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Disclaimer: No we don't own Harry Potter. If we did we'd be rich, rich, rich!Chapter 8: Draco's Date
(Author's Note)'thoughts' "talking" of coarse! :
Draco and Hermione walked out of Hermione's house side by side.
"What are we going to do Draco?" asked a curious Hermione.
"You'll see," was all he said. At this Hermione's stomach did a flip, and left a sort of pleasant feeling there.
First thing they did was go to the beach. They saw some people from the club/party at Devon's and played some volleyball. It was boys against girls, and at first the boys were ahead by two points. All the guys had giant smirks on their faces, while someone said, "We're going to beat you into the sand ladies!"
The girls said nothing and flaunted flirty smiles smiles. Draco served the ball, and Hermione did a bloody fantastic spike that gained the girls one point. Once again, Hermione did a another spike, and got another point. Draco looked Hermione dead in the eyes and said, "You're going down!"
"Ohh…I think it is you who is going down!" she yelled back.
The ball was served, and smashed side to side. Flora was in the front and missed the shot. Hermione made a dive for it, and slid on the sand a bit and just barely saved it. The other girls got it up and over, smashing it to the ground on the boy's side. With that the girls won the rigorous game.
After the game Draco and Hermione had a discussion about how she knew so much about the game.
"I'm a muggle born after remember."
He grunts, "Sorry."
"It's fine."
After that there was an akward silence for a few moments. Draco jumped up from his seat and said, "Any who…" Hermione looked at him as if to say, 'are-you-on-drugs?'
"Lets go see a movie or play some kind of game," said Draco breaking the silence.
"I have a better idea!" Hermione said excitedly, while getting up too.Finally they had reached their destination. Draco looked up at the sign that said 'Turtle Speedway' on it.
"What are we going to do here?" he asked.
"Are we going to ride turtles?" he asked again.
"No, were not going to ride turtles. We're going to go go-carting!" she exclaimed.
"What's go-carting?" Draco asked with a confused look on his face.
"Go-carting is where you ride in small cars, and race everyone and try to win. It's so much fun!" explained Hermione. Draco was still clueless about the topic, but went along with it.
Once they were both actually inside the building Hermione got them tickets, so they could use the go-carts. Hermione took a good fifteen minutes explaining to Draco how everything worked. Then, finally they were off! Draco was driving the go-cart and suddenly…WHAM! He got hit in the sides ahd was jerked to the side. Draco was about to yell at the person who crashed into him, but figured out it was Herminone smiling maliciously. After that she raced away, and Draco right behind her.
Hermione and Draco get out of the go-carts laughing hysterically.
"That was so much fun!" yelled Hermione.
Still in a daze about the fun Draco said, "I got the need for speed!"
"Draco," she said in a dull voice, "you watch too much T.V."
He looks at her with an innocent look on his face, "So?"
"Harry and Ron are great," Hermione was saying, "they aren't always acting as smart as they can, or understanding as they can, but they are great."
"They seem to keep you out of the loop sometimes," Draco stated as he sat on the beach and the waves tickled his toes.
"Ron is a git, but Harry is absolutely adoring," she replied, "enough about me though. Why are you friends with those block heads Crabbe and Goyal?"
"Was friends," Draco began, "after father was sent to Azkaban I began to realize I used them, as I did the rest of the school, to vent my anger towards my father. But after he was sent off, I realized I didn't need them. So slowly I stayed away. Said things like need space, blah, blah," Draco said as Hermione looked at him with great interest. He stopped, and then she smiled, he smiled back.
Draco continued, "Mum went insane, obviously driving me mad! Anger was always running through my veins," he then heard Hermione say, "makes sense," and then he went on, "Then mum had a heart attack, and I felt alone for some time. Then I figured I was a free rich boy, so I dropped the losers and now Blaise in my friend. I stay at his house a lot. Sometimes being alone is awful."
"Your story is so much better than mine," Hermione said in a dazed voice.
"Hermione," Draco said, "you didn't even tell me your story. It was more like you told me Potter and Weasley are great."
"Well," and off she went telling Draco about how Harry, Ron, and how she met them in their first year on the Hogwarts Express.
Hermione jumped up, "Come on Draco! I have this great idea-"
"Hold on missy, I will decide what we do."
"Just come on Draco. Can't you trust me?"
Draco sits there debating if he should trust her or not. Growing impatient, Hermione grabbed Draco's arm and pulls him to a store.
"Shopping?" Draco grunted, "Your great idea is to shop?"
"No."
"Then what?"
"Shut up! Just wait and see!" she replied in an angry voice.
"Yes mother." She smiled with saticfaction.
Ten or twenty minutes later, Hermione walked up to Draco, "Sit." Draco obeyed, and sat down on the bench.
"Gimme your foot," he gives her his left foot and Hermione put on a roller blade. Then she did the right foot.
"Tight enough?"
"Err…it feels snug."
"Perfect." Hermione stands up and pushed a helmet on his head, clicking together the buckle for him. She then puts on knee pads, elbow pads, and wrist pads.
Draco looks at Hermione oddly, "What-"
"Roller blading," Hermione said as she too put on her roller gear.
"Very fun, you skate and the gear helps you so when you," she begins to cough, "fall."
"What was that last part?"
"Nothing."
He glares for a moment, "Well if you say so."
"I'll demonstrate for you, okay?" Draco smirks.
Hermione dropped her smile instantly, "Not that way!"
"Damnit."
Hermione sort of smiled as her stomach flipped. She couldn't explain why, but when he said that she felt jittery. Slowly she began gliding her feet at a slow walking pace and then gradually faster. She stopped and showed Draco once more.
The first time, you could see his eyes following her butt, and coming up he went back and forth from her to her butt. 'She is so damn hot!'
"Now you try!"
"No!" he yelled.
"Yes." Hermione put out her arms as he hesitantly grabbed hers. The moment he stood up, he fell, luckly Hermione caught him.
"You made it look so easy," complained Draco.
"Sorry-"
"Don't be, you're excellent at this, and shouldn't be sorry!" he interrupted her in aggravated tone. Hermione slightly smiled and her stomach gave a very small jump.
"Lets try this again," she said.
Draco sighed, "Now how do I start?"
"Try walking." He stepped and fell.
"No, Malfoy, you have to walk like you're gliding on air not stomping!"
He tries getting up and falls again. He then looked up and saw Hermione's hand. "Thanks," he stood up, destined to impress the beautiful girl in front of him. He wanted to impress her so bad, and couldn't explain this feeling.
"Earth to Draco!" Hermione waved her hand in front of his face. He shook his head and began skating without thinking.
"YOU DID IT DRACO!" Hermione screamed and Draco fell.
"I did!" he was actually happy without being in a loud club.
Hermione glided to him, and a small rock appeared out of nowhere and she tripped and fell on Draco. Her face was very close to his.
Their faces got closer and closer.
At this moment Draco thought, 'I feel as though I should kiss her. She makes me feel happy and something else I can't figure out.' Hermione on the other hand was thinking about if they were going to kiss, 'I could get my first real kiss! He could not do anything at all.' They were several inches away from each other.
"Look Mommy," pointed a small boy licking an ice cream cone, "that girl is on top of that boy! And they are in roller blades!" The mother picked up her young boy and left.
"I wanna go roller blading! It looks fun!" the boy said as he and his mother fled.
Overhearing, Hermione quickly got up, her face very red.
Draco got up and coughed, "So, lets try this again."
"Err…right," she replied in an awkward way.
Inside, her mind was saying, 'What just happened?' Draco was frantically avoiding her gaze. 'I'm such an idiot-oh that's a pretty flower-I shouldn't have-these flowers smell nice-tried kissing her-I think I should pick that flower and put it in Hermione's hair-she is so gorgeous-why am I thinking these thoughts?' he took a deep breath and finally looked into Hermione's eyes. She looked into his.
Finally able to talk to each other now they took off down the beach road talking. Draco thought to himself, 'I should hold her hand and confess-'
"AHHH!" the road began going downhill as he screamed. 'Perfect time to confess I'm scared of going down, and I need to hold her hand to feel safe,' he paused in thought, 'I'll sound bloody stupid.'
Draco thought of what to do when Hermione smiles and said, "Why don't you take my hand and we can get down this hill together!" she cupped her hand into Draco's. 'Well that went well,' he smirked, 'I handled that well.'
At the bottom of the hill
"I can't believe this is going to be our last year at Hogwarts," cried Hermione.
"And the best way to sum it up," Draco began, "would be to become Head Boy."
She stopped dead causing her to lose her balance and fall on her butt; bringing Draco down with her.
"I completely forgot about being Head Girl!"
Hermione began having girlie thoughts again, 'We could be Head Boy and Girl together!'
"Yes, Hermione, personally I think you deserve to be Head Girl."
She grinned, "Thanks!"
He stared at her hyper-self.
She looked down, "I get these moments when I can be very hyper. Sorry."
"It's fine."
"This is so unfair," Draco complained.
"No, it's not. It's going to be fun," said Hermione.
"All day you've been picking what we do, and I was the one who had all of today planned. It's my turn to teach you how to do something fun," Draco said without listening to what Hermione had to say and pulled her away.
"Golfing?" asked Hermione in a dull, bored tone.
"Technically, it's not golfing, because when you golf you're in wide open fields. Whereas, this is put-putting where you have small obstacle courses," Draco explained. (A/N: we know this is lame, but it's the only thing we could think of)
"C'mon! I'll show you. It's fun!" he said pulling her away again.
Soon they both had golf clubs and golf balls. Draco had gotten the obvious color he would get, which was green, and Hermione had gotten red. Draco led the way to the first hole with Hermione trailing behind.
"Hole Number One!" he proudly said.
"You can go first, Malfoy," she said.
"If that's what you want," Draco went up to the darker green square patch, and set the ball down; getting into his normal golfing position. Whatever it looked like, it seemed normal to Hermione. He smacked the ball semi-hard, and with luck made a hole-in-one.
Hermione tried to be happy but it was very hard. She approached the area where Draco had been, and set down her ball. She pulled up her club and went to swing it when- "Wait!" Draco yelled.
She tried putting her club down, but he was holding it.
"Nothing will happen if you whack it like that!"
"Here, let me show you," he continued, walking near Hermione.
Draco stood behind her and put his hands on top of hers, and guided her to the correct positioning. He moved closer so he could talk in her ear, "I direct you the first time and you try the second time."
She only nodded.
Slowly, Draco brought up her club and smacked the ball; she then got a hole-in-one. A huge grin was on Hermione's face.
"You try it yourself on the next hole," Draco was saying as he wrote the score down on a piece of paper.
He followed her and quickly received another hole-in-one. This time Hermione gave a jump and clapped her hands, "Yay for you!"
Hermione set her ball down and tried as hard as possible to hit the ball correctly.
She swung.
She heard a yell and a splash, "AHHH!"
"Omigosh!" shrieked Hermione, "Did I do that?" she finished with a confused look on her face.
"Oh no, I love sitting in water holes with large bumps on my head," he replied with sarcasm dripping off every word.
"I'm so sorry," she put out her hand to help him up.
"Naw, it's okay."
"If you say so," Hermione positioned herself once more, and feeling sorry for hitting Draco, she doesn't pay attention and gets another hole-in-one.
"You're better at this than I thought," he commented.
-15th hole-
Now on the fifth-teenth hole, Hermione is up. She hits the ball; slowly now going faster downhill the ball splashes into the water.
"Oops!" she laughed. "I'll get that."
She got on her hands and knees. She reached as far as she could, "Malfoy, take my hand so I can reach this ball," which was floating somewhat away.
Draco took her hand and Hermione reached much, much further than before.
"Herm-" he tried to say, but it was too late.
He and Hermione were in the water completely soaked. Draco was on top of Hermione and somehow his right arm was wrapped around her wet waist, and his free arm pressed to the bottom of the muddy water hole.
Hermione was leaning back, her arms also on the muddy ground. Her face was sparkling with water dripping down it, and her clothes were completely wet too!
Draco, on the other hand, was even more drenched, this being the second time he had fallen into the water holes that day.
He looked into her beautiful chocolate brown eyes. She looked even more beautiful when she did have water on her face.
Slowly once again, Draco and Hermione's faces came closer. Draco was pulling her closer to his body, very slowly, by the arm that was wrapped tightly around her waist.
Their lips finally locked and Hermione's stomach did a triple three-sixty! Her heart was pounding rapidly in her chest!
Draco, being the spontaneous guy he is, deepened the kiss.
"Hello!" yelled a group of people.
The love birds let go of the first kiss and quickly got out of the water. They looked at each other and Draco said, "Lets end this game and go get changed."
Quietly Hermione nodded.
-Later-
"Well, this is my room," said Draco pushing a key into the door. Draco walked in with Hermione following hesitantly.
Hermione took a seat on his couch.
"May I?" she indicated to the T.V.
Draco looked at her then the T.V., "Certainly."
She flipped the tv on to MTV, to her luck music videos were on. While Draco was in his room, she got up and started to dance to a few songs that were playing.
At least an hour or so went by, and Hermione began to grow tired of dancing, but then her favorite song came on.
I don't understand why
See it's burning me to hold onto this
I know this is something I gotta do
But that don't mean I want to
What I'm trying to say is that I-love-you I just
I feel like this is coming to an end
And it's better for me to let it go now than hold on and hurt you
I gotta let it burn
But it's comin from my heart
It's been a long time comin
But we done been fell apart
Really wanna work this out
But I don't think you're gonna change
I do but you don't
Think it's best to go out separate ways
Tell me why I should stay in this relationship
When I'm hurting baby, I ain't happy baby
Plus there's so many other things I gotta deal with
I think that you should let it burn
But you know gotta let it go cuz the party ain't jumpi' like it used to
Even though it might ruin you
Let it burn
Let it burn
Gotta let it burn
Deep down you know it's best for yourself but you
Hate the thought of her with someone else
But you that it's over
We know that it's through
Let it burn
Let it burn
Gotta let it burn
Got somebody here but I want you
Cause the feelin ain't the same by myself
Callin' her your name
Ladies tell me do you understand?
Now all my fellas do you feel all my pain?
It's the way I feel
I know I made a mistake
Now it's too late
I know she ain't comin back
What I gotta do now
To get my shorty back
Ooo ooo ooo ooooh
Man I don't know what I'm gonna fo
Without my booo
You've been gone for too long
It's been fifty-leven days, um-teen hours
Imma be burin' till you return (let it burn)
But you know gotta let it go cuz the party ain't jumpi' like it used to
Even though it might ruin you
Let it burn (let it burn, let it burn, you gon'learn)
Let it burn (gotta let it burn)
Gotta let it burn
Deep down you know it's best for yourself but you
Hate the thought of her being with someone else
But you know it's over
We know that it's through
Let it burn
Let it burn
Gotta let it burn
I'm twisted cuz one side of me is tellin' me that I need to move on
On the other side I wanna breakdown and cry (oooh)
I'm twisted cuz one side of me is tellin' me that I need to move on
On the other side I wanna breakdown and cry (yeah)
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh oooh
Ooh ooh oooh (can ya feel me burnin'?)
Ooh ooh ooh oooh ooh oooh
So many days, so many hours
I'm still burnin' till you return
But you know gotta let it go cuz the party ain't jumpi' like it used to
Even though this might ruin you
Let it burn
Let it burn
Gotta let it burn
Deep down you know it's best for yourself but you
Hate the thought of her with someone else
But you know that it's over
We know that it's through
Let it burn
Let it burn
Gotta let it burn
Hermione had developed a strong voice. Not the best, but worth listening to, and she sang along. Loving this song.
Draco came out, "Cold?"
Hermione turned, "Oh Draco-no-well, yes. Can we get to my house?"
"Certainly," Draco said again.
For some reason or another her heart did a one-eighty. The word 'certainly' coming from Draco made her feel giggly.
In a slightly awkward voice Hermione looked at Draco, "Could you stand outside?"
"Certainly."
While she was getting dressed Draco thought to himself, 'Wow, we actually kissed. It was nice. She makes me feel…I don't know, great! But damn those muggles ruined it!'
Hermione zipped together her dress and thought, 'I have never felt this way. What's going on with me? Should I be feeling this way? Is this feeling a good thing? Oh, well! No time to dawdle!' she smiled and walked out of her room to meet Draco's eyes, "This is your fun filled day, where to next?"
"You look great," he replied.
"Thanks, so where to?'
"Ah. Yes, I was thinking," he paused, "I might seem very stupid, but it is a sunset."
"A sunset would be very nice."
From watching too much television Draco put out his arm, and Hermione wrapped her arms around his like in all those fancy ball movies.
Draco and Hermione arrived at the beach right before the sun had begun to set. The colors began colliding into each other, "It's so beautiful," gasped Hermione.
"It's alright," shrugged Draco feeling bored at the fact that he wanted to come and watch this.
"Granger," he began (he keeps going back and forth from Hermione to Granger, not exactly sure to call her in their odd relationship), "I was thinking we could go to the movies after this."
"Wow, a volleyball game, go-carting, roller blading, put-putting, a sunset and a movie!?" she was in a bit of a shock, "You sure know how to spoil a girl."
"Especially when it's a girl like you."
Hermione blushed bright red.
"Oh yes, I forgot we have a reservation at this fancy restaurant."
"You're too much, Malfoy."
"Draco."
"Huh?"
"Draco. Call me Draco, I prefer it over Malfoy."
"Alright…Draco."
Draco's hand took a hold of Hermione's, and he then began running, "We'll be late for the movie if we don't hurry."
They finally arrived at the movie theater ten minutes later, "So what would you like to see Hermione?"
"Lets see a scary movie," she smiled a little. "They are the best."
Draco scanned through the movie listing, and looked at Hermione again. "I'm not exactly used to movie stuff such as this. Muggle Studies doesn't always go through all the fine details."
Hermione glanced up, "Hmmm," she drummed her fingers on the side of her cheek, "How about Doom, Death, Flesh?"
"Two for Doom, Death, Flesh please."
Two tickets came out of a slit on the desk and Draco ripped them off.
"I'm starving! Can we please get popcorn, even though afterwards we are going to that restaurant? I'll pay."
"Seems fine. You seem to go through food fast-"
"I burn energy quickly," Hermione said to defend herself. She ordered some popcorn, and popped a piece in her mouth when she got it, "Mmm."
She then tossed one at Draco; it hit him in the ear. Quickly he turned his head and saw another piece of popcorn being thrown at him. He caught it in his mouth, "Mmm."
Hermione laughed and soon Draco began laughing as well. They walked into the theater and took their seats.
-In the theater-
"When's this movie going to start?" complained Draco.
"Soon."
One minute later.
"When's this movie going to start?" complained Draco.
"Soon."
Two minutes later.
"When's this movie going to start?" complained Draco.
"Soon."
Three minutes later.
"When's this movie going to start?" complained Draco.
"Soon Draco."
Four minutes later.
"When's this movie going to start?"
"Soon Draco."
Five minutes later.
"When's this movie going-"
"SHUT UP DRACO!"
Hermione began rubbing her forehead as if she had a headache.
He then took a popcorn piece and tossed it at a boy in front of them, and quickly looked at Hermione with lovey-dovey eyes. She looks too(seeing what he had done).
The guy looked at Draco, he had a confused look on his face. Then he turned back around. Hermione watches Draco take another popcorn piece and throw it.
Then he looked at Hermione as she looked at him, this time he put his hand on her cheek.
The boy turned around, still confused.
As the boy turned to face the movie screen, Draco took another piece of popcorn and threw it at the boy.
Quickly turning to Hermione moving his hand from her cheek to her chin, moving towards her to lightly touch her lips.
From the corner of Draco's eye, he saw the boy turn around for a third time. The boy faced the screen looking annoyed.
Draco once again threw popcorn at him. He quickly tuned around, "Will you stop-"
"Shhh!" the movie was starting.
The room became dark, and Hermione was trying her hardest to contain her laughter.
She quickly stopped, thinking of the sweet kiss she received from Draco.
Halfway into the movie, the pop out scary stuff was starting show. At the moment a green slimy monster jumped out at the girl, the girl screams a horrific scream. Hermione gasps, and took a hold of Draco's hand out of pure fright.
He grinned to himself loving the touch of her smooth skin.
He then noticed her hand was dreadfully cold. He then noticed her dress was not covering her arms very well. Even in the dark he could see the goose bumps on her. Draco took off his sports jacket and put it around Hermione.
She wrapped it around her tightly smiling slightly, and continued to watch the movie.
Soon enough Hermione and Draco walked out of the movie theater.
"That was a good movie, and thanks for providing the entertainment," she blurted out.
"Only because you provided the food."
"Can we please go eat?"
"I know you said you burn through energy, but with all that popcorn?"
"First of all, you were throwing about one fourth of it. Then with what was left, you dropped about half of it on the floor. So I ate less than one fourth of it," she replied in an as-a-matter-of-factly way.
"Oh yeah, lets eat then!"
-At the restaurant-
"Wait let me get that for you," Draco pulled out Hermione's chair, as she took her seat.
"Thank you."
Draco took his seat while he said, "You're welcome."
They picked up their menus.
"It's in French," sighed Hermione, "how about we just get the special of the day."
Draco nodded not being a French man himself.
The waiter arrived and Draco took the lead, "We'll have the very best of your food."
The waiter nodded and took the menus, "Your salty snails appetizer will be here momentarily."
He left the non-French teenagers staring at each other with "uh-oh" looks on their faces.
"I don't like snail," Hermione said shyly.
"Nor do I," grunted Draco. "Lets ditch this place.
"We can't do that!"
"Why not? We'll leave a tip anyways," he set ten bucks on the table.
He stood up and walked to the beautiful brunette, "Shall we madam?"
She rolled her eyes and took his extended hand, "Don't try so hard."
"I'm not trying."
Hermione took a huge bite of a steamy, cheesy, pepperoni pizza, "Mmm!"
Draco stared at his piece, "I've never had this-"
"Pizza."
"Yes, I've never had this pizza before."
"Just try it. Pizza is delicious!" persisted Hermione.
Slowly he ate the pizza, Draco's eyes became huge, "this is-is absolutely the tastiest!"
"Is tastiest a word?"
"It is now," he mumbled stuffing another piece of pizza in his mouth.
Hermione was only halfway through her first as she giggled at Draco, "Don't make yourself sick."
He just shrugged.
Hermione handed Draco back his jacket, "Thank you, I had a really fun day."
He took his jacket slowly and put it on.
"Hermione," he began then stopped, "Hermione," Draco stood there not sure how to say this.
Not knowing how to tell Hermione, he stepped forward kissed her lightly, his hand on her chin like before.
He let go, but just enough so their lips weren't touching. He opened his eyes, while Hermione's were closed still and whispered, "I like you. I like you a lot."
Draco turned around and left.
Steadily Hermione opened her eyes, wanting to yell for him to wait, but he was for gone.
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