Chapter 7: Secrets Told
Hermione looked up at her Professor with wide eyes.
"I'm sorry Professor! We said it last night! We didn't know that it was wrong! Draco! Draco, hunny, wake up!"
Draco slowly opened his eyes and looked up at the terrified face that belonged to his girlfriend.
"Hermione! What's wr-?" he stopped short as he saw Professor McGonagall crying in his dorm room. He looked back at Hermione who was crying too and it clicked.
"I'm dead! He killed me! Figures!" Draco exclaimed and fell back and closed his eyes breathing deeply.
Hermione laughed through her tears. She smiled at Draco lovingly and nodded to Professor McGonagall to explain her story. She took a deep breath, looked Draco in the eye, and told her story.
Hermione wandered around the grounds and found herself at Hagrid's house. She heard voices inside the hut. Smiling she knocked. She waited a few seconds and beaming Hagrid, Harry, and Ron opened the door.
"Hey guys!" she exclaimed.
"'Mione where you been stranger?" asked Harry stepping back to allow her in.
"I've been um.... Studying!" She answered. The boys laughed.
"Same old 'Mione!" they said together.
Hagrid made her a cup of tea and they sat down at the table. Hermione knowing that it was time, took a deep breath, swallowed hard, and said:
"Guys, I have something to tell you!"
They put their cups down and looked at her seriously.
"What's up 'Mione?"
"I'm in love!"
"Aww... with us! We're really flattered but you're like our sister 'Mione!" said Harry.
"No! Not with you guys! I love you all like a brother and a friend but that's all."
"Then who?" Ron asked.
"Draco Malfoy!" she mumbled.
"Who?" they asked.
Hermione looked up into Harry's green eyes, Ron's blue ones, and then into Hagrid's black ones and flinched.
"Draco Malfoy!" she said as a tear rolled down her cheek.
Draco watched as Hermione walked into Hagrid's house prepared to tell their secret. He turned around as Hagrid's door clicked shut.
In his mind he had already formed a plan. He took a velvet box from his bedside table and sat on his bed. Sighing dreamily he opened the thing that made his future certain.
Hermione sat with her head in her hands as the boys stared at her.
"Malfoy? Why Malfoy?" whispered Harry.
"Why Draco? Because he woke up the inner goddess in me! When I was down because of my mother having an affair he was there. When I was attacked he was there. When I felt like nothing mattered, like nothing was ever going to be right again he held me and told me that everything was going to be okay. That's why I love him!
"He accepted me problems and all. He loves me for me! Not because I was gone ten months of the year and it would be easy for him to cheat on me! Not because he got me in bed! Not because I'm pretty. But because he put down his fcuking defenses and saw a troubled soul and the human in him helped me.
"He helped me to find me. And inside myself I found that I love the fcuking prick. All I want is your blessing! If it is not given I will walk away from here and never return!" Hermione finished breathing heavily
Harry, Ron, and Hagrid looked at Hermione! Harry was the first to speak.
"If you love him then we support you Hermione!"
"Yeah Hermione we love you!" said Ron.
"But nothing can make us like Malfoy!" Hagrid mumbled.
"Fine if that is the best I can get!" Hermione said "I've gotta go study for the N.E.W.T.'s"
Hermione paused at the door closing her eyes she said:
"When you fine 'the one' boys you'll never say goodbye!"
Opening her eyes she pulled the door open and walked back across the lawn to the castle.
Draco walked along the empty corridor that led to the Slytherin Common Room. He twirled his ring around his finger. He muttered the password and walked over to Pansy, Blaise, Crabbe, and Goyle. He sat in the chair and put his feet up on the table.
"Hey Draco!" said Blaise.
"Drakie!" shrieked Pansy.
"Hey!" grunted Crabbe and Goyle.
"Pansy leave!"
"But I don't wanna leave!" she said trailing her hand through his hair.
"Never touch my hair!" he hissed at her.
Pansy jumped and glared at Draco!
"I've gotta tell you guys something!"
"Okay!" Blaise said looking up from the Daily Prophet.
"I'm in love..." Draco said lamely.
"Oh! With who?" Pansy asked sounding hurt, but fluttering her eyelashes anyway.
"Don't flatter your self Pansy! I'm in love with a Gryffindor!"
"Oh what Gryffindor are you in love with?" Blaise asked
"Granger!" Draco muttered.
"Who?" they all asked.
"Hermione Granger!" He yelled making red sparks fly out of his wand.
Hermione sat in the Gryffindor Common Room with Ginny.
"Why?" Ginny asked.
"Because, because..." all the emotions that Hermione had held in over the past months spilled over. She began breathing in uneven gasps. Tears rolled down her cheeks and stained her white shirt. Hermione held her head in her hands. People began crowding around them and Ginny led Hermione to the staircase that led to the girl's dorms.
Hermione cried into Ginny's shoulder. Hermione's head jerked up as she heard a slam from the Common Room.
"I know Ron! But you heard her! We'll lose her if we're not supportive."
"Harry, you know he's going to hurt her! He's a little asshole! By the time he's done with her she won't have any tears left to cry."
"That may be true but it may not be! He could've changed!"
"That's bullshit Harry and you know it! Draco Malfoy can never love! He doesn't even know the meaning of the word."
Furious Hermione walked into the Gryffindor Common Room. She stood there with her hands balled into fists and cried.
"Don't you think," she said walking in between them. "that I tried to forget him? I thought the same thing! Draco Malfoy can never change! It is such a stereotype. I tried everything I could since our fourth year to forget him. But no matter what I did, who I dated! I couldn't get him out of my mind!" she yelled at the boys.
The other residents of Gryffindor Tower stood in the Common Room staring at the Golden Trio fall apart all because of love.
"I love him!" she continued in a whisper "and I will never say goodbye!" she crossed the Common Room and walked out of the portrait hole.
She wiped the tears out of her eyes as she walked down the entrance hall. She stopped at the front doors and turned back to look at the empty hall.
"I love him!" she said forcing herself to never doubt the obvious. "I love him!" she whispered again as she roughly wiped a tear from her eyes.
She pushed open the front doors and walked into the black of the night.
"How could you?" Pansy yelled smacking Draco!
Draco grabbed her wrist and yanked her arm behind her back.
"Never hit me!" he growled in her ear. He pushed her from himself with such force that she toppled over the coffee table.
"Anybody else got a problem?" they all shook their heads.
"I know that the minute I leave you all will start to talk shit so I'm going!" Draco said.
He turned around and walked to the door.
"No matter what happens I'll never say goodbye!" he promised himself. "Never!" as a tar rolled down his cheek he walked into the deserted hallway ready to plan his future.
A/N I'm not sure if this is good enough! Please keep reviewing and I'll keep writing!
This is who I am now (cont.)
I lost the love of my life
But I'm slowly getting up
I'm waiting for Mr. Right
But finding him is so tough!