Paranoia and Heated Arguments
Hermione jumped up from under the tree far too quickly for the liking of any of her internal organs, not to mention her breakfast.
"Um…hi." She said, nodding vigorously and then stopping abruptly. She began to pick the various heaps of dirt off her robes as a distraction from the suspicious eyes of Draco and his slut.
Ok, so I wanted to fix things she thought bitterly but not this soon! Jesus, and now I look like a right twat. "Hi"? What the fuck was that? Knowing my luck I probably fell right into a pile of Hippogriff shit.
She felt her shit-free ass.
Ok, well that's one good thing, I suppose.She chanced a look up from her dirty robes and saw Cat girl and him looking at her with a mixture of scepticism, amusement, shock and anger.
Oh great.
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"Um…hi." Draco stood staring at the fallen tree in amazement. He then realised the tree had spoke.
Oh.
Something's not right about that… he thought. Then it hit him. Trees don't usually talk…
"Hermione?" Draco asked incredulously as he realised whom the voice belonged to. At least, I think it's her; he wasn't too sure, Hermione was usually immaculately clean and this person…wasn't.
Bearing in mind, they'd barely dodged a falling tree moments' prior.
She looked awkward. He felt awkward.
"Oh, fine!" Draco's head spun round at the sound of another voice, this time more brash and shrill.
His face immediately dropped to a scowl. No, not Potter. Not even Weasley.
It was worse.
Millicent.
"What's fine, Millicent?" he drawled monotonously.
"I see what you're doing here!" she screeched, jabbing her hands in his and Hermione's directions. He looked back to Hermione for a split second, who was looking even more and more awkward.
"Well do tell. You must have some sort of sixth sense thing going on here because I certainly don't. A tree fell on her." He nodded in Hermione's direction. "What can you and Trelawney decipher from that?"
"You know exactly what I mean, Malfoy!" Millicent spat.
"I assure you, I don't."
"Emm…I'll just be going now then…" Hermione turned around and took a few precarious steps away from them, not wanting to draw to much attention to herself.
"You arranged this entire get-up to get rid of me! You asked me out just so you and you're mudblood wench could humiliate me and now you two are going to run off into the sunset and laugh about me."
Hermione stopped dead. Say what?
"What the hell?" Draco screeched in a voice unnaturally high.
By this stage Millicent had gone a strange reddish colour and Hermione was really wanting to be anywhere else.
"I've figured it out. I'm right, aren't I?" she turned her menacing glare to Hermione. "You've been secretly dating Draco!"
Hermione's mouth dropped. How much does she know?
Draco grunted. "Bloody ironic."
"Excuse me?" Millicent shrieked yet another octave higher. "Did you just call me 'Bloody Demonic'?"
Hermione breathed out. She obviously doesn't know that much then…
"What are you on about Millicent?" Draco asked. "I did not mention the word demonic, or anything remotely related, in that sentence."
"Oh yes you did!" she yelled in response. She looked frantically between them. "It's a conspiracy against me!"
Hermione sighed – that girl needed help.
"Now you're just being paranoid." He drawled.
"Yeah, you'd like me to think that, wouldn't you?" Millicent shrieked at them. "You want me to think I'm paranoid and that I imagined this. Well I know I didn't! You planned this! It's all an elaborate plan to get shot of me!"
"Well I bloody wish it was now!" Draco screamed at her.
An eerie silence fell upon them. Hermione just froze – she wasn't quite sure what to do in a situation like this. Draco looked on awkwardly – obviously he wasn't used to this either. Millicent was gob smacked at his latest remark, but quickly composed herself. Much the way Neville did Hermione randomly reminisced.
"Ok then, Draco. I see your game." She bent down and picked up her discarded bag, which she casually slung over her shoulder. "I'll leave now and let you two be together. It was obviously the initial strategy anyway."
She turned around and began to casually walk away.
Draco looked after her with a blank expression. He glanced at Hermione and it seemed that all of a sudden realisation dawned on him.
"Millicent! Come back…" he smiled with a pained face. "…Sweetheart."
Hermione rolled her eyes. Who's changed their tune then?
"No Draco, I won't." Millicent drawled in a very Draco-esque way.
"But…But you can't leave me already!"
"I can and I am, Draco."
"But what about everything yesterday?" she stopped suddenly and slowly turned around to face him.
Draco smiled, obviously thinking he had won her over.
"Yes, Draco, what about yesterday?" she asked. Hermione was amazed at how quickly she had changed from blubbering paranoid child to this controlled and sophisticated person who had somehow gotten a reign on Draco Malfoy…wow, that was pretty impressive.
Millicent sighed.
"Look, Draco. I have no idea what's going on in your head. I don't know, maybe you had some sort of disturbed childhood or whatever. But to be honest, I don't really care." She stopped and looked at Hermione disgustedly. "Whatever, ok? But next time you two want to play some kind of sick sex game," Hermione blushed profusely, and even Draco seemed to get a little colour here. "Leave me out of it."
With that, she turned away and walked silently down the hill to the main street.
Draco looked silently after her for a few minutes, and Hermione couldn't read his expression. The obvious ones would have been sadness, lost, angry. Hell, even lust would have been understandable. But he looked…frustrated? Maybe even confused. Hermione shook her head. No way.
"Well thank you Granger." He spat, enunciating the sarcastic compliment.
"What the hell did I do?" came her screeching reply.
"What the hell did I do?" he mimicked in a much higher voice than hers and had no resemblance to it what so ever. "You lost me my bloody girlfriend, that's what!"
"Well you seemed to be doing fine by yourself when I came!"
"Oh did I? And just when exactly did you come then? And who in bloody hell gave you the right to eavesdrop on my personal conversations?"
It was really turning into a full-on screaming match now, with constant bickering between Hermione and Draco.
"I wasn't 'eavesdropping' as you call it! I was … unknowingly overhearing."
"Unknowingly over- what the fuck? At least try to make up excuses!"
"I don't need to make up excuses – I was walking and you weren't exactly lowering your voices!"
"Oh I'm sorry! I didn't know I had to speak in whispers just to keep prying mud – muggle-borns away."
"Oh for God sake, Draco! I only overheard your girlfriend dumping you – it's nothing big!"
"She did not dump me! And what do you mean its no big deal? You wouldn't want me listening to your conversations!"
"No, but that doesn't usually matter to you! And she so did dump you!"
"She didn't!"
"Sure she didn't. You were just…brutally rejected."
"Well I've never seen you being 'brutally rejected' as you put it."
"Yes you have!"
"No I haven't!"
"Yesterday! Today! Take your bloody pick, Malfoy!"
"Aw, what is it this time? Does Scar-face not want to screw you, is that it? Or maybe it's Weasel! Ooh, you'd want to be careful there, Granger! Sucking face with a Weasel, you never know what you might catch!"
"Shut the fuck up about my friends!" Hermione lashed out to slap him, but he caught her arm easily in a firm grip.
"Oh, so it's not them then, is it? Just as well, you'd have to be pretty desperate. I mean look at their records, especially Potty Boy; Cho Chang. Hmm, that list lasted long. The only reason she ever saw him was because her own boyfriend was dead – coincidence, I think not!"
"You bastard!" she went to hit him again, but his grip tightened further.
"So who could Mr Lover – Lover be? You say I witnessed it? Lets think…Oh I know! I saw the way you were looking at Ernie McMillan in Herbology when you both reached for the same Flesh Eating Slug; Oh be still my beating heart, romance or what? But wait, we're talking about break-ups aren't we…who was Hermione fighting with yesterday? Of course, in Arithmany – tch tch Hermione, some nasty words exchanged with our dear friend Hannah Abbot. Wow, Hermione, you kept that one quiet! I never even suspected you were gay!"
"You know I'm not!"
"Do I? Hmm…suppose not. There're too many rumours about you. Oh don't look so horror-stricken, Granger! As they say, it's always the quiet ones! Now, so it's not Potter, not Weasel – I'm going to guess it's none of the other Weasleys. Not Ernie, not Hannah…Dear God, it's bloody Creevy isn't it? Which one, older or younger? Not that it makes much difference, you child molester! Unless you've developed a soft spot for Long arse again… That is his name, right? Or maybe it's that Ravenclaw? Oh what's his name? Tom? Jon? Come on Hermione, help me, I want to know! Maybe it's Sean, come to think of it. Or then again, what about that one in- "
"It's you!" She screamed. "It's you, it's you, it's God damned you!"
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