Chapter 2—Little Crack

Setting—The Plane

Granger? What's she doing here? Draco thought to himself.

"Elizabeth!" Nacissa said as she saw Mrs.Granger. She leaned over and hugged her. Mrs. Granger and Narcissa had been very close friend when they were in Merfalia.

"This must be Hermione!!" Narcissa said as she hugged Hermione as well.

She's definitely much nicer than Ferret-Face. Hermione thought to herself, imagining Malfoy as a ferret. She finally laid an eye on Malfoy's clothing. It's all black, (Typical! thought Hermione), he wore a long tuxedo jacket with low collar. Inside, a white shirt was neatly sitting on his pale white body, there was also a black tie hanging from his collar. It did look very gorgeous on Malfoy, if Hermione didn't know this boy, she might even think it's good. A voice came, disturbed Hermione's mind.

"Excuse me, mother," Malfoy spoke politely, "Why is Gran-Her..Hermione here?" He finally forced Hermione's first name out of his mouth.

"You know her? Well then you should know that she is the daughter of Ellis Grentasia." Narcissa explained emotionlessly, "We are going to spend the time on this gorgeous aircraft with the Grentasia."

Just great, I have to spend time with this filthy mudblood. Thought Draco. Then the stewardess introduced them to their compartment. She led them toward the hind part of the jet, where two little room sitting on both sides. She showed the adult their compartment first, Hermione managed to get a peek. It was really pretty indeed, in front of the clear window, there was an woody end table with a beautiful lily standing in it's brown vase. On two side, there were very soft couches standing by a floor lamp. The floor was carpeted with soft red rugs, fit really well to this room. The adults walked into their compartments, leaving Hermione and Malfoy alone with the stewardess. She soon led them to the teen's compartment. As soon as she opened the door, Hermione was stunned by it's beauty. The floor was covered with rice white carpet, look as much like cashmere as possible. The furniture were all crystal clear, there was an end table as in the adults' compartment. Instead of a lily, there was two roses, stems visible from the crystal vase. It stood out really well in the all-clear room. The couches on both sides were crystal as well, but there was some very soft cushion covers the top, makes it as comfortable as it's beauty. One object that was not in adults' compartment was a big book shelf, of course crystal clear as others. There was a lot of thick book on it, fits exactly to Hermion's mind.

"Miss and Mister, please settle yourselves in this compartment. If you need something, just call me," the stewardess said, "I will be able to hear you from there. Now I would leave you to alone."

Oh, great. I need to spend time with the prat Malfoy. Hermione complained to herself. Malfoy had already sat on a couch, with a thick book opened in front of him. So Hermione settle her trunk beside the couch, and sat on the couch Malfoy wasn't sitting on. She opened her trunk, taking her favorite book, Hogwart, A History Volume 2. Hermione was really sad when she saw the ornamented cover of this book. She will never be able to check the interesting things in Hogwart's anymore. In the corner of her eyes, she saw the title of the book Malfoy is reading, Merfalias, A History. She dug into her mind, she remembered that in Hogwarts, A History, said that every school had a book about themselves. She thought it might be better knowing things before you get there. So she stood up, walked to the shelf, carefully picking out a purple book, and went back to her couch. She settle her self into the deep reading, not acknowledging herself falling asleep.

On the other hand, Draco was deeply interested in this book. But his bladder was not cooperating with him, so he went to the bathroom. Draco came back to his compartment within no more than three minutes, where he found Granger in deep slumber. For the first time, he examine her dress. It was sleeveless, only with a thick strap hanging loosely on her shoulder. The red dress was really tight on her, revealing all her curves. After all, she was a seventeen-year old girl. Suddenly, Granger shivered a little. Instinctively, he took off his tuxedo jacket, and laid it softly on her uncovered shoulder. After this action, he went back to his seat, where himself fallen asleep deeply.

The wall between the two enemies is starting to cracking slightly.