Chapter 4-Surprises and a Homecoming Ball
Hermione didn't know what to do. She couldn't take eyes off of his. She didn't know what to say, "Hermione .will you go to the ball with me?" Hermione was shocked, "What?" was all she could handle at the moment, "Will you go to the ball with me?" he asked a little more confidently, Hermione looked at the floor, still surprised, "I can't" she said looking back up at him, "I'm going with Harry" Draco looked at the floor, 'Harry got here first' he thought, "Oh," was all he could manage, his voice sounding a little hurt. He let go of her arm and sat back down. Hermione felt bad, she wished Harry hadn't asked her, "I'm sorry," she said with tears welding up in her eyes as she ran all the way to the Gryffindor Tower. Hermione ran to her dorm and collapsed on her bed crying softly. She couldn't figure out why she was crying, and then she thought about what happened in the library, 'Draco Malfoy asked me to the ball? It must be a trick. But what if it's not? I'm so confused. What's going on?' Lavender and Parvati walked into the room discussing what they were wearing to the ball when they saw Hermione laying face down on her bed, "Hermione are you ok?" asked Parvati worriedly, "Hermione sat up and turned to face them. Lavender smile turned into a worried frown and she sat next to Hermione and put her hand on her shoulder, "What's wrong 'Mione?" "Promise not to tell?" "Promise" they said one after the other, "Draco Malfoy asked me to the homecoming ball, " both girls looked at Hermione with even more shock, eyebrows up as high as the ceiling and mouths so wide open that they almost hit the floor. They looked at each other, same shocked expression never leaving their faces. Neither of them knew what to say next, "Draco Malfoy asked you to the homecoming ball??" Parvati asked breaking the silence, "Uh huh" replied Hermione, "Please don't tell ANYONE," she said as strictly as she could at that moment, "We won't" they replied in unison, still shocked.
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'Harry got there first. It's not like she knew I liked her though. She thought I hated her, but no, I love her. How did this happen? How COULD this happen?' he thought to himself, 'I have to tell her how I really feel somehow, but how? I have to talk to her, she probably thinks I'm a freak right now though because of what happened in the library. I have to talk to her, now' He set out to the slytherin common room, about to exit when crabb and goyle yelled, "There you are Malfoy!! We've been looking for ya!!" "Yeah lets go to dinner now!! I'm starving!" Draco looked at the clock and saw that it was, in fact, time for dinner 'Damn' he thought to himself 'I can't talk to her there, golden boy and weasel will be guarding her! I have to find some way to get her alone' "Malfoy? Are you ok?" asked Crabb "Huh? Yeah I'm fine," he said swiftly "Ok then lets go" Goyle said as he pushed Draco to the portrait.
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At dinner, Draco kept looking at Hermione every so often, pondering how he would get her to talk to him alone and what he would say. Pansy put her hand on his lap and started rubbing his leg "Hey Draco, what time are you picking me up to go the ball?" she asked with a big sexy smile "Draco pushed her hand off and said, "Who said I was going to the dance with YOU?" "Well since we usually go together I thought we would go together again" she asked sliding closer to him and putting her head on his shoulder. He looked at Hermione who was laughing with Ron and Harry and thought for a moment 'Maybe I can talk to her during the dance tonight. Everyone will be at the dance and I can ask her to meet me in an empty classroom when potter isn't looking!' "Draco?" "Huh? What?" "So are we going together or not?" "Fine whatever," "YES!!" she yelled attracting attention. Draco however, wasn't paying any attention to her, he was trying to figure out what he would say to Hermione and how he would get her to meet him.
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The next day, after classes were over finished for the day, everyone in the school was talking about the ball that would be taking place that night. Girls were talking about what they were wearing and who they were going with, and boys were talking about their dates and what they were going to do with them after the ball. Ron and Harry were talking to Dean and Seamus about how cool there clothes were going to look (* At this ball you have to wear muggle clothes*) while Hermione was talking to Parvati and Lavender about how sexy their outfits were gonna be while picking out what they were going to wear in their dorm room. "I'm gonna wear a light blue halter top with black flares" stated Lavender, "I'm gonna wear a red spaghetti strap top and blue flares. What about you Hermione?" asked Parvati, "I don't know," "WHAT!! You mean you haven't even chosen what your gonna wear?" "I can't figure out what looks the best on me" "Let's look thru your trunk and see what you've got in there." Lavender searched through Hermione's trunk until she gasped with a grin, "What Lav?" asked Parvati, "I think I've found the perfect outfit for Hermione to wear to the ball!!!!" Lavender pulled out a black tube top and silver jeans that had red roses on the sides and back pockets. "Wow!" shouted Parvati as lavender tossed the clothes on Hermione's bed, "Are you kidding? I can't wear that!!" "why not?" asked Parvati, "That shirt shows my stomach, and the pants are low riders," "And" said Lavender with a shrug, "That's what you want. You want to be noticeable so the boys like it more," "I think you'll look cute in that outfit," added Parvati, "Come on 'Mione, don't you want to look cute for Harry?" "Yes," "Well then put on these clothes and we'll figure out what to do with your hair," "Ok." Hermione put on the outfit and showed it to Lavender and Parvati, "WOW!! You look so cute!" screamed Parvati, she and Lavender put their outfits on as well, "Yeah you look great!" "Thanks guys, you look great too!" "Let's figure out what to do with our hair" said Lavender as she pulled out her wand. After a while they finally decided on hair styles that they liked, Lavender had her hair up in a bun with a black scrunchie around it, Parvati had her hair down a crinkled, Hermione's had her hair out letting her beautiful curls fall around her and on her left side some of her hair was pulled just behind her ear and held there with a red rose clip while on the other side freely flowed down the side of her face. Finally, it was time to meet the guys and go to the ball. They walked into the common room with smiles on their faces. Harry, Ron and Dean's (Parvati's date) jaws dropped to the floor and their eyes widened. "Hey guys ready to go?" asked Lavender. The guys just starred at their dates, unable to stop drooling. The girls just giggled, "Where's Ginny?" asked Hermione looking around, "She and Tommy already left for the dance," replied Neville in a heartbroken way, "Are you going Neville?" asked Parvati, "No. I wanted to ask Ginny but she asked Tommy," he said with a sob, "Don't cry Neville, you'll get over her," Hermione said sweetly before she, Lavender and Parvati grabbed the hands of their dates and dragged them to the Great Hall's entrance.
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The boys finally stopped drooling and started walking on their own just in time to walk into the Great Hall. The great hall was decorated to look like a muggle dance. The ceiling was enchanted with white candles and a moonlit sky with thin see-thru silver clouds which the candles appeared to be sitting on. "It's beautiful," said Hermione, "Your beautiful," said Harry as he led her to the dance floor. A slow song had started to play just as they had entered the room. They were playing muggle music ('I'll never stop loving you' by J-son). Harry took her to the middle of the dance floor, pulled Hermione close, placed her arms around his neck and began to rock back and forth. A moment later, Draco and Pansy walked in. Pansy was squeezing the life out of Draco's arm and she had a big smile on her face as she pulled Draco onto the dance floor. As soon as they were on the floor he started looking around for Hermione but he couldn't see her because of all of the people in the way. After the song ended Hermione couldn't help but smile and she and Harry went to a table occupied by Tommy and Ginny, "Hey guys. Having fun?" Tommy asked with a grin, "Yeah," replied Harry sitting Hermione next to where he was going to sit. Ron and Harry started talking about quiddage while Lavender and Hermione started talking about how dumb boys can be some times. Tommy stood up, "Hey Ginny, wanna come with me outside?" he asked pushing in his chair, "Sure!" she responded excitedly, getting up and walking with him out of the great hall. When They got outside, Tommy grabbed Ginny's hand, "Come on I wanna show you something," he pulled her, running towards a grassy field across from the school, Ginny was a bit nervous but she tried to keep calm. When they reached the field, Tommy stopped running and gently walked Ginny to the middle of the field, never letting go of her hand even though they had reached their destination, "Look up," he whispered as he pulled her next to him and pointed to the stars, "Wow. You can see them so well here," she said in a soft voice, "Yeah, I snuck out once to come here and watch the stars light up the sky. I never could do this at home, the lights of the city are to bright. I could only see them thru my telescope," he added, "What's a telescope?" Ginny asked, "A tube with a magnifying glass in it that muggles use to look at the stars more closely," he answered before laying down in the grass. Ginny laid next to him and sighed, Tommy looked at her and smiled at how pretty she looked in the moonlight, her hair was in a ponytail and she wore a pink tank top and black caprtis. "Ginny," he started, "yeah" she said looking towards him," Your so beautiful," Ginny blushed and giggled a little before looking back at the stars to avoid his gaze, he turned his body to her," Ginny?" he started again, she turned her body towards him, "Y-yeah," she asked nervously," Will you be my girlfriend?" Ginny smiled and said,"Yes," he smiled and pulled her closer to him and he kissed her. Back at the ball, Draco ditched Pansy while she was talking to one of her friends and set off to look for Herminoe. When saw her he began to have trouble breathing, he couldn't believe how beautiful she was, especially in that outfit, once he snapped out of his trance he started to try to figure out how he would get her meet him. "There you are Draco!" said Pansy as she hugged his arm as tight as before, "I've been looking all over for you!" He looked over at Hermione and saw her get up and walk to the punch bowl, "I'm gonna go get some punch," he said as he pried Pansy off of his arm and started walking twards Hermione. "Hey Hermione," he said as friendly as possible, Hermione turned around swiftly, "What do you want?" she said calmly, "I..just wanted to say hi, hi" "Hi" she repeated looking a little confused "Look, I know you've been wondering why I've been acting so weird lately and if you really want to know why then meet me in the hall in half an hour," he whispered to her before walking into the crowd on the dance floor. Hermione walked back to the table and started talking to Lavender again. Harry noticed that Hermione was back and asked her if she wanted to dance again, "Sure, " she replied with a smile and they went to dance. When they came back to the table Ron and Lavender were lightly kissing. Harry looked at Hermione who was holding in a laugh and pulled her close to him. He looked into her sparkling, cinnamon eyes, leaned forward and softly kissed her. A few seconds later they separated and sat down at the table and started talking about how things were going so far this quarter. Hermione remembered what Draco said about meeting him and she didn't know whether or not to trust him. She finally decided to go, she told Harry that she was going to the ladies room and she walked out into the hall where Draco was leaning against the wall next to the door, "Malfoy," she whispered, "Come on, we can't talk here," he whispered as he grabbed her arm and pulled her into a near by classroom and quietly closed the door behind him. "What's going on?" Hermione asked a bit scared, "I have to talk to you alone," he whispered "about what?" she continued, "About how I feel about you," he told her as moved a few steps in front of her, Hermione looked more curious, "How you feel about me? Are you trying to say you like me??" she asked in surprise, "It's more than that, Hermione.I love you," Hermione was shocked," You what???" "I know it's strange but I do," he said looking into her eyes, "I don't believe you," she said heading towards the door, Draco grabbed her arm and pulled her to him," I'm serious, I really do," she looked at him and saw the emotion in his eyes and then tears started to weld up in her eyes, a single tear ran down her face, Draco wiped it away and stroked her cheek before placing a soft kiss on her lips. She didn't respond at first but then she kissed back and Draco deepened the kiss. He pulled her closer and moved his hands to her waist and she put her arms around his neck. A few minutes later, Hermione pulled away and pulled her arms back, she remembered Harry and the ball, "I can't do this," she said as she pulled completely away from him and ran out the door towards the great hall. Draco ran after her but she already entered the great hall and went back to the table where her friends were. Draco leaned against the entrance and sadly watched Harry kiss Hermione on her cheek and lead her to the dance floor (It was a slow song: 'This I promise you' by N*snyc). Draco watched as Harry pulled Hermione close and quickly headed for his dorm upset. While she was dancing with Harry she started to think about what had happened and she hugged Harry close and held in her tears the best she could.
A/N- Sorry about making Draco so sappy but I just wanted him to be different. I wanted him to feel more, and wanted him to love rather than to hate too much.
Hermione didn't know what to do. She couldn't take eyes off of his. She didn't know what to say, "Hermione .will you go to the ball with me?" Hermione was shocked, "What?" was all she could handle at the moment, "Will you go to the ball with me?" he asked a little more confidently, Hermione looked at the floor, still surprised, "I can't" she said looking back up at him, "I'm going with Harry" Draco looked at the floor, 'Harry got here first' he thought, "Oh," was all he could manage, his voice sounding a little hurt. He let go of her arm and sat back down. Hermione felt bad, she wished Harry hadn't asked her, "I'm sorry," she said with tears welding up in her eyes as she ran all the way to the Gryffindor Tower. Hermione ran to her dorm and collapsed on her bed crying softly. She couldn't figure out why she was crying, and then she thought about what happened in the library, 'Draco Malfoy asked me to the ball? It must be a trick. But what if it's not? I'm so confused. What's going on?' Lavender and Parvati walked into the room discussing what they were wearing to the ball when they saw Hermione laying face down on her bed, "Hermione are you ok?" asked Parvati worriedly, "Hermione sat up and turned to face them. Lavender smile turned into a worried frown and she sat next to Hermione and put her hand on her shoulder, "What's wrong 'Mione?" "Promise not to tell?" "Promise" they said one after the other, "Draco Malfoy asked me to the homecoming ball, " both girls looked at Hermione with even more shock, eyebrows up as high as the ceiling and mouths so wide open that they almost hit the floor. They looked at each other, same shocked expression never leaving their faces. Neither of them knew what to say next, "Draco Malfoy asked you to the homecoming ball??" Parvati asked breaking the silence, "Uh huh" replied Hermione, "Please don't tell ANYONE," she said as strictly as she could at that moment, "We won't" they replied in unison, still shocked.
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'Harry got there first. It's not like she knew I liked her though. She thought I hated her, but no, I love her. How did this happen? How COULD this happen?' he thought to himself, 'I have to tell her how I really feel somehow, but how? I have to talk to her, she probably thinks I'm a freak right now though because of what happened in the library. I have to talk to her, now' He set out to the slytherin common room, about to exit when crabb and goyle yelled, "There you are Malfoy!! We've been looking for ya!!" "Yeah lets go to dinner now!! I'm starving!" Draco looked at the clock and saw that it was, in fact, time for dinner 'Damn' he thought to himself 'I can't talk to her there, golden boy and weasel will be guarding her! I have to find some way to get her alone' "Malfoy? Are you ok?" asked Crabb "Huh? Yeah I'm fine," he said swiftly "Ok then lets go" Goyle said as he pushed Draco to the portrait.
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At dinner, Draco kept looking at Hermione every so often, pondering how he would get her to talk to him alone and what he would say. Pansy put her hand on his lap and started rubbing his leg "Hey Draco, what time are you picking me up to go the ball?" she asked with a big sexy smile "Draco pushed her hand off and said, "Who said I was going to the dance with YOU?" "Well since we usually go together I thought we would go together again" she asked sliding closer to him and putting her head on his shoulder. He looked at Hermione who was laughing with Ron and Harry and thought for a moment 'Maybe I can talk to her during the dance tonight. Everyone will be at the dance and I can ask her to meet me in an empty classroom when potter isn't looking!' "Draco?" "Huh? What?" "So are we going together or not?" "Fine whatever," "YES!!" she yelled attracting attention. Draco however, wasn't paying any attention to her, he was trying to figure out what he would say to Hermione and how he would get her to meet him.
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The next day, after classes were over finished for the day, everyone in the school was talking about the ball that would be taking place that night. Girls were talking about what they were wearing and who they were going with, and boys were talking about their dates and what they were going to do with them after the ball. Ron and Harry were talking to Dean and Seamus about how cool there clothes were going to look (* At this ball you have to wear muggle clothes*) while Hermione was talking to Parvati and Lavender about how sexy their outfits were gonna be while picking out what they were going to wear in their dorm room. "I'm gonna wear a light blue halter top with black flares" stated Lavender, "I'm gonna wear a red spaghetti strap top and blue flares. What about you Hermione?" asked Parvati, "I don't know," "WHAT!! You mean you haven't even chosen what your gonna wear?" "I can't figure out what looks the best on me" "Let's look thru your trunk and see what you've got in there." Lavender searched through Hermione's trunk until she gasped with a grin, "What Lav?" asked Parvati, "I think I've found the perfect outfit for Hermione to wear to the ball!!!!" Lavender pulled out a black tube top and silver jeans that had red roses on the sides and back pockets. "Wow!" shouted Parvati as lavender tossed the clothes on Hermione's bed, "Are you kidding? I can't wear that!!" "why not?" asked Parvati, "That shirt shows my stomach, and the pants are low riders," "And" said Lavender with a shrug, "That's what you want. You want to be noticeable so the boys like it more," "I think you'll look cute in that outfit," added Parvati, "Come on 'Mione, don't you want to look cute for Harry?" "Yes," "Well then put on these clothes and we'll figure out what to do with your hair," "Ok." Hermione put on the outfit and showed it to Lavender and Parvati, "WOW!! You look so cute!" screamed Parvati, she and Lavender put their outfits on as well, "Yeah you look great!" "Thanks guys, you look great too!" "Let's figure out what to do with our hair" said Lavender as she pulled out her wand. After a while they finally decided on hair styles that they liked, Lavender had her hair up in a bun with a black scrunchie around it, Parvati had her hair down a crinkled, Hermione's had her hair out letting her beautiful curls fall around her and on her left side some of her hair was pulled just behind her ear and held there with a red rose clip while on the other side freely flowed down the side of her face. Finally, it was time to meet the guys and go to the ball. They walked into the common room with smiles on their faces. Harry, Ron and Dean's (Parvati's date) jaws dropped to the floor and their eyes widened. "Hey guys ready to go?" asked Lavender. The guys just starred at their dates, unable to stop drooling. The girls just giggled, "Where's Ginny?" asked Hermione looking around, "She and Tommy already left for the dance," replied Neville in a heartbroken way, "Are you going Neville?" asked Parvati, "No. I wanted to ask Ginny but she asked Tommy," he said with a sob, "Don't cry Neville, you'll get over her," Hermione said sweetly before she, Lavender and Parvati grabbed the hands of their dates and dragged them to the Great Hall's entrance.
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The boys finally stopped drooling and started walking on their own just in time to walk into the Great Hall. The great hall was decorated to look like a muggle dance. The ceiling was enchanted with white candles and a moonlit sky with thin see-thru silver clouds which the candles appeared to be sitting on. "It's beautiful," said Hermione, "Your beautiful," said Harry as he led her to the dance floor. A slow song had started to play just as they had entered the room. They were playing muggle music ('I'll never stop loving you' by J-son). Harry took her to the middle of the dance floor, pulled Hermione close, placed her arms around his neck and began to rock back and forth. A moment later, Draco and Pansy walked in. Pansy was squeezing the life out of Draco's arm and she had a big smile on her face as she pulled Draco onto the dance floor. As soon as they were on the floor he started looking around for Hermione but he couldn't see her because of all of the people in the way. After the song ended Hermione couldn't help but smile and she and Harry went to a table occupied by Tommy and Ginny, "Hey guys. Having fun?" Tommy asked with a grin, "Yeah," replied Harry sitting Hermione next to where he was going to sit. Ron and Harry started talking about quiddage while Lavender and Hermione started talking about how dumb boys can be some times. Tommy stood up, "Hey Ginny, wanna come with me outside?" he asked pushing in his chair, "Sure!" she responded excitedly, getting up and walking with him out of the great hall. When They got outside, Tommy grabbed Ginny's hand, "Come on I wanna show you something," he pulled her, running towards a grassy field across from the school, Ginny was a bit nervous but she tried to keep calm. When they reached the field, Tommy stopped running and gently walked Ginny to the middle of the field, never letting go of her hand even though they had reached their destination, "Look up," he whispered as he pulled her next to him and pointed to the stars, "Wow. You can see them so well here," she said in a soft voice, "Yeah, I snuck out once to come here and watch the stars light up the sky. I never could do this at home, the lights of the city are to bright. I could only see them thru my telescope," he added, "What's a telescope?" Ginny asked, "A tube with a magnifying glass in it that muggles use to look at the stars more closely," he answered before laying down in the grass. Ginny laid next to him and sighed, Tommy looked at her and smiled at how pretty she looked in the moonlight, her hair was in a ponytail and she wore a pink tank top and black caprtis. "Ginny," he started, "yeah" she said looking towards him," Your so beautiful," Ginny blushed and giggled a little before looking back at the stars to avoid his gaze, he turned his body to her," Ginny?" he started again, she turned her body towards him, "Y-yeah," she asked nervously," Will you be my girlfriend?" Ginny smiled and said,"Yes," he smiled and pulled her closer to him and he kissed her. Back at the ball, Draco ditched Pansy while she was talking to one of her friends and set off to look for Herminoe. When saw her he began to have trouble breathing, he couldn't believe how beautiful she was, especially in that outfit, once he snapped out of his trance he started to try to figure out how he would get her meet him. "There you are Draco!" said Pansy as she hugged his arm as tight as before, "I've been looking all over for you!" He looked over at Hermione and saw her get up and walk to the punch bowl, "I'm gonna go get some punch," he said as he pried Pansy off of his arm and started walking twards Hermione. "Hey Hermione," he said as friendly as possible, Hermione turned around swiftly, "What do you want?" she said calmly, "I..just wanted to say hi, hi" "Hi" she repeated looking a little confused "Look, I know you've been wondering why I've been acting so weird lately and if you really want to know why then meet me in the hall in half an hour," he whispered to her before walking into the crowd on the dance floor. Hermione walked back to the table and started talking to Lavender again. Harry noticed that Hermione was back and asked her if she wanted to dance again, "Sure, " she replied with a smile and they went to dance. When they came back to the table Ron and Lavender were lightly kissing. Harry looked at Hermione who was holding in a laugh and pulled her close to him. He looked into her sparkling, cinnamon eyes, leaned forward and softly kissed her. A few seconds later they separated and sat down at the table and started talking about how things were going so far this quarter. Hermione remembered what Draco said about meeting him and she didn't know whether or not to trust him. She finally decided to go, she told Harry that she was going to the ladies room and she walked out into the hall where Draco was leaning against the wall next to the door, "Malfoy," she whispered, "Come on, we can't talk here," he whispered as he grabbed her arm and pulled her into a near by classroom and quietly closed the door behind him. "What's going on?" Hermione asked a bit scared, "I have to talk to you alone," he whispered "about what?" she continued, "About how I feel about you," he told her as moved a few steps in front of her, Hermione looked more curious, "How you feel about me? Are you trying to say you like me??" she asked in surprise, "It's more than that, Hermione.I love you," Hermione was shocked," You what???" "I know it's strange but I do," he said looking into her eyes, "I don't believe you," she said heading towards the door, Draco grabbed her arm and pulled her to him," I'm serious, I really do," she looked at him and saw the emotion in his eyes and then tears started to weld up in her eyes, a single tear ran down her face, Draco wiped it away and stroked her cheek before placing a soft kiss on her lips. She didn't respond at first but then she kissed back and Draco deepened the kiss. He pulled her closer and moved his hands to her waist and she put her arms around his neck. A few minutes later, Hermione pulled away and pulled her arms back, she remembered Harry and the ball, "I can't do this," she said as she pulled completely away from him and ran out the door towards the great hall. Draco ran after her but she already entered the great hall and went back to the table where her friends were. Draco leaned against the entrance and sadly watched Harry kiss Hermione on her cheek and lead her to the dance floor (It was a slow song: 'This I promise you' by N*snyc). Draco watched as Harry pulled Hermione close and quickly headed for his dorm upset. While she was dancing with Harry she started to think about what had happened and she hugged Harry close and held in her tears the best she could.
A/N- Sorry about making Draco so sappy but I just wanted him to be different. I wanted him to feel more, and wanted him to love rather than to hate too much.