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Hermione immediately closed her mouth remembering how Ron had looked. "Ok, um… how exactly are we going to get Malfoy jealous?" she asked crossing her arms in front of her chest.

"Well, I would think that was obvious," Hermione raised an eyebrow. "Honestly Granger think about it. Your dance partner? Who is the one person that knows about you?"

Hermione's eyed grew wide. "Oh, no Pansy please tell me you did not do this?"

"I'm sorry, but it's the perfect revenge. Well, not all of it of course, but it's a start. Which reminds me, he's late too." Hermione closed her eyes and rubbed her temple feeling a headache coming on. "Speak of the devil. Your late."

"Sorry, love."

Hermione turned around to look straight into the green eyes of non other than Blaise Zabini.

CHAPTER 5: DANCE PRACTICE

Blaise smirked as Hermione stared at him opened mouthed.

"Oh, for God's sakes Granger," an annoyed Pansy said in back of her. "How many times have I told you about that mouth of yours?" Hermione abruptly closed her mouth and made a mental note to keep it closed at all times. "That's better." Hermione glared. Ignoring her Pansy went on, "Anyway, Granger I believe you've already met Blaise?"

Hermione nodded her head and stuck out her hand. "Blaise," she said courteously.

Blaise gave her a genuine smile that surprised her and suddenly grabbed her hand and brought it to his lips as he gently kissed her hand. "Hermione," he said huskily.

"Bloody hell," Hermione managed to whisper. Pansy snorted and Hermione turned a deep shade of red as she realized she had said that out loud. Pansy moved to stand in front of her as Hermione pulled her hand away from Blaise's grasp.

"Oh, please. Granger you act like you've never been kissed by a male before. Of course, I wouldn't exactly count the Weasel."

"Hey, I resent that," Hermione stated.

Pansy continued not paying attention to Hermione's little outburst. "But don't be fooled by him Granger. He can be a prick whenever he wants. He'll stab you in the back as soon as he gets a chance to. He is after all a Slytherin."

Blaise nodded his head. "It's true."

Hermione rolled her eyes wondering how blunt they could be about this little situation. "Well, whatever. Can we please, get this over with? Now, what exactly are we going to do? You said something about a dance partner. I don't mean to burst your bubble, but I can't dance."

"Yet," Pansy said as she moved to the front of the room to gather everyone's attention. "Alright everyone, I want you to get with your partner and start going over the moves I showed you last week." The other Slytherin's obediently started what they were instructed to do. Hermione hurriedly went over to Pansy, not wanting to be left alone with Blaise by her side. She had heard rumors about him, some sexual rumors about him, and didn't want any of them coming true with her.

"Pansy, what do you mean 'last week'?" she said as she glanced at the dancers with eyes wide as saucers. "What the bloody hell are they doing?" Hermione shouted as she saw them practically hump each other on the floor of the classroom.

A groan was heard from Pansy as she quickly dragged her to the corner of the room. "You need to calm down Granger. How else do you think you're going to get Draco jealous?"

Hermione almost gagged. "You mean you want me to fornicate with him in front of everyone?!"

"Don't be such a prude. Can't you even say the word sex instead of using a term that my grandmother still uses," Hermione blushed as Pansy continued. "Anyway, you won't be 'fornicating' you will be dancing."

"You can not stand there and tell me that you call what they are doing dancing. I am not going to do that," Hermione said with her hands on her hips.

Pansy took a step closer to her so that they were eye level. Hermione suddenly felt very small under the gaze of Pansy Parkinson. "Listen to me Granger. This was your idea. You are the one that wanted to get back at Draco. I don't see you coming up with any ideas on how to do that and now that I've come up with one you will follow me. I'm not going to let you ruin it for me, I worked too hard on this and just cause you can't do it! Do I make myself clear?"

There was a pregnant silence as Pansy stared Hermione down. Hermione gulped loudly and nodded her head. "Crystal," she managed to squeak out.

Pansy smiled and Hermione relaxed as Pansy seemed to calm down. "Now, go ahead and stand by your partner while I start to teach you the dance moves." Hermione immediately found Blaise's side. "Ok, this is the end of the song so you don't have to sing too much on this part."

"Um, Pansy?" Hermione asked timidly, not wanting to piss the girl off again. "What song am I going to sing?"

"Oh, it's a muggle song. You might know it."

"A muggle song. Since when do you listen to muggle music?" Hermione asked curiously.

"I happen to rather enjoy music made by muggles and I don't think I have to explain myself to you."

"Geez, it was just a question,"mumbled Hermione. Pansy sent her a glare that shut her right up.

"There's only a couple of weeks left and we have to practice everyday if we want to pull this off and that means you,"she pointed at Hermione, "have to practice extra hard."

Hermione started to worry about what exactly she was going to have to do. She did give Pansy her word so whatever Pansy wanted, Pansy got. This was going to be a long two weeks.


Of all the songs that Pansy could choose, she had to choose this one. Of course the title fit perfectly, but it was a pop song, not to mention the fact that Pansy wanted it performed exactly like the video. There was not only a lot of dancing, but sensual and sexy dancing in it which Hermione could definitely not do. This video was very risky in the muggle world. What kind of reaction would it get in the wizarding world?

Hermione was glad she knew the song. At least she didn't have the work of learning it. Another thing she was worrying about was her singing. She wasn't a terrible singer, but she was still self-conscious about it. Now the only thing she had to worry about was the dancing, and boy was there a lot of it.

Apparently Pansy had already taught everyone else the dance a week before, not informing Hermione. Now, everyone was ahead of her and Hermione did not like that one bit. I'm always the first one ahead, not the last one to know anything, she thought angrily. Even if it was a dance she still wanted to know before everyone else did.. They only had about two weeks left until the show and with all of her schoolwork, she wasn't sure if she was going to be able to pull this off, not to mention she still had to find the time to keep on seducing one Draco Malfoy. It surprised her that the seducing part wasn't turning out to be that hard to do. It was Saturday and they were going to have an all day rehearsal.

"It was only late last night," Hermione sang to herself as she headed towards the classroom that they had been practicing in. She walked into the room to find that everyone was there, once again before her. Apparently, the Slytherin's happened to like the dance that they were doing and actually enjoyed practicing. Hermione had to admit it was a fun dance to do, tiring, but fun. They couldn't wait to perform it in front of everyone. The whole of Hogwart's was going to be knocked off there socks.

"You're late," she heard a voice behind her.

"I am not, I'm right on time. You just think I'm late because everyone else is here early,"she said angrily. She wasn't going to get in trouble for something she didn't do, even if it was Pansy who was teaching. "Lets just hurry and get started. I still have a lot learn and my body is killing me from all those dance moves I've had learn the last few days. I'm using muscles I never knew I had you know. Its not easy for me and I figure the more I practice, the more I get used to it, which means less pain."

Pansy stared at her shocked by her little speech. "Ooh, and the claws come out. Relax, Granger. Alright, everyone you heard. Get to work."

Blaise moved next Hermione and grabbed her by the waist. "Come, love. We need to practice that last segment. I can't wait to see Draco's face when we hit him with this. It's going to be priceless." Hermione stared, shocked at how he could be so nonchalant about the whole situation. He was supposed to be his best friend and yet here he was scheming to bring him down.

Hermione turned to him and smiled slightly. She wasn't sure if she trusted him or not. Well, of course you can't. If he does this to his best friend, what do you think he'd do to one of his rivals. Not to mention what he's doing to Pansy. Making her do favors, oh the nerve of him. "Alright Blaise, just make sure your hands don't wonder like they did yesterday," she said as he gave her an innocent smile.

"Like I said before, my hand slipped."

Hermione rolled her eyes. "Whatever, it better not bloody happen again. Where do you want to start?"

Blaise smiled evilly. "Just lay on the floor and I'll do the rest," Hermione glared at him. "Ah, now who would of thought you would have such a naughty little mind in that head of yours. I meant get in your position for the first part of the seg,ment." Hermione did as she was told and crawled onto her stomach. "Relax, I won't hurt you."

She sighed as she felt his breath against her ear. "We're not supposed to be touching are we?"

"No," Pansy said from the side as she walked over to them. "You're just supposed to look like you're touching and Blaise, I think this part was practiced enough yesterday. Do you think you need more practice Granger?" Hermione shook her head vigorously, "I didn't think so. We need to start practicing on the back drops."

Hermione looked up in horror. "Do we really need to dance on those things? They look really unstable and I don't want to crack my head open in front of the entire school if I fall."

"Oh good lord are you afraid of heights?"

"No," she answered which might have been a little too quickly. "I mean I just want everyone to be safe."

Pansy rolled her eyes. "Honestly, Granger. You don't have to worry your pretty little head about anything. Most of the time everyone's going to be feeling up on you anyway, so you're not going to fall," Hermione grimaced, "oh and we need to talk a few things over if you could wait in the hall for me please while I get everyone else started."

Hermione knew what was coming. She quietly exited the classroom dreading to have to hear what Pansy wanted to say. It had been almost two weeks since they started their little plan and Hermione hadn't gotten anywhere with Malfoy. Well, maybe just a little bit but nowhere near where she needed to be. She should have at least been on speaking terms with him by now, but every time she got near him she seemed to run away. She was pacing in front of the classroom when someone suddenly rounded the corner straight into her. She was knocked down with the assailant right on top of her.

She suddenly found herself looking into the eyes of Draco Malfoy himself. To make matters worse, Pansy had decided to open the door at that very second finding them in that compromising position. Hermione only hoped that she had enough brains in her head to try and get herself out of it. Much to her surprise Pansy quickly reentered the room and slammed the door behind her leaving Hermione to deal with this problem.

"Well, well, well. Funny how we keep running into each other isn't it," Draco drawled seeming to make himself comfortable.

Hermione was afraid to move, she could already feel something starting to poke her in her stomach. She was afraid to think of what it was so she said the first thing that came to mind. "If I'm not mistaking you ran into me,"she said as he smirked down at her. "Could you please get off of me, you're poking me with your quill."

Please let it be a quill, please let it be a quill.

Draco inched his face closer to hers as their noses touched. "You want to believe that it's a quill don't you Hermione?" he asked her seductively. Draco had waited a long time for something like this to happen. He was finally close to her, he could feel every curve she had against his own body. It was evident by what she was feeling against her stomach.

Hermione stiffened against him. "Wh-what do you mean?" she squeaked out.

"I think you know exactly what I mean,"he replied his lips almost brushed against hers. "You know Hermione, there's something I've been wanting to do for a long time."

She gulped loudly, silently praying for someone to come and rescue her, but at the same time she didn't want to be rescued. "And that would be?" She wasn't sure why she was asking, but for some reason she needed to know.

He was going to do it. He had to do it, it could be his only chance. "I would really like to kiss you right now," he said quietly. For some reason he felt he had to ask, "Can I kiss you?"

For once logic went right out the window when she heard the question that came out of his mouth and somehow she gave a small nod as his mouth came crashing down on her.

A/N: I bet you guys hate me right now. I think its finally time that Draco and Hermione got some action don't you think? Not a lot, but some. Maybe they'll get more in the next chapter, maybe if I get some reviews. Well, I'm not going to force you to review, but I would so love some and again I'm really sorry that I haven't updated in so long. There are no excuses just that I'm lazy and it's completely my fault. I will try harder I promise. I also want to inform you guys that I purposely left the song title out until they actually do the talent show. Some of you might have already guessed what the song is, but I'm still not giving it out until then. And for some of you who haven't read my other story please check it out. I'll try to write more for that one as well. Again, reviews are our friends and they make me feel so good when I get them. Suggestions always welcome. Thanks again everyone. I love you all. Susie.