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A/N: To kelli, yes I already know that. I had acknowledged that author in a previous chapter. But thanks for pointing that out.

Chapter 38

Hermione ran like the wind blew. Where she was going, she didn't know. But it sure wasn't to her dorm because she passed that about ten minutes ago.

I HATE HIM! I HATE HIM! I HATE HIM! I HATE HIM! I HATE HIM! I HATE HIM!

BANG!

Without warning she went smashing into someone causing her to fall back hard on her ass.

She didn't know which one hurt the most, her ass from the concrete ground or her head from all the alcohol she had.

She still felt a bit dizzy when someone pulled her up suddenly. "Hermione, are you alright?"

Hermione looked to see who was so rude to interrupt her little marathon.

"Yeah Blaise I'm fine. Don't worry about it." She pushed pass him to keep on running but she was stopped when he grabbed on to her arm.

"Look Hermione, Pansy probably had something to do with this. You know he wouldn't do it intentionally." Hermione could see the sincerity in his eyes and couldn't help but smile.

"Thanks Blaise you're a good friend." She hugged him and then kissed him on the cheek before deciding to go back to her dorm for a much needed slumber.

Blaise however was still pissed off that he would do that decided to send his weekly owl to Draco a couple of days earlier.

As soon as he entered his room he put quill to parchment.

Draco,

What the fuck were you thinking? I know you have something for Hermione but to make her jealous like this is low, even for you. You've lost her now, and this is your fault. Every week you ask me to look out for her and tell me about the times you two spent together and then you and pull a stunt like this. I really thought you had changed. I guess I was wrong. And don't apologise to me, apologise to her.

Blaise.

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WHAT THE FUCK IS HE TALKING ABOUT?

Draco had just received an owl and was still trying to figure out what the hell Blaise was on about.

What does he mean I've lost her? And what is this about me apologising? And what stunt did I pull? I'm totally lost.

"Draco hurry up, we have another meeting to attend to." Josh called out.

Draco looked up from his parchment and tossed it aside.

They both headed outside where they took a hold of the diamond ring.

Upon entering the meeting room their were a few people who were smiling or giving Draco the thumbs up much to his surprise.

What the hell is everyone smiling at me for?

All of them that is except for Blaise, he didn't even make eye contact with Draco.

"Now that everyone is here, let this meeting commence."

But instead of concentrating Draco was trying to get Blaise's attention. Something he didn't achieve.

"The war will start in exactly one fortnight. The next couple of weeks will be vital in our victory against all those who disobey my orders. And we will once again have the power reign over all."

Everyone applauded to the dark lord and the meeting went on.

"As always we will start of with a practise duel between two of the young ones, any volunteers."

Lucius pushed Draco into the middle.

"Ah very good, anyone else." The Dark Lord called out in his evil drawl.

Blaise stepped out much to Draco's surprise. What is he doing, we promised we wouldn't duel each other. Flaming idiot.

"Alright, wands at the ready." They both squared off. Draco however gave him a 'what the fuck are you doing' look. Blaise ignored it and carried on.

"And… DUEL!"

"STUPEFY!!!" Without warning Blaise made the first hit, but his reflexes were way to fast and Draco jump to the side.

He looked up to see total anger.

Two can play that game Blaise.

Draco then casually brushed himself off and stood up once again.

"PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!" (A/N: I can't remember what it is sorry :()

Then as if someone had flicked a switch they were duelling, shouting a variety of curses and counter curses. Until finally.

"CRUCATIUS!" Blaise had called out the last curse as Draco fell to the ground in agonising pain.

Blaise then ran to Draco's side and called it out once more before kneeling down so they were face to face with each other.

"You shouldn't have done that to her Draco." He whispered loud enough for him to hear.

"What are you…. talking… about you…. idiot!" Draco yelped in between all the pain he was experiencing.

"Don't play the innocent little angel. You know EXACTLY what you did." Blaise spat out.

Draco looked up at him totally confused. "I swear… mate… I don't know what you're… on about." Draco yelped out once again.

Blaise then looked at him and saw he was telling the truth.

"THAT'S ENOUGH!"

Blaise then stopped the curse and held out his hand to lend Draco a hand.

Draco was going to push it aside at first but then he thankfully took a hold of it and hauled himself up.

"Now everyone get into pairs and practise your duelling techniques, AT ONCE!"

Everyone scattered to find a partner.

Draco and Blaise looked at each other and nodded.

Blaise then took him to the far corner of the room to talk to him.

"You seriously have no idea what I'm talking about do you?" Blaise asked in a quiet tone.

Draco was still wiping all the dirt from his robes. "No, I have absolutely no fucken clue why you're so fucken pissed off at me. What's going on?"

Blaise then looked at him embarrassed. "Sorry mate, I honestly thought you knew what I was talking about."

Draco still gave him a blank expression.

"Well haven't you noticed how everyone has been looking at you today?"

Draco thought about it. Well I did get a few too many smiles.

"Yeah, what about it?"

"Last night Pansy threw a party. And for some reason she invited Hermione."

Draco immediately began to tense up. "What did that bitch do to her?"

Blaise began to scratch the back of his neck. "Well, technically it's not what she did. It's more what you did."

Draco once again gave him a black expression.

"Just as Hermione was getting comfortable Pansy got sent an owl. She then mumbled a spell to show everyone what it was and…"

Draco grabbed Blaise's shoulders and shook them vigorously. "And what?"

"Well… there was a picture of you and some blonde snogging."

Draco froze. He felt as if his whole world had fallen apart.

But before he could feel sorry for himself he knew exactly who was to blame for this.

"Josh." Draco said out loud.

"What was that?" Blaise asked confused.

"This was all that bitch Josh's fault. I am going to melt his fucken whistle right off. What did Hermione do?" He asked suddenly.

Blaise looked down at the ground. "She didn't do anything she just ran. I found her about a half an hour later still running. She didn't look very happy Draco. You have to fix this."

Draco looked at him reassuringly. "Don't worry I will."

A/N: OH MY GOODNESS PEOPLE. Where is the faith? A lot of people are asking whether or not I know what I'm doing. Well not in so many words but you know. Don't worry everything will turn out in the end. Just keep reading and you'll see why Draco and Hermione can't be together. Also to J thanks for that review me being an amateur at this kind of thing it's good to hear your input. Love you all. Please review. NO BURNS PLEASE. And also yes I know my grammar sucks with the their, there and they're. I'm terrible thanks to the reviewer who pointed that out.