Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters. Nor do I earn anything from writing this. I merely use Ms. Rowling's characters to have some fun of my own.

Forgive and Forget

Summary: Draco and Hermione bump into each other, but soon those meetings aren't so coincidental anymore. But don't they have better things to do than talk to each other?

The Twentieth of December - Hermione

Today was the 5th of June and Hermione was panicking. She and Draco had been together for four months now, and even though Hermione knew that Draco would be turning 20 today, she had absolutely not the slightest clue as to what to get him.

It was a Hogsmeade weekend, and Draco and her had a date scheduled for the afternoon, and until then she needed to have a present. Or she wouldn't turn up at the date because of the shame of not having a birthday present for Draco.

She'd already asked Ginny and Harry, but they were always busy with Blaise and Daphne. The latter two fell away for obvious reasons. Which left…Astoria. She now noticed that since she Draco's isolation a few months ago, she hadn't even talked to the brunette.

So now she was walking through Hogsmeade, when she coincidentally bumped into Astoria.

"Oh, sorry", Astoria instantly apologised, and as she looked up from where she had fallen on the ground, she smiled. "Hey, Granger."

"You can call me Hermione if you'd like."

"Only if you call me Astoria."

The two girls smiled at each other before Hermione remembered what she wanted. However, she didn't know how to say it, so she just blurted out, "I don't know what to get Draco for his birthday."

Astoria laughed. "You do know that that's today, right?"

Hermione let out a frustrated cry. "Yes, I know, and I've thought about what to get him since we got together, but I- I just don't know, Astoria! And stop laughing at me!"

Astoria stopped laughing, but still grinned at Hermione. A feeling of warmth filled Hermione. The feeling she got whenever she talked to Ginny. The feeling of friendship. Hermione didn't know why it came so soon, since this was only the second, maybe third time in her entire school years that she'd ever talked to Astoria, and yet it felt like they've been friends for years. "You've been together with him since February and you haven't even the slightest idea about what he likes? You've got to be joking!"

Hermione shook her head with a frustrated sigh. "That's just the thing! I don't know what he likes! The only thing would be Quidditch, but wouldn't that be kind of cliché? A girl buying her boyfriend something from the Quidditch store?"

Astoria smirked as she grabbed Hermione's hand and pulled her towards the book store. "You might not know it, but it's been Draco's dream for years to become a healer. He used to have a lot of books, but…Lucius…he burned them shortly before the battle. And since then, he hadn't really had the opportunity, having spent half of the summer in Azkaban and then the other half sorting through the stuff in the Manor to get rid of all the dark artefacts…"

Hermione nodded. She could understand that. It made sense. She hadn't known that Draco wanted to be a healer, but as she thought about how much more of a surprise for him it'd be, she couldn't suppress a smirk as possible reactions filled her mind.

Word Count: 520

AN: Hehe, for once, I'm not THAT late! I managed to publish before 10pm (at least in my time zone) and I'm really proud of myself now!

Anyway, today you'll get two QOTDs, because I skipped them yesterday.

Love, Sarah💚

QOTD1 (for yesterday): What is your greatest wish for this year's Christmas?

My answer: That we'll all be healthy and happy and (not just for Christmas, but in general) that the Corona virus will soon be not such a huge thing anymore, the lockdowns cancelled and that everything turns as normal as can be again.

QOTD2: How old are you all?

My answer: I'm 15, but I'm gonna turn 16 on 26th January.