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Chapter 4

When Ron and Hermione arrived home she could see that he had been drinking, but what else what new, he always drank during the day, drank, ate and slept, that was his life.

"What's for dinner Mione" Ron had decided not to tell Hermione about her 'relationship' with Malfoy

"Im having some pasta bake with cheese, you'd you like some" Hermione said in a tired voice, she was fed up. It would be nice to come home after a 13 hour shift and one of the busiest places any body could work and have one's boyfriend done some tidying up, cleaning and cooked super. But not in her household, it was her doing it all.

"Yeah" said Ron

"Why don't you help you could grate the cheese and boil the pasta while i make the sau-Ron where are you going" Hermione noticed Ron had left the kitchen

"Just let me know when its ready" He shouted. Hermione threw down the ingredients that she was holding, she walked over to the dining table and sat down she put her head on her arms on the table, silent tears rolled down her cheeks. Why was her life like this, why had Ron changed, these were all the thoughts that ran through her head. It was times like these she missed her parents, she wanted nothing more than to go to them and have her mother hold her, she was 19 and she felt like her life was over, the only good part of her life was her job other than her friends outside of work, but she haddent seen them in so long. Maybe she would go see them some time, but Harry was Ron's best friend and Ginny was Ron's brother. The tears kept rolling down her cheeks until she fell asleep.

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Ron's stomach was rumbling beyond believe, the was thinking about Hermione and what was taking her so long to make super, he looked at the clock and saw that it was now 9pm, 2 hours and super wasn't ready. He got off the sofa and walked to the kitchen, he saw her asleep on the table. He shook his head and went to bed.

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Hermione woke up the next morning, she was asleep on the kitchen table, she looked around the kitchen, the ingredients that she was going to make a meal with her on the counter top half opened. She sighed and got up to make breakfast.

She had just finished her yogurt and coffee when Ron came down stairs looking the same as he did every morning

He walked over to her and kissed her cheek, that was all she got these days, where was the love in that.

"Ron, why didn't you wake me last night to come to bed"

"Aren't you going to be late for work"

Hermione stood up and shook her head then apparated out to her office.

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It was 1pm and that meant lunchtime, Hermione and Draco were having lunch together as they had been every day for the last 2 months.

Draco bit into his cheese sandwich and asked Hermione if she was free this weekend

"Draco, i carn" Hermione thaught again about her promise "Draco i would love to go to Diagon Alley, its been ages since ive been"

"So your free, what about Weasley" Draco asked

"Ron, wont mind, its up to me if i want to go or not"

Draco looked at his watch, he was finishing early that day he was finishing at 2 and it was 1.30pm

"Well, Mya ill see you tomorrow about 11ish, do you want me to come to your house for you"

"NO. Don't ill meet you" she said

"How about the leaky cauldron"

"That's great, thank you" Hermione and Draco stood, Draco kissed her goodbye and left to go home.

Hermione walked back to her office thinking about how much she was looking forward to this weekend with Draco. Ron and herself haddent been out in ages, she worked most weekends but even when she wasn't working she still didn't go out anymore.

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Draco decided to walk home, he called at a small flower shop and picked up some flowers for his mum. He was very happy, he was looking forward to seeing Hermione, seeing her everyday at work just wasn't enough, his mum had always supported him and he felt she deserved some flowers. He bought 12 yellow roses, his mothers favorite flowers.

The decided to take a short cut down Turnery Alley which would bring him out around thecorner from Malfoy Manor, the alley way was often used but today was empty, he didn't think on it.

"Imobulus" came a man's voice and Draco couldn't move at all. Then he saw Ron step our from the shadows

"So, its true then" He asked Draco "true that you and MY girlfriend are seeing each other. Didn't think the all high and mighty Malfoy would lower himself to even be seen with a mudblood, let alone fuck her."

Draco still had the ability to move his head said "I haven't slept with her, im not even seeing her"

"Got pretty friendly though haven't you, and you were fucking her less than a year ago, i know about you two"

"I don't know what your talking about" Draco lied. Ron stepped closer to him

"Maybe this will remind you" he punched Draco in the face "You" punch "and" punch "my" punch "Hermione" punch "Were" punch. Now Draco was bloodied up looking like he was loosing a round with a armed beater on a quidditch team. "Fucking. How dare you? Hermione was my girlfriend, she has always been mine"

"How come she loved me then" Draco asked

"Do you know that she hasn't even touched me since you came on the scene, spent last night asleep on the kitchen table. And its all because of you" He grabbed Draco's collar and threw him up against the wall on one side of the alley. He continued to punch Draco until he was out cold. When he was satisfied he had done a good job he left Draco for dead.

Ron ran all the way back home, it was pretty dark now, dark nights set come in winter time. The snow started to fall heavily just a Ron got home, He thought about Hermione and how she would react when she heard her precious Malfoy was dead, he couldn't wait to see her face.

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