A/N: Thank you subzer0-degrees: Thank yous for the compliments, I made a
new chapter.. sooo here it is..
Hermione's POV
I nibbled on my cookie thoughtfully. "He kissed me last night!" I cheered. I knew I already liked him a lot, but that kiss was surprising, MUCH. I knew he was changing. His personality wasn't so arrogant anymore. I could still feel his lips on mine. Coffee in one hand, newspaper in the other, I went to recline on the sofa in the living room. Sunlight streamed through the house, that day was bright and sunny, not like yesterday. I decided to deal with this later as I started reading the local news. "Hmm.. there was a gas leak on thirty-second street.." I read intently, not even noticing when Draco came down the stair. I only looked up when he sat down next to me with another cup of coffee in his hand.
"Hi.." He said looking at me.
"Morning"
"Look, last night, the kiss?" he asked awkwardly.
I could already feel my heart plummeting. "So, you didn't mean it?"
"No! No, umm.. I wanted to tell you that I really, well.." he paused.
I waited expectantly.
"Umm.. meant it and that I er, really uh, like you."
I knew this wasn't the time, but I burst out laughing. Probably because I've never seen Malfoy so awkward and uncomfortable in my life and he looked so manipulative. Or maybe it could be because I was relieved. He looked horribly embarrassed, "What?" he asked.
"Nothing," I said dismissing it with a wave of my hand, still smiling. "Do you really mean it?"
He groaned. "Do I have to repeat it again?"
"No." And I leaned over and kissed him, lightly.
Draco's POV
"Mmm.." I thought as she kissed me. It wasn't one of these passionate kisses like last night, when I could smell the bubble bath in her hair. It was more like one of those early morning kisses where I could taste the coffee in her breath. When, we broke apart, she smiled. I could tell I was grinning like a drunken loon. "Well," She finally said. "Where do you want to go today?" I shrugged, thinking hard, but came up with nothing.
"I know! Do you like Halloween? It's coming up in two weeks." she asked.
"Yeah, kind of."
"Well, do you like trick-or-treating?"
I shuddered. "Brings back baaad memories. I remember when I was eight; I went trick-or-treating with Crabbe, Goyle, and Pansy. Now, YOU try spending two hours in the bleak cold night, with two grunting morons and an annoying banshee who kept hitting you in the face with her pigtails."
She laughed. "No, no, I thought maybe you wanna come trick-or-treating with me, Anna, Evan and Larissa."
"Evan and Larissa? Who's Larissa?"
"Oh, yeah, I forgot to tell you. She's my lab partner in science class. So, do you want to come?"
"Aren't we getting a little too old to go trick-or-treating?"
"Oh, c'mon Draco, don't be such a spoiler. And anyways, I haven't gone since I was ten."
"Fine, but if anyone from Hogwarts sees me, I will kill you."
"No, you won't." said Hermione, giggling as she gave me a light kiss on the tip of my nose.
Hermione's POV
It was settled; we were going shopping for Halloween costumes. I got changed and put on my caramel coloured coat. Tapping my foot impatiently, as I waited for Draco to finish getting ready. He came down and I must've been staring, because he grinned at me and said, "I'm an eye candy aren't I?" I rolled my eyes at him. Okay, so maybe he was still a bit conceited. I pulled him out the door and we hopped into the car.
Arriving at the mall parking lot twenty minutes later, we walked to the costume shop. Thank goodness Draco had gotten over the phase of questioning every little thing we saw. Stepping in, we rummaged through the racks and racks of costumes. I wandered over to another section of the store. I found hundreds of costumes of princesses and fairies, but I had gotten over that stage years ago. Finally, I found something that suited me it was perfect! A pirate, or should I queen of pirates. I went to the dressing room and tried it on, and it fit me perfectly, like it was painted on! I stepped out surveying myself in the full-length mirror, when Draco came up behind me.
"Looks great on you." He told me.
"Thanks, I think I'll buy it. What are you getting?"
"Vampire" he said simply as he showed me the cape he had draped onto his arm.
We went to the cashier and bought it. As we exited the store I asked him, "What do you want for lunch?"
"Coffee."
"You had coffee this morning!"
"I'm a coffeeholic." I laughed at him and took him by the hand and led him towards the café at the end of the block.
Draco's POV
I wanted to kiss her right then and there but that would be waaay too much PDA. (Public Displays of Affection) So, I just let her lead the way. We sat in one of the café tables outside. "What do you want?" She asked me.
"Coffee." I said yet again.
"And?"
"Nothing else, I'm not really hungry." I was going to steal her food anyways, but she didn't know that.
"Fine." When the waiter came she said, "Can I have one regular coffee and a latte. And a strawberry cheesecake." The waiter nodded and was off.
"So.." she said. "I don't know anything about you."
"Well, how could you not? You've known me for six years!" She rolled her eyes at me and said, "You know what I mean!"
"Fine, let's see, I'm a fabulously rich, attractive teenager who will inherit the Malfoy fortune after his father dies." People actually looked over to see where all that gloating came from. I stifled my laughter, just as the waiter came back to put our order down. We drank our beverages quietly and listened to tidbits of idle conversations around us. Just as I started in to my cheesecake, Draco took a huge forkful of it and put it in his mouth.
"Hey!" I cried. "You said you didn't want anything." He simply smiled and said, "Now, I do." I let him have half of the cheesecake and I finished the rest.
When we got home, Draco went to take a shower, and I sat in the front of our house on the cold, hard stone steps. I got to thinking, "This relationship was kind of surprising, not that I wasn't happy with it." I thought. I hadn't realized that I was sitting on the steps that long until Draco came out and sat next to me. "Dollar for your thoughts?" he asked.
"That's a lot of money."
"Hey, there's inflation." He said smiling. "So, what's on your mind?"
I sighed. "Don't you think it's kind of strange that we're together?"
"Why, aren't you happy with it?" He asked, worried. Who would've thought that Draco Malfoy could look worried.
"Of course I am, but how about when we go back to Hogwarts, Draco. Think of the rumors, Slytherin, Gryffindor, together? They'll never accept it."
"I didn't think you would care about these things." He said, his stormy gray eyes hardening.
"I don't care, but I thought you would." His face softened. "No, I actually don't care. But let's not think about that now. It's six months away. We can enjoy ourselves while we can."
I smiled. He could be so sweet sometimes, when he wasn't being a brat. He leaned over and kissed me, softly right under the glowing orange sunset behind our house, and in front of the two-year-old toddler walking on the sidewalk asking his mother what we were doing.
Draco's POV
It was nighttime. We were sitting on the living room couch watching The Ring. Hermione's head was on my chest, with her curls splayed around her face. Suddenly, I heard a scream coming from the televison. I glanced at it, and saw a lot of blood on the set. I rolled my eyes. "How fake can you get?" I asked myself. Finally, the movie was over. Hermione was sleeping peacefully on the couch on top of me. I smiled and kissed her forehead, resting my head on the pillows and closing my eyes..
A/N: Yes, sigh, I know, fluffiness, but it fits!
Hermione's POV
I nibbled on my cookie thoughtfully. "He kissed me last night!" I cheered. I knew I already liked him a lot, but that kiss was surprising, MUCH. I knew he was changing. His personality wasn't so arrogant anymore. I could still feel his lips on mine. Coffee in one hand, newspaper in the other, I went to recline on the sofa in the living room. Sunlight streamed through the house, that day was bright and sunny, not like yesterday. I decided to deal with this later as I started reading the local news. "Hmm.. there was a gas leak on thirty-second street.." I read intently, not even noticing when Draco came down the stair. I only looked up when he sat down next to me with another cup of coffee in his hand.
"Hi.." He said looking at me.
"Morning"
"Look, last night, the kiss?" he asked awkwardly.
I could already feel my heart plummeting. "So, you didn't mean it?"
"No! No, umm.. I wanted to tell you that I really, well.." he paused.
I waited expectantly.
"Umm.. meant it and that I er, really uh, like you."
I knew this wasn't the time, but I burst out laughing. Probably because I've never seen Malfoy so awkward and uncomfortable in my life and he looked so manipulative. Or maybe it could be because I was relieved. He looked horribly embarrassed, "What?" he asked.
"Nothing," I said dismissing it with a wave of my hand, still smiling. "Do you really mean it?"
He groaned. "Do I have to repeat it again?"
"No." And I leaned over and kissed him, lightly.
Draco's POV
"Mmm.." I thought as she kissed me. It wasn't one of these passionate kisses like last night, when I could smell the bubble bath in her hair. It was more like one of those early morning kisses where I could taste the coffee in her breath. When, we broke apart, she smiled. I could tell I was grinning like a drunken loon. "Well," She finally said. "Where do you want to go today?" I shrugged, thinking hard, but came up with nothing.
"I know! Do you like Halloween? It's coming up in two weeks." she asked.
"Yeah, kind of."
"Well, do you like trick-or-treating?"
I shuddered. "Brings back baaad memories. I remember when I was eight; I went trick-or-treating with Crabbe, Goyle, and Pansy. Now, YOU try spending two hours in the bleak cold night, with two grunting morons and an annoying banshee who kept hitting you in the face with her pigtails."
She laughed. "No, no, I thought maybe you wanna come trick-or-treating with me, Anna, Evan and Larissa."
"Evan and Larissa? Who's Larissa?"
"Oh, yeah, I forgot to tell you. She's my lab partner in science class. So, do you want to come?"
"Aren't we getting a little too old to go trick-or-treating?"
"Oh, c'mon Draco, don't be such a spoiler. And anyways, I haven't gone since I was ten."
"Fine, but if anyone from Hogwarts sees me, I will kill you."
"No, you won't." said Hermione, giggling as she gave me a light kiss on the tip of my nose.
Hermione's POV
It was settled; we were going shopping for Halloween costumes. I got changed and put on my caramel coloured coat. Tapping my foot impatiently, as I waited for Draco to finish getting ready. He came down and I must've been staring, because he grinned at me and said, "I'm an eye candy aren't I?" I rolled my eyes at him. Okay, so maybe he was still a bit conceited. I pulled him out the door and we hopped into the car.
Arriving at the mall parking lot twenty minutes later, we walked to the costume shop. Thank goodness Draco had gotten over the phase of questioning every little thing we saw. Stepping in, we rummaged through the racks and racks of costumes. I wandered over to another section of the store. I found hundreds of costumes of princesses and fairies, but I had gotten over that stage years ago. Finally, I found something that suited me it was perfect! A pirate, or should I queen of pirates. I went to the dressing room and tried it on, and it fit me perfectly, like it was painted on! I stepped out surveying myself in the full-length mirror, when Draco came up behind me.
"Looks great on you." He told me.
"Thanks, I think I'll buy it. What are you getting?"
"Vampire" he said simply as he showed me the cape he had draped onto his arm.
We went to the cashier and bought it. As we exited the store I asked him, "What do you want for lunch?"
"Coffee."
"You had coffee this morning!"
"I'm a coffeeholic." I laughed at him and took him by the hand and led him towards the café at the end of the block.
Draco's POV
I wanted to kiss her right then and there but that would be waaay too much PDA. (Public Displays of Affection) So, I just let her lead the way. We sat in one of the café tables outside. "What do you want?" She asked me.
"Coffee." I said yet again.
"And?"
"Nothing else, I'm not really hungry." I was going to steal her food anyways, but she didn't know that.
"Fine." When the waiter came she said, "Can I have one regular coffee and a latte. And a strawberry cheesecake." The waiter nodded and was off.
"So.." she said. "I don't know anything about you."
"Well, how could you not? You've known me for six years!" She rolled her eyes at me and said, "You know what I mean!"
"Fine, let's see, I'm a fabulously rich, attractive teenager who will inherit the Malfoy fortune after his father dies." People actually looked over to see where all that gloating came from. I stifled my laughter, just as the waiter came back to put our order down. We drank our beverages quietly and listened to tidbits of idle conversations around us. Just as I started in to my cheesecake, Draco took a huge forkful of it and put it in his mouth.
"Hey!" I cried. "You said you didn't want anything." He simply smiled and said, "Now, I do." I let him have half of the cheesecake and I finished the rest.
When we got home, Draco went to take a shower, and I sat in the front of our house on the cold, hard stone steps. I got to thinking, "This relationship was kind of surprising, not that I wasn't happy with it." I thought. I hadn't realized that I was sitting on the steps that long until Draco came out and sat next to me. "Dollar for your thoughts?" he asked.
"That's a lot of money."
"Hey, there's inflation." He said smiling. "So, what's on your mind?"
I sighed. "Don't you think it's kind of strange that we're together?"
"Why, aren't you happy with it?" He asked, worried. Who would've thought that Draco Malfoy could look worried.
"Of course I am, but how about when we go back to Hogwarts, Draco. Think of the rumors, Slytherin, Gryffindor, together? They'll never accept it."
"I didn't think you would care about these things." He said, his stormy gray eyes hardening.
"I don't care, but I thought you would." His face softened. "No, I actually don't care. But let's not think about that now. It's six months away. We can enjoy ourselves while we can."
I smiled. He could be so sweet sometimes, when he wasn't being a brat. He leaned over and kissed me, softly right under the glowing orange sunset behind our house, and in front of the two-year-old toddler walking on the sidewalk asking his mother what we were doing.
Draco's POV
It was nighttime. We were sitting on the living room couch watching The Ring. Hermione's head was on my chest, with her curls splayed around her face. Suddenly, I heard a scream coming from the televison. I glanced at it, and saw a lot of blood on the set. I rolled my eyes. "How fake can you get?" I asked myself. Finally, the movie was over. Hermione was sleeping peacefully on the couch on top of me. I smiled and kissed her forehead, resting my head on the pillows and closing my eyes..
A/N: Yes, sigh, I know, fluffiness, but it fits!