Chapter Six: Midnight Visitors~~~~~~~~~~
It has been several weeks since Ron and Hermione's encounter in the trophy room. Ron has felt very guilty about what he did and always trying to apologize to her during the day or anytime that they're in the same room together. Hermione though would always ignore him and walk away. Hermione didn't help him feel any less guilty because she now made his life a living hell all the time. Now she even laughed a little when the Slytherins' would make comments about him. Hermione though covered up her laughing only so her could see her do it. Hermione on the other hand besides making his life a living hell had many sleepless nights tossing and turning. She was now getting more and more visions in her sleep of the same people from her first vision but this time she wouldn't watch them die all over again. She would see them escaping death from the Wicca Hunters. Or having ceremonies that were so real to her that she would feel that she was one of those people and would constantly wake up in a cold sweat to just fall back asleep and have another vision. Now instead of just reading Ginny's mind she was now being able to her more and more people's thoughts every day. She could now here every Gryffindor's thoughts as well. But she now being able to tune people put so that she could concentrate on her work.
"Hey Hermione!" Ginny called from her seat next to Harry as Hermione entered the great hall that Friday morning looking extremely tired and worn out.
"Hey." Hermione answered sitting down next to Ginny. Ginny frowned when she noticed how tired Hermione looked that morning.
"What's up? You look tired. Didn't sleep well again?" Ginny asked as Hermione poured her cereal in to her bowl then poured the milk in.
"Yeah. I don't think I'm goanna last the day I'm so tired." Hermione replied picking up her fork and attempting to eat her cereal with it.
"Umm. Hermione you do realize that you're trying to eat your cereal with your fork right? Why don't you try your spoon?" Ginny asked with a hint of sarcasm in her voice. Hermione looked down to see that she was actually trying to eat her cereal with her fork. She shook her head and started laughing at her self as she put down the fork and picked up that spoon.
"Hermione?" Ron asked as Harry, Ron, and Hermione were walking to Transfiguration "Can I talk to you for a minute?" Hermione looked at him for the first time in weeks. Ron gave her a half smile and pleaded with his eyes to try and get her to talk to him. "I hope she finally lets me talk to her. If she only new how sorry I was for ever hurting her like that!" Ron thought and of course Hermione heard him.
"Can you not think so loudly? I have a head ach." Hermione said. Ron looked at her confused for a moment before asking again.
"Please can I talk to you for a moment?" Hermione shook her head and continued walking at a faster pace down the hall leaving Harry and Ron behind her.
"Don't think she wants to talk." Harry said as they watched her disappear into a crowed of fourth years that were walking down the hall.
"Thank you captain obvious!" Ron said sarcastically. "She's been like this for weeks! When do you think I will finally be able to talk to her?" Ron continued sadly looking down at the floor. "I'm worried about her." He concluded now looking up at Harry.
"I don't know. But if you want me to talk to her I will. She might talk to me, but I'm not sure. She doesn't seem to open up as much with me as she does with Ginny so don't get your hopes up." Harry told him as they entered their Transfiguration and took their seats.
It was now the last class of the day and Hermione had managed to take notes and do well in class. The last class was History Of Magic. Hermione was very pleased because she would finally be able to get away from work, since she was ahead of everyone else, and be by her self and of course be with Draco. This weekend was also the first Hogsmead weekend. Hermione was slightly dozing off when Professor Binns finally said something that was interesting.
".And this leads us into the age when there was another type of magic called Wicca that was used throughout the Sixteenth century but as the Seventeenth century came around it slowly died out. We will learn more about this when you come back on Monday. See you all then." Professor Binns said as the bell rang signaling that class was over for the weekend.
As Hermione made her way down the hall she couldn't help but smile to herself that the pressure of the week was over for now. She walked down the hall for a few moments when she felt someone brush up behind her and slip a note into the back pocket of her skirt. She turned her head to see Draco standing there. He gave her a smile that she returned and walked away down the hall to join his fellow Slytherins down to the dungeons. Hermione reached into her pocket and took out the note that he had slipped in and opened it. It said:
"Hermione, I was wondering if you would like to meet me Saturday night at 7:00 in the Astronomy Tower if you can. Owl me for your answer. Love, Draco."
Hermione smiled and folded up the note and slipped it back into her pocket and made her way up to the Gryffindor common room. As she entered she saw Harry sitting by the fireplace. He looked up and waved her over to sit with him. As Hermione sat down next to him she smiled at him with pure happiness that she hadn't done in a long time. The only thing Harry could do was smile back at the fact that his best friend that was a girl was finally happy about something after all this time that she had been unhappy.
"Hey! Nice to see you smile. I want to talk to you." Harry said as she placed her bag on the floor.
"Sure what about?" Hermione asked looking back up at him and leaning back into the armchair.
"Are you ever going to talk to Ron? He just wants to try and make it up to you. He's suffering knowing that you hate him. You know how his temper is. He just doesn't want to loose you; you were and still are the love of his life! If he lost you he would probably die. Can't you just let him tell you how sorry he is?" Harry asked sitting forward in his seat. Hermione's smile faded and she looked down at the floor.
"He should have thought about what would have happened when he did that. He should have thought about how I would react-" Hermione started
"Hermione, you know how his temper is! He can't always control how he acts when he's angry! He was just jealous that you choose Malfoy over him. He just doesn't want to loose you." Harry said now sitting on his knees in front of her. He took her hands in his and looked into her eyes. "Can you at least let him talk to you and tell you how sorry he is?" He added softly. Hermione was close to tears when he finished. It was true that Ron was the love of her life and she wouldn't know what she'd do without him in her life. Hermione slid onto the floor in front of Harry and looked into his eyes as well. She broke down into tears and berried her head in his cheats as he pulled her into a hug. Ron walked out into the common room at that moment and saw Harry and Hermione. He caught Harries eye and Harry nodded at him. Ron walked over to them and knelt down next to them. Hermione sensed his presents and turned her head to look at him. Their eyes met and Hermione flung her arms around his neck and cried as he wrapped his arms around her rocking he back and forth trying to calm her.
"I'm sorry.I'm so, so sorry." Hermione whispered over and over again. Crying even harder into his chest.
"No, I should be the one who is sorry. I should never have done that. Can you please ever forgive me?" Ron asked stroking her hair gently as she calmed down slightly. She looked up into his eyes and for the first time in a while got lost in them. Her mind traveled back to every thing that they had done before this year started.
"Of course. Of course I forgive you." Hermione whispered into his ear. "What would I do without you?" She whispered again. Ron pulled back and wiped away her tears from her face. Ron gave her a weak smile, which Hermione returned.
"I love you Hermione Elizabeth Granger." Ron said as he leaned in to kiss her.
"And I love you Ron Walter Weasley." Hermione whispered as Ron placed his lips on hers.
Things were now starting to look up for Ron and Hermione. They now barley left each other's sight. They spent all of Friday together. As they walked down to the great hall Ron took Hermione's hand and kissed it lightly. They kept holding hands as they entered the great hall. Draco looked up as they entered and noticed that they were holding hands and frowned. Hermione noticed him and caught his eye. She smiled at him and nodded. He smiled back and went back to talking with his fellow Slytherins.
After dinner every one went back up to the common room and sat down by the fire. As Hermione was going to sit down in a chair Ron pulled her onto his lap and kissed the side of her neck. Hermione frowned to herself but no one noticed. She didn't like what Ron had just did, it reminded her of their encounter in the trophy room too much. Hermione just ignored this feeling and went to talking with all of her best friends. At about 12 or 1 they all went up to their dorms. Hermione didn't like going to sleep so she sat and read for a while until she couldn't keep her eyes open. So she just pulled the curtains around her four-poster bed and closed her eyes for another sleepless night.
Hermione tossed and turned most of the time that she was asleep until she hit something hard next to her. She opened her eyes slowly and looked over to see Draco lying next to her. Hermione stared at him until he opened his eyes a few minutes later.
"What are you doing here!" Hermione whispered glaring at him through the dark.
"What? Your not happy to see me?" He asked rolling onto his side and coming a little closer to her.
"Yes, I'm loving the fact that you're here. It's just that I've finally patched things up with Ron and I don't need him finding out that I spent the night with you!" Hermione said "You shouldn't been here." She concluded sitting up and turning her back to him sitting cross-legged with her head in her hands. She could feel the movement on the bed as Draco moved closer to her. He now sat behind her and started to massage (A/N Yeah I can't spell but I think you get the idea.) Her shoulders.
"You need to relax your to tense, calm down." Draco whispered smoothly. Hermione smiled and relaxed into him. "See that wasn't so hard now was it?" He asked mockingly kissing the top of her head.
"How is it that you can always make me calm down when I'm tense? No one's been able to do that. Well, except my mum, but that's different." Hermione said as she closed her eyes and rested her head against his chest. (They were still in the sitting position). Draco now moved her hair away from her neck and started to trace feather soft kisses down her neck. Hermione smile to herself, but pulled away from him.
"Hey! I wasn't finished." Draco said pouting at her but she didn't notice. Hermione just laughed at him.
"How's this for a better finish." Hermione said as she pressed her lips to his. Draco wasn't expecting this so he ended up falling back onto the bed with Hermione on top.
"I think it'll do just fine." He whispered against her lips as he rolled over so that now he was on top.
"Hey! I liked were I was!" Hermione said as she pulled away from him and pretended to glare at him.
"To bad, love, that's just to bad." He said rolling off her so that now he was next to her. Hermione just shook her head at him and smiled. Draco gave her a confused look and she just laughed at him. "What? Why are you laughing?" Draco asked which just made her laugh harder. "Stop laughing or. or." But he didn't finish he just leaned over and started to tickle her, which just made her laugh ever harder.
"Stop. Please. We. Might. Wake. The. Others." Hermione said between her gasping for air. He stopped and Hermione curled up into a ball holding her stomach because it hurt so much from laughing.
"I put a silencing charm on your bed. You can scream as loud as you want and they wont here you." He said trying to pull her out of her ball, but was being very unsuccessful at it. He was strong and all but she wouldn't come out with out a fight, which was what she was giving him. "Hey! C'mon! You're being a very evil person right now." Draco told her while trying to pull her legs away from her chest. Hermione just pulled her legs tighter to her chest as she fought the urge to start laughing hysterically at the look on Draco's face as he tried to get her out of her ball. After several minutes of trying Draco gave up and sat cross-legged on her bed half- heartedly glaring at her. At that moment Hermione burst out laughing at the glares he was giving her and sat up. She then leaned forward and kissed him deeply. Draco was taken completely by surprise by this action that he fell for a second time on to the bed. When he hit the bed Hermione burst out laughing again which Draco soon followed.
"So, do you want to meet me in the Astronomy Tower tomorrow night?" Draco asked after they had combed down from laughing.
"Of course. Why would I not?" Hermione answered rolling off him and sitting next to him.
"Well, because you said that things were finally looking up for you and Ron." Draco told her looking down at the bed since he had also sat up. Hermione frowned and also looked down at red quilt and started to fidget with a piece of thread that had come loose. There was an uncomfortable silence between them for a few minutes before Hermione spoke.
"I was thinking of breaking up with him. After the trophy room I don't think I feel for him the same way that I used to. I feel that I have to pretended to be happy that I'm back with him, and every time he touched me I felt like screaming." Hermione said softly not looking up to meet Draco's eyes. Draco made an "o" face and took her chin gently in his hands pushing it up so that she would look into his eyes.
"If you want to break up with him you can. Don't feel that you have to hold back and try to make your self-love him. If you want to break up with him then o right ahead with it." He said making her smile weakly at him.
"Thank you." She said hugging him. He hugged her tightly to him never want to let go but did eventually. "Just tell him you idiot!! Tell him that you love him! Tell him you never want to be with out him! Tell him!! Just tell him already!" Hermione's brain screamed. She took a deep breath and thought for a second before speaking again. "Draco, there is something I want to tell you, but I'm not sure how to." She started looking into his stormy gray eyes.
"Just say it doesn't have to make sense." Draco said gently trying to get her to say what she wanted to say.
"I've been wanting to say this ever since you came to save me in the trophy room. The problem was that I didn't have the courage to say it until now. So here goes. I've loved Ron for what seemed like forever, but that night when you first kissed me changed all that. You opened my eyes to a love that scared me to think that I could ever not love Ron the same way as I did before. You showed me that there was more to love then just telling someone that you love them, that it's not that light headed feeling you get when you kiss that person. It's what you feel deep inside that truly tells you whether or not you really do love a person. Every time you would touch me, every time you would say my name, every time we kissed I felt it deep inside. I felt hat this was the man I would want to marry this is the man I want to spend the rest of my life with. That this is the man the I deeply and truly love." Hermione said shakily. Draco stared a her in disbelief she had just told him that she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him. It took him a while to let it all register in his brain.
"W-what did you say?" He asked her his eyes wide with disbelief.
"I Hermione Granger love you Draco Malfoy." She said smiling at him happily. Draco smiled back at her and pulled her towards him and kissed her with so much passion he thought that he would die if he ever tried to leave her. He poured all of his emotion into this one kiss. All his love for her came pouring out into her lips. The same thing was happening to Hermione. She poured every thing into him. Every thought every fear every emotion went into this one kiss that marked a new beginning for them. This marked the starting of a new life for both of them.
It has been several weeks since Ron and Hermione's encounter in the trophy room. Ron has felt very guilty about what he did and always trying to apologize to her during the day or anytime that they're in the same room together. Hermione though would always ignore him and walk away. Hermione didn't help him feel any less guilty because she now made his life a living hell all the time. Now she even laughed a little when the Slytherins' would make comments about him. Hermione though covered up her laughing only so her could see her do it. Hermione on the other hand besides making his life a living hell had many sleepless nights tossing and turning. She was now getting more and more visions in her sleep of the same people from her first vision but this time she wouldn't watch them die all over again. She would see them escaping death from the Wicca Hunters. Or having ceremonies that were so real to her that she would feel that she was one of those people and would constantly wake up in a cold sweat to just fall back asleep and have another vision. Now instead of just reading Ginny's mind she was now being able to her more and more people's thoughts every day. She could now here every Gryffindor's thoughts as well. But she now being able to tune people put so that she could concentrate on her work.
"Hey Hermione!" Ginny called from her seat next to Harry as Hermione entered the great hall that Friday morning looking extremely tired and worn out.
"Hey." Hermione answered sitting down next to Ginny. Ginny frowned when she noticed how tired Hermione looked that morning.
"What's up? You look tired. Didn't sleep well again?" Ginny asked as Hermione poured her cereal in to her bowl then poured the milk in.
"Yeah. I don't think I'm goanna last the day I'm so tired." Hermione replied picking up her fork and attempting to eat her cereal with it.
"Umm. Hermione you do realize that you're trying to eat your cereal with your fork right? Why don't you try your spoon?" Ginny asked with a hint of sarcasm in her voice. Hermione looked down to see that she was actually trying to eat her cereal with her fork. She shook her head and started laughing at her self as she put down the fork and picked up that spoon.
"Hermione?" Ron asked as Harry, Ron, and Hermione were walking to Transfiguration "Can I talk to you for a minute?" Hermione looked at him for the first time in weeks. Ron gave her a half smile and pleaded with his eyes to try and get her to talk to him. "I hope she finally lets me talk to her. If she only new how sorry I was for ever hurting her like that!" Ron thought and of course Hermione heard him.
"Can you not think so loudly? I have a head ach." Hermione said. Ron looked at her confused for a moment before asking again.
"Please can I talk to you for a moment?" Hermione shook her head and continued walking at a faster pace down the hall leaving Harry and Ron behind her.
"Don't think she wants to talk." Harry said as they watched her disappear into a crowed of fourth years that were walking down the hall.
"Thank you captain obvious!" Ron said sarcastically. "She's been like this for weeks! When do you think I will finally be able to talk to her?" Ron continued sadly looking down at the floor. "I'm worried about her." He concluded now looking up at Harry.
"I don't know. But if you want me to talk to her I will. She might talk to me, but I'm not sure. She doesn't seem to open up as much with me as she does with Ginny so don't get your hopes up." Harry told him as they entered their Transfiguration and took their seats.
It was now the last class of the day and Hermione had managed to take notes and do well in class. The last class was History Of Magic. Hermione was very pleased because she would finally be able to get away from work, since she was ahead of everyone else, and be by her self and of course be with Draco. This weekend was also the first Hogsmead weekend. Hermione was slightly dozing off when Professor Binns finally said something that was interesting.
".And this leads us into the age when there was another type of magic called Wicca that was used throughout the Sixteenth century but as the Seventeenth century came around it slowly died out. We will learn more about this when you come back on Monday. See you all then." Professor Binns said as the bell rang signaling that class was over for the weekend.
As Hermione made her way down the hall she couldn't help but smile to herself that the pressure of the week was over for now. She walked down the hall for a few moments when she felt someone brush up behind her and slip a note into the back pocket of her skirt. She turned her head to see Draco standing there. He gave her a smile that she returned and walked away down the hall to join his fellow Slytherins down to the dungeons. Hermione reached into her pocket and took out the note that he had slipped in and opened it. It said:
"Hermione, I was wondering if you would like to meet me Saturday night at 7:00 in the Astronomy Tower if you can. Owl me for your answer. Love, Draco."
Hermione smiled and folded up the note and slipped it back into her pocket and made her way up to the Gryffindor common room. As she entered she saw Harry sitting by the fireplace. He looked up and waved her over to sit with him. As Hermione sat down next to him she smiled at him with pure happiness that she hadn't done in a long time. The only thing Harry could do was smile back at the fact that his best friend that was a girl was finally happy about something after all this time that she had been unhappy.
"Hey! Nice to see you smile. I want to talk to you." Harry said as she placed her bag on the floor.
"Sure what about?" Hermione asked looking back up at him and leaning back into the armchair.
"Are you ever going to talk to Ron? He just wants to try and make it up to you. He's suffering knowing that you hate him. You know how his temper is. He just doesn't want to loose you; you were and still are the love of his life! If he lost you he would probably die. Can't you just let him tell you how sorry he is?" Harry asked sitting forward in his seat. Hermione's smile faded and she looked down at the floor.
"He should have thought about what would have happened when he did that. He should have thought about how I would react-" Hermione started
"Hermione, you know how his temper is! He can't always control how he acts when he's angry! He was just jealous that you choose Malfoy over him. He just doesn't want to loose you." Harry said now sitting on his knees in front of her. He took her hands in his and looked into her eyes. "Can you at least let him talk to you and tell you how sorry he is?" He added softly. Hermione was close to tears when he finished. It was true that Ron was the love of her life and she wouldn't know what she'd do without him in her life. Hermione slid onto the floor in front of Harry and looked into his eyes as well. She broke down into tears and berried her head in his cheats as he pulled her into a hug. Ron walked out into the common room at that moment and saw Harry and Hermione. He caught Harries eye and Harry nodded at him. Ron walked over to them and knelt down next to them. Hermione sensed his presents and turned her head to look at him. Their eyes met and Hermione flung her arms around his neck and cried as he wrapped his arms around her rocking he back and forth trying to calm her.
"I'm sorry.I'm so, so sorry." Hermione whispered over and over again. Crying even harder into his chest.
"No, I should be the one who is sorry. I should never have done that. Can you please ever forgive me?" Ron asked stroking her hair gently as she calmed down slightly. She looked up into his eyes and for the first time in a while got lost in them. Her mind traveled back to every thing that they had done before this year started.
"Of course. Of course I forgive you." Hermione whispered into his ear. "What would I do without you?" She whispered again. Ron pulled back and wiped away her tears from her face. Ron gave her a weak smile, which Hermione returned.
"I love you Hermione Elizabeth Granger." Ron said as he leaned in to kiss her.
"And I love you Ron Walter Weasley." Hermione whispered as Ron placed his lips on hers.
Things were now starting to look up for Ron and Hermione. They now barley left each other's sight. They spent all of Friday together. As they walked down to the great hall Ron took Hermione's hand and kissed it lightly. They kept holding hands as they entered the great hall. Draco looked up as they entered and noticed that they were holding hands and frowned. Hermione noticed him and caught his eye. She smiled at him and nodded. He smiled back and went back to talking with his fellow Slytherins.
After dinner every one went back up to the common room and sat down by the fire. As Hermione was going to sit down in a chair Ron pulled her onto his lap and kissed the side of her neck. Hermione frowned to herself but no one noticed. She didn't like what Ron had just did, it reminded her of their encounter in the trophy room too much. Hermione just ignored this feeling and went to talking with all of her best friends. At about 12 or 1 they all went up to their dorms. Hermione didn't like going to sleep so she sat and read for a while until she couldn't keep her eyes open. So she just pulled the curtains around her four-poster bed and closed her eyes for another sleepless night.
Hermione tossed and turned most of the time that she was asleep until she hit something hard next to her. She opened her eyes slowly and looked over to see Draco lying next to her. Hermione stared at him until he opened his eyes a few minutes later.
"What are you doing here!" Hermione whispered glaring at him through the dark.
"What? Your not happy to see me?" He asked rolling onto his side and coming a little closer to her.
"Yes, I'm loving the fact that you're here. It's just that I've finally patched things up with Ron and I don't need him finding out that I spent the night with you!" Hermione said "You shouldn't been here." She concluded sitting up and turning her back to him sitting cross-legged with her head in her hands. She could feel the movement on the bed as Draco moved closer to her. He now sat behind her and started to massage (A/N Yeah I can't spell but I think you get the idea.) Her shoulders.
"You need to relax your to tense, calm down." Draco whispered smoothly. Hermione smiled and relaxed into him. "See that wasn't so hard now was it?" He asked mockingly kissing the top of her head.
"How is it that you can always make me calm down when I'm tense? No one's been able to do that. Well, except my mum, but that's different." Hermione said as she closed her eyes and rested her head against his chest. (They were still in the sitting position). Draco now moved her hair away from her neck and started to trace feather soft kisses down her neck. Hermione smile to herself, but pulled away from him.
"Hey! I wasn't finished." Draco said pouting at her but she didn't notice. Hermione just laughed at him.
"How's this for a better finish." Hermione said as she pressed her lips to his. Draco wasn't expecting this so he ended up falling back onto the bed with Hermione on top.
"I think it'll do just fine." He whispered against her lips as he rolled over so that now he was on top.
"Hey! I liked were I was!" Hermione said as she pulled away from him and pretended to glare at him.
"To bad, love, that's just to bad." He said rolling off her so that now he was next to her. Hermione just shook her head at him and smiled. Draco gave her a confused look and she just laughed at him. "What? Why are you laughing?" Draco asked which just made her laugh harder. "Stop laughing or. or." But he didn't finish he just leaned over and started to tickle her, which just made her laugh ever harder.
"Stop. Please. We. Might. Wake. The. Others." Hermione said between her gasping for air. He stopped and Hermione curled up into a ball holding her stomach because it hurt so much from laughing.
"I put a silencing charm on your bed. You can scream as loud as you want and they wont here you." He said trying to pull her out of her ball, but was being very unsuccessful at it. He was strong and all but she wouldn't come out with out a fight, which was what she was giving him. "Hey! C'mon! You're being a very evil person right now." Draco told her while trying to pull her legs away from her chest. Hermione just pulled her legs tighter to her chest as she fought the urge to start laughing hysterically at the look on Draco's face as he tried to get her out of her ball. After several minutes of trying Draco gave up and sat cross-legged on her bed half- heartedly glaring at her. At that moment Hermione burst out laughing at the glares he was giving her and sat up. She then leaned forward and kissed him deeply. Draco was taken completely by surprise by this action that he fell for a second time on to the bed. When he hit the bed Hermione burst out laughing again which Draco soon followed.
"So, do you want to meet me in the Astronomy Tower tomorrow night?" Draco asked after they had combed down from laughing.
"Of course. Why would I not?" Hermione answered rolling off him and sitting next to him.
"Well, because you said that things were finally looking up for you and Ron." Draco told her looking down at the bed since he had also sat up. Hermione frowned and also looked down at red quilt and started to fidget with a piece of thread that had come loose. There was an uncomfortable silence between them for a few minutes before Hermione spoke.
"I was thinking of breaking up with him. After the trophy room I don't think I feel for him the same way that I used to. I feel that I have to pretended to be happy that I'm back with him, and every time he touched me I felt like screaming." Hermione said softly not looking up to meet Draco's eyes. Draco made an "o" face and took her chin gently in his hands pushing it up so that she would look into his eyes.
"If you want to break up with him you can. Don't feel that you have to hold back and try to make your self-love him. If you want to break up with him then o right ahead with it." He said making her smile weakly at him.
"Thank you." She said hugging him. He hugged her tightly to him never want to let go but did eventually. "Just tell him you idiot!! Tell him that you love him! Tell him you never want to be with out him! Tell him!! Just tell him already!" Hermione's brain screamed. She took a deep breath and thought for a second before speaking again. "Draco, there is something I want to tell you, but I'm not sure how to." She started looking into his stormy gray eyes.
"Just say it doesn't have to make sense." Draco said gently trying to get her to say what she wanted to say.
"I've been wanting to say this ever since you came to save me in the trophy room. The problem was that I didn't have the courage to say it until now. So here goes. I've loved Ron for what seemed like forever, but that night when you first kissed me changed all that. You opened my eyes to a love that scared me to think that I could ever not love Ron the same way as I did before. You showed me that there was more to love then just telling someone that you love them, that it's not that light headed feeling you get when you kiss that person. It's what you feel deep inside that truly tells you whether or not you really do love a person. Every time you would touch me, every time you would say my name, every time we kissed I felt it deep inside. I felt hat this was the man I would want to marry this is the man I want to spend the rest of my life with. That this is the man the I deeply and truly love." Hermione said shakily. Draco stared a her in disbelief she had just told him that she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him. It took him a while to let it all register in his brain.
"W-what did you say?" He asked her his eyes wide with disbelief.
"I Hermione Granger love you Draco Malfoy." She said smiling at him happily. Draco smiled back at her and pulled her towards him and kissed her with so much passion he thought that he would die if he ever tried to leave her. He poured all of his emotion into this one kiss. All his love for her came pouring out into her lips. The same thing was happening to Hermione. She poured every thing into him. Every thought every fear every emotion went into this one kiss that marked a new beginning for them. This marked the starting of a new life for both of them.
