Join the Cutting Club
By Emma L. Granger
Summary: Ever heard of cutting yourself to relieve stress? Pain? Hermione lost in all her sorrows decides to explore this option. Will Malfoy care enough to help? Will he even find out...D/Hr.
Disclaimer: No...yeah...no, yeah it's no.
A/N: And if any of you readers have read any funny fics or fics where Draco is immensely caring and kind to Hermione please tell me in your review, I Love comedy and romance (it's just so good together, lol).
IMPORTANT: Ok I know it's Monday but you won't believe what happened, ok you will probably. OMG I survived hurricane Charlie! Lol, but seriously half the time I was hiding in the closet with a pillow on my head and blanket around me (ok yeah it's weird but I was protecting myself! Don't want your dear author injured do you?). Anyways yesterday was Friday and you won't believe! OMG, NO POWER WHAT-SO-EVER!!!! NO TELEVISION! NO COMPUTER (I had used up all the battery so it was no longer charged)!!! NO ELECTRICITY!!! NO LIGHT!!! NO AIR-CONDITIONING IN THE SUMMER IN FLORIDA!!! Anyways we were lucky because out apartment (I'm moving to a house in January) wasn't destroyed, YAY! BUT there was hardly any food and no entertainment at all. My dad works at this place where everything was destroyed and the roofs came off and everything! There was this tree that was literally pulled out of the ground and you could see the sprinkler system (underground), it was awesome (I sound like a horrible person don't I? I mean awesome in a scientific way). I live in Orlando and it was directly hit by the damn thing! Anyways here's your chapter and I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (times infinity) SORRY!!!!! Please understand the circumstances I was under. Did I mention NO ELECTRICITY!!!!!
Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper: you are the most special person in my life.
by Charles Stanley ( A Man's Touch)
Lat chapter (chapter 8):
"Ok...well Harry first of all I'm not your biological sister. You see your Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon are my biological parents and I'm your adopted sister. When I was little your aunt realized I was a witch and handed me over to your mum. When Voldemort came to get you and your parents he didn't know I was there. I was sleeping in another room, and being the sound sleeper I am never woke up while-"She looked up at him and they locked eyes, she looked away. "Well you know. Then later after Hagrid had gone the local villagers found me and two of them adopted me."
"But how-"Harry started.
"Dumbledore explained it all to me." Hermione explained and Harry nodded his head knowingly.
"..."
"Yes Harry you can go. I need to be alone."
"Yeah well goodbye Hermione."
"Bye Harry." The raven-haired boy went through the portrait while Hermione entered her room.
'There is one more week left till the dance and I still don't have a date. But the bright side is...Draco doesn't have one either...' She thought as she lay quietly on her crimson red four-poster bed.
Chapter 9:
Draco stood in the shower in the morning washing his silky blonde hair and thinking about the ball, which was now two days away. He hadn't asked anyone yet but he wasn't planning on going alone. But who was he going to ask? Pansy? No she meant nothing to him. He used to go with her but that was then and this was now. The sound of someone pounding on the door interrupted his thoughts.
"DRACO!!! HOW LONG COULD IT POSSIBLY TAKE YOU TO TAKE A SHOWER? A GIRL DOESN'T EVEN TAKE THIS LONG!" Hermione shouted from inside her room, pounding on the door furiously.
Draco got out wrapping a towel on his lower half. Without thinking he opened the door. There standing was a disheveled Hermione in a fuzzy red bathrobe. She blushed. She was getting redder than her bathrobe.
'Oh my god Draco's...Draco's, umm...abs, wow...' Hermione thought as her cheeks reddened by the second.
"Well yeah, I better go..." Draco walked quickly out of the bathroom as Hermione entered.
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(At the great hall):
"Oh Drakey poo! When are you going to ask me to the ball?" Pansy said in a horrible singsong voice.
"Pansy I told you no!" Draco was now completely annoyed. This girl couldn't understand the meaning of no.
"Whatever do you mean cupcake, sugar lump, hunny bunny?"
"Yeah what do you mean cupcake, sugar lump-"Blaise teased Draco. He was grinning ear to ear. Watching Pansy and Draco was very entertaining.
Draco glared at Blaise menacingly. 'What am I going to do?'
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(The next day, on the way from dinner):
"Pansy will you leave me alone?!" Draco shouted as he stopped in front of the giant staircase leading up to the second floor.
"But why?" She whined. "When are you going to ask me to the ball Draco???"
"He's not because he's going with me." A voice called behind them. Draco turned around, as did Pansy.
"MUDBLOOD?!" Pansy screamed bloody murder.
"Yes me." Hermione smiled. She looked over at Draco as if telling him to play along.
"Draco is it true?" Pansy eyes ablaze, her face red, and her eyes brimming with tears.
"Yes Pansy. I-er-asked Hermione to the ball."
"I can't believe it! I won't how could you? How could you pick a Mudblood instead of me?!" The word, Mudblood, dripping with venom.
"Don't call her that!"
"Fine Draco! Fine! But you won't hear the last day! Draco, you'll pay! You pay for the day you rejected Pansy Parkinson!" She stomped off in fury.
"Yeah right." He mumbled. Draco's expression softened a whole deal when he faced Hermione. "Why did you do that?"
Hermione simply smiled and replied, "What are friends for?" And off she went.
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(The day you all have been waiting for, the ball!):
Hermione's POV:
Hermione was finally ready for the ball...after five hours of preparing! She had put on the blue dress. She had Liz Palacios Crystal Earrings on that she had received for her birthday that went perfectly with her new dress. They were gray flowers with a light blue crystal center. On her feet Nina "Vanny" Sandals, also light blue. Ginny had given her some lessons on how to walk in the heels. She also wore a simple Robin Faith Designs Freshwater Pearl Necklace. Ginny had come over to help her with her make up too. She had applied some pink blush to her cheeks, a dab of lip-gloss to her lips, a spray of perfume, some mascara, and very light silver grey eye shadow. She was ready, finally. When she had helped Draco out with his whole Pansy problem she wasn't acting only as friend but as a friend who was hoping of something more than friendship. Maybe Draco felt the same way? No, probably not.
Draco's POV:
He had put on his emerald green robes and ran gel through his hair. What else could he put on? He had some cologne in the medicine cabinet in the bathroom. Should I put some on? I mean come on this only Hermione, my best friend, the one I like...a lot.
He threw some on. It couldn't hurt. He exited his room and knocked on Hermione's.
"Mione are you ready?"
"Yes Draco." The knob turned as she opened her door. There Hermione stood her hair up in an elegant bun, curls escaping it every which way. She was...beautiful. There was no other word for it. Her outfit so simple yet so amazing. She smiled and showed off her pearly white teeth (thanks to her parents).
"Is something wrong?" She asked sweetly.
"Uh no." I answered.
"Well then let's go." He grabbed her arm and linked his and hers together. They made the way to the Great Hall. Outside the double doors Hermione stopped in her tracks.
"Do you smell something?" she asked.
"Dungbombs?" I suggested.
"No, not that. It's more of a perfumy-ish smell."
"Oh." Color rose to his cheeks. "Yeah that's my cologne. I guess I put on too much." He mumbled.
Hermione grinned. "Oh." She said in a teasing way. "Well it smells good."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shall we go in?"
"We shall."
As they entered the beautifully decorated room everyone grew quiet. Someone cleared their throat and everyone returned to their previous conversations. Malfoy turned to Hermione.
"Punch?" he asked her.
Hermione's POV:
"Sure." He disappeared over to the refreshment table. Then suddenly Ginny was Hermione's side.
"So who asked who?" Ginny smiled mischievously.
"Shut it Gin. I'm doing him a favor. He didn't want to come with Pansy. So where's Harry?"
"Oh he's getting me some punch. Well here they come." The two boys had drinks in both hands.
"Here you go Hermione." Draco handed her a cup.
"Hermione you came with Malfoy?!" Harry
"Yes Harry, even though it's really none of your business." Hermione replied a bit ruder than she had wanted to.
"Sorry. But if he hurts you-"
"I won't Potter." Malfoy interrupted him. Harry scowled.
Harry scowled but didn't retort. "Well I'm going to go find Ron. Ginny?" He looked at the red head.
"Uh you go and I'll catch up with you in a few minutes." Harry left.
"Um Malfoy can you go somewhere. Hermione and I need to have a little talk."
"Fine. I'll get some food Mione." He left and Ginny grabbed Hermione's arm and pulled her into a corner.
"Ok what's wrong?" Ginny started.
"Huh?" Hermione hadn't expected Ginny to ask her something like that. It was completely out of the blue.
"Oh come on Hermione I know you've been distancing yourself from us, but mostly Ron. I know what he did was wrong, believe me I wanted to kill him for what he did to you, but then you started talking to him again. Now you're back at square one. What's wrong?" She repeated.
"Well..." Hermione she told her the same story she had to Draco.
"THE IDIOT! I'LL KILL HIM!" The people around them were startled by her outburst.
"Ginny calm down!" Hermione scolded her.
"No Hermione! You just wait! Oh what I'll do to him when I find him! Then-then I'll write to mum! Yeah, Ron will pay Hermione. Don't worry."
"Ginny! No I want to handle this on my own. Go have a good time with Harry. Leave Ron to have a good time with-with-"
"Luna. Ron's here with Luna. But come on Hermione, it's not fair. He's hurt you so-"
"No! No, Ginny. Ginny you have to promise me you won't tell anyone. Not your mum, not harry, no one."
"But-"
"NO-"
"But-"
Hermione gave her a stern look. Ginny stopped protesting.
"Ok fine but if he does anything else tell me."
"Fine."
Ginny looked at Draco who had arrived with the food. "Ok well I have to go and find Harry. I'll try my best not to murder Ron."
As she left Draco turned to her and handed her a plate, "You told her." It wasn't a question it was a statement.
"Yes she wanted to know."
"Ok well let's eat. I hope what I got you was ok. I just thought of what you'd like and-"
"Yes it's fine."
They sat down and ate their meals. After they were done there was no other way they could avoid it. They were at a ball and people around them were dancing so shouldn't they?
"Yeah, so..." Draco started uneasily.
"So..."
"Er-yeah would you-um-like to dance?" He said rather quickly.
"Ok." He took her hand and they walked onto the dance floor.
After a few fairly fast dances the music changed to a slow song. Draco put his arms around her waist while Hermione placed hers around his neck. They moved slowly to the song as the rest of the world dissolved around them. They didn't speak, they didn't need any words just the sound of the beat and the sweet music filling the air.
A/N: Ok I think I'll end it here. I'm at my Grandmother's and they lost the power...AGAIN. Anyways it's daytime and my laptop's charged, so yeah. Anyways gotta go do stuff but before I leave you alone with this beautiful chapter I'd like to say (guess): 5 or more reviews for the next chapter! Lol, like you didn't see that coming. Anyways, Gin found out! YAY! And don't worry things will work out later with Hermione and Ron. I think I won't make this the end of the ball. There might be more in the next chapter so be on the look out! And umm...what else??? Um...(I have a TERRIBLE memory) yeah that's all I can think of for now. REVIEW!!!!!!!!!! (you know you want to!)
-EMMA!
P.S.-I'll have to thank you all in some other chapter when I'll know the electricity will stay longer than a minute. I thought you'd like this chapter as soon as possible. So here you go. I'll try and read all your reviews as long as the power's on. I feel like we're living in the Middle Ages or like Thomas Edison didn't invent electricity. It's AWFUL! Trust me! Btw, I have no school till next Tuesday but I still have A LOT (A LOT!!!) of algebra homework and I have to do it so I'll try to update but I'm not promising anything. My apartment still hasn't received power!!! AARRRGGG!!! I'm gonna sue (I'm just kidding but I wish I could)!!! Anyways, bye again!
-EMMA!