Chapter Three

Shattered With Time

All I felt was pain.....all around me was pain. I lay there on the table for what seemed like an eternity curled up into a ball with only my bra tube top and panties on. It hurt too much to put the rest of my cloths on so I stopped after my panties. Tears filled my eyes but wouldn't fall. I heard foot steps come towards me but ignored them. I knew it was Draco.....I knew he had been standing there even since Harry left me which was probably and hour ago.

"Hermione," He whispered and closed my eyes tight to keep the tears from falling. "I am so incredibly sorry." He whispered again crouching in front of me.

"I understand." I chocked out opening my eyes to look at him through my blurred vision. He looked on the verge of tears himself. I understand though completely. It would be a torture to have to watch your girlfriend or boyfriend get rapped by their best friend. Or FORMER best friend that is.....I saw tears escape Draco's eyes and he pulled me close to him and onto the floor gently. He cried into my hair. This is really the second time he ever cried in his lifetime. The first time was a little after we had gotten together. He had received news that his mother was dying from his father but his father really didn't seem to care much for her anyway. Draco, being strong in front of his father, held back his tears until after he left and we were alone in the prefect dorm that we shared together. Narcissa is such a sweet woman like a second mother to me really. We visited her every weekend and talked for hours on end about everything. Especially when Draco was a little boy, he didn't like that so much and denied everything she said.

"I'm sorry, so sorry, I couldn't get to you, I'm sorry" He kept whispering over and over again and again into my hair rubbing my back as I rubbed his. I loved him then, with my whole hart I loved him then.

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The sun was setting and I was sitting out by the lake watching it set contemplating the meaning of my life when Ginny sat next to me with a happy smile on her face.

"Hermione, you'll never guess what Gorgy said to me today." She almost whispered she must have been in shock or something. Gorgy is just Georgia's nickname that everyone calls her. Yeah that right, Virginia Scarlet Weasley is a lesbian. Yeah what ever happened to her crush on the famous Harry Potter? Well, in third year she forgot about him in a romantic way when she started to notice how sexy and beautiful women were. She felt all these sexual urges to shag women and not blokes; she kept it a secret even from me we are very close to each other. She only just came out about it last year over the summer when she met Georgia Shan at a party that a friend of hers was having. She and Gorgy hit it off nicely together and helped Ginny open up about her new sexuality. After about a month of seeing each other they went to the Weasley's and announced that Ginny was a lesbian.

"What?" I asked looking over at her. Ginny is a very pretty girl before she announced that she was a lesbian she could have any guy in the school that she wanted well almost.

"She told me she loves me. And I love her too. I told her that, we're so happy together. I think I could marry her after we graduate." Ginny said dreamily she was in a daze about all of this. I couldn't help but be happy for her. Ginny has always had trouble with relationships, I'm glad that she finally found somebody that she thinks is the one for her male or female.

"That's wonderful Ginny, I'm really happy for you. I always knew you two would be together longer then the others said." Ginny smiled at me. She knew oh to well the reactions from her brothers. Her mum and dad were ok with it because there were several gay and lesbian couples in the family that their sons didn't know about. They were just happy that she has found herself and someone that she loves. Ron on the other hand didn't think she would last having relationships with another girl (he's a little afraid of gays and lesbians), he wanted to disown her. I showed him though I gave him this talk about if I were a lesbian would he still be my friend or if Harry was gay and stuff like that. He agreed with me so everything was fine after that.

"Something wrong? You seem depressed." Ginny asked concern etching her pretty features. I just looked down, I didn't know how to tell her what happened in the library. "Tell me, you know you can. I'm always here for you." She put a caring arm around me and I sighed and told her about what happened in the library. Her eyes widened in shock but then narrowed in anger.

"Who the fuck does he think he is!" She yelled standing and glaring up at the castle. "And I thought he was a good guy, I knew he was upset that you didn't go out with him but you just aren't attracted to him! I am going to never speak to him again! Or forgive him for that matter either!" Ginny ranted on pacing back and forth waving her hands around for emphasis before dropping down next to me and hugging me tightly.

"I'm soooo sorry about what happened. You should go to a professor, or better yet Dumbledore!" Ginny said softly still hugging me I hugged her back but we pulled away when we heard the laughing voice of Gorgy.

"Oh, I see how it is, you don't love me anymore!" She cried dramatically putting a hand on her forehead and looking away with mock dismay Draco not far behind her. Ginny stood and rushed to her.

"No! I could never do that you love! You are my one and only love!" She cried encircling her arms around her and pulling her close. I couldn't help but laugh, they were such drama queens. I stood and walked over to Draco with a raised eyebrow and a seductive smile one my face. I pressed my body against him raising one leg up his and latching it around his waist.

"Do you still want me?" I asked seductively in his ear laughing softly.

"Are you trying to seduce me Miss Granger?" He asked in mock shock. I gave a innocent shrug.

"I believe I am." I said my seductive act still in play.

"Well then, you're doing a bloody well good job at it." He said kissing me deeply.

"EWWW GROSS!!" Ginny and Gorgy cried laughing hysterically at us.

"Oh do shut up. It's not like we haven't seen you two kiss like that before!" Draco snapped good naturedly at them. Gorgy was in Slytherin so he couldn't help but like her in a friendly way. And since Ginny is my friend she is now his friend as well.

"Shall we go then ladies?" He asked holding his arm out to me and we started walking away to the gates that will lead us to Hogsmead.

Music vibrated through my body as we entered the club Ginny and Gorgy ran quickly onto the dance floor and pushed their way to the center doing the combinations that we had worked on the three of us to show off our dancing skills. Draco always says that he has to be drunk to dance but I never let him drink that much, a bottle of Heineken or two but that's it. I grabbed his hand and pulled him after them as he was about to make his way to the bar. He pressed his front to my back and we moved to the music. We tried some new tricks that I had taught him from over the summer when I was in the states. My cousin had a lot of African-American friends and they taught me their moves. A circle had formed around the four of us as we started doing our routines together as well as our own things, people were cheering and hooting for us moving with the music ourselves trying to copy us but not succeeding. Draco had mastered the break-dance moves I taught him that no one really knows here in England. We did the worm together, which everyone knows but we did it anyway, Ginny and Gorgy did their own thing. They tried to teach it to me but I just didn't get it. When the music ended Draco had me in a dip my left leg wrapped around his waist from behind and the other two were in some swing dance position that escapes me. We grabbed a table and Draco got our drinks when these three guys walked up to us with excited and eager faces.

"Hey!" A guy with green hair said with a weird smile on his face. I raised an eyebrow at him and glanced at Ginny and Gorgy who glanced back at me. We seem to have a physic connection or something with Draco because at that moment he returned with our drinks. He wrapped his arm around me and I could sense the disappointment from the guys.

"Can we help you three with something?" I asked for all of us. I was trying very hard to hold in laughter because the three guys looked at each other as if trying to pick someone to speak for the group.

"Uhh.....We just wanted to know if you ladies would like to dance or go out sometime and hang or something." A guy with black hair said. I turned my gaze to Ginny and Gorgy with raised eyebrows. Ginny bit her lip and looked at Gorgy trying to think of something to say.

"Well, Hermione there is already taken. And I'm not exactly into blokes if you know what I mean." Well, at least Gorgy put them down nicely unlike Draco would if I let him talk. Thankfully I kept him from talking by driving my heal into his shoe. They looked surprised when she said that. I guess that understood what she meant by that. They sulked away and I removed my heal from Draco's shoe.

"So, what drink did you get me?" I asked changing the subject quickly.

"Alright, I think I'll get this right this time." He said sounding triumphant "Ginny got: an Irish coffee, Gorgy got: a coke mixed with a little bit of scotch, and 'Mione got: a regular coke." He said after handing everyone their drinks. We gave him our famous 'nice try but it's still wrong' smile before switching the drinks, I swapped with Ginny who then changed with Gorgy.

"Need we remind you that Gorgy doesn't drink. And Ginny has her weird taste of coke and scotch, and I like Irish coffee because I'm a coffee fanatic and they hate coffee." I told Draco sweetly kissing him softly. "I'll drill it into your head later on though. Drink quickly so we can dance!" I continued taking several sips of my coffee. Ginny and Gorgy finished first and went to start dancing. Draco left to go to the bathroom so there I sat at the table sipping my coffee watching Ginny and Gorgy dance.

"Hey Hermione!" Called a voice directly behind me, I turned and saw my potions partner, Ashley Burner.

"Uhh, hey. Can I help you Ashley?" She sat down next to me with a smile on her face.

"Draco's really hot isn't he, I'd love to-."

"He's taken Ashley." I cut in before she could finish. She looked at me with her wide eyes she reminded me of Luna but Ashley's really crazy. She belongs at St. Mungo's but no one wants to admit it.

"And how would you know? It's not like you're with him or something. And anyway he wouldn't give a shit about you because you're in Gryffindor and you're a mudblood." She said nastily and she was really starting to get ton my nerves. No one calls me a mudblood anymore and gets away with it! I stood and she stood as well and I got in her face with a dangerous look in my eyes.

"If no one told you I don't go by that title anymore. And I don't like being called it anyway, so take what you said back and let you alone and you can leave in one piece." I told her but she just smiled at me. My fists clenched as she smiled her goofy smile at me like everything was just fine.

"But he is really sexy don't you think? I wonder how he is in bed." She continued on.

"He's kinda my boyfriend so can you stop." I snapped at her. She just looked at me with a surprised look.

"Really? Now I never thought that would happen, why would he choose someone like you?" At that point I hit her; she hit the floor and stared up at me with big shocked eyes wondering what she did to have her deserve getting hit. Well, she fucking pissed the hell out of me that's what. She stood slowly turned and walked away. I didn't care because Draco returned and pulled me to the dance floor. The music so loud you couldn't hear the screams.