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Airlia- Hey, thanx a ton for the review
And to explain. Some of you might think Snape's a bit out of character, but we really don't know too much about him anyway, and I enjoy writing him like this because, even though he looks all mean and acts mean, I think he'd be nice once you get to know him.
A week of confusion passed by for Draco and Hermione leaving them on their last day of summer break. As each day passed that week their friendship grew, and they broke down their wall of denial more and more. Although there were still some hidden insecurities, for the most part they had accepted their friendship. However they were both thoroughly confused about their feelings. But being the teenagers they were, they stopped caring and let it go because they were having fun with each ocher and that's all that really mattered at that point.
Hermione and Draco woke up early on their last day of summer as planned so they could enjoy as much of it as possible. They met in the common room at 10 and from there decided what to do. Hermione still hadn't shown him where the kitchens were so she grabbed some food for the both of them, and they discussed the day ahead of them while eating in their big comfy over stuffed couch.
"So, what do you think" Draco swallowed the food that was in his mouth and took another huge bite and continued talking "we should do today?" Hermione didn't hear a word of it, she was staring at his mouth watching the food roll around in there as he talked, her face held the perfect picture of disgust on it. He's worse than Ron she thought.
"Hermione are you listening?" hearing her name she snapped up, and tore her eyes away from his mouth, and threw a pillow at his face.
"Ugh" she scrunched up her nose "I thought that being the high class citizen you are, Draco, that you would have table manners. That is the most disgusting thing.!" she cried. Draco swallowed that mouthful and smirked.
"Well, it's the summer, and I'm not trying to impress anybody." She snorted "And besides, I've caught you chew with your mouth open a few times when you were thinking about other things."
"I have n…" Draco cut her off, grinning.
"why were you looking at my mouth anyway, attracted to it are we? I was blessed with a good pair of lips, very kissable I've heard" Her mouth dropped open, and he ended up with another pillow in his face. When the pillow fell off his face, He was still grinning, and snickering, and he heard Hermione mumble men exasperatedly. She looked up at him straight into his eyes so she wouldn't have to watch his mouth.
" I think we should go to Diagon alley, or something" she looked like she was in deep thought, and her eyes brightened up. "OR, we could go to a movie!"
"A what-y?"
"It's a muggle thing, but it's really cool I swear you'll like it, pretty pretty please with a cherry on top of whipcream and fudge and brownies!" Draco had never heard that expression before but he liked it.
"Now, all of those delicious things would be on top of me, with you licking them off, correct?" Hermione had run out of pillows, so instead she lunged at him, and tackled him.
"You are so gross Draco Malfoy!"
"It's a gift," he said as he dodged a play punch to the shoulder. Hermione was now sitting on top of Draco, pushing a pillow into his face. She could hear his muffled voice coming through the pillow.
"Yes, this happens to be my favorite position too" Hermione could only imagine how big his grin must be then, as she yelped and jumped off of him. She was now sitting on the floor, pulling on her hair and making angry sounds.
"What's the matter, I'd think that you of all people would be used to this, what with hanging around Potter and Weasely all the time." She looked at him and said
"Well fortunately they aren't as vocal about things as you are… you are so perverted." She added as an afterthought.
"I suppose they're not manly enough to have thoughts like that." He snickered some more, and she lunged at him again pulling him off on the couch, and they both ended up on the floor side by side. Hermione looked at Draco and started shaking with laughter.
"You make things so interesting" he smirked again.
"It's a.."
"Don't even say it! That was a mistake I think I just inflated your head more, you conceited prick!" she said sarcastically.
"Geez, so harsh!" he said playing along with the joke.
"I know, it's a gift" she hit him on the stomach and said "Get up we're going to the movies." Draco Reluctantly got up and followed Hermione.
They stopped at Snape's office first to ask permission.
"Professor, do you think Draco and I could go see a movie, it's a muggle thing, for entertainment." Snape looked at the couple (poor man he still really doesn't have a clue) he certainly didn't want to interfere with date plans. He looked at Draco who was shaking his head, mouthing the words say no to him. Hermione must be dragging him along he thought.
"Well I suppose so, just be back before dinner, and by the way we wont be having a training session tonight, but I'll inform you when I know what time they'll be during the year. Have fun." Hermione pulled a defeated looking Draco down the hall calling thank you to her professor.
Hermione always kept muggle money with her at Hogwars just in case, so she didn't have to stop at Gringotts. Before they got into muggle London she changed their robes into regular clothes, She giggled as she watched Dracos new clothes appear. He looked down at himself. He was wearing a pink frilly tanktop, and a black mini skirt. He looked horrified, and quickly did the spell himself and changed into something else.
"I'm gonna get you Hermione, I know where you live!" He threatened.
"Oh my gosh! I'm so scared!" she giggled, and pulled him along. When they finally got into the muggle part of London she had to keep on reminding Draco to stop mumbling about stupid muggles. They finally found a theatre and ended up seeing Italian Job.( Good movie by the way) Draco was pretty impressed by the end of it, he was starting to think muggles weren't as dumb as he thought they were. Hermione squealed with delight, as he told her he enjoyed it, and then stuck out her tongue.
"I told you you'd like it!"
They decided to go back to Hogwarts, so they could have some time to do a few things before dinner. Hermione went up to her room to tidy up a little bit, and Draco went for a fly to clear his head. It was nearing time for dinner and Hermione still couldn't find Draco, and she wanted to talk to him so she searched the whole castle, and couldn't find him. So she finally checked the quidditch pitch, sure enough, she saw him soaring above her. Remembering the last time she had disturbed him when he'd been flying and the agreement they made she turned around to walk away, telling herself she'd talk to him after dinner. She started to walk back towards the castle, when she felt a pair of hands grab her from behind. She gasped and looked right into Draco's eyes. She sighed feeling relieved; it was scary being grabbed from behind. He was floating above the ground on his broomstick.
"Sorry if I disturbed you" she blushed a little
"No you didn't" his hands were still on her waist, and he used all of his strength and picked Hermione up and placed her on the broom behind him.
"AHHHHH! Draco put me down! I hate heights, no no!" she screamed as he took off. She was sure she was going to squeeze his guts out, because she was holding him so tight. He looked back at her.
"Don't worry, I won't go to high, and I'll go slow. I find it helps me clear my head."
Hermione gave him a small nod and tried to relax. They rode around for awhile, her grip loosening as she became more comfortable. The wind was blowing in her face, and all of a sudden she felt so relaxed. All she could think about was how beautiful everything looked from up here. Draco looked back at Hermione, he wasn't trying to scare her, but she looked stressed, and he knew that this would help once she relaxed. She had her eyes closed, and a smile playing on her lips. They flew for a while longer and much to Hermiones surprise she was disappointed when he landed. She let go of his waist reluctantly, she found that she was actually quite comfortable, up there with Draco.
"That really did help, I feel so much more relaxed now." He looked at her and put his broomstick over his shoulder and mimicked Hermione from earlier and stuck his tongue out.
"I knew you'd like it" Hermione smiled, and playfully whacked him upside the head. They walked towards the castle, joking a little bit. But then Hermione remembered why she was looking for him in the first place.
"Let's skip dinner, I want to talk."
"I don't know… the food" he said longingly. Hermione laughed at him.
"Well, I'll take you to the kitchen and you can choose whatever you want"
"Really?"
"Well as long as you pinky swear not to tell any of the slytherins"
"Pinky swear?" she stuck out her pinky, and he followed her lead, Hermione linked her pinky with his, and shook. She loved teaching him new muggle things, she thought it was quite amusing.
"I" he raised his eyebrows at the next word "pinky swear, never to tell a slytherin where the kitchen is"
"Alright lets go then"
and she grabbed his arm and pulled him, this was starting to become a habit. But she found that he was a rather slow walker, so she liked to pull him along to speed things up. Hermione felt like she was betraying the Gryffindors a little bit, but what they didn't know wouldn't hurt them. All that was on Dracos mind was food food food food. When Hermione reached the portrait she hesitated a little, but finally tickled the pear, and Draco watched all of this wide eyed.
"Sweet" he said
"Draco" she warned "Now that you now where this is, well what I'm trying to say is, don't get fat!" she laughed. "I know it's hard, but limit yourself"
"Hahahaha" he said sarcastically "Imagine, me getting fat? It would never happen" Hermione rolled her eyes, and Dobby ran up to her.
"Miss Hermione" Dobby noticed Draco too "Master Draco"
"Hi Dobby! We are hungry! Wheres that awesome food you guys make?" Dobby showed them their selection and Draco looked like Christmas had come early. They brought enough food to feed a household back to their room. Hermione made sure not to start the conversation until after he was done eating, because she didn't want to have to watch him chew with his mouth open some more. When he finally finished with a groundshaking burp, which earned him another pillow to the face, she decided she would start.
"Draco, school starts tomorrow."
"I know" He whined, and pretended to cry into her shoulder.
"So.. I guess things will have to go back to normal again"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, the Gryffindors would kill me and eat me alive if they knew I was friends with you."
"ooh, vicious, as well as carnivores." She rolled her eyes yet again and continued.
"And I'm sure that the slytherins wouldn't be too happy."
"Well ya, until they find out who you are, you'd have to dodge a few hexes and things."
"The same goes for you, so anyway, we're gonna have to pretend to hate each other, like how it used to be" Draco considered the situation, he looked disappointed.
"This sucks!" Hermione herself was sad about this, and she gave him a hug.
"I know" they talked a little while longer about what they thought the year ahead of them would bring. Both bringing up their insecurities. Hermione was worried about being discovered and made deatheater. And Draco was worried about being one already, and both were equally scared about their positions as spies. They talked and Hermione realized that she'd really miss Dracos companionship during the year, she didn't want to have to go back to insulting him, and she got angry, and in the middle of one of his sentences she yelled out.
"Screw the Gryfindors, Screw the Slytherins. I don't give a shit what they think. This is dumb; I'm not going to go back to insulting you just because everyone says we're not allowed to be friends!" Draco smiled at this outburst because he totally agreed. And was grateful he wouldn't have to give up his friendship with her.
"I agree with you Hermione. Let them talk, let them gossip, let them bitch and complain. Hell we're doing them a favor by making things interesting. I don't really care anymore." Hermione lunged at him, not to attack him like usually, but instead to hug him. She knew that it would take a lot of strength, because the Gryffindors wouldn't be very happy, but she wasn't about to give up her friendship with Draco. Draco too felt the same way, he loved being with Hermione, she was more of a friend than he'd ever had. Hermione pulled apart from their hug and looked at him seriously.
"I have a question"
"And I have an answer"
"Let's say that the situation was different, and I was a muggle born for real, would you still want to be my friend." Draco wasn't used to talking about his feelings and thoughts like this, but he knew that this was important for her. So he looked at her and let his heart talk.
"Well, I would have been more reluctant in the beginning to talk to you, but I'm pretty sure that once I got to know you, like I have. That I wouldn't be able to not be your friend, muggleborn or pureblood. My father wouldn't be too happy if he heard me say that but it's true. You just proved everything that my father has ever taught me about muggles and muggleborns wrong." Hermione looked amused.
"Ha, see your father is a dumb bastard."
"That's for sure. What about you, what made you forget about all the insults and crap I've done to you?" she played with her fingers, it was a nervous habit of hers.
"well, I knew there was a change in you, it was obvious. I guess I just thought you deserved a second chance. And really I would have died of boredom if I didn't have someone to talk to, so there was an ulterior motive to it all." After a few moments of silence, Draco started up a heated debate out what kind of woman would be good for Snape. They talked and laughed for hours into the night and early morning. When Hermione looked at her watch, she practically jumped out of her seat.
"Draco" she cried "It's 2:30 in the morning! I have to go to bed oh my gosh! Tomorrow everyone returns and I'm gonna be a bitch if I don't get sleep!" Draco watched with a smile on his face as Hermione flipped out.
"Awww is it past little hermiones bed time?" She gave him the finger
"No I need my beauty sleep" and with that she strutted up the stairs to her room. Leaving draco thinking, she doesn't need beauty sleep. But he too followed suit and went up stairs into his room to retire for the night, wait morning.
Hermione found herself in the same black and white room she always met her father in, and she smiled. Her father came walking into the room, and gave her a hug.
"Hermione your 7th year starts tomorrow, we won't be training tonight, I'm just here to warn you. I've seen the road ahead for you, and its going to be tough. You will be discovered and made a deatheater, but never give up. You'll be a big part of The fate of the wizarding world. Ere on the side of caution always" Hermiones father finished leaving her behind feeling very baffled.
"Hermione, Hermione" she could hear her someone yelling her name from a distance, and felt herself be pulled away from the dream world. She slowly opened her eyes to be greeted by an excited looking Draco bouncing up and down on her bed yelling her name. she rolled over, and put the pillow over her ears, which was quickly pulled off by Draco.
"We have a meeting with Dumbledore in 10 minutes."
"Crap" not bothering to waste time on putting on clothes, she transfigured her pajamas into a pair of pink corduroy lace up pants, a black tanktop and a Pink corduroy jacket to match. She put her long curly hair up in a pony tail leaving a few pieces out to frame her face, and grabbed some lipgloss to put on while she ran out of the room with Draco.
"I think that was the quickest I've ever seen anyone get ready in the morning." Hermione grunted still not fully awake. She almost turned down the wrong corridor twice, each time Draco pulling her back. He felt odd because for once he was the one doing the pulling. Now he really did feel guilty for keeping her up all night, that girl looked like she was going to fall asleep at any moment.
Through the course of the meeting, Hermione seemed to wake up more. The meeting was just addressing their duties as head girl and boy; they had both been prefects though so none of this was really new. After the meeting was over, Hermione was fully awake, and suggested they go get some breakfast. Hermione decided to start up a game they had played before. She rammed against Draco as they were walking, and he quickly caught on pushing back. They were both trying to push each other into random things. When they got closer to the kitchens they pulled apart, but Draco wasn't done yet. He put his hip out and pushed her, she ran into the wall. He smirked at her. After a quick recovery, she rammed into him with everything she had, and he fell down, all the way. She laughed. Victory is mine! But Draco grabbed her arm and pulled her down next to her. Damn. This time Draco was the one to laugh. Hermione glared at him. Both feeling quite hungry they agreed that they would save it for later, and they quickly walked to the kitchens for food.
They sat in the kitchens and ate. Draco remembering the last time he had chewed with his mouth opened and talked at the same time, waited to finish his bite and spoke up.
"Everyone comes back today. I wonder how they'll react."
"Meh, they'll get over it, and if they can't then they were never my friends to begin with."
"ya, but ya know this could be fun. We could totally play it up" he snickered imagining the look on everyones faces.
"I think, just us not clawing at each others eyes will be enough to send some people into heart attacks."
"Probably. Let's go visit Professor Snape."
Hermione and Draco spent the rest of the day with professor Snape, talking like they were old friends. But soon it was time for the rest of the students to return so they made their way to the great hall. They were to sit with the teachers for this feast. Before they sat down, Hermione grabbed Draco, and pulled him into a hug.
:"Sorry, I'm just a little nervous. Promise we'll stay friends no matter what." Draco grinned and remembered something Hermione had taught him.
"I pinky swear" he said as he linked their pinkys together. "But where did that come from?"
" I don't know, its just that, I duno this year will be hard a lot of people will try to get us to hate each other again. I don't wanna lose your friendship."
"I'd never even dream of leaving you" Hermione smiled at him. Dumbledore watched them from the entrance, with a smile. He doubted they even knew yet, it was obvious to everyone else in the castle they had feelings for eachother, now it was just a matter of them figuring it out. This year would be interesting indeed.
Hey guys, I had a lot of fun writing this chapter lol! But anyway please review and tell me what you think, did you love it like it hate it? Or if you want to rant about anything else just review. Thanx!
