For Who They Really Are: Breaking up so soon??

ShadowWolf2371 - I don't blame you for cutting up chapter 3. I would too but then it'd going to make the up coming chapters of my story more interesting.

Harry's P.O.V:

"I'm as surprised as the both of you." I laughed.

"Are you sure you are telling us the truth because if you are then why isn't she here with you?" Marisa raised an eyebrow.

"She just needed to finish some stuff. She should be out in a bit." I smiled to myself.

Hermione's P.O.V:

What the hell have I gotten myself into? I don't have feelings for Harry.

"Then why didn't I say no?!?" I whined.

I contemplated for another thirty minutes thinking about my situation.

"This is bad, this is really bad." I rubbed my temples. "If I do break up with now he'll think I was just playing around, he'll never talk to me again. But if I do go out with him for awhile and then break up with him then he'll think I was just leading him on and he will never talk to me again."

"Hermione why are you talking to yourself?" Marisa voice filled the room.

"Ma-Marisa, what?" I shook my head. "How did you get in?"

"Looks like Harry didn't shut the portrait thing." She shrugged.

"Funny." I rolled my eyes.

"Why'd you say yes?" She walked over to my side.

"Because." I wrinkled my nose. "I like him?!"

"You like him?!" Marisa mimicked me. "Come on Hermione, I know you too well. You don't act like this when. 'YOU LIKE SOMEONE?!'"

"Cut it out." I shoved her.

"So why?"

"I don't know." I crossed my eyes.

"Hey don't do that." Marisa pinched my nose.

"Ow." I held it. (her nose) "Marisa what have I gotten myself into?"

"I don't know, girl but you've got to find a way out."

"I've been doing that for the last hour." I whined.

"You sound like a donkey when you do that."

"Can we please stick to the topic. I'm going to go out with him. I mean I can learn to love him he's very lovable." Talking about Harry made my heart swell. "And I think I'm starting to like the idea."

"You are." Marisa grinned. "Who knows maybe all this will work out."

"I know." I squealed.

"Now you're really starting to like him." Marisa joked.

"Come on I don't want him to think what I know he'll think." I stood up and headed for the portrait.

"What will he think?"

"About what I was thinking." I smiled triumphantly.

"You know what? For some strange reason, I understand you completely."

At that Marisa and I walked through the portrait.

"Hey you." I whispered in Harry's ear. He turned around and smiled at me.

"Hey yourself." He moved over to make a space for me.

"Ms. Granger, your presence is requested by the head master." Professor McGonagal walked out of the common room.

"I'll see you all later." I smiled at Ron and Marisa and gave Harry a peck on the cheek.

IN DUMBLEDORE'S OFFICE

"Ahh. Ms. Granger. So glad you could join us." I walked in and found Draco seated in front of him.

"May I ask why we're both here?" I walked over and took a seat.

"Straight to business. This Saturday the school will be throwing a ball as a fundraiser for a scholarship fund in honor of Catalina Malfoy."

"Cool, what kind of decorations will we need and everything?" I asked.

"That will be taken care of all I need you to do is make a plan on who will be going to Hogsmeade for their gowns and tuxedo's." Draco put in.

"Muggle stuff?" I raised both my eyebrows.

"Yes, you see Ms. Malfoy was what most of us call a muggle-lover and her family thought that it would be nice if we could dress as muggles in her honor." Dumbledore said.

"Oh, I get it." I opened my organizer. "We could do it like this, the fourth years could go tomorrow, fifth years the day after that (Wednesday), sixth years on Thursday, and of course on the last day (Friday) the seventh years could go that way it wouldn't be so hard to handle all the students." I smiled.

"Excellent idea but then you and Mr. Malfoy will be in Hogsmeade the entire week."

"I could live with that." Draco laughed.

"I wouldn't mind either." I smiled at the two of them. "Good, good." The head master smiled. "You may go now."

Draco and I stood up together and as I was about to leave the room the head master spoke up.

"Oh and Miss Granger are you really going out with Mister Potter?"

"Excuse me? How'd you find out?" I opened my mouth in shock. I looked at Draco who looked paler than usual.

"I have my ways. Does that mean you are?" He smiled.

"Yes, sir." I blushed and left the room.

Draco trotted behind.

"You're seeing Potter, eh?" Draco whispered.

"Yeah." I looked at him and for some strange reason I felt that I didn't want to tell him.

"That's seems kind of fast." Draco mumbled mostly too himself.

"I don't know Draco. Can we not go there." I walked faster.

I was walking so fast that I didn't even see the step.

"Ow." I landed of the floor.

"Hermione are you okay?" Draco ran over to me.

Draco's P.O.V:

I watched Hermione trip and my heart skipped a beat.

"Hermione are you okay?" I ran over to her side.

She was looking at the floor as her hair fell to her face. (A/N: such a movie scene) I knelt down beside her. I was met by her big brown eyes.

"I'm fine. Just a little sprain." She collected herself. She stood up but collapsed back to the floor. "Okay, maybe I do need a little help." She bit her lip.

I love it when she bites her lip, she looks so unsure of herself, so nervous, so Hermione. What the hell is wrong with me.

A tear sprang from her eyes. It was the first time I've ever really seen her cry. It didn't even really look like she was crying her eyes just glimmered more.

"You look really pretty." I thought.

"Huh?" She looked up at me.

Did I just say it aloud?

"Nothing."

"No. You just said I was pretty." She giggled.

She had the most adorable giggle. What the hell is wrong with me? How come I'm noticing everything about her?

"So you did hear me. Why are you asking?" I pretend like it wasn't a big deal.

"Nothing?" She shrugged. "I could use a little help."

I put out my hand and she placed her hand with mine. I felt a wave of electricity run down my spine. Hermione gave me a weird look.

"Static." I looked at her.

"I know." She turned away from me. She struggled to stand up but couldn't.

"Here let me carry you." I put out both my arms willingly.

"No it's okay. I can manage." She smiled at me.

"You know Hermione you don't need to be strong all the time." She looked up at me and allowed me to pick her up. "Wow! You're light."

"I will take that as a compliment thank you very much." She glared at me.

"Whoever said it wasn't?" I chuckled as we approached the portrait of our rooms.

"What do you think your doing with my girlfriend" Harry's voice came from behind. He looked at Hermione. "We haven't even been dating for a couple of hours and your already cheating on me."

"Harry it's not what you think." Hermione looked at him.

"Yeah Potthead. Your girlfriend here just so happens to be injured so I was only trying to help." I glared at him. "Here you want her back you can have her." At that I shoved her into his arms.

Hermione looked at me sadly.

"I'm sorry Hermione but your boyfriend here doesn't seem to trust me." I apologized to Hermione.

"Your right I don't trust you." He carried her through the portrait.

Hermione looked behind and mouthed, "Sorry." I smiled at her.

My feelings for Hermione were different lately. This has to be so weird.

Hermione's P.O.V:

"You are such an ass." I screamed at Harry as he put me down. "Draco is my friend you know."

"How can you say that? You hated his guts."

"He's different now."

"People just don't change in a few days, Hermione." Harry looked at me.

"Yeah but people don't fall in-love in two days either!" I yelled at him. "Draco is going to be my friend whether you like it or not. He'll come with the package or you can just drop it."

"Okay, okay. I get the picture. I was just worried okay." Harry looked at me.

"I'm capable of taking care of myself and making my own decisions. I want you to leave Harry."

He looked at me in shock.

"Go!" I yelled at him and pointed to the portrait.

Harry looked at me weakly and walked toward the portrait. "I'm sorry."

"You're forgiven, I just need sometime to cool off." I looked away from him.

I crawled over to my side table and got my wand.

I whispered the incantation to heal my foot and in a few seconds it was as good as new. I walked back over to my bed and fell asleep.

When I woke up it was already eight o'clock in the evening.

"Damn! I missed supper." I walked to my bathroom and changed into my teddy bear pajamas.

I walked out of my room and spotted Draco seated near the fire.

"Hey." I smiled at him.

"Hey, you're okay?" He stood up.

"Now look who's rhyming." I laughed. "Can I join you?"

"Sure. I was hoping that you would." I walked over to him and we both sat on the floor near the fire. "Are you hungry?"

"Kind off but I already missed dinner." I sighed.

"Wait right here." Draco ran out into his room. Moments later he came in with a pack of Doritos, dip and Sprite.

"Muggle food." I looked at him surprised.

"I've been eating this since I was a baby." He blushed. "Here." He popped the can of Sprite open and handed it to me.

We talked for hours.

"Are you in-love with Harry?" He looked at me.

"No." I put my head down in shame. "But I could learn to love him."

"You don't just learn to love someone. It's just there." Draco lifted my chin with his pointer finger.

"Anything is possible." I tried to convince myself.

"I'm telling you Hermione love could just be sitting right in front of you and it's not always going to be there. You need to open your eyes and really look. And the longer you stay with Harry the harder it will be to break up with him and that'll only hurt him more. You could let him go now and have him as friend for eternity or keep him for awhile and lose him for eternity."

"Since when were you Doctor Love?" I laughed.

"Comes from experience." He replied simply.

"Okay. I'll think about it." I giggled.

Draco looked at me. He had the most amazing eyes. It was like I could read what he was feeling but right now he looked very confused. I started to move nearer to him and him to me. We got closer together. He looked at me again.

"You're really beautiful Hermione." He brushed his lips against mine. I replied with a kiss.

The feeling sent shivers down my spine. Could I possibly be in love with Draco?

I pulled away as confusion took over me. "It's getting late. I. uh. we have to leave for Hogsmeade tomorrow morning."

"Your right." Draco and I stood up at the same time and paced towards our rooms.

"Good night." We said in unison. I shot him a look and walked into my room.

"I'll talk to him." I sighed and shut my eyes.

Author's P.O.V:

The week had zoomed by for both Draco and Hermione both were barely able to speak to their friends for the last three days. It was now Friday there turns to go shopping with the rest of their year.

Before the trip began Harry had called Hermione to go for a morning walk.

"I need to talk to you." They both said in unison and giggled.

"You first." The spoke together once again.

Hermione's P.O.V:

"Harry."

"You go first you're the girl."

I took a deep breath and looked him the eye. "I can't see you anymore. You see when you asked me to go out with you I didn't want to hurt you so I said yes but as this week has gone by I realized that I would only hurt you more if I led you on. And I would rather keep you as a friend for an eternity than have lose you after a few months. I thought I could learn to love you but you don't learn to love someone because true love comes from the heart. I'm sorry, Harry." I repeated the same words Draco said to me of course I changed it a bit to make it more dramatic.

Harry laughed. "Funny we both wanted to break up. You see, Herm I don't believe in one sided relationships and ours is very one sided. I knew that from the moment you said yes that you didn't have feelings for me but I pretended not to see. But I can't force you to love me it would be wrong. I love you Hermione enough to let you go because I know that you don't feel the same. And there is an amazing girl who loves me and I didn't realize that I had feelings for her too. Maybe not as strong as what I feel for you but in time I know that she will grow in my heart. Kinda like you did." He smiled at me.

I put my arms around him. "Thank you. Wait. who's the lucky girl?"

"You'll se tomorrow night." He laughed. "Oh and did Ron tell you he's going with Marisa."

"I knew there was something going on between the two of them." I laughed.

"Come on we've got to meet the others." Harry took my hand and soon enough we were all headed to Hogsmeade.

Marisa and I separated from Harry and Ron and walked into Abersombie and Witch. (A/N: haha)

"Look at this." Marisa held out a black skirt.

"Cute. It's so you." I laughed. I had already purchased my dress for the night.

"You are going to be the prettiest girl in the ball." Marisa smiled at me.

"No I won't trust me there are a lot of other pretty girls in Hogwarts." I held onto my package.

"Also very modest." She laughed.

We got back to Hogwarts a quarter before seven. I gave us fifteen minutes to wash up before supper.

"Did you get you dress?" Draco asked.

"Of course." I walked into my room. "Who are you going with?"

"A girl named Camilla from Ravenclaw. What about you? Oh I forgot you're going with Harry."

Draco Malfoy is bringing a Ravenclaw chick?

"Actually I'm going stag. He and I broke up earlier this morning."

I walked to the Great Hall as the head master was giving last minute reminders about the ball and the upcoming school year.

"'Mione I forgot to ask you. Who are you going with?" Harry whispered.

"I'm going alone naturally. Way too late to get a date now."

Author's P.O.V:

The next day everyone at Hogwarts was busy getting ready for the fundraiser. Hermione was so tired that she decided to take a nap that afternoon. but what seemed to be a nap tuned out to be four hours of beauty sleep. Hermione ended up waking up at six.

She got herself ready and within a few minutes (thanks to the help of magic) she was ready.

A/N: Cliffhanger! Not my favorite thing in the world but I'm going to be working on the ball already. I would really appreciate it if you guys review my story. Thanks a bundle!!