A/N: since I have no finals to take today n there was no need for me to go into school, I decided to be nice n give my lovely fans another chapter! So again, thank you all who reviewed! It really means a lot to me!
Let's recap, shall we:
Hermione got up from the bench and started to walk towards him to see if there was anything about him that she can recognize him with when she tripped over a rock that was sticking out of the ground. She went flying forward and into him, knocking him down, and they were on the floor, she was on top of him.
They both made eye contact for a while, getting lost in each others eyes and Hermione could feel his heart beat increase rapidly. He lifted his head up to meet hers and the gap between them slowly closed. He looked down at her lips until they were inches apart and they could feel the warmth of the others breath. He gave her one last look in her chocolate eyes to make sure she wanted it as much as he did. He moved closer to her and she closed her eyes tightly and took a deep breath. He forced himself up the last inch that was between them and their lips touched in a soft small kiss. They pulled apart and looked at each other. He smiled and kissed her again, only this time it was longer and harder.
A minute later, the kiss got really serious and Hermione felt something more than just tongue in the kiss. She felt alive. She felt as though she was being born all over again. She felt complete.
Hermione pulled out of the kiss and stood up. Following her lead, he did the same.
"What's the matter?"
"Who are you?"
He didn't answer her but just stood there. He reached up and took off his hat, but it didn't help Hermione much. She reached behind his head and untied the piece of black cloth that was over his face and slowly peeled it away.
Realizing who he was, she gasped and her eyes widened...
...now on to the next chapter...
Yours Truly
Chapter 4 Just A Name
"Draco...." She said barely above a whisper.
"Yeah....it's me."
Hermione just stood there, not knowing what to do or say. Draco took a step towards her and she took a step back. A tear came rolling down her cheek and all he wanted to do was comfort her. He made another attempt towards her and again she stepped back and she ran back towards the castle.
"Hermione! Wait!" He shouted out after her. But she kept going and she quickened her pace. She ran back into the castle and up the stairs with Draco hot on her tail.
"Hermione would you please stop and talk to me!" he said still trying to catch up to her.
Hermione was a few feet from the Fat Lady when she realized that she still had his cape on her. She untied it and dropped it on the floor by the Fat Lady. She gave her the password and ran into her common room. Draco made it up the stairs just in time to see Hermione run through the portrait and watch it shut in his face when he was only inches away.
He turned on his heel to make his way down to the dungeons when he slipped and he was soon on the floor. He looked down at his feet and saw that his feet were tangled up in his cape that he stepped on and didn't realize it. He untangled himself, picked up his cape, and made his way down the stairs.
Hermione on the other hand continued to run until she got to her dorm. She kicked off her heels and climbed into bed. She got underneath her covers and started to cry. So many things were going through her head that it was the only thing she could think to do.
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The next morning Hermione woke up with a throbbing headache and she wasn't sure why. She threw off the covers and when she looked down and saw that she was still in the outfit from the night before, events from the pervious night flashed in her head and remembered what caused her to wake up with that headache.
She remembered. She remembered dancing with him and having a good time. She remembered how safe and right it felt being held so close to him and how intoxicating he smelt. She remembered the kiss.
'This has to be a joke someone is playing at. It doesn't make sense. But the kiss Hermione, the kiss was real, you know it was,' she argued with herself in her head until her headache worsened.
"Bloody hell. I need a hot shower and something for this headache." She said loudly to herself. She grabbed her shower things and headed towards the bathroom. Shortly after she came out feeling a lot better than she did before, she got dressed, did her hair and made her way down to the common room where she found it fairly emptied except for two boys playing some chess.
"Morning Mione." Ron greeted her.
"Morning guys. Where's Morgan and Ginny?"
"Down at breakfast. We stayed behind to wait for you." Harry explained.
"Thanks guys."
"Hey Hermione, what happened to you last night?" Ron asked as one of his pieces turned one of Harry's into smaller pieces that were now scattered around the board. "You disappeared before you got your award."
"What award?"
"You won best costume last night."
"Oh, after all that dancing I felt so drained so I decided to turn in. Sorry guys, I thought I said goodnight" She lied. She completely forgot about her friends last night.
"That's ok. Here, this is yours." Harry said as he reached behind him and handed her a gold trophy. On the base, it read:
Best Costume
Hogwarts
2004
And under that was HERMIONE GRANGER inscribed in it. On top of the base was a statue of Hermione in the outfit she was in last night.
"Thanks, I'll put it in my room later. Let's go meet Ginny and Morgan for breakfast now."
"Ok, Let's go."
And the trio made their way down to the Great Hall.
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In the middle of their breakfast the mail started to arrive, just like it had always done around that time in the morning. Letters dropped in food all over the place. An owl swooped down in front of Hermione with her copy of the Daily Prophet and a letter. She paid the owl and feed it some toast and sent it on its way. There was nothing interesting in the Daily Prophet so she tossed it aside and picked up her letter. She opened it and read it
Hermione,
We really need to talk about last night. Please meet me tonight in the Room of Requirement at midnight. When you get there, just think Draco's room and it will open up to where I am. Please be there.
-Draco
She wasn't sure if she should see him or not. 'You owe it to yourself to see him. Do you want to spend the rest of your life wondering what would've happened if you went?' She thought to herself, and soon after thinking, she made her final decision.
"Harry, do you plan on sneaking anywhere tonight?"
"No, why?"
"I was wondering if I could borrow your invisibility cloak tonight"
"Hermione Granger! Are you actually gonna break a rule and sneak out?!" Harry said, shocked but with some sarcasm in his voice.
"Shh, Harry, not so loud. But yes, those are my intensions."
"Where are you going?"
"I can't tell you. At least not now I can't. But I promise, when the time is right, you'll know."
"Hermione, is everything ok?" Ron asked after hearing Harry half shout and joined in on the conversation.
"Hopefully by tonight, it will be."
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That night the girls talked in the common room while they waited for the guys to get back from Quidditch practice.
"So how long has it been Gin?" Morgan asked.
"6 months in 3 weeks!" Ginny replied with a twinkle in her eye.
"Wow! What makes you like him so much?"
"I'll try and make a long list short. Let's see...he's so funny and charming, dreamy eyes, knows what to say to make me feel better when I'm down..."
"Funny, charming, dreamy eyes...sounds like your talking about me." Harry said as he came up from behind Ginny and wrapped his arms around her neck and started planting soft kisses on it. "But you forgot incredibly sexy." He whispered seductively as he nibbled on her earlobe.
Ginny turned on her seat to face him.
"And what gave you the idea that I was talking about you?" Ginny and Harry were now only inches apart, having a stare down.
"Well, if you weren't talking about me, then who were you talking about?" He retorted slyly.
"My boyfriend." She said with a grin.
Then before Harry could say anything back he felt someone pull his robes and was soon walking backwards.
"Sorry to break up this little love fest, but I need to talk to Harry."
Hermione dragged Harry up the stairs and they were standing outside the boys and girls dorms.
"What is it Hermione?" He asked rubbing the back of his neck.
"Can you give me your cloak?"
"Yea, I'll be right back." He went into the boys' dorm and came back quickly after he entered with the cloak in his hand and handed it to her.
"Thanks! You're a life saver!" She gave him a hug and went into her dorm.
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11:45 rolled around and Hermione tip toed out of her bedroom, down into the common room and climbed out of the portrait. After making sure that every inch of her was covered, she made her way to the Room of Requirement.
Her heart began to beat faster and faster with each step that she took as she drew closer and closer to the door until she was standing right in front of the door. 'Draco's room....Draco's room...Draco's room...Draco's room...' she thought to herself. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She reached out to grab the door knob and her body suddenly went numb. She slowly turned the knob and inched the door open. When she saw inside, she was speechless.
There was no floor, no walls, no ceiling. There was just the night sky, the stars and clouds. A cloud came floating up to her and she carefully stepped onto it. Once she had both feet firmly on the cloud and she knew she wasn't going to fall through, the cloud started to float away from the door.
As she floated to...to...where was she going? Well, where ever she was going, she didn't know, but what she did know was that she was enjoying both the journey and the view. Every so often she would see a shooting star fly across her way as the other stars twinkled brightly. She looked across the way and saw a small figure, she couldn't make it out, but she had a good idea of what it might be.
The cloud started to slow down until it came to a complete stop. She stepped off the cloud that she was on and stepped onto the bigger one that was out in front of her.
"I'm glad you made it." Hermione looked and saw Draco sitting down.
"I had to. You're right, we do need to talk." She walked over to him and plopped down next to him.
"So let's talk."
"Why is this year different, Draco? Why, after tormenting me for so long, have u decided to stop being the enemy?" She came out saying, getting to the point.
"You really wanna know the truth?"
She shook her head.
"The truth is...I never really hated you. See, I knew you were different than most girls. But I never could have gotten to get to know you like I wanted, seeing as I am a Malfoy and there is the reputation that I am expected to maintain. And I did what was expected of me. It was because of the Malfoy name that I had to be mean to you, even though it was against my will..." He stopped and saw how Hermione was listening to his every word. So he continued.
"My whole life, I've been brain washed by my father and was taught that everyone was lower than us. You wanna know why this year is different. What's different this year is that I'm fucking 16 years old and I think it's time that I start thinking for myself, figure out who's scum on my own. My father is scum and you, Hermione Granger, are no scum. So what if my last name is Malfoy!? It means nothing to me...it's just a name. It doesn't mean I have to follow in my father's footsteps and be my father. It's just a name I got stuck with, and not by choice." He said looking into her now watery eyes and he meant every word of it. He felt so relieved to finally get it out in the open. It was bottling up inside him for quite sometime now.
"And if you can believe it...there's more. From all the girls that I've kissed, I've never had a kiss that meant so much to me. It was like I was kissing for the first time. Not only that, but a hole in my heart that I never knew I had was filled last night."
Tears were now running down freely on her cheeks. But these were tears of happiness, ones that haven't been shed since her second year at Hogwarts when Hagrid returned from Azkaban.
Draco moved toward her and they were face to face and looked at each other until Hermione spoke up.
"Draco...that kiss last night not only made you complete, but did the exact same thing to me. And that's why I ran. I didn't know what else to do. Everything was happening so fast and it scared me that a kiss like that did that to me and it was coming from you." She said softly and a fresh batch of tears came out of her eyes.
Draco moved closer to Hermione and he did what he had done the night before. He cupped her face in his hands and wiped away her tears. Draco kept her face in his hands and he kissed her soft lips.
"Draco..." she said in between kisses.
"Yeah."
"Does this mean what I think it means?" She asked smiling against his lips.
"What do you want it to mean?"
"That we're a couple."
"Then that's what it means."
Hermione was thrilled and was finally happy. She had someone. Someone to cuddle up with during cold, long nights and when things weren't going right, she had someone now to tell her that it would be alright. She couldn't wait to tell her best friends that she was now with Dra...she suddenly remembered that she hadn't exactly told Harry and Ron about her encounter with Draco at the dance. Would they understand? Would they try and kill Draco? Hermione didn't know, but what she did know was that her and Draco would have to keep it a secret for a while, until she told them.
"Draco, would you do me a small favor?"
"What is it?"
"Would you mind if we just kept this to our selves, I wanna tell Harry and Ron myself, I don't want them to find out from someone else."
"Yea. Plus, there's the thought of my father finding out."
"So what your saying is..."
"...we'd have to meet secretly." He finished her sentence. "We'll go through the days as if nothing is going on between us and we'd meet whenever we could. That is, if you don't mind."
"No, I understand." She was relieved that they were thinking on the same terms.
"I knew you would." And he started kissing her again.
They spent another ten minutes kissing in each other's arms when Hermione spoke up again.
"I think we should get to bed. We have classes in the morning."
"You think too much." He teased. "But as always, your right."
He took out his wand and summoned a cloud to come and take them to the door. Before walking out into the corridor, Hermione gave Draco one last goodnight kiss. Draco smiled and walked down to the dungeons. She watched until he was out of sight, put on Harry's cloak and walked up to the Gryffindor common room. Once in her bed, she closed her eyes and slept for the rest of the night. It was the first night in a while that Hermione got a decent night's sleep
A/N: whoa whoa whoa! Draco Malfoy was behind the mask?! And is now Hermione's boyfriend?! Well at least Hermione is now happy and Draco was sincere on what he told Hermione...or was he telling the whole truth? And what will happen when Hermione tells Harry and Ron? Mwahahahahaha....
Ne wayz...I have the next chapter all written out but I'm not exactly happy with it so before I post it I'm gunna work on it, so it might be a while before I update again. But it shouldn't be too long now that I'm basically done with school for the summer.
Let's recap, shall we:
Hermione got up from the bench and started to walk towards him to see if there was anything about him that she can recognize him with when she tripped over a rock that was sticking out of the ground. She went flying forward and into him, knocking him down, and they were on the floor, she was on top of him.
They both made eye contact for a while, getting lost in each others eyes and Hermione could feel his heart beat increase rapidly. He lifted his head up to meet hers and the gap between them slowly closed. He looked down at her lips until they were inches apart and they could feel the warmth of the others breath. He gave her one last look in her chocolate eyes to make sure she wanted it as much as he did. He moved closer to her and she closed her eyes tightly and took a deep breath. He forced himself up the last inch that was between them and their lips touched in a soft small kiss. They pulled apart and looked at each other. He smiled and kissed her again, only this time it was longer and harder.
A minute later, the kiss got really serious and Hermione felt something more than just tongue in the kiss. She felt alive. She felt as though she was being born all over again. She felt complete.
Hermione pulled out of the kiss and stood up. Following her lead, he did the same.
"What's the matter?"
"Who are you?"
He didn't answer her but just stood there. He reached up and took off his hat, but it didn't help Hermione much. She reached behind his head and untied the piece of black cloth that was over his face and slowly peeled it away.
Realizing who he was, she gasped and her eyes widened...
...now on to the next chapter...
Yours Truly
Chapter 4 Just A Name
"Draco...." She said barely above a whisper.
"Yeah....it's me."
Hermione just stood there, not knowing what to do or say. Draco took a step towards her and she took a step back. A tear came rolling down her cheek and all he wanted to do was comfort her. He made another attempt towards her and again she stepped back and she ran back towards the castle.
"Hermione! Wait!" He shouted out after her. But she kept going and she quickened her pace. She ran back into the castle and up the stairs with Draco hot on her tail.
"Hermione would you please stop and talk to me!" he said still trying to catch up to her.
Hermione was a few feet from the Fat Lady when she realized that she still had his cape on her. She untied it and dropped it on the floor by the Fat Lady. She gave her the password and ran into her common room. Draco made it up the stairs just in time to see Hermione run through the portrait and watch it shut in his face when he was only inches away.
He turned on his heel to make his way down to the dungeons when he slipped and he was soon on the floor. He looked down at his feet and saw that his feet were tangled up in his cape that he stepped on and didn't realize it. He untangled himself, picked up his cape, and made his way down the stairs.
Hermione on the other hand continued to run until she got to her dorm. She kicked off her heels and climbed into bed. She got underneath her covers and started to cry. So many things were going through her head that it was the only thing she could think to do.
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The next morning Hermione woke up with a throbbing headache and she wasn't sure why. She threw off the covers and when she looked down and saw that she was still in the outfit from the night before, events from the pervious night flashed in her head and remembered what caused her to wake up with that headache.
She remembered. She remembered dancing with him and having a good time. She remembered how safe and right it felt being held so close to him and how intoxicating he smelt. She remembered the kiss.
'This has to be a joke someone is playing at. It doesn't make sense. But the kiss Hermione, the kiss was real, you know it was,' she argued with herself in her head until her headache worsened.
"Bloody hell. I need a hot shower and something for this headache." She said loudly to herself. She grabbed her shower things and headed towards the bathroom. Shortly after she came out feeling a lot better than she did before, she got dressed, did her hair and made her way down to the common room where she found it fairly emptied except for two boys playing some chess.
"Morning Mione." Ron greeted her.
"Morning guys. Where's Morgan and Ginny?"
"Down at breakfast. We stayed behind to wait for you." Harry explained.
"Thanks guys."
"Hey Hermione, what happened to you last night?" Ron asked as one of his pieces turned one of Harry's into smaller pieces that were now scattered around the board. "You disappeared before you got your award."
"What award?"
"You won best costume last night."
"Oh, after all that dancing I felt so drained so I decided to turn in. Sorry guys, I thought I said goodnight" She lied. She completely forgot about her friends last night.
"That's ok. Here, this is yours." Harry said as he reached behind him and handed her a gold trophy. On the base, it read:
Best Costume
Hogwarts
2004
And under that was HERMIONE GRANGER inscribed in it. On top of the base was a statue of Hermione in the outfit she was in last night.
"Thanks, I'll put it in my room later. Let's go meet Ginny and Morgan for breakfast now."
"Ok, Let's go."
And the trio made their way down to the Great Hall.
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In the middle of their breakfast the mail started to arrive, just like it had always done around that time in the morning. Letters dropped in food all over the place. An owl swooped down in front of Hermione with her copy of the Daily Prophet and a letter. She paid the owl and feed it some toast and sent it on its way. There was nothing interesting in the Daily Prophet so she tossed it aside and picked up her letter. She opened it and read it
Hermione,
We really need to talk about last night. Please meet me tonight in the Room of Requirement at midnight. When you get there, just think Draco's room and it will open up to where I am. Please be there.
-Draco
She wasn't sure if she should see him or not. 'You owe it to yourself to see him. Do you want to spend the rest of your life wondering what would've happened if you went?' She thought to herself, and soon after thinking, she made her final decision.
"Harry, do you plan on sneaking anywhere tonight?"
"No, why?"
"I was wondering if I could borrow your invisibility cloak tonight"
"Hermione Granger! Are you actually gonna break a rule and sneak out?!" Harry said, shocked but with some sarcasm in his voice.
"Shh, Harry, not so loud. But yes, those are my intensions."
"Where are you going?"
"I can't tell you. At least not now I can't. But I promise, when the time is right, you'll know."
"Hermione, is everything ok?" Ron asked after hearing Harry half shout and joined in on the conversation.
"Hopefully by tonight, it will be."
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That night the girls talked in the common room while they waited for the guys to get back from Quidditch practice.
"So how long has it been Gin?" Morgan asked.
"6 months in 3 weeks!" Ginny replied with a twinkle in her eye.
"Wow! What makes you like him so much?"
"I'll try and make a long list short. Let's see...he's so funny and charming, dreamy eyes, knows what to say to make me feel better when I'm down..."
"Funny, charming, dreamy eyes...sounds like your talking about me." Harry said as he came up from behind Ginny and wrapped his arms around her neck and started planting soft kisses on it. "But you forgot incredibly sexy." He whispered seductively as he nibbled on her earlobe.
Ginny turned on her seat to face him.
"And what gave you the idea that I was talking about you?" Ginny and Harry were now only inches apart, having a stare down.
"Well, if you weren't talking about me, then who were you talking about?" He retorted slyly.
"My boyfriend." She said with a grin.
Then before Harry could say anything back he felt someone pull his robes and was soon walking backwards.
"Sorry to break up this little love fest, but I need to talk to Harry."
Hermione dragged Harry up the stairs and they were standing outside the boys and girls dorms.
"What is it Hermione?" He asked rubbing the back of his neck.
"Can you give me your cloak?"
"Yea, I'll be right back." He went into the boys' dorm and came back quickly after he entered with the cloak in his hand and handed it to her.
"Thanks! You're a life saver!" She gave him a hug and went into her dorm.
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11:45 rolled around and Hermione tip toed out of her bedroom, down into the common room and climbed out of the portrait. After making sure that every inch of her was covered, she made her way to the Room of Requirement.
Her heart began to beat faster and faster with each step that she took as she drew closer and closer to the door until she was standing right in front of the door. 'Draco's room....Draco's room...Draco's room...Draco's room...' she thought to herself. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She reached out to grab the door knob and her body suddenly went numb. She slowly turned the knob and inched the door open. When she saw inside, she was speechless.
There was no floor, no walls, no ceiling. There was just the night sky, the stars and clouds. A cloud came floating up to her and she carefully stepped onto it. Once she had both feet firmly on the cloud and she knew she wasn't going to fall through, the cloud started to float away from the door.
As she floated to...to...where was she going? Well, where ever she was going, she didn't know, but what she did know was that she was enjoying both the journey and the view. Every so often she would see a shooting star fly across her way as the other stars twinkled brightly. She looked across the way and saw a small figure, she couldn't make it out, but she had a good idea of what it might be.
The cloud started to slow down until it came to a complete stop. She stepped off the cloud that she was on and stepped onto the bigger one that was out in front of her.
"I'm glad you made it." Hermione looked and saw Draco sitting down.
"I had to. You're right, we do need to talk." She walked over to him and plopped down next to him.
"So let's talk."
"Why is this year different, Draco? Why, after tormenting me for so long, have u decided to stop being the enemy?" She came out saying, getting to the point.
"You really wanna know the truth?"
She shook her head.
"The truth is...I never really hated you. See, I knew you were different than most girls. But I never could have gotten to get to know you like I wanted, seeing as I am a Malfoy and there is the reputation that I am expected to maintain. And I did what was expected of me. It was because of the Malfoy name that I had to be mean to you, even though it was against my will..." He stopped and saw how Hermione was listening to his every word. So he continued.
"My whole life, I've been brain washed by my father and was taught that everyone was lower than us. You wanna know why this year is different. What's different this year is that I'm fucking 16 years old and I think it's time that I start thinking for myself, figure out who's scum on my own. My father is scum and you, Hermione Granger, are no scum. So what if my last name is Malfoy!? It means nothing to me...it's just a name. It doesn't mean I have to follow in my father's footsteps and be my father. It's just a name I got stuck with, and not by choice." He said looking into her now watery eyes and he meant every word of it. He felt so relieved to finally get it out in the open. It was bottling up inside him for quite sometime now.
"And if you can believe it...there's more. From all the girls that I've kissed, I've never had a kiss that meant so much to me. It was like I was kissing for the first time. Not only that, but a hole in my heart that I never knew I had was filled last night."
Tears were now running down freely on her cheeks. But these were tears of happiness, ones that haven't been shed since her second year at Hogwarts when Hagrid returned from Azkaban.
Draco moved toward her and they were face to face and looked at each other until Hermione spoke up.
"Draco...that kiss last night not only made you complete, but did the exact same thing to me. And that's why I ran. I didn't know what else to do. Everything was happening so fast and it scared me that a kiss like that did that to me and it was coming from you." She said softly and a fresh batch of tears came out of her eyes.
Draco moved closer to Hermione and he did what he had done the night before. He cupped her face in his hands and wiped away her tears. Draco kept her face in his hands and he kissed her soft lips.
"Draco..." she said in between kisses.
"Yeah."
"Does this mean what I think it means?" She asked smiling against his lips.
"What do you want it to mean?"
"That we're a couple."
"Then that's what it means."
Hermione was thrilled and was finally happy. She had someone. Someone to cuddle up with during cold, long nights and when things weren't going right, she had someone now to tell her that it would be alright. She couldn't wait to tell her best friends that she was now with Dra...she suddenly remembered that she hadn't exactly told Harry and Ron about her encounter with Draco at the dance. Would they understand? Would they try and kill Draco? Hermione didn't know, but what she did know was that her and Draco would have to keep it a secret for a while, until she told them.
"Draco, would you do me a small favor?"
"What is it?"
"Would you mind if we just kept this to our selves, I wanna tell Harry and Ron myself, I don't want them to find out from someone else."
"Yea. Plus, there's the thought of my father finding out."
"So what your saying is..."
"...we'd have to meet secretly." He finished her sentence. "We'll go through the days as if nothing is going on between us and we'd meet whenever we could. That is, if you don't mind."
"No, I understand." She was relieved that they were thinking on the same terms.
"I knew you would." And he started kissing her again.
They spent another ten minutes kissing in each other's arms when Hermione spoke up again.
"I think we should get to bed. We have classes in the morning."
"You think too much." He teased. "But as always, your right."
He took out his wand and summoned a cloud to come and take them to the door. Before walking out into the corridor, Hermione gave Draco one last goodnight kiss. Draco smiled and walked down to the dungeons. She watched until he was out of sight, put on Harry's cloak and walked up to the Gryffindor common room. Once in her bed, she closed her eyes and slept for the rest of the night. It was the first night in a while that Hermione got a decent night's sleep
A/N: whoa whoa whoa! Draco Malfoy was behind the mask?! And is now Hermione's boyfriend?! Well at least Hermione is now happy and Draco was sincere on what he told Hermione...or was he telling the whole truth? And what will happen when Hermione tells Harry and Ron? Mwahahahahaha....
Ne wayz...I have the next chapter all written out but I'm not exactly happy with it so before I post it I'm gunna work on it, so it might be a while before I update again. But it shouldn't be too long now that I'm basically done with school for the summer.