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A/N: Hey there all... well I am sick as can be... ::SOB:: well actually just a lil bit of tonsilides!! Yuck! So I have time to write a story cause im not allowed to run around or do anything, and daytime t.v. sucks!! I mean it really really sucks!!! So I have decided to write!! HAHA that's right... I shall write until I can stand no more!!!! So I just wanna take this time to say, THANK YOU FOR ALL MY REVIEWS!!! You all really rock my socks!! You make me smile and dance around and sing!! Lol so keep it up!!! I just wanted to say I acidently wrote that Draco was sixteen and not seventeen, I went and fixed that!!!!!!!!! There in there seventh year. They are head boy and girl but they don't share a common room or anything!! I wanted to do something a little bit different!! So any who on with the story!!

How Couldn't I?

She had to talk to someone. She couldn't keep acting like everything was normal. Things defiantly weren't normal at all. She had kissed Draco Malfoy. She had initiated it. Wanted it. And the worse part of it all was that she didn't regret it. In fact she had almost enjoyed it. Almost.

And Draco Malfoy had kissed her. He had taken control and kissed her. She hadn't expected this. She had never seen any of this coming. How could she? He was Draco Malfoy for Merlin's sake. A cocky self-centered jerk whose one and only true hate in life was what she was. Muggle born. And she hated him.

Well hate was a strong word. Maybe in there first years at Hogwarts she had hated him. But things had changed. He had changed. Like he had hit his head one summer and comeback different. Slightly warmer then before. Yet he was still cold and cut off.

And she was still afraid of him. And that was the simple truth. She was afraid of him. He was bigger, stronger, more experienced, and something about him was evil. Something about him was dark. She understood, like most of the students and staff at Hogwarts, he was capable of horrible things. He was meant to do horrible things with his life. Several times she had wondered to herself why Dumbledore allowed him to be a student here. Why he allowed this destined-to-be death eater walk the halls with those whom he wanted to harm. And yet Draco had excelled at Hogwarts. He had become head boy and only second to her first. He was handsome and popular with the girls. He was...

He was driving her insane.

He had become an impossible ambiguity. And she figured that's what caused her to think about him so much. She was a logical person. A person who used common sense and knowledge in a world full of magic and the unexplained. A being true to her nature she couldn't walk away from an unsolved problem.

He was an enigma and she was a justification.

She reached the library and looked around. She spotted him. He was sitting at the table she had asked to meet at earlier that day. He looked up at her and smiled.

"Hey Mione what's going on? Why did you ask to meet here during lunch?" She sat down across the table and looked at her best friend. The one person she knew would not scream or freak out. The most understanding person she knew. Harry Potter.

"Hey Harry. Listen I need to talk to you about something. Something big." He smiled at her reassuringly.

"Sure. What's on your mind?" She took a deep breath and sighed.

"Okay first off you have to swear on everything that is good in this world that you wont tell anyone. Not a soul."

"Alright. I swear." She took another deep breath of air.

"IkissedDracoMalfoy." She said the words so fast Harry raised an eyebrow in confusion. After a few seconds she saw it click. He had understood her.

"You kissed Draco Malfoy?" He said the words roughly. As if they were hard to get out. She nodded her head and sank a little bit lower in her chair. "On accident?"

"No."

"On purpose?"

"Yes."

"Once?"

"Well I kissed him once. He kissed me twice."

"So you let him kiss you?"

"Yes."

"Before or after you kissed him?"

"After." He didn't say anything. She could tell he was thinking it through. Contemplating the situation. She sank a little bit lower in her chair. She had been crazy to tell him.

"Alright." He smiled at her warmly and grabbed his books.

"Alright. That's all you have to say is alright?" She sat up straight and stared at him with disbelief.

"Listen Mione were seventeen now. Were not kids running around pointing fingers and wands anymore. I'm not saying I like Malfoy or anything but things change over time. People change over time. So all I can say to you is what I always say to you. Be careful." He walked around the table and patted her shoulder. "You're the smartest person I know." He smiled at her again before walking out of the library.

She stared straight ahead. That hadn't been what she expected. She spent the rest of her lunch in the library thinking everything through. And Harry's last words echoed through her mind. 'You're the smartest person I know.' She was pretty sure, actually she was positive, that there was much more meaning behind the comment.

And men say women are complicated.

He had said to her, 'See you tomorrow Granger.' But the truth was she hadn't seen him all day. Not at breakfast, they didn't have any shared classes today, at lunch she was in the library and dinner she had spent with Harry and Ron in the common room "talking." Harry's idea. Ron hadn't taken the news as well but she knew with time he would calm down. He had a temper but nothing to be worried about. Still his hate for Malfoy was stronger then everyone else's. This much she knew.

She was now wandering the halls on her Head Girl Duties. Her and Malfoy were supposed to do this together every evening but at the beginning of the year they had made a silent pack to avoid each other at all cost. And they did a very good job at it. But tonight she had a feeling things wouldn't be so simple.

"Miss Granger." Hermione jumped at the deep voice. She turned her head and slightly smiled.

"Professor Snape. How can I help you?" She looked at the ever-scowling teacher and tried to force her smile to stick.

"Well Miss Granger I was wondering what you were doing wandering the halls so late at night." She took a small step back. A habit she had when it came to this particular Professor. She wasn't afraid of him. Just slightly intimidated.

"I'm just doing my Head Girl duties Sir." He crossed his arms unsatisfied.

"Then where is the Head Boy. Last time I checked the rules the duties imply both Girl and Boy." He raised an eyebrow. She looked around trying to think.

"Um well you see sir. Malfoy is um, well he is, you see Professor the thing is..."

"The thing is sir I had to speak with my Father. Granger hear offered to being the patrols until I could catch up." Snape shifted the moment Draco mentioned his father. She looked at Draco questioningly. He seemed to come out of the shadows.

"Your father is hear?" Snape questioned. Malfoy smirked slightly.

"He had a meeting with Dumbledore about my being second. He left without incident." Snape seemed to relax. Well as much as Snape could relax Hermione mused.

"Alright then. You two are free to go." She turned on her heel and began to walk away Draco following close behind. She turned the corner and continued walking silently. She tried to ignore the fact that he was only right behind her. Following her and most likely eyeing her every movement and the tension was thicker the mud. They walked for about five minutes in silence before she couldn't take it anymore. She turned on her heal and faced him.

"Why are you following me Malfoy?" He smirked at her.

"It's my duty Granger." She sighed with frustration.

"Listen I think we really need to talk about this situation." He took a step closer and she took a step back. "No no no a least five feet apart at all times." He raised an eyebrow. She crossed her arms and glared at him.

"Fine fine I promise to keep my distance."

"Okay. So I think we should talk about," she paused a few moments before forcing the word out, "us." She wondered how such a small word could be so hard to say. She looked at the ground for a moment awaiting his smart ass comment. When he didn't say anything she looked up at him and was shocked to see only complete seriousness in his eyes.

"There can't be an US Granger." He said the words quietly. In a way that let her know he had though about it. About everything that had happened in the last three days.

"I know." She didn't know what else to say. It was the truth. There couldn't be. For about a billion reasons. Still hearing him say it out loud almost hurt her. She suddenly felt small again. He had a way of making her feel inferior. Not purposely, she hoped.

"So then why are we talking about it?" He began walking past her. Down the hall.

"Where are you going?" She began to follow him. He was walking quickly. Trying to get away from her she figured.

"To do my job." He kept walking no missing a beat.

"But we were having a discussion." She picked up her pace being careful not to trip on her robes. She was looking at her feet and didn't notice he had stopped and turned to face her. She was about to run into him when he reached out and grabbed her shoulders stopping her just inches from a collision.

"Really I wasn't aware." She looked up at him and glared. "Don't look at me like that."

"Like what." She shot back at him.

"Like I'm you enemy or something."

"You are my enemy." He let her go and sneered at her. She was suddenly afraid again. How is it she was able to kiss someone she was afraid of? It was just another useless question she had for him. One she was pretty sure she would never get to ask among others.

"That's right I am." He turned around and began walking away. For the first time he actually seemed seventeen. For the first time she noticed how much he had grown. He was an adult in his own right. Still she could see something else. She saw the insecurities and the rebellion. She saw his scorn for being called that word. Enemy.

"I see you Malfoy." He stopped and didn't look at her. Keeping his shoulders stiff and his voice was harsh.

"You see nothing Granger." She laughed at him. Something she knew he hated.

"No I see everything. I see who you are and what you are. I know what you're going to become Draco, Daddy's pride and joy. Future follower of He-Who-Shall-Remain nameless."

"Not future." He turned around and faced her. His face was stone. He took a step closer to her sneering. "Present follower." She took a step closer to him and gulped.

"And I know I can't change that. I don't think anyone can. But I also know something else about you." She took another step.

"And what's that?" She looked down at the ground and smiled before looking back at him. He made her so afraid but she was also brave when it came to him. Something she wasn't used to in the case of the opposite sex.

"I know that I was to ask you to kiss me right now you wouldn't be able to say no." She smiled at his boldly mimicking his own cocky stance.

"Oh Granger you think yourself irresistible." She put her hands on her hips.

"In your case, yes." He crossed his arms and leaned against the stone wall.

"Well incase you haven't noticed half of the students at this school are female and are willing to do anything for my attention. Actually I think a few of the male students would to. What makes you think I would just answer to your request."

"Because I am something you want. Not your father and not anyone but you." She walked up to him and smirked lightly. "So prove me wrong Malfoy. Kiss me." He stood there for a few moments. Just staring at her. And then he did something.

He proved her right.

A/N: Okay Okay so here you all go!! This chapter was kinda a set up for things to come... ::BUM BUM BUM:: Hey what was that noise? Anyways please review!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!! I hope you all liked it!!!! Tata for now!!!