New Guy in the Club

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AN: wow, thanks for all of the reviews!!! I tried to update this sooner, but FF.net wasn't working, so I got it up ASAP.  Sorry this one also took sort of long, but I changed it after I started it cuz it wasn't flowing or feeling right.  Warning, this is going to be…really, really messed up though, and probably won't make much sense until later, but just stick with it, and have fun cuz it was interesting to write.

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Chapter 5

Hermione approached Hogwarts the next night, in hopes of seeing Draco again.  Of course he'll show she thought.  If he's cool enough for me, he'll definitely be there, because I'm not a loser, right? She entered the club and looked around, but found that the place was deserted.  She looked over into the corner she usually sat and saw the only people in the whole club, save for the employees, were Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Draco, who were all huddled close together, oblivious to the addition to the room. 

Finding that they did not notice her, Hermione saw a pipe that ran in their direction over their heads.  She thought of all of her yoga and kickboxing classes she used to take and decided to put them to work.  She jumped up and grabbed onto it with both hands.  Slowly, she made her way along it, putting one hand in front of the other.  Once she made it to the edge of their tiny cramped cluster, Hermione could barely make out the faintest traces of whispers, as if what they were talking about was of top secrecy.  She inched farther along the pipe until she was directly above the center of their circle, where there was about enough space for one person, she noted. 

Hermione mentally counted to three and dropped down in their circle.  It turned out there wasn't as much room as she thought, so her four friends went flying in all directions away from her. 

"What was that for, Granger?" sneered Draco.

"You guys weren't paying attention to me," answered Hermione as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.  "Besides, I was only supposed to land in the middle.  I thought there was enough room to land in the middle."

"Yeah, well you thought wrong."

"Yeah, we were having quality bonding time.  I thought we weren't going to interrupt each other when we were doing something serious," added in Harry.

"Oh, I'm sorry!"

"I *suppose* I can forgive you."

They ran towards each other and head-butted.  After stumbling around a bit, Harry was able to stand straight.  "Just make sure it doesn't happen again."

"I won't."

"How touching," Ron said as he stood up from where he flew.  He walked over to help Ginny out of the jukebox she landed in.  "All better," he said accomplishing his task.  Then he thought of something.  "Harry, you really need to learn how to dance.  I'm sure Draco could teach you!"

"That's some bloody brilliant thinking there, mate!" Harry replied suddenly switching to an extremely heavy British accent.  Everyone stared at him like he was crazy.  He switched back, seeing the look on everybody's face, partially scared of what they would do to him if he didn't.  "Okay, okay, sorry!" He put his hands up in defense.  "I was just trying it out.  No need to go all psycho-killer on me."

"Psycho-killer is fun," said Ron, seemingly in another world.  After a few seconds of silence he realized what he had said.  "Not that I would know or anything."  His tone was anything but convincing.  It could have something to do with the way he was gazing at the broken pieces of glass from the shattered jukebox. 

Ginny, who was slowly moving away from her brother, decided to get away from that subject.  "Um, wasn't Draco going to show Harry how to dance?"

"Ah, yes," replied Hermione, giving a nervous glance towards Ron who was now bent over the glass, examining it. 

"Let's start with slow dancing," suggested Harry.

"That's a good idea, but only one problem.  I can't slow dance by myself!"

"You could use Hermione as your partner."

Hermione jumped at the opportunity.  "Sure!"  She practically bounded over to the spot where Draco was standing.  Suddenly some slow music kicked in, but everyone acted as if it were a natural thing to happen.  Hermione looked up at Draco.  "Let's show him," she said with a glint in her eye. 

"Okay," began Draco.  "We'll start with the most common position.  First, Harry, you wrap your hands around her hips or waist, and she'll put her arms around your neck."  As he gave out the directions, he and Hermione did everything that he explained.  Hermione reached up and put her arm around his neck pulling him close and leaned her head on his shoulder.

"Do they usually lean like that?" Harry asked uncertain of his girlfriend.

"If they want to," replied Draco smugly and simply, a faint trace of a smirk playing at his features.  "Then you sort of just rock and sway back and forth, turning if you want."  They did just that. 

The room was completely silent except for the gentle sound of the music drifting throughout the room.  Everybody was staring at Draco and Hermione as if they were put into some sort of a trance.  At some point, nobody noticed when, Hermione had pulled back slightly so they were now staring deep into each others' eyes, trying to see down to their soul and read their thoughts.  Draco lowered his head until it was barely hovering over hers and softly kissed her lips.  His tongue flicked ever so slightly against them, as she opened her mouth, allowing passage.  Draco plunged into Hermione's mouth, savoring her sweet taste, when suddenly, he found himself being ripped away.

Harry was clutching Draco's arm firmly with a murderous glint in his eyes.  "How dare you?!" he yelled, his voice echoing across the now silent room.  The music had also stopped.  Harry's eyes began to tear up.  "I thought what *we* had was special and true.  We were meant to be.  But no!  You left me for her?  You dirty piece of…DIRT and all of your betrayal.  I'm sorry.  We cannot go on like this."  With this, Harry began repeatedly poking Draco in the arm.  Ginny gasped. 
Ron stood up from where he was standing and walked over to Harry with a rather large piece of glass held in his hand.  He held it out to Harry.  "Here you go!" he said a little too excitedly.

Harry held it high over his head in his right hand, and held Draco's hand palm up in his left.  "I know all about your little encounter," he said in a raspy voice.  Then he yelled at the top of his lungs.  "CLEAN *THIS* CUT!"  With that, he stabbed the glass into Draco's hand.  The only sound that could be heard was that of Draco's scream. 

It strangely turned into a buzz.  Where is that buzzing coming from? thought Hermione.  She opened her eyes and found she was in her bed, still dressed in her clothes.  Turning over, her hand came down on her alarm clock, ending the annoying sound of it. 

Hermione slowly sat up and saw her computer was still on.  She had a new e-mail message, but she would just read it after she got home from school.  Speaking of which, I need to get ready. Hermione gathered her clothes for a shower, wondering what her dream was about and if it meant anything.  Those thoughts slowly drifted away to the back of her mind, though, and were replaced with ones of Draco.

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OK, there's chapter 5 for you!!  It not quite as long as 4, but it's better than nothing.  Yeah, it started out just a way to help remove my writers block that settled in, but don't worry, it's going to fit into the plot.  This actually started out going to be the next day at school but it didn't work, so that's coming next chapter.  Anyways, thanks for all of the reviews!!! Here are the shout outs I promised.

Draco is the Man: Thanks tonz for your reviews!

In Dreams: Yeah, I like him better too! ^_^  granted he didn't actually find out here, there's still more to come! 

Meg: thanks!  You're just going to have to wait and find out though, aren't you? :: grins evilly ::

Kili-2: glad I could help!  I hope that this was soon enough for you!  Thanx 4 the great reviews!!

Heather: thanks

Merimeet: Wow, thanks! I never really thought I was that good of a writer (and usually ended up with writers block early on) but all of this encouragement really helps!  Just make sure that you don't fall off your seat ;)

Julia: I got that in there, even though it was a dream, but it's going to extend on…you'll see what'll happen.  Thanx!

DrAcOLuVeR79: Thanks! And I hope I got this up soon enough for you!

Well, anyways, keep the reviews coming!  The more reviews, the more I'll hustle to get the chapters up!  (haha, isn't hustle a funny word?)