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Name: Learning to Trust
Rating: R
Summary: Hermoine has liked Draco for a while but he has hurt her and she cant forgive him yet. But, when they are made head boy and head girl and are forced to live together, they need to start paying more attention to each other. Can Draco realize his mistakes and can Hermoine forgive him before it is too late and their last year at Hogwarts and probably their last year to make up is over?
words in italics represent thoughts words in between stars represent song lyrics
KEEP REVIEWING GUYS!!!!!!!!!! ok ummmm im really sorry for not updating in like 12 million years i just finished school well actually about 3 weeks ago but thats not the point i kinda spaced out and forgot about the story and then i was like, why continue writing it? but then i wuz like o hell i want to finish the story and see what happens lol so im back and writing the story again and sorry to everyone for not updating sooner
IMPORTANT!!!! i've decided to make this more complex and that little incident between malfoy and hermoine mentioned in the last chapter was only one of many incidents that made her break down since the one i described didn't seem like enough to really really piss her off if u know what i mean lolz.....so yea i'll add more to that idea in this chapter
Chapter 5
NORMAL POV
hermoine lay on her bed, quietly weeping. after about 5 minutes she got up and went to look at herself in the mirror. her hair was puffed out, her eyes were red and her cheeks were tear-strained. her black eyeliner was smudged and all traces of lip gloss and blush were erased. it's not worth crying over malfoy... she told herself. she waved her wand at herself and her hair was once again sleek and shiny, and her makeup was replaced, all traces of tears gone. i'll go see ginny, maybe she can help. hermoine peeked outside her door and, seeing no malfoy around, tiptoed through the common room and out the front door.
hermoine's POV
i walked down the hall, going up a flight of stairs until i reached the portrait of the fat lady.
"password?" oops, i thought, i was so busy being mad at malfoy i never bothered to find out the password to the Gryffindor dorms!!
"uhhh........."
"hermoine!" it was ginny, walking towards me. "what are you doing here?"
"i wanted to talk to you until i realized i never learned the password to the Gryffindor dorms."
"haha," ginny chuckled. "i never thought i would learn the password to our dorms before you."
"stop laughing," i protested, "this is serious, i really wanted to talk to you."
"sorry," she blushed. then she turned to the portrait. "valor," she said clearly. i looked at her, arching my eyebrow. "don't look at me," she giggled, "i didn't make it up." the portratr opened and we stepped inside. being that it was 12:00 on a Sunday afternoon, the common room was empty, everyone either eating lunch or hanging around on the lawns. i sank into a red armchair as ginny perched next to me.
"so what's wrong?" she said. my throat closed up again,
"its about him." her eyes widened,
"oh no, not again. i thought we've been over what happened that night and agreed never to talk about it." i turned to her,
"the only thing is, you don't know the whole problem. the only thing you know is about the party. the party was only a little part in this conflict. that's why it's bothering me so much."
"well, why didn't you tell me everything that happened?"
"that's what i'm doing now." she shut her mouth. i took a deep breath, "ok i'll start at the beginning."
FLASHBACK (normal P.O.V.) (a/n: this flashback is hermoine talking to ginny, im just writing it in a normal P.O.V. so that it would be easier to understand, i think...)
it was late one mid-april afternoon approximately two months before that fateful end-of-term party and hermoine was going back to the Gryffindor dorms after her nightly library sessions. as she was turning a dark corner, a hand reached out and grabbed her.
"wha-" she began to say, but a hand clapped itself over her mouth and then suddenly a pair of lips were pressed up against her own. she tried to pull away but she was pulled in closer. her books fell to the floor as she decided to forget about thinking and give into feeling. a tongue slowly pushed her lips apart and crawled into her mouth. she stepped back, holding on that person's robes and pulling him towards her. she saw the platinum hair and gasped.
"malfoy?!" he winked, folded the hood of his robes over his head, turned around and walked down the hall and out of sight. hermoine stood there, feeling her lips with her hands. she could still feel the tingly sensation of his lips on hers. she stood there for about two more minutes before she regained half of her composure. she bent down, picked up her books, and floated on towards her dorms.
the next day, potions class got off to a bad start. snape stormed into class. he grabbed his wand and furiously flicked it. ingredients appeared on the board as well as directions for making the potion.
"work in groups of two. begin." hermione turned to harry as ron turned to parvati. he had liked her for a while, and hermoine was secretly hoping that the to of them would go out so that she didn't have to spend hours in the common room listening to ron complain about the workings of the female heart.
"ah ah ah" snape cleared his throat, "i think granger and potter need to separate for a while. granger, you work with malfoy. potter, work with parkinson." harry started choking and hermoine groaned. "you heard me," snape raised his voice, "SWITCH!" hermoine walked over to malfoy and pansy went to sit next to harry. hermoine couldn't bring herself to look at malfoy. she briefly raised her eyes only to find them meet with malfoys. she quickly looked back down, feeling herself blush under his gaze. she reached into her bag and pulled out a notebook and wrote something in it. she passed it to malfoy.
'what was that last night' he read. he responded and passed the notebook back to hermoine
'what- still thinking about that? why is it that important to you?'
'well, you obviously kissed me for a reason. i want to know what that reason is.'
'well, why not?'
'stop being stubborn! tell me why you kissed me.'
'well obviously, no one has ever kissed you. i wanted you to have that experience.'
'well thanks, but i wasnt hoping for my first kiss to come from you.'
'and why not? im smart, im hot, im sexy, im tall, im a god.'
'you're a conceited bastard is what you are.'
'you're just being bitchy because you can't believe that i would kiss you.'
'and i still can't figure out why if you think that im so ugly and so smart that no one would bear to kiss me.'
'i thought you would be happy. i know that deep down inside you're not the brown-haired ugly bookworm that most of us see on the outside.'
'thanks for stating the obvious. i can't believe i ever thought that you might kiss me because you actually meant it. you're just not like that, are you?"
"times up! i hope you're potions are finished." shit, hermoine thought, we didn't do anything! we're in serious trouble. snape walked around, peering into everyone's cauldrons. when he came to malfoy and hermione's cauldron, he stopped and picked up the cauldron. he turned it over and the whole class gasped when they saw that nothing came out. hermione turned red,
"oh, professor, i can explain."
"well then, please do."
"well, er, you see, its quite simple, er, what happened, uh..." snape spotted hermoine's notebook lying on her lap. he picked it up.
"passing notes, are we?" again, the class gasped. not only did malfoy and hermione not finish their potion, it was because they were passing notes to each other! "twenty points from Gryffindor and i expect to see both of you in detention tonight."
"twenty points from gryffindor?! but professor, he's as guilty as i am."
"another ten points from gryffindor. keep your mouth shut, granger. tonight, in my office, seven o'clock. class dismissed." hermoine snatched her notebook out of snapes hands, put her books in her bag, and stormed out of class.
BACK IN THE PRESENT (hermione's P.O.V.)
"i never heard that part!" ginny said, "but he only kissed you, why did you make such a big deal out of it?"
"ginny, it was my first kiss, i was inexperienced, i was unprepared, and most importantly, it came from malfoy! what would you do?"
"ok ok ok, but it still seems like you're making too much of a problem out of this. why can't you just live and let go?"
"ginny, im not done with the story yet."
"oh, okay then. tell me about detention." and i did.
the story is back in motion! REVIEW PLEASE!!! it keeps me going. read the next chapter to find out what happens in detention.............................
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