DRACO'S POV

"That's a lovely phrase." Hermione stepped out from the bathroom with her hair in to Dutch plaits wearing a tight pastel blue tank top and white boot legged bottoms with small pastel blue stars. She looked so beautiful and she'd managed to sort out her hair which was a benefit.

"It was the last thing my father said to us." My mother looked over to Hermione and gave her a small smile before standing up. "Well I best leave you two alone; will I see you tomorrow morning?"

"No, I think we'll head off as soon as we are ready, we'll leave by portkey so we don't disturb anyone."

"Well then I will see you soon." I stood up to give my mother a tight hug.

"Thank you for the present mother," pulling out of the hug and smiling at her sadly, "It was exactly what I needed." she nodded in response and walked towards the door. She pulled it open and then turned to face Hermione who was sat at the end of the bed legs crossed.

"I'm sorry for how your visits to our home have always ended, I hope next time it's more joyful. Oh and will you please get my dear son to write to me more."

Hermione let out a small giggle, "I'll try my best but you know how stubborn he is, half the time he won't even do is head boy duties!"

"Yes, well he gets that from his... never mind." And with that she left the room.

HERMIONE'S POV

There was a moment or two of silence after Narcissa left, neither of us moved or looked at each other let alone spoke. "Oh, this is stupid!" I said getting up in a huff walking over to Draco, "Why aren't we talking? It's not like we've had a fight." he was still stood staring at the floor when I reached him.

"I thought you were mad at me." He spoke in a small voice not daring to look at me.

"No of course I'm not mad at you!" I placed my hand in his causing him to look at me, "It's just being back here... well I haven't got the fondest of memories of this place and when he called me a mudblood it just sent me back to that room with your aunt. I'm not mad at you at all." he looked at me for a moment and then pulled me into a tight hug.

After standing there a while he let go of me and fell backwards into the sofa, patting the space next to him. I walked around the table and sat down in the small space next to him; my legs curled up into a ball as I placed my head on his shoulder. He wrapped one arm around my waist and picked up a box that was sitting on the arm of the seat. "What did you get?" I asked as he stared into the box that he'd laced on his lap.

"Some bits that belonged to my grandfather," he lifted out a small gold pocket watch, "he never went anywhere without this. It doesn't work anymore though, it stopped working when he died." He put the watch back into the box and lifted out a camera and on old black and white photo with two figures laughing. "I thought my grandmother burnt this after he died, we went to a town called... I think it was Dawlish." He placed the photo back in the box and lean to put it on the table.

"Come on, let's get some sleep. I'll write an owl to the school quickly." He stood up and held out a hand, he pulled me into a hug, placed a kiss on my forehead and walked over to his desk.

I woke up the next morning wrapped in Draco's arms, I rolled over to see if he was awake; which he wasn't he was still fast asleep. I moved my hand slightly and brushed a patch of hair off his face and behind his ear. "Thought I'd told you before not to touch my hair." He opened his eye's slowly and tightened his grip around me as I shuffled closer to him.

"I thought you were asleep." I said putting on a playful frown.

"I was but when I comes to my hair I always know what is happening. Talking of hair... I like your hair like this." He raised one of his hands and ran it along a braid.

"You're only saying that because it's not a mess like usual." I rolled my eyes at him.

"No that's not true... okay yeah." He let out a small chuckle, I lifted my chin up slightly and kissed him gently on the lips. I wrapped my arms around his neck and closed the gap between us before breaking out of a kiss, he placed his chin on the top of my head as I rested my face beside his chest. Holding him tightly.

After ten minutes of just lying there he let go of me and got out of bed, "Where are you going?" I asked sitting up against the headboard; legs crossed and grabbing my wand from the bedside table.

"Hermione have you looked at the time." He opened his trunk and then walked over to the wardrobe opening it carelessly, grabbing random things and throwing them into his trunk on the other side of the room.

"No." I leaned over the bed and picket up Draco's watch. 8:55. "It's not that late," I got comfortable in my original position and flicked my wand. "accio tea."

"You could have just summoned a house elf." Draco said walking into the bathroom.

"You know my views on house elves Draco!" I shouted to him as I took a sip of tea; flicking my wand again for my book.

After 20 minutes Draco came back out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist. His 'prize winning hair' as Blaise calls it, was messy and wet making it completely out of character for him. He flicked his head and his hair sprinkled water around the room, droplets hitting me in the face. "Watch it." I said closing my book and placing it next to the empty mug.

"Oh, is little Miss Gryffindor princess annoyed?" He strutted towards me, arms folded and a smirk on his face.

"No but the Slytherin prince seems to be a bit cocky this morning."

"I think you'll find I'm cocky every morning." He said with a wink.

"That's not what I meant." I raised an eyebrow at him and started to get of the bed. "And you know that." As I stood up I felt his soft hands push my shoulders back, causing me to fall back onto the bed.

"I don't know what you're talking about." He spoke innocently as he leaned down, starting to pin me onto the bed. "I was merely insinuating that I am arrogant." His smirk getting bigger.

"Get off, you need to finish packing and we both need to get dressed." I tried to loosen his grip on me but it wasn't working.

"But babe we've got all day to do that." Draco looked down at me pouting slightly.

"Well you were the one who was eager to get up this morning."

"It's still the morning Granger."

"Oh yeah... well good morning babe." and with that I lifted my knee to his crotch. He doubled over in pain, falling off me. I jumped off the bed and ran into the bathroom, locking the door behind me.