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Chapter 4- Getting Too Close

FLASHBACK

"Will you stop that! Let go of me!" Draco was holding Hermione by her waist, inching closer her face. She blushed, completely lost of what to say.

Draco stopped and looked straight to her eyes. "What? Think I'm going to kiss someone like you?"

In a split second, a slap echoed through the forest.

"Hey! Why did you do that!" Draco exclaimed rubbing his cheek.

"Bastard!" Hermione answered with a glare.

END FLASHBACK

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"I was just playing! You don't have to slap me!" Draco said to Hermione heatedly.

"Well, then, you should not be playing! We're in class, getting potion ingredients!" Hermione answered back and continued on walking.

"You're just so grade conscious, that's why!" and with that, he hurried up to Hermione and pushed her.

"Aaaaaaahhhh!"

Hermione's head hit on a rock beside a tree. She tried to sit up and touched her forehead. And she saw, with trembling hands, thick, red liquid on her fingers.

"I'll report this Malfoy!" she shouted as she stood up.

"Uhh…wait! I—I can fix it…It's just a cut." He said in a small trembling voice. He doesn't want this to be reported to any teacher because it might reach Dumbledore, then his father. Surely, he's dead meat when this happens.

'But, she's a mudblood…Surely, father would be pleased right?' he asked himself uncertainly.

He held Hermione by his right hand and used his left hand to rummage his pockets looking for his handkerchief.

"Will you get off me! I'll just go to the hospital wing!" she shouted.

She tried to scramble to her feet only making Draco lose balance because she kicked his feet.

"Hey!" was all he managed to say. Before—

He nearly kissed Hermione in the lips. He turned slightly to the side so his lips brushed against her rosy cheeks. Then after that his head made contact with a trunk of an unknown tree.

"Ow!" he exclaimed in pain.

Now Hermione finally stood up, her face red in rage and embarrassment.

"Pervert!" she yelled.

"What did you say! I'm not a pervert! I didn't kiss you on purpose! You kicked my feet and I lost my balance!" Draco answered. "It's your own bloody fault mudblood!"

"Uh—It's not my fault, stupid ferret! You were so close it's hard to breathe!" she answered back. 'So that's why my foot hurts.'

"I wasn't too much close to you! Maybe you said you couldn't breathe because you're looking straight at my handsome face…" he said mischievously.

"Argh! How gross can you get!" Hermione said before walking, leaving Malfoy on the ground.

"Hey wait! We don't have all the ingredients yet. Don't leave me here!" he called out.

"I don't care! Maybe you're the one who's so grade conscious here!" she yelled.

"Professor Snape will be angry!"

"Then talk your way out of it! Stupid!" and with that she went straight to school to go to the hospital wing.

"Mr. Malfoy, what's with your partner! Just running away! We still have classes to finish." Snape said in his dangerous voice.

"Professor Snape, the both of us need to go to the hospital wing because we met a small accident back there in the forest and had our heads hit on the rocks. Please excuse us." Draco explained with his head down. "And maybe I could ask you to let us do it tomorrow?"

"Fine. Just be careful next time. If this happens again you will not be excused and will be given zero for the day, understand? Tell that also to Ms. Granger." He replied nonchalantly.

"Yes, Professor."

Harry who had just come out of the forest with his partner walked straight at Malfoy.

"What happened?" he inquired menacingly.

"None of your business, Potter." He said simply.

"It is my business ferret."

"Just get out of my way, will you!"

"I will if you tell me what happened." Harry said looking at Malfoy.

"Fine!" Draco shouted exasperatedly. "Hermione is now in the hospital wing, I suppose. We had an accident so both of us had a cut on the head. Happy?"

"What have you done to her?" Harry said, worry now seen on his face.

"Get out of my way! As you can see, I'm bleeding too!" Draco said to Harry as he shoved him out of the way.

Harry gave way and just glared behind Malfoy's back.

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Sorry for the very, very long delays. We had a kind of writer's block here and we didn't know what to write. Anyway, please review okay?

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