Chapter Seven: Spilling the Truth

"Hermione."

"Hermione."

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"HERMIONE!!!!!!!!" sang an annoyed sing song voice into her ear waking her up right then and there.

"Ayah! Who what when where and how?" she muttered. Sitting up in her bed, rubbing her eyes trying to get them open

"Dara, Ray, and me, coming to wake you up for the rematch for the last ten minutes right here in your room while you slept like a rock, but we finally managed to wake you by singing in your ear." Draco answered each one with out skipping a beat.

"Very funny, now leave my room so I can get ready, I'll meet you down stairs in ten minutes!"

"Fine Mione, see you soon, and if you're late we are coming up no matter what!" Dora called as the last person to leave her room.

It was Saturday, a week from the day Draco finally returned the book, and two weeks since the start of break. Hermione sighed, 'time is moving way to fast!'

She quickly got dressed in her tennis outfit, grabbed her racket, and headed down the stairs. When there, she saw Draco laughing. 'wow, he should do that more often.' "K!" she announced her self, and everyone looked at her smiling.

"Ok let's go!" Dora called. And started to head out the door.

"You two head out and start practicing, I need to talk with Mione for a minute." Both Draco and Dora were very surprised at Ray's request, but said nothing. When Draco shut the door, Ray turned to Hermione.

"Ok spill."

Hermione almost fell over in shock. "What?"

"I said spill, and believe me Hermione Elizabeth Anne Granger, I mean it."

"Alright, I'll spill, once you tell me what you want me to spill about."

"Draco, why in hell dose he know more about you then we do!"

"We've been in the same school for six years. Things happen at school, you know."

"Yes, and didn't he once dub himself your sworn enemy?"

"Once? He still is! We are just on terms of an agreement."

"What agreement?"

"I help him, he helps Me." she said simply.

"Explain."

"Nothing to."

"There you go again!"

"What?"

"Hiding from us again!"

"Ray."

"No Mione, Draco told us to ease up on you because you couldn't tell us things about school, but you are more of a stranger now then Draco."

"Ray please."

"Mione, you're such and idiot! How can you trust him, if you hate him so much, over us!"

"You like him don't you?" Hermione finally realized.

"Yeah, so?"

" you should stay away from those thoughts Ray, for your own good, and don't think I'm telling you this because I like him or any thing, I don't its just I know things you would understand.

And for your question, Ray, I don't like Draco, but he is the closet person who can understand me. no I never said 'could' I said can." Hermione looked her friend in the eye. "You and Dora are right, I'm not telling you a lot, that's because I can't, though I wish I could! Draco knows because we go the same school. So he has the capability to understand."

"Mione, what dose your school have to do with anything?"

"It's school, that is the secrets, Ray. The school is the whole reason I have the secrets!" She was starting to lose it.

"Maybe, you should tell her, Granger." Draco stepped out from behind the drapes.

"How?"

"Oh come now Granger! You of all people should know how good I am at getting places without people knowing!" She slightly blushed, forgetting a crucial fact about him.

"Oh I see." Ray was starting to laugh. "Draco and Mione like each other." At this Draco scoffed.

"You don't know the half of it stupid Muggle, so don't jump to conclusions. And yes Granger, I said tell her."

"you know I can't."

"I know you can. Come on, top mark student teacher pet, you're the smartest girl in our school, no make that person. Now tell me what will come if you know who comes around here and starts trouble. Will your friends trust you if they learn your secrets then? Or will they trust you if they learn them now? Best come from the person, not a stranger, eh granger?" and he laughed at his little rhyme.

"Very funny Malfoy!" She though over what he had said. "I guess your right." She sighed and turned to Ray. "I'm a witch, Ray, and the best at my school not including the teachers."

"funny, the truth now."

"Uh. Ray, that was the truth." Draco said feeling a bit out of place. "Wow you muggles sure like to deny us don't you?"

"Yeah, and if she is a witch, what are you?"

"Wizard."

Draco's 'really I'm not joking' tone of voice threw ray for a spin. "No really?" Things were starting to dawn on her. she slumped to the floor. "Wow, wait until Dora hears!"

"Hears what?" Dora just came in. "Draco, why did you vanish like that! And what is going on here!"

"Wow, two for the price of one, good luck Granger!" and Draco started to leave.

'oh what the hell! I haven't been warned yet, and they know anyhow, well at least Ray dose, but Dora will know soon enough.' When Draco reached out with his hand for the door handle he found that it was jerked back, onto his bonded body. It took no time for him to fall flat onto his back.

"oh no you don't." Hermione said gaining back the attention of the two muggles. They soon noticed that she was holding a piece of wood in her outstretched hand. Hermione Muttered words, that held no meaning to the two and pointed her wand back at Draco, he seemed to spring apart from what ever was holding him. "You got me into this, you're staying until the end."

"Ahh no fair Mione!"

"don't you Mione me Mal-." But Hermione was stopped short by the look Dora was giving her. "what?" She said as if she had just done something normal.

"What in the- ok Mione Spill!"

"I'm a witch, wow, I seem to be saying that a lot!"

"only twice." Ray said kindly back to her.

"Thanks."

"since when?" Dora pressed, not noticing that her friend was uncomfortable.

"Take a guess Doreen."

"Since you left."

"Hole in one!" and Mione smiled. "You two were always so smart, you wont believe how hard it was to hide this from you two!"

"No flattery! Your in big trouble Mione!"

"What?"

"You lied to us!"

"you know that!"

"Yeah but still."

"oh come on! Neither of you seem to mind Draco, and he's the bad Wizard!"

"Wizard?" Dora said instantly.

"yeah, and his dad works for the worst of our kind, you know witches and wizards."

"Granger, if you wouldn't mind. I said to tell them what we are, not explain it all! God that's like explaining TIME!"

"not quite!" she countered, after all I learned it quite well.

"yeah, well that's you."

"Harry , Seamus-."

"No I don't need a list!"

"fine. So now that you two know, I need to know something. If you did of did not figure it out, and if you did when?"

"Never figured it out." Ray said honestly.

"Fourth year." Dora said honestly as well.

"how?"

"I saw you book one day, it was open to the picture of that boy dead, and you were crying. Since it was open I decided to read it, but Mione I thought you were just kidding! I didn't realize it was all true!"

"I see." She sat down for the first time. "You wont tell will you?"

"Never." They said in unison.

"Thanks," And she smiled "Now how about that Game!"

"Last one there fetches all the balls!" Draco yelled as he made a b-line for the door. The rest followed suit running down to the courts.

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AN:

Hello! Ok I know I'm repetitive, and I lost the pull that I had in the last chapter, but I needed to resolve this conflict immediately. It was blocking my creativity. But more then that, it needed to be resolved for the rest of the story to make sense. Plus I needed out posts! Other people in it besides Draco and Hermione whom they could talk to! You understand.

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