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Discoveries-9-Do You Like Me Or Not?

The next morning, Hermione woke up early and went to work in the attic. She didn't really feel like talking to him, so she thought she'd work there early, then leave when he got there. She'd still be doing her share of the work, afterall... she could work at night, too. All the times he wasn't there.

After working for a while, she heard the door open, and footsteps. "Hey."

Hermione turned around. She merely nodded.

"Aren't you even going to say hello?" Malfoy asked.

She shook her head.

"Why not?"

She shrugged. Malfoy sighed, and gave up for the time being. He went to work in a box beside her, but she quickly stood up, carried her box over to another corner, and sat down.

The whole day went on like this. She wouldn't even argue with him. Malfoy tried at least a dozen times already to get her to say something. She almost snapped once, when he called her a know-it-all, again. But that was the closet he'd gotten to getting her to say something.

Malfoy got up, and went over to her again. This time, her held her hand, and kept her there. She didn't struggle, but pretended like she always did things with only her right hand, and continued to shuffle through papers. So Malfoy took her other hand, and held them both, together. Hermione, as stubborn as she was, still didn't look at him. Instead she looked out the window. So Malfoy just continued, knowing there was nothing else he could do to get her full attention.

"I meant it."

"Meant what?"

"What I said last night. Watching the sunset with you. It wouldn't have mattered whether I was drunk or not... I still feel the same. Only I probably wouldn't have told you how I truely felt if it wasn't for all that alchohol."

"Why were you drinking?"

"Because we were fighting earlier... and I was upset thinking it would never work, since we fight so much. And since you don't like me." Hermione remained quiet. "Listen, Hermione... Do you like me?" Malfoy asked.

She shook her head, not looking at him. "That's all you needed to say before," Malfoy said, letting go of her hands, and going back to his work space. Hermione looked back over at him, briefly, and returned to work.

~*~*~

Hermione was just looking through the closet in her room, when she found a small radio. It wasn't even that old. 'But people HAVE lived here since the first owners,' she reasoned, with herself. 'Just the attic was never cleaned out.' She dusted it off, and carried it over to her nightstand. She plugged it in an turned it on, playing around with it a little until she found a station she was satisfied with.

"Dear, dear diary

I wanna tell my secrets

'Cause you're the only one

That I know will keep them

Dear, dear diary

I wanna tell my secrets

I know you'll keep them

So this is what I've done

I've been a bad, bad girl

For so long

Don't know how to change

What went wrong

Daddy's little girl

But he went away

What did it teach me?

That love leaves yeah, yeah

Dear, dear diary

I wanna tell my secrets

'Cause you're the only one

That I know will keep them

Dear, dear diary

I wanna tell my secrets

I know you'll keep them

So this is what I've done

I've been down every road

You could go

I've made some bad choices

As you know

Seems like I got this whole world

Cradled in my hand

It's just like me not to understand, yeah

Dear, dear diary

I wanna tell my secrets

'Cause you're the only one

That I know will keep them

Dear, dear diary

I wanna tell my secrets

I've been a bad, bad girl

I learned my lessons young and

I turned myself around

I gotta guardian angel

Tattooed on my shoulder

She's been watchin' over me

Dear, dear diary

I wanna tell my secrets

'Cause you're the only one

That I know will keep them

Dear, dear diary

I wanna tell my secrets

I know you'll keep them

So this is what I've done

Dear, dear diary I wanna tell my secrets 'Cause you're the only one That I know will keep them Dear, dear diary I wanna tell my secrets I know you'll keep them So this is what I've done"

"This should be my song right now," Hermione said, after the song ended. "Almost exactly how I'm feeling. Nothing's going right." (TFG: Hey! REVIEW, please! Thanks!)