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"Where is he?" Hermione asked after 20 minutes of nothing but crying on the floor in the hall.

"I think you can probably find him in the library, he goes there a lot after dinner" Harry said and Hermione stood up and started down the hall.

"What are you going to do?" Harry asked her.

"I honestly don't know" Hermione answered and continued down the hall and down the stairs.

The whole way she was thinking of what she would say to him. Part of her wanted to dump him on the spot, but another part of her wanted to let him explain. But how could she trust him anymore? With all of these thoughts swirling her mind she didn't realize when she had stepped into the library.

She immediately began looking for Draco, then she heard laughter not to far away and she found Draco there. He was sitting with Blaise and Crabbe and Goyle, they were just talking. As soon as she saw him she panicked, she didn't know what to do and her emotions got the best of her. She just started crying right there.

"Hermione, what's wrong?" Draco asked walking towards her and trying to put his arms around her.

"We have to talk" Hermione said pushing him away.

"Ok" Draco said and he knew that she had found out.

"Follow me" Hermione said holding back more tears.

Draco followed Hermione, he didn't say anything, not that he didn't want to he just didn't know what to say. They found themselves at the Gryffindor house, Hermione knew that everyone would be asleep by now so they wouldn't be bothered.

"Password?" the fat lady asked.

"Sniffles" Hermione said and the door swung open, she knew she could get in trouble for letting Draco know the password put she didn't care. They walked in and Ron and Harry were there apparently waiting for Hermione.

"Just go on to sleep guys" Hermione said, they walked over to her.

"You're lucky we won't pound you right here and now" Ron said being the hot tempered person that he is.

"Be careful Hermione" was all Harry said.

"I will" Hermione said and waited until she heard the door to their dorm close, of course she knew they were all listening at the door but she didn't mind it would stop her from having to explain it later.

"So I know about you and Pansy" Hermione started crossing her arms and glaring at Draco.

"Hermione it didn't mean anything! I swear!" Draco pleaded.

"Why did you do it?" she asked calmly with a hint of anger.

"I don't know…" Draco said looking down at his feet.

"Well if you can't give our relationship more than that then why are we having this conversation?" Hermione said angrily.

"Hermione she was just there. It was one of those right place at the right time sort of things. Only in this case it was wrong." Draco said not wanting to give up on their relationship yet.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Hermione asked not softening.

"Because I was afraid that I would lose you" Draco said.

"Well it was bad enough that you slept with her but to hear it from Harry and Ron that was even worse Draco. I thought we were going to be honest with each other" Hermione said.

"I wanted to tell you I really did…but I was so scared that you would break up with me that I just couldn't get myself to do it" Draco admitted.

"Could you blame me for breaking up with you!" Hermione was yelling now.

"No" Draco said quietly.

"I don't know what to do anymore…if I break up with you I get hurt but if I stay with you I could get hurt so either way I loose" Hermione said crying again and sitting down on the couch.

"You just have to trust me" Draco said sitting next to her.

"That's the problem Draco, I can't trust you….not anymore" Hermione mumbled through her hands.

"Hermione…I love you…if you can trust that than you can trust me" Draco said and Hermione remained silent.

Draco kissed her on the cheek, then on the nose, then the other cheek. Hermione removed her hands and kissed her on the lips. Hermione wanted so badly to fall into that kiss but she couldn't let him break her, she pushed him away roughly.

"Draco don't think that you can just kiss me and say sweet things to me and it'll make everything ok! Because it's not ok!" Hermione yelled standing up.

"I'm not trying to con you Hermione, I meant it, I do love you" he said getting to his feet also.

"What does it mean Draco? Love…what does it mean?" Hermione asked and Draco didn't have an answer. For the first time in his life he didn't have an answer.

"You want to know what it means. It means that you care about them more than anything; it means that you would die for that person. You would lie for that person…you would walk through fire for that person Draco!" Hermione paused for a moment "It doesn't mean cheating on that person Draco" she finished.

"Hermione…" was all Draco could mutter.

"I would have done any of those things for you Draco… pick one… I can say truthfully that I would have done any one of those things for you…" Hermione said crying yet again. Draco raced to her and got down on his knees he wrapped his arms around her waist and Hermione didn't move.

"I love you so much" he was crying now "I can't imagine my life without you Hermione….this can't be the end of us…it can't be" Draco said soaking Hermione's shirt with his tears.

Hermione starred strait ahead and physically shaking and in a quavering voice she said.

"Then how come it is?"

Draco stood up…looked at Hermione for one last time and walked away. Hermione went to her dorm but there was no way she could sleep. She spent the night in the common room on the couch with Harry and Ron crying on their shoulders. When morning came Harry and Ron only had one question for Hermione.

"What are you going to do?" Harry asked.

"Well…I'm going to get up and drink some coffee…I'm going to breathe in and out all day long….until maybe one day it won't be so hard to get out of bed in the morning and make coffee…and breathe in and out all day long" Hermione replied and with a long sigh she did just that.

She didn't put on any make-up she just got in the shower did very little with her hair and put on her school clothes. She went to breakfast that morning with everyone staring at her since all of this had happened last night then naturally somewhere between 12:00 PM last night and 7:30 AM everyone had found out about it.

Then only a few minutes after she had sat down Draco came in. Hermione looked up and they locked eyes for a few seconds that felt more like and eternity. Then loud whispers erupted all over the Great Hall and Draco headed for the Slytherin table and sat down. He looked awful, he had dark circles under his eyes and they were very red. Hermione spent the rest of breakfast just moving her food around on her plate, no one dared speak to her. Then it was time for Potions, Hermione took a seat with Harry forcing Ron to sit with Seamus but he didn't mind.

"Alright, that's enough talking" Snape started "I want you to get back in your groups and evaluate how you think your marriages went and what you learned from it then be prepared to present it to the class in about 20 minutes" Snape instructed. Hermione got up and slowly walked over to Draco's table and sat down.

"Ok let's just write down how we both felt our marriage went and we'll each read what we wrote" Hermione suggested and Draco nodded awkwardly. They spent that time writing and doing nothing else.

"Alright let's have…um…Miss Granger and Mr. Malfoy come up first they look like they've been working hard" Snape said mostly referring to Draco, there were more whispers and they approached the front of the class.

"I learned a lot about how to save money and take care of children" was all Draco read.

"What about you Miss Granger?" Snape asked lazily

"I have basically the same things that he does…now I know how hard it is to raise a family and go to school" Hermione added.

"What about you're relationship with each other? Did you learn anything about partnership?" Snape questioned.

"I learned a lot about hurting if that's what you want to know" Hermione blurted out without thinking.

"You think you're the only one who got hurt last night?" Draco asked anger rising in his voice. With that said the whole class erupted into an argument over who did and said what.

"Well what do you know" Hermione said.

"What?" Draco asked still angry.

"We're back were we started…Malfoy verses Granger" Hermione said bitterly.

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