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Chapter 3
Hermione took in the singer's messy, platinum blond hair and muscular body visible through his tight black t- shirt and jeans, he really was gorgeous and strangely familiar. But the thing that made her gasp was when she saw those eyes, like a swirling silver vortex, they were as captivating as his voice and Hermione had only ever seen one person with eyes like that, Draco Malfoy.
"Oh my God" Hermione gasped
'It couldn't be him, could it?' she thought 'no way, Draco Malfoy, a singer?' she continued in her head 'the girls did say his name was Dray, coincidence? Who am I kidding. I haven't seen him in five years, thought about him a couple of times and, oh he's still hot, arrg" Hermione hated having these battles with herself 'I still hate him'
By now she knew it was him. Her inner rant was stopped by Lizzie, who looked at Hermiones shocked face and smiled
"See, told you he was a total hottie"
Lizzie, Ally and Hermione had managed to get near the front, but it seemed too close for Hermione.
"Hey girls, I'm going to get a drink. I'll meet you after the gig" she said
They looked at her in disbelief, she was walking away from being so close to the hottest band around, then remembered they were going to meet them later so hyped up again
"Meet us by the toilets, remember we get to meet them" Lizzie squeaked
Hermione agreed reluctantly, she'd forgotten about the meeting part.
Draco loved being on stage, he could be who he wanted to be. Lucius would never have approved of this so he took all the more pride in it. He loved seeing the happy reactions of his fans, although sometimes the female attention got a bit tiresome. He'd received a lot of that in Hogwarts, especially towards the end when he was allowed to be himself and not what his father wanted him to be. The one person he'd wanted attention from though wanted nothing to do with him.
Draco surveyed the screaming crowd and smiled, making them scream even more, he had a dazzling smile that made girls swoon as well as sometimes retaining his trademark smirk. As he looked around a flash of chestnut caught his attention, immediately he thought of Hermione, then shook his head, why would she be anywhere near there it had been what, five years since he last saw her. He carried on singing putting thoughts of Hermione out of his head.
Hermione made her way to the bar and ordered a drink, her head was swimming with random memories of her school days and Draco. There was also the impending meeting, how was she going to survive that, she started to feel a little queasy. Maybe he wouldn't recognise her, she hoped he wouldn't. Then it struck her, what does she say? How does she act?
"Oh God, I sound like Lizzie" she sighed
As she watched the band from a more comfortable distance Hermione noted that they really were quite good, and why did it have to be him!
The gig was over, a little too quickly for Hermione; she made her way to the toilets to meet Lizzie and Ally who were in raptures over the show, and dying to meet the band.
They made their way over to a stage entrance where they could see a security guard.
"May I help you?" The man said then noticed the badges they were wearing "Ah, you must be the competition winners" he continued
"Yeah" Lizzie answered excitedly "where do we go?"
"Well, if you just follow me, I'll show you" the guard said happily
The security guard led them backstage towards a lounge area. They could hear voices and laughing coming from inside, Ally all of a sudden went pale
"Hermione, I don't feel too well"
"Honey, you'll be fine. Just remember to breathe" Hermione reassured her whilst giving her a hug and trying not to let her own motional turmoil show.
"And you, calm down" she said to Lizzie, who was now bouncing once again
"Aren't you coming in with us?" they asked with a mixture of panic and shock
How could Hermione not want to meet them, and they wanted her there just incase one of them said something stupid.
"N-no, I'd rather stay out here" then she turned to the guard "if that's allowed"
"It's definitely a first" he replied "I'll have to check"
"Oh, come on Mione" Lizzie whined
"You guys don't want me cramping your style" she tried to reason as the guard smiled at her attempt to stay away from the band
"Please?" Ally begged
"OK, OK, I'll come with you" Hermione conceded
The guard led them into the lounge area where the band were relaxing and having a laugh. To Hermiones relief Draco wasn't there. A cute guy stepped forward with dirty blond hair and green eyes, he was the bass player.
"You must be the comp winners" he smiled "hi I'm Zac"
This made the girls almost squeal, especially when he walked over to them. Lizzie was the first to speak
"I'm Lizzie. You were awesome" she said as she shook his hand
"Thanks Liz" Zac replied which made Lizzie blush
"I -I'm Ally" Ally stuttered quietly as Zac approached her and shook her hand "Hey" he said softly, realising her nervousness "it's OK, we don't bite"
Ally smiled and Zac walked over to Hermione who was standing a bit away from the girls
"And you are" he said with a flirty look that was impossible to take offence to
"I'm Hermione, their chaperone" Hermione replied with a smile
Zac welcomed them and introduced them to two of the other band members, Kyle, the lead guitarist who had brown spiky hair and piercing blue eyes, and Ben, the drummer who black hair and brown eyes. As a group they looked gorgeous and Hermione thought that with Draco as well it was no wonder they were so popular.
Just after they had done introductions and were staring to talk Draco walked in from a side room with another guy behind him. The other guy had dark hair and eyes that looked almost black.
"About time, what the hell have you been doing?" Kyle said
"Getting a drink" said the other guy
Hermione was in the far side of the room talking to Zac, while Ally was talking to Ben about his drums and Lizzie was speaking to Kyle. As soon as Lizzie saw Draco her face flushed bright red and she nearly hyperventilated. Kyle noticed this laughed and used a sing song voice
"Someone's got a crush"
Lizzie glared at him before looking at Draco again still bright red, Kyle then explained that they were the competition winners.
"This is Lizzie, that's Ally" Kyle told Draco as the girls said hello
Lizzie stuttered like mad, whilst Ally, to their surprise was calm and cool. Kyle called Zac over as Draco was speaking to the girls.
Hermione hadn't noticed Draco come in as she and Zac were getting along quite well, she walked slightly behind him and didn't see Draco because he was now sitting down.
"And this" Kyle said as Zac and Hermione got closer Draco turned around to see who Kyle was talking about "is..."
But he was cut of as Draco turned round and was stunned
"H-hermione?" he half gasped
Upon hearing her name Hermione looked up, she met deep silver eyes and froze. She recovered quickly
"M-malfoy" she stuttered quietly
"Uh oh" came the voice of the other guy who couldn't stop himself
"Hermione" he acknowledged
"Hi Blaise" she replied
Everyone else in the room looked from one to the other shocked, what was going on?
"OK, what did we miss?" Ben said breaking the silence
"Whatever you missed, we missed as well" Lizzie commented
Draco and Hermione continued to stare at each other as the tension grew, neither knew what to say or do.
Draco couldn't believe that Hermione was at one of his gigs, but apparently she didn't know it was his band, whilst Hermione couldn't believe that she was once again in front of Draco Malfoy and had butterflies in her stomach.
"I hate to break up this reunion, but would someone please tell me what is going on?" Kyle asked
Blaise explained that they went to boarding school together and it was a long story.
Hermione couldn't take anymore and told the girls to meet her outside when they'd finished, she turned and left leaving some very confused people.
Against all good judgement in his head Draco followed her
"Hermione wait!" he yelled
She ignored him but he caught up with her and gently held her arm
"What Malfoy?" she said tiredly, she had not been expecting this
"It's Draco" he told her softly "I didn't expect to see you at a gig, let alone backstage. I'm glad you're here though"
Hermione felt a shiver go through her at the softness of his voice, she wanted be nice to him he'd obviously changed, he'd changed in school but her stubborn pride still after all these years refused to let go.
"I didn't know it was your band. My cousin Lizzie won a competition" Hermione answered curtly and looked at the floor
She was mentally cursing herself for acting like a child but just couldn't get passed it. Draco sighed inwardly as he looked at Hermione, she was pretty but not conventionally gorgeous. She still had that something about her that attracted him.
Draco cautiously placed his finger under her chin and lifted her face to meet his eyes
"You still hate me?" He said sadly looking deep into her eyes
Hermione felt like she was falling into a black hole. She was lost in Draco's eyes, why did he have this power over her? She looked away
"I just can't forget" she finally replied in a softer voice.
With that she turned to leave to wait for the girls at the bar, Draco watched her go again, and wished she would see past the arrogant, obnoxious boy from school.
