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Ch.6 "A month later"

Yes, a month has passed; so far, Hermione has gained 15 pounds and is still working on her weight. She didn't look like skin and bones anymore, just skinny. Her ribs weren't as noticeable, but you could see little indents of them. Hermione's face had filled out a little; she was starting to get her cheeks back.

Draco and Hermione were working on a Potions essay that had to be 'twenty four inches long, no less, no more' as Snape had put it.

"Mione, can you look over my essay?" Draco asked and handed the parchment to Hermione.

"Oh, does Mr. Malfoy think he is actually wrong? Could it be that . . ." Hermione looked at the paper wide-eyed; she started laughing "Drapho! Hahaha!!" Hermione laughed

"Sorry Mione, but its Draco" he said.

"No! Look, I cannot believe it! You spelled your name wrong! Hahaha" Hermione giggled.

"What?"

"Drapho Malfok" Hermione said "are you really that tired?"

"Oh, so I did" Draco said looking at his parchment. The reason was not because he was thinking about Hermione, even though she was still a little sickly looking, she was beautiful. He had never noticed before how cute her cheeks were. "Yea, I'm just tired"

"You should go to bed then Draco" Hermione said.

"I will later, but we have to do something first" Draco said and pulled Hermione to the bathroom.

"What? oh, yea. . . that" Hermione sighed. The scale, the evil scale. . . she hated the stupid scale.

"Take your shoes off and get on" Draco instructed.

Hermione tossed her shoes off to the side and stepped on the scale and looked down . . .110. . .

"Okay, how many more to go?" Draco asked handing Hermione's shoes to her.

"Fifteen more, then ill be one-twenty-five . . . my normal" Hermione smiled.

"Okay . . . fifteen to go . . . can you handle it?" Draco smirked.

Hermione giggled and put her fists on her hips and puffed out her chest "Super Mione can do anything!" Hermione laughed.

"You mean mighty mouse" Draco laughed.

"Hey! I can beat you up!" Hermione protested.

"Yea okay Hermione . . . ouch! What was that for?" Draco asked rubbing his arm which Hermione had just punched.

"See" Hermione said proudly "I can hurt you!" she giggled.

Draco gave her an evil grin; Hermione grew wide-eyed and ran to her room screaming, Draco ran after her and shut her door behind him.

"No Draco! Stop!" Hermione laughed as Draco brought her to the floor and tickled her "DRACO!" Hermione yelled and laughed even harder.

She tackled Draco, straddled him, and started to tickle him, leaning down over his face. Draco was laughing so hard he jerked his head back and hit it on the hard floor.

"You ok?" Hermione asked.

"Y-yea!" Draco replied, still laughing.

Hermione's face was inches from his, they seemed to be getting closer. She could feel his warm short breaths against her face. Draco propped himself on his elbows and leaned forward a little bit. Hermione leaned down. Their lips lightly brushed one another's. The feeling sent a chill up Draco's spine, and butterflies in his stomach.

Hermione leaned back and got off Draco. She couldn't believe what she had just done. She kissed Draco. But, she liked it, and she didn't understand why . . . they were just friends. Hermione sat on her bed and stared at Draco for a few minutes.

"I'm sorry Hermione" Draco said softly and started walking to his room. Hermione walked up to him and turned him around, staring straight into his steel eyes.

"What are you sorry for?" Hermione whispered.

"For kissing you," Draco replied shyly.

"Oh, you call that a kiss?" Hermione smiled. "This my dear Draco is a kiss" and with that she went up on her tip toes and kissed Draco gently at first, but she wanted more, she wanted to taste him. Hermione put her hands on his hard, sculpted chest and deepened the kiss. Her tongue exploring his, massaging it gently, Draco held her waist and kissed her harder, getting more into it. Hermione pulled back a little and kissed his bottom lip.

"That's a kiss, Draco" Hermione smiled.

"So it is" Draco smiled and kissed Hermione's forehead "G'night love" he whispered.

"Night" she said.

Draco went to his bed, very satisfied. She liked him! She actually likes him, and she kissed him too! This was all too great for Draco. He took off his jeans and shirt and was left in his green boxers. He opened his door, looked across the hall at Hermione's door, and smiled.