Chapter 3:

"Granger!" a voice was yelling into my ear. "Granger, get your ass up!" my eyes flicked open, to see malfoy's face but a few inches from mine. He was looking straight at me. I was so shocked that I sat straight up, hitting him square in the nose with my head. Malfoy fell back to his bench clutching his nose in agony. "Jesus Granger! You broke my nose!"

I covered my mouth, feeling terrible. But then I realized whom I was feeling pity towards, and I removed my hand and smirked. "Oh Malfoy, get over it." I said, flipping my hair over my shoulder.

"Forget it? forget it! I am bleeding you little mudblood!"

"Wow, he bleeds," I muttered shrilly. He gave me a dirty look, wiping the blood on the back of his hand. "Why were you standing over me anyways, Malfoy?"

"Well, if you hadn't noticed, the train has stopped, and I thought you may want to change," he snarled. Suddenly I thought I felt some kind of softness coming from him. He could have let me sleep through everyone leaving, me lying there like an idiot, me the head girl and all. He could have held that over me the rest of the year. But he actually was thinking about me. he must have seen the look of puzzlement on my face because the softness quickly blew over. "No, Granger. I was not thinking about your welfare. We need to make a grand entrance, and we cant if your in here sleeping like a baby. whatever you do reflects on me now, so you better straighten up!"

"Sure Malfoy. Why cant you admit for just once that you were actually being nice?" I asked, crossing my legs.

"Nice? Nice?!" he bellowed, jumping to his feet. he had removed his hand and the blood was trickling from his nose, and bloody fingerprints covered his chin and hands. He pointed his finger at me threateningly. "I was not being nice, I am far from being nice to some filthy little mudblood like you, granger. Especially to ones that hurt me!"

I stood up, right in front of him. i pushed myself up against his chest, with menacing daggers shooting from my pupils. i cocked my arm  back and slapped him right across the face as hard as I could. God did that feel good I said to myself in my head. I clapped his other hand onto his cheek where I had struck him.

"Malfoy, you have no idea how much you hurt everyone else. so before you start accusing me of being a dirty blood who hurts you, then maybe you should try looking at your insults from a different perspective!" I screamed into his face. He didn't flinch a second, but had this odd look I had never seen on his face. I stomped out of the compartment, towards harry and rons. I needed to get my robes, and I just couldn't stand Malfoy and his insults any longer.

The feast and everything else went just as usual. Goblets filled to the brim with pumpkin juice, foods of every kind littering the plates. dumbledor and the other teachers chewing happily at the front table. The feast was winding down, and dumbledor stood to make an announcement. The room fell silent as all eyes were diverted to his sparkling eyes.

"I hope you all have a pleasant year, and your school prefects will lead you all to your houses, goodnight everyone!" he said, sitting back down. He nodded for me and Malfoy to come and see him. I got up from my spot next to Harry and Ron.

"hermoine, where are you going?" Ron questioned, as he saw me walking in the opposite direction.

"Ron, I'm Head Girl, I have duties!" I retorted.

"Fine Hermoine," Ron said. already he was annoying me, and we had been here a day.

"Wait," Harry turned back around, "whos the Head Boy?"

I put a smirk on my face, and cocked my head to the side. I knew this would throw them off, because me spending the next year with Malfoy across the hall would really tick them off. "Malfoy."

"Malfoy? You mean Draco Malfoy?" Ron said.

"Do you know many other Malfoys, Ron?" I asked.

"Hermoine! You cant spend the rest of the year with Malfoy, who knows what he will try to do."

"Somehow I think I will manage," I lied. Truthfully I had no clue how I was going to manage. I turned and headed towards dumbledor. Malfoy was already there, leaning up against the table looking smug. He had cleaned himself up because there wasn't a single trace of blood on him.

"Well, Miss Granger, Mr Malfoy, you are now head girl and boy. you have new responisibilties now. you must look after the prefects, and may be asked to coordinate certain events. You may also be doing some things for me occasionally," Dumbledor smiled. I smiled back, but Malfoy just smirked dumbly. "Professor McGonagall, would you escort them to their room?"

mcgonagall nodded and lead us up through the halls of the school. I felt at home as I passed by my familiar classrooms, and familiar paintings. We passed the stairwell to the gryffindor tower, and arrived at another set of stairs. I had never gone up them before, but we stopped in a dead end at the end of the hall. There was a painting of a little girl. She was wearing a wedding dress, complete with vail and all. She smiled when we approached.

"Good, new Head girl and boy?" she asked excitedly. Mcgonagall nodded, waved, and disappeared down the stairs yet again.

there I was standing there next to Malfoy, staring at the girl. "Well, password?" the girl asked.

"Do you remember the password?" Malfoy whispered to me.

"Honestly, Malfoy, you have been head boy just a few hours and already you are failing the duties!" I burst. "Kingswood."

The door flung open, revealing our common room. it was spectacualar. The comfortable lookinf sofas and armchairs were maroon, with silver metal buttons on the arms. there were paintings of all the previous head boys and girls all along the wall, smiling. I couldn't help but notice the one of Percy was smiling extra wide. I laughed to myself and continued around. The fireplace was made of marble, with a bear skin rug on the floor in front of it. a ceiling tall bookshelf raised about twenty feet in the air. a long giant ladder looked pretty rickety, but stable enough. One each side of the common room was a door, and one door on the back wall.

The door to the left read, Hermoine Granger, and had a picture of me on the front. The one on the left had Malfoy's name and a picture. I guessed the back wall was the bathroom, but I would check it out later. I sprinted into my room, which was done in maroon and gold colors. The bed was a king size, and had a spectacular view. it was all so beautiful. I couldn't help but smile at myself and do a little dance around the room in excitement. I ran out of the room, and ran right into Malfoy. Oh great, he had to spoil my happy moment. Im sure he had many more moments he would spoil through the year, so I should probably get used to it.

"Watch it, Granger! The room not big enough for ya or something?" he said putting his hands on his hips.

I stepped back, putting my own hands on my hips. "Look Malfoy. If we are going to be this close all the time, then we better establish that you leave me alone, and I will leave you alone. We stay out of each others way, and everything will go fine. Alright?"

"Fine by me Granger. I don't want to be around you all the time anyway."

"Good, well that makes two of us."

"You know, this conversation is really interesting and all, but I am tired, and I am going to bed. So Goodnight," he smirked. I glanced into his big blue gray pools, and they glistened back at me, filled with hatred. I turned and threw myself onto my bed happily. Could this get any better? Well, it could get worse. Imagine how much fun Malfoy will have torturing me twenty four seven. Well, I guess nothing can be perfect.