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Chapter 5: Actions
When they look back at those first few weeks of school they find it hard to believe how bold they really were. The actions that they took to see each other and be with each other seem like they would have been so obvious. They wondered how it is that no one ever knew.
Draco Malfoy had never wanted something that bad in his entire life. It was a different kind of want, a need. Not like the one you have when you want a new shirt or cd but something totally different. This want is what sent him into action.
For Hermione Granger, Draco's actions were just as surprising as they were welcome. She had not realized how much she actually wanted him. It seemed that she was thinking about him just as much as he was thinking about her.
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the worst
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you can have the best of me
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Hermione woke up with one big smile on her face. She couldn't help it. It finally, finally seemed like things were going her way. She would never say that she was falling for Draco. That was crazy. She was just attached to him, attracted in one of the most peculiar ways. So in that sense she needed him. She needed to see him, and talk to him, and maybe she needed to let him hold her again. Maybe.
She got up and went to her own private bathroom, trying as hard as she could not to think of him. For that was what she had been doing all night. Yet she found it slightly harder than it sounded. And she had to wonder how it happened, how the seed was planted. Just two weeks ago the only thought she would have had for Draco, well Malfoy then, was one of hate. Now she was having thoughts of something completely different. She had to see him.
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Draco looked around the common room as he quickly put a hand to his mouth to cover the smile. How had it come to this? Here he was, sitting with his fellow Slytherins, trying to plan evil, and he couldn't stop think about her. Or smiling. Something must be wrong with him. He felt like one of those, oh how he shuddered to say it, happy kind of people.
He could still smell her. How weird was that? He had showered, doused himself in cologne, and smoked a pack and he still couldn't get her out of him. She had infested his system. He felt like he needed her with him, like she was comforting him. It just didn't make sense. This was one of his sworn enemies, his rivals. But that didn't matter to him anymore; now all he kept seeing was her face as he had held her the night before. He needed to talk to her.
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It happens to be that things always happen right when you don't want them to. So, as it was, Hermione was with Ron and Harry; and Draco was with Pansy the next time they saw each other. This time they would not be able to talk, for the rules were set up in their school and the boundaries couldn't be broken.
They passed by one another, each group choosing not to exchange insults, and they felt it. Draco, after feeling this again, decided to take action. When they were right next to each other he stuck his hand out and quickly grabbed hers. It was for one second, no one other than them saw it, a barely noticeable thing. Yet they both noticed. And they both felt it. All day.
"'Mione? Did you hear the question? We need to know what the potions essay was about," said Harry later that night in the common room.
"What? Oh, yeah, sorry. It's about the effect the Soul-Searing Potion has had on the wizarding community this century. 10 to 15 pages."
"Oh great, that really sounds like a fun time. Hey 'Mione, are you okay? You seem really distracted," said Ron, noticing the strangeness that his friend had had all day.
"Oh, yeah, sure, I'm fine. Just tired you know?" She said as casually as she could.
"Oh, okay, just making sur-" He was cut off as someone came running in the room.
"Hermione, Malfoy's in the hallway looking for you! He's really mad; it sounds like there was a Heads meeting that you forgot about. I really think you need to get out there," panted Joey Phillabovey, a Gryffindor third year.
Hermione looked surprised. But she quickly covered up, putting on her concerned and confused face she turned to her two best friends.
"Oh my gosh! How could this have happened? You guys I have to go. I'll talk to you later," and with that she ran out of the room.
Draco saw her coming out of the portrait before she saw him. He had to smile again; she just kept doing it to him, making him happy. He watched her as she stopped in the hallway, searching him out.
"Granger!" He yelled. "Over here."
"Draco?" She said as she walked up to him, "What are you doing?"
"Oh this? It's nothing. I just wanted to talk to you. Come on."
Once they reached his pre-decided area she had to laugh. The old charms classroom stood in front of her, it seemed that it was quickly becoming their room.
"So, where's the meeting?" She asked him.
"Oh that, right," he said, and he winked, "It's right in here."
She sat down at one of the desks and turned her face to look up at him. "Draco, what are we doing?"
"Uh, we're talking, why?" He asked innocently.
"Oh, no reason. I don't know why I would find this situation weird. So what do you want to talk about anyway? How about your summer? How was it?"
"My summer huh? Well it was pretty boring. I just stayed home most of the summer, you?"
"Oh no," she yelled at him, "We are not getting into this again. No more talk of summer; I don't know what I was thinking even starting that."
"Fine, no more summer talk. Oh, but guess this one thing I did this summer." He asked excitedly.
"What?"
"'Mione, you're supposed to guess. Come on."
"Ok, uh, you went scuba diving?!"
"What? I don't even know…ok, no, you're wrong." He said. "I started training to become an animagi."
"No way!" She shouted, turning fully to him with excitement in her voice. "That's amazing. How is that even possible?"
"Well, when I finish all my training at the end of the year I'll be 18 so then I can be legal." He said.
"Yeah, but what about your dad? I thought he was all über strict all the time."
"He is. It's just that he thinks this sort of training might help me to 'become one of the greatest wizards ever' so he's letting me do it. I know it seems kind of stupid, but I'm really excited."
"No way Draco, I don't think it's stupid. Actually I'm totally jealous. You stink."
"Uh, well thanks." He said, in a mock hurt voice. "Anyway, what have you been up to?"
"Oh, I just read this really great book, you should read it."
"No way! You, read a book? I don't believe it." He said back to her.
She threw out her arm and hit him in the chest, "Shut up Draco! I'm trying to be serious here."
"Yeah, me too. I was shocked, sheesh, no need for abuse." He said to her, as he took her hand that was still on him and wrapped his own around it.
"You're not even funny," she pouted, yet her eyes were trained on their hands and in her head she wasn't even sure what she was saying, "I'm glad you came and got me."
"Yeah," he said softy, "Me too."
"But, you know, I probably have to go. People will get suspicious."
"Let them, it doesn't bother me." He whined, tugging her hand back down as she stood up.
"But it just might bother me. Come on, walk me to the door at least."
So he got up and pulled her to the door with him. When the got there, he took action, he wrapped his arms around her and put his head on her shoulder.
"'Mione?"
"Hmm?" She whispered against his chest.
"I think you're changing me."
"Is that good?" She asked, turning he eyes to his and really searching them.
"I'm not sure yet. It could be." He said quietly.
"Draco-" She stopped talking as he reached one hand up and held her face in his hand. Hermione leaned her head into his hand, trying as hard as she could to make the moment last forever.
"You have to go right," he said, quickly breaking the spell, "I don't want to ruin your reputation."
"Don't worry," she said over her shoulder as she walked out, "I won't let you."
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we got older but we're still young
we never grew out of this feeling that we wont give up
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Hermione went to bed with the thought of that one boy on her mind. And, since she was a girl, she found herself dreaming of things about him. About how they would go to college together, or how he would befriend all of her friends and change his evil ways. She dreamt of dates in Hogsmeade and maybe one day a family of her own. It seemed that she had hope. Something she had gone for a while completely without, and it felt good. So she slept. And she dreamt.
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Draco looked out the window and he thought of her. He brushed his teeth and he thought of her. He did it when he changed clothes, when he read his book. But Draco's situation was a little different. He also thought of her as he kissed his girlfriend Pansy goodnight, once again reminding himself how confusing their situation really was. But when Draco went to sleep he thought of her and it wasn't confusing, it was just nice.
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