A/N: So…… I hope you enjoyed chapter 1! Uhm, yeah, I don't think it was that good, but heh, you know… no you don't… but that's BESIDE the point. Oh… I started writing this chapter the day I finished the 1st one… so if I get any reviews… (yah right) then… I'll mention you later!! Lololol

Let's have a recap:

"What?" Hermione and Ron asked at the same time.

"Your hair it's.. it's…"

"It's straight!!" Ron said catching on.

"Oh, you noticed?" Hermione said and giggled.

Chapter 2- The Deal

"Well, yeah, I'm not like Ron, to ignore everything I see! I notice, but, wow, why did you do that?" Harry asked.

"Why? Does it look bad?" Hermione asked, a little panicky.

"What? No! It looks very nice, I was just wondering why you did it… that's all" Harry said.

"Oh, well, I wanted to look different…"

"And you sure do…" said a sarcastic voice.

Everyone turned around to face the compartment door and happened to face…

Draco Malfoy, who else?

"What's that supposed to mean, Malfoy?" Hermione asked.

"What it should mean. You know, I really didn't think you could get any uglier…" Draco started to say.

"Watch it Malfoy, you're pushing your luck of staying how you look." Ron said, standing up to Draco.

"Awww, isn't that nice, the little weasel is standing up for Granger." Draco said sarcastically.

"Oh boy Malfoy, do you REALLY have to start this so soon? Can't you just keep your mouth shut for once?" Hermione said, angrily.

"Hmmm, let me think about that Granger…… No!"

"Malfoy, what happened to your little crew?" Harry asked, in a... ah, lets say, not so friendly way.

"Shut up, Potter"

"Is that all you can come up with, Malfoy?" Ron asked challengingly.

Harry and Ron looked at each other smirking, waiting for Draco to answer, and Hermione looked up at Malfoy. Hermione saw his eyes look soft. Malfoy looked at Hermione and saw her staring at him. He put on that famous smirk of his and said, "You know Granger, you might as well take a picture. It might happen to last longer."

"What?!" Hermione said outraged

"You heard me." He answered.

"Listen Malfoy, just go back with your father and his little deatheater friends. You belong there, more than here." Harry said.

For a split second, Hermione could have sworn she could have seen Draco look hurt, though only in his eyes.

"Listen, Potter, just because my father may be in with Voldemort, doesn't mean that I want to too!" Draco yelled and stormed away from the compartment.

Harry and Ron sat down and looked at each other and began to swap chocolate frogs trading cards.

Hermione who was already sitting down was thinking. 'I could have sworn he looked hurt… but Malfoy? He doesn't get hurt… or maybe he does……' and was interrupted from her thoughts as the train started to move.

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20 minutes later, a knock came on the door.

"Come in, if your not Malfoy" Harry said stubbornly. He and Ron were playing a game of exploding snaps.

"Well I'm not" said the person on the outside.

"Then come in" Ron joined in.

A person came in… Pansy.

"Hello Pansy," Hermione said, "How are you? Haven't seen you in a while!"

"Oh, I'm good. How are you Hermione?" Pansy answered.

"I'm pretty good, besides the fact that Malfoy came in and disrupted the peace" Hermione said.

"Yeah, well, it's not like he'll be nice or anything." Pansy told Hermione.

"I guess, but it would be nice if he would for a moment." Hermione said. Then, which at an odd moment realized that she needed to go to the back car.

"Oh No!" Hermione started. "I totally forgot about the prefect meeting! Sorry you guys, I have to go to the back car!"

Hermione picked up her handbag and went past Pansy.

"Make sure Crookshanks stays there." She yelled going through the door to go to the next car.

"Hey! Hermione next time you see us, tell us who the Prefects are!" Ron shouted.

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Hermione ran to the back car passing compartments where she heard some of her other friends talking.

She reached the car and started looking in different compartments.

"Are you SURE that Hermione got her prefect letter?" Hermione heard someone say from the compartment next to her.

Hermione opened the compartment door. "Yeah, I got it, I just totally forgot. Sorry you guys"

Inside, Hermione saw Cho, Seamus, Lavender, Dean, and…… MALFOY? (A/N-I'm not sure how many prefects there are supposed to be, so… can someone tell me? lol)

"Malfoy?!?! What are YOU doing here?" An outraged Hermione said.

"Same reason as you, Granger," Draco said, quite calmly.

"But… But… No! This soooo cannot be!" Hermione said a bit confused.

"What's wrong, Granger? Didn't think there could possibly be other people as good as you? Well guess what, Slytherin has a whole lot of 'em." Draco told Hermione

'Malfoy??? Malfoy??? How could Dumbledore make the mistake of having Malfoy as a prefect?!' Hermione thought to herself.

"Hermione? Are you okay? Sit down." Seamus said.

"Huh? Uhm, right, I just can't believe this!!" Hermione told Seamus.

"Neither can I, or anyone else in this compartment, try to deal with it" Seamus whispered in Hermione's ear, and then winked.

Hermione giggled. "Okay, so on with this meeting!!" Hermione said to everyone.

"Right, okay so, Hermione, me and Dean are Head Girl and Boy, Lavender, Seamus, you and Draco are Prefects." Cho said.

"Okay then." Hermione said.

"Well, Dumbledore wrote to me and Dean and told us that we will have a dance to welcome everyone back to Hogwarts, so we have to schedrule the day and time and theme for it." Cho informed everyone.

"Great! Sounds fun to me" Seamus said excitedly.

"Fun? Let's try b-o-r-i-n-g" Draco said dully.

"Draco, get some spice in your life, its going to be great!" Lavender said.

"So, what I was thinking, is that we could have it a week after school starts, like around the 12th, which gives everyone enough time to buy their clothes for the occasion." Cho said, pretty excited herself.

"Great, how about everyone dress the muggle way, it's so cute how they dress!" Lavender squealed.

"Great idea" Hermione said.

"Excuse me, but purebloods DO NOT dress like muggles" (who else but) Draco said.

"Listen Draco, you've got to work with us, besides they don't dress that much different! They just don't wear cloaks!" Cho cried.

Draco sighed "Whatever"

'Draco doesn't give up that easily, I wonder if maybe he does want to do this' Hermione thought to herself, then giggled.

"What's so funny mudblood?" Draco asked.

"Now now now, Draco, you need to be setting an example for other students, and calling people mudblood, isn't a good way to start" Hermione said, and smirked.

'I didn't know she could do that! I thought I was this only one who could smirk like that' Draco thought to himself.

"Oh shut up" was what Draco could only get out.

"Is that the only thing you can say when you can't think of anything?" Hermione asked.

"Hermione? Draco? Just stop." Dean said.

"Yeah I'm trying to, but the mudblood over there keeps starting" Draco told Dean.

"Well if you could be NICER, I wouldn't 'start'" Hermione said, mimicking Draco.

"Well, I COULD be nicer…" Draco started.

"Prove it!" Hermione challenged.

"Cut it you guys" Cho said.

"How about you guys make a deal?" Lavender squealed, being so into the fight.

"I don't do deals with mudbloods" Draco said lamely.

"Well, maybe a deal would work on you two…" Seamus started.

"What KIND of deal?" Hermione asked.

"Oh you know, Hermione can do something, while Draco is nice in return for an amount of time…" Lavender said.



"I like the 2nd part.. but, me? Doing something?" Hermione asked.

"Well, yeah, that's the only way the deal can work." Lavender explained.

"Hmmm, I think, if I have to be nice, which will take a lot of energy, I should make up the part Granger has to do" Draco thought aloud.

"What?!" Hermione exclaimed.

"Well, that IS fair…" Lavender said.

"Lavender!" Hermione cried.

"It is though…" Lavender said.

"Ugh, fine!" Hermione said giving up.

"Good… Let's see… what can I have little mudblood Granger do…" Draco thought aloud.

"Hurry up Draco, I want to see that 'oh so nice' side of you" Hermione said.

"Shut-up, don't rush me, or I may back out of the deal!" Draco said.

Hermione sighed.

"Let me see, you will… have to do my laundry with your hands!… nah, not good enough… you have to… announce to the WHOLE school that… You think I'm the best-
looking guy you've ever seen! That's it! Take it or leave it" Draco said now excited.

Hermione screamed. "What?! No way!!"

"Either do that, and I'll be nice to you… or I'll just go back to being the same person that you don't like" Draco smirked.

"AGGGHHH, Fine, I guess that's okay, but your going to have to be nice until…" Hermione started.

"Thanksgiving break." Draco finished for Hermione.

"Fine, deal." Hermione said then sighed.

'This is going to be a LONG day' Hermione thought to herself.

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A/N: Dum dum dum dummmmmmm. Was it cliff hangy enough? I Hope!!!! Stay tuned to chapter three… Ohh and I wrote 7 pages on chapter 2!! Not bad, considering this my 1st fanfic… uhm, I wrote all of it as I was offline… and I know for chapter 1, I stopped at a bad place but it was 2:45 am and I had to get offline. Hehehe. Hope you guys keep reading! Oh and when I get back online today, I'm changing the title to: A walk to remember (I LOVE THAT MOVIE!!! lol)
~HuGz~
Mara-Potter