A/N: I don't know if this is moving too fast but w/e! Also I know the last chappie kinda sucked but it was kinda like a building chapter for this one and later ones… ya know? Lol I was gonna wait for a couple days before I put this up but I couldn't contain myself. ;-)
Chapter 6- One More Kiss
Hermione slipped in front of her vanity in her Head Girl's dorm. She pulled back her hair, leaving a few pieces to frame her face, securing her loose bun with a pair of chopsticks. Looking at her reflection she sighed. The past week Draco had been formally polite to her… but at the same time avoiding her. She knew everything a Malfoy ever did had an alternative motive to it, and that thought made her uneasy. Applying a coat of mascara and eyeliner lazily, she then slipped into a pair of low-rise faded flare jeans, and a small black tee shirt under her school robes and went down to the Great hall for breakfast.
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Draco watched as Hermione entered the Great Hall and slid into a chair next to Harry and Ron. He had been having an uneasy mind the past couple of days, but he had finally sorted it all out in his mind. He concluded that the only reason he felt this way about Hermione was because he was infatuated with the kiss he and Hermione had shared. Therefore, the only way to cure it for good was to steal just one more kiss to confirm that he could have her if he wanted. Draco smiled to himself. "That was it." He thought. "Just one more kiss…" and with that he turned to the pile of food that had just appeared on his plate.
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No one in their 7th year was very surprised to see a very disgruntled Hermione yelling at two cowering boys after the practically impossible Transfiguration lesson.
"What is wrong with you Ron? Changing water to fire isn't as hard as you make it to be! And lighting my textbook on fire! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!"
"Hermione." Said Harry, hoping to calm her down, but was unsuccessful.
"And you Harry!" she said, rounding on him. "Why didn't you pay attention when McGonagall was talking? It would have been much easier then pestering me the whole time…" Ron let out a loud yawn, covering up Hermione's shrill shrieks.
"Calm down, Hermione. We're very sorry we're not up to your standards today. What the hell's wrong with you?" sighed Ron. Hermione's eyes blazed with cold fury and Harry, seeing this, quickly changed the subject.
"Hermione? You have OWL's potions next right? Do you want to meet after at Hagrids?" Hermione suddenly cooled down.
"Sure, Harry." She replied in an exasperated voice.
"Hermione?" said Ron, quietly. "Umm… is it that time of the month?" Hermione rounded on him so quickly Harry just gave up and left the two to bicker.
Walking into the potions classroom Hermione sat at the far back in the last seat available. "Of course its next to Malfoy." She thought. "Who would want to sit next to him?"
Turning to face Snape, she felt distracted from her work by Malfoy's complacent eyes staring at her like she was his. She turned to glare at him and he smiled at her in an amused fashion. Not in the mood for playing games with Malfoy the whole class of she quickly jumped up.
"I need to see Madame Pomphrey or I think I'm going to be sick." She said, looking at Malfoy, and stormed out of the classroom, overcome with a sudden rage of recklessness.
Draco chuckled softly. She had no idea what was in store for her.
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Racing to Hagrid's cabin Hermione stumbled as she felt an arm grab hers violently. Suddenly she was pulled into an empty classroom, lit only by the dim natural light coming through the windows. Hermione swung around to face her attacker and found her face-to-face with none other but…
"Malfoy?" she gasped.
He smirked. "You really made a spectacle of yourself in Snape's class today." He said, tenderly.
Hermione's eyes flashed. "What are you doing, ferret-boy? Shouldn't you be terrorizing some first years? Those are the only ones you can take on after all…" she was cut off by his lips pressing on hers, violent and demanding. She tried to struggle, but she was helpless, in-between Malfoy and the wall. She breathed in an aftershave-like scent. She gave up and closed her eyes, allowing his tongue trace her lips and enter, she was sinking into darkness, and before she could do anything, she was kissing him back just as passionately. Her mind struggled until she was finally able to push him away. Malfoy had an odd gleam in his eyes.
"I was wrong… one more cant cure it… I was all wrong." He muttered under his breath. Hermione, her eyes blazing, pushed him back violently.
"What the hell do you think your doing?" she screamed at him. Draco took a step forward, but she pulled back. "What do you want with me?" she asked, her eyes brimming with tears.
"Hermione, I'm so sorry, you don't understand, hell I don't understand, but, 'Mione I think I'm falling for you. I didn't mean to hurt you before, I didn't think it was real I mean how can it be but it is and I need you 'Mione."
"I'm not falling for your trick again, Malfoy." She said, spitting his surname out as if it was venom. "And my name is HER-MI-ON-E!" she added, and tore out of the classroom, with Draco in pursuit. He was gaining when she felt his grip on her arm again, but this time it was gentle.
"Then why did you kiss me back?"
Hermione stared into his gray eyes and Lavender's words came back to her… "What a burden, having the hottest guy in school following you." But he said he was falling for her. There was only one way to know the truth. She knew it was almost like cheating but… she closed her eyes and entered his mind.
A/N: wow what a great cliffy! Haha sorry I'm being cruel. BUT… the good thing about cliffies is that if you press the "review" button, the next chapter comes out quicker! ;-)