"Teachings of Seduction"

By: Sailor Gemini

Chapter 5: The Doubts, and the. flirts??

Authors note: I had a few really kind people reviewing and telling me to update, so that's what I'm here to do. I would like to thank you guys personally, so I'll do that at the end of this chapter. I hope you like it!

And the chapter begins:

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He was kissing her. His brown locks falling into his eyes as the kiss went on and on. His callused fingers cupped her face. Hermione ended the kiss and smiled up at him. Her eyes closed and she stole another kiss. Justin's hand went from her face down to her waist, and he held her still as his mouth worked over hers. Hermione was a littler nervous and scared by his ergency, but she responded.

Suddenly, the hands at her waist were gentler, and Hermione sighed into the softer mough. The kiss was suddenly more right, and Hermione's arm went around Justin's neck. Her heart raced up as she kissed him. He suddenly ended the kiss and Hermione whimpered, and she opened her eyes. Instead of the green eyes she expected, she was looking into gray ones. She backed out of his arms, and saw Draco in front of her. How.?

"Hermione," she heard him whisper as he stepped forward. "Mione!" His voice became more urgent as his body became fuzzy.

"Hermione!" Ron almost yelled, shaking her. She looked around at the near empty common room

"What time is it?" she asked, yawning.

"Almost three."

"What are you doing up?" she asked him.

"I woke up from a night mare, and I wondered if you had went to bed or not. You were pretty keen on getting your homework done."

"OH yeah," Hermione said, looking down at her half-finished essay.

"Hermione, whats' up with you? You're so different!"

"Justin Flinch-Fletchy said the same thing," Hermione said, grinning.

"And you aren't caring about your grades, but much more on your appearance. It's scary, Mione! Me and Harry feel like we're losing you." He waited a moment. "The old Mione would have corrected me. "Harry and I," she'd say. I don't know anything about this new Hermione, but I'm not sure I like the changes." Ron stood and went up the stairs to his dorm without a look back.

IF he had looked back, he would have seen Hermione's face crumple and her eye fill with tears. She curled into a little ball in the enormous arm chair, and cried. She finally got up and went to bed.

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She wandered by herself all day, skipping both breakfast and lunch. Most people played outside on a warm Sunday, so no one really noticed that she was sitting on the steps all by herself.

Nobody, until Harry walked up. "Mione," he started. "We need to talk."

She nodded and followed him, brushing her short hair out of her eyes. They were soon sitting in front of the lake.

"Hermione? What's with this new you?" she asked him.

"I needed a change is all," she told him, blowing the same piece of hair out of her eyes.

"I noticed that."

"Well, aren't you the brightest crayon in the box," she started, smirking over at him.

Harry grinned despite himself. "I always knew you had a sense of humour underneath that book worm you showed everyone else."

"Yeah, well." she looked over at the lake as a squid's tentacle broke the dark water.

"Everyone changes sometimes," Harry told her. "And no matter what, you know that I'll back you 150 percent."

Hermione closed her eyes tightly. It was so like him to support her. "Thank you, Harry," she told him, her voice soft. "I don't know if I should really be doing this."

"Do what you want in here," Harry told her, touching right below her left collar bone. "Not in here," he finished, by placing the same finger on her forehead.

"I guess I've kept that part quiet so long that it's hard to hear what she has to say. And I have to admit to myself my brain is just a tad bit bossy."

Harry chuckled that low chuckle that got most girls' hearts racing. "Glad you've finally noticed, Herm."

She looked over at him, with an eye brow raised. "And what's that supposed to mean?" she asked him.

"Oh, nothing. But I must advise you to be careful. I've seen Malfoy watching you, and quite frankly, it's a bit odd. I mean, he's been horrible to you for so long, and now he's looking at you in a new light. A bit odd, if you ask me."

Hermione's heart wrenched as she wished she could tell Harry everything. "Alright, I'll watch myself."

"Thanks. We're just worried about you, Ron and I."

"There's no reason to be. I have everything under control," she told him, nodding.

"Alright. Well, I better go. Looks like you have a visitor," he grinned, looking over at the tall figure walking toward them.

He stood and left her sitting by the lake, only to be joined a few moments later by her crush.

~And I feel so nervous~

"Hi," he smiled down at her, with one of his hands stuffed nervously into his pocket. "Can I sit?" he asked.

"Sure," she told him, flicking that same annoying piece of hair out of her face.

"I know this is going to sound a bit straight forward and personal, and everything," he smiled, taking her breath away. "But why did you give up Head Girl to that. that Slytherin?" She smiled.

"It's just that I was really looking forward to working with you. I mean, sure, Blaise is gorgeous and everything, but she's a complete slacker! I know you and I would have gotten a lot of things done for this school, and all Blaise cares about is if she looks alright."

Hermione shook her head. "I don't know why, really. It was kind of on a whim." She looked down at her toes. "I can't honestly say if I regret it or not," she started. "I mean, I really just needed a change in my life, and by being Head Girl was not going to help that." Actually, she was being completely honest. If she hadn't given up Head Girl, Draco wouldn't have helped her.

He grinned charmingly at her. "I have to agree. And I really like the change." He reached his hand up and touched the lock covering her eyes, only to lift it and push it behind her ear. "It doesn't make much sense, to be honest. I always thought that you would try and blend with the crowd, instead of stand out like you are doing now. It's nice, really. I saw you dancing with that Romeo a few nights ago. You wouldn't know how Jealous I was of you!"

Her eyes opened wide, and she looked up at him with her eye brows raised. "Really now?"

He laughed. "Yeah. I was jealous that you got to hit the bastard." She couldn't help but giggle and he grinned down at her. She had to bite back a 'Draco said the same thing' before she remembered the strange dream she had the night before.

"I dreamed of you last night," Hermione informed him.

"Really now? So, was it a sex dream?" he grinned down at her and she smiled back up at him.

"No, sicko," she grinned at him, smacking his knee lightly. "Just a dream." she trailed off. Then her stomach rumbled.

"Hey, I know you skipped meals today, and it's not good. Even if you are trying to loose wait. I see those pants are getting bigger," he commented. What he didn't know was Draco had made these pants huge the day before.

"I'm not skipping meals intentionally," she told him, shocked. "I just had stuff to do is all."

"Well, I'll walk you to the kitchens?" He asked, standing and reaching out a hand to help her up. She grabbed it gratefully, standing herself up.

"Thanks, but no. I'm a big girl, I can do it myself," she grinned, patting her hips. "I'll talk to you later, though?" she asked him, hopefully.

"Definitely," he smiled down at her.

She walked off, trying her best not to strut like Draco did, as she smiled up at the heavens.

~Cuz I know your worth it~

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Draco walked into the library and saw Hermione hunched over a book. Hadn't he told her not to come here so much? He decided to walk over to her and see what she was doing.

As he walked up behind her, she started humming a song to herself, and he stopped, letting the musical sound wash over his ears. He saw her dip her quill into the ink and write something else in the book. His trademark smirk came to his lips as he recognized the book. Her diary.

He stood right behind her and silently read something over her shoulder. Kissing. something about kissing. He grinned, good naturedly (we hope) and reached over her shoulder and grabbed the book, flipping it to a blank page. He walked quickly to the seat next to her, and acted like he was reading the blank page. He wiggled his eye brows up and down a bit as he acted like he was turning the page. "Mione! You feisty thing, you!"

He watched her face go beat red and he tried his best not to laugh.

"Malfoy, if you don't give that back to me, right this instant!" She whispered furiously, scooting her chair as close to his without making too big of a scene, and she reached over and tried to grab the book from his grasp. He turned in his chair, and she ended up just grabbing his cloak, which she curled her fist around.

"You'll do what?" he asked her, grinning over his shoulder as he hid the book from her view and acted like he was turning yet another page.

"Draco!" she whimpered. "Please don't read that." As she saw his grin, she practically threw her self at him, and landed half in his lap, while reaching with one hand to try and reach grab the diary. His longer arm were drawn out tight as the other one held her around the waist trying to keep the diary away from her.

"Kissing, eh?" he asked, making a kissy face at her, and another blush stained Hermione's cheeks. She had been writing about her dream and how different the two kisses had been. She tried to use her body weight to help her and she reached as far as she could.

He couldn't help but laugh at the desperation on her face, and Hermione stopped for a moment, relishing in the sound. It wasn't too often that he laughed. She just looked at him and he looked back down at her, searching her blue eyes. She smiled up at him as his arm loosened and she reached over and snagged her diary.

"You little brat!" he growled playfully and she squealed as she tried to get out of her chair as quickly as she could. His arms reached out and he grabbed her around the waist tickling her.

Her giggles were high pitched as she squirmed to get away from his tickling onslaught. "Please stop," she tried to breathe out but it was interlaced with giggles.

"Not until you apologize for being a brat," he muttered against her ear, and grabbed above her knee cap making her squeal.

"I'm sorry," she finally got out.

"For what?" he asked, pressing his hand into her side and wiggling his fingers.

She felt tears almost come to her eyes and she tried to breathe. "For being a brat."

"Are you sure? I don't think your sincere."

"Draco!" she squealed out, trying to wiggle away from him. "I'm sincere! I'm sincere!"

He stopped, and she relaxed her back against his chest and she tried to catch her breathe. He smiled against her hair, and rested his chin on top of her head.

"Draco," she muttered, starting to stir. "I have to go. We can't do this here, you know that."

"I know, Mione," he whispered. "I know. We've both got reps to keep up, right?" he asked, as she moved her chair back to it's original position.

"Exactly." She watched him stand up and she smiled up at him. "I'll talk to you later?"

"Don't count on it," he smirked and winked at her, while walking away.

Hermione sighed, looking over at the diary. She flipped it open to the last entry and read about how she thought Draco's kiss had felt so right in the dream, before she shut it and slammed it into her bag as she watched Draco's back leave the Library.

~You're worth it, yeah~

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TBC

Wow!!!!! I wrote that all in one day!!! Thank you guys for reviewing and making my muse wake up!! I bet she hates you now, but I will love you forever. I wrote so much. Wow, I'm so proud. Ok, so it's only like 2000 words, but still. wow. So much I've written *as I go into Yoda mode* And now for you nice happy wonderful reviewers *BIG HAPPY SMILE!!!!*

Yay!! I had 7.5 people telling me to review (there's a .5 because one person told me to twice. *happy grin*) Alice: yeah, I emailed you. and if you read this and then read the email I would like to apologize greatly for the randomness there. It happens. As I said in it, blame the pepsi. for some reason it shot straight to my head and gave me a sugar high.. Totally weird -.-* Sam: thank you for reviewing twice, it made me smile, and I do plan to continue now. Moonbeam: thank you! I don't really think I'm that good, but writing is a wonderful thing. CheerPrincess: now that lesson "Write for yourself" is thee best lesson out there. Another author told me that a few days before. It was nice having someone else tell me that. And that's what I'm doing now. I am writing for myself, and I know some people actually want to read it (which is always good too ^_^) Tom4Eva: Yeah, I know Draco is OOC but considering this is my first Draco/anyone besides me **check out Warrior of the Stars or A trip to America (shudder)** so I'm not really sure how to write him. Lavinia: Hiya! I love how many keep goings I got. It definitely made me smile.

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And finally, one of my favorite reviewers: Akira Gown: I loved the Mah Dahling!! It makes me laugh even though I read this review how many months ago. *happy happy smile* Linkin Park rocks!!!! I was listening to that c.d. when I wrote that part. but I do have a question. does Mozart have violent beats in his songs?? I think so, but I'm not sure *grin* I think that it is a Viktor thing to do to send a Howler. it's mean, but hey. I didn't like him too much in the book anyway, so it works *grin* I went skating with Adam (the one that hates HP) and I told him I had wrote on this story and he started cracking up and asking me if I was still working on that porno. Tom got a haircut?? I know he's a complete hottie.. drool worthy to the extreme!!! I saw a guy at the skate-ing rink today and he looked kind of like him, and he was so graceful. I swear, you had to MOP up the drool. But send me that URL if you read this. I'll try and get a hold of you and tell you I've updated (cuz it's been absolute ages, I know)

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