A/N Remember what I said about showing skin, well screw that, I changed my mind, LoL! I'm kind of hitting a writing block right now, so I might not update soon. For those who have me on Author Alert you have nothing to worry about, but those who doesn't, I'm thinking I'll be updating in two to five days.

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Quill of the Lark- Nods her head sadly Hermione was yelling at him in her underwear, doubt that she noticed though. And I'll try to make the chapters longer.

TeAroha- Draco was born into pratiness, guess he can't get out of it.

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Chapter Seven:

"So she gave you mouth to mouth."

"It was more like kissing me; no doubt that she couldn't resist such a perfect chance."

At this point the first speaker gave a little laugh.

"Draco, honey, if I know Hermione well enough, which I do, she would never and I mean never, willingly kiss you."

"And why not, may I ask?"

"Because Hermione is the kind of girl that would never fall for a guy like you, simply since you're you."

"I can make her fall in love with me by the end of summer if I wanted to."

"Draco, don't be naïve, Hermione's soul is far too pure to fall for you."

"But even the purest of souls can be tainted by me."

"And I suppose you're going to do this to prove me wrong? And what about Cho what are you going to do about her."

"Cho is a simpleton; I can get rid of her easily enough."

"And pry tell what are you going to do after Hermione falls for you that is if she falls for you."

"That is beauty of the whole plan; after the little mudblood falls for me I'm going to break her heart."

"No you won't," The speaker's voice suddenly got very hostile, "leave Hermione alone, Draco, do you understand. She will never fall for you."

"Oh, she will fall for me easily enough. By the end of this summer she will give her heart to me and I will break it into pieces."

It was another boring summer afternoon; a week after Hermione came back from the cave. Naturally everyone was curious where they had gone to. Draco got of the hook easily enough by telling everyone he got lost in the woods. However when Hermione tried the same tactic, it didn't go so well with Miss McKinley. Now she's stuck with cleaning bathrooms for the rest of the week.

Hermione stood up and looked at the shiny floor beneath her feet, which she had spent the last five hours cleaning. No doubt that the floor will be ruined in less than an hour by a strange unknown force, which she strongly suspects, is Malfoy. Hermione packed up the cleaning supply and marched out of the bathroom before the pain in the ass McKinley could come up and tell her she missed a spot.

Down the long hallway Hermione could hear voices arguing at the top of their lungs. It was probably Draco and Cho again, they've been arguing a lot since Draco came back, usually about stupid things like wearing certain clothing for a certain day. Hermione walked right past the room, but then stopped in her tracks when she heard her name.

"WHY THE HELL WERE YOU OUT THERE WITH HER ANYWAYS!"

"Look Cho, we were just outside together at night nothing happened; besides the mudblood isn't even my type, so drop it."

"TOGETHER AT NIGHT! YOU DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT ALONE AT NIGHT!"

"Cho, you're being absolutely stupid, so what I was with her at night, you don't have to get all jealous over that."

"Draco, you understand why I'm upset, don't you?" Cho's voice softened in a whine of desperation.

"Not really, girls can be so thick at times."

Hermione could hear Cho's ragged sobs coming through the door.

"I loved you Draco sob at least I used to, I've given my soul and body to you, don't you care about that. No, don't answer that, I know what you'll say to me. Ever since the day I met you, I kept on telling myself I can make you into a kinder personsob, but now I know you'll never change. I'm just another girl sob that you can sleep with."

"Finally you know what you're good for."

Suddenly everything was so silent that you could hear a wand drop. Then smack, someone's hand obviously connected with someone's face.

"How can you be so heartless, how can you be so wicked to me? I hate you Draco, I truly hate you. I never want to see your ugly face again!"

The door swung open and hit the wall with a deafening thud knocking a few cracks into the wall. Hermione stepped out of the way just in time to avoid the door hitting her face. Cho scurried out of the room and sauntered down the hall and out of the door faster than you can say quidditch, but Hermione caught a glint of her face. Cho's face was tear stained, her eyes were red and swollen, as she run down the hall Hermione could still hear her sobs.

"Eavesdropping again, mudblood?"

Even though he said this very softly it still startled Hermione and made her jump a few feet. Draco had just stepped out of the room and slammed the door behind him making new cracks in the wall.

Draco stepped out of the doorway and his face was suddenly illuminated by the sun light streaming through the widows. His blond hair was hanging sophisticatedly over his grey eyes, which was a bit sharper than usual. However Draco's pale, almost white, face a disturbed by a large red mark on his cheek no doubt that was where Cho had slapped him. His slim, but masculine figure towered over Hermione, giving him an air of arrogant elegance. Well, it would have been elegant enough, if it wasn't for the fact that he was absolutely indignant.

"I suppose you heard everything," Malfoy whispered in a deadly voice.

"I heard enough to know you lost your girlfriend," Hermione said coolly, "but what exactly did happen?"

"It's complicated, kind of stupid too," Draco sighed as he leaned against the door frame and pushed back his hair, "I thought I'd be honest with her- ,"

Hermione snorted at the thought of him being honest. Malfoy was as close to being honest as a snake was being human. The only time that he'd ever be honest was neither he's in a life or death situation or there's something for him to gain. Draco looked irritated at the interruption and glared at Hermione for interrupting him; Hermione raised her eyebrows intimidating and glared back at him.

"So as I was saying before you opened up your fat mouth, I told Cho about the little, err, expedition that we had and what happened after that."

"Big deal, I still don't see why she broke up with you."

"God, Granger, how dense can you be!" Draco looked extremely frustrated and weary as he ran his hand through his pastel golden hair and letting his hair elegantly flop down beside his face again, "Let me say this in a way your measly brain will understand. When Cho found out about the kiss you gave me, she assumed that I kissed you back..."

"Oh, I get it now; she thought you were cheating on her, so she dumped you."

"Excuse you she didn't dump me, I dumped her, Malfoys don't get dumped," Draco said this with conceited pride as if he had just been elected as the minister.

"Well, it seems to me that few minutes ago Cho did dump you."

Malfoys face abruptly went from indignation to utterly enraged. Hermione sensed danger and decided to change the topic before he attacks her.

"Okay, I get the whole deal about YOU dump Cho, but why are you telling me this when you can't even stand being in the same room as me?"

"Ganger you must neither be really stupid or a pig in disguise, because I swear if you're skull is any thicker, you could be selling it. Don't you get it, the reason I'm telling you this is because I want you to help me get Cho back."

She should have known that's what he wanted when he first spoke to her. What a jerk pretending to want to tell her something when he really just wanted something from her. There was no way he was going to use her as a henchman to get Cho back for him.

"I'm sorry Malfoy but I'm not a matchmaker, besides why are you asking me, you know as well as I do that the last thing I'd ever do is to help you."

"It's simple, because you're the only one in this house that's young and not a nosy fool."

"Well thank you for that compliment, but I have better things to do right now, so if you'll just excuse me I'll be going now."

Hermione turned to leave, but Draco grabbed her wrist. Pain shot up her arm as he tightened his grasp. Stupid little git are he can do is to use force with his "sweet" talk doesn't work.

"Listen to me carefully; right now you are living under my roof, mudblood, with a snap of my finger you could be out on the street. Of course I can't force you into doing anything, so if you decide to help me, meet me tomorrow in my room at nine, if not then you can pack your bags right now. I hope you'll give this some consideration for you own good, I will be going now, good day to you."

With that said Draco smirked at Hermione and did a mock bow then turned his heels and struts down the hallway into his room.

A/N Will Hermione decide to help Draco, or will she pack her bags, find out in the next chapter. R&R