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Chapter Nine

Hermione opened her eyes and looked around. "Fuck," she whispered. She was in Draco's room and it was almost midnight. She looked over at him. He was bare chested but luckily he still had his pants on. Hermione looked at herself. She also had no shirt on and still had her sweat pants on.

"Granger?" Draco said awakening. He turned on his light and then looked over at her. He was amazed by what he was seeing. Hermione glared at him and then pulled the blanket over her bare chest.

"Holy shit," Draco said. He then looked under the blanket. He was disappointed they didn't have sex, but it would have been even more disappointing if he hadn't remembered any of it. "Do you always sleep with no top and or no bra?"

"Who does sleep with a bra on?" Hermione said.

"So you sleep with a shirt off?"

"No!" Hermione yelled.

"Sorry I was just wondering, it's nothing to be ashamed of, not at all." Draco said. Hermione glared at her. Her breath tasted like weed.

Draco thought for a second, trying to remember what they did to make her take her shirt off. Then it all came back to him…

Draco kissed Hermione, slipping his tongue inside her mouth. Hermione slipped each button out of the hole on his shirt. She took it off of him and then threw it aside. He was bare underneath. Hermione touched his muscles and then gasped as he touched her boobs. She slapped him lightly, still kissing him. Draco smirked through the kiss and then started to inch her shirt off of her.

"Holy Jesus, I felt you up." Draco whispered falling back on his bed. Hermione rolled her eyes.

"If it weren't for your stupid drugs you wouldn't have even touched me." Hermione told him. "Shit," she said in a low tone, remembering that Monday was the start of the two weeks detention they both got. Too bad they got in trouble on purpose for nothing; Draco blew it by kissing her the day before.

"What?" Draco asked in a cool voice. He felt like a glow in the dark action figure. He was so happy that he had felt up Hermione. Her boobs were absolutely gigantic in person and he got a chance to touch them! His life at that moment was totally, completely, utterly, really, really perfect! He had to be glowing…in the dark!

Hermione got off the bed with the blanket wrapped around her body; Draco watched her stomp into the bathroom angry and mortified, then he realized she had just locker her beautiful, gorgeous, stunning and amazing body and his favorite blanket in the bathroom.

So much for being a glow in the dark Draco action figure.

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Draco stood looking at his closet; what could he wear that would make Hermione jump all over him? Wait…what the hell was he thinking? He was supposed to hate this girl and supposed to make another scene this morning with her. A surprise scene.

"Are you almost ready to go?" Hermione asked knocking on his door. Draco nodded to himself and then put on his uniform. It was actually the only thing he could wear.

Draco walked out of his room, grabbing his books on the way and then followed Hermione down to the Great Hall. They were supposed to ask Dumbledore about their next assignment. But Draco had other plans.

"Blaise says you're hot." Draco said stupidly trying to trigger some anger in her blood. Hermione glared at him. He knew he pressed the right button.

"Shut up, Malfoy. You're just trying to pull my leg."

"He says he wants to fuck you on the floor of his dormitory." Hermione gritted her teeth. "He says he'll get you in bed tonight." They entered the Great Hall.

"There he is, say hi to him." Draco grabbed her wrist and pushed her into Blaise, making him spill his drink all over his nice white shirt and her own. "Blaise she wants to kiss you."

"I would never kiss a bloody fucking mud blood even if they were going to kill me." Everyone at the table laughed. Hermione's heart raced. "Get your disgusting flesh off me, Granger." He pushed her to the ground and Draco bit his lower lip trying to force a smile. He felt terrible though.

"Jesus Christ, look what you did to his shirt, Granger." Draco said. Everyone laughed. Hermione stood up and tried to walk away from the scene but Pansy pulled on her wrist.

"Come on, Granger, he wants to kiss you back." She pushed her into Blaise again. Blaise slapped her across the face. Hermione glared at Draco.

"Kiss him, Granger." Blaise laughed and pushed her away. Draco pushed lightly on her back and then Hermione turned around. He grabbed her by the wrist to keep her from slapping him.

"Don't touch me!" Hermione said tears filling her eyes. Draco stared at her, love filling his gray eyes trying to tell her it was for show. But Hermione thought it was cruel.

"Get off of me, you bastard!" Hermione yelled. Everyone looked back and all eyes were on her. Then out of no where a blast of blue sparks hit Draco and sent him flying across the floor. Blair Conwell sent the spell. She stepped towards the Slytherin table.

"You think your so goddamn perfect, Blaise? Have you looked at your parents?" Blair said, touching on a very sensitive subject for Blaise to think about. Blair looked at Pansy. "And have you looked at yourself as well Pansy? Who would want to kiss a dog?" She then glared at Draco; his lip was bleeding and his shoulder was again in pain. She got down next to him. "And as for you Draco, you know better to pull a scene like that just to cover up the rumors." She stood straight and looked around at everyone. "There isn't a freak show going on!" She yelled. Everyone turned back to eating and she turned, grabbing Hermione by the wrist and leading her out.

She whipped away the tears falling from Hermione's eyes, but Hermione pushed her hand away. "I hate him," Hermione said.

"No, Hermione, you don't hate him."

"Yes I do, you don't know anything." Hermione shook her head staring at the bombshell in front of her. She walked off angrily. What did beauties know anyway; all of them had a perfect life because guys respected them. Hermione felt like an ugly duck.

She walked towards the Potions class tears still running down her face. The day seemed to go by quicker then usual only leading to the detention that Hermione had to spend with Draco.

She sat in front of the professor she hated with a passion, Trelawney. She was fake and couldn't even see the things under her nose; nonetheless the stuff she thought was the future. She just wished Harry could die.

Hermione spun a pencil around in between her forefinger and thumb as Draco walked in. He was walking backwards because he had tried to hit Jessie Knowlton lightly on the arm as she left him in the door way. She had asked him to meet her that night. He was excited.

Draco sat next to Hermione and put his hand on her leg. She slapped it away and glared at her pencil, grinding her teeth.

"Here are some tea leaves, have fun looking into the future." Trelawney said putting tealeaves in a cup in front of Hermione and Draco. "I have to go have a meeting with the rest of the professors; I will be back in fifteen minutes. I expect at least three visions…" Trelawney said walking out, her voice faded though.

"What is your problem?" Hermione asked. Draco smirked remember Jessie at lunch. She had told him that she liked him a lot.

"Did I tell you I had a problem?"

"You're such an ass," Hermione said. "I can't believe I actually trusted you last night." Draco remembered their extreme kissing last night. Now he in fact felt like an ass. But then he remembered Jessie and her tan skin, her dark blonde hair with those beach blonde streaks, her pretty smile, her blue eyes and she had a tongue ring. Draco was getting horny just thinking about her.

"I thought I could actually trust you with everything I had but then again I forgot that you forget where you put other people's hearts. But you just wanted to get rid of something that was true just so your reputation wasn't ruined." Draco's heart broke in half. What she was telling him broke it so badly; knots tangled up inside Draco's stomach.

Draco fell to the bed with her on top of him still kissing each other. He rolled over on top of her and then pulled away, keeping his eyes patiently focused on her. "My body is all I have," Hermione whispered.

Draco breathed in. No girl had ever told him this. Not one single girl. And it made him think. It made him think a lot about what he was doing. Was he really ready to take this step with Hermione Granger? He hadn't even felt her up…once. He had only looked…never touched. But she was so beautiful; he didn't want to rush things, but he did at the same time. He didn't know what to do except look at her.

Her body was the only gift she had ever had that was precious to her and he had ruined that gift so easily this morning.

Draco looked into her cup of tealeaves. He looked at the shape and saw a heart broken in half. Then he looked back in his. There was a star. He looked in his book under star.

The Star: A symbol of love towards an unexpected person.

Draco glared at his leaves confused. He shook it off and then looked up the heart.

The Heart: A symbol of being loved and cared for, for the first time.

Draco couldn't believe it. He shook his cup and sighed. "Look, I'm sorry so don't rub it my face."

Hermione glared at him. "I wasn't rubbing it in your face."

"Yes you were, Granger."

"Whatever, it's not like you could give a shit anyway."

Draco looked at her again and then slowly moved his hand towards hers. He took it in his own and then laced his fingers with her. She looked at him and then felt his hot lips on hers. He cared a lot about her; he didn't think his little stunt would hurt her that bad though.

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Draco finished smoking his joint and then walked towards the dark court yard where Jessie would hopefully be waiting for him in nothing. He saw her there smoking a cigarette. She ran her hands trough her short blonde hair, flipping it to the other side and then flicked her cigarette to the ground. She stepped on it and then waited for Draco.

He grabbed her by the hips and she giggled. "What are you wearing underneath…" His sentence trailed off to look at her clothes. She was wearing short shorts and a baby blue tank top.

"I don't remember…looks like we'll have to find out." Draco kissed her and then unbuttoned her pants. "Wait," she said laughing. She undid his belt and then his pants.

"I can't, Jessie." Draco whispered into her ear and then sucking on it. She moved his face and then kissed him, sticking her tongue in his mouth. He grabbed her tongue ring with his teeth and then pulled it out. She grabbed it from his mouth and then slipped it into his pocket.

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Draco walked into the common room, dazed from the great sex he had just had with Jessie. She was amazing and quiet. Draco had never had better.

He shoved his hands in his pocket and pulled out the tongue ring she had slipped into his pocket. Hermione walked out of her room and jumped at the sight of Draco. He had immediately run away from her after the detention and she hadn't seen him since. In his hand was a tongue ring. She wondered whose it was.

"Is that Jessie's?" Hermione asked. He looked up at her biting his lower lip. "I saw her whispering into your ear at lunch, I don't care."

She turned around and walked back into her room. Draco wasn't guilty of a crime was he? No he couldn't have been, why should he feel guilty, he didn't do anything to hurt her.

Had he?

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The rest of the month passed by and Draco and Hermione made little contact with each other. Hermione was always gone, usually spotted running long distances. She had told Draco that she was going to go to the Olympics for long distance running when she was high. But he didn't doubt it. She often ran from sun rise to sun set. He was beginning to think it was unhealthy.

Draco was usually hanging around with Jessie; Pansy absolutely hated the both of them. They were officially boyfriend and girlfriend, "the most irresistible couple" everyone called them.

It was almost the middle of October when Hermione walked into the common room after running five miles under a half hour. Draco was eating Twinkies by himself looking around the room. He threw her one but she threw it back.

"Resisting a Twinkie today?"

"I'd rather not eat something that's going to give me a heart attack." Draco stared at her.

"What's your problem? I thought exercise was supposed to calm people down."

"Nothing, I just don't feel like eating something with about a billion calories in it." Hermione said as she pulled her shirt over her head. She was wearing a tank top under it.

"You're hot in that? It's like 50 degrees outside."

"It's called feeling gross, sticky and sweaty. But Quidditch players don't have to run so they don't sweat. I hardly doubt you got all your muscles from Quidditch anyway." Hermione snapped.

"Actually I didn't, I do run in the summer sometimes. Besides, don't you think running 20 miles in like three days is a little unhealthy? That's a lot of running, a lot of fat burning running."

"At least I can eat and still look nice," She took off her flat shoes with spikes on the bottom and threw them aside. Draco thought her shoes looked strange, he had never seen anything like them. She then slipped off her shorts to expose black booty shorts. Draco gulped at the sight of her. She walked into the bathroom and Draco stared at the back of her.

She turned on the shower and then looked at Draco. "How are things with Jessie going?"

"Good," Draco said looking at the box of Twinkies. "How about things with you and-"

"Me, myself and I…hmm, I broke up with myself yesterday telling him that I was in love with me. So it's all good now except myself hates I now." Hermione said confusingly.

"Sorry,"

"Its fine, it's not like I expect to find that perfect guy and marry him right out of this place, right? Who does that anyway?"

"Right," Draco scratched the back of his head. "Do you ever think what would have happened if we actually kept our relationship like it was?"

"Sometimes, it doesn't bother me though." She felt the water. It was still warming up. "Just because Seamus Finnegan still bothers me. But after classes he doesn't because he thinks your lurking around ever corner." Draco nodded.

"How's your candy shop coming along?" Draco asked. Hermione turned her attention from the shower to him again.

"What…how do you know?"

"I followed you there one time just to see why you always had to go to Hogsmeade. It looked great last time I saw it."

"I finished painting it and putting everything in, now I just need lots and lots of candies."

"What about home made Twinkies?" Hermione bit her lower lip and shrugged. She then shut the door and leaned on it, tears filling her eyes. What was her problem? Why didn't she tell him that she thought about him all the time?

Draco picked up a Twinkie from the box and then dropped it back in. Who was he kidding, he hadn't touched her in the longest time and his hands trembled just thinking about her body. Jessie was hot but Hermione was beautiful. She was stunning.

Hermione shed her clothes and stepped into the shower. She ran her hands through her hair, making the water soak through it like her feelings towards Draco would, even if they weren't such big feelings. She needed to wash away these thoughts and feelings. Maybe she should have run longer. To think things through a little more, but that would be pushing herself farther then she needed to go.

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Blair Conwell ran down the hill and in between some trees. Some students waved at her and she smiled. It was the nice third year Ravenclaws and some Slytherins. The Ravenclaws and Gryffindors didn't really mix as well as the Ravenclaws and Slytherins did. Blair noticed that the Gryffindors had better relationships with the Hufflepuffs. She slowed down as she ran into the courtyard to see Draco's current girlfriend, Jessie Knowlton, and Blaise Zabini smoking cigarettes and fondling each other.

Jessie threw the cigarette down as fast as she could, stepped on it, and then pushed Blaise away. Blaise dropped his own cigarette and joined in Jessie's little stunt.

"I better not see that again," Blair said walking past them. She couldn't believe how slutty the Slytherin girls acted.

Blair stopped in front of the building and stretched as a few students passed her. She touched her toes as another student stepped outside and sat on the brick railing. Then a Twinkie dropped to her feet.

"Thanks but no thanks, Draco." Blair said, picking the Twinkie up and then standing up straight to hand it to him. He frowned and looked down.

"What is up with you runners, you're, like, health nuts or something."

"I bet eating dirt is a billion times healthier then eating that heart attack waiting to happen." Draco smirked at her witty joke. "Besides, who's the other runner you offered one to?"

"Granger," Draco said looking around. His cheeks turned to a bright pink. Blair didn't understand why he was blushing; it's just a food. It's not a like a box of chocolates or diamonds.

"Well I know one thing; Twinkies are not my guilty pleasure." Blair said, bending her leg back and then holding it there with her arms, trying to keep her balance.

"What is?" Draco asked.

"Wine, maybe that's hers as well."

"Well she's making a candy shop and we used to eat Twinkies before she started running about five miles a day."

"So she's the one whose been painting that old place." Blair said, putting her leg straight again.

"Yeah, and all she needs is candy now."

"Really…" Blair said looking back. She could barely see the courtyard but she could see Jessie and Blaise lighting up another cigarette. "Wanna go to the kitchen with me?"

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Blair laughed as Draco piled more candies into her bucket. "I can't believe were doing this." Draco said, grabbing more lollipops.

They were in the kitchen having the elves make tons of sweets. They already had 3 buckets full of cookies.

"What are you doing tonight, Draco?" Blair asked still laughing. Draco looked at her putting on a serious face.

"I was supposed to go hang out with Jessie. She has to talk to me." Blair remembered Blaise. She was probably going to break up with Draco. "But I can bend the rules."

"Let's finish the candy shop this weekend."

"She goes down there a lot though." Draco said loading taffy into another bucket.

"Take her out to dinner or something."

"Why, I'm with Jessie."

"Not for long, Draco." She put her bucket down and then started mixing more cookie dough. "I saw her with Blaise today, but I didn't want to say anything." Blair watched the expression on his face change.

"I was gonna break up with her anyway. She doesn't know that it doesn't take a tongue ring to make me horny." Blair smiled

Draco and Blair walked side by side carrying at least two buckets with some elves following them to the candy shop. Blair bit her lip and looked at Draco staring into the sky. She could tell that he was full of sorrow because of Jessie.

"She's not anything special."

"Yeah she is, she's smart, and beautiful, and funny, and nice and she cares about me." Draco said still looking at the fading sky.

"Yeah she's eleven out of ten for beauty, not sure about smart or funny but definitely negative five out of ten for being nice and caring if she cheats on you with Blaise Zabini." Draco looked at her.

"I wasn't talking about her." Blair bit her lip to stop herself from smiling and continued walking along.

They stopped in the candy shop and set the buckets down. "Thanks buddies," Blair said and smiled at them as they all left.

"Tomorrow night to keep her from coming here, you have to bring her some where. I'm going to put all the candy in place and every thing is going to be so perfect. Then after you two are done come here and do what fate tells you to do." Draco rolled his eyes.

Author's Note: I'll take you to the candy shop; I'll let you lick the lollipop! Ahh, I love it. Three reviews and I got your back.

-Steph