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Chapter 4: What the Hades is GOING ON?
Hermione sat at the table in the common room, finishing up the last of her Arithmancy. It was very late into the night on Sunday, and Ron and Harry she'd just sent up to bed. They'd both fallen asleep at the table, so she'd woken them and helped drag them upstairs into their beds. Then she came back downstairs to finish.
Suddenly she heard a scratching at the portrait hole. There was no way for her to see who it was without opening the door, but she was afraid to do so. So she quietly snuck into Harry and Ron's dorm, sifting through Harry's trunk. She found the Invisibility Cloak and put it around herself, leaving the Dorm room.
Back in the common room, the scratching noise continued. Hermione stood at the door, and pushed it open, making sure the cloak was wrapped around her securely. The door swung open, and there, a startled Draco stood, staring through her.
"I didn't really think tickling her would make her open up..." he faded out, stepping through the portrait hole. He was an inch away from Hermione, and she was sure that he would be able to hear her breathing, but he did not. He just looked around the common room to see if the coast was clear before stepping farther inside.
Sure that he was getting away with whatever he was thinking about doing, he sauntered over to the table where Hermione's books lay. He opened her notebook and sifted through her class work. Then, apparently bored, he wandered to the fire place and looked into it for a second before turning to look out the window.
'What's he up to?' Hermione asked herself, sitting on a squashy chair to keep him from accidentally bumping into her and freaking him out. Finally bored with him continuing to stare out the window, she stood and went to her dormitory after casting a quiet spell to keep him out of both dorms. She knew there was no reason for her to do so for her dorm, but better safe than sorry, she thought. She decided she could give Harry his cloak back the next day, but then thought better of it. She turned with her arm full of her night clothes back toward the boys' dorm.
Reaching their dorm as quietly as possible, because Draco was still sitting at the window, she dressed in her soft silk nightgown in the boys' bathroom. She noticed for the dozenth time that the area around her bosom was tighter than ever, as it had recently began to become since her breasts finally had chosen to grow into soft, vivacious curves. She loosened the material with a soft-spoken spell, and then put the cloak back into Harry's trunk.
She climbed softly into bed next to Harry, being careful not to wake him. She knew full-well what it would mean to be found laying in the same bed as Harry, but was too tired to care. She also knew that she couldn't let Draco see her leaving the boys' dorm rooms in the middle of the night, for fear of the story he would spread.
So she pulled the heavy, crimson-velvet curtains closed, and pulled the soft comforter up to her chin, and tucked it in around Harry securely. Then she turned her back to him, pulling herself into the fetal position to sleep.
She was asleep within seconds, glad to have Harry laying next to her to give her peace of mind.
First time I saw you,
you were chasin' down
a cyclone all alone
in the field.
Railyards and clovers
are kept rollin' on.
Never thought
I would
wind up
chasin' you.
Settle down.
I won't hesitate to
hit the highway
before you lay
me to waste, no.
Saddle up
and I'll
help you find
somethin' to drive
before you drive
me insane, yeah.
You're tired
of walkin'
and you
loathe the ground.
The sidewalk
will barely
touch your
feet.
Life moves
too slowly
to hold you down
Let's wring your hands
I'll take it out
on you...
Settle down.
I won't hesitate to
hit the highway
before you lay
me to waste, no.
Saddle up
and I'll
help you find
somethin' to drive
before you drive me insane...
So get yourself a car
and drive it all alone.
Get yourself a car
ride it on the wind, yeah,
get yourself a car
and drive it all alone.
Get yourself a car
ride it on the wind, yeah...
Settle down.
I won't hesitate to
hit the highway
before you lay
me to waste, no.
Saddle up
and I'll
help you find
somethin' to drive
before you drive
me insane.
So get yourself a car,
and drive it all alone.
Get yourself a car
and ride it on the wind, yeah.
So get yourself a car,
and drive it all alone.
Get yourself a car
and ride it on the wind.
yeah...
That was the note Hermione found the next day crammed untidily into her notebook. Well, she didn't know if it was a note or a love song, or some poor, demented freak's point of view on stalker-ism... she just knew that it had to be from Malfoy.
She had risen about an hour before Harry to check if Malfoy was gone, and he was... So she'd taken her things back to her own dorm and gotten ready for her Monday classes. She had gone downstairs to pack her things up when she'd found it.
She knew that she had her double Arithmancy before she joined Harry and Ron for double Potions. So normally they slept about an hour and a half longer. But today, Harry had wanted to join her for breakfast. And Hermione would have been very grateful of this, if she hadn't found this... this whatever it was supposed to be from Draco Malfoy stuck in her notebook. She was angry, perturbed, sick, and yet there was a new feeling, a feeling of disbelief that Malfoy would ever give her something like this...
Harry walked sleepily into the common room, and Hermione folded the note, and shoved it into her notebook. For some reason, she didn't think showing it to Harry would lead to any good. Besides, how would she be able to explain knowing that it was from Draco? She could always lie, but wasn't very good at it. So it was best to pretend that it didn't even exist as far as she was concerned.
She stood and they walked together to the Great Hall, Hermione silently praying that Draco would be nowhere around, so she wouldn't have to guiltily face him anytime too soon.
She held to Harry's hand and tried to think of nothing but him leaning in to kiss her only three days ago, for the first time...
Okay, well that's Ch. 4!!! Shocker itn't it? Heh, well, review plzs!