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Chapter 21: The Letter

It has been two weeks since the meeting at Dumbledore's office. The students gossiped non-stop of what had happened to Pansy. Hermione and Draco hadn't talked since then as well. He decided to give her space and time that she needed to gather herself.

Even though Pansy was gone and out of the way, she still felt betrayed. She missed him very much but focused on her studies instead. Their best friends were there to support them also although they all knew that the two just needed to be alone.

Draco couldn't concentrate well for he couldn't stop worrying about Hermione. Meanwhile, Hermione was struggling as well whether to give in to her desire of talking to him or not. She thought better to put it off for some more time.

On Saturday morning, Hermione woke up and got ready for breakfast. As she passed by Draco's room, she quietly took a peek. Luckily, no one was there.

Her friends greeted her and she replied with a feeble smile. She glanced at the Slytherin table and saw Blaise sitting by himself. Blaise caught her stare and she mouthed "Where is he?"

Blaise shrugged sympathetically.

Hermione sighed before and offered Blaise a seat beside her.

Blaise nodded and brought his meal over to the Gryffindor table.

"Where do you think he went?" asked Hermione.

"I have no idea, really," he answered.

Hermione looked at her friends for an answer, but they all shook their heads. The owls came in and dropped mails on each student's meals. Hermione received an envelope and she prayed that it was from him.

Dear Hermione,

I want to surprise you. Meet me at Three Broomsticks after your breakfast.

"Is that from Draco?" asked Ginny.

Hermione gently placed the letter on the center of the table so they can each have a turn to read it.

Harry, who read the letter first and passed it on to Ginny, warned, "I don't know Hermione if that's Draco. I mean remember what happened to you and Parkinson's letter?"

"Yeah, but who knows...maybe this time it's Draco," Ginny responded.

"Looks like we're all coming with you to make sure you'll be all right," said Ron.

Hermione shook her head. "It's not Parkinson, believe me. I'll be fine by myself."

"But Hermione-"

"Blaise, guys, come on, it might be Draco. I mean he wasn't at his room and he's not here," Hermione said with a sigh.

"Yeah, but if it was Draco, would you guys make up?" asked Lavender.

"I don't know," she mumbled. "It depends."

"Are you sure you don't want us to come with you?" asked Parvati.

"Yes, I'm sure. I'll be back maybe after lunch or something. You guys know the password for the Heads common room, so just wait for me there to come back," said Hermione.

"Fine," they all muttered.

They all finished their breakfast at the same time. The six students dropped Hermione off by the Hogwarts gate as she headed off to Hogsmeade.

Hermione wasn't sure whether it was Draco who she was meeting up with. She half wanted to make it up with him, but the other half didn't want her to go to Three Broomsticks. So she sat on a bench and thought of it more.

It had been two weeks and maybe he suffered too much already...It had been hard for me too leaving him like that. God, I miss him so much...all right, maybe I should just talk to him first...yeah I'll do that. Finally satisfied with her decision, she slowly walked towards the Three Broomsticks and entered to see only a bit of customers inside.

She looked around the place but spotted no blonde head.

She almost fainted to the ground in disappointment when she heard a familiar accent, "Hermione! You're vere!"

"You know I really wish that was Draco," said Ginny after they had a snowball fight out on the Hogwarts grounds after dropping off Hermione and now heading back to the Heads common room.

"Yeah, I really hate seeing them like this," replied Parvati sadly. Blaise gently put his arms around her shoulder.

"They'll be fine soon. They just need to talk it out," said Blaise.

They all nodded in agreement when Harry mumbled the password to Madame Lindsay.

When they entered, who they saw sitting on the couch made their jaws dropped.

"Draco!" squeaked the girls at same time as the boys yelled loudly, "Mate!"

Draco, who had been deeply immersed in his thoughts, widened his eyes from the sudden screaming.

"What? Who died?" he shouted.

His best friends slowly looked at him suspiciously. He became frightened by their strange movements. "What the bloody hell is going on?"

The three girls pinched his face checking if it was him.

"Ouch, don't do that!" said Draco as he rubbed his cheeks.

"That's him, all right," muttered Ron.

"Of course it's me! Who did you think I was? Voldemort?" asked Draco.

"So you didn't send Hermione a letter this morning?" asked Parvati widening her eyes.

"No, not that I remember...why?" asked Draco suspiciously.

The others looked at each other not knowing whether to tell Draco about Hermione's letter.

"What is it?" asked Draco getting irritated.

"Are you sure, you didn't send her any letter at all during breakfast?" asked Blaise.

"No, mate. What in the bloody hell is going on?" he asked standing up.

The others backed up. Ginny decided to tell him, "Hermione received a letter from someone-"

"Who's that 'someone'?" asked Draco.

"It didn't say..." replied Lavender.

"What do you mean 'it didn't say'?" asked Draco.

"It only said, 'I wanted to surprise you' and it said that to meet him or her at the Three Broomsticks. It had no signature," said Harry.

Draco turned around and glared at the window while clenching his fists, "Why didn't you guys go with her?"

"She didn't want us to. She said she'll be fine because she thought it was you...and well, we guessed she wanted to talk to you alone," said Ron.

Draco turned around to them, "I'm going to follow her."

"We're coming. And don't you bloody dare say no," said Parvati dangerously.

Draco nodded, "Let's go."

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