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A/N: Well, I still need some reviews people! Tell me what you think! Oh! And BTW, I believe you have noticed that Draco is a bit OOC, I just thought I would remind you!

Chapter 3

It was 6:30 p.m. as Harry, Ron, and Hermione headed toward the Quidditch oitch, where the Gryffindor team would have their usual 7:00 p.m. practice. Hermione had come to "watch.," or as Harry and Ron thought. Really, she was meeting Draco and could hardly wait.

"Bye, guys! I'll watch from the stands!" With that, Hermione an off, to secretly meet Draco.

Hermione turned a corner and ran right into Draco, full force.

"Oh! Draco! Omigod! Are you alright?" Hermione squealed.

Getting up, and brushing himself off, Draco answered, "Yeah, I'm fine. Mother of Merlin! You must have missed me to be running to meet me!"

"You know it!" Hermione exclaimed, after sharing a short kiss with her beau.

Draco grabbed her hand and led her out the stadium doors. When they were out, sitting by the lake, Draco was about to lean in for hopefully a long and intimate make-out session, when he heard, "Draco!"

Then he heard, "Hermione!"

Turning around, Hermione and Draco found Harry, Ron, Crabbe, and Goyle, running towards them, awestruck expressions on their faces.

"Oh-no." Hermione managed to whisper.

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"Hermione, what-is-going-on?" Harry asked, trying so hard to keep himself from jumping Draco and ringing his neck.

'Harry, Ron, Draco and I love each other. We have been dating for two months." Hermione explained, all but easily. "I'm sorry, but this is why I didn't tell you!"

Ron pacing behind Harry began to frustrate Hermione.

"And why is that?" asked Harry sternly.

"Because you are overreacting!"

Draco tapped Hermione's thigh, for she had risen to her feet.

"Sit down. Honey."

"Don't call her 'honey' around me!" yelped Ron, his first time speaking. To Hermione's great pleasure, he had also stopped pacing.

"Aw, has Weasley got a little crush on my Mione here?" asked Draco.

*Draco finally notices that Crabbe and Goyle were headed back to the castle*

"Whatever. Mione, can I talk to you for a second?" Draco asked, despite Harry and Ron's angry glares.

Draco and Hermione stepped put of the two Gryffindor boys' earshot.

"I'm gonna go explain to the two knuckleheads. You get to the common room, and explain to them." Draco said, gesturing to Ron and Harry. "Be sure to tell them how much we love each other. Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you or to us."

Draco kissed Hermione, and for a split second, Mione felt calm, but when the tender kiss ended, it all came creeping back upon her. Actually, she came creeping back.back to reality.

"Okay, I love you," Let's meet at Midnight. Same place in the dungeons."

"Okay, I love you, too," and Draco ran off towards the castle.

On Hermione's way back to the two boys', she could have sworn that she heard Ron say, "Thank god that the old git's leaving." But she wasn't for sure.

Hermione took one, deep, long breath, and said, "To the common room."


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