Chapter Sixteen
A Chat About Muggle Devices and an Answer

She just stared at him. 'Why would he, Draco Malfoy want to accompany me to Hogsmeade?'
He stared back at her expectantly. There was a pleading look in his eyes as if he actually wanted her to say yes. Or rather was begging her to say yes!
'I can't. This is Ginny's boyfriend. She'd be crushed if she found out about this!' She thought. Then her evil fun-loving side came in. 'Come on Hermione! Say yes! What girl wouldn't give everything just for one day with this guy? Ginny'll never know...'
He saw the look on her face and added in quickly. "It wouldn't be like a date, date. More like a casual trip to Hogsmeade like you take with Potter and Weasley." He looked her over. 'Well maybe I lied but it's gotta work.'
"Well in that case sure." Secretly one part of her was hoping it would turn out to be more than just a 'casual trip to Hogsmeade' but the other part was hoping that was all it would be. She had only had one date before and that had turned out to be a complete disaster since her date was a complete moron but also the school's biggest pervert - aside from Draco of course.
"Um..." He hesitated.
'I can't believe this. He's usually the one sneering and smirking at the people who say um and things like that now look at him! I wonder if I'll get to hear him stutter this evening too.' Hermione laughed to herself.
Draco coughed and looked slightly embarrassed to be acting this way in front of a girl 'A mudblood at that.' He thought but quickly dismissed the thought. He was beginning to remind himself of his father and that was a thought that utterly repulsed him. "Shall we go then?" He regained his aristocratic manner now after his brief moment of actually seeming human.
"Sure." Hermione silently scolded herself for not using better words than 'sure'. "Where exactly are we going by the way?"
"I was thinking Zonko's, The Three Broomsticks, and that sweet shop I can't quite remember the name of it. Followed by a quick dinner at some little French restaurant on the edge of town." He added quickly. "It's that's all right with you of course."
"It's fine. Definitely different than a muggle date but still..."
"A muggle date?" One of his eyebrows raised. "I'd take you on one of those but I seriously doubt we'd find a movie theater around here anywhere."
Hermione's eyes widened in shock. "You know what a theater is?!" She exclaimed causing him to laugh. It was actually a real laugh not that cold sound he usually made while insulting someone or while he was watching someone get hurt.
"I'm not an idiot Hermione. I do know what a movie theater is. I've been to one before. Although I still prefer my television at home because no one would shut up long enough to actually watch the damn movie."
Hermione blinked as she tried to imagine this boy who seemed to hate everything to do with muggles sitting in front of a TV screen. She got a very strange picture of him chanting "Jerry, Jerry." While watching an episode of Jerry Springer. She laughed loudly causing him to throw her an odd look.
"What's so funny?"
"I was trying to imagine you watching television. And an image of you watching Jerry Springer came to mind..."
"What's so funny about that? I do occasionally watch that show."
Her grin grew bigger. "That was unexpected..." She said.
He frowned slightly. "What's wrong with Jerry Springer?"
"You don't get it..." She muttered. "Are you going to tell me now that you own a computer and listen to rap music?"
"If you're asking then yes I do."
Hermione almost fell out of her chair in shock. The rich aristocratic 16-year-old in front of her was acting as if he were from a muggle family and not a pureblood muggle hating one. How could he be so completely different then they all thought? She thought that this must be some crazy plot or just a very fucked up nightmare. "Do you have AOL?" It was more of a test to see if he was lying or not.
"Why yes I do. AOL 6.0 in fact. My screen name is Draco 393 Eminem if you don't believe me." (A/N: That is a real screen name. My friend's in fact.)
"Ok..." This was getting a bit to weird for her. To find out he knew what muggle things were nevertheless finding out he used them was something she wouldn't even have in her wildest dream. But of course him dating Ginny was also something she would never have dreamed happen either. If someone had came up to her the year before and told her that one of her best friends would fall in love with her arch-enemy she would have laughed in their face and told them they needed their head examined yet this seemed so - normal now. It was all very odd and very confusing.
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A/N: I do believe it was Aireon Granger who told me she disliked my little plot change. (Forgive me if it was someone else I'm just too lazy to sign back on and check because my computer is so freaking slow) But why would I - a big D/G shipper make Hermione and Draco fall in love??? Of course I did purposely make it seem that way. Nevertheless, remember this, things are never what they appear in my stories...
Ok well now on to my real author's note:
Can someone please tell me how to write in bold and italic on fanfiction.net? It could have been very useful throughout this story and if I get enough reviews and get told how to do that I'll do a repost and fix all my spelling and grammar mistakes. Um... there was something else I wanted to mention... well I can't think of it yet but when I do I'll put it in somewhere in a future chapter. Sorry I've been taking so long to type up the new chapters but I've been quite busy. I also have to change my ending a bit since I've decided to add that sequel I mentioned in the previous chapter. The sequel I'm writing now so after I finish this one that one will actually be up quick unless my computer crashes or something like that. Speaking of ending this story it should be ending soon. (Soon meaning as much as 20 more chapters) I'm sure you don't mind. I'll end it at the end of Draco, Harry and co.'s 7th year. (Ginny's 6th) By the way as you'll soon find out it's close to Christmas break at this point in the story. Voldemort and Lucius make an appearance soon...