Hi guys! I just wanted to say thank you for your very inspiring reviews. I hope you keep on reading and reviewing. This fic is almost coming to an end and I might be making another fic. Stay tuned!

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Disclaimer: I do not own HP.

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Note: Since I changed the genre from Romance/Angst to Romance/Mystery, things will be very, maybe, unpredictable.

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Only 17

Chapter XV

It was already Saturday and Hermione forgot all about the mysterious call she received two days ago. She never mentioned it to anyone and just moved on with her life. Besides, she thought. I have a date with Draco today and nothing can spoil it.

Hermione looked at the clock then gasped. "9:50!" She looked out her window. Hermione sighed when she saw that Draco's car wasn't there yet. But when she turned away from the window, a black Jaguar quietly parked right in front of Hermione's front lawn.

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Draco parked his black Jaguar in front of Hermione's front lawn. He looked up and just saw Hermione turn her half naked back (a/n: She was wearing a towel.) face the window. He figured that she still wasn't ready and smirked maliciously.

The blonde seventeen year old got out of his vehicle and went towards the front door. He turned the doorknob, found it open then smirked wider. Draco went inside quietly as to not alarm Hermione.

He crept soundlessly into the living room and found Leo on the couch just looking at him curiously. Draco patted the husky and slowly crept upstairs.

Once he got on the second floor, he heard a soft voice coming from one room which door was slightly a jar. Draco peeped in and saw Hermione in front of her closet, only wearing a towel, choosing what to wear. Draco smirked again and tiptoed towards Hermione.

Hermione's back was facing him so, she couldn't see him walk up to and wrap his arms around her slim waist. She almost jumped when she felt soft velvety lips on her bare shoulder. Hermione eventually relaxed when she felt Draco parting the towel she was wearing and was caressing her abdomen without taking his lips off her creamy shoulder. Hermione shuddered in pleasure.

Draco continued to caress Hermione's abdomen then slowly dragged his hands up to Hermione's covered breasts. He frowned and lift his head to look at Hermione who suddenly snapped out of her reverie. She looked at Draco curiously. "What's wrong?"

He turned her to face him and tugged at the towel and let it fall to the floor. The frown was still on his face as he looked at Hermione who had an innocent look on her face. "What's the matter? Didn't you know that there were strapless bra's?"

Draco shook his head as he looked back down at her breasts. "No. I guess not." Now, it was Hermione's turn to frown.

"Why not?" Draco stepped forwards so that their faces were only inches away. Hermione felt his warm breath on her wanting lips. "I never did bother with them." He whispered. "Not until now."

Draco wrapped his arms around her body to her back and fumbled with the clasp. When he almost got it off, his dear Mia had to stop him. He looked at her with a puppy dog look but Hermione didn't buy it and pulled away from his embrace, much to their annoyance.

"Please, Mia. Just for fifteen minutes." Draco said in an almost baby voice. Hermione smiled softly and pat his head as if he was a mere five year old, not her sexy fiancé.

"Not now, Draco. I still have to out my clothes on." Hermione said turning back to her closet and picked out an outfit. Draco lay down on Hermione's bed with his hands behind his head and said carelessly,

"What for? You already look good without any."

Just as Hermione put on her baby blue spaghetti strap, which hovered just above her navel, over her blue jeans, she walked over to Draco, who was still horny, and stood in front of him. He brought her body to his. "But then again, I don't want eyes all over what's mine."

Hermione chuckled as Draco kissed the skin around her navel. He then dipped his tongue in her navel and started to French with it. Hermione started to giggle and squirmed a little. Draco finally let her go and pulled her down. He ravished her mouth and bit on her lower lip. He started to kiss down her jaw to her slender neck. He kissed even further down to her collarbone.

Hermione moaned out as he sucked on the sensitive skin of her neck. Draco pulled Hermione towards him which caused them to fall on the bed. With Hermione on top of him. Draco started to kiss up from her collarbone to her ear where he licked on the sensitive skin under it. Hermione squirmed as she feel beside Draco.

Draco faced her and kissed her with everything that he's got. he pulled at her waist and started to lift her shirt. Hermione wrapped her arms around Draco's neck and kissed him harder. Draco's wandering hands ventured forward and made contact with Hermione's breasts. He squeezed them through the fabric of her strapless bra.

Draco smiled through the kiss at the thought of her strapless bra. He stopped squeezing and pulled back from the kiss. He looked at Hermione's brown eyes and he lift her shirt over her head and took in her beautiful creamy skin.

He leaned in for another passionate kiss. Their tongues clashed together with all the passion that they could muster. Draco was already toying with the button and zipper of Hermione's jeans when his cell phone rang.

They pulled away with an exasperated sigh as Draco got his cell phone from his pocket. He looked at the screen and read, Oliver Wood. Draco rolled his eyes, pressed the call button and answered the stupid call. "Make it quick. I'm busy."

"Where are you?" Oliver asked in the the other line. Draco gave a frustrated sigh.

"In a hotel room making beautiful love with my sexy fiancée." Draco said with a smirk.

"Draco!"

"Okay, okay. I'm in Hermione's house, alright. So I half lied." Draco said in defense.

"What do you mean 'half lied'?" Draco smirked with malice.

"Wouldn't you want to know." Oliver then blushed and thanked God that Draco wasn't there to see the tinge of pink on his cheeks. "Whatever." He answered weakly. Then Draco went back to being furious but was still laughing inside.

"What do you want?" Draco said in mock exasperation. He looked at Hermione, who was caressing his inner thigh, and winked at her seductively. Hermione smirked and started to kiss his neck.

"Well, let me see..." Oliver, who was oblivious of what was happening in the other line, said with a hint of sarcasm. "Besides that you were supposed to be here about, THIRTY MINUTES AGO...No. Nothing. Nada."

Hermione, who heard Oliver's very loud outburst, stopped sucking on Draco's neck and turned to look at the alarm clock on her nightstand and saw that it was already,

"10:30! Draco we have to go." She looked at Draco, who was still messing with Oliver's mind, in panic. Hermione watched as he smirked and spoke to Oliver.

"Then why'd you even call me if you didn't want anything?" Draco said with a smirk. "Now hang up. I'm still busy making beau-"

Hermione heard Oliver groan in frustration through the other line and also stomp his foot on the ground before cutting Draco off, shouting, "YOU GET HERE IN FIVE MINUTES FLAT! NO MORE NO LESS!" Then hung up.

Draco snickered a little bit more before ending the call and putting it back in his pocket. He then sighed with mock pity and said while shaking his head, "That guy needs an attitude adjustment."

Hermione giggled along with him but was stopped by a passionate kiss. Courtesy of Draco Malfoy. Since she still wasn't wearing her top, Draco put it to his advantage and started to roam Hermione's upper body with his hands.

Draco, not satisfied with touching her with his hands, licked down to Hermione's neck. He sucked on the sensitive flesh until it formed a small red spot. Draco then inspected his work with a smirk. Hermione looked at him curiously.

"What did you do?" Draco got the small mirror from Hermione's nightstand and put it in front of her. She gasped at what she saw. "A hickey?!"

The young Malfoy nodded eagerly with an overly enthusiastic smile on his face. Hermione looked closer at the red spot on the place where neck meets shoulder. She put the mirror down with a sigh and got up to put her spaghetti strap on. Hermione went over to her closet again and took out a jean jacket and put it on.

Draco kept his eyes on her form with the lust still there. He got up and went towards her when she looked back at him sternly. He titled his head innocently at Hermione who just raised her brow at him. Draco sighed in defeat and draped his arm over her shoulder.

"C'mon, Mia. Let's go." Draco ushered her out of her room. "Can't let Woody blow his top again."

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Parvati rolled her eyes upward as Lavender and Ron snogged...Ginny and Harry, well, snogged...and Oliver paced in front of her. They've been here since quarter to ten. Draco's orders. He said it was something important and it had something to do with Hermione, and that made Ginny, Lavender and herself go straight away to the mall.

"But not without our boyfriends." One of the two insisted which was Ginny.

"If Mione gets to take her man then we're taking ours." Lavender added.

So, here they were with their boyfriends...snogging...IN PUBLIC! You know, the usual. But unfortunately, in Oliver's opinion, their, shall we say, 'boss' is running late. He said that he would be here at 10:15 but it was already, what?

"10:16 and he's not here yet." Oliver said as he looked at his watch once more and paced again. Parvati rolled her eyes for the third and last time and stood up.

"Will you stop it!" Parvati said as she pushed him down on the bench they were occupying. "That pacing of yours is making me dizzy."

"But they're not here yet. Look! It's already..." Oliver stood up again and looked at his watch. "10:17?! We're already two minutes behind schedule!"

"Oh, shut up." said the annoyed teen as she put her hands on her hips and watch her skeptic companion pace yet once again.

Then, like what always happens in the mall, Parvati was just there, standing, minding her own business when a pompous jerk suddenly rammed into her from behind and didn't even bother to stop and apologize. After she was knocked over, Parvati anticipated kissing the cold tiled floor of the mall but instead kissed a soft warm body.

Parvati looked up and saw two soft brown eyes look down at her.

"Are you okay?" said the beholder of the eyes. Parvati was stunned. She didn't know what to say. She didn't know Oliver was this-...Wait! Oliver?! Parvati thought as she straightened up and looked at Oliver from head to toe. I didn't know Wood was this cute.

Parvati looked up and saw Oliver looking at her strangely. She just blushed and looked away, hoping that he would just worry about Draco's tardiness. But unfortunately, he didn't he just looked at her and, better yet, moved to sit beside her, very, and I mean, very closely.

"You didn't answer me." Oliver said in a low voice as he turned Parvati's face to look at him.

They both stared at each other as their faces started to inch closer together. Parvati could already smell Oliver's pinewood scent. Never in her wildest dreams did she see herself in this state with Oliver Wood. I don't know what I'm doing anymore. Their lips were only centimeters apart someone just had to interrupt.

"Look at them. They are so cute!"

"Yeah. And all this time I thought that he was gay."

The two, almost kissing, couple snapped out of their trance and two figures that stared down at them. One was smiling at their cuteness and the other was smirking with some sort of triumph. Both Parvati and Oliver stood up and straightened their selves. The other four looked at them with amusement as well.

Oliver ran his fingers through his brown hair. He noticed Draco staring at him with a smirk and blushed. "What?!"

Draco tapped Oliver in the back with his smirk still on and said, "Now I know you're straight."

Oliver's blush deepened then his eyes widened. "I'm not gay!"

"Sure. Tell yourself that." Draco said as he walked off with Hermione at his side. Oliver fumed then ran after Draco.

"You take that back!" Draco just laughed as he ran as far away from Oliver as possible while carrying Hermione with him.

"Draco, put me down!" Hermione laughed.

"First stop, swim suit!" Draco said as he carried Hermione around the mall, not caring about other people's stares.

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After much walking and shopping around the mall, Hermione, Oliver, Parvati and the two snogging couples went by the Food Court to get food for their famished bodies. They were so exhausted and hungry that once the food were placed in front of them, they instantly dug in.

Hermione watched as Lavender held a piece of shrimp in her mouth while Ron tried to get it out with his mouth and Harry smear some gravy on his lips as Ginny licked it clean. These simple, intimate actions somehow made her miss Draco even more though she knew that he was only a few floors away. Oliver noticed Hermione's down mood with a look of concern on his face.

"Mia, what's wrong?" Oliver said as he put a comforting hand on Hermione's shoulder. She sighed and looked back down at her half eaten food.

"I just miss Draco." She looked at him with a small smile. Oliver looked at her with surprise.

"Already?" Hermione nodded then looked at the couples in front of them, No one spoke between the two of them for quite sometime until Oliver said in a hushed tone, "Mia?"

"Hmm?" murmured his female companion as she toyed with her food.

Oliver was quiet for a moment. He didn't know how to say this for he has never confided in anyone about this certain touchy subject. Oliver didn't know why he even wanted to consult Hermione about it but a feeling told him that she had the answers that he was looking for.

After a few more silent seconds, Oliver took a deep breath and, with all the courage in him, looked at Hermione and spoke.

"Mia, how do you know when you're, you know, in..." Oliver trailed off.

Hermione turned to look at him as if telling him to go on but he didn't. She smiled as if knowing what he was talking about and placed her hand on top of his. She looked at Parvati, who was seated on the other side of Oliver, then smiled wider.

"You'll know when it comes." Oliver still looked confused.

"Yeah. But the problem is I don't know when it's there." Hermione smiled. Somehow, she knew how he felt. She didn't know why but she felt she understood him.

"Don't worry, Woody. It'll give signs."

"What signs?"

Hermione thought for a while and tried to recall the things she read in novels and seen in plays or television. The signs that nature gives you, telling when to act or not. She closed her eyes for a moment and took in a deep breath. Hermione then exhaled and looked at Oliver with a small smile.

"To be honest," she shrugged embarrassingly. "I don't know."

Oliver smiled back and looked back at his empty plate. He was thinking now. It was like, the talk with Hermione made his situation much more confusing. He tried to ponder much on it, tried to understand it thoroughly, analyze it but somehow he was stuck. Oliver gave out a heavy sigh as a sign of his defeat. He will never understand love.

He then looked up and glared at the giggling Hermione who was walking towards the water station. "I'm not Woody!"

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Draco sighed as he neared the foot of the escalator to the food court where his dear fiancée was. Yes, His dear fiancée. Honestly, he didn't know why he proclaimed to his mother, his ex-girlfriend and his ex-girlfriend's friend that Hermione was his fiancée. Maybe it was because of the fact that he didn't, and never will, want to be wedded to Pansy Parkinson. Heck! He didn't even know why she was his girlfriend.

And so, the fact that he wanted to be away from Pansy was what made him have an, let's say, affair with Hermione. He didn't know why but somehow he was attracted to her. Draco knew that the first time he kissed her was when his own self control will crumble. It was hard very hard to explain even to himself. It was an odd feeling that he had never felt before.

Draco closed his eyes and relived his first night with Hermione. The way she looked when she writhing in ecstasy beneath him, as she moaned out his name for more and how her kisses tasted like vanilla. He liked, no, he loved it! He loves the way her body curves in the right places, the sweet taste of her lips, the way she smiles, the way she laughs, the sexy frown that she gave Potter when she was angry, the way she blushed, the way her hair cascaded down her back like a silky waterfall...Draco opened his eyes in realization. It was the answer to all of this. Why did he want her? Why did he save her from the rushing car? Why he held her close that rainy day? Why he offered to take her to his home? Why he declared her as his soon-to-be wife? It all made sense now. I think...

I love her...?

Once Draco finally got off the escalator, he was greeted with a long passionate kiss. Draco stood in shock and before he could respond, she retracted from him but didn't take her arms off around his neck. She looked deeply into his eyes with a smile.

"I missed you." She said as she placed her head on his shoulder.

Draco held her tight and inhaled her wonderful strawberry scent that was kept in her soft brown hair. He smiled as he kissed her ivory shoulder that was uncovered by her jacket. He saw the hickey he gave her and smirked. He held her tighter as she looked at him with curious eyes.

"What's wrong." Draco shook his head in response and kissed her lightly on the lips and smiled at her.

"Nothing, love. Just missed you." Hermione smiled and embraced him once again.

Draco closed his eyes again as he memorized her scent and touch. He caressed her back and kissed her neck like a true lover would do.

Draco chuckled at the thought. Now that he knew what he felt for her, he felt happier. Draco chuckled again as his one and only lifted her head to look at him.

"What's so funny."

He smiled at her and simply said, "Nothing." I just love you.

Dreamaker: Yehey! Another chapter done! And a long one too (I think). Anyway, I just finished reading the last chapter of We'll Always Have Paris. It's one of the greatest stories ever! It's DM/HG.

Additional Notes:

1. Many more talk about love on the next chapters. I noticed that no love confessions have occurred yet.

2. I have a new fic bubbling up in mind. (I think.)

3. For those who haven't read, We'll Always Have Paris, here's the link:

It's a cool fic. Read it!

Now, to answer your reviews.

cuttie-blossom: It's okay. I myself at one point wanted to kill Wood as well. Hope you keep on reading.

dr/hr lover: Yup! Pilipino ako! and I'm proud of it! Keep on reading!

dakvader69: I can't tell you that. It will be so unfair. Besides, isn't it so very mysterious? And even if you do pester me, I still won't tell you. You have to read first. Or maybe, I won't reveal Oliver's secret. Hmm...

belle-stevenson: Um...I'm not sure if it will be soon. But maybe.

Elektra: Okay...I'm fed up! Don't people know the meaning of A/U?! Or maybe you just didn't see it. A/U means alternate universe. Meaning, I can write whatever I want. Now, if you have a problem with that, don't read any further. So what, if it didn't have any connection to JKR's work. I don't care! I'm supposed to be original, right?

samarni: Yeah. I updated. Quite fast, huh?

She-who-must-not-be-named: I can't make Hermione completely evil. I'm still retaining the approachable, smart and kind Hermione. I can't let that fade. 'Cause if I do, where's the fun?

TheLost1: Don't worry. I'll write more. Maybe even a sequel.

Fiery Slut: Yeah! One whole chapter of SMUT! Okay. I'll get right on to it. There must be no distractions. Yeah.

Akutenshi: He just stated that He is not gay! I think that answers everyone's question if Oliver's gay or not. But then again, I could be wrong.

Maddie: I myself have no patience. I can't wait to write the next chapter! ^_^; Anyway, Oliver's secret will come out, later. can't tell you when though cause I myself don't know when.

HeatherMalfoy: Since you put it nicely, which is the way I like it, I will not shout. You see, this fic is about the HP cast only they're non-magic. No magic is involved in here. I created this story to portray them as average teenagers.

Kat: Was that a cliffhanger? I didn't know. Anyway. I stopped there cause I finished the chapter at two o'clock in the morning. I was so sleepy and I needed energy to upload the chapter so, I stopped there.

CindyLea: As you said, I'm evil so, I won't tell. If I tell you the secret and you tell other people and those people tell other people and they tell other people...I think you know what I mean.

Okay. That about sums it up. Hope you enjoyed the chapter. And I highly recommend reading, We'll Always Have Paris. It's great. So, read it if you haven't yet.

R&R!