Chapter 2- Twitterpated
Hermione sat at the Gryffindor table, barely touching her dinner. She played with her carrots on her plate and pushed them into a shape of a heart. Oblivious to conversations and everyone around her, she was lost in thought about what had happened the pervious night. Why had Draco looked at her so weird? What was he doing out? Why am I even thinking about this? The thoughts poured through her mind like a raging river, and were bluntly stopped when she felt a fingertip prod into her temple.
She looked up and turned to the person who poked her. Ron Weasley was staring at her with a 'what is wrong with you?' expression.
"What?" Hermione asked him, quite annoyed that he broke her train of thought. Ron grabbed a chicken wing and bit into it, and started talking with his mouthful, bits of pieces of chicken flying everywhere.
"You're never this quiet Hermione, I mean…yes your quiet but today there seems to be something on your mind…what is it?…" Ron started as he swallowed and picked up his goblet of apple juice, took a swing, and started blabbering as he always did.
But soon Hermione was lost in thought again, hand holding up her head and staring into space, as Ron's voice was just a distance murmur in the background. Her eyes scanned the eating hall as they fell upon a boy with silver blonde hair…Draco. Hermione felt transfixed once more and watched him as he laughed with his two chums Crabbe and Goyle. Draco looked as if he was telling a story, and threw his arms up in the air every couple of seconds, while Crabbe and Goyle laughed at all the right punch lines. Hermione smiled to herself as she watched Draco finish his story and start to eat his dinner.
"Hermione…who are you looking at?" Ron asked, once again interrupting her train of thought.
"What? What? Oh…nobody, just nobody." Hermione rushed out and instinctively started to stare at her plate and nibble at her food. She was not hungry though. She was in fact nervous, nervous about spending detention with Draco, and yet she also felt an excitement. She liked being around him, even though she hated how he called her 'Mudblood' and never seemed to like her. But the night before…something seemed to change. She felt as if maybe she was wrong, maybe Malfoy didn't hate her as much as she thought. Nevertheless, she was still worried.
"I have detention today…and I have to serve it with Malfoy." Hermione announced. Ron stared at her with a piece of broccoli hanging from his teeth, and Harry, opposite her that until then she had not noticed was there looked up in surprise.
"How did you get detention?" Ron and Harry both asked simultaneously and looked at each other laughing and called out "Jynx!:".
"I was out late last night…and Malfoy with his brilliance found me and tried to get me in trouble. Snape came along…figures and I almost got fifty points taken away…" She trailed off as she saw Ron and Harry hanging with their mouths open. "Don't worry…no points were taken away…" She added, rolling her eyes as the two boys regained their composure. "Anyway, Dumbledore came along and decided Malfoy and I should serve detention together, tonight, decorating his room…" Hermione finished, looking to Ron and Harry for their response. When they both stared at her blankly, she rolled her eyes again.
"I swear, you two are a bunch of two year olds….Harry Harry Harry, Ron Ron Ron…" Hermione said, unjynxing them from not being able to talk. In the wizarding world, when you call out 'jynx' it actually makes a magical spell to where you cant talk. "Ok…so if I'm getting this right…your going to spend the next couple of hours with Malfoy…" Harry started.
"Decorating Dumbledore's office?" Ron added in disbelief. He looked a little annoyed and uneasy and even though Hermione didn't notice it, Harry looked at Ron with a questioning look ad Ron started to eat his food sulkily. "Basically" Hermione said with her shoulders shrugged.
"Hermione…what were you doing out late last night anyway?" Ron asked her as he looked up from his food.
"I was…in the library studying…" Hermione lied. It was the second time in two days. Ron and Harry both laughed at her, and started to eat their food again. Hermione sat in a puzzled sort of way, trying to remind herself to make up better sounding excuses in the future. Now not only was she 'dating a geeky guy' but she is 'studying at night'. Great, she thought, now I seem like an even bigger loser.
A loud bell rang throughout the Great Hall which signified the end of dinner and that Hermione had a half an hour until she was to be at Dumbledore's office and start her detention with Malfoy.
"Good luck…and have fun." Harry said to Hermione as he stood up from the table. "Yeah…" Ron said as he stared at the ground and walked down the hall alone. "What's up with him?" Hermione asked Harry as they started walking towards the Gryffindor common room. I'm going to change clothes before going to detention, she reminded herself as she looked down at her robes.
They started climbing the staircase when they noticed smoke coming from the hallway they were walking towards. As they drew closer they saw there were about twenty students huddled making a circle around two people. Hermione and Harry pushed their way through and found Draco, Crabbe and Goyle howling with laughter as Martin was hopping around acting like a chicken. Oh no…Hermione thought. She had told Draco that she was with Martin last night…he couldn't have done this because she told him…could he? She pushed through the crowd and pointed her want at Martin, and exclaimed "Replicanicus!". Instantly Martin stopped clucking and stood up, cowering. "Than…Thanks Herm..Hermione.." Martin managed as he started to cry. Hermione watched him as he picked his books and wand from the floor and stared to the ground as he ran down the hall, pushing his way through the crowd.
"What did you go and do a thing like that for Malfoy? Your such a pig!" Hermione yelled to Draco. For a second Draco stood there stunned with an upset look on his face. He hung his head. Everyone stared at them in shock, as Hermione held her hands on her hips. Crabbe and Goyle looked utterly confused and poked Draco in the ribs. Draco straightened up with an angry look on his face and muttered something under his breathe that sounded like "stupid girl…".
"Come on Crabbe and Goyle, let's get out of here…" Draco said as he started to walk away towards his room.
"Don't forget the detention in 15 minutes!" Hermione yelled to Draco angrily. Draco replied by throwing his hand in the air at her. Frustrated, Hermione grabbed Harry by the arm and stomped her way to the Gryffindor common room.
Now changed into jeans and a pink tee shirt, Hermione made her way to Dumbledore's office. She skipped through the hallways and admired the beautiful castle of Hogwarts. She stopped every once in a while to say hello to a painting until finally she reached the entrance to Dumbledore's office. Standing beside the statue of the bird was Draco with crossed arms in jeans and a white button up long-sleeved shirt. Hermione stopped in her tracks and stared at Draco who had not noticed her approaching yet. He looked up, not with a glare or a dirty look, but just a plain expression. She rarely saw him without a snide look on his face so this made her stare even more.
"Your 5 minutes late…" He said standing up and taking a couple of steps towards her. "Since when do you care if I'm late or not?" Hermione said taking a couple of steps closer to him. They were now only two feet apart, and although Draco was much taller, Hermione still showed a huge amount of strength as she approached Draco.
"I don't…I just….I just want to get this over with as soon as possible." Draco said to her, taking another step forward. He was now so close that Hermione's nose was filled with his rich cologne and she felt transfixed by his grey eyes. Why is he acting like this? Hermione thought. She felt completely in uncontrolled of herself as Draco stood there. For a whole minute they stood there, staring at each other. Draco slowly inched closer. Why is he getting so close? Hermione thought. Why am I not backing away…what's going on? She thought. He started to lean even closer, and they were now only inches apart. He started to move his face down towards hers. Eyes still open, she never broke their eye contact. She then felt his hand on her waist. Totally confused, and arguing with herself, she screamed on the inside as if she had a split personality. One part of her urging his lips to get closer and the other yelling at her on why she had let him get this close. He pulled her closer to him, and now there was no space between them Draco Malfoy was holding her in his arms. And she, Hermione Granger, was holding him too. Draco tilted his head to lean in to kiss her, but then they heard something that forced them apart and staring into the direction of the noise.
"Ahem…I am ready for you two now." Dumbledore said, with his head poking up from the staircase that led down to his room.
Just as quickly as he popped his head out, he was gone. Had he seen them? And if he had…why didn't he say anything to stop them? Hermione thought to herself. My God…I am so confused. Whats going on…why did I let him hold me? Why did I hold him back like that…why why why was he trying to kiss me? Oh God…I thought he hated me…maybe this is all some sick joke. That's something Draco would do…Hermione grilled herself with questions in her mind.
Draco and Hermione looked at eachother. Draco smiled his amused smile and Hermione was just speechless. She was the first to move as she walked towards the staircase, with Draco trailing 3 feet behind her.
Dun dun dun…lol tell me what you guys think! I had fun with this chapter…sorry no kissing yet…I want this to turn into a real relationship…if they start kissing too soon it would be like superficial. Yah…depending on how many people review depends on how soon I get the next chap up…so review! J