Disclaimer: the purpose of this is to let you people know that Draco & Hermione aren't a product of my over-acting imagination as well as the rest of the HP characters--minor exceptions to this disclaimer are the 3 new characters mentioned and the plot of this fic
Author's Note: I thought I might as well work on uploading as much chapter as I possibly could in a day 'coz I know it'll take me a while again before I could upload another chapter.
Summary: Hermione & Draco received a nasty blow to the head when an out of control bludger careened towards where they stood bickering during a Quidditch practice. They woke up in the hospital wing not knowing each other--but they know everyone else--and an instant attraction towards each other soon formed.
Setting: 6th year
Pairings: that smirking Slytherin Boy & that brainy Gryffindor Girl
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XIII. Forget Him
Draco was soon getting worried. All weekend long he didn't see hide nor head of Hermione. Breakfast, lunch and dinner she was a no-show in the Great Hall, but he didn't miss either Potter or the youngest Weasley sneaking food back to their dormitory with them as soon as they were done.
Hermione has locked herself in the safety of their dorm tower.
Damn! She locked herself up in the safety of her blasted dormitory when he wanted to talk to her the most.
Needless to say Draco was in a very bad mood for the rest of the weekend. Nobody dared get near him nor did anybody tried his patience. They feared they might lose more than just a head if they even think about crossing his sour mood.
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"He was looking for you again." Ginny informed her friend-in-exile after dropping a plastic filled with dinner leftovers on Hermione's lap when she entered the Gryffindor common room and found Hermione seated in front of the fire huddled in her favourite chair reading one of her numerous books.
Hermione lifted her head up and frowned, "Who?"
Ginny raised an eyebrow, "Malfoy, who else?"
"Oh." Hermione gulped and let her eyes travel to the plastic bag filled with dinner leftovers, "So, what did you and Harry decided to pack for me this evening?"
"Basically everything that was served on the table." Ginny replied, plunking herself down on the chair beside Hermione. "Why are you doing this to yourself, Herm?" she asked out of the blue.
Hermione frowned at her friend, her hands arrested from opening the plastic bag containing her dinner. "What do you mean?"
"This!" Ginny made a gesture with her arms spread wide apart, "You're hiding away in the tower. Why?"
Hermione made a face at her and dug in to her plastic of leftover food, her mouth practically watering at the sight of chocolate cupcake that she pulled out.
"Oooh, please tell me you packed me quite a lot of this!" Hermione practically squealed as she wolfed down the cupcake in a single bite.
Ginny could only watch in awed disbelief as Hermione wolf down the rest of the leftovers she and Harry snuck out of the Great Hall for Hermione.
"Slow down, sister, or the next thing I know you'll be eating the plastic too!" Ginny told Hermione when her friend was almost done eating her dinner.
"Shorry." Hermione replied with her mouth filled with the cupcakes Harry must've remembered she liked so much hence why the majority of the plastic's contents were the chocolate cupcakes.
"Anyway, this isn't right, you know? You being in exile just because you don't want to see Malfoy." Ginny pointed out sternly.
Hermione glared at her friend and wiped her face clean off the icing from the cupcakes. "I am doing no such thing, Virginia Weasley!" she denied heatedly, but Ginny knew her far too well to believe what she was saying. After all, she saw Hermione sobbed herself to sleep the night of the Halloween party.
"Yeah, yeah. You just want to be by yourself that's why you've been cooped-up in the tower for the last couple of days." she rolled her eyes heavenward and shook her red head, "Seriously, Hermione, you've got some very disturbing issues!"
"If I remember correctly, Gin, you were the one who told me to just forget about Malfoy because he wasn't good for me. And that's exactly what I'm doing!" she announced, jutting her chin high into the air, looking all smug and almighty.
"Yeah, you're forgetting him alright. You're doing that by simply locking yourself away from the rest of the world." Ginny sneered, "This isn't healthy, Herm. If you really want to forget Malfoy, you got to be brave and show him that your minor slip of the tongue while he was giving you some awesome lip service meant nothing to you. You were just swept away by the moment hence why you uttered those words to him."
"But I do love him, Gin." Hermione admitted in a small voice.
Ginny let out an exasperated sigh and gave her friend a sympathetic look. "I know you do, Herm. I know you do, but according to you, after what Harry told you about Malfoy you started having second thoughts about him."
"Even so, Gin. Yeah, sure, I was bothered by what Harry revealed about Draco's reputation, but then another part of me didn't want to believe that." she insisted.
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to be continued...
A/N: Alrighty, well I'm starting to fall asleep now and I still need to get up early to go to work tomorrow so I think I better end this chapter right here, right now. Nothing much is said here so...well, it's yet another crappy chappy! *lol* Anyhow, keep those reviews coming & I'll try and update as much chappies as possible in the next few days.