12. The muggle evening

Hermione was ready at five minutes to seven, she was wearing a nice black top and a black skirt. For tonight she was even wearing some sandals with high heels.

Draco apparated at her flat at seven and smiling hugged her. "Hello, my dear girlfriend. I'm ready to face the muggle world."

Hermione looked at his clothes and snorted. "Are you? Because your clothes scream 'I'm a wizard'. Here take this and change."

He looked at the bag that she gave him. He was wearing wizard trousers and shirt but he had never thought that maybe they weren't appropriate for a muggle outings.

He sighed, "Do I really look like a wizard?" Hermione smiled at him, "Yes, but don't worry Draco, I bought you some clothes that will help you to look like a 'hot' muggle."

He grimaced a bit. Who would have ever thought that he would have to look like a muggle? He has been Mr Pureblood since birth. He took the bag with the muggle clothes and went to change into the bathroom.

Hermione was smiling at him, the poor guy was under shock. She was hardly stopping herself from laughing at his expression when she told him that he would look like a muggle.

Draco opened the bag and found a dark-green shirt and a pair of black leather trousers. He sighed again trying to remember why he was doing it. Hermione Granger. Yes, the bane of his existence!

When he got out from the bathroom, feeling highly embarrassed by the way the trousers were clinging on him, he was shocked again because Hermione took out a camera and took a picture of him.

"Hey" he said, "Why are you taking a picture of me?" Hermione giggled at him and replied, "Because I want to remember tonight and you wearing muggle clothes for ever. And I can always blackmail you with the picture if I need something."

He laughed, "You are becoming a Slytherin, my dear. But I can't say that I mind. I like you even more when you are evil."

She smiled at him, and she felt her heart melting to realise that he had said 'even more', that's meant that he liked her already!

Hermione took his hand and said, "Let's go." He smiled at her and asked, "Where are we going? Just to know where I have to apparate."

She laughed a little, "Tonight no magic Mr Malfoy. We are going to take the bus to central London. And then we are going to have a nice Chinese meal for a start."

He grimaced, "A bus?" She nodded and after turning off the light and locking the door they left for the bus stop.

When they arrived, Draco took out his hand and moved it a bit but no bus arrived. Hermione who was watching him, just couldn't keep it anymore. She laughed so much that her stomach hurt.

When she could breath again she asked, "What exactly are you doing, Draco?"

He had a puzzled look on his face, "Well I was calling the bus, I figured that here you take your hand out instead of your wand but nothing happened. Maybe this bus stop is out of service."

She laughed again, he was so clueless. "Draco, here you just have to wait the bus. You can't call it, it takes its time."

He nodded feeling a little stupid, Hermione noticed his uneasiness and said, "Sorry Draco, I shouldn't have laughed. I mean you don't have to feel bad because you don't know things. I mean when I started Hogwarts sometimes I had the same feelings for magic."

He smiled back at her, "I guess now I'm starting to understand why you were always reading books on magic. I'm sorry if I made your life at school even harder than it already was."

She felt her heart miss a beat, "It's ok Draco, it's behind us now but I'm happy that you can now understand me a bit more."

When the bus came, they both entered and Hermione paid for both of them. They had agreed that tonight was on Hermione because she was the one knowing more about muggle money. And she felt a bit better considering all the money that he has spent for her previously.

They went to a Chinese restaurant near Russell Square, Hermione used to be taken there by her older cousin that was studying at the University College London which was nearby.

Draco looked at the chopstick and started to get nervous again. "Hermione, are we supposed to eat with this two sticks?"

She smiled at him, biting her lips trying not to laugh. "Yes, Draco. I show you how to use them. It's really not difficult at all."

And so he tried to look at how she was keeping them and he tried to use them as well but the two bloody sticks were going everywhere.

Hermione ordered noodles for both and she had a really funny evening watching Draco Malfoy trying to eat with chopsticks.

At a certain moment Draco glared at her, "Laughing at this poor wizard trying to eat with sticks, Granger? I really have to organise a wizard evening for you."

She smiled at him, "I believe that yesterday and tomorrow will be enough to last me for ten years Draco."

He nodded, yes tomorrow was going to be tough on her. "Sorry, Hermione. You are right, tomorrow will be really bad and I feel like I should just go by myself. I don't want them to hurt you."

She smiled at him, "Don't worry Draco. I will just have to think about tonight and I will feel better."

After the meal she had bought two tickets for 'Van Helsing'. She wanted to show him how muggle thought about magic and monsters.

Draco laughed so much that at a certain point Hermione had to put a silencing spell on him because they were going to kick them out.

When they got out Draco still trying to control his laugh and wiping the tears from his eyes said, "Do they really think about magic in this way?"

Hermione smiled at him, "Well this was a kind of parody but overall, they really see us very differently."

He remained silent during their bus trip and when they arrived at Hermione's house he said, "I really enjoyed tonight Hermione. It was very different but it wasn't bad. I think I could do it again sometimes."

She was very pleased with the outcome too. "I will be happy to take you to muggle evening once in a while."

He seemed happy, "Does it mean that we are going to keep in touch after Sunday?"

She tought a bit about it, "I still don't know Draco. Let's talk about it when everything is out in the open. Shall we?"

He nodded and after the goodnight kiss he apparated away. Hermione was sitting on the sofa and smiling dreamily when a 'pop' alerted her that someone had apparated in her house.

Draco smiled at her and he got closer, he kissed her again and then before disapparating said, "I just felt that I wanted another goodnight kiss, I hope you didn't mind."

She was grinning and she shook her head. No she didn't mind at all. Satisfied with her answer he apparated away.

AN: Thanks for reading.