We can never be 9

Disclaimer- See me cry cuz I own no one… I want Draco… you do the math! I LOVE DRACO!

Note- When I checked my email the only thing I found in the inbox was fanfiction reviews. HOLY COW, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH! –dances- YEEESSS!

Note 2-ok now that spring break is over I have no plan for my story and I have no clue when it will end. It might be this chaper or the next chaper or the one after that! Who knows? Wait I have a plan! First this will happen then that will… next that is gonna happen and then that will happen and then they say this and then this will happen and they live happily ever after! Ok I got a plan! I will just write/type until my fingers fall off! Lol

May I point out that The 10th Kingdom is a real book… and it is a SUPER great book too! Everyone should read it! Or you can watch the movie… it is EXACTLY like the book! Either way you should read it!

Kiki- IM WORKING ON IT! See? You happy I got it posted! But let me finish typing it first!

So violin, hippo, dust, mop, Bloated Gerogie, the letter 'H', -bee dance- wingapo, buttered toast, taco chair, BOOM, Chinese laundry, READ!


Chaper 8- We can Never Be (this is where the title ties into the story… just so you know!)

(A/N- Remember I skip several months again… just so you know!)

April came… and nothing big has changed. Ginny hates Harry STILL, and Hermione and Draco are still secretly together… nothing new!

The bell rang and Hermione rushed to Transfiguration.

"Miss. Granger!"

Hermione jumped.

"Yes?"

"You've been staring at your blank paper for the past 10 minutes!" Professor McGonagall said. "That's not like you."

"Sorry, Professor."

"We are copying the notes on the board, please start paying attention."

Half an hour later, Hermione finished her note taking and then the bell rang. Hermione gathered the stuff in her hands, walked out the door, and all of her stuff slipped from her hands.

"Damn it!" she said to herself.

"Need help?" a voice said.

Hermione looked up. There was a guy about 5'10", brown hair and brown eyes. To Hermione, he was kind of cute.

"Yea, sure."

Together the got her stuff organized and off the floor.

"Thanks," Hermione smiled and the boy.

"No problem. I'm Kyle Jacobson, from Ravenclaw," he said.

"I'm Hermione Grang-"

"Hermione Granger, from Gryffindor," Kyle finished for her. "You're friends with Harry Potter."

"Yea, I'm am."

"So what are you dong this weekend?"


(Draco's eyes…)

Draco walking out if Herbology and rounded the corner. There, he saw Hermione talking to a guy. 'I think his name is Ryan… I have no clue, but I know he is in Ravenclaw… Wait! Why the hell am I wondering about the guy? I should be wondering why Hermione is talking to him!' He saw Hermione smile at 'Ryan'. 'Scratch that… why is she FLIRTING with that guy!' He decided to listen to them, but stay out of sight.

"So what are you doing this weekend?" 'Ryan' asked.

"Well, I was thinking of going to Hogsmeade, otherwise nothing. Why?" Hermione flashed him a smile.

'What the hell!' Draco thought, knowing that he just wanted to strangle that guy!

"Well, I was thinking of going to Hogsmeade, too" he echoed Hermione. "Maybe I'll see you there… with me?"

"Are you asking me out?" Hermione asked him looking a bit taken aback, but not shocked.

"Bad mistake?"

"No, no, really, I would love to go… with you!" Hermione said happily.

"Great, so, see you around" he walked off and waved.

Draco was about to make his entrance, when Ginny appeared, so he stayed.

"Couldn't help but overhear but… I did!" she said to Hermione.

"Oh thanks! You might as well follow me and watch every move I make!" Hermione said with sarcasm and a smile.

"Whatever, he was cute though!"

"I know!"

Draco didn't really want to hear the rest of their 'girl' conversation so he went back in the Heads dorm.

'Not cool!' he thought. 'Did she forget about me? Nah, that can't be it… can it? No, that's not it.' He sat on one of the chairs that was kind of hidden in the dark and waited fro Hermione to come into the room.

That took about 10 minutes until he heard the portrait hole open. Hermione came into the common room looking like she wanted to sing.

"DRACO!" she called out.

Draco sat in silence in the chair. 'She can't see me.'

"Where the hell is he?" she said out loud to herself. "DRACO!"

"No need to yell, I'm right here," he said emerging from the shadows.

"What were you doing over there?"

"What do you want?" Draco didn't sound like how he usually sounded when he was with Hermione… he now was back to the 'Malfoy attitude' again.

Hermione kissed him on the lips. He didn't respond.

"Dray, what wrong?" she asked him.

"Nothing." 'Fuck that! You so know what the hell is wrong! YOU ARE JEALOUS OF HERMIONE FOR GETTING A DATE… AND IT IS NOT YOU! It is written on your face! JEALOUS? ME! Bullshit! Malfoys don't get jealous! Well, there is a first for everything… they also don't fall for Mudbloods either, but look who is standing right in front of you!'

"Are you sure? You're not… yourself today…" 'Please oh please say he didn't hear or see me with Kyle.'

"I'm fine," he said, walking to his room, but stopped and turned back and said, "Just so you know, I had you first." And a little upset, he made his way to his room.

'He knows! Shit!' was all Hermione was thinking.


(Weekend…)

The weekend came and Hermione has been trying to get Draco to tell her what was REALLY wrong, but every time Hermione brought up the 'There-Is-Something-Wrong-And-You-Can-Tell-Me-Anything' subject, Draco said he was tired or he had homework to do.

About 8:30am on Saturday, Ginny came to the Head dorms to help Hermione pick her outfit for her date with Kyle.

"What about this?" Ginny said, holding up a dark blue mini skirt and a black tank top.

"No," Hermione said shaking her head. She was sitting on her bed in a pink bathrobe straightening her hair with her wand. Ginny threw the out fit aside.

"This?" Ginny held up a pair of hip huggers and a white tee shirt.

"No."

Ginny clean out Hermione's closet and her room was covered in clothes.

"That's it! Unless you wanna go in that…" she laughed, pointing at the bat you got nothing!"

"Hm?" Hermione put a finger to her nose and tapped it.

"What?"

"Thinking."

Hermione got up from the bed and went to he center of the room, looking at the thrown clothes. About after 5 minutes, Hermione shouted…

"THAT'S IT!"


(Draco's eyes…)

'Thank Merlin, it is a Saturday… I'm sleeping in…' Draco thought, rolling to the other side of the bed.

"THAT'S IT!"

Draco sat straight up. He knew that voice… it was Hermione.

'Oh great. She's going out with that Ryan dude. What does she see in him?' He fell on his back and stared at the ceiling.


(Hermione…)

Hermione got her out fit on, got her hair done and said she had to go ask Draco something.

"To ask how you look?" Ginny teased.

'DAMN! She knows… not good!'

"No… it is about our duties," Hermione said quickly. She walked to Draco's room and knocked.


(Draco…)

Knock, knock, knock

'Damn you people and let me sleep!' Draco thought hoping there was really no one there at his door.

Knock, knock, knock

'AHHHHHHHHHHH!' he screamed in his head. Just getting straight up from his bed he walked to the door in nothing but this silk green boxers.

(A/N- do you know how cool that would be if Draco answered his bedroom door in NOTHING but his BOXERS! That would be my dream! Ok that was my note please continue!)

He opened the door and saw Hermione. She was wearing a jean mini skirt and a white tank top that said 'SMART' in rhinestones. She worn 3-inch flip-flops and her hair was up in a mess-bun. Although she looked… not like her normal self, Draco pretended to be annoyed.

"What?" he said sternly.

"Remember how you passed me that note saying you wanted to be my partner for Care of Magical Creatures?" Draco nodded. "Well… can you show me how you did that?"

Draco hesitated and let her in his room. He grabbed a piece of paper, crumpled it in his hand and held it in his fist.

"Make a fist," he told her.

She did. Draco opened his hand and the paper was no longer there. Hermione opened her hand and found the paper in hers.

"Yea, how do you do that?"

"Write what you wanna say on the paper, crumple it in your hand and repeat the person's name in your head."

She tried it and it worked.

"But it only works if the person has their hand closed in a fist."

"Okay, thanks," and walked out of the room.

(A/N- you know… who in their right mind would walk out of a room with DRACO MALFOY in his BOXERS? I sure as hell know I wouldn't! Hell if I was Hermione at that time, I would say 'screw that date and stay in the room with Draco and stare at him for as long as I can… ohhh Draco…' that would be me! Ok, please continue!)

Hermione made her way back to her room, jotted a note on piece of parchment and put it in her pocket.

"Come on, Kyle will be wondering where you are!" Ginny said.

Together they headed down to the Three Broomsticks. Hermione took a spot at a table by herself while Ginny sat across the room. Ginny preformed a charm around Hermione's table so she could hear what they were saying (Hermione didn't know about this).

"Seat taken?" a voice came.

Hermione looked up and saw Kyle smiling. He sat down across from her.

Silence.

"So… how have you been?" Hermione asked him.

"Fine, you?"

"Fine."

Silence. Hermione noticed that Ginny slapped a hand to her forehead, shaking her head. Hermione rolled her eyes.

"So…" Kyle spoke up.

"So…" Hermione repeated.

"So…"

They exchanged their 'so's over and over and Ginny looked like she was falling asleep. Hermione rested her head on her fist and saw Draco walk in through the door with Blaise. She slightly watched them sit down with two bottles of Butterbeer and into their conversation they went. Draco caught Hermione's eye. She smiled but he didn't return it.

'What the hell is up with him?' she thought as she shifted her head to her other hand and found a note it in.


Mi, how's your date? If you get the chance, meet me by the Shrieking Shack in 10 minutes.

-Draco


Hermione took her note from her pocket and passed it to Draco, just like he showed her. About 10 seconds later, she realized the note was gone. She saw Draco read the note secretly under the table. When Blaise looked away, Draco mouthed, "Now?" to her.

Hermione nodded.

Draco, I'm not having fun on this date… meet me at the Shrieking Shack

-Hermione

"Uhh… so…" Kyle said catching her attention.

"So…"

Silence.

"Kyle, are you… well, enjoying this… uh… date?" Hermione asked him.

"You?"

"Not really."

"Same here."

"Yea… it was really nice of you to come here with me. So I guess I'll see you around?" She noticed Draco continuing to glance at her.

"Yea… see you around."

Draco got up and headed for the doors. Hermione got up, too, and followed him, leaving Ginny sitting alone at her table. She ran the rest of the way to the Shrieking Shack. Draco was nowhere in sight when she arrived.

"DRACO! This is not funny!" she called out. "Please come out!"

Draco was behind a tree and he slowly, quietly came out behind it, sneaking up behind Hermione.

"GOTCHA!" he said loudly, wrapping his arms around her waist, scaring her.

"AHHHHHHH!" she screamed. She wiggled herself out of Draco's grasp, breathing hard. She punched him in the arm.

"THAT WASN'T FUNNY!"

"Ok, that bruise should appear in about 20 seconds. Damn, Mi," he said rubbing his arm.

Hermione looked at him with a stern face, and then let out a small laugh.

"That wasn't funny," she said again.

"Then why are you laughing?"

She let out another small laugh and shook her head.

"So, how was your date with that Ryan guy?"

"Kyle doesn't really talk much. Although he was pretty cute and all… I don't think we would go good together."

'Oh, thank Merlin!" Draco thought as he let out a relieved sigh.

"We're you jealous?" Hermione asked?

"Me? Jealous?" he gave a small laugh and asked, "Why?"

"Because you let out an 'Oh-Thank-Merlin' sigh."

'Damn her for reading minds!'

"No, I was trying to detect another emotion… not jealousy."

"Right."

Draco continued rubbing his arm.

"Are you alright?" she asked.

He gave the 'No-I'm-Just-Rubbing-My-Arm-For-My-Health' kind of look.

"Let me see it."

Hermione took his arm and rolled up his sleeve and found a red mark on his upper arm.

"You hit like hell."

"I'm sorry. But you scared the living shit out of me!"

"Sorry."

'You want to huuuug him. You want to kiiiiiiss him. You want to loooove him…' Hermione thought. She looked into his pool-water eyes. 'He has beautiful eyes. A person can just drown in those eyes. I know I am!'

(A/N- I know I would! –wink- lol)

They leaned into each other, lips to lips in a kiss. It was just a small kiss, and then they pulled away and looked into each other's eyes (again) and into another passionate kiss they went.

(A/N- sorry but I'm gonna go into detail on the kiss. That would be too weird for me to write!)

After about five minutes of snogging in the woods, Draco broke the kiss.

"Hermione, I really need to tell you something…"

'Oh, shit…'

"And I never said it to anyone before…"

'Oh, shit, oh, shit…'

"But I just really need to say it to you and mean it…"

'Oh, shit, oh, shit, oh, shit…'

You know how you get feeling where you wake up from a dream and you think that it really did happen, but you know it didn't? This is nothing like that, but it was like Hermione just had a black out from the past several months and she felt like Draco can't be the guy for her. It was like she found herself in the middle of the woods, in Draco's arms, inches away from his face and she was hypnotized by him and she just woke up.

He deeply looked into her eyes.

"Hermione, I lo…"

"You're not gonna drop the 'L' bomb on me are you?" she said before Draco could finish what he was gonna say.

"The what?"

"The 'L' bomb? Love?"

"Well, actually…" she noticed his face go red for the first time ever.

(A/N- do you know how damn drop dead sexy Draco/Tom Felton would be if he blushed? OH MY GOODNESS, I would just die! Yea I'm way into the story! Lol! Please read!)

"Were you?" Hermione said taking a couple steps away from Draco.

"Yea, I was, I mean, I do. Mi, I really lo…"

"No, Draco… you can't say that. Not to me. We can't go on like this. I can't live a life with a secret relationship. We can… we can never be. Never." And she turned around and walked back to the castle, crying, leaving Draco alone, and standing the middle of the woods.


ohhhh… poor Hermione… I would never interrupt Draco if he was gonna say 'I love you' to me! WHAT WAS HERMIONE THINKING? Anyway, I hope to get the next chaper up soon (I already written it on paper and finished the story… I have a plan!) cuz I now just got an idea for ANOTHER story in mind and I still have to write and post my OTHER story… wow my head gets carried away with me! Also as all of you can tell I put a lot of 'A/N' in the middle of the chaper but I have a lot to say about what was written so if it bothers you… oh well! And may I add that this story was 12 PAGES on the Microsoft Word thingy! Ow my fingers hurt! So… you know what you have to do… REVIEW! And I know what I have to do… UPDATE! So hit the submit review button and everything will be fine!

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