PERFECT

A/N: Hi everyone! Thank you for all the support you all have shown to this fanfiction. I wasn't expecting much as the transitioning and storyline is way off, so a big heartfelt thanks.

I hope you enjoy this one as well. Not too long but I promise the next few chapters will surely compensate.

jacpin2002- Well love, I hope so too.

Marifraus27- I hope you continue to enjoy as the plot unfolds.

Chapter 3

We all looked at each other and then Ron started to stand up but Ginny stopped him.

'Don't Ron. I don't think you going out there to talk to her, is going to help the situation. Someone else should go.' She said with concern in her voice.

'I think Draco that you should go after her. You are not too close but she knows you.' Astoria said with a glint in her eyes. She is up to something.

'Yea Drake. Go and see what is wrong.' Blaise said to me. That is something.

So I got up and went out only to find Hermione leaning on one of the street lamp pillars. I went to her and stood beside her.

'What should I do?' she asked. I entwined our hands and she turned around to face me.

'If you ask me then I don't have any idea. Ron seems like a nice guy.' I said pulling her closer.

'He is a nice guy. Perfect even! He is just like the knight in shining armour we all have always dreamt about. I was going to break up with him.' She said.

'And now you are not?' I asked her. She sighed.

'I don't know. What if this is my chance at happiness and having a family? My parents adore him. He treats me like a queen. I don't know what to do Draco.' She said in a sad voice.

'If that's what you think then what is holding you back?' I asked.

'This. Whatever happened? I may have thought as a single person but in reality, I was committed and my boyfriend was buying me a ring.' She said pointing us both.

'And you feel guilty. Look, Hermione, whatever happened just happened. In your mind, you were single. So technically you didn't cheat on him. And if you want to be with him then that's perfectly okay. Think of us as a secret little rendezvous.' I said smiling. I wanted to say that it was more but then was it really? I myself was confused so what would I have told her…

'We should head inside.' She said in a curt voice.

And we did head inside where we found everyone looking at us expectantly.

'Yes.' Hermione said as she approached Ron, who then gave her the ring and hugged her. Hermione was smiling but it didn't quite reach her eyes. I also noticed Harry looking at me skeptically.

After congratulations we all sat down and had our desserts. We chatted a bit then headed home. We were in car on the way to her home when Astoria addressed me.

'Why did you do that?'

'What?' I asked cluelessly.

'Don't play dumb Draco. You obviously were together last night. I keep tabs you know, as I am a journalist. And you were holding hands throughout. When she saw the ring she looked horror-stricken and then after chatting with you, she comes back and accepts the ring.' She snapped.

'Astoria, we spent some moments together, alright. We went on a long drive to escape that boring party.' I told her the half-truth.

'And then you slept together. She must have been uncertain about Ron this whole time, enough to sleep with you. Then I bet you said something noble and idiotically wise and she accepted the proposal. Of course you just had to go and be such a hermit.' She glared at me.

'Ron is her fiancé and he loves her. She will be happy.' I said.

'Oh yeah… tell me the same is with you and I will give it a rest.' She mocked.

'I am fine…' I said.

'I'm so very sure.' She snapped and turned her head to look outside.

Thank God Blaise went to drop his brother to airport or else he would have eaten my mind. I love him as a friend and brother but sometimes he gets a little too ethical in sense. One of his best qualities is that he is morally very sound. He would have fun but his sense of right and wrong is so strong that he never is in the blurred lines.

The things Hermione and I did despite knowing that she had a boyfriend and still not caring in literal senses, giving in to temptations, bending the rules, being in the grey area, all that is blurred line. You don't give a shit about ethics and world; you just pursue your wildest dreams. And we did that. If Blaise knew he would go mad and launch in a lecture of how wrong I did and how deeply fucked up I am right now. because even now, when Hermione is engaged, I could not resist thinking how good she looks, and how good she feels.

'Drake!' Astoria broke my train of thoughts.

'Huh…' I said.

'You really are in deep shit, ain't you?' she asked with a worried look. I turned to front and tried to ignore her. But her being Astoria, she didn't leave me alone.

'Drake, you listen to me. You like Hermione, then why you let it go? I am sure if you would have told her, she would have not said yes.' She said being right as always.

'Then what?' I asked in an angry tone. 'I would have said that I like you and I just love shagging you, so would you please leave that perfect bloody boyfriend of yours and be with me for the time being? And this is nothing serious you know because I don't do serious. I just want us to have a casual open relationship and when we both are satiated then we will part our ways. So would you leave a perfectly safe and happy future with him and be in this uncertain, mysterious, exciting relation of ours?' I said in a single breath. 'Should I ask her all this? Answer me Astoria because you know what, I haven't got a bloody clue.'

'So you do want to be with her. This is not about her, is it? This all mess is about the uncertainties you have about yourself.' Again, she was dead right. Why doesn't she go and kill herself?

'Your home.' I said as I pulled up in front of her home.

She wanted to say something but decided not to and went inside her home. And so did I go to my home.

The next few days were busy and conflicted. I was over-thinking. I was thinking this and that and analyzing every bloody thing. That hurt.

A/N: Don't come at me with all the guns blazing. Yep, she said yes. You read that correctly. And I assure you I haven't gone mad. So, if you just wait a bit more, I promise it gets better. There are a lot more twist and turns left to this story.

Constructive criticism is always welcome.