Chapter5
Flashback
He lifted her chin up so she was staring strait at him. He leaned in to kiss her. Their lips only centimeters apart...
Hermione POV
He was leaning towards her. Hermione was absorbed by the moment. She was inching closer and closer when...
"DRACKIE-POO!"
Hermione instantly backed of.
'Drackie-poo? As in Draco Malfoy?' she thought.
"Pansy!" he sounded angry.
"Draco Malfoy?" Hermione asked turning to face him.
He looked at her in disbelief. He just nodded.
"I can't believe it." She said and ran off.
Before she could get away Draco tried to stop her.
"Wait!" he cried.
She just looked at him, eyes filled with tears before she closed the doors to the great hall behind her.
Draco POV
She ran. He couldn't understand why. He wanted to kill pansy. After his mystery girl ran off, he rounded of to pansy. She saw the look of hatred and anger in his eyes and ran. She ran out of the hall as well.
Since he didn't have anything else to do, he quickly left the hall.
Without him noticing, a certain Red headed girl had seen the whole thing.
The next morning...
Hermione POV
She had been crying for a good part of the night and her eyes were now red and puffy. She quickly cast a spell to hide it and headed towards the bathroom. She took a quick shower and headed to her room to dress.
Draco POV
He didn't sleep at all the last night so he decided to get a quick move of things and get up early. By the time he heard Hermione go inside the bathroom, he had just left it and was now combing his hair.
He went down the steps and wrote down names on a piece of parchment. He wrote down the names of all the girls he knew. He would examine and eliminate each of them. First he eliminated pansy, next Millicent. On and on it went. Finally, the only people he hadn't eliminated was..., well, no one. He couldn't find anyone who matched the description of his mystery girl. He sighed.
"Uhm...Malfoy? What are you doing?" someone asked incredulously.
"Nothing that concerns you." He said instantly.
She came closer to him and read what he had written.
"What are you doing? Trying to see who you would date next or what? I noticed you crossed out pansy. Pity."
"Stay away from my business." He said angrily.
"Okay. Fine." Hermione started to leave when he got a great idea.
"Hey! Granger!" he called.
"What?" she said clearly annoyed.
"Could you...um...please...help me?" he said in the most civilized tone he had ever used in his life.
"Help? You're asking help from me?" she said looking skeptical at him.
"Yeah."
"You're desperate aren't you?"
"Hell yeah."
"Fine. If you agree with my terms."
"What terms?"
"A truce. That means no more calling names, using each others first names, and acting more civil to each other."
"Done."
"Okay. So what are you so desperate about?"
"Well, im looking for this girl."
"Typical."
"Yeah, well... I danced with her last night and I don't know. She ran off when she found out who I was. I just want to get to know her more. She's different then the other girls. I just want to get to know her before its too late."
Hermione POV
'Oh my gosh. He's talking about me! But...how can I help him find...well...me?' she thought.
"Well?" Malfoy asked a little too desperate sounding.
'I could help him. Then when he finds out im the girl ill break his heart! A perfect payback for last night and the last 6 years of torture.' She thought evilly.
"Okay, Draco." She rolled his name from the tip of her tongue. "Ill help you."
As soon as Draco went up to his room Hermione made a list of all the girls that 'fit Draco's description'. She was smiling at her perfect payback.
She was having fun with it too. She was writing names from Susan Bones to Pravati Patil. She was laughing at some well chosen girls. She even wrote Pansy Parkinson just to annoy Draco. When she was finally through she had compiled a rather long list.
'Tomorrow, phase one will begin.'