Very short chapter here…Just because I wanted it to be short really.  I could have prolonged it, but I don't really want to.

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Chapter Ten - The Aftermath

Hermione ran into her room and shut the door, leaning against it with her eyes shut.  Could it be?  Did he… like her?  She ran to the bed and jumped onto it, snatching up her diary and writing a detailed account of the happenings.  At the end she added:

This is what I wanted all along, for Draco to like me so I could use him to get at Harry and Ron for ignoring me, but now I think I have succeeded, it feels…different.  Maybe I should go out with him for real.

I know he was my enemy for six years, but Harry and Ron have been my friends for the exact same amount of time, and look at how they are treating me.

Oh god, I think I love Draco Malfoy.  It's just like that line in Romeo and Juliet 'My only love sprang from my only hate'.  It doesn't hurt that he's the best looking guy in school.

I was completely wrong about him, I see that now.  He's a nice guy you just have to get on the right side of him.  He's clever, caring and so good looking.  I think I will go out with him.

Hermione read this back to herself with a small smile on her lips, then she closed her book and put it pack in the drawer, and got ready for bed.

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"Oh god," Draco shut the door to his room and paced up and down.  "What have you gotten yourself into, boy?"  He said to himself.  Scorning himself as his father used to always comfort him in time of extreme stress, and boy, was he under extreme stress.

"Okay, so you live with the Mudblood, you decide it would be cool to mess her around a bit, drive her friends crazy, and it works."  He said to himself as he paced the room, then he added, flopping onto the bed, "now you're falling for her."

He shut his eyes and tried to block the mental image that was engraved in his brain of her eyes and her hair brushing against his cheeks.

"Maybe this is a good thing."  Draco told himself.  "She seems to like you too, so you can fuck her around then dump her, leaving her destroyed too."  He nodded to himself, but part of him was unconvinced.  He had grown closer to Hermione then anyone else at the school, bar Blaise, and really didn't want to mess her around like that.  It was when it meant nothing, but now it was hitting a little too close to home.

            A few minutes thinking over the possible plans of action later, he decided the best way to go about things was to ignore her and deny anything happened last night.  He nodded to himself again, that would be better.