A/N: thanks to my reviewers!
Chapter4- Ice cold
Draco woke up at 10:00. "Damn." He thought. "The great hall will probably be empty by now." With a groan he pulled himself out of bed to his mirror. Today was their first Hogsmede trip he realized as he pulled himself together and ran a comb through his hair. "I wonder why Hermione didn't wake me." He thought, until the memories of the previous night's events came back to him. With another groan he dragged himself downstairs to the common room. Finding it empty he headed to the Great Hall, in hope of finding people hanging around and a carriage left going to Hogsmede.
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Hermione had made sure to be awake and out of the dorm before Malfoy woke up. Making her way to the Great hall she saw Ron and Harry talking at the Gryffindor table and rushed to them.
"Hey Hermione." They said in unison.
"Hey." She said, flopping herself into a chair and pulling some breakfast toward her. Grinning, Ron turned around to Lavender as she approached the table and started talking. Harry turned to Hermione, staring at her intensely.
"Did something happen, Hermione?" he asked, lowering his voice.
"Draco hasn't been bothering me Harry, so drop it." She replied. As she saw his face contort to confusion, she instantly realized her mistake. "Damn it!!!" she thought. Before Harry could open his mouth, she quickly continued.
"Do you realize you always have this scowl whenever you're thinking of Malfoy?" she said, as if she had been meaning to say it all along. Harry looked surprised for a moment, and then shook his head slowly.
"Hermione, if you weren't brilliant and my best friend I would be really worried about you." He said smiling. "Of course." He thought. "She's my best friend she knows what I'm thinking."
"I know." Said Hermione, laughing. "That was close." She thought, as she gave Harry a reassuring smile, and they began to make plans for the day.
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Malfoy entered the Great Hall as the last carriage was departing. Inside he caught a glimpse of vivid red hair and untidy jet-black hair.
"Damn them!" he cursed under his breathe, as he summoned his new broomstick. "Brand new. Wasn't even on the shelves yet." He thought with a fierce burning pride. Smiling, he mounted and sped off. "If I'm lucky," he thought, "I might be able to catch up to the last carriage."
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Lowering himself to the ground and easing off his broom, Draco watched as Hermione waved good-bye to her friends and heads in the opposite directions. Hesitating for only a moment, he saw her place her headphones over her ears, clutching a CD player in one arm and start walking at a fast pace. Quickly shouldering his broom, he followed.
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Hold on… if you feel like letting go.
Hold on… it gets better than you know.
Hold on…
The Good Charlotte lyrics pounded in Hermione's ears as she started towards Madame Malkine's formal wear robes. She decided to pick up her dress first, because it seemed the easiest and she wanted to get it out of the way, but she never got the chance. Feeling someone's hand gently grab her arm she swung around, gripping her wand in her free hand.
"Wow." Said Draco, looking surprised by her reaction. "It's just me."
"An even better reason for me to be wary." Said Hermione carelessly. After a short uncomfortable silence Draco decided to give it another shot.
"Where you headed to Hermione." He asked, trying to catch her cold brown eyes with his struggling gray ones.
"That's none of your business MALFOY. Get out of my face."
"But Hermione… Professor McGonagall said we needed to start picking up things for the ball… I wouldn't want to leave it till last minute and get my head position taken away from me, and I'm sure you wouldn't want that to happen either."
"Fine." Hermione said, reluctantly taking off her headphones at last. "You get this half of the list, I'll get this half. Then we'll give it to the headmaster. Bye."
"Granger!" he shouted at her.
"Did you not understand me Malfoy?" Hermione yelled.
"Well, yes, I did, but we're suppose to agree on everything we buy… TOGETHER."
"I agree with whatever you're planning to buy." Said Hermione.
"Really?" said Draco, eyebrows raised. "So its ok if I order pizza for the feast? I've always loved pizza and it would really go well with the theme I have in mind…"
"YOU ARE THE MOST INTOLERABLE PERSON I KNOW!" screamed Hermione. "WE CAN'T ORDER PIZZA FOR THE FEAST!" Draco continued looking at her innocently.
"I thought it would be nice, you know, a change… with a couple of beers…" Draco quickly tried to hide his smile.
"I don't know what you're trying to accomplish Malfoy. Fine. I'll supervise what we get but you better leave me alone!" she stormed off. Malfoy choked down a laugh, and quickly followed silently.
They went along in this fashion as they ordered the rest of the things. All Hermione needed now was her dress, but with a furious look back at Malfoy, who was leaning casually against the wall, he knew she wouldn't put up with him for another minute.
"I'll see you around," he said, with a quick nod of his head, as he turned around and started heading down the street.
"Go to hell." Hermione replied, under her breath. As if interpreting her thoughts, Malfoy turned around to smirk at her before turning down the street back to Hogwarts.
A/N: Sorry its really short… I had originally written out more but when I started typing it I kinda just got wrapped up in their dialog and missed a few parts but I promise it'll appear in other chappies. Thanks for the reviews they really motivate me to get these out! ;-)