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Chapter 15
Hermione decided to sleep in her own bed that night. When she got to her joint room she looked all around, Draco was nowhere to be seen, and she was glad that he wasn't in because she had hoped she would be a sleep when he got back.
She saw the gold box on her bed with a little note in Draco's neat handwriting
Dearest Hermione,
Merry Christmas
Love
Draco Malfoy
She didn't think something so simple could be so effective, she could feel the tears welling in her eyes but she pushed them back and kept telling herself that it was over, he hurt her and she couldn't go through that again and wouldn't allow herself to. She opened the box and saw a necklace with a heart on the end; it was pure wizard gold, which was about 24carrot gold in the muggle word. She thought it must have cost a fortune, but then it was Draco so not so much a fortune, pocket change to him she bet.
She decided to put it on and got changed to go to sleep. She climbed into bed and soon was asleep exhausted from the day's activities.
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She was woken up at about 4am by the sound of 2 male voices in the common room, Draco and Blaise she thought. She heard the voices coming closer so she pretended to be a sleep. She remembered that Draco knew she was a very heavy sleeper, so if she turned away he knew she would be asleep, presuming they knew she was there, which apparently they didn't. She liked to sleep with her knees under her chin and her bed was more in the shadows at night so they didn't see she was in the room when they came in.
"So she got you this?" Asked Blaise as he picked up the quill
"Yes, nice isn't it" Draco said as he sat down on his bed next to Blaise, this made Hermione smile to know that he liked it.
"Must have been expensive, what did you get her?"
"A wizard gold necklace"
"Wow pricey" Blaise said and Draco nodded.
"Do you love her?" Blaise asked. Hermione felt her heart stop, she knew they couldn't see her, but hoped they didn't find her, she did want to know
"What?"
"Do you love her?" he asked again
"NO" Hermione's heart sank
"Draco Maxwell Malfoy, do you love Hermione Granger, and I want a truthful answer" Hermione smiled at how alike Blaise and Ginny were
"Yes, alright I Love Hermione Jayne Granger, I really love her" Draco said saddened that he couldn't tell her
"Can I stay tonight?" Blaise asked, "It will be difficult to sneak back"
"Sure" Draco said
"I'll take Grangers bed" Blaise said and looked to the bottom of her bed. From where Draco's bed was you can only see the bottom of Hermione's bed, and she was curled at the top of it
"Whatever, doesn't look like she will be coming back, hasn't slept in it in days" Draco said
"How do you know, she might sneak in after your in bed and out again before you wake"
"No, ive slept in her bed since she left, I didn't want to miss her if she came back" Hermione smiled at this but remembered Blaise was coming to sleep in her bed and she was init.
"You ok with me in it?" Blaise asked watching Draco shuffle under his covers
"Sure" Blaise walked over to Hermione's bed and smiled when he saw her in it, She had her back to him with her eyes shut, so she looked as if she was a sleep anyway. Blaise turned to look back at Darco who was getting comfy in his bed
"You want me to move Hermione first?" He asked, waiting to laugh
"What?" Draco asked
"Do you want me to move your ex-girlfriend before I get in" Blaise said in layman's terms
"Hermione" Draco said jumping out of his bed and ran to Hermione's and saw that she was a sleep. "Take my bed" he said and Blaise smiled and went to Draco's bed, got in and shut his eyes. Draco watched Blaise, the boy slept anywhere and often, you could be talking to him one minute during dinner and the next he would be asleep. Draco sat on the end of the bed, for a few minutes before sliding under the sheets with her; there was enough room so that he wasn't touching her. She was fighting the urge not to turn and jump on him smothering him with kisses.
Draco put his head on the pillow facing Hermione's back; Hermione opened her eyes looking at the stonewall
"I love you Hermione" Draco whispered, thinking she wouldn't hear him. At this Hermione couldn't control herself any longer, barely above a whisper herself, knowing that Draco wasn't asleep she whispered
"And I love you Draco". She closed her eyes; she was very tired so she fell asleep. But Draco was wide wake thoughts of how long she had been wake, had she heard the whole thing or was she dreaming that he told her he loved her and just sleep talking.
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Hope you all understood about how Hermione was laid in her bed, I sleep like that all the time and its really awkward to describe without showing someone, if you sleep like that then you'll understand.
I also pretend to be asleep when really in not, just like Hermione did in this chapter, hope you all got that as well.
Dmhg
This is by far the best chapter I have wrote in this fic, I think. I read this back and really liked how it came out.
Stay tuned for the next chapter…….out soon………….
