Chapter 26
Dear Diary,
Two days have passed since I made that bet and every day gets a little more difficult. We have decided that neither of us really likes taking walks or just sitting down for pointless conversations so we've found other ways to be together. We study together. I sit on his lap and read to him my notes as we prepare for the next days classes. It works well because Draco really enjoys me sitting on him like that. I think he gets off on it. We also like to kiss... we like to kiss a lot actually - BUT WE KEEP OUR HANDS TO OURSELVES as the rules of the bet clearly state. No touching.
But he's starting to act differently. Whenever he walks into a room, he scans the crowd as if looking for something, always being cautious. He's accompanied wherever he goes by Tom and Blaise who seem to have replaced Crabbe and Goyle.
I watch him now more often, at meal times or in class. He's different than he used to be, that's for sure. In past years, I used to see him every day with a new girl on his lap but now there are no girls. I've caught him staring at me a number of times but that's only when he's unaccompanied by his new bodyguards.
Speaking of bodyguards, Harry and Ron have been so overprotective lately that it's insane. I wonder what's going on with them.
Hermione
RON'S P.O.V.
I used to think we'd make the perfect couple. We were best friends and all and we already hung out all the time so there wouldn't be much of a change except for the sex and stuff... Not that I fantasized about her or anything. I mean, come on! The whole goo and pure little school girl being naughty thing doesn't turn me on at all.
Oh who am I kidding? I would have given my left nut to bang her in the library, a kinky fantasy I've dreamt of a number of times. But I knew that would never happen. Why? Because Harry liked her too. I could tell even if he couldn't. And of course if Harry wanted her, I would let him have her. He deserves it after everything with his parents and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and all.
But the point is that I thought at least if she wasn't going to be with me then she would be with Harry but no! They broke it off. That left her free to be with...
Well I would love to finish that sentence with the word ME but unfortunately, nothing ever works out that well. The sentence would end with a six letter name that makes me sick. MALFOY. Barf.
I knew from the beginning that this was how it would happen. And in the end, she'll come crying to me and Harry. She always does. And then we'll comfort her and Harry will blow her away with a kiss. He always does. Even when they weren't going out. A simple kiss on the cheek is all she needed.
Anyways, back to the point. Hermione and Malfoy's relationship is actually a funny thing. If I didn't KNOW any better, I'd say they still hated each other. They glare all the time, especially at dinner. And don't get me started on how flirtatious Hermione is now. It's like she wants people to think she's single. Good act she puts on. It's insane. She's been flirting with just about any guy that says hello.
Classes with Slytherins are hilarious to me. She tires to pretend he's not there and he tries his best to do everything short of screaming her name to get her to notice him. It's only been two days back to school but already I can tell that this is going to be fun.
Sexual Education class starts tomorrow. It's such a humiliating course. I mean, come on! Who wants to learn about the male and female reproductive organs. It just ruins the beauty of sex. When you have sex, you don't stop to think about the anatomy of it all. It's too beautiful of a moment.
Yes, I've had sex before. I'm not just making it up from what I THINK sex should be. To me, sex is amazing, the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can share.
The problem with me is that I'm not that good at relationships. Don't ask me why. Maybe I'm just holding off for Hermione to realize that I'm the one she should be with. Maybe I just can't do commitment. Who knows?
No one knows this but most of the women I sleep with are...
they are....
Well...
they're from...Slytherin. I can't believe I just confessed that.
No one knows, not even Harry who's my best mate. It's just that, well there's something about those women. They know how to seduce a man. Dear Lord, they really know what they're doing.
Well that's it for now.
- - One day later - -
Dear Diary,
Oh dear. When I made that bet with Draco, I had forgotten about Sex Ed. Class. Today was the first day. Madame Pomfrey gave us the lesson plans an hour before class.
Oh dear.
Draco and I decided that if we took a laid back approach, the students would have a better response. The courses were going to be every Tuesday and Thursday for us but only once a week for the students. We have Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw on Tuesday and Slytherin and Gryffindor on Thursday. Damnit! I can't believe our first class is with Slytherin and Gryffindors TOGETHER!
We walked into the room and we were intending on starting with the assignment Poppy had given us but our audience told us right away that it would not be possible. I looked at Draco and I could see that he was thinking the same way.
"Okay," I said aloud to get everyone's attention. "Let's get started." All the Gryffindors took their seats like perfect little angels but the Slytherins continued their conversations.
"Take your seats!" Draco yelled, startling everyone in the room and getting the desired response from his house mates. They sat down and shut up.
I was so nervous with everyone staring at us but Harry and Ron's smiles encouraged me. "Alright, let's get started. Draco and I will be your teachers," I informed them. "Today we'll start by learning contraceptive charms." Of course Draco and I were experts on the subject we had used all of them together. "I'll assume you all have your textbooks so please open to page twenty-three, chapter one. Read all of it and then answer the questions that will be on the board. Then we'll have a discussion."
They all set to work while Draco and I quietly discussed our next steps. "No group work," I said firmly. "I don't think we can give them group work and we can't pair them off. Anything that allows them to speak to people from the other house is asking for chaos. Organized discussion are okay but nothing that could let them all have their own separate conversations."
"I agree," he whispered back. We continued to talk, not about the class but now just keeping ourselves entertained. About twenty minutes or so into class, the door creaked open. Draco's head as well as my own popped up towards the door and in she walked. Short blonde hair and a slim figure the size of a toothpick. She walked over to me and handed me a note from Dumbledore that said her name was Larissa Williams, Tom's sister, another transfer. She was to be in Slytherin. I looked at Draco but he didn't notice. His eyes were fixated on hers and he was just staring.
"Well, Larissa," I addressed her while ignoring Draco's obvious infatuation with the girl. "We're learning contraceptive charms right now."
"I already know them all," She laughed. "Isn't that right, Draco?" I had figured as much. It was obvious by the staring. He had already slept with her. I should have known. "Draco, can you please show me to my seat?"
I gave him one of those looks that sad I was pissed and he immediately snapped out of it. "You're not an infant. You can find one on your own," he said to her. "I do believe that there's a seat by Tom and Blaise."
"Why don't you escort me there?" she practically commanded him. She pouted her lips and flipped her hair behind her shoulders.
He looked from her to me and then back to her again as if summing up who was better and then he chose. He stood up and led her to a seat by Zabini and the new guy. Argh. He is so insufferable. I hate him sometimes, really.
After she sat down, she whispered something in his ear which made him break a sweat. I'm guessing she offered him sex. Merlin hex her to hell!
I wrote the questions down on the board and then practically screamed at them. "You should be done with the reading by now. Please answer the questions and then Draco and I will discuss it with you and open up the floor to questions."
Harry and Ron gave me a funny look while everyone else just seemed intimidated. Draco came and sat down by me. "Larissa's an old friend."
"I'm not stupid, Draco. I see that look in your eyes. It's lust. You want her."
"No I don't, Hermione! There's nothing between me and her anymore. It's been over for a while now. I was just remembering how it was when I said goodbye but it was never anything serious. You're the one I want."
"Merlin, Draco! I can't believe you anymore! Is there any girl in the school that you HAVEN'T been with?" He opened his mouth to say something but I stopped him. "Fourth years and younger do not count! Besides, the question was rhetorical. I don't actually want to know. You're such a man whore! If you were female, you'd be the school slut but because you are a male, you're considered a sex god!" We had been whispering the entire conversation but then I lost it. "Is everyone here done answering the questions?" I snapped. They all looked up. "Good! Now, I have a question I want answered. Why is it that if a girl sleeps around, she's a whore but the more girls a guy gets, the better his chances are at going down in the male hall of fame?"
No one responded. They were dead silent. "I don't think it has anything to do with gender," said Zabini. "It depends on the person." I rolled my eyes.
"It doesn't make sense," Draco said. "But that's life. We all deal with it."
"Of course you deal with it," I snarled. "You're a guy. Speaking for the female population, I know that it's unfair and I want to better understand it."
"This girl has a point, Draco," the new girl said. "You should listen to her. She sounds intelligent. Why are you glorified when girls like Ms. Granger and myself are made out to be fools."
"Not you too," Blaise whined. "Like it isn't enough listening to Granger complain? I mean, we practically expect it from her. She's all into equal rights and all that crap. But you as well? You're Larissa Williams, the hottest chick in the world. The most seductive dame alive in a matter of speaking. You sleep around all the time."
"And why should I be condemned for that when Draco is not?"
"HEY!" Draco screamed. "Don't bring me into this!"
"Afraid of every girl here finally realizing the truth about you, Malfoy?" Harry piped in. "Scared of them finally knowing how you use them just for the night and they never mean a thing to you? They're all just another name to add to your list... that is, if you can even remember their names."
"Don't get me started on you, Potter!"
"He's right, Malfoy," Ron shouted. "You just tell women what they want to hear just so they'll sleep with you but you never REALLY care about them! You're heartless."
"You're one to talk, Weasley!" Tom finally said as he got in to the argument. "I've seen you around. You stick to the Slytherin girls, right? Don't want anyone to know your dirty little secret - that you're just as low as Draco is. I bet your friends didn't even know, did they?"
"Shut it, Williams!"
"Ron, what's he talking about?" Harry asked him. I figured it out in a snap with the way Ron's face was burning red.
"Parkinson?" I gasped. "You slept with her, Ron? Why? When? Where? Oh don't tell me! I don't want to know!"
"Hermione, it's not what you think!"
"I THINK it's gross and I THINK you could do better but I also KNOW that you're a guy who obviously is just as horny as everyone else. That's fine. It's not my business." Really I couldn't be mad because he wasn't mad when he found out about Draco.
"Well I think," Draco interrupted. "That this is a good homework assignment. I want a foot long on whether or not you think it is okay to have many sexual partners - due next Thursday. Anything else, Granger?" I hated the fact that he called me Granger when we were in front of people. It just pisses me off.
"Be sure to include how society views such sexual relations and if you think these views are outdated or intelligent. Also say the difference of the views between society's views for men and their views for women. That is all. Off with you."
They all left and I gathered my belongings. Harry and Ron were staying behind but I told them to go on without me. I had a headache and wanted to go straight to sleep. I wasn't lying either. That discussion and maybe also the presence of one of Draco's ex's really made me sick. Harry and Ron left and I continued gathering my notes.
"Did you really have to start a riot in class?" I heard Draco ask from the other side of the desk. "It was rather suspicious of you and I understand you're upset that I've slept with Larissa before but the whole argument was a bit uncalled for and a bit out of nowhere!"
"Actually it wasn't," I replied. I guess I had forgotten to tell him what I had overheard the other day. Oops. "A day ago, I was in the girls bathroom and I heard two second years talking, Crabbe and Goyle's sisters. They said that they knew you and I were sleeping together and then one ofthem said I was also with Harry, Ron, Oliver Wood, Neville Longbottom, Seamus Finnegan, Dean Thomas, Percy Weasley, The Weasley TWINS (both at once of course) and also Colin Creevey.
They called me a whore, Draco! Then they continued talking and said how it was common knowledge that you have been with ninety percent of the girls in fifth year and up and that every girl still wants you! They praised you because they heard how great you were in bed but when a guy hears that I'm good in bed then they all think I'm easy!"
"I can't change society's views on the sexual relations between us! Let's just relax, go back to the room and snuggle on the bed... I mean COUCH!" I laughed. Victory is mione!
DRACO'S P.O.V.
"You are so going to lose," She smiled. "It's only a matter of time."
And she may have been right had it not been for me remembering the universal habit that all men resort to when they are deprived of sex and left with too much penned up sexual energy for too long. Thank Merlin for being able to masturbate. I wonder whether or not Hermione has ever pleasured herself. I almost was going to ask but then I thought better of it. It was inappropriate. She would have been appalled. "I'm not losing, Granger," I told her. "There's no way I can't go one week without it. I have self control."
She rolled her eyes. She likes to do that. It makes me think that she thinks she's better than me so naturally, I hate it when she does that."I'll tell you why I know you're going to lose," she smirked. "It's because you are a Malfoy and you are used to getting what you want. If you can't get it from me, you'll find someone else. Malfoy's are infamous for their spoiled tendencies and now with that girl Larissa here offering herself so freely to you, it's so clear that five days will kill you. Don't even pretend like it won't. It's killing you already. I can tell."
"Don't go there! Larissa is no one I'd even consider leaving you for!"
"But you would consider leaving me?" Women are definitely too good at twisting words around. It scares me on occasion. I really have to choose my words more carefully.
"That's not what I said! If you were listening..."
"You've slept with her and you want her!"
"She's nothing to me!"
"She's everything to you!" Then she started staring into my eyes, probing my mind for memories, thoughts, feelings, answers to her questions. I hate the fact that she can read my mind. In fact, I despise it. It really made me angry.
Then I got so angry that I shook my head violently and slammed her up against the wall. "DON'T DO THAT!" I screamed. "Don't ever do that to me again! Do you understand me? My mind, my thoughts, MINE! If I want to share them with you, then I will."
"You're hurting me," she whimpered in a such a small voice that I could hardly hear her.
"Don't try to read my mind. Just ask me next time."
I let her down and she looked like she was crying. "I guess the bet doesn't matter then anyway. I wouldn't sleep with you now even if my life depended on it. Talk to me when you've learned to control your temper!"
She began to walk away. "Hermione, don't go!" I called after her. "Don't leave angry like this!" I can't stand the thought of losing her. I need her. I hated leaving it like that.
"I won't stay in such an abusive relationship," She told me. "You better pray that there are no bruises on my arms tomorrow or so help me, Malfoy, you will regret it!" She didn't need to tell me what she was going to do to make me regret it. Anything she did would be terrible.
And then she left. Honestly, I don't know why I get so angry. I just can't help it. How dare she......
My rampage was ended by the door swinging open. I looked up hoping it was Hermione but I was wrong.
"Alone at last," purred Larissa's sexy voice.
A/N... Longer chapter, faster update! Yay for me! I'm so proud of myself.
Okay so I know there was no sex in this chapter. Sorry. It'll come soon enough.
5 days left of the bet. Let's see what happens.