[A/N: this one is a little shorter than that last one, but this one is slightly more fast moving...good or for worse,no idea...but here you go, Enjoy!]

When Hermione woke up the next morning, she woke up to a peaceful silence. But that didn't make sense; Victoria, Sarah, and Cassandra would have been up and getting ready. Maybe Eileen, depends on the time.

How odd... Hermione thought, I don't remember coming to bed.

And then she accidentally sat up too fast, and regretted it.

Damn hangovers. Maybe if she went through her trunk, she could find that hangover potion she got from Fred after an embarrassing incident. She groaned as she tried to sit up, and was terrified of what bright light might bring. So she braced herself and threw the curtains open.

She expected to see Sarah's bed with her own curtains closed. Not once, would she have ever expected to see Tom Riddle sitting on a green couch across from the bed.

She screamed bloody murder.

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Tom was sleeping peacefully until he heard a scream that caused him to jump. He looked around with tired eyes, finally finding the screaming to be coming Hermione Pensive. She screamed bloody murder and was absolutely pale.

"Shut up!" he roared.

She jumped but stopped and then began throwing anything she could at him; His journal, her shoes, hexes, the pillows on his bed, her purse, some textbooks, hexes, quills and parchment, his book bag, and yet more hexes.

"Oi, stop it will you?"

"You sonofabitch! Why the hell am I in your stupid room? How did I even get here, you arse!" She got pretty creative with some of her insults.

More than anything in the world, he wanted to throttle her.

"You had quite a few drinks last night, doesn't your head hurt from he screaming?" he yelled back, trying to deflect the objects. He had no time to get his wand, she was throwing everything too fast.

"How did I end up here!"

"You seemed like you would end up jumping off the Astronomy tower, so Slughorn told me to take you to your dorms."

"So why am I here?"

"I was going to take you there until you somehow managed to point out the fact that I couldn't go up the girls dorms. And I couldn't leave you in the common room, Slughorn would have had my head."

"You think I give a bloody crap about Slughorn's opinion of you? I wouldn't have cared if you left me there, at least I could have gotten to my dorms! Now I can't get that potion!"

"What?"

"One of my friends gave me a hangover curing poti-why am I telling you this?" she suddenly yelled.

"I don't know how your mind works," he muttered.

"SHUT UP!"

"touchy, touchy." he barely managed to dodge the bat-bogey hex that was sent his way.

"I don't think a lady should know those curses, or words for that matter."

"Well, I don't think I should be in your room right now. But yet, here I am!"

"Have you even tried to listen what I said?"

"What's the time?" He looked at the clock and goraned.

"Five in the morning. Don't you have a hangover?"

"Not anymore, guess I don't need that potion after all."

"Were'd you get that potion?"

"My friend made it," she snapped, "he gave me some after I fell down the stairs at his place from this huge hangover."

"You stayed at a guy's house?" Tom asked, surprised her parenst would let her do that.

"Yeah, and Merlin! Harry was there too, you perve!" she said, "I stayed at their place nearly every summer after second year."

"stayed there every summer aftr second year." Hermione.

"What about your parents?"

"I mostly saw them during the breaks and the beginning of summer."

"why didn't you spend more time with them?"

"be-wait, you don't need to know!" she suddenly said,"ugh, I better leave before anyone sees me in the halls."

She grabbed her shoes and her purse before leaving barefoot.

What a weird girl…

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Dammit, dammit, dammit!

What was wrong with her? She didn't need to be telling him all that! Hermione managed to get back to the Slytherin common room when she ran into Malfoy.

"Oh, hello Hermione," he said, smiling, "what are you wearing?"

"uh...haha, give me a minute," she said, trying not to scream. He was supposed to see her!

Hermione quickly transfigured Cassandra's dress back and washed her face before changing into sweat pants and a large over sized shirt without bothering with shoes.

Damn the way the fifties dressed, she thought as she went back to the common room.

"Hey Abraxas," she said.

"what were you wearing...?" he asked, looking at her strangely.

"What I was wearing last night," she muttered angrily.

"When you were on your date?"

"Dear mother of Merlin, Draco and I are NOT dating! At all, never were, never will," she yelled.

Malfoy just stared at her for a minute and then said, "Then why'd you two go to the party together?"

"Two reasons: one, we're friends so we met up with Harry and Ginny later, and two, no one else asked me!"

"I made up an excuse not to go, I I knew... I would have asked..."

"too late now, so don't blame me when I go with Draco. There's another reason why I went with him too, and why I'm not interested in a relationship."

"why?"

"I haven't even told Harry yet."

"I won't tell," Abraxas pressed.

"no."

He sighed in response, "if you ever need someone to talk to..."

Hermione smiled. "thanks, Abraxas, but I doubt it."

He smiled, and she felt guilt inside her. Really, making him like her, she shouldn't be doing stuff like that! Especially not after what happened before she came; And because of that incident, every time Abraxas even smiled at her, it broke her heart.

"so we're still good for Hogsmeade?"

"That's just as friends, and because I owe you from that unfortunate physical defense class." He winced at the memory.

"Where'd you even learn that?"

"I punched Draco the same way in third year," she said, embarrassed, "he was getting on my nerves that day, and it was already a bad one to begin with.""Ah," he said, understanding. Then, after a small pause, he said, "I found out that Merrythought was going to have us deal with a boggart again."

"Really? I learned that in third year. Besides, how'd you find out?"

"you seemed to learn a lot during your third year."

"Answer the question." Hermione's tone was not annoyed, but more like the tone she used on Neville when he wasn't understanding something.

"Well, Tom told me," he muttered.

"ah," she said, "I don't believe you."

He said something under his breath, but it was too low for him to hear.

"you want to go to the library together?"

"actually, I promised Harry, Ginny, and Draco that I would watch them play today?"

"Quidditch?"

"I hate to play the game, but I love to watch."

"What sort of broom do they have?"

"A nimbus 500 or something, I have one too, but I doubt I'll use it," she said sadly.

"really? A nimbus 500? That's the best broom ever made! Only professional players have those!"

"oh, I guess you can ride mine sometime," she said.

"can we go now...?" She laughed and nodded.

"Later, wait for me! Just give me 10 minutes." With that she went back to her dorm and took the fastest shower she ever took. She transfigured Cassandra's dress back to normal and changed into a navy skirt with a purple blouse and a pair of sensible heels. "Do you want to just go to the library for the hour? I know it's open, plus, Harry and the others won't be up till 8, and it not even 7."

"Won't you get hungry?"

"I'll go and get books fast. And then read them while eating."

He chuckled and walked by her side as they went to the library

[A/N: Holy god, this took forever...please read the update below

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