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Draco's POV
"WHOO HOO!!" I cheered. I had just gotten my driver's license. I passed the test, which was very easy. That wasn't surprising, since a Malfoy was good at everything. I glanced at the picture of me on the card; I looked really, really good. Well, that's not surprising, since I look really, really good in real life also. I picked up Hermione by the waist and spun her around, not even realizing what I had done before it was too late. "Oops.. sorry." I mumbled putting her down hastily. People were staring at us strangely.
She laughed gaily, as we walked to the car. I guess that the least she could do was be a good sport. "Can I drive?? Can I drive??" I pleaded. She smiled at my excitement and nodded. I hopped into the driver's seat and hurriedly put on my seatbelt. My god, I was so excited!!! I cautiously shifted the gear into reverse and pulled out of the parking lot. After that, it was a piece of cake. I drove smoothly and straight throughout the entire drive home. When we got out, Hermione gave me a praising smirk. If such a smirk was even invented yet. "Not bad, Draco. You didn't even crash and get us killed."
I faked an insulted face, but laughed nonetheless. We walked inside the house and sat down on the couch. A few of her curls brushed my neck. There it was, that tingling feeling that made me want her even more. I glanced at her face.. then down to her lips. A burning passion erupted inside of me. "Are you okay?" Hermione concerned, as she looked at my flushed face. He lips were parted slightly, what an invitation.
Hermione's POV
He leaned in to kiss me, hard and passionate. My pulse quickened and I almost melted as I felt his lips on mine. I knew this was what I wanted but I pushed him away just as hard. "Draco!!" I cried jumping off the couch. "What the bloody hell are you doing?!?" I shrieked. And just as I thought we were becoming friends again, he had to go and snog the living daylights out of me. Okay, so maybe that was an exaggeration.
He put his head in his hands dejectedly. "Oh my god, I'm so sorry, Hermione." He mumbled. He looked so defeated and so afraid, that I pitied him. He brought his pleading eyes up to mine. "Please forgive me. I never meant for that to happen. I just couldn't help myself. I swear I won't do it again, it's just that I still.. I s-still.." He dragged off. I didn't let him finish because I was afraid that if he did, I would burst out crying again.
"Forget about it. It never happened." I dismissed and hurried upstairs not waiting for an answer. I buried my head in my pillow and silently cried softly. I still had some feelings of anger and longing for him pent up inside of me. I didn't even hear someone come in and sit down on my bed next to me until I felt his arms wrap around me heaving body. "I'm sorry.." He whispered into my ear. This time I didn't push him away. I needed someone to cry to, even though it was to the person who I was crying about.
"I-I'm so confused.." I hiccupped between sobs. "Why are you doing this to me?"
He gently wiped my tears away with his hand and kissed my forehead lightly, so light I wasn't even sure it was a kiss. Maybe he just exhaled a breath. I finally stopped and I buried my head in his chest. We sat there in silence, him not even bothering to answer my question, just holding me. Finally, I looked up. "Thanks.." I said softly. Then, I looked at his shirt. It had a big wet spot from me crying. "I'm sorry about your shirt, and how it makes you look like you drooled on yourself." I added with a bit of humor back in my voice.
He smiled lightly. "It's okay.." He said looking deeply into my eyes. "Now, I think we should get ready for Anna's sleepover now." He said changing the subject. I got up off his lap. I had somehow gotten myself in that position when I was crying, and now I was very embarrassed. He got up and went to his room to pack his clothes. I smiled slightly, and tried to push out the thought of how close he was just a few minutes ago. I still couldn't let go of the fact that he had hurt me. What was I going to do??
Draco's POV
I felt horrible. I never meant to cause her so much pain. I pushed that thought out of my mind, for now. I pulled up in front of Anna's modest sized home and got out. Hermione handed me my overnight bag, and we walked up the steps and rang the doorbell. "Hermione! Draco! C'mon in." Anna greeted as she opened the sunny yellow door. We walked into her brightly colored living room. The walls were painted a fiery reddish-orange and the carpet was a splash of black and white. I could see where Anna got her uniqueness and fieriness. "Larissa and Evan are downstairs. They're playing pool, but don't go very far down because an eight ball might hit you in the head." On our looks she added, "They're VERY into the game."
We didn't need to go down at all because they came upstairs soon after we stepped inside. Greetings were exchanged and suddenly the doorbell rang, AGAIN. In came Roger Aubrey and Crissa Endem, the school's most well known couple of having the most piercings on their body. I think that godforsaken doorbell rang about twenty more times and suddenly, there was a room full of people. To name a few, Heather Hillock, Kaye Iverssi, and Girth Yoletts, the school singing trio, were crooning the theme song to Aida at the top of their lungs.
"Anna!!" I yelled over the blasting music and voices. "You didn't tell me you were inviting the whole bloody school!!" She tangoed her way over to me and yelled, "Well now you know!"
"Are they sleeping over too?" I screamed.
"No." That got my heart beating again. Who would want to spend the entire night with a bunch of hormonal crazed teenagers stuck together in one room? Not to mention that they would probably be drunk, although Anna wasn't handing out any beers. But at parties like this, you can't help but know that there are going to be drunken loons throwing up all over your best Italian leathers.
Hermione's POV
I glanced at the clock and realized it was already ten o'clock PM. Suddenly, the music stopped and everyone stopped dancing. We glanced at Anna who was holding a microphone. She smiled wickedly and boomed, "Enough of all this dancing, it's time to cut the cake and open the presents! Now, whoever didn't bring a present for me can leave right now!" Half of the partiers took her seriously and made their way towards the door. Anna sighed exasperatedly into the microphone and rolled her eyes. "I'm kidding, you idiots." They glared at her, but came back and watched as her mother brought out the cake.
It was humongous. There had to be at least three layers of ice cream and such. The top was decorated with a picture of her in pigtails. Anna and pigtails??? I guess there was a lot to be learned about this girl. "Sing!" She ordered. As we sang monotonously, she plucked a long, blue candle from the top of the cake and waved it around as if she was the conductor and we were her chorus. I gave her a weird look. She shrugged and said, "Hey, birthdays are the only times when you can get away with these stuff, and mine, unfortunately, only comes once a year."
She cut the cake into little squares. Everything about this girl was strange. Suddenly, she yelled, "BIRTHDAY TRADITION!!" I scrunched up my eyebrows in confusion. Larissa and Evan looked terrified, and were being held down by our football team's linebackers. Draco and I, on the other hand, looked plain puzzled. Suddenly, members of the football team also held us down. For Draco, there had to be two to keep him from struggling.
Before I knew it, a piece of cake was smashed into my face. I was let go, and I saw Evan, Larissa, and Draco in the same state as me. "ANNA!! What in the world was that??!!" I cried.
"It's the birthday tradition. My closest friends always get caked in the face when the time comes to celebrate." She explained, grinning a bit too widely for my taste.
"I'm honored." I scowled, but couldn't help but burst out laughing. Pretty soon, all four of us were laughing ourselves mad, tears streaming down our eyes. Anna interrupted our peals of laughter. "I think you should go wash up now, there's a bathroom upstairs to the right and there's one straight down that hallway." She said pointing to the stairs and hallway. I hurriedly went to wash my face off.
Draco's POV
I had finished cleaning myself up and was now sitting in a circle watching as Anna opened her presents. I had to admit, her joke WAS a bit clever. "Thanks Randy, for the.. umm.. condoms?" She said amusedly as she eyed the red box. He shrugged good-naturedly. "Hey, I didn't have time to go out and buy you a gift, and I knew it was only respective to give the birthday girl a present. This was all I could find in my house, mind you, I had to go digging through my mom's bras to find those." He said wrinkling his nose. "PLUS, it's a brand new box, too." He added.
"Yep, respective presents all right." I thought to myself as Anna burst out laughing. The next present was from Hermione and I. Surprisingly; Anna had wanted a specific book. I hadn't read the cover, but I was guessing that Hermione did, because her face turned red when Anna picked up the blue wrapped present. Her eyes lit up. "Dead Cows Love to Moo!!" She cried out excitedly when she unwrapped the present. What kind of bloody title was that?? By now, Hermione had put her head in her hands. "Oh My God!! I have been wanting this book for centuries!!!" She cried.
"What's it about?" Someone yelled from the crowd. She looked up and grinned. "A book of perverted jokes concerning cows." Maybe it was my imagination, but I think I saw the front half of the crowd edge away from her. After all the other presents were unwrapped, it was already twelve o'clock AM. Everybody was ushered out, except for us who were spending the night.
Hermione's POV
"What's the deal with you and Draco?" Larissa asked bluntly as she stood in front of the mirror plucking her eyelashes. I spit the toothpaste out of my mouth and rinsed. "Excuse me??" I asked, shocked.
"I mean, he kept looking over at you, and you were pointedly ignoring him."
I winced. "It was that obvious?"
"My child, you have lots to learn." She said patting my head as she walked out. I scowled at my reflection, I wasn't THAT oblivious, or was I? I walked out and took out my red sleeping bag and set it up next to Anna's. I snuggled under the covers and opened my latest read, about this muggle Civil War. "Mind if I lay my sleeping bag next to yours?" Someone asked me from my right. I looked up to see Draco's questioning face. I wasn't known for being rude, and I couldn't start now, so I said, "Yes." I turned back to read my book, when I got interrupted again.
"Whoever doesn't want to go to sleep yet, can get dressed and come downstairs with me." Anna announced. Larissa started to get up and dig through her clothes, so I thought, "Why not?" At least I wasn't as stuffy as I used to be. Everyone else seemed to follow lead, and we all walked downstairs in our sweaters and coats. "Great!" Anna whispered when she saw us. I looked around the dark living room. "What are we doing?" I whispered back. "And why are we whispering?"
"Because, my mom is asleep, and we don't want to wake her up." She said in a matter-of-fact way. "Anyways, have any of you ever roamed the city streets of London at two o'clock in the morning?"
Evan looked up excitedly. "Aye."
She smiled, with a naughty gleam in her eye. "The plan is, to go for a walk in the city. It's absolutely gorgeous tonight, and you should see the lights and everything."
I looked at her. Was she mad?? I voiced my opinion. "Your crazy. There are loopholes in every part of your plan! First of all, we're not allowed! Then, how are we going to get to the middle of the city? And most importantly, WHAT IF YOUR MOM CATCHES US??" I whispered as loud as I dared.
Anna rolled her eyes. "Oh, have some spirit Hermione. It'll be so much fun. The café's are lit up twenty four seven, and it's not like some serial killer is going to burst out stabbing us under the bright streetlights and shops." She continued. "And we'll get there by BUS." She said it as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Bus's run this late??"
"Yes, they do. And my mom won't catch us since she's a VERY heavy sleeper. And I SWEAR that I'm not exaggerating. Even if she does, what's the worst she's going to do? She can't yell at you. But I figure, that MAYBE she'll call your parents. But that's not a confirmed, because she's really lenient when it comes to these things."
I didn't tell her that I lived unsupervised with my ex-boyfriend.
"And you don't HAVE to go, you know. You can go back to sleep upstairs. It's your choice." I was in the midst of a full-blown war. One side of me was listing the reasons why I shouldn't go. The other side of me was saying how I should be more rebellious, and not such a stuffy, Percy clone. It was Draco who tipped the scale. "C'mon Mione." He pleaded.
Oh, what the heck.
A/N: There you go. I'm so sorry I took so long to update. REVIEW!
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Draco's POV
"WHOO HOO!!" I cheered. I had just gotten my driver's license. I passed the test, which was very easy. That wasn't surprising, since a Malfoy was good at everything. I glanced at the picture of me on the card; I looked really, really good. Well, that's not surprising, since I look really, really good in real life also. I picked up Hermione by the waist and spun her around, not even realizing what I had done before it was too late. "Oops.. sorry." I mumbled putting her down hastily. People were staring at us strangely.
She laughed gaily, as we walked to the car. I guess that the least she could do was be a good sport. "Can I drive?? Can I drive??" I pleaded. She smiled at my excitement and nodded. I hopped into the driver's seat and hurriedly put on my seatbelt. My god, I was so excited!!! I cautiously shifted the gear into reverse and pulled out of the parking lot. After that, it was a piece of cake. I drove smoothly and straight throughout the entire drive home. When we got out, Hermione gave me a praising smirk. If such a smirk was even invented yet. "Not bad, Draco. You didn't even crash and get us killed."
I faked an insulted face, but laughed nonetheless. We walked inside the house and sat down on the couch. A few of her curls brushed my neck. There it was, that tingling feeling that made me want her even more. I glanced at her face.. then down to her lips. A burning passion erupted inside of me. "Are you okay?" Hermione concerned, as she looked at my flushed face. He lips were parted slightly, what an invitation.
Hermione's POV
He leaned in to kiss me, hard and passionate. My pulse quickened and I almost melted as I felt his lips on mine. I knew this was what I wanted but I pushed him away just as hard. "Draco!!" I cried jumping off the couch. "What the bloody hell are you doing?!?" I shrieked. And just as I thought we were becoming friends again, he had to go and snog the living daylights out of me. Okay, so maybe that was an exaggeration.
He put his head in his hands dejectedly. "Oh my god, I'm so sorry, Hermione." He mumbled. He looked so defeated and so afraid, that I pitied him. He brought his pleading eyes up to mine. "Please forgive me. I never meant for that to happen. I just couldn't help myself. I swear I won't do it again, it's just that I still.. I s-still.." He dragged off. I didn't let him finish because I was afraid that if he did, I would burst out crying again.
"Forget about it. It never happened." I dismissed and hurried upstairs not waiting for an answer. I buried my head in my pillow and silently cried softly. I still had some feelings of anger and longing for him pent up inside of me. I didn't even hear someone come in and sit down on my bed next to me until I felt his arms wrap around me heaving body. "I'm sorry.." He whispered into my ear. This time I didn't push him away. I needed someone to cry to, even though it was to the person who I was crying about.
"I-I'm so confused.." I hiccupped between sobs. "Why are you doing this to me?"
He gently wiped my tears away with his hand and kissed my forehead lightly, so light I wasn't even sure it was a kiss. Maybe he just exhaled a breath. I finally stopped and I buried my head in his chest. We sat there in silence, him not even bothering to answer my question, just holding me. Finally, I looked up. "Thanks.." I said softly. Then, I looked at his shirt. It had a big wet spot from me crying. "I'm sorry about your shirt, and how it makes you look like you drooled on yourself." I added with a bit of humor back in my voice.
He smiled lightly. "It's okay.." He said looking deeply into my eyes. "Now, I think we should get ready for Anna's sleepover now." He said changing the subject. I got up off his lap. I had somehow gotten myself in that position when I was crying, and now I was very embarrassed. He got up and went to his room to pack his clothes. I smiled slightly, and tried to push out the thought of how close he was just a few minutes ago. I still couldn't let go of the fact that he had hurt me. What was I going to do??
Draco's POV
I felt horrible. I never meant to cause her so much pain. I pushed that thought out of my mind, for now. I pulled up in front of Anna's modest sized home and got out. Hermione handed me my overnight bag, and we walked up the steps and rang the doorbell. "Hermione! Draco! C'mon in." Anna greeted as she opened the sunny yellow door. We walked into her brightly colored living room. The walls were painted a fiery reddish-orange and the carpet was a splash of black and white. I could see where Anna got her uniqueness and fieriness. "Larissa and Evan are downstairs. They're playing pool, but don't go very far down because an eight ball might hit you in the head." On our looks she added, "They're VERY into the game."
We didn't need to go down at all because they came upstairs soon after we stepped inside. Greetings were exchanged and suddenly the doorbell rang, AGAIN. In came Roger Aubrey and Crissa Endem, the school's most well known couple of having the most piercings on their body. I think that godforsaken doorbell rang about twenty more times and suddenly, there was a room full of people. To name a few, Heather Hillock, Kaye Iverssi, and Girth Yoletts, the school singing trio, were crooning the theme song to Aida at the top of their lungs.
"Anna!!" I yelled over the blasting music and voices. "You didn't tell me you were inviting the whole bloody school!!" She tangoed her way over to me and yelled, "Well now you know!"
"Are they sleeping over too?" I screamed.
"No." That got my heart beating again. Who would want to spend the entire night with a bunch of hormonal crazed teenagers stuck together in one room? Not to mention that they would probably be drunk, although Anna wasn't handing out any beers. But at parties like this, you can't help but know that there are going to be drunken loons throwing up all over your best Italian leathers.
Hermione's POV
I glanced at the clock and realized it was already ten o'clock PM. Suddenly, the music stopped and everyone stopped dancing. We glanced at Anna who was holding a microphone. She smiled wickedly and boomed, "Enough of all this dancing, it's time to cut the cake and open the presents! Now, whoever didn't bring a present for me can leave right now!" Half of the partiers took her seriously and made their way towards the door. Anna sighed exasperatedly into the microphone and rolled her eyes. "I'm kidding, you idiots." They glared at her, but came back and watched as her mother brought out the cake.
It was humongous. There had to be at least three layers of ice cream and such. The top was decorated with a picture of her in pigtails. Anna and pigtails??? I guess there was a lot to be learned about this girl. "Sing!" She ordered. As we sang monotonously, she plucked a long, blue candle from the top of the cake and waved it around as if she was the conductor and we were her chorus. I gave her a weird look. She shrugged and said, "Hey, birthdays are the only times when you can get away with these stuff, and mine, unfortunately, only comes once a year."
She cut the cake into little squares. Everything about this girl was strange. Suddenly, she yelled, "BIRTHDAY TRADITION!!" I scrunched up my eyebrows in confusion. Larissa and Evan looked terrified, and were being held down by our football team's linebackers. Draco and I, on the other hand, looked plain puzzled. Suddenly, members of the football team also held us down. For Draco, there had to be two to keep him from struggling.
Before I knew it, a piece of cake was smashed into my face. I was let go, and I saw Evan, Larissa, and Draco in the same state as me. "ANNA!! What in the world was that??!!" I cried.
"It's the birthday tradition. My closest friends always get caked in the face when the time comes to celebrate." She explained, grinning a bit too widely for my taste.
"I'm honored." I scowled, but couldn't help but burst out laughing. Pretty soon, all four of us were laughing ourselves mad, tears streaming down our eyes. Anna interrupted our peals of laughter. "I think you should go wash up now, there's a bathroom upstairs to the right and there's one straight down that hallway." She said pointing to the stairs and hallway. I hurriedly went to wash my face off.
Draco's POV
I had finished cleaning myself up and was now sitting in a circle watching as Anna opened her presents. I had to admit, her joke WAS a bit clever. "Thanks Randy, for the.. umm.. condoms?" She said amusedly as she eyed the red box. He shrugged good-naturedly. "Hey, I didn't have time to go out and buy you a gift, and I knew it was only respective to give the birthday girl a present. This was all I could find in my house, mind you, I had to go digging through my mom's bras to find those." He said wrinkling his nose. "PLUS, it's a brand new box, too." He added.
"Yep, respective presents all right." I thought to myself as Anna burst out laughing. The next present was from Hermione and I. Surprisingly; Anna had wanted a specific book. I hadn't read the cover, but I was guessing that Hermione did, because her face turned red when Anna picked up the blue wrapped present. Her eyes lit up. "Dead Cows Love to Moo!!" She cried out excitedly when she unwrapped the present. What kind of bloody title was that?? By now, Hermione had put her head in her hands. "Oh My God!! I have been wanting this book for centuries!!!" She cried.
"What's it about?" Someone yelled from the crowd. She looked up and grinned. "A book of perverted jokes concerning cows." Maybe it was my imagination, but I think I saw the front half of the crowd edge away from her. After all the other presents were unwrapped, it was already twelve o'clock AM. Everybody was ushered out, except for us who were spending the night.
Hermione's POV
"What's the deal with you and Draco?" Larissa asked bluntly as she stood in front of the mirror plucking her eyelashes. I spit the toothpaste out of my mouth and rinsed. "Excuse me??" I asked, shocked.
"I mean, he kept looking over at you, and you were pointedly ignoring him."
I winced. "It was that obvious?"
"My child, you have lots to learn." She said patting my head as she walked out. I scowled at my reflection, I wasn't THAT oblivious, or was I? I walked out and took out my red sleeping bag and set it up next to Anna's. I snuggled under the covers and opened my latest read, about this muggle Civil War. "Mind if I lay my sleeping bag next to yours?" Someone asked me from my right. I looked up to see Draco's questioning face. I wasn't known for being rude, and I couldn't start now, so I said, "Yes." I turned back to read my book, when I got interrupted again.
"Whoever doesn't want to go to sleep yet, can get dressed and come downstairs with me." Anna announced. Larissa started to get up and dig through her clothes, so I thought, "Why not?" At least I wasn't as stuffy as I used to be. Everyone else seemed to follow lead, and we all walked downstairs in our sweaters and coats. "Great!" Anna whispered when she saw us. I looked around the dark living room. "What are we doing?" I whispered back. "And why are we whispering?"
"Because, my mom is asleep, and we don't want to wake her up." She said in a matter-of-fact way. "Anyways, have any of you ever roamed the city streets of London at two o'clock in the morning?"
Evan looked up excitedly. "Aye."
She smiled, with a naughty gleam in her eye. "The plan is, to go for a walk in the city. It's absolutely gorgeous tonight, and you should see the lights and everything."
I looked at her. Was she mad?? I voiced my opinion. "Your crazy. There are loopholes in every part of your plan! First of all, we're not allowed! Then, how are we going to get to the middle of the city? And most importantly, WHAT IF YOUR MOM CATCHES US??" I whispered as loud as I dared.
Anna rolled her eyes. "Oh, have some spirit Hermione. It'll be so much fun. The café's are lit up twenty four seven, and it's not like some serial killer is going to burst out stabbing us under the bright streetlights and shops." She continued. "And we'll get there by BUS." She said it as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Bus's run this late??"
"Yes, they do. And my mom won't catch us since she's a VERY heavy sleeper. And I SWEAR that I'm not exaggerating. Even if she does, what's the worst she's going to do? She can't yell at you. But I figure, that MAYBE she'll call your parents. But that's not a confirmed, because she's really lenient when it comes to these things."
I didn't tell her that I lived unsupervised with my ex-boyfriend.
"And you don't HAVE to go, you know. You can go back to sleep upstairs. It's your choice." I was in the midst of a full-blown war. One side of me was listing the reasons why I shouldn't go. The other side of me was saying how I should be more rebellious, and not such a stuffy, Percy clone. It was Draco who tipped the scale. "C'mon Mione." He pleaded.
Oh, what the heck.
A/N: There you go. I'm so sorry I took so long to update. REVIEW!