Chapter Three

The Bet

"Me and Goyle wanna challenge you to a bet." Crabbe said.

Draco looked interested. "Go on." he replied.

"We bet you can't make Granger fall in love with you." Before Draco could even answer, Pansy Parkinson, who had over heard the matter, came rushing over.

"HELL NO." she shouted. "Do you know what this means? Its means you are going to have to hang around that filth mudblood." She answered her own question as she stood next to Draco. "And nothing is worth that torture."

"Well if he doesn't do it." another Slytherin boy started. "I guess he's just like Potter. A wimp. W-I-M-P." he spelled the word out.

Draco pushed Pansy off of him, who tried to sit on his lap. He quickly got up and walked over to the boy.

"I'm not I wimp and I'll prove to you… ALL OF YOU… that I can make that filthy mudblood fall in love with me."

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"Draco is a prat." Draco said as he got to the portal hole. "What a stupid password." he thought as he walked in.

The minute he walked in, he caught sight of Hermione. She was asleep in the armchair by the fire, a book laid open in her lap.

He stared at her for a few seconds. Then stormed off and into his room, slamming his door behind him. Hermione jerked awake at the sound of the door.

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"I can't make her falling love with me." Draco said aloud to himself, pacing back and forth in his room, thinking of how to get started. Just then he heard a knock on the door. He opened it to find Hermione standing inches away from him. "What do you want, Granger?"

"I ummm……… just came to see if you were……ok." His silvery-blue eyes stared straight into hers. He gave her a nasty look as he thought, "Why the bloody hell does she care?"

"Are you?" She asked again, still standing in his doorway.

But no answer came. Instead he just stood there, staring in disbelief at her.

"Im fine, Granger. Now go away." he finally replied, slamming the door in her face.

"I still dunno why you want to go through with this, Draco." Draco heard a voice behind him say. He turned around slowly to find Pansy lying on his bed. He stared at her in disbelief. "How did you get in here?"

"Oh…well if I told you that," she said now walking over to him. "It wouldn't be a secret…now would it?" she finished pushing him up against the door.

He grabbed her by the wrists and pushed her off of him. He didn't want to be bothered with her pettiness. Draco walked over to the window. He stared out at the Hogwarts grounds.

"Why are you doing this to yourself?" she asked turning to face Draco's back.

"Look," he said still staring out the window. "Its your fault I'm in this mess." Pansy opened her mouth to say something but Draco cut her off.

"You just couldn't keep your mouth shut, could you?" he turned to face her now. "I was going to say no until you came running over like a dumb-ass, screaming so that the whole common room heard you. And now because that boy heard you…… I had to take that bet."

Pansy was speechless. She didn't know what to say. Tears started to fall from her eyes. She pulled Draco's door open and ran into the common room and out the portal hole.

Luckily Hermione wasn't there.

Draco didn't care that she was crying. He wasn't going to go after her this time. He knew the only reason she was crying was to get attention and Draco wasn't going to give in.

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A/N: So that was chapter three, I really hope you guys like it, and many thanks to the people who reviewed. Don't forget to review. LOL.