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A/N: Oh my gosh thank you to all of my reviewers. I was freaked that absolutely no one liked, thank you sooooo much!!! I think this chapter is longer then the others so hopefully its more enjoyable. There is more action so ENJOY!! Speedstergal : )
Caught and Lonely
Chapter 3
The rest of the train ride to Hogwarts was pretty uneventful for Hermione and Draco. Hermione spent the rest of the time with Ginny talking about their summer and of course guys. Ginny still had a huge crush on Harry, but she was still terrified of actually telling him that. So the rest of the ride Hermione tried to nudge the girl into telling him, but after a couple of tries it became quite clear to Hermione that no matter what she said Ginny was not going to clue Harry in about her feelings.
Draco just stayed put in his compartment. He just sat there glaring at the wall trying to figure out what was going on. First of all he wanted to know why he didn't say anything mean to the Weasel and Granger not even a snide remark popped into his head. He didn't even use his trademark smirk.
"Man I must be losing my touch." He thought wearily.
Another thing was why all of the sudden did everyone hate him. He knew some people loathed him before he got on the train, but he had friends. They even ignored him. It was insane even Pansy, who he always thought would love him even if he didn't even like her threw him out of his compartment to go mouth to mouth with another guy. He just didn't get it.
Draco sighed in frustration, closed his eyes and fell into a light slumber.
The train finally reached Hogwarts and to everyone's luck, it was pouring down rain. The weather successfully matched both Draco and Hermione's mood.
"Great!" Ginny huffed, "I don't have a jacket on, my clothes and hair will be soaked!"
"Well Ginny, the faster we get to the carriages the less rain will fall all over your perfect hair." Hermione replied with a grin.
"You're being sarcastic aren't you." Hermione just laughed as the two friends ran as fast as they could to the awaiting carriages.
Hermione felt a great sense of bliss and peace when she walked through the great oak doors to the warm and welcoming Entrance Hall. She could instantly smell the magnificent aroma of the delicious food served at the annual feast.
Hermione and Ginny entered the Great Hall and made their way over to the Gryffindor table. She quickly found Ron and Harry who were waving at them.
"Hey guys," Ginny said excitedly happy to be in Harry's presence "how was the train ride?"
"It was great," answered Ron, "but I didn't see Hermione for more then half of the time." He turned to Hermione, "Where in the world did you go, I missed you." He looked at her with his innocent blue eyes. Hermione couldn't help but forgive him. He was so cute when he did that. Maybe when he screamed at her on the train he was just upset for being interrupted by his mortal enemy, or maybe he was just having a bad day. He wouldn't have just yelled at her like that for nothing, maybe she did something.
"I am sorry, I went to the bathroom to change and I was going to come back to see you but I ran into Ginny and we got into a good conversation." She explained, although she knew it was a lie. She then quickly added, "And I missed you to!"
Ron leaned over and kissed her on the cheek. Hermione couldn't help but smile. She loved it when Ron was cute like that.
"Ohhhh their soooo cute!!!" Ginny cooed. They all four laughed. The rest of the meal was very enjoyable for Hermione. Though she couldn't help but look over at the Slytherin table. She saw the once Prince of Slytherin sitting at the very end of the table staring down at his food being completely ignored by his fellow housemates. Even Crabbe and Goyle seemingly deserted him. She even saw Pansy Parkinson all over another guy, which was hardly believable. Since when did everyone ignore Draco Malfoy?
He could not believe it, him Draco, the rich, strong, smart and stunningly handsome Malfoy was being ignored by everyone.
"How can anyone ignore me? I am a Malfoy. That's literally impossible. What could I have done? This is nuts. I mean I should at least have some idea, but no, I am totally clueless. It's not every day a Malfoy is clueless."
After desert was finished the food on the golden plates where magically washed clean and everyone made their way to their common room.
"Hermione." She whipped around towards the direction of the voice. "Oh, hey Ron." She wasn't sure if she was happy to see him or a little upset. She was actually kind of hoping she could get up to her dorm and be able to get a good night's sleep before the beginning of term tomorrow. But for some reason, she knew she wouldn't be getting to bed early tonight.
"Meet me in the empty charms room on the 5th floor tonight at 10:00." Ron said. She knew it was basically an order but she didn't really want to go. She remembered what happened in the train. She had absolutely no control over Ron, he was to strong for her to fight and she was not at all ready for what he wanted to do with her. If Malfoy hadn't come in on accident it would have been a whole lot more then a make out session. She knew very well what he wanted to do in that charms room and to be quite honest she was starting to feel a little uneasy.
"Um listen Ron, tomorrow is going to be a big day and I want to get some sleep so I will be well rested for it." There was dead silence and Hermione became vaguely aware of the fact that they were the only ones in the hall at the moment.
"You know what Hermione? I am going to pretend I didn't just hear you tell me that you didn't want to meet me?" His voice was slowly raising.
"Listen Ron," Hermione said courage was coming back into her once quivering voice. "I don't want to meet you tonight, I am really tired, ok."
"I didn't ask you if you wanted to meet me tonight, I told you, you were going to meet me tonight. So I expect you to be there. Got it?"
"What was I ever thinking getting back with this idiot. That's it no more, I am not going to be pushed around anymore. It's over." She thought.
"Listen Ron, I don't think this is going to work out." She was starting to become a little nervous as she watched his face start to burn red with anger.
"I don't think you are hearing me right Hermione." And with that he pinned her against the wall and smashed his mouth on to hers and started to kiss her roughly.
"Ron stop!!!" She tried to scream but his mouth muffled hers. His kisses hurt and she was making it worse by not kissing back. He furiously jabbed his tongue into her mouth and he started exploring it.
"Oh my gosh this is so gross what can I do??? Come on Hermione think, you don't read all of those books for nothing. Come on girl think your smart. Right?"
He started to try and feel her up at that time she was seriously freaking out so she did the only thing she could think of, she kneed him where the sun don't shine. HARD.
"OWWW." Ron yelped in pain and immediately dropped her.
"You fricken' witch." He wheezed his face was an awful shade of red that clashed with his hair terribly.
"Ok I thought I was scared a little while ago? Now for all I know he could kill me. What do I do? What do I do?"
She then did the only thing that popped into her head RUN.
She took of sprinting down the hall. She knew she was being stupid because she had ran the total opposite of the Gryffindor common room. She now was running down the steps to the Entry Hall. She had no idea where she was going all she knew was that she HAD to get away from Ron. Her adrenaline was running high so she just kept running.. blindly. Until.. CRASH she ran smack dab in to something *very* hard and big.
"Ouch!" Hermione howled in pain.
"Hey!" the voice said angrily
"Sorry," she started to say as the person helped her up. She looked at the character she ran into. "Malfoy?!?" she squeaked in surprise.
"Granger?!?" He said in disbelief. "What in God's name are you doing down here?"
Hermione looked around she seemed to be in the dungeons. There was very little light and she could barely see Malfoy but she could defiantly feel his gray eyes leering at her.
"Umm well uh you see.." She started. She had no idea what to say "Come on think of an excuse. Use that stupid brain of yours, it hasn't been any help lately put it to some use, think of something!!!" "Um well Crookshanks some how managed to get out of Gryffindor Tower and I have been looking for him everywhere, so I thought I should check down here since it is the only place I haven't checked yet and." She could hear herself rambling mindlessly until much to her relief he interrupted her.
"Yeh well whatever," she could tell he didn't believe her whole Crookshanks story but at least he wasn't questioning her. " Just go back upstairs, the dungeons is no place for a Gryffindor at night."
She didn't have to be asked twice she swung around and began walking very fast away from him. When he was out of sight she sprinted all the way up the stairs.
Gosh I hope Ron isn't still there." She thought to herself nervously.
To her absolute pleasure Ron had left. She quickly went to the picture of the Fat Lady, gave her the password (snoggle nose) walked right into the common room and went straight up the stairs without even acknowledging her friends.
"Herm- hey she looks upset or something. She didn't even say goodnight or anything." Harry said a look of worry on his face.
"Aww probably nothing Harry, she told me she was just a little tired." Ron answered smiling to himself.
"You're probably right, she always likes to go to sleep early before term starts." Harry replied, "Up for a game of Exploding Snap?" He asked
"Your on!" Ron answered.
Hermione went straight to her bed and slipped in with her clothes on. "Gosh no one has any idea what just happened between me and Ron. I couldn't tell anyone they would never believe me. I certainly can't break up with him, people would want to no why. Gosh, I guess I will just stick with him, for now. One thing that I don't understand is Malfoy, he seems different this year. He didn't make one remark when I ran into him. His henchmen weren't with him either. It's just really weird. I have never seen him look so sad and tired. I wonder what's going on."
And with that last thought Hermione drifted of into a fitful sleep.
Draco Malfoy looked up at the ceiling as he tried to make out what just happened.
"Granger. I have never seen her look like that. She was terrified. The look in her eyes, she looked like she had just been violated. She tried to trick me with that lame excuse about her cat. She was running when she ran into me.. fast. But why? She's different this year. I don't know why, but I might just find out.
And with that last thought Draco drifted of into a dreamless sleep.
Hope you liked it. I tried to make it longer. So please review me I am begging you!! LOL. Even if I don't get any more reviews I will probably keep posting just because I am having fun writing it, so plz review!!! Thanxs to my reviewers Kyo88, Kewlgal8th, sweetchicaangel and Syaoronsangel. My next chapter is going to be a little harder to write so it may take a few days, I don't know, but I will get it posted as soon as I can!
Speedstergal : )
A/N: Oh my gosh thank you to all of my reviewers. I was freaked that absolutely no one liked, thank you sooooo much!!! I think this chapter is longer then the others so hopefully its more enjoyable. There is more action so ENJOY!! Speedstergal : )
Caught and Lonely
Chapter 3
The rest of the train ride to Hogwarts was pretty uneventful for Hermione and Draco. Hermione spent the rest of the time with Ginny talking about their summer and of course guys. Ginny still had a huge crush on Harry, but she was still terrified of actually telling him that. So the rest of the ride Hermione tried to nudge the girl into telling him, but after a couple of tries it became quite clear to Hermione that no matter what she said Ginny was not going to clue Harry in about her feelings.
Draco just stayed put in his compartment. He just sat there glaring at the wall trying to figure out what was going on. First of all he wanted to know why he didn't say anything mean to the Weasel and Granger not even a snide remark popped into his head. He didn't even use his trademark smirk.
"Man I must be losing my touch." He thought wearily.
Another thing was why all of the sudden did everyone hate him. He knew some people loathed him before he got on the train, but he had friends. They even ignored him. It was insane even Pansy, who he always thought would love him even if he didn't even like her threw him out of his compartment to go mouth to mouth with another guy. He just didn't get it.
Draco sighed in frustration, closed his eyes and fell into a light slumber.
The train finally reached Hogwarts and to everyone's luck, it was pouring down rain. The weather successfully matched both Draco and Hermione's mood.
"Great!" Ginny huffed, "I don't have a jacket on, my clothes and hair will be soaked!"
"Well Ginny, the faster we get to the carriages the less rain will fall all over your perfect hair." Hermione replied with a grin.
"You're being sarcastic aren't you." Hermione just laughed as the two friends ran as fast as they could to the awaiting carriages.
Hermione felt a great sense of bliss and peace when she walked through the great oak doors to the warm and welcoming Entrance Hall. She could instantly smell the magnificent aroma of the delicious food served at the annual feast.
Hermione and Ginny entered the Great Hall and made their way over to the Gryffindor table. She quickly found Ron and Harry who were waving at them.
"Hey guys," Ginny said excitedly happy to be in Harry's presence "how was the train ride?"
"It was great," answered Ron, "but I didn't see Hermione for more then half of the time." He turned to Hermione, "Where in the world did you go, I missed you." He looked at her with his innocent blue eyes. Hermione couldn't help but forgive him. He was so cute when he did that. Maybe when he screamed at her on the train he was just upset for being interrupted by his mortal enemy, or maybe he was just having a bad day. He wouldn't have just yelled at her like that for nothing, maybe she did something.
"I am sorry, I went to the bathroom to change and I was going to come back to see you but I ran into Ginny and we got into a good conversation." She explained, although she knew it was a lie. She then quickly added, "And I missed you to!"
Ron leaned over and kissed her on the cheek. Hermione couldn't help but smile. She loved it when Ron was cute like that.
"Ohhhh their soooo cute!!!" Ginny cooed. They all four laughed. The rest of the meal was very enjoyable for Hermione. Though she couldn't help but look over at the Slytherin table. She saw the once Prince of Slytherin sitting at the very end of the table staring down at his food being completely ignored by his fellow housemates. Even Crabbe and Goyle seemingly deserted him. She even saw Pansy Parkinson all over another guy, which was hardly believable. Since when did everyone ignore Draco Malfoy?
He could not believe it, him Draco, the rich, strong, smart and stunningly handsome Malfoy was being ignored by everyone.
"How can anyone ignore me? I am a Malfoy. That's literally impossible. What could I have done? This is nuts. I mean I should at least have some idea, but no, I am totally clueless. It's not every day a Malfoy is clueless."
After desert was finished the food on the golden plates where magically washed clean and everyone made their way to their common room.
"Hermione." She whipped around towards the direction of the voice. "Oh, hey Ron." She wasn't sure if she was happy to see him or a little upset. She was actually kind of hoping she could get up to her dorm and be able to get a good night's sleep before the beginning of term tomorrow. But for some reason, she knew she wouldn't be getting to bed early tonight.
"Meet me in the empty charms room on the 5th floor tonight at 10:00." Ron said. She knew it was basically an order but she didn't really want to go. She remembered what happened in the train. She had absolutely no control over Ron, he was to strong for her to fight and she was not at all ready for what he wanted to do with her. If Malfoy hadn't come in on accident it would have been a whole lot more then a make out session. She knew very well what he wanted to do in that charms room and to be quite honest she was starting to feel a little uneasy.
"Um listen Ron, tomorrow is going to be a big day and I want to get some sleep so I will be well rested for it." There was dead silence and Hermione became vaguely aware of the fact that they were the only ones in the hall at the moment.
"You know what Hermione? I am going to pretend I didn't just hear you tell me that you didn't want to meet me?" His voice was slowly raising.
"Listen Ron," Hermione said courage was coming back into her once quivering voice. "I don't want to meet you tonight, I am really tired, ok."
"I didn't ask you if you wanted to meet me tonight, I told you, you were going to meet me tonight. So I expect you to be there. Got it?"
"What was I ever thinking getting back with this idiot. That's it no more, I am not going to be pushed around anymore. It's over." She thought.
"Listen Ron, I don't think this is going to work out." She was starting to become a little nervous as she watched his face start to burn red with anger.
"I don't think you are hearing me right Hermione." And with that he pinned her against the wall and smashed his mouth on to hers and started to kiss her roughly.
"Ron stop!!!" She tried to scream but his mouth muffled hers. His kisses hurt and she was making it worse by not kissing back. He furiously jabbed his tongue into her mouth and he started exploring it.
"Oh my gosh this is so gross what can I do??? Come on Hermione think, you don't read all of those books for nothing. Come on girl think your smart. Right?"
He started to try and feel her up at that time she was seriously freaking out so she did the only thing she could think of, she kneed him where the sun don't shine. HARD.
"OWWW." Ron yelped in pain and immediately dropped her.
"You fricken' witch." He wheezed his face was an awful shade of red that clashed with his hair terribly.
"Ok I thought I was scared a little while ago? Now for all I know he could kill me. What do I do? What do I do?"
She then did the only thing that popped into her head RUN.
She took of sprinting down the hall. She knew she was being stupid because she had ran the total opposite of the Gryffindor common room. She now was running down the steps to the Entry Hall. She had no idea where she was going all she knew was that she HAD to get away from Ron. Her adrenaline was running high so she just kept running.. blindly. Until.. CRASH she ran smack dab in to something *very* hard and big.
"Ouch!" Hermione howled in pain.
"Hey!" the voice said angrily
"Sorry," she started to say as the person helped her up. She looked at the character she ran into. "Malfoy?!?" she squeaked in surprise.
"Granger?!?" He said in disbelief. "What in God's name are you doing down here?"
Hermione looked around she seemed to be in the dungeons. There was very little light and she could barely see Malfoy but she could defiantly feel his gray eyes leering at her.
"Umm well uh you see.." She started. She had no idea what to say "Come on think of an excuse. Use that stupid brain of yours, it hasn't been any help lately put it to some use, think of something!!!" "Um well Crookshanks some how managed to get out of Gryffindor Tower and I have been looking for him everywhere, so I thought I should check down here since it is the only place I haven't checked yet and." She could hear herself rambling mindlessly until much to her relief he interrupted her.
"Yeh well whatever," she could tell he didn't believe her whole Crookshanks story but at least he wasn't questioning her. " Just go back upstairs, the dungeons is no place for a Gryffindor at night."
She didn't have to be asked twice she swung around and began walking very fast away from him. When he was out of sight she sprinted all the way up the stairs.
Gosh I hope Ron isn't still there." She thought to herself nervously.
To her absolute pleasure Ron had left. She quickly went to the picture of the Fat Lady, gave her the password (snoggle nose) walked right into the common room and went straight up the stairs without even acknowledging her friends.
"Herm- hey she looks upset or something. She didn't even say goodnight or anything." Harry said a look of worry on his face.
"Aww probably nothing Harry, she told me she was just a little tired." Ron answered smiling to himself.
"You're probably right, she always likes to go to sleep early before term starts." Harry replied, "Up for a game of Exploding Snap?" He asked
"Your on!" Ron answered.
Hermione went straight to her bed and slipped in with her clothes on. "Gosh no one has any idea what just happened between me and Ron. I couldn't tell anyone they would never believe me. I certainly can't break up with him, people would want to no why. Gosh, I guess I will just stick with him, for now. One thing that I don't understand is Malfoy, he seems different this year. He didn't make one remark when I ran into him. His henchmen weren't with him either. It's just really weird. I have never seen him look so sad and tired. I wonder what's going on."
And with that last thought Hermione drifted of into a fitful sleep.
Draco Malfoy looked up at the ceiling as he tried to make out what just happened.
"Granger. I have never seen her look like that. She was terrified. The look in her eyes, she looked like she had just been violated. She tried to trick me with that lame excuse about her cat. She was running when she ran into me.. fast. But why? She's different this year. I don't know why, but I might just find out.
And with that last thought Draco drifted of into a dreamless sleep.
Hope you liked it. I tried to make it longer. So please review me I am begging you!! LOL. Even if I don't get any more reviews I will probably keep posting just because I am having fun writing it, so plz review!!! Thanxs to my reviewers Kyo88, Kewlgal8th, sweetchicaangel and Syaoronsangel. My next chapter is going to be a little harder to write so it may take a few days, I don't know, but I will get it posted as soon as I can!
Speedstergal : )