Hella! I'm bored…  Oh well, at least I finally wrote huh?  Lets see, the bold italics are me making my comments and the regular ones are the people! Lol just thought I'd let you know!                                                            

         Chapter 5ive

                                                                                                         Lessons Either Way

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         "I thought I'd find you here." 

         Well, of course she'd come to our study spot because no one knew where it was but me.  I thought that'd she appreciate the company but obviously not, for she wiped away her tears and spat, 

         " What do you want Draco?" 

         " To do my job—tell you how stupid you are."  She actually gave a dry laugh.  I thought she might snap at me…again,

" Yeah you would say that wouldn't you? Thanks, Malfoy, but I already knew this and I'll talk to him about it tomo—" I spoke to soon…

         " No! Go talk to him now, he's probably looking for you any way."

         " He is not! You saw him… he was, (#^*@^# kitten keeps walking on my keyboard!! Chester stop it!) Shocked, horrified." 

         " Actually I didn't see him, I was already on my down to the dungeons to fu—that's not the point the point IS you need to go back towards your little common and room and find him!" 

         " Why do you care anyway?"  She stated, I mean I knew this was coming; the fact was I didn't know why I cared. I just didn't want to see, well I didn't know why either way.  She just couldn't let this fall apart and I knew it.  At the same time I'm going 'What the fuck are you doing?'  She was being civil to him; why not return the favor to her.  Mudblood or not, he owed her whether or not black mail was satisfying enough. 

         But, before I could answer, she had walked away into the dark corridors. 

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         It was one of those last minute don't consider it to long or you'll change your mind situations. 

         I got up off of my bed, (no I hadn't changed into my pj's I was just laying down god damn it!) and walked down the boys' corridor steps, got half way down, swore under my breath, and ran back up the steps and grabbed my Invisibility Cloak.    One of my better judgments I realized later.  At least I had done one thing right.  I just hoped that I wasn't too late, and hadn't missed my chance to tell Hermione that she got the wrong idea.   I walked around aimlessly just checking random places (well first the library but when she wasn't there, THEN I walked around aimlessly) 

         I stopped. Turning around a corner, I heard voices. 

         " Yeah you would say that wouldn't you---" It faded out- but he knew that voice anywhere it was Hermione but who was she with?  " About it tomo-"

         " No! Go talk to him now…  " And he realized that it was Draco Malfoy.  What the hell was she doing talking to him?? I backed away, not wanting to hear anymore. But who was 'he'?  If she was going to run around the corridors with Draco Malfoy I sure wasn't going to get caught snooping on them.  But it was too late as Hermione came around the corner and ran straight into me. 

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         Well, running off wasn't the best idea I'll admit that now.  But being in a stuffy room with other sleeping girls, tossing and turning in my four-poster wasn't all that appealing either!  I wasn't exactly sure why I was so upset.  Just worrying what he thought I guess.  Scared of his reaction, if he thought I was crazy, or was utterly shocked, or even… dare I say it?  Felt the same way?  The chances were one in a million but even that means I still had a chance.  (Awww… I'm sentimental!)  So instead of going to my room, I went to the study room.  The only person who knew about was Draco and why the hell would he be there—well except for reasons we wont mention anyway!  

         I was wrong of course.  Never seizing to amaze me, Draco was there soon after I came.  To my embarrassment I was on the verge of tears and one of the last people I wanted to see me cry was him.  But once again, he was civil, and trying to make me laugh—yeah right! For like two seconds before he butted into my business and I left.  Well I didn't get very far before I ran into—something. 

         "Ouch! What the--" I cried in surprise. 

         " Shhh… Hermione it's me shut up! You want Filch to find us?"   Harry appeared suddenly from under his invisibility cloak.  To my dismay Draco followed me out of the room and saw Harry in the process. 

         " What's that?"  He said stupidly. 

         " Your Mother Malfoy," he began sarcastically," No! Its an invisibility cloak asshole."  I looked up in shock at Harry, what was his problem?  Not that Draco wasn't an asshole 99.9% of the time; it was like Harry to swear… um around me!  Of course, being a guy and enemies, Draco started forward, so I stepped in between them. 

         " Shut up the both of you."  I gave them my perfect 'look-of-death' and they relaxed slightly shrugging off my hand on their chests. " You guys are so pathetic, is there even a reason—no a GOOD reason why you two hate each other?" 

         " Yes."  They said in unison.  Then glared.

         " Well, I'm sure it's as pathetic as standing here waiting to get caught so Draco high tail yourself to the dungeons, or a week of detention will most likely come your way…" 

         I stepped back out of his way, and he stalked past, obviously seeing the sense of what she said.  When he disappeared, I turned to Harry.

         " Yeah, um we should go."  I said uncertainly.

         " No, we'll stay right here thank-you."  I flinched at his harsh tone,  seeing this he softened his voice. " I just would like to know why you here alone with Draco Malfoy."  He finished,

         " Why should I tell you?  You and Ron don't tell me everything about your lives, shouldn't I be able to do the same?"  I said loftily just trying to get at him, it worked.

         " That's true but when it involves Malfoy and being alone then I should be able to know about it!" 

         " No! That right there shows me that I had every reason to hide this from you." 

         " Oh, OK then why don't you go find Malfoy then, you don't seem to want me around. " That was absurd and he must have known, and I grabbed his arm as he turned around.

         " Harry James Potter don't you walk away from me," He stopped, but he didn't turn around," I was tutoring him if you must know.  All for the sake of you not finding out, well finding out how I felt towards you. "  I finished hurriedly, before I could stop.  He spun around at that. 

         " Hermione, how do you feel about me?"  I couldn't really believe he had asked that, and I didn't see a way out of not telling him, even if I wasn't sure why.  So I stammered,

         " I'm not all that sure, I like you a lot, and it's like one day I just saw something else in you.  Like waking up one day and noticing that your eyes were blue, and you had always thought they were brown."  I got surprised a lot that night, once again when he started to stifle a laugh, " What?!" I exclaimed.

         " Nothing—" Laugh, " Its just—how would you not know your eyes were blue?"  Typical boy reaction! But he looked so silly trying to stifle a laugh in the middle of the night, half hidden under the invisibility cloak (I couldn't see his arm and half his body… quite comical), I couldn't help it I laughed too.  But we both stopped abruptly when we heard a noise nearby.  I froze, but Harry didn't and he pulled me under the cloak and we moved over by the wall. 

         I was suddenly aware of every part that our bodies were touching, my arms barricaded against his chest, my leg pressing up against his in the attempt to make the room smaller.  We had done this a thousand time, even with Ron,  hiding under the invisibility cloak, but now it had more meaning then ever. It was closer than I had been to him in weeks, I was right there.  I couldn't breath, a thousand things were racing through my mind and let me assure you—none of them involved who had made the noise.  Five agonizing minutes later, I thought the coast was clear and I walked out from under the cloak, getting one step before being pulled back by Harry. 

         " Me too."  Was all he said, way to late, but he said it, just got the words out before leaning in and placing his lips on mine. 

         I got the chills, a heat of warm air all over my body, and a prickle of fear all at once.  His lips were soft and I could have stayed just like that for hours on end, and just when I thought it was never going to end he pulled away and gave me his award winning smile.  I smiled back and we walked back to Griffondor Tower rather slower than usual. 

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