An: I hate this chapter so much… but it needed to happen so there. Don't complain about the bands either, they were just the bands that happened to be playing on my computer whilst I wrote this.

I haven't been writing this much, but I WILL finish it. SO there

Thanks to everyone who read this first, and have come back to it, I gonna do a hall of fame one of these days for you guys. See ya later.

Chapter Nine - Music Mayhem

"Draco, you're gonna love me!" Two hours later an excited Hermione burst in through the common room door, surprising Draco, who was reading quietly by the fire.

"Who says I don't already?" He looked at her evenly, as she turned pink and smiled coyly at him. Inwardly he smirked. Yup, a compliment thrown in here and there, and she is yours for life.

She shook her head, her hair fanning out around her. "I've done it!" She held up a vial of blue liquid triumphantly.

Draco sat up and stared at the liquid. It was exactly the same colour as the crystals they had found earlier… She grinned at him and pulled out her wand. "Accio, CD player." Her CD player came flying out of her room.

Draco looked at her quizzically. "You actually brought your CD player to school? Even though you couldn't use it?"

Hermione shrugged and smiled. "Security blanket." She shook her head again. "You've distracted me, why do you insist on distracting me?" She crouched by the coffee table where the CD player stood and opened the vial. Draco came and crouched down next to her.

"What do you have to do?" He was sitting so close she could feel his breath on her ear, which sent shivers, down her spine. She shook the sensation away and brought a dropper out of her pocket.

"Just two drops should do it." She opened the battery door of the CD player and dropped two small drops of the liquid onto the batteries. Nothing happened. They stood up, disappointed. "I'll keep looking." She started for the door.

"Wait." Draco reached out and grabbed her arm. He pointed to the top of the player, where a red light was flashing.

Hermione had never smiled so much, she pushed the button marked "play" and The Offspring started blaring out of the speakers. She looked to Draco, who looked at if he was going to explode.

"Yes!" He picked her up and twirled her round. "Every student in the year has been trying to solve the mystery for six years, but the Granger girl does it in two hours." He said as he spun her above his head. She giggled as she looked down at him.

As he danced he felt a strange sensation. Hermione looked gorgeous with her hair falling either side of her face and giggling. He didn't know when he'd seen anything so beautiful, her hair set off her eyes, and he could get lost in those deep chocolate whirlpools. He stopped dancing, and lowered her until her face was just above his own, but her feet did not touch the ground, her slight weight nothing to him as he was taken over by an unfamiliar emotion. He held her at arm's length; her hair brushing his arms and sending tingles through his body. The beating of his heart drowned even the music out. He felt as if he was floating, just looking into her eyes.

Hermione looked down into Draco's eyes, their steely grey looked so cold, so harsh, but she could see through that layer from this angle, she could see the silver lining underneath the clouds of grey, it looked so inviting. She didn't know what he was doing, just standing there, but somehow she was glad he hadn't let her go. She could feel him breathing heavily as she looked down into his eyes, her hands resting lightly on his shoulders.

No. Draco thought as his senses fought for control. It's Granger, know-it-all Mudblood Gryfindor. You don't want her, you're just happy that the stupid bitch has a purpose, that finally you'll be able to listen to music and make popcorn.

Most of him believed this, as he slowly lowered her onto her feet. His hands were still on her waist and her hands were on his shoulders. The last notes of Original Prankster faded away and a slow song started. Draco didn't know who it was by, but it sounded like that band from America, The Calling. He smiled inwardly, what irony.

Hermione shot him a smile and looked towards the CD player, more so she wouldn't have to look into Draco's eyes then anything, a slow song, how embarrassing to be in the arms of Draco Malfoy when a slow song struck up. Not knowing quite what to do, she started to pull away from him, only to find a large part of herself resisting. Hesitating, she cursed herself. 'You're trying to get him to like you, pulling away doesn't give the right impression.' She convinced herself that was the reason she didn't want to pull away.

Just before she forced herself to pull away and shut herself in her room, Draco pulled her towards him and wrapped his arms around her. The resisting part of her suddenly relaxed and she rested her head on his shoulder, as he swayed them from side to side to the music. She shut her eyes and took a deep breath, letting go of all the confusion and angst inside her, he smelt sharp and tangy, and she breathed deeply into the scent, focusing on it.

Draco fought with himself. A huge part of him refused to let her go as he held her tight to his chest. He felt her sigh and relax into him, burying her head in his neck. They swayed slowly to the music. She lifted her head and looked up to him and their eyes met, as if in a dream, Draco started to move his lips closer to hers, and she did the same. Just before their lips brushed, the CD player, with its perfect timing as always, started blaring out a fast loud song by Blink-182, the couple sprang apart at the noise and smiled sheepishly at each other.

Draco couldn't understand what was happening Hermione was standing just a metre away from him, looking anywhere but him. A metre had never seemed so far away, all he wanted to do was close the gap, but he didn't, instead he coughed and faked a yawn.

"Well, it's late."

"Yes it is," Hermione replied eagerly, but still not meeting his gaze.

"I'm going to bed now," Hermione nodded and shut the CD player off with a flick of her wand.

"Night," she said, before they both almost ran to their separate dorms.

Well, there ya go, I'll prolly up date this tomorrow but I may not seeming as my brother's friends are coming to do a film shoot here (he's doing film at Uni) and he always wants me in his films as the really hard parts, like the zombie, or the stupid girl who has to run and jump over crap on a steep slope, then be kill by badgers… anyway, see ya.