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Hermione bounded up the stairs and into her room, through the portrait of Godric Gryffindor, into the Gryffindor Common Room, earning strange looks from Harry and Ron, and up the 5 year girls' stair case. She Just burst in without knocking, and shouted, "Ginny!!!" at the top of her lungs.

"Hermione!!! What? I'm right here!" Ginny replied from her bed, about 5 feet away.

"Oh, sorry Gin," Hermione said sheepishly.

"It's alright, now, what's wrong?"

"Gin, can you keep a huge secret?"

"You know I can, now what's the problem?"

"I kissed Draco Malfoy," she said in a rush.

"Ooohh boy....."Ginny sighed. "Come sit down and tell me aaallllll about it." Hermione sprawled herself on Ginny's bed, and got comfortable, but her roomrates, Trisha and Gina came bursting through the door.

"Or, we could go to my room," suggested Hermione. "That would be a good idea," agreed the youngest Weasley.

A few minutes later, both girls sprawled on the full-sized bed, Ginny asked, "How many times did you kiss him? Once?" Hermione shook her head. "Twice?" Shake, shake, shake. "Three times?" Hermione nodded. "Three bloody times you kissed the hottest guy in the school, and you didn't tell me?" Ginny was positivly glowing(a/n: I love that expression!) by now.

"Ginny," Hermione shook her head, "It's DRACO MALFOY!"

"Whats your point? It's not like he's called you mud-blood yet this year, he's actually been pretty nice and civilized, now dish about the kisses, like what, when, where, and how?" Ginny was shaking with excitment at this point.

"'How?'"

"Yes, I want to know all the juicy tid-bits!"

Hermione proceeded to tell the whole story, of meeting Draco in the street, kissing him, him asking her to the dance, her kissing him, and her kissing him again. Of course, she left out the story Draco told her in the hotel.

"Aww, that's so sweet!!! You quoted Shakespeare, and he gave the next line! I only wish I had someone like that." Ginny sighed.

"Gin, you do! I've told you countless times that Harry likes you!"

"No, he doesn't. Stop humoring me, I've already told you that I'm over him," Ginny said this, but didn't quite meet her eyes.

"I'm not humoring you, you should SEE the way he stares at you and sighs when he thinks nobody's watching!"

"No, he doesn't, Hermione, so just stop trying to get my hopes up. I know they'll just come crashing down."

Meanwhile, downstairs, Draco was talking to the Hufflepuff prefect, Justin Finch-fletchly, about Hermione, Just with out using her name.

"Justin, can I ask you something?" Draco asked.

"Sure, what about?"

"Girls."

"Woah, wait a minute. The infamous Draco Malfoy is asking me a question about girls? What, pray tell, could this be?" Justin said, as he sat down on his Hufflepuff chair. All the house chairs and couches were arranged to form circles to face the others.

"It's about this girl I met in Diagon Alley. At first, I didn't know hwo she was, and later, I found out her identity, a girl I was born to hate. I explained to her a story of my betraylal o the Dark Side, and just when I was about to kiss her, she kisses me! And today, I asked her tot he Masquerade, and when I was going to kiss her, she does it again, and then again!" Draco said.

"Well, what do you need MY help with? Sounds like your oding pretty well yourself," said Justin.

"WEll, the third time she kissed me, Herm-I mean, this girl, ran away crying!"

"Oh, that changes the perspective, doesn't it?"

:"Well, what should I do?" asked Draco.

"First, I'd find out WHY she ran away crying. Then, I'd figure out a way to actually kiss HER!"

"Good advice."

"By the way, is this girl named Hermione, by chance?" Justin asked, a smirk on his face. Draco began stuttering his way through words Justin couldn't quite make out.

"Oh, come on! You two are a bit abvious, don't you think? Being all polite and clipped in front of the school, but coming back here to have a nice little book discussion by the fire?" Here, Justin paused to sneak a peak at Draco's startled expression. "Yes, Padma and I saw and heard the HOLE thing from the stairs," Padma was the ravaenclaw prefect.

"Thanks man, at leasat now I know where to start, Dr. Finch-fletchley!"

"Your welcome! Leave you address with the secretary, and I"ll bill you," Justin retorted.

"Haha, VERY funny," said Draco sarcastically.

"So," Justin started. "Is she a good kisser?"

Draco sighed, leaning back against the coush, "Unbelievable!"