Chapter 12

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The days went on, and Hermione and Draco continued seeing each other, privately. After buying him a new, fairly good, broomstick, Seamus had kept to his promise and hadn't said a word. He even covered for them in tricky situations, such as Hermione tripping up on her explaining trying to cover her secret meetings with him.

Draco had asked Moaning Myrtle to keep what she saw to herself, obviously she did so. Not happy about them seeing each other, but Draco made a deal to visit at least once a day, so she didn't complain.

The time was 8pm, and Hermione had arranged to meet with Draco in the girls second floor bathroom again, seeing as it was the only place no one went, and Myrtle had already agreed to keep them two seeing each other a secret.

Hermione entered, her footsteps echoed around the entire bathroom, along with the taps dripping. It had an eerie silence, Hermione let loose a small shiver at the eeriness and the cold feeling that grazed her skin. She observed her watch, that read; 8:15.

"Late again," she sighed, observing the bathroom, suddenly her sight was blocked, by two hands, Hermione let out a gasp.

"Guess who," Draco's voice spoke, which calmed her in an instant, as she let out a relieved giggle.

"You scared me," she smiled as he removed his hands, placing them on her shoulders and turning her to face him.

"I'm a scary guy," said Draco, forcing his usual evil smirk down at her.

"Only when you pull that face," Hermione joked. "You look like you want to-"

Hermione was cut off by Draco's lips pressing against her own, she didn't protest and they both kissed. As their time together went on, their kisses would last a moment longer each time.

"I want to what?" Draco asked after he broke the kiss.

"I," Hermione was left speechless after that kiss, her eyes wandering his face for a moment trying to remember what she was saying. "I don't know."

Draco scanned Hermione's face. Her perfect face. No less than a month ago he despised this girl he held so closely to him, however at that moment, he felt like he couldn't live without her. He knew that would sound silly to anyone who had heard it, but then, Draco had never experienced any of this before, or even known someone who was as kind and concerned as she was. Draco didn't want to lose her, or the feelings. Hermione felt his arms wrap around her and she did the same with him. They did love to hug one another, feel each others warmth, both their heartbeats beating against the other.

"Just out of curiosity, Draco." Hermione started. "When will we go public about us?"

That question. That is the question Draco seemed to dread every time she asked. He didn't know, and he didn't know when he would know. It was a tricky spot, especially for him. If they went public, his Father would surely find out someway. However, if he kept keeping it a secret, he might end up losing Hermione.

"Why can't we just enjoy now?" Draco asked, with a sigh. Hermione's brows furrowed.

"What do you mean?"

"Let's just enjoy what we have at this moment, right now. If we keep worrying about the future we … won't enjoy us as much." Draco explained, finding it tricky to find the right words.

"Is that just another way of saying you don't know?" Hermione asked. Draco nodded slowly, almost ashamed. "Draco, I understand you need time, and I respect that. I'm just curious as to where this is leading? Like I said, it's becoming more and more difficult to keep meeting in secret. I would have been busted long ago if Seamus wasn't helping me."

"I know, I'm sorry!" Draco snapped, not wanting to sound as harsh as he did, and his expression showed it. "I …"

"You? … You what?"

"I want this to work…" said Draco, quietly. "I really do."

"I do too," said Hermione. "As long as I know that, I'm happy." Hermione smiled, Draco let out a small sigh of relief and received a peck on the cheek from Hermione.

"Good," said Draco, he gazed at Hermione for a short moment before feeling playful. Then without warning, he grabbed the edges of his robes and opened them, resembling the look of Dracula when he opened his cape, then consumed Hermione in his robes.

"Draco!" she squealed, playfully. Draco had never done that before. Finding it cute, Hermione decided to play along and fight back with his playful antics. Draco felt his jumper and shirt rise from under his robes, his heartbeat raced and his brain quickly tried to process what she would do, then the stinging feeling of two cold hands were placed on his bare skin, causing him to let out a high pitched squeal, releasing Hermione immediately. Hermione laughing at him.

"That's just mean!" said Draco, waiting for the cold feeling to warm up.

"Serves you right for trying to devour me in your robes," Hermione smiled. Draco glared playfully then dove at Hermione, but who saw it coming and quickly dodged him by running round the bathroom sinks, while he chased.

Both had never experienced such feelings, they loved it. Chasing and playing and spending time with one another, it was the best moments they had ever experienced at Hogwarts. Despite everything they had gone through previously. It was safe to say they enjoyed their company together a lot more than when they hated one another.

A few moments more of chasing went by, then Hermione found herself being caught and had to endure a tickle assault from Draco, which reduced her to high pitch giggles and pleas for him to stop.

"Do you mind?" a high pitched voice came from one of the cubicles. "I am trying to sleep in here!"

"Sleep? It's only 8:30," said Draco, pausing his assault on Hermione, allowing her to catch her breath.

"I like to get an early night," said Myrtle. "Is that a problem?"

"I guess not, we'll just go then," said Draco, grabbing Hermione's hand and walking out of the bathroom. Hermione smiled as they both left then noticed some students sat in the corridor they were approaching. Draco immediately released Hermione's hand, which disappointed her slightly, but she knew the reason he did so. They walked through the crowd of students, making it look like they weren't walking with each other, both their hearts felt broken as they did this. They had to hide their feelings for one another, which they shouldn't have to do.

Once they were alone again, Hermione quickly hugged Draco. Making up for the loss of contact through that last moment.

"I hate this," Hermione confessed.

"Me too," said Draco, rubbing her back affectionately.

"I can't wait for it all to be in the open, then we can be ourselves everywhere."

"Yeah," Draco agreed, almost unsure if they would kiss in public all the time anyway. But he knew what she meant.

"So … Halloween is soon, then Christmas not long after," said Hermione, randomly. "I have come to a decision. If we don't tell anyone by that time, you will have to spend Christmas with me, and my family."

"Muggles?" Draco asked, sounding most shocked, which took Hermione by surprise.

"Yes. Muggles, I happen to be Muggle born, remember!" Hermione said, harshly, sounding offended.

"Sorry, old habits' kicked in there for a moment…" Draco tried to sound sincere.

"You really don't like Muggles, do you?" asked Hermione.

"It's not that I don't like them … I've been brought up to think that I -"

"Am better than them?"

Draco felt incredibly guilty. He wish he didn't feel that way, but that was how he was raised and was brought up to believe that. He ran a hand through his hair, not knowing what to say.

"Sorry," he said quietly.

"When you come to my house, you will see that Muggles are not what you think they are," Hermione ignored his apology and smiled. Another reason Draco liked Hermione, she would always give him a chance at proving himself to her.

"Okay," he gave her a kiss on her head. "But, you would honestly want me in your home?"

"Of course I would," Hermione smiled. "That is, if you want to of course."

"We'll see how things go from here first, who knows, more people might figure us out by then."

"True, I guess all options are open at the moment."

"As long as they mean spending time with you, then I'm happy," said Draco, which earned a smile from Hermione, a smile so powerful enough to make him melt. They both exchanged a kiss, before heading back down to their dormitories for the night.

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