Here i go the 6th chapter finally!

Shopping, Tasks, a bet, and Painting

After the feast, Draco and Hermione made their way up to the head table. When they stepped up the headmaster's eyes lit up.

"Whatever it is, he/she made me do it!" they said at the same time. "Me? What did I do? I t was all your idea to-!" they stopped and turned to face Dumbledore. "What did we do?"

He laughed, "Nothing yet. But I must show you to the Head Dorm now. Shall we go?" he said and they nodded their heads. "Good. Follow me." and they did. On the third floor they made three sharp turns and stopped at a large painting of a black dragon with piercing blurple (blue and purple mixed) eyes. "This is Zu, the-"

"dragon from Sumerian mythology. Said to be the symol of chaos." Hermione finished.

"I see you have read about me already." Zu said to her. "I am greatly pleased to finally meet you." she said and bowed her head.

"As I am you." Hermione replied and bowed. "If I may ask, Headmaster, what is the password?"

"You two are to decide." Zu cleared her throat, "Sorry, the three of you are to choose the password. Goodnight for now." he said and walked off.

"Well, any suggestions?" Zu said kindly to them.

"Fallen?" Draco offered.

"Over used. Darkness?" she replied.

"To plain. Blaze?" Hermione offered.

"Ok." the other two said together. The portrait swung open and the Heads stepped in.

"Welcome to your room." a voice echoed, "Enjoy this year in the comforts of your own dormitory. This is the common room. As you will see all the rooms are blank. You will each have 1000 galleons to spend on your bedrooms and a total of 700 galleons to decorate the common room. Another 300 galleons has been offered for the decorations in each of the following rooms: Bathroom, spa, kitchen, and the lookout tower. Have a look around." the voice disappeared and they continued to look around.

Soon they found the bathroom. the kitchen, the spa, and the bedrooms. "Hey he said a lookout tower. Where is it?"

"The door to this secret room will only open when you to learn to do some things together. You will be faced with many challenges this year and I hope you face them all. On Christmas eve the door shall appear if you have completed the assigned tasks. At 7:00 the carriage driver will pick you up outside the Great Hall. Please be on time." the voice vanished.

"Well, that was interesting." they said together.

"It's almost 7. Let's head down." Hermione said. They walked down and saw a tall man in a black suit.

"Ah, there you are. Come now the carriage is waiting." he lead them to the carriage outside and drove them to Hogsmead. "Here we are. You have until 10. See you then." he said and they headed off.

"First of all, lets decide on colors. The kitchen. How about a medium blue?"

"That sounds good. The bathroom. How about a Dark gray with accents of silver and cerulean?"

"Interesting... Ok."

"The common room. How about-"

"Black, red, and gray." they said together.

"The spa should be a light blue."

"Good. Now for our bedrooms. I want mine black, silver, and blue."

"Same." he said.

"Ok. Lets go get them." after they got their paint, and Hermione picked up a few cans of spray paint, they headed to the furniture store. Hermione chose an elegant black bed, a chair, a small table, a bookshelf, a set of hanging shelves, and a lamp. Draco bought a black bed, a nightstand, a desk and chair, a bookshelf, a standing and a table lamp, and an entertainment stand.They also got things for the kitchen and bathroom seeing as the spa has everything they needed already. They paid and went to the next store which was for odds and ends. After that they headed to the Three Broomsticks and got a drink.

"To new found friends."

"And to one hell of a shopping spree." Hermione added and smiled.

"Here here!" they tapped bottles and drank.

"So, what are you planning on doing after Hogwarts?"

"Really, I dunno. Not becoming a Death eater that's for sure. Or working for the order. Mabey the Ministry as an aurora. Or mabey a job at hogwarts."

"Cool."

"How about you?"

"Whatever I wanna do. Mabey an author or a musician."

"You would fit a poet better."

"I guess- How did you know I wrote poems?"

"Just a guess."

"Good guess then." she said in an incredulous tone.

"Well, we should head back up now."

"Yeah I guess so." they stepped out to find the carriage waiting for them.

"Hello. You ready?"

"Yes." they stepped in and headed back up to the castle.

"Since we don't have school tomorrow, do you wanna do the decorating onight and tomorrow?"

"Sure." Draco replied. "Why did you get spray paint?"

"So I can customize my room."

"Cool. Can I use some?"

"You can have what's ever left over."

"Ok. Thanks."

"No problem."

"Here we are." the driver called and the door opened.

"Thank you." they said and headed in to the entrance hall.

"I guess they transported all the stuff to our dorm."

"Yeah." they walked up and said the password. Sure enough there were boxes and bags in the center of the common room.

"Lets seperate it all."

20 minutes later they had all the furniture and paint seperated into the proper rooms.

"Let's do the common room first." she suggested.

"Ok."

They painted one wall black, two walls blood red, and did the trim all around the room in the dark gray. They set up the furniture and lit the fire so the room looked perfect.

"Nice work. Onto the bathroom."

"Whatever you say Draco."

"Whatever?"

"Oh shut up."

They painted the walls dark grey that looked like smoke, did the trim in silver, and Hermione painted cerulean waves on the border. Then they did the spa. Finally they argued about who's room they should do first.

"How about tomorrow. I don't wanna go to bed high as hell on paint fumes."

"Ok. What are we gunna sleep on?"

"I call the couch by the fire!"

"But that only leaves the chair!"

"Not my problem is it?"

"Goodnight Hermione."

"Goodnight Draco."

They layed down on their respective 'beds' after getting changed. Draco couldn't fall asleep on the recliner no matter which way he turned. Finally he stood up and walked over to Hermione who was pretending to be asleep. "Can I sleep at the bottom of the couch atleast?"

She stood up and pulled the futon out. "Incase someone ever slept over." she mumbled moving over to the window side.

"Thanks."

"No problem."

"No I mean thanks for everything." he said as he layed down.

"You are the one who helped me."

"Ah, but you saved me. Goodnight." she wanted to ask him what he meant but his steady breathing told her he was asleep. She pulled out her tablet and started writing down a list.

What if I was geourgeous? Would you recognize me then? What if I was like all them? Would you still treat me the same? What if I told you how I felt? Would you return those feelings? What if I was gone one day? Would you miss me? What if I were to cry one day? Would you comfort me? What if the sky fell and only you and I were left? Could you deal? What if I go blind again? Would you light my darkness with just one touch? What if...?

She closed her tablet and layed back down drifting off to sleep slowly... She had the dream again.

She stepped into the darkness of the grounds outside of Hogwarts. A red light shining around her body. As she reached the lake a boy with ice blonde hair fell to their knees in pain. "This is because you fell in love with the enemy! Aveda Kedavra!" the icy voice of a tall man screamed. The blonde fell over and rolled into the lake.

"NOOOO!" she screamed. "No you can't be gone. NO! please god don't leave me!"

Someone shook her awake. "Hermione!" Draco said.

"What?"

"You were mumbling. And crying." she wiped her face.

"Sorry. " she said and walked to the bathroom to wash her face. She hated showing weakness especially when she was infront of her former enemies. Especially when she was crying because of them.

"Why are you sorry?" Draco asked from the door way.

"Nothing. Nevermind."

"Come on tell me."

"I just had a bad dream. That's all."

"Why did you apologize because of that?"

"Habit."

"Whatever."

"Can you kinda leave now?"

"See you in the common room." he said and left.

She summoned an outfit and her hoodie. After she got dressed she met Draco in the common room. "You ready to head down for breakfast?"

"Yeah."

"Come on." they walked down together in silence. Again, as she stepped in, everyone was silent. She followed Draco over to the Slytherin table again causing more excited whispers to break out. When they sat down at the unoccupied area of the table, she asked him a question. "Do you wanna make them have something to talk about?"

"What?"

"A bet. You have a reputatioon of being charming during a relationship. Prove it."

"What?"

"I bet you that after a month of us play dating I can prove all those rumors wrong."

"Are you serious?" she nodded. "If you find those rumors true, what do I get?"

"I'll do anything you want me to do. And vice versa. Is it a deal?"

"Deal." they shook on it. "Starting tomorrow."

"Ok. " they ate breakfast and headed back up to their dorm to finish painting.

"Lets do my room first."

"No mine because I need mine to dry so we can paint the mural."

"We?"

"I can paint the mural. Better?"

"I liked the first one better."

"Ok. Come on."

They painted three walls in navy blue, the wall opposite her bed in black, and did the trim and wooden furniture in silver. "While that dries we can do my room."

"Go get started I'll be right back up."

"Wait-" she had already walked downstairs. She went to his room five miutes later carrying two bottles of Brisk. "Thanks."

"Welcome." she said as they drank some then got to work. His walls were neptune blue with trimming in silver and all the wooden furniture was black.

"Awesome!" Draco said when they finished. "Your paint should be dry now. Wanna go paint?"

"Yeah." they walked over and Hermione split the black wall in half and put a magic stencil up for them to use. The wall looked like a paint by number and the spray cans were numbered. "Take the numbered can and spray the areas marked with that number. Make sure you cover every inch of the area. Got it?"

"Yeah."

"And to answer your next question, yes I drew this." they pulled their masks on and started working. An hour later a mural of a girl dressed in black with violet hair surrounded by different shades of blue flames was painted. She had black wings sprouting from her back and her arms folded across her chest. She was also crying tears of blood.

"Woah. You drew this?"

"Yeah."

"Can you draw something for my room?"

"Sure what do you want?"

"A dragon."

"Sure. Let me grab my tablet and I'll draw it in your room so I can get a feel of where I am drawing it for."

"Ok." she grabbed her sketch book, a pencil, and a pack of colored pencils. She walked over adn sat on the foot of his bed facing where the painting would be. She sketched the most realistic dragon Draco had ever seen. It had sharp claws and a firey tip on it's tale. Silver and purple flames were coming from it's mouth and green flames surrounded it.

"How is it?"

"Wow." was all he could say. Her face turned a deep shade of crimson. "Well, come on lets paint." the mural was done in about the same time as hers and the realistic dragon practically jumped out at you as you looked at it. "Thank you so much."

"It was nothing."

"Hey it's dinner time already."

"It is? Hey, as a treat, let me cook you dinner."

"You don't have to."

"But I want to. If you can wait for like a half hour you'll be surprised. Is that ok?"

"I can wait."

"Do you like tomatoes?"

"Yeah."

"Riccotta(sp?) cheese?"

"Yeah."

"Ok." 30 minutes later Hermione called Draco down to the kitchen. As soon as he opened his door a delicious smell reached his nose. He walked down and saw that the lighjts in the kitchen were dimmed slightly and candles were lit on the table. Two plates of food were set up. "It looks delicious."

"Thank you." they sat down and he took a bite of the food. He was shocked at how delicious the food tasted. "What is this?"

"Stuffed Tomatoes. My own recipe. Are they good?"

"No they're amazing!" her face lit up.

After they were done she walked over to the freezer and pulled out a frozen chocolate pie. "Have room for dessert?"

"Yeah. I'm a bottomless pit. Of course I have room for dessert."

"Cool." they ate the dessert in silence and then went to the common room as the dishes washed themselves.

"That was amazing thank you so much."

"It was my pleasure."

"You are one of my best friends in the whole world."

"Same here." the fire casted a glow on both of their faces.

"You look so beautiful when the fire glows on you. It's as if you were one with it."

"You couldn't imagine." she accidentally thought out loud.

"What?"

"I said that out loud?"

"Yeah."

"Ooops. Uh yeah, nevermind."

"Whatever."

She eventually fell asleep with her head on his shoulder. He couldn't move so he just conjoured up a blanket and covered them both up before falling asleep with his arms wrapped around Hermione.

well, goodnight everyone!