Ginny stood up from comforting her best friend and walked towards the exit of the Gryffindor common room.

"Ginny where are you going?" Hermione asked as she wiped a tear from her own eye and sniffed.

"To teach my brother a lesson or two," her face did not show any other emotion beside pure anger. "No one slaps my best friend and gets away with it, not even my brother."

Ginny walked out and Harry and Hermione watched as the portrait slammed behind her.

"Hermione are you okay now?" Harry asked as he stood up and held his hand out to her.

"Yeah I'm fine Harry thanks," she smiled and took his hand as he pulled her up from the ground.

They both looked towards the door then back at each other.

"Should we go help her?" Harry asked.

"Yeah, there might be a fight we need to be back up," Hermione sighed and walked out the portrait as Harry followed her.

They finally reached Ginny and Ron who had been arguing so loud a crowd had developed.

"Ron you had no right to treat Hermione that way!" Ginny screamed while gripping her wand.

"It's none of your business Ginny, so move aside!" Ron pushed her onto the ground and walked out of the crowd.

"Weasel hasn't your mother taught you not to hit girls?" Malfoy walked through the crowd and held his hand out to Ginny. The crowd gasped at Draco's nice attitude towards a Gryffindor.

Ginny took it her mouth hanging wide open and then she looked over towards Hermione who was also just as shocked.

"Malfoy that is none of your business and why the hell are you acting so nice all of a sudden?" Ron growled.

"Can't a gentlemen be nice?" Malfoy smirked as he let his eyes wander towards Hermione, then back towards Ron. Ron noticed his actions and lunged at Draco Malfoy and let his fist collide with his face.

"You bloody bastard! It's your fault my life is ruined," Ron yelled as he continued to slug Draco.

Draco caught a couple of his moving punches but still quite a few hit straight on. Draco decided he wasn't gonna let himself get beat up by a Gryffindor and he flipped Ron off of him and got on top and slugged him in the face and in the ribs.

"Draco Ron stop it!" Hermione screamed from the crowd. The crowd turned from the fight towards Hermione who had not only been in tears but had yelled Draco's first name. She had never done that before, neither has any other Gryffindor at that. The fight stopped as well, Draco and Ron froze looking up at her.

"What?" She stepped back a little bit; the crowd's eyes still were staring at her. But most of all the eyes she didn't want to be staring at her were Draco Malfoy's. She took a deep breath then ran away from the scene, she couldn't stand there another minute with everyone staring at her.

Draco stood up to run after her but stumbled backwards as harry pushed him.

"You've done enough here Malfoy leave Hermione alone," he glared and grabbed Ginny's hand. "Come on we have to catch up to her." Harry started running his hand still clasped around Ginny's hand. Harry and Ginny ran to the Gryffindor common room asuming Hermione had ran there but were surprised that no one was in the common room.

"Check in the girls dormitory Ginny," Harry told Ginny.

She ran up the steps and looked around, a couple minutes passed and she came back down the stairs with a frown on her face and shook her head towards Harry.

"She's not up there," She sighed.

"Where else would Hermione be?" Harry questioned.

Hermione's location

"Why did I do that, and in public too?" Hermione sighed as she leaned her back against one of the walls in the astronomy tower.

"Yes Granger why did you do that?" A masculine voice sounded from the shadows.

"Draco?" She asked. "What are you doing here?"

"Well haven't I known you long enough to know where your secret spot was?" He grinned and sat beside her.

"You hardly ever talk to me, and when you do it's all mean," She smirked and looked away from him.

"Just because you don't see me see you come up here doesn't mean I don't see you," Draco laughed.

"About earlier the whole Draco thing, I uh only said your first name to get your attention so you would stop fighting," She lied and bit her lip.

"You're lying, you bit your lip," He smiled.

"So I bit my lip is that a crime?"

"No, but I am one of the people that know that when you lie you bite your lip," He laughed and looked up at the sky.

"How is it that you know more things about me than I know about myself Draco Malfoy?" She looked towards him with her ginger brown eyes staring into his sky blue ones.

"Being mean to people involves getting the dirt on people so I watch the people I hate the most and examine their lives," Draco smirked.

Hermione's eyes began to water so she turned her head away from him so he could not see her cry. She couldn't stand this, she loved him and he didn't loved her he just hated her. She stood up and went to walk away when Draco reached out and grabbed her head pulling her towards him. She lost her balance and fell on his lap.

"Granger you are one of the clumsiest people I know," He laughed.

"Shut up Malfoy!" She cried trying to get up.

"Wait Granger I'm sorry okay? Forgive me?" He turned his mouth into a frown and gave her a puppy dog look.

"Draco why do you care, you only hate me, I'm nothing remember?" her tears formed now in groups of two or three.

"Hermione if it will make you feel better I don't hate you," He smiled and brought his finger to her cheek and wiped away the salty teardrop falling from her eyes.

"You said you did,"

"No if I'm not mistaken you asked why I knew so much about you and I just made a random comment I never said it referred to you,"

"You made me believe you hated me," She glared.

"Hermione?"

"Huh?" She asked, she couldn't believe her called her by her first named.

"Can I kiss you?"

"Um...yeah," she smiled and she watched as he brought his lips in closer to hers and she brought hers in closer to his. Their two sets of lips touched and it was like static shock. Draco wrapped his arms around Hermione's waist as she wrapped hers around his neck. Draco gently set Hermione against the ground and he lay down on top of her and kissed her with a little bit more fever. He reached his hands up her shirt and his hand gently rubbed against one of her breasts.

"Draco stop I don't want to do this," She pushed him off of her and she stood up and trembled a little bit.

"I'm sorry I got carried away," He sighed and hugged her.

"Draco why are you being nice to me now?"

"Because I truly care about you," He shrugged and turned away from her so he could not make eye contact.

"Since when?" She questioned and set her hand on his shoulder.

"Since none of your business!" He snapped causing her to withdraw her hand from his shoulder.

"I'm sorry, I have to go," He sighed and stood up walking away.

"Draco Malfoy was actually scared, I could tell," Her eyes widened at this fact.