Chapter Three: The Unspoken Hate! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Gin-ny?" Hermione stuttered opening the sixth year girls dorm room. Hermione walked over to her bed and shook her slightly. Ginny rolled over.

"Ginny wake up." Herminone said again shaking her harder. Ginny opened her eyes to see Hermione's tear stained eyes hovering over her. Ginny sat up looking concerned about her friend.

"What's wrong?" Ginny said moving over for Hermione to sit down.

"Oh I just got into the biggest fight ever with Ron because he saw me and Draco kissing in the hall way and he thinks that I love him but I don't and now I don't know what to do." Hermione sobbed into Ginny's shoulder. Ginny patted her on the head trying to calm her down.

"He kissed you?" Ginny said pulling back to look at her oddly.

"Yes he was talking to me and then he just kissed me and Ron must have saw us before I slapped him and now our relationship is ruined!" Hermione cried lying down and curling up into a ball.

"Oh I wish I could die right now." Hermione said then starting to sob harder uncontrollably. Ginny sat her up again and hugged her trying to calm her down again.

"It'll be ok. shh. calm down. Try to talk to him maybe he'll understand if you explain it to him." Ginny said.

"It wont work I tried down stairs but all he did was cut me off." Hermione said starting to calm down.

Harry sat down in a chair near Ron and didn't say anything.

"How could she do that!" Ron said very angrily.

"Well.Um.Did you let her tell you her story?" Harry said meekly not trying to make things worst.

"Why do I want to hear her story?!?! My eyes don't lie to me I saw her and him kissing in a major lip lock!!" Ron bellowed "If she didn't love me then why did she act that way?" Ron said looking down now in a look that showed that he might cry any minute.

"I'm really sorry Ron. I really am but you two need to talk and find out what really happened." Harry said trying to be comforting. "I know but she wont listen to me now. We already had the fight, she thinks that I think she's some tramp that just wanted some pleasure before going on to the big kill." Ron said putting his head in his hands sighing deeply.

"Don't you even want to try to talk to her?" Harry said

"Not really. I can now tell that she doesn't love me any more so I think I just want to end it." Ron said leaning back into the big chair.

"What?!?! You can't just dump her over one fight there'll be others and you wont just break up because of that will you?" Harry said now looking very concerned.

"Oh I don't know." Ron said putting his hand to his forehead.

"So tell me everything that happened." Ginny said so she could sort through the details.

"Um ok." Hermione said, "Well me and Antoinette went to see Hagrid and then we came back inside. That's when Draco came he cut me off from her then she left. He told me that Antoinette was evil that he heard her and her friends talking saying something about a monster that will kill anyone who gets in her way to power. Of coarse I didn't believe him he asked me to give him a chance I didn't want to then he just kissed me. I slapped him and Ron must have seen me kissing him." Hermione finished.

"Well at least tomorrow is a Saturday so we can talk all night." Ginny said.

"Yea." Hermione smiling whipping the tears from her eyes. They talked throughout the night. Well, until around two Hermione fell asleep on Ginny's bed so Hermione stayed the night in the sixth year dorm. Harry and Ron talked for a long time also but went up to their dorms. Ron though lay in his bed thinking, thinking about Hermione and what to do.

"Harry over!" Ginny called as they entered the dinning hall.

"Hey Ginny." Harry said walking over and giving hr a kiss.

"We have to do something about Ron and Hermione," Ginny said as they walked to the table. "Well speaking of Ron where is he?" Ginny asked sitting down.

"He's still sleeping. We sat up late last night talking. I presume you and Hermione were doing the same thing?" Harry said taking a seat next to her.

Hermione rolled over and opened her eyes and all the sad memories came flooding into her brain. She moaned and lay there with her face in the pillow, she turned her head to the side expecting to see her usual things on the night stand but they weren't there. She sat up quickly.

"Oh yeah." Hermione said slapping her hand to her head and getting up "I spent the night here with Ginny." She walked out the door to her own dorm and changed and grabbed a book.

Ron rolled over in bed and winced at the light steaming in from the window. He sat up slowly as the events of last night came back to his mind.

"Well at least it's a Saturday. I can crash for the rest of the day with Her-." Ron stopped himself as the image of her kissing Malfoy came to his mind. He shook his head and got dressed.

Hermione walked slowly down the stairs rubbing her head for it was now hurting from the ringing in her ears. Ron entered the common room and rubbed his eyes just as Hermione entered a few seconds later. Ron looked up to see her walk across the room to the door.

"Hermione wait." He said trying to talk to her, but she kept walking.

"Why do you even want to talk to me after last night?" She asked stopping by the entranceway.

"We need to." He answered motioning for her to come over. She wouldn't budge.

"Why should we? We already talked last night remember? That went rather well." Hermione said then left him standing there. Hermione walked out onto the castle grounds towards the lake to watch the giant squid and to read her book. When she sat down by the lakeshores she leaned back and put her head back so her face felt the cool fall sun.

"Fancy meeting you here." Said a fermilier voice. Hermione turned around to see Malfoy standing a few feet behind her.

"What do you want now?" She said turning away, and looked across the lake. She heard Malfoy walk up behind her and sit down beside her.

"Why do you hate me so?" He asked turning to look at her, Hermione looked back at him and shook her head.

"You just don't get it do you? Because of you I had the biggest fight with Ron last night and now I." Hermione trailed off looking down. She sighed and picked up her book and started to read.

"What are you reading?" He asked leaning forward to see the book title.

"The Hobbit. My mother gave it to me for my birthday last year and I never got around to reading it till now." Hermione answered not looking up. Malfoy sighed he knew he wasn't getting any were.

"So do you really hate me that much?" Malfoy asked turning to face her.

"Because, you were really mean to Ron, Harry, and me since the first year, and you called me a mudblood and that is very mean." Hermione said looking at him not smiling.

"I'm sorry." He said looking down at the grass. There was silence between them except for the turning of pages from Hermione's book.

"How do you like your book?" Malfoy asked breaking the silence.

"Hmm, what? Oh! It's very good so far. Have you ever read it?" Hermione asked not looking up.

"I tired once but I couldn't get into it." He said still staring across the lake. Hermione looked up then back down at her book. Oh my god, she is so beautiful. How I whish I was her boyfriend. The way the sun is hitting her makes her even more beautiful than normal. Malfoy thought looking at her. She looked up again and pulled a lock of hair that was in her eyes behind her ear and put her hand down next to her. Malfoy scratched his head and on purposely put it on top of Hermione's. She lifted her hand up looking at him curiously then switching the hand that was holding her book and put her hand down on the other side of her body.

"Where are you now?" Malfoy said breaking the silence again.

"On page 70." Hermione said turning the page.

"Wow you're a fast reader." Malfoy said. Hermione looked at him and smiled.

"Thanks" She said.

"Are we actually having a conversation?" He asked laughing slightly.

"What? No we never have a conversation," Hermione said Malfoy gave her a look "Well I guess we are. Wow." Hermione said smiling. Malfoy smiled back.

"Do you happen to know what time it is?" He asked rubbing his stomach.

"Wow, it's already 12. I'm getting hungry are you?" Hermione said standing up.

"Well yeah that's why I asked." Malfoy said laughing also getting up. For the first time ever Malfoy and Hermione walked to the great hall together side by side and not yelling at each other. As they entered the hall they separated. Malfoy walked to his table and Hermione walked to hers. Hermione stopped as she saw Ron sitting where they normally sit. So she sat up towards the front of the table and started to talk to Lavender.

Harry sat across from Ron and looked down the table at Hermione and nudged Ginny in the ribs and nodded in Hermione's direction. Ginny looked to see her she looked miserable and broken.

"I'm goanna go sit with Hermione." Ginny whispered in Harry's ear getting up. Ginny made her way over to Hermione.

"Hi mind if I sit here?" Ginny asked taking a seat across from Hermione.

"Sure." Hermione said looking down at her plate. It was full with food but she didn't eat any of it.

"What's wrong? You're not eating." Ginny said knowing that something was wrong with her. Hermione sighed.

"Me and Draco had an actual conversation that didn't involve arguing." Hermione said moving her fork around on her palte.

"Oh." Ginny said very surprised about this.

"And I hate it that he knows that me and Ron are having some problems so he's trying get me to like him more than I ever will and really I don't like him at all. Really, I just like watching him suffer and now I don't know how to control my emotions anymore. I really do think that I'm starting to fall for him and I can't I love Ron to much." Hermione said starting to get into her ranting mode.

"Ok, just calm down you'll get over this and every thing will be ok. You just have to relax. How about you and me go on a walk around the lake?" Ginny said trying to cheer her up.

"Thanks, but I think I want to take a walk alone if that's ok with you? I just want to be alone right now." Hermione said standing up not trying to hurt Ginny's feelings.

"Oh it's ok. I have to meet Harry at the library anyway to do some homework. Bye." Ginny said walking back to where Harry was sitting and picked up her stuff.

As Hermione walked onto the grounds she had a sense of freedom. She felt as if all her problems were just locked away in the school and couldn't get her out here. She walked to the lake, put her arms out and spun around in circles, till she got dizzy and stopped. After a few minutes she started to walk around the lake till she heard a voice behind her.

"We've got to stop meeting like this." Hermione turned around to see Malfoy standing a few feet behind her.

"Why are you following me?" Hermione asked putting her hands on her hips.

"Because I want to be with you," He said walking towards her. "And I know that you want to talk to someone right now. And I also know that you want to be with me right now." He said now standing in front of her.

"What are you some type of psychic?" Hermione asked starting to walk again with him beside her.

"Maybe." Malfoy said smiling. Hermione laughed.

"Never heard you laugh before. You have a nice laugh." He said Hermione smiled she could tell that he really liked her.

"So you say that I want to talk to someone?" Hermione asked crossing her arms as they made their way slowly around the lake.

"Yea you look like you need to talk to someone." Malfoy said looking at her and smiling "So go on talk to me because it was me who started all of this between you and Ron." He continued.

"You know right now I should be so pissed off at you, but I'm not why is that?" Hermione asked looking across the lake.

"Maybe it's because your feelings for me are growing and you are now thinking that I am the hottest guy you have ever seen." He said, Hermione laughed again because it was slightly true that she did have some feelings for him, but not in the way that he thinks.

"I do love you, you know that right?" He asked trying to get her to see that he was the one for her.

"I know that, but I love Ron more than I would ever love you." She said stopping and facing him.

"Then why did you let me kiss you as long as I did last night?" Malfoy asked stepping a little closer to her.

"I don't know." Hermione said starting to walk again, but Malfoy grabbed her arm.

"Wait." He said softly and she stopped. He got a bit closer to her, Hermione shook her head started to walk again but stopped, but why? Come on Hermione! Get a hold of your self just keep walking! Come on! Keep walking! She thought to herself but she wouldn't move. She walked back a few paces back to Malfoy. She took a deep breath and through her arms around his neck and kissed him.

"Oh how I hate you." She whispered but then just kissed him again.