'm not driving and no matter what you say to me, I won't reply. So don't waste your breath. Oh, and if I do speak to you, it would be to tell you I want to pull over the car. So don't object, got it?"
"You are driving at some point, Parkinson." Harry said, sharing an amused glance with Ron. They obviously found her predicament quite funny.
"You want to bet?"
"Sure," Harry shrugged, "because if you don't drive we're not leaving this parking lot." He tossed her the keys and sat in the back seat, Ron beside him as they pulled out Quidditch magazines. She stood there, gaping. They paid her no heed.
"No," she said, sitting down in the driver's seat and folding her arms. "I'm not driving."
Ron looked up for less then a second, "its nice to see the rebellious side of you."
His voice dripped sarcasm and she found this very annoying. They really weren't going to do it. They were going to let the car sit there, for fourteen days. "Fine," she snapped, "I'll drive. But not for the whole thing."
"Glad we got that sorted out," Ron grinned and then pointed to a picture and he and Harry examined whatever move they were looking at. With a huff she started the engine and took off out of the parking lot. With her luck, she was already behind Hermione, Draco and Blaise.
Wasn't this going to be fun?
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Draco took the first shower, followed by Blaise and then finally Hermione, who got a large amount of cold water dumped on her head. The rooms were plain, with a double bed in the center, a chest of drawers across from it, a window, a small table, a chair, and then the bathroom connected by door. Needless to say she wouldn't miss it.
Rejuvenated and a bit happier they left quickly. The woman at the desk, who they never found out the name of, shouted, "the shower? Was it good?" After them as they left through the door. Hermione had turned beet red again and couldn't even look over at Draco or Blaise.
They climbed in the car and she took her turn driving after promising not to exceed the speed limit by 20 km/h. She bought them muffins in a small café and they stopped once in the next five hours, so they could make a bathroom break.
When they changed shifts Hermione heard a small dinging noise. Confused, she looked through bag. It wasn't her cell phone, she couldn't figure out why her iPod was making that noise, was it her laptop? It was. There was a flashing green light, telling her she had a new message.
To: Hermione
From: Jacob
Time: 3:21 PM
Subject: None
Hey Hermione,
So apparently you're with 'Malfoy and Zabini'. Isn't Malfoy the guy you slapped? You said you didn't like him, right? I find it strange that you're spending two weeks with people you don't like. I'm going to miss you, couldn't you trade Malfoy in for me?
She sighed, smiling. Didn't she wish.
There is really nothing to do back here. Andrea keeps inviting all her friends over and it kind of disturbs me. They're all insane little freaks. She had another party last night, and I made a point of leaving the house. Of course, I haven't seen anyone around here in awhile, so I ended up in a hotel. It was a very boring night, but I was reacquainted with several of Steven King's novels.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Jacob
"Granger, you're doing the smile again." Draco said, grimacing as she smiled happily. "The one that makes me feel nauseous."
"Like the car chase?" She changed her tone to sugary sweet. "I would have thought you wouldn't be such a baby."
"I am not a child," he said, annoyed. "if I was I would be screaming for my mother, saying that some insane and extremely ugly woman was looking at me."
"A baby and a whiner, who would have thought?" She said, smirking. "I was just reading an e-mail."
"From who?" He asked, disguising the curiosity in his voice for disdain.
"Jacob." She smiled, "my boyfriend."
His jaw dropped slightly, "you have a boyfriend?" Then he snorted.
"You know the guy that came over before we left?"
"That was him?" Draco looked dubious.
"Yes, that was Jacob." She smiled her honey smile again and he looked away, repulsed.
To: Jacob
From: Hermione
Time: 3:49
Subject: Not my choice
Hey,
Yes, the very same Malfoy. It was not my choice, its sort of… a school thing in the summer. Really weird, our teachers come up with a bunch of weird projects and stuff we have to do. I would switch Malfoy for you any time! It would be so much more fun…
Steven King, eh? A good time passer? I'll keep that in mind.
Well things are pretty strange over here, there's not much to say. There is a woman who thinks me and the two are sex fiends now that have been doing it for a day, but besides that, there's nothing much to say.
Bye!
Hermione
She clicked send and settled back against the seat. Thinking. There wasn't really much to do. Maybe she should look on the HOH site again? Nah… it didn't even provide that much entertainment. That set her mind thinking about Blaise… the sentence he had freaked out about so much had simply said, 'We have, however, figured out the reason. Blaise Zabini is in love with someone and it is a very well kept secret.'
There was obviously something about that that had irked him. Draco knew about it too, she'd seen the look he shot him. Calm down. She glanced at the two of them sneakily from the corner of her eye. Blaise was fiddling with his laptop with a slight frown, he had it turned on and was trying to figure out how to use the touch screen that was the mouse. Draco was focusing on the road, eyes drinking in everything within a five meter radius.
"What are you doing?" She asked finally as Blaise let out a frustrated growl.
"I'm trying to do something," he muttered sulkily.
"Oh." She sat back, if he wasn't going to elaborate then fine.
There was an exaggerated sigh. "Granger?"
"Yes?" She sniggered behind his back and Draco caught it in the mirror, smirking at the expression on her face.
"Can you help me?"
"What? Can I help you?" She asked, "sure. What do you need?"
He held up his silver iPod, "this plays music, right?"
"Yeah."
"How do I get it on there?" He glanced into the mirror.
"I can't show you if you're up there." She said and he sighed again. Reluctantly, and ever so slowly, he picked up his stuff and brought it back to where she was. "Okay, so go to limewire…"
Teaching Blaise was nowhere near as easy as teaching Pansy. He insisted on knowing why for everything, and she couldn't always give him an answer. He would ask a bunch of 'what if' situations, like what if he clicked there instead of here? When she said 'don't click there' he would anyway and they would argue for a few minutes. Blaise soon got the gist of downloading the music and then tried to get Hermione to look up a bunch of music for him to download. This was met by another argument, since Hermione told him she was not his slave. In the end, he'd used Hermione's laptop and used her music.
Blaise mumbled something as he moved back to the front, switching places with Draco so he was driving. "What? Sorry, I didn't catch that." She said, shutting off her laptop.
"Thanks," he said, rolling his eyes at Draco.
"Yeah," she said, "no problem."
"So what is this about, anyway?" Blaise held up her book so she could see it. Obviously he had decided to bring it to the front with him. Eclipse.
"Give me my book back." She said, reaching out her arm. "If you harm it, I will harm you."
"Let's see it," Draco took it and flipped it open to a random page. '"Tell us what's going on," he demanded in a growl. Jasper appeared quite literally out of nowhere. One second it was just Alice and me against the wall, Jacob blocking our exit, and then Japer,' Jasper? What kind of stupid name is that? 'was standing on the other side of Jake's arm, his expression terrifying. Jacob slowly pulled his arm back. It seemed like the best move, going with the assumption that he wanted to keep that arm.' This Jasper guy seemed a bit temperamental. I think he has mental issues."
"Give me back my book," she snapped. Draco made no such move and she lunged forward, snatching it from his hands. Then she lifted it up and hit him over the head with it. There was a dull thud. "Sounded hollow, no surprise there. And I happen to love Jasper!"
Draco rubbed his head and glared at her, "are you always such an abusive bitch?"
"Only when associating with disgusting ferrets." She scowled, "and by the way, Draco is a much stupider name that Jasper."
"Draco happens to be a family name," Draco said stiffly, "what's with Hermione? Half the population can't even pronounce it. Just like Vicky."
For a moment she was actually struck dumb. She hadn't heard the word Vicky she'd threatened Ron to turn him into a frog if he said it again. "I do not call him Vicky. It is Viktor."
"Oh I'm sorry," he said in a mock polite voice, "tell Viktor next time you two go snog in a closet that I send my apologies."
"He lives in Bulgaria!" She exclaimed, blushing slightly.
"Aren't the closets the same over there?"
"You. Are. Impossible. I have a boyfriend." She said through gritted teeth. "We send letters, we see each other, like, once a year! Sometimes he visits over the summer! You're worse then Ron."
Draco's jaw slackened for a second. "Did you just compare me to Weasley?"
"I did," she faked a gasp, "remind me to apologize to Ron next time I see him."
"I hate you, Granger." Draco snapped at her and turned back to the front.
"I hate you too, Malfoy." She said, unable to keep down a grin.
"You two are very immature." Blaise said, shaking his head.
"Says he who completely freaked out over a sentence." Hermione shot back. This banter was strange in the sense that it was friendly.
It didn't stay that way, however. Draco bit his lip and looked over at Blaise, his hands on the steering wheel tightening. Blaise stiffened, his eyes flashing and his muscles tight. His tone became acidic. "Don't talk about things you don't understand, Granger."
She sat frozen. Why the sudden change in the atmosphere? One moment they had been almost…dare she say it, friendly. They next they were back where they started. Even worse, even. "O-okay."
They sat in silence until Blaise spoke again, fifteen minutes later. "I'm hungry. I'd like to stop."
"Yeah, me too." Hermione agreed and Draco pulled into the nearest building that contained food's parking lot.
"Granger!" Blaise called after her as she got out of the car.
"Mm?"
"Could you…er… could you maybe just buy some stuff that isn't the same as the other food we had. We'll pay you when you get back." He was sitting with his legs dangling over the side of the car and Draco was watching her.
"Oh…erm…sure. Yeah." She said slowly. "I'll be right back, then."
She headed into the store, looking around for some food. Most of the stuff she picked up was snack food, but she did grab a sandwich for each of them. Upon seeing a bag of Doritos she grabbed them as well. She paid and brought back her purchases to the car.
Draco broke off mid sentence when she got back and she had the sneaking suspicion she had just fallen for a ploy to get rid of her.
"What did you buy?"
She set down her two bags on the seat in the back. "Sandwiches," she threw one at each of them, "Pepsi," she threw them each a bottle, "and some snacks. Like Doritos. Zesty cheese." She pulled out the bag and grinned.
"I see," Draco said, eyeing the bag curiously.
"Yeah," she said, her mood lifting. This was better.
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They were traveling through a very rural area and Blaise kept insisting they pull over. Pansy had, apparently, explained the function of his camera to him and he was eager to use it. Every few kilometers he would pull over the car, jump out and snap a few pictures. More then that, the pictures were all very pretty. He seemed to have a natural talent for photography.
"I say we just leave him here next time he jumps out," Hermione said out loud. Draco made a noise sounding suspiciously like humored agreement.
Blaise sat down again, looking ecstatic. "That was a good shot."
"Whoopee." Draco said sarcastically. Hermione laughed. They locked eyes for a second and she stopped abruptly.
"It is a good shot." She said as she examined it. "You shouldn't be so cynical."
"I'm not. We're in a competition. Do you want to lose because Blaise decided to let out his artistic side?" Draco snapped.
"No." They put the pictures on hold for awhile. That had been a subtle reminder of what they were doing, and they were plunged into their thoughts, wondering what they could win. The whole road trip thing was pretty major, fourteen days? The prize would, no doubt, be something major too. Perhaps a day or two away from the house? It wouldn't be leaving the house altogether, no one would agree on who would leave. Maybe whatever group won would get to choose a new component added, or the next challenge or something…
"I'll drive through tonight." Hermione offered, she wasn't very tired. At least not at the moment. When two in the morning came around, she regretted her decision to be social. For awhile.
She turned onto yet another road, turning her lights back up. It was so dark… She was really tired, maybe a quick caffeine stop was necessary. Deciding that this was a good idea she pulled off into the next coffee shop.
"Granger?" Draco said groggily, sitting up from his position in the front. "Where are we?"
"Driving." She said softly, pointing to a slumbering Blaise and putting a finger to her lips. "Do you want something?"
The fact that she was tired and it had been awhile since she'd talked to someone, she was being pleasant. "Yeah, coffee. Black."
She ordered and pulled into the drive through. The guy that was manning the shop was on some kind of sugar high and was bouncing up and down.
"Two coffees, black." He said and thrust the cups at her. She gave one to Draco and held out her hand for change. "So are you guys traveling?"
"Yes." She said and didn't elaborate, simply holding out her hand.
"Oh cool. Where ya goin'?"
"I have no idea." She said and yawned. "Thanks for the service, can I have the change back?"
"In a hurry?" He beamed at them. "Do you like Doritos? They're good. Zesty cheese, yummy."
"Yes." She replied, "it's too early in the morning for a pleasant conversation. Give me the damn change."
"Dill pickle!"
"What?" She asked, "just give me the change, please."
"Okay okay, don't be pushy." He said and handed it back. "I wouldn't want your boyfriend to come after me."
"He's not my boyfriend." She said lazily, putting the money into her wallet and then putting her foot on the gas.
"Oh, it's nice to," as she drove away he leaned out the window until he was on top of the counter and half out of the glass, "meet you! Ow!" The window was starting to close and kept hitting him on the head as it tried to meet up with its other half.
"Yeah yeah," she muttered and took a long sip of coffee-and nearly choked, it was quite strong and very hot.
"Alright there, Granger?" Draco asked, still half asleep.
"Yeah," she said and blew on the top. "Are you sleep talking?"
"No." He replied, "why would I?"
"Because you haven't called me mudblood yet."
"Oh." He said, "I see. Does it really bother you?"
"No, not the word."
"But…"
"The fact that you try to hurt me with it does."
"Oh. I see." He mumbled drowsily. He looked very un-Draco like.
"Do you though?" She took another sip of her scalding coffee. "I don't think you do. If you did you wouldn't still do it."
"What about what you do to me," he said, refusing to believe he was the only problem.
"And what's that?" She muttered, glancing at him. He had a blanket wrapped around him and his nose was slightly red. For a summer evening it was quite cold.
"You judge." He said quietly. And then, quite abruptly, he fell asleep, the coffee still clutched in his hands. She took it out slowly and placed it in a cup holder beside her own. What exactly did he mean by that? There wasn't really much to judge anymore, she knew what he was like. Or was that what he was talking about?
She looked over at his sleeping form and sighed in frustration. At least she wasn't sleepy anymore.
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"Blaise?" Hermione muttered, poking her dark skinned companion at about 6 the next day. He moaned and rolled over, hiding his face from her. "Blaise!"
"What?" He barked, cracking open an eye to look at her. This seemed to be a trade mark Blaise move. Like Draco and lifting an eyebrow.
"Your turn to drive." She rubbed her eyes, was it humanly possible to be this tired?
"Oh." He sighed and sat up. "Do I have to?"
"Yes." She said, smirking. "Buy some black coffee, it should help. Or just have a talk with a half conscious Malfoy and two in the morning."
"Huh?" He asked, moving to the front.
"Never mind," she said. "I'll be asleep in a minute. Don't talk to me, please."
Instead of lying down and dropping into what was a tempting sleep, she dragged her body into the confession box and sat down, staring at where the camera was imbedded in the wall.
"Okay, so the last time I was in here, I was a bit angry." She smiled wryly. "I figured it was in my best interest to announce to the world that I am not a raving lunatic. In fact, the whole police car chase thing was kind of a fluke. I've gotten over it, an am now going to behave my best." She grinned and popped opened her bag of Doritos. "Well, sort of."
She dragged herself back out of the confession box and threw the bag at Draco, waking him up. "Doritos, try them but eat them all and I'll hurt you." Then she collapsed onto the back seat and fell instantly asleep.
"Huh?" Draco muttered, eyes droopy.
"Did you talk to Granger at two in the morning?" Blaise asked him, pulling off the shoulder of the road.
"No," Draco lied, "not that I can remember."
In truth, he did. He remembered everything. However it was not something he was willing to share with Blaise. It would stay between him and Hermione. And the rest of the Wizarding world. He thought as he drifted to sleep again.
Author's Note: I don't think I've ever had my stories updated so close together. LOL. As for the Doritos… -shrugs- Do you guys like them?
There's not much I can say right now…wish me luck on my three tests I have Monday (though I don't know what time you're reading this, it could be Monday now!)
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