Author's Note: Okay, the first chapter of this fic is up, now I think I better get my creative juices working here overtime and get the second chappie out so we could keep the ball rolling! hehehehe *winks*

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Summary: Draco & Hermione were suppose to start their 7th year at Hogwarts as a couple, but due to a misunderstanding the previous year that dream soon crumbled and now they are to start their 7th year picking up the pieces of their tattered lives...

Setting: 7th Year

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II. You've Got to Be Kidding Me!

Potions. History of Magic. Transfiguration. Care for Magical Creatures. Defense Against the Dark Arts. Herbology. Charms.

Hermione ticked off all the classes she had and her dark eyes just kept on growing wider and wider as soon as she realized that in all eight classes of hers she was stuck with Draco Malfoy!

"Oh no..." she groaned out loud as she sat beside Ginny inside the Gryffindor common room doing her first assignment for the beginning of the new school year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Ginny stopped writing an essay for History of Magic and frowned at her friend. "What's wrong, Herm?"

Hermione looked up from her class schedule with a look of dread crossing her eyes. Ginny's forehead creased into a tight frown. "What's the matter?"

"Gin, do you believe in Fate?" Hermione asked out of the blue.

"What?" she put down her quill pen and focused her full attention to her friend. "Hermione, are you sure you're okay?"

"Of course I'm fine! Jeez, I merely asked if you believe in Fate because look at this." she dangled her class schedule in front of Ginny and pointed at it angrily.

Ginny had to pull her head back to focus on what Hermione was pointing out. Seriously having a piece of parchment dangle a few inches away from her nose could make anyone cross-eyed! And Hermione wasn't even helping much. She kept on wriggling the piece of paper in front of her, making it doubly hard for her to read what was written.

"For crying out loud, Granger! Stop moving your damn hand!" Ginny caught Hermione's wrist to steady the piece of parchment that has her friend's class schedule written on. Her eyebrows furrowed at the center for a while before they started growing wider and wider as a flying saucer. "Oh my God! How unfortunate!" she exclaimed.

"Exactly!" Hermione agreed and set the parchment down. "Life's really unfair!"

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Hermione wasn't the only one having the same problem with her class schedule. Draco read and re-read his schedule for what seemed like the umpteenth time since the parchment was handed to him. This can't be right. All of his classes are with Hermione!

This has got to be some cruel joke. Draco thought to himself as he stared at his class schedule, shaking his head from side to side as he kept on staring at the piece of parchment.

"Hello Draco." Pansy Parkinson, the girl his father had in mind for him to wed, greeted cheerily when she passed by him inside the Slytherin common room. "What are you studying there?" she peered over his shoulder to see what was written on the parchment Draco seemed to be glaring at for the last hour and a half since he had the chance to study his schedule.

"Nothing." Draco replied irately and turned the parchment face-down to hide it from Pansy's prying eyes. "What do you want, Pansy?"

Pansy frowned and straightened up. "What's wrong with you lately, Draco?" she asked, "You are more moodier now than before." she pointed out.

"Nothing." he replied curtly and pushed himself off the chair he was sitting at and walked towards the portrait hole.

"Where are you going now?" Pansy called after him.

"Out!" he hollered over his shoulder and disappeared through the portrait hole. Indeed he needed some fresh air. Being around Pansy only darkens his mood. She was a reminder that six months after Hogwarts he'd be tied in a marriage he neither wanted nor cared about.

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"I'm out of here." Hermione announced after staring at her class schedule for far too long.

"Where are you going?" Ginny asked, frowning up at her friend who started straightening up the part of the table she was using.

"Out. I think I need to get some fresh air and put things into perspective." she explained, stuffing quills, parchments, and books into her backpack. "If I'm to spend the next ten months stuck in a classroom with Draco Malfoy in every damn class I picked this year, I might as well prepare myself instead of sulking in here which would accomplish nothing."

"So you think taking a walk outside will help you clear your mind?" Ginny questioned.

"I think so. At least I won't have to sulk in here and stare at my pathetic class schedule." Hermione stopped stuffing her things into her backpack and looked at her friend, "Honestly, Gin, you would think that after what happened last year and all the trouble I went through to forget that bastard, I'll end up being stuck with him in every damn class I have for my final year at Hogwarts!" she complained.

Ginny could only smile and nod. Saying something right now, like voicing out her opinion for example, would be a very hard task to accomplish especially when Hermione's mind was already made up. She value her precious neck too much to have it be bitten off. Hermione's reaction to her class schedule answered one of Ginny's question: how was Hermione Granger dealing with what happened last Christmas.

She was still fuming mad about that, that was for sure.

"Don't wait up for me!" Hermione called over her shoulder as she made a mad dash towards the portrait hole. She doesn't know exactly where she was headed, but she had one thing in mind that she knew she would surely have some peace and quiet.

The lake.

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to be continued...

A/N: well here's the second chapter to the ongoing saga of Draco & Hermione's lives. what do you think? I might take a while updating this one though because while I'm working on this I'm also working on another fic that I'll be posting on ff.net pretty soon. It's still an HP-based fic and with Draco in the lead, but his leading lady will be Ginny this time. yeah, I ship either way when it comes to Draco, hehehe. Anyway, I think for this fic I'm gonna make it an interactive one...I'M GOING TO ASK YOU PEOPLE TO GIVE ME SOME IDEAS ON WHERE SHOULD I STEER THIS STORY THIS TIME...fair enough?

A/N2: btw, b4 I 4get, I promised Crazykid2586 I'll mention her story here so you folks should check it out too. It's a good story too.

Draco's one and only: thanks for being my first reviewer for this sequel. and I haven't forgotten. I haven't checked the second chapter of your fic yet, but I will be now that ff.net is up and running again.