*(IF YOU COME BACK)*
a/n: CHAP6!! WHEEE!! OMG, 50+ reviews?! I LOVE YA ALL GUYS! KEEP 'EM COMING!!
this chapter's got some swearing, so forgimme for mi use of vulgar words! oh, and review!!
disclaimer: i don't particularly wish that HP belongs to me, but i would love it if someone gives me Draco. (",)
CHAPTER SIX: CONFRONTATIONS
Hermione sat beside Ginny during dinner; poking at her pudding she groaned as she recalled her behaviour towards Draco Malfoy not so long ago. To admit, even though it was horrible to do so, she had somewhat enjoyed the feeling of Malfoy against her. Eew, bad thoughts, gal, mentally slapping herself she blushed slightly at the not-so-chaste image her mind had involuntarily conjured. But then again...
"You alright?" the redheaded girl beside her asked concernedly. "You are looking rather... flushed."
Hermione blushed even harder; Ah, shit, there is no way I'm ever gonna tell anyone about what happened just now. "No, I am fine," she muttered, trying to be as convincing as she could and hoping against all odds that Ginny was sensitive enough to leave her alone.
Though that was an unfulfillable wish... Weasleys were, by nature, too curious for their own good.
"Are you sure? Because, erm, you have been staring at your plate for the past ten minutes." Ginny persisted.
Hermione smiled weakly; God, if only she knew what I had just done . Pushing her dinner away she excused herself. "I am going back to do some studying," she said to the youngest Weasley, then hurriedly left before Ginny could ask her anything more.
*
Draco had been watching Granger since she came down to the Great Hall, and he noticed that she hadn't much appetite. The Weasley girl was talking to her, he saw, but she was obviously not into the conversation. It had gone on for some time like this, until the Mudblood started reddening furiously, then she had left the Hall, leaving a gaping redheaded girl behind.
It didn't take a genius to figure out what had just happened and why.
Hermione Granger, that brown-headed, bushy-haired, know-it-all Mudblood, was flustered.
Because of him.
Okay, so that might be an exaggeration, he admitted to himself, but his ego was taking over. But then again she MUST have felt some sort of attraction towards me; why else would she kiss ME, of all people? He tried hard, but he just couldn't wipe away his smug grin. Pansy was shooting him curious glances and he hastily looked away. It was rather vital to prevent people from knowing his plan; if he let them take things as they were his reputation would go down the drain-- if he let them KNOW his plan would be spoiled, definitely, Hogwarts housed some of the most garrulous gossipers he had ever met.
Finishing his dessert he stood up and strolled out of the Hall. Crabbe and Goyle were so engrossed in their food that they had yet to take notice of his leave. Pansy was, luckily, trying to snog her *boyfriend*, so Draco made his way out without any unwanted interruptions.
As he rounded the corridor branching out from the Great Hall to the four towers, he spotted Granger leaning against a wall some distance down from him.
Well, well, he grinned evilly, Just my luck.
*
Hermione was trying very, very, very hard not to lose her self-control. Leaning against the wall of an isolated corridor for support she inhaled deeply, attempting vainly to calm down. Oh Merlin, she really regretted leaving the Great Hall that early!
Damn Ron and his stupid girl. Damn Stacey Jance and curse her to hell! she thought scathingly. Squeezing her eyes shut she tried to think of anything BUT Ron, but her mind was not behaving properly and it kept wandering back to the scene she had walked into just now.
*****FLASHBACK*****
Hermione left the Hall with an empty stomach, yet she didn't feel hungry. She knew she couldn't keep on not eating, it wasn't good for her body and she was already feeling faint now and then. But what to do! Wringing her hands frustratedly she increased her pace.
So preoccupied with her own thoughts that she hadn't noticed the presence of another two people.
When she finally noticed it was too late. She had walk right into Stacey Jance, and Merlin save her, they were actually necking.
She knew they had left dinner early, of course, she followed Ron's every action whenever she could. But skipping dinner, especially with Ron's humongous appetite, just to snog? Even though she hadn't really eaten anything except a couple of small cherry tarts Hermione felt an urge to puke. It was sick, seriously sick, the way Jance threw herself all over Ron. And now she had to go and bump right into them.
As if that wasn't bad enough. Hermione had planned on walking past-- avoidance of any contact whatsoever with Ron was completely necessary because if she did so it was a hundred percent she would break down. And hell would give way before she voluntarily did so.
Oh no, Lady Luck was definitely not shining on her. It was just a slight disruption in their snogging session, after all, yet Jance actually blew up at her. Yeah, that's so cool, mate, thought Hermione sarcastically, Get a room or something instead of lurking in the corridors then, she wanted to say.
But she didn't, because Ron was there.
Jance was going on and on and on about something completely trivial; she hadn't noticed what but it was something along the lines of whether Hermione was blind or something blah blah yada yada yada. And Hermione felt anger, of course, she tried to quench it by telling herself she absolutely couldn't explode right in front of her boy-- no, no, ex-boyfriend, but her emotions were foolhardy and they refused to listen to her mind.
Damn my heart, was her last sane thought. Then she gave way to the surfacing fury. The torture her heart had gone through this year. The stress and frustratedness of it all.
"Now, look, you BITCH! Who do you think you are, eh? Just a stupid idiotic transfer student who's got absolutely nothing BUT LOOKS! HELL, YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE THE LOOKS! PRETTY? MY ASS! I WONDER WHO'S GOT SUCH BAD TASTE TO ACTUALLY FALL FOR YOU! And, PUH-LEASE! Get a room with HIM--" at this Hermione jerked her thumb in Ron's direction. "IF YOU WANNA SNOG! You think it's nice laying on bed in the middle of the night hearing AWFULLY GROSSING-OUT SUCKING SOUNDS? HELL! I'VE GOT ENOUGH NIGHTMARES WITHOUT YOU TWO ADDING TO THEM!"
Pausing she took a deep breath and was about to continued ranting when she caught sight of Ron's face.
If he hadn't been so freckled in the first place his face would probably be white.
Oh no, Hermione thought, her heart sinking. Had I gone too far this time?
In the silence that ensued after her outburst, that mental devil of hers tried taking over her mind again.
He's hurt you so much, a little explosion won't hurt him, whispered the dark voice.
No, no, Hermione, you ought to apologise, he was your best friend, for goodness' sake! At least you owe it to him, to apologise to his girlfriend, nagged the angel.
But that's the whole bloody point! the Devil screamed. You should have been HIS girlfriend! He's a fool to dump you and he needs some sort of punishment one way or another!
And so it went, until Hermione felt like her head was splitting into two.
"STOP IT!" she yelled, then realised the other two Gryffindors were staring uncertainly at her.
She didn't give a damn what that Jance bitch thought, of course, but what would Ron think if she turned mentally unstable in front of him?
Turning in the opposite direction she muttered a "sorry" then rushed off as fast her legs could carry.
Oh God, she really regretted leaving the Great Hall that early.
***END OF FLASHBACK***
Opening her eyes she realised that she had been clenching her hands so tightly her fingernails were digging into her palms. Okay, now, cool down Granger, she instructed herself. Calm down, and act as though nothing had happened.
She knew she could do it; she had been hiding all her emotions and feelings from the outside world for so long that she was used to it now. It wasn't as though she had some everlasting project with Ron or Jance; she could easily avoid them if she wanted to. The only place they could ever meet in close proximity was the Gryffindor common room but Hermione could always enter by the other way. Through the Prefects common room. The reason she hadn't been using that was because in some sicko way of hers she had convinced herself that Ron still MIGHT notice her. But she knew it was useless, now, of course, and she just had to accept the fact to move on.
Not hard, Granger, not hard at all. It's even easier than Snape's Potions lesson.
Steeling her resolve she straightened determinedly. Then...
WHY THE HELL DOES HE APPEAR WHENEVER I LEAST WANT HIM TO?!
*
Draco smirked at the Mudblood's expression-- anger, loathing, some sort of dread, even. She did not make any move, however, until he stopped around three inches away from her. Then she took a step backwards, almost tentatively.
He controlled the urge to laugh out loud. It was just SO amusing; this girl retreating from him, when, after all, she had been the one who initiated their two kisses.
Grinning to himself he took another step forwards, forcing her to back up against the wall.
"Well, well, who do we have here?" he teased, then realised he was supposed to be nice.
Oh brother, though. Who cares, he could always change his game tactics.
Granger was staring back at him stonily, and Draco had to say one thing, he admired her guts. Most girls he knew would probably be cowering from fear right now-- but Granger had, instead, challenged him back. Even though it was only eye contact, Draco could tell.
And that made the game more fun.
"You enjoyed the kiss, didn't you?" he leaned in closer; breathed into her ear.
"Wanna try again?"
Without waiting for her reply he kissed her.
Filthy, of course, touching a Mudblood always made him feel as though he had been rolling around in mud. But he couldn't deny that she was a rather good catch; he was out to have fun and he would have it. Deepening the kiss, he smirked as he felt her arms snaked round his neck.
Ooo, so Granger's lusting for me, too.
Wait a minute. TOO? Where had that telltale word come from? Too? No, definitely no. More like, Granger's lusting for me. Fullstop. Nothing more, nothing less.
Right?
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[JaE sPeAkIng]
whew! chap6 finished, hope ya all like it, a little bit of kissing, and it IS longer. i think. LoL, dun haf a word counter here but sitting here for exactly half an hour tapping away at my keyboard SHOULD be yielding some sort *harvest*. Right? hahahaha... o no, forgimme, brain cells burnt after this chapt and still wishes m hermione*~. lolz....
here's mi review-replies; gawd, ppl, thx so much! 50+!!
Belle: "Ronbashing"?! hahaha... tt's a kewl way of putting it! Yep, sometimes Ron can be so clueless...
Nattygirl85: THANKS!
Emilie: Here's chap6, then, =þ
Paypay: lol thx loads!
me: kk will be sure to email u!
dansGurl21: oh, erm, i DID mention in chap1, he's at Beuxbatons training to be an Auror you see. :D. haha, this chapt long enuf??
MajicalFerret: o no, i missed my deadline by one day, plz dun chop me down!! haha... YES I WANT DRACO TOOO!!!
`div: haha, yuppers, somehow i enjoying putting a *bad* streak in Hermione too... i mean it's no fun at all writing a goody-two-shoes is it?
gwen: lol, it's pretty much the second or third time i tried writing this type of scene... thx for ur encouragement!
Shanshine: YS!! it's NOT too harsh, ok?! hehehe... i understand wat u mean, i think so too, there WILL be a twist in the story but not at the end. TEEHEE!
Kerbi: lol no prob, thx for reviewing!
Cindy: *juicy*? haha... thot u thot tt it was **gross**? :D
Pearlyn: YEA! MORE!
~dracos*gal~: lingzi... c i so clever noe it's u immediately. ahhahah. dracosgal??
yao: haha yao THX FOR URE ENTHU REPLIES!!! juz wanna let u noe, tho, tt u posted a same review twice. hahahah. and draco ISH gorgeous. and hermione pretty. yea! aniwae here's chap6, cuz i can write faster, i mean, nine days w/o sch i'll be on a writing spREE!!!
THANKS LOADS AGAIN TO THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE R&R!!! & ps...
i noe some ppl kinda hate it when the authors ASK for reviews, but i just wanna sae that those reviews ya all ppl gave me REALLY kept me going. I'm a kinda low-self-esteem person u c, so i need all the encouragement i can get. :P lol, it's true, though, I was on cloud nine the whole day after knowing i reached 50 reviews for only 5 chapt! hahaha... yeps... so if u can, juz press that purple thingy down there, can u, i m looking forward to reading e comments!! (issit too much to ask for at least ten reviews for THIS chapter?? =þ, -a very very thickskinned author here).
a/n: CHAP6!! WHEEE!! OMG, 50+ reviews?! I LOVE YA ALL GUYS! KEEP 'EM COMING!!
this chapter's got some swearing, so forgimme for mi use of vulgar words! oh, and review!!
disclaimer: i don't particularly wish that HP belongs to me, but i would love it if someone gives me Draco. (",)
CHAPTER SIX: CONFRONTATIONS
Hermione sat beside Ginny during dinner; poking at her pudding she groaned as she recalled her behaviour towards Draco Malfoy not so long ago. To admit, even though it was horrible to do so, she had somewhat enjoyed the feeling of Malfoy against her. Eew, bad thoughts, gal, mentally slapping herself she blushed slightly at the not-so-chaste image her mind had involuntarily conjured. But then again...
"You alright?" the redheaded girl beside her asked concernedly. "You are looking rather... flushed."
Hermione blushed even harder; Ah, shit, there is no way I'm ever gonna tell anyone about what happened just now. "No, I am fine," she muttered, trying to be as convincing as she could and hoping against all odds that Ginny was sensitive enough to leave her alone.
Though that was an unfulfillable wish... Weasleys were, by nature, too curious for their own good.
"Are you sure? Because, erm, you have been staring at your plate for the past ten minutes." Ginny persisted.
Hermione smiled weakly; God, if only she knew what I had just done . Pushing her dinner away she excused herself. "I am going back to do some studying," she said to the youngest Weasley, then hurriedly left before Ginny could ask her anything more.
*
Draco had been watching Granger since she came down to the Great Hall, and he noticed that she hadn't much appetite. The Weasley girl was talking to her, he saw, but she was obviously not into the conversation. It had gone on for some time like this, until the Mudblood started reddening furiously, then she had left the Hall, leaving a gaping redheaded girl behind.
It didn't take a genius to figure out what had just happened and why.
Hermione Granger, that brown-headed, bushy-haired, know-it-all Mudblood, was flustered.
Because of him.
Okay, so that might be an exaggeration, he admitted to himself, but his ego was taking over. But then again she MUST have felt some sort of attraction towards me; why else would she kiss ME, of all people? He tried hard, but he just couldn't wipe away his smug grin. Pansy was shooting him curious glances and he hastily looked away. It was rather vital to prevent people from knowing his plan; if he let them take things as they were his reputation would go down the drain-- if he let them KNOW his plan would be spoiled, definitely, Hogwarts housed some of the most garrulous gossipers he had ever met.
Finishing his dessert he stood up and strolled out of the Hall. Crabbe and Goyle were so engrossed in their food that they had yet to take notice of his leave. Pansy was, luckily, trying to snog her *boyfriend*, so Draco made his way out without any unwanted interruptions.
As he rounded the corridor branching out from the Great Hall to the four towers, he spotted Granger leaning against a wall some distance down from him.
Well, well, he grinned evilly, Just my luck.
*
Hermione was trying very, very, very hard not to lose her self-control. Leaning against the wall of an isolated corridor for support she inhaled deeply, attempting vainly to calm down. Oh Merlin, she really regretted leaving the Great Hall that early!
Damn Ron and his stupid girl. Damn Stacey Jance and curse her to hell! she thought scathingly. Squeezing her eyes shut she tried to think of anything BUT Ron, but her mind was not behaving properly and it kept wandering back to the scene she had walked into just now.
Hermione left the Hall with an empty stomach, yet she didn't feel hungry. She knew she couldn't keep on not eating, it wasn't good for her body and she was already feeling faint now and then. But what to do! Wringing her hands frustratedly she increased her pace.
So preoccupied with her own thoughts that she hadn't noticed the presence of another two people.
When she finally noticed it was too late. She had walk right into Stacey Jance, and Merlin save her, they were actually necking.
She knew they had left dinner early, of course, she followed Ron's every action whenever she could. But skipping dinner, especially with Ron's humongous appetite, just to snog? Even though she hadn't really eaten anything except a couple of small cherry tarts Hermione felt an urge to puke. It was sick, seriously sick, the way Jance threw herself all over Ron. And now she had to go and bump right into them.
As if that wasn't bad enough. Hermione had planned on walking past-- avoidance of any contact whatsoever with Ron was completely necessary because if she did so it was a hundred percent she would break down. And hell would give way before she voluntarily did so.
Oh no, Lady Luck was definitely not shining on her. It was just a slight disruption in their snogging session, after all, yet Jance actually blew up at her. Yeah, that's so cool, mate, thought Hermione sarcastically, Get a room or something instead of lurking in the corridors then, she wanted to say.
But she didn't, because Ron was there.
Jance was going on and on and on about something completely trivial; she hadn't noticed what but it was something along the lines of whether Hermione was blind or something blah blah yada yada yada. And Hermione felt anger, of course, she tried to quench it by telling herself she absolutely couldn't explode right in front of her boy-- no, no, ex-boyfriend, but her emotions were foolhardy and they refused to listen to her mind.
Damn my heart, was her last sane thought. Then she gave way to the surfacing fury. The torture her heart had gone through this year. The stress and frustratedness of it all.
"Now, look, you BITCH! Who do you think you are, eh? Just a stupid idiotic transfer student who's got absolutely nothing BUT LOOKS! HELL, YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE THE LOOKS! PRETTY? MY ASS! I WONDER WHO'S GOT SUCH BAD TASTE TO ACTUALLY FALL FOR YOU! And, PUH-LEASE! Get a room with HIM--" at this Hermione jerked her thumb in Ron's direction. "IF YOU WANNA SNOG! You think it's nice laying on bed in the middle of the night hearing AWFULLY GROSSING-OUT SUCKING SOUNDS? HELL! I'VE GOT ENOUGH NIGHTMARES WITHOUT YOU TWO ADDING TO THEM!"
Pausing she took a deep breath and was about to continued ranting when she caught sight of Ron's face.
If he hadn't been so freckled in the first place his face would probably be white.
Oh no, Hermione thought, her heart sinking. Had I gone too far this time?
In the silence that ensued after her outburst, that mental devil of hers tried taking over her mind again.
He's hurt you so much, a little explosion won't hurt him, whispered the dark voice.
No, no, Hermione, you ought to apologise, he was your best friend, for goodness' sake! At least you owe it to him, to apologise to his girlfriend, nagged the angel.
But that's the whole bloody point! the Devil screamed. You should have been HIS girlfriend! He's a fool to dump you and he needs some sort of punishment one way or another!
And so it went, until Hermione felt like her head was splitting into two.
"STOP IT!" she yelled, then realised the other two Gryffindors were staring uncertainly at her.
She didn't give a damn what that Jance bitch thought, of course, but what would Ron think if she turned mentally unstable in front of him?
Turning in the opposite direction she muttered a "sorry" then rushed off as fast her legs could carry.
Oh God, she really regretted leaving the Great Hall that early.
Opening her eyes she realised that she had been clenching her hands so tightly her fingernails were digging into her palms. Okay, now, cool down Granger, she instructed herself. Calm down, and act as though nothing had happened.
She knew she could do it; she had been hiding all her emotions and feelings from the outside world for so long that she was used to it now. It wasn't as though she had some everlasting project with Ron or Jance; she could easily avoid them if she wanted to. The only place they could ever meet in close proximity was the Gryffindor common room but Hermione could always enter by the other way. Through the Prefects common room. The reason she hadn't been using that was because in some sicko way of hers she had convinced herself that Ron still MIGHT notice her. But she knew it was useless, now, of course, and she just had to accept the fact to move on.
Not hard, Granger, not hard at all. It's even easier than Snape's Potions lesson.
Steeling her resolve she straightened determinedly. Then...
WHY THE HELL DOES HE APPEAR WHENEVER I LEAST WANT HIM TO?!
*
Draco smirked at the Mudblood's expression-- anger, loathing, some sort of dread, even. She did not make any move, however, until he stopped around three inches away from her. Then she took a step backwards, almost tentatively.
He controlled the urge to laugh out loud. It was just SO amusing; this girl retreating from him, when, after all, she had been the one who initiated their two kisses.
Grinning to himself he took another step forwards, forcing her to back up against the wall.
"Well, well, who do we have here?" he teased, then realised he was supposed to be nice.
Oh brother, though. Who cares, he could always change his game tactics.
Granger was staring back at him stonily, and Draco had to say one thing, he admired her guts. Most girls he knew would probably be cowering from fear right now-- but Granger had, instead, challenged him back. Even though it was only eye contact, Draco could tell.
And that made the game more fun.
"You enjoyed the kiss, didn't you?" he leaned in closer; breathed into her ear.
"Wanna try again?"
Without waiting for her reply he kissed her.
Filthy, of course, touching a Mudblood always made him feel as though he had been rolling around in mud. But he couldn't deny that she was a rather good catch; he was out to have fun and he would have it. Deepening the kiss, he smirked as he felt her arms snaked round his neck.
Ooo, so Granger's lusting for me, too.
Wait a minute. TOO? Where had that telltale word come from? Too? No, definitely no. More like, Granger's lusting for me. Fullstop. Nothing more, nothing less.
Right?
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[JaE sPeAkIng]
whew! chap6 finished, hope ya all like it, a little bit of kissing, and it IS longer. i think. LoL, dun haf a word counter here but sitting here for exactly half an hour tapping away at my keyboard SHOULD be yielding some sort *harvest*. Right? hahahaha... o no, forgimme, brain cells burnt after this chapt and still wishes m hermione*~. lolz....
here's mi review-replies; gawd, ppl, thx so much! 50+!!
Belle: "Ronbashing"?! hahaha... tt's a kewl way of putting it! Yep, sometimes Ron can be so clueless...
Nattygirl85: THANKS!
Emilie: Here's chap6, then, =þ
Paypay: lol thx loads!
me: kk will be sure to email u!
dansGurl21: oh, erm, i DID mention in chap1, he's at Beuxbatons training to be an Auror you see. :D. haha, this chapt long enuf??
MajicalFerret: o no, i missed my deadline by one day, plz dun chop me down!! haha... YES I WANT DRACO TOOO!!!
`div: haha, yuppers, somehow i enjoying putting a *bad* streak in Hermione too... i mean it's no fun at all writing a goody-two-shoes is it?
gwen: lol, it's pretty much the second or third time i tried writing this type of scene... thx for ur encouragement!
Shanshine: YS!! it's NOT too harsh, ok?! hehehe... i understand wat u mean, i think so too, there WILL be a twist in the story but not at the end. TEEHEE!
Kerbi: lol no prob, thx for reviewing!
Cindy: *juicy*? haha... thot u thot tt it was **gross**? :D
Pearlyn: YEA! MORE!
~dracos*gal~: lingzi... c i so clever noe it's u immediately. ahhahah. dracosgal??
yao: haha yao THX FOR URE ENTHU REPLIES!!! juz wanna let u noe, tho, tt u posted a same review twice. hahahah. and draco ISH gorgeous. and hermione pretty. yea! aniwae here's chap6, cuz i can write faster, i mean, nine days w/o sch i'll be on a writing spREE!!!
THANKS LOADS AGAIN TO THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE R&R!!! & ps...
i noe some ppl kinda hate it when the authors ASK for reviews, but i just wanna sae that those reviews ya all ppl gave me REALLY kept me going. I'm a kinda low-self-esteem person u c, so i need all the encouragement i can get. :P lol, it's true, though, I was on cloud nine the whole day after knowing i reached 50 reviews for only 5 chapt! hahaha... yeps... so if u can, juz press that purple thingy down there, can u, i m looking forward to reading e comments!! (issit too much to ask for at least ten reviews for THIS chapter?? =þ, -a very very thickskinned author here).