EVERYONE SHOULD GO READ SOME OF ALYSSIUM'S STORIES. THEY ARE ALL VERY GOOD, AND SHE DESERVES ALOT MORE REVIEWS THEN WHAT SHE HAS GOTTEN. SO IF YOU ALL WOULD BE SO KIND AND GO READ AND REVIEW HERS THAT WOULD GREAT. THANK YOU ALL IN ADVANCED, YOU ARE ALL THE BEST REVIEWERS IN THE WORLD. HERE ARE THE TITLES FOR AKYSSIUM'S STORIES:
Blood Stories, Untitled, It's a Pirates Life For Me, Wishes Do Come True, Family Secret, AND Before the Scar.
AND IF YOU ALL WOULDN'T MIND PLEASE GO READ The Temptation of Another BY Orlando's Gurl
THANK YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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imogenhm: Thank you!
Alyssium: Yes you have, but thanks for reviewing anyways!!! Love ya lots
Orlando's Gurl: thanks for updating so much, I love your story.
Amarie Helyanwe: I know, and just think if a guy you liked would make that dream come true. hummmmm..... we need more guys like Draco, then maybe we won't have to keep them all underground and only use them for breading purposes!!! (Just a thought)
mermaidQt: Here is some more....
ekleenex: I take it, making you sing alone is a good thing? Thanks for all your support, very helpful.
angelcrystalgrl1: If you had thought that I would do that, then you wouldn't have come back to read... right? It would be cool to play with your favorite band.... and play with Draco but, lets not get into that right now!
EgyptsStar: Thanks, I like Cute! You'll find out what the second part is soon.
Elven at Heart: Thank you. Hope to talk to you soon on Yahoo, but enjoy reading in the mean time.
X-2love4ever: Thank you!!!!!!! Hope to talk to you soon.
luv-bug21: Yeah it would be, thats why I had Hermione do it, although I wish it could have been me.... oh well. thanks for reading and reviewing.
Tamurl07: Thank you. I like how the characters have come out as well, even if they are OOC. Oh well, its my story and I like the way they are. We definitly need more sweet guys, far too few...... tell me if what you thought was right in your next review, please!
Artee and Sporky: I feel your pain when it comes to parents. I just turned 19 yesterday, and they are still trying to tell me what to do.... hummm.... but what can you do, they never go away, and when they do you want them back! P.S. I didn't think that anyone would ever say that I updated too fast.... (hehe)
Mistress-0f-the-dragon: Why thank you!!!!! I'm glad you like! hope you like whats to come!
Silent Voices17: Insanity is always fun, especially when you get one of those padded room... (*Bounces off the wall*) thanks for reading!
David's Girl: I skipped it, sorry! I just didn't feel like writing another and sounding repetitive....
Callie: Thank you, sorry to scare you thou..... It was just what Hermione thought, not what was actually going to happen. Good luck on your letter to Tom!
denise4: Awwww, you stayed up late just for me!!!!! Hope you weren't too tired the next day. If you want I can make the story very uninteresting and boring, then you will be able to go to sleep!!!!!????? I am glad you liked it thou, please keep reading.
snufflesluver: Thank you for R&R. Everyone seems to like Metallica! Maybe cuz they are the greatest (Except the newest CD)
beautifulatlantisgirl: thank you.
yaminy-grint4eva: Dang, I am getting all sorts of Death Threats.... it kinda kewl!!! LOL I am glad you liked it, but if you kill the author, then it will never get updated!!!! Something to think about. BTW I am glad you liked it.
Satans Little Angel: Awww, thanks!
ShortStuff10: You will find out about Pansy in later chapters.... sorry, can't tell my secrets! Thanks for reading.
Karla: Thanks you.... here is the update.
shojo-inuyasha: Alright, Hermione has a Fender Strat Special HSS with Locking Tremolo, in Vintage White, part of the American Special Series. The strings are Fender Super 250L, Nickel Plated Steel. I hope that helps.
BigFurry1: Congrats!!!! I love Godsmack too! I have all of thier CDs. your goind to have a great time!!!!
Emma: Thanks. There will be some more scenes that I think you will like coming up soon.
a friend of Elven at haert: Thank you for coming and reading, and thank Elven at Haert for sending you here if she did. Its aways good to have a new reader.
Kagome loves Inuyasha: These things take time hunni! But i updated as soon as I could. Hope you like!!!!!
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Chapter 26: Romantic, In-Depth Confession.
Hermione and Draco stayed in the small room while Metallica finished their set. In between sets they all talked and laughed with the band, who shared hilarious stories from their journeys on the road. Hermione, despite her unbelief that this was actually happening to her, was having a blast. For, even her fantasies didn't compare to this.
Draco, who had gotten to know a whole lot about the band for Hermione's sake, also found himself having the time of his life. For, not only was the band good when it came to music, but they were excellent companions and easy to talk to. And they both regrettably said goodbye to the band as they went onstage to finish their last set.
"Come. I want to give you the second part of your gift now." Draco took her hand and led her through the door they had went through earlier. He led her down the corridor, which ended not far from where their dorm was.
Draco stopped in front of the portrait, his heart hammering in his chest, and took both of Hermione's hands in his "Close your eyes."
"Draco..." Hermione said in a playful flirtatious tone.
"Trust me, Hermione." Draco said, and Hermione closed her eyes.
"Metallica" Draco said to the portrait and led the unseeing Hermione into the common room. The warm, sweet scent of Honeydew Melon filled her nose as the flickering of light was seen through her eyelids. Draco released her hands and walked behind her.
"Open your eyes." Draco whispered in her ear from behind causing sensations to trickle up her spine.
Hermione slowly opened her eyes, and her jaw dropped. The entirety of the common room was covered in hundreds of lit candles. Every inch flickered with the light from the flame, except the small walkway on which they stood which led to a 6 foot circle in the middle of the room, an animal print rug laid on the floor at its center.
Draco slipped his arms round her waist, startling Hermione.
"Draco... when did you... how did you..." Hermione stuttered, unable to speak as she placed her hands over his.
"Quiet you." He whispered softly in her ear. Draco removed his arms from around Hermione and walked over to the CD player on the edge of the circle and pushed the play button.
"Dance with me?" Draco asked as he put his hands in his pockets. Hermione walked up to him as the words began.
~*"Every time our eyes meet
This feeling inside me
Is almost more than I can take
Baby when you touch me
I can feel how much you love me
And it just blows me away
I've never been this close to anyone or anything
I can hear your thoughts
I can see your dreams."*~
Hermione knew the song as "Amazed" by Lonestar. She wrapped her arms around Draco's neck, who took his hands out of his pockets and placed them on her sides. They began swaying in the slow rhythm of the song, staring into each others eyes which reflected the flickering lights of the romantic atmosphere.
Hermione rested her head on Draco's chest, and he embraced her tightly.
~*"The smell of your skin
The taste of your kiss
The way you whisper in the dark
Your hair all around me, baby you surround me
You touch everyplace in my heart
Oh, it feels like the first time every time
I wanna spent the whole night in your eyes
I don't know how you do what you do
I'm so in love with you, it just keeps getting better
I wanna spend the rest of my life with you by my side
Forever and ever
Every little thing that you do
Baby I'm amazed by you."*~
"Thank you Hermione." Draco said. Hermione pulled back and looked into his eyes.
"For what?"
"For giving me another chance" Draco said with a hint of sadness behind his deep blue eyes.
"That was all my fault, I shouldn't have walked away from you."
Draco shook his head, his blonde hair glistening in the candle light. "No, for giving me another chance after the way I treated you over the past 6 years."
"Oh...." Hermione was shocked that he'd bring up something so painful and risk ruining his romantic plan.
"When I saw you at the Yule Ball our 4th year, I was speechless. I couldn't think of a single awful thing to say to you that night, and it made me realize just how much I actually wanted you. It wasn't me who was superior to you this entire time, like I was brought up to believe, but the other way around. Since then, you were the one thing that I wanted, for your intellect as well as beauty, and your the one thing I was denied, money couldn't buy your affection. Being a Pureblood no longer held the pride I once thought, because you held the power." Draco sighed then continued.
"It left me only one choice, belittle you, to try and take away the power you held over me. For to give into my desire would have done more harm then good. Then, when my father disappeared, my hatred of muggles left with him, I thought it would be a new beginning. 6th year, I returned to school and there you were, happy as ever with your friends. I knew then, that you'd never look my way without hatred or disgust behind your honey colored eyes." They had ceased dancing and were now sitting on the animal print rug. Draco took Hermione's hand in his again. "How could I make right, what I had so wronged? My image was already set, bound to a fate I didn't want, yet one that I created. Peoples expectations of me hadn't changed, even though I had. 7th year started, my final chance to prove everyone's opinion of me wrong. Old habits die hard when surrounded by the same people and situations that started the bad habits to begin with. First day, I go to meet the Head Girl, prayer upon prayer it wasn't you, even though I knew it was. The torture began the moment I saw the look of horror on your face at McGonagall's proclaiming me Head Boy. The entire year to be spent in such close quarters." Tears were streaming down Hermione's face. "The night I came to your room, your voice calling to me as you sang, making me want to confess everything I had tried so hard to conceal behind a brick wall inside myself. The look you gave me when you leaned against the door frame, told me that maybe you could feel, or eventually feel for me, what I had been feeling for you. Not willing to put myself on the spot, for fear of rejection of seeing only what I desperately wanted to see, I asked for the first thing that came to mind, at which point I received my first clue to the inner workings of your mind. A paper on Luck and Fate." Hermione gasped, she hadn't known that he taken it. "After reading it, I returned it to your room with a new found light, people aren't always what the lead others to think. The paper was as beautiful as the girl who had written it, a girl I wanted to get to know with a passion, a girl out of my league..."
"Please Draco, I am nothing..."
"Stop right there!! Don't do this. Don't degrade yourself." Draco lifted her chin so that her misty eyes met his. "You are everything."
Blood Stories, Untitled, It's a Pirates Life For Me, Wishes Do Come True, Family Secret, AND Before the Scar.
AND IF YOU ALL WOULDN'T MIND PLEASE GO READ The Temptation of Another BY Orlando's Gurl
THANK YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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imogenhm: Thank you!
Alyssium: Yes you have, but thanks for reviewing anyways!!! Love ya lots
Orlando's Gurl: thanks for updating so much, I love your story.
Amarie Helyanwe: I know, and just think if a guy you liked would make that dream come true. hummmmm..... we need more guys like Draco, then maybe we won't have to keep them all underground and only use them for breading purposes!!! (Just a thought)
mermaidQt: Here is some more....
ekleenex: I take it, making you sing alone is a good thing? Thanks for all your support, very helpful.
angelcrystalgrl1: If you had thought that I would do that, then you wouldn't have come back to read... right? It would be cool to play with your favorite band.... and play with Draco but, lets not get into that right now!
EgyptsStar: Thanks, I like Cute! You'll find out what the second part is soon.
Elven at Heart: Thank you. Hope to talk to you soon on Yahoo, but enjoy reading in the mean time.
X-2love4ever: Thank you!!!!!!! Hope to talk to you soon.
luv-bug21: Yeah it would be, thats why I had Hermione do it, although I wish it could have been me.... oh well. thanks for reading and reviewing.
Tamurl07: Thank you. I like how the characters have come out as well, even if they are OOC. Oh well, its my story and I like the way they are. We definitly need more sweet guys, far too few...... tell me if what you thought was right in your next review, please!
Artee and Sporky: I feel your pain when it comes to parents. I just turned 19 yesterday, and they are still trying to tell me what to do.... hummm.... but what can you do, they never go away, and when they do you want them back! P.S. I didn't think that anyone would ever say that I updated too fast.... (hehe)
Mistress-0f-the-dragon: Why thank you!!!!! I'm glad you like! hope you like whats to come!
Silent Voices17: Insanity is always fun, especially when you get one of those padded room... (*Bounces off the wall*) thanks for reading!
David's Girl: I skipped it, sorry! I just didn't feel like writing another and sounding repetitive....
Callie: Thank you, sorry to scare you thou..... It was just what Hermione thought, not what was actually going to happen. Good luck on your letter to Tom!
denise4: Awwww, you stayed up late just for me!!!!! Hope you weren't too tired the next day. If you want I can make the story very uninteresting and boring, then you will be able to go to sleep!!!!!????? I am glad you liked it thou, please keep reading.
snufflesluver: Thank you for R&R. Everyone seems to like Metallica! Maybe cuz they are the greatest (Except the newest CD)
beautifulatlantisgirl: thank you.
yaminy-grint4eva: Dang, I am getting all sorts of Death Threats.... it kinda kewl!!! LOL I am glad you liked it, but if you kill the author, then it will never get updated!!!! Something to think about. BTW I am glad you liked it.
Satans Little Angel: Awww, thanks!
ShortStuff10: You will find out about Pansy in later chapters.... sorry, can't tell my secrets! Thanks for reading.
Karla: Thanks you.... here is the update.
shojo-inuyasha: Alright, Hermione has a Fender Strat Special HSS with Locking Tremolo, in Vintage White, part of the American Special Series. The strings are Fender Super 250L, Nickel Plated Steel. I hope that helps.
BigFurry1: Congrats!!!! I love Godsmack too! I have all of thier CDs. your goind to have a great time!!!!
Emma: Thanks. There will be some more scenes that I think you will like coming up soon.
a friend of Elven at haert: Thank you for coming and reading, and thank Elven at Haert for sending you here if she did. Its aways good to have a new reader.
Kagome loves Inuyasha: These things take time hunni! But i updated as soon as I could. Hope you like!!!!!
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Chapter 26: Romantic, In-Depth Confession.
Hermione and Draco stayed in the small room while Metallica finished their set. In between sets they all talked and laughed with the band, who shared hilarious stories from their journeys on the road. Hermione, despite her unbelief that this was actually happening to her, was having a blast. For, even her fantasies didn't compare to this.
Draco, who had gotten to know a whole lot about the band for Hermione's sake, also found himself having the time of his life. For, not only was the band good when it came to music, but they were excellent companions and easy to talk to. And they both regrettably said goodbye to the band as they went onstage to finish their last set.
"Come. I want to give you the second part of your gift now." Draco took her hand and led her through the door they had went through earlier. He led her down the corridor, which ended not far from where their dorm was.
Draco stopped in front of the portrait, his heart hammering in his chest, and took both of Hermione's hands in his "Close your eyes."
"Draco..." Hermione said in a playful flirtatious tone.
"Trust me, Hermione." Draco said, and Hermione closed her eyes.
"Metallica" Draco said to the portrait and led the unseeing Hermione into the common room. The warm, sweet scent of Honeydew Melon filled her nose as the flickering of light was seen through her eyelids. Draco released her hands and walked behind her.
"Open your eyes." Draco whispered in her ear from behind causing sensations to trickle up her spine.
Hermione slowly opened her eyes, and her jaw dropped. The entirety of the common room was covered in hundreds of lit candles. Every inch flickered with the light from the flame, except the small walkway on which they stood which led to a 6 foot circle in the middle of the room, an animal print rug laid on the floor at its center.
Draco slipped his arms round her waist, startling Hermione.
"Draco... when did you... how did you..." Hermione stuttered, unable to speak as she placed her hands over his.
"Quiet you." He whispered softly in her ear. Draco removed his arms from around Hermione and walked over to the CD player on the edge of the circle and pushed the play button.
"Dance with me?" Draco asked as he put his hands in his pockets. Hermione walked up to him as the words began.
~*"Every time our eyes meet
This feeling inside me
Is almost more than I can take
Baby when you touch me
I can feel how much you love me
And it just blows me away
I've never been this close to anyone or anything
I can hear your thoughts
I can see your dreams."*~
Hermione knew the song as "Amazed" by Lonestar. She wrapped her arms around Draco's neck, who took his hands out of his pockets and placed them on her sides. They began swaying in the slow rhythm of the song, staring into each others eyes which reflected the flickering lights of the romantic atmosphere.
Hermione rested her head on Draco's chest, and he embraced her tightly.
~*"The smell of your skin
The taste of your kiss
The way you whisper in the dark
Your hair all around me, baby you surround me
You touch everyplace in my heart
Oh, it feels like the first time every time
I wanna spent the whole night in your eyes
I don't know how you do what you do
I'm so in love with you, it just keeps getting better
I wanna spend the rest of my life with you by my side
Forever and ever
Every little thing that you do
Baby I'm amazed by you."*~
"Thank you Hermione." Draco said. Hermione pulled back and looked into his eyes.
"For what?"
"For giving me another chance" Draco said with a hint of sadness behind his deep blue eyes.
"That was all my fault, I shouldn't have walked away from you."
Draco shook his head, his blonde hair glistening in the candle light. "No, for giving me another chance after the way I treated you over the past 6 years."
"Oh...." Hermione was shocked that he'd bring up something so painful and risk ruining his romantic plan.
"When I saw you at the Yule Ball our 4th year, I was speechless. I couldn't think of a single awful thing to say to you that night, and it made me realize just how much I actually wanted you. It wasn't me who was superior to you this entire time, like I was brought up to believe, but the other way around. Since then, you were the one thing that I wanted, for your intellect as well as beauty, and your the one thing I was denied, money couldn't buy your affection. Being a Pureblood no longer held the pride I once thought, because you held the power." Draco sighed then continued.
"It left me only one choice, belittle you, to try and take away the power you held over me. For to give into my desire would have done more harm then good. Then, when my father disappeared, my hatred of muggles left with him, I thought it would be a new beginning. 6th year, I returned to school and there you were, happy as ever with your friends. I knew then, that you'd never look my way without hatred or disgust behind your honey colored eyes." They had ceased dancing and were now sitting on the animal print rug. Draco took Hermione's hand in his again. "How could I make right, what I had so wronged? My image was already set, bound to a fate I didn't want, yet one that I created. Peoples expectations of me hadn't changed, even though I had. 7th year started, my final chance to prove everyone's opinion of me wrong. Old habits die hard when surrounded by the same people and situations that started the bad habits to begin with. First day, I go to meet the Head Girl, prayer upon prayer it wasn't you, even though I knew it was. The torture began the moment I saw the look of horror on your face at McGonagall's proclaiming me Head Boy. The entire year to be spent in such close quarters." Tears were streaming down Hermione's face. "The night I came to your room, your voice calling to me as you sang, making me want to confess everything I had tried so hard to conceal behind a brick wall inside myself. The look you gave me when you leaned against the door frame, told me that maybe you could feel, or eventually feel for me, what I had been feeling for you. Not willing to put myself on the spot, for fear of rejection of seeing only what I desperately wanted to see, I asked for the first thing that came to mind, at which point I received my first clue to the inner workings of your mind. A paper on Luck and Fate." Hermione gasped, she hadn't known that he taken it. "After reading it, I returned it to your room with a new found light, people aren't always what the lead others to think. The paper was as beautiful as the girl who had written it, a girl I wanted to get to know with a passion, a girl out of my league..."
"Please Draco, I am nothing..."
"Stop right there!! Don't do this. Don't degrade yourself." Draco lifted her chin so that her misty eyes met his. "You are everything."