A/N: Hiya there! It's sunny day and I'm feeling pretty good… well, except about the fact that I have loads of tests next week!!!!! But as you can see I made this chapter and ignored the fact that I have a test tomorrow. And all this just for you. Lol.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 1. I'm updating this story twice in a week. 2. Tom is unbelievably sexy.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own them.
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CHAPTER X – Feelings that aren't there
Next day Hermione woke up early. She decided to go to the common room see if Draco was already up. As she stepped in to the room and noticed he wasn't there, she felt somewhat disappointed. It was weird. She really hated him. Why did she feel disappointed now? Maybe she just liked to fight with him; yeah that must be it. Even when she remembered how they had rolled around the greenhouse, a smile appeared on her face. Rolling around the room on top of him didn't bother her… it never did. But she didn't like him! Or did she? …No! She didn't.
She sat down on the couch, stretched herself and grabbed a book near her.
Then, when she had read the tiny book over and over again, she remembered the ball. They hadn't made any better plans with Draco. Yeah sure they had decided that the ball would start at seven p.m. and end around two a.m., and what drinks and food there would be served. Oh, and something about the decorations too.
Soon, after waiting Draco (or just killing time, like Hermione kept telling to herself) for an hour or something, he woke up.
Hermione heard yawning behind her. She turned to see Draco walking to the common room rubbing his head. His hair was little messy, which surprised Hermione. Draco Malfoy with messy hair, no way! She laughed so quietly that Draco couldn't hear her. He was wearing a sleeveless shirt which showed his fine muscles and strong arms. He looked so masculine. Hermione couldn't help blushing. He looked so unbelievably good! He was so… so… sexy! Hermione shrugged her thoughts off. She couldn't think that way!
'he is a prat!' She told herself.
'He is a prat! He is a prat! He is a sexy prat! He- what!? No! He isn't sexy!' Her head screamed.
She turned her head and looked now at the floor. And what was he doing there looking like that?!
'Is he so pathetic that he has to walk around naked!? Well he isn't naked… but still!'
Hermione quickly grabbed the book she had read earlier from the table near her. She pretended like she was reading and tried to concentrate hard. She glanced him when he sat down in front of her, still yawning.
"morning", she mumbled trying not to sound rude but still ignoring his existence.
"yeah, yeah", he muttered sleepily.
Hermione tried to hold her laugh. He was so cute. But Hermione bit her lip hard and looked back to her book. She noticed it was upside down and quickly turned it hoping that Draco didn't see her mistake. But he did. A sleepy smirk appeared on his face {aww}.
"since when have you started reading books upside down?" He sneered and made a wide smirk.
This sneer, though, was very sleepy, and it was so cute that Hermione couldn't get offended in any way. She smirked back.
"how is your… er… does it still hurt?" Hermione asked.
Draco's expression changed and it seemed like he didn't want to talk about it. He coughed.
"it's ok. Still hurts a bit", he mumbled an answer.
Hermione nodded. Her eyes wandered to his well trained chest. She quickly turned her gaze.
"like what you see Granger?" He asked smirking.
Hermione blushed. Was Draco always so flirty in the mornings? Damn him!
"very much", Hermione tried to sound very sarcastic.
He just smirked. Draco obviously enjoyed girls looking at him. He seemed to be very comfortable with it, even though Hermione was a "mudblood" to him.
"umm. I was thinking earlier that maybe we could enchant some decorations… for the ball", Hermione suggested.
"what do you have in mind?"
"well I don't really know yet but maybe we could plan it together…" Hermione said carefully waiting for his reaction.
"ok. What ever", Draco said lamely.
"you know, I recall seeing this book in library –"
"wow! Isn't that something! You saw a book in the library!" Draco said sarcastically. "never in a million years have I thought that it would be possible!"
Hermione frowned.
"ha.ha. Very funny… So as I was saying, I've seen this book in library that is about feasts and something like that. Maybe we could go and get it and then make plans", Hermione suggested.
"ugh. I don't want to", Draco complained.
Hermione frowned again and glared him dangerously.
"ok, ok", Draco said quickly raising his hands to surrender. "as long as you don't jump on me again."
Hermione giggled softly.
That evening, just before supper, Hermione and Draco walked to the library. Few Hufflepuff girls were reading a large book in the corner. They giggled and were blushing every now and then.
"I guess they're reading something that Dumbledore wouldn't approve", Draco said to Hermione.
Hermione nodded. She was obviously thinking the same thing.
They decided to go separate ways to look for the book. It seemed that it was going to take the whole evening. And the worst part was that Hermione couldn't remember the name of the book. Only thing she could remember about the name was the word 'feasts'. It really didn't help though.
After an hour of searching that certain book, Draco sat down on one of the library tables.
"I don't think we're ever going to find it", he said.
"don't give up now! We have to find it. I know it's somewhere here", she claimed somewhere behind large book piles.
"but I'm tired Granger! If that's terribly important to you then you can stay and try to find it but I am going now!" He announced angrily, jumped off the table and started to walk away.
Hermione ran to him and pulled him back from his robes.
"no way! You're staying and helping me. Besides I think we're going to find it soon", Hermione claimed.
"argh, Granger!" Draco exclaimed when she dragged him back. "you're impossible!"
"thanks Malfoy", she muttered.
Instead of helping her he sat on the table next to where she was searching.
"oh my god!" Hermione said suddenly.
"what? What happened?!" Draco asked startled.
"I found it! look it's there. ", Hermione said pointing somewhere up to the bookshelf. "'magical feasts and how to plan them'. Yeah, that was it!"
She stepped onto the table and tried to reach for the book. She had to step on her tip toes and raise her arm to reach for the book. But she wasn't tall enough to take a hold to the book.
Draco started laughing.
"what?" Hermione asked startled and looked down at him. "YOU GIT!!" Hermione yelled and hit his arm when she noticed that he was peeking under her skirt.
She blushed and was furious.
"how- why- you perverted nasty git!!" She yelled.
Draco just laughed and looked very amused.
She jumped off the table.
"you take it then!" She demanded.
Draco burst into laughter again. Hermione hit his arm once again.
"ow! That hurts, Granger", he said between his laughs.
He stepped onto the table and reached to the book. It was easier to him to get it because he was, of course, taller than Hermione.
"and be careful! I might peek", Hermione said angrily to him.
"what? Under my skirt?" Draco sneered.
Hermione blushed. She hoped that she would've just shut her mouth.
"here you go", he said and smirked.
"wipe that smirk off", Hermione muttered and took the book.
She opened it and surveyed it a second.
"hey look! Maybe we could do this", Hermione said to Draco pointing something on the page.
Draco leaned over her shoulder to look. At first Hermione didn't care but then she noticed how close he was. He breathed silently but she could hear it. Draco was so close that their cheeks almost touched. Hermione could even feel his warmth. Hermione felt cold shivers going through her body. It seemed that Draco was very oblivious how close they were. Soon he noticed too. They broke quickly apart.
"umm- er- maybe we should… umm, sit down", Hermione stammered.
"er… yeah", Draco nodded nervously.
'what am I thinking?! Going that close to her! And then even go totally speechless!' Draco thought horrified.
This was weird for him but he wanted to ignore her and what had happened. And he did. But he couldn't help it. He had to look her. Even a small glimpse. He saw Hermione sit down in front of him. He sat down too.
"er… as I was saying, maybe we could do this", Hermione said and gave the open book to Draco.
"ok, I guess", Draco said looking at the picture of singing candles.
"or…", Hermione took the book and started turning pages. "candles that tell jokes. But where is that page?"
She glanced at Draco and found him looking at her. And he didn't even turn his gaze when he noticed Hermione look at him too. They looked each other a second which seemed to be a minute or an hour to Hermione and then suddenly Draco broke the eye contact looking down. He looked like he was ashamed. Like it wasn't appropriate look her like that. There was a silence in the room. Even the giggling Hufflepuffs were now gone. Just when Hermione was about to say something Draco opened his mouth.
"er… I gotta go", he said quickly and left.
Hermione didn't have time to say anything. She sat there looking at his back and soon nothing, when he disappeared.
'did I just scare him? …Even though I did nothing…', she thought.
"weird…", she said to herself quietly.
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A/N: Sorry guys! I have to leave it here.
I have thought about the Christmas and I'm going to skip it. And because no-one has said anything about it then I guess no-one will mind.
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Thanx to my reviewers:
Laura – Okey, but you see it's really hard to make Draco nicer towards her and Hermione like him. I can't just suddenly turn him into something good and make her love someone she has hated all her time in Hogwarts, can I? I'm trying to make it believable, nothing like out of character. So the "process" making them fall in love is slow. But in this chapter there was chemistry between the main couple, don't you think?
Apie – I did ;)
Carmen – I hope you liked this one. There was obviously something between them, don't you think? ;) lol.
Anonymos – I did :P
Meg – I hope the little accident in the last chapter wasn't too obvious :S But I had to do it, lol. In a way I think it's kinda cute when poor Draco hurt his… thingy. Lol!
~Angel Innocent~
