Authors Notez: Sorry it took me along while to post this, I have been busy and so on. But anyways enjoy this and love you all. Bye.
P.S. Tickled Pink enjoy your family vacation. I know you haven't abondened me. Take care.
Love Sick
Chapter Twenty Two
Draco was in the shower washing his hair and thinking about how the week had quickly went by. Hermione and him had become friends or so it seemed. It felt wrong and it sounded wrong. He didn't ask her any more questions about them and she never seemed to want to ask him of anything. Draco wanted to be either her lover or her enemy but in these circumstances they couldn't be either one. So he had to be stuck being simply friends and nothing more. Just thinking of that word made him angry. Draco had learned one thing during these trying times, life is a bitch.
After he had got out of the shower, he wrapped a towel around his waist and looked at himself. Today was Valentines Day and he decided to go to the ball after all. Hermione insisted him to just have fun and let loose. Easy for her to say yet she was an up tight person. Draco wanted her to stop feeling bad about giving Pansy the potion but Hermione kept telling him it didn't matter she would always feel guilty. Draco combed out his hair and put on some deodorant then walked out of the bathroom to put on something.
He wasn't into the whole black and tie out fit so decided to wear something more comfortable, his muggle clothes. He found it rather funny how Hermione never questioned him why he wore them. He didn't ask himself either, he just liked it. Wearing robes reminded him of everything he hated about his life: school, home and marriage. Draco took out a pair of blue jean pants, he seemed to own a lot of blue jeans but they were never the same shade. He took out a long navy dress shirt, buttons undone and a white t-shirt for underneath. He knew that he had a six pack, and muscular arms not to mention a fit frame but he didn't like showing it that much. Draco wanted girls to like him for him, not how he looked behind the clothes.
After he dressed himself, Draco ran downstairs to grab a drink from the small refrigerator they had. That's when he heard a knock on the other side of portrait hole. Draco came over and opened it to find Harry, Padma, Ron and Lavender all standing there. Draco rolled his eyes knowing that Harry and Ron were going with those two girls as dates. Hermione was his, he asked last night and she agreed under one condition, that they would go as friends. This whole friend business was getting him more and more upset thinking about it.
"We're here for Hermione." Harry said. Draco didn't say anything but allowed them to walk inside. All four sat down on the couches and Draco ran upstairs to get Hermione. He knocked on the door once and Hermione called him in.
"Your friends are here." Draco said. He waited until Hermione walked out of the closet wearing only a bra and panties. "You do know that you're half naked right?" Draco asked.
"I can't find the dress I wanted to wear!" Hermione screamed in frustration. Draco arched his eye brow, did she even hear the last comment he gave? As tempting it was for Draco to watch Hermione walking around wearing only under garments he looked away.
"I'll go tell them you're not ready." Draco said. Hermione nodded and walked off into the bathroom. Draco shook his head in amusement and walked down the stairs to find her friends waiting.
"She's going to take a while." Draco said. All four nodded their heads and sat around talking to each other. After a few minutes Draco rolled his eyes in boredom and ran back upstairs.
"Hermione!" Draco screamed once he entered her room.
"What?!" She screamed from the bathroom.
"Can you please hurry up." Draco said. He couldn't stand the fact that Harry and Ron were sitting around comfortably downstairs in his common room. Hermione came out finally and Draco's jaw dropped. She wore an elegant black dress that came down just above her knees. The dress hugged her body and came down around her chest with one strap on the shoulder. Hermione looked at him oddly.
"Well what do you think?" Hermione asked as she spun around.
"Ah...it looks beautiful." Draco said just in time to catch himself out of the trance. Hermione gave a smile and walked over to her bed side to slip on black heels that strapped along her ankles. Then she ran over to her drawer and picked up her small black purse and walked over to Draco.
"Ready?" Draco asked. Hermione gave a smile and nodded.
"Ready!" Hermione said and walked along side Draco until they reached downstairs. Harry was the first to look up and see. He checked Hermione over before giving her a hug and a kiss on the cheek.
"You look nice." Harry said. Hermione gave a laugh.
"Thanks." She said before turning over to Ron who also gave her a warm embrace. Padma and Lavender complimented her dress and her hair which to Draco still looked the same. Am I missing something here? Draco looked Hermione over once more and didn't notice anything new about her hair. It was still in curls dangling softly down her shoulders.
"Guess where we're going?" Harry said after a while.
"Where?" Hermione said half confused.
"A club!" Padma said clapping her hands. Hermione began to laugh.
"Your joking right?" Hermione said in a serious tone.
"Of course not!" Ron said. "We want to go have some fun. And there's this really nice club down at Diagon Alley." Hermione bit her lips nervously, Draco knew exactly what she was thinking. This is a bad idea.
"Listen I don't think we should go, we can get in trouble!" Hermione said sternly. Draco began to chuckle to himself. How come she didn't mention that when he took her to the restaurant? Anyways he continued to watch her argue with her friends.
"Come on! Everyone is going!" Harry said.
"And besides no one will know because the club starts at eleven. We will go the dance then go clubbing." Lavender said. Hermione shook her head and rubbed her temples.
"First if we get caught I will get in more trouble then you. Second, if we're already going to the ball why are we going clubbing? And last but not least its too much of a risk!" Hermione said in frustration. Draco wanted to help her out, tell her friends that she was right but then again he wanted to go to a club, he hadn't for along time. So he deserved a break from his crazy life.
"You won't. It will be fun and you've already taken a lot of risks before!" Harry answered.
"We promise nothing bad will happen. If it does, we will take all the blame and you can feed us to the dementors. Okay?" Ron said assuringly. Hermione bit her lip once again, trying to think things through. She looked over at Draco who stood by the staircase with pleading eyes.
"If she doesn't want to go, she doesn't have to." Draco said. Hermione gave a sigh of relief. Harry shrugged.
"Fine Hermione suit yourself." Ron said as he looked at Draco with an evil eye. Draco returned one back and went upstairs. He had enough of those friends of hers. He walked over to his bed and laid down. Draco decided he wasn't going anywhere after all. He was going to sit here and think. Sit and think like he has for the past couple of months. Another ten minutes passed by when he heard a knock on his door.
"Come in." Draco said. Hermione slowly opened the door and peeped her head inside. Draco gestured her to walk in and she did.
"Draco I decided I don't want to go anywhere." Hermione said quietly.
"After running around and getting dressed for an hour?" Draco said jokingly.
"Don't start with me. I'm just not in the mood any more." Hermione said.
"All right, then you and I can sit here doing absolutely nothing while the rest of the world is having fun." Draco said calmly. Hermione gave him a little punch.
"Whatever. You can sit here, I'm going downstairs." Hermione said. Draco nodded and let her walk away.
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After an hour Draco came downstairs to find Hermione lying on her stomach in front of the fire place reading. She seemed to be in another world as she flipped the pages of the book. Draco came and sat down next to her. Hermione closed her book and looked at him.
"Reading?" He asked.
"Not anymore." Hermione answered. "I'm bored." She said after putting the book on the coffee table above her head.
"So do want to go to the dance?" Draco asked. Hermione shook her head and bit her lip. Whenever she did that he knew she was thinking.
"Lets play a game." Hermione said.
"What kind of game?" Draco asked.
"Truth, dare, double dare, promise to repeat." Hermione replied.
"And how do you play that?" Draco asked.
"Simple, truth stands for answering a question truthfully. Dare stands for daring to do something. Double dare stands for doing the dare as well as the person who said the dare and promise to repeat stands for repeating every word said." Hermione said. Draco nodded.
"Okay." He said.
"I'll go first. Truth, dare, double dare, promise to repeat?" Hermione asked.
"Umm..dare." He said.
"I dare you..." Hermione thought for a second. "Stand up and shake your ass." Hermione said laughing. Draco looked horrified.
"I won't." He said.
"Come on!" Hermione said. Draco stood up reluctantly and shook his ass before quickly plopping down next to her. Hermione was dying of laughter and he was getting irritated.
"MY TURN! Truth, dare, double dare, promise to repeat." He said. Hermione sat up properly.
"Dare." She said. Draco arched his eye brow. She's bold I see. Hmm..what should she do?
"I dare you to walk on all four and bark like a dog." Draco said laughing back at her. Hermione's mouth opened wide.
"I can't believe you!" Hermione said but she began to position herself as a dog, her dress hiking up her thighs and began to bark. Draco fell on the floor laughing his head off.
"Thats it. Now, truth, dare, double dare, promise to repeat." Hermione said sitting back down. Draco thought again for a second. No more humiliation. That's enough for one night.
"Truth." Draco said. Hermione began to laugh evilly. Merlin! What do you have planned inside that head of yours!
"Did you ever wet your bed?" Hermione asked smiling. Good God Hermione!
"That's none of your business." Draco said.
"So you did?" Hermione said laughing. Draco began to smile as well, he couldn't help the feeling he gets when Hermione laughs.
"No." He said.
"Liar." Hermione said.
"My turn anyways! Your going to pay big time. truth, dare, double dare, promise to repeat?" Draco said. Hermione gave a thought about this one. She knew as well as him that she was going to get it somehow.
"Double dare." Hermione said dangerously. OH! Your good. Damn you!
"Let me see...hmm..." Draco thought for second then began to smirk evilly. "Hermione Granger I dare you to kiss me." Draco said. Hermione's jaw fell to the floor, he could read her expressions. He expected her to resist or fight off or even say no but nothing. She just moved in closer and gently brushed her lips on his. Hermione let her tongue trail along his lower lip seeking for entrance and Draco was more then happy to allow it to go inside. Hermione began to lightly explore his mouth as her hands made it around his neck. After a few minutes Hermione let go of him and gave a sheepish smile.
Draco got up and towered over her, seeing the lust in her eyes. This game had turned out more then a game to them. "My turn." Draco said as his lips grazed hers, devouring her whole. Hermione gave out a whimpered moan as she fell back on the floor taking Draco with her. He began to massage his tongue with hers as her hand tangled between his hair. Draco began to kiss down her chin and along her jaw line. Draco heard her give another moan as he began to suck on the sensitive skin between her neck and collarbone.
Draco wanted to stop before he made Hermione mad, but she didn't push away. She held on to him firmly and Draco was more then happy to continue this, as long as he didn't get her upset afterwards. So much for being 'friends'.