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AN: well this is my second chapter... hope you like it... Hermione and Draco might seem kind of out of character but it's MY story so HA. just kidding - but it is my story so I'm going to need them like that. well read it and tell me what you think
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Chapter 2 – The New Room Mate
Hermione and Harry woke at their usual time the next morning and went about their routine. That is until something shocked them. About halfway through their breakfast Ron wandered in with a girl attached to his arm.
"Ron?" Hermione asked from her place at the table.
"Hey 'Mione, Harry." He replied.
"Ron, aren't you gonna introduce us to your new friend?" Harry inquired.
"Oh, right. Guys this is Delia. Delia this is Harry and 'Mione."
"Nice to meet the two of you." Delia said politely.
"Delia's here to look at the room to see if she wants to move in with us, I'm just going to show her upstairs."
"Ron, why don't you let Delia look at it on her own and you can stay down here." Hermione suggested.
"But..." Ron started to say until he saw Hermione's glare. "Is that alright with you Delia?"
"It's fine, I'm sure you all need to talk about it. So I'll just go see the room myself. Which one is it?"
"It's the second on the right, the first is Ron's. On the left it's Harry's then mine. And then at the end of the hall the last two doors are bathrooms." Hermione told her.
"Okay, I'll just go see it then." And Delia then walked upstairs and out of their sites.
"Why couldn't I go with her?" Ron complained.
"Ron, how long have you known her?" Harry asked.
"Since last night, why?"
"RON! You're thinking about asking a girl you just met to move in with you?" Hermione scolded.
"Well...when you put it that way. I guess."
"But you just met her."
"So it's not like we're gonna be in the same room."
"I still don't think it's a good idea, what do you think Harry?"
"I think..." Harry began to say but he was cut off as Delia walked back into the room.
"Hey guys." They all nodded their heads. "Well I appreciate you letting me look around but I don't think it's the right place for me right now."
"Why not?" Ron whined.
"Well, I'm happy living with my friends, even if it is crowded and I just met you so it's a little rushed."
"Well if you ever reconsider just give us a call." Hermione said as she waved her out the door.
"Sure, well I'll see you guys around." And with that Delia walked out the door and out of their house.
"Well I guess we don't need to worry about her moving in." Ron muttered.
"I'm sorry Ron, I guess it just didn't work out." Hermione sighed.
"Well I'm going to sleep." He replied.
"Don't you have work today?"
"No I have the day off, it's Thursday."
"Oh me too. What about you Harry?"
"I can call and ask for it off."
"Then we can all do something together, it'll be fun."
"Such fun." Ron scoffed.
"Ronald Weasley I am not going to let you mope around this house all day, you are going to go out with me and Harry and have some fun!"
"Fine, fine. Let me just change."
"And I need to call so I'll be right back." The two guys left Hermione alone with the dirty dishes and she began to clean them and put them away.
"Hey 'Mione, need some help with that?" Harry asked as he came back into the kitchen.
"Sure. So did you get the day off?"
"Yea, they were actually happy to give it to me, said I work too much."
"Well you do Harry, you're always in the office."
"I do work at the Ministry you know, it's hard work."
Hermione was about to reply but the phone rang.
"I'll get it." Harry volunteered since Hermione had soapsuds all over her hands and arms. "Hello?" he asked as he picked up the phone. "Just hold on a second." He covered the mouthpiece. "'Mione, it's someone calling about the room, I think you should talk to him."
"Alright, hold on." She washed all the soap of her arms and took the phone from Harry. "Can you finish the dishes?"
"Sure, just talk to him."
"Hello?" Hermione said as she picked it up.
"Hi, um I'm calling about the room you were renting out."
"Wait, how do you know about that? The add isn't going to be in the paper until tomorrow."
"Well, you see. I was walking around yesterday when a piece of paper on the ground caught my attention and I picked it up. It was the information for the room and everything."
"Oh, so that's were my paper blew off to. Well do you want to come look at it before you make your decision?"
"Maybe you could just describe it to me."
"Alright well there's three of us that already live here. There's six rooms upstairs. Three on the right, three on the left. The first on the right is taken, the second would be yours and the last is a bathroom. The ones on the left, the first two are taken and the last is another bathroom."
"What about downstairs?"
"We have a living room, kitchen and bathroom."
"It sounds like what I was looking for. So who lives there now?"
"Well me and two guys. So if you moved in it would be three guys and me being the only girl."
"Did a girl live with you before?"
"Well yea but we had some problems. She was going out with one of the guys that lives here and she cheated on him so he kicked her out just last night actually."
"So is the room all girly?"
"No, it's actually blue, green and white striped wallpaper. And all the furniture is solid oak."
"What's in the room?"
"There's a bed, dresser, full length mirror, end table, desk and a pretty good sized closet."
"Alright, I'll be over later this morning to move in if that's okay with all of you?"
"Hold on, let me ask them." she covered the phone and yelled to Ron and Harry. "Is it okay if he moves in this morning?"
"Fine with me 'Mione." Harry replied.
"Whatever." Was all Ron said.
She put the phone back up to her ear. "They say it's fine. But there's one other thing."
"What?"
"Rent."
"Oh that. Well I'm willing to pay the $100 a month and I'll pitch in for food and all that too if you'd like."
"And do you have a girlfriend or any girls you'd be bringing back to the house?"
"Well I just moved here really so no."
"Oh, okay. Well then I'll see you later this morning."
"Bye."
"Bye." Two clicks were heard and the phone line went dead. "Harry." Hermione said walking back into the kitchen where he was just finished the last of the dishes.
"What?"
"He's moving in later this morning."
"Alright, well we should probably wait till he gets here to leave."
"Yea." The rest of the morning went normally, Hermione and Harry watched some TV and played a few rounds of cards. Ron just stayed in his room the whole time sulking. Until around noon the doorbell rang. Hermione went to answer it and opened the door. There was a blonde guy a good six inches taller than her standing there with three suitcases.
"You must be the person I talked to this morning." The guy said as he extended his hand. "I'm Draco, nice to meet you." all Hermione could do was stand there in shock. "What? Do I have food on my face or something?"
"Malfoy?" she finally got out.
"How did you know that?"
"You mean you don't recognize me?"
"Should I?"
"Hermione are you just going to stand there all day or are you going to let whoever it is inside?" Harry called from the couch.
"Hermione?" Draco muttered to himself. "Where have I heard that name before?" finally it hit him. "Granger?!" he exclaimed.
"So you do remember me."
"You live here? Let me guess, with Potter and Weasley."
"See you haven't lost your memory."
"So I have to live here with the Golden Trio?"
"You don't have to, I'm sure we can find someone else."
"This is the only place I've been able to find."
"There's millions of adds in the paper that you could afford."
"Sure there is." He murmured as he looked every which way but in her eyes.
"You don't have much money do you?"
"Sure I do."
"Then why would you want to live here and not some fancy house or something?"
"Because...I'm uhhh saving it."
"For what? A new personality?"
"Maybe this wasn't such a good idea."
"Hermione are you coming back?" Harry cut in again getting annoyed. He decided to go to the door and see what was going on.
"Hey Potter." Draco greeted.
"Malfoy?!" Harry exclaimed. "What the hell are you doing here?"
"I'm going to be living here, so if you don't mind can I have a key to this place and can I finally get inside so I can unpack."
"No who ever said you could live here?"
"Why Granger here did, this morning on the phone."
"'Mione you said Malfoy could live with us?"
"I didn't ask his name."
"Alright now you two can have a lovers quarrel later but I need to get inside it's bloody freezing out here."
"We're not together." Hermione stated.
"Well you sure act like it, now let me in." Hermione moved out of the way so he could come in but Harry wouldn't budge. "Come on Potter I know you can understand what I'm saying, or have you lost that miniscule brain of yours?"
"Shove it Malfoy."
"Let me in."
"Why should I? I don't want filthy scum like you living here."
"Harry can I talk to you for a minute?" Hermione said and the pulled him with her back into the living room giving Draco the space to enter. "Harry, we need to money. He has to live here."
"But 'Mione, it's Malfoy!"
"Alright, how about we let him live here for a few days and see if anyone else calls. If not then he stays."
"But..."
"That's my final offer."
"Fine." Harry pouted as Hermione dragged him back over to where Draco stood looking around at his new surroundings.
"Malfoy, you can stay, for now. If you do anything to Harry, Ron or myself we'll kick you out. And if we get another call we just might have to except their offer and not yours. But for the time being we all need to call a truce. Because I for one will not stand this." Neither Harry nor Draco said anything because they were too caught up in having a staring contest. "PAY ATTENTION YOU TWO!" Hermione yelled. Both heads snapped in her direction and eyes widened. "Now as I was saying we need to call a truce."
"I will not be friends with...that." Harry scoffed as he pointed a finger at Draco.
"You think I want to be friends with Saint Potter?" Draco shot back.
"Can you two just stop it! We're all going to have to get along if this is going to work. Now shake hands."
"What?! You want me to shake HIS hand?" Malfoy exclaimed.
"Well I don't want to touch you either."
"Just shut up and listen to me." Hermione said as she glared at the two of them, which made them just, listen to her and shake hands for a fraction of a second. "Thank you, now Malfoy if you follow me I'll show you where your room is."
She stalked off and Draco followed her up the stairs to his new room. "Now, that's Ron's, Harry's and my room's. Those two doors are the bathrooms. And this is your room." She said pointing to each as she said it.
"Thank you." Draco muttered softly.
"What?" she asked.
"I said thanks."
"Oh, your welcome. Oh and Harry, Ron and me might be going out later if we can get Ron to come out of his room."
"What happened to Weasley?"
"I told you this morning, his girlfriend cheated on him."
"HA, well who wouldn't."
"Malfoy..." she started in warning tone.
"Alright, I'll try to be nice."
"Thank you."
"But why are you being so nice to me?"
"Because everyone deserves a second chance." When he gave her an incredulous look she added something. "Because when you called this morning you weren't the old Malfoy so obviously you must've changed."
"Alright well that's nice and everything but can you please not call me Malfoy?"
"Why not?"
"I don't really want to talk about it but I just don't want to hear that name right now. I'll explain it to you some other time maybe."
"Then what am I supposed to call you?"
"My name is Draco."
"I have to call you...Dra...Draco?"
"Well yes Granger, that is my name."
"Then you have to call me Hermione."
"Are you serious?"
"Yup. Now say it."
"Her...Herm...Hermione. Happy?"
"Ecstatic. Now I'll leave you alone to unpack."
"Bye." He said softly as she skipped down the stairs back to Harry. "She certainly has changed a lot since Hogwarts."
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