Disclaimer: I don't own. I just do! The magnificence that is the story belongs only to J.K! I only own the back-up infatuation that is this scheme.
Author's note: Gee, ChoFrog09, I really don't know if your idea's so hot but rejection-return is a good idea. But sorry, they don't end up together... perhaps in another fic. Longer chapters, El-P? You got it. Here's chapter 4!!!
Chapter 4:
Draco was crying again this evening. In his private dormitory (provided by a certain father), he said softly to himself, "Why couldn't I love someone else? Why Granger? Why?" He tossed and turned with the sounds of his sobs. 'Damn my life... wait, it already is,' he thought. Thinking about Harry's rejection and Hermione at the same time was painful. He wondered whether she could ever love him back, whether or not she had feelings for him. 'She never could, no,' he answered himself. But he couldn't be more wrong, because she thought of him often. She thought about how he teased her, how he looked at her with so much refusal and hatred. Yet, when she was close enough to see, Hermione found a sense of wanting pardon, of needing forgiveness. The more she pondered on this, the more she found that, deep inside... she loved him.
Back to Harry. He, in his entire life, did not ever think he would refuse somebody aside from Voldemort. He didn't realize that the stuff he said affected Cho plenty. She lay on her bed that night, thinking about how much he'd hurt her. "I hate him," she decided. But her heart softened at the thought. "Maybe he's right," she thought, "we should just be friends. It wouldn't work." Those were only words. She ended up crying herself to sleep that night. Hey, have you noticed how much I'm ignoring Ron?
Of course, as almost all have expected, Ron liked Hermione. They once had a bit of what you might call a "connection". But those feelings for her faded away a long time ago. (A/N: I'm sorry, guys, maybe in another fic!) There was always one girl that had intrigued him; and that girl was Cho Chang. He wondered about her, and he wondered why he cared. Was it because of Harry? Probably not... it was because, well, she was always there. Just there. There wasn't one day that he didn't see her, which was most likely Harry's fault. 'I guess she got what she deserved,' he considered, 'but I feel really bad for her. Maybe I should talk to her... nah. Words would ruin it more.' And, readers, I really believe that was the only deep thing Ron ever said. And as days passed, the obsessions grew.
Never in her life had she thought of going out with a Weasley, but here Cho was, being asked out by one and agreeing to his request. "He's kind of attractive though," she told her friend, Marietta. "Of course, he is," she said, nodding, "and he's noticed you. He's Harry's friend, right?" "Yeah—," "So use this to your advantage. Get Harry back." Cho looked angrily at her friend. "I don't have any interest in Harry anymore, Marietta. He's not my type, I suppose, and we're just friends," she claimed (again, only words!), looking out the window. "Right..." said the other girl. "We are!" said Cho, suddenly turning. Her gaze returning to the window, she repeated, "We're just friends." Marietta gave her a secret look of uncertainty, and then continued reading her book. 'Ron and Cho,' she thought, 'has a nice ring to it! Maybe there's something in this after all.'
Hermione looked at Draco during Potions class. He was concentrating on copying notes, while she was busy analyzing her current situation. She then thought about something Harry had said recently. "Honesty," she whispered to herself, "I wonder...?" And for once in her life, Hermione Jane Granger wrote something down in her notebook that had nothing to do with the lesson.
What about Harry Potter himself?
A/N: A slightly longer chapter. Reviews please, only if you want! That's all I got for now.
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