Author's Note: I am posting all the chapters because I finished the whole story and I need to get back to the stories I have not finished yet. Thank you for being so patient but I've had a lot of stuff going on, I went to Colorado, I've had difficulties with friends and there's just been a lot going on, so I'm sorry for such a long hiatus.

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Chapter Twelve

Draco walked down to Potions with Blaise surprisingly. He hadn't even asked about the day before. Maybe he was stoned.

Draco sat next to Marissa Ryans, his cousin who was in Ravenclaw and Blaise sat beside him. Draco buried his head into his arms which were resting on top of his books. He was so tired.

Snape coughed in a girlish tone and Draco up. Snape looked pretty hot to Draco then, too. He was almost as hot as Blair Conwell. Draco rubbed his eyes and then realized it was Blair Conwell.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Draco asked in a whisper.

"Meet your new Potions teacher." Blair said smiling.

"Potions is my new favorite class." Blaise said staring at Blair's boobs.

"Where's Snape?" Marissa asked.

"Your new D.A.D.A. professor hated all of you kids so she quit and Snape took her place. So they needed a professor for the Potions class and I'm it."

"Well who gets your job?" Draco asked.

"Not sure yet, but they've been looking. They should be in tomorrow so classes will be canceled. Don't worry, Draco. I'll still have time for you." Blair said. Marissa looked at Draco and laughed as Blair walked away.

"Have you two been sleeping together?" Marissa asked. This was the perfect timing to get rid of the Hermione rumor. Draco smiled.

"Possibly," Blaise pushed Draco on the shoulder.

"Dude, you gotta hook me up with her. Harry Potter and I are like the only guys who haven't seen her boobs." Draco glared at Blaise.

"Blaise, I don't like to share." Draco said.

Before long the rumor that Draco and Blair had been sleeping together was all over the school and the Hermione rumor had been washed out. Draco walked into the Great Hall but soon enough Blair was stomping up to him, grabbing him by the collar and throwing him against a wall outside of the Great Hall. Hermione was waiting with her arms crossed. She glared at Draco.

"What the hell is your problem, Draco? You want me to lose my job on the first day?" Draco exhaled greatly and then looked over at Hermione she looked another way angrily. "Draco!" Blair said pressing him harder against the wall. "I want an answer now!"

"What are you talking about, Blair? I didn't do anything!" Draco yelled pushing her off.

"You told the whole fucking school that we had sex? Most of the teachers have heard the idea and that's going to get me fired, and what about Hermione? What should she think of your shady ordeals? God, you're so fucking full of yourself, Draco."

"I never told anyone any of that shit, Blair and you should know better." He looked at Hermione. "You shouldn't believe any of this shit." Draco said putting a hand on her shoulder. "Some people would just rather hear-"

"Cool things like you banged a hot professor other then things like you kissed a filthy little mudblood girl who's always got her head stuck in the books." Hermione hissed turning around and pushing away his arm. "Draco, I gave my body to you. Wasn't that enough to please you?"

"Draco, after this is over your gonna be screwed and I promise it won't just be from us. You screw with other peoples heads and then you screw yourself over." Blair threatened showing off some vampirish fangs. Draco's eyes widened as he backed up into the wall. He might have shot himself in the back.

"I di-didn't do any of that shit." He said looking at Hermione who was glaring at him.

"If we find out you did, Draco, the out come of that is going to be much worse then if we found out right now." Blair said. She grabbed Hermione and walked out of the school. It looked like they were going running.

Draco swallowed hard and looked around. He hated vampires with a passion and would not believe that Blair could be one. She was at this point one of his best friends.

Blaise walked out with Marissa at his side and stared at Draco. "What the hell happened out here, Draco? Did the boob master hurt you?" Draco grabbed Marissa by the wrist and led her outside leaving Blaise there.

"Where are we going Draco?" Marissa asked. He walked quietly into the Forbidden Forest and then stopped.

"You can't tell anyone, Marissa. No one. You have to swear over my mother's life." Marissa cared a lot about her aunt and if she swore over her life, it meant that she couldn't even tell her diary.

"Okay, what is it?"

"The rumors about Hermione Granger and me about how we kissed and everything…it's true." Draco confessed. "But there's more to it. We had sex, and I just told you that I had sex with Blair to try and get the other rumors out of the air. And now if Blair finds out that I lied to her she's gonna kill me. She's a fucking vampire, Marissa!" Draco said.

"Whoa, wait, why is she going to kill you?"

"Because I lied straight to her face that I didn't make that shit up about sleeping with her, I lied to Hermione and then she said if she lost her job and found out I was lying that I would be screwed. I saw the fangs, Marissa. She's a fucking vampire." The wing blew across his face and rattled the leaves around. Draco turned back, becoming scared.

"Draco, maybe he just has fangs. It doesn't mean she's a vampire."

"Yeah it does, Marissa. She'll hate me for it."

"Then tell her. Draco, she is the coolest teacher in the school and if you ruin the fact that she's here, a lot of people are going to kill you." Draco looked behind her and saw the two beauties run by glaring at him. Blair snapped at him with her vampire like teeth.

"You aren't really going to do anything to him if you lose your job are you?" Hermione asked as they jumped over bushes.

"No, I won't lose my job anyway. Dumbledore knows how much I need this job." Hermione looked at Blair.

"Why did you need it so bad?"

"I was the grounds keeper at Silverstream, the academy in Australia, I had a relationship with one of students there and someone found out, the whole school cracked, I got kicked out from my apartment, the school, my parents didn't want me, and no one wanted me except my obsessive boyfriend. But I didn't want him so I came to England and found this job. He knows that I have nothing except this place and I can't get fired so I probably won't." Hermione nodded. She couldn't believe that Blair had been with a student.

"Why did you do it?"

"I didn't do it, all we did was kiss. The same thing happened there; he told everyone we had sex." Blair said.

"So Draco will probably get in trouble instead." Hermione said.

"Oh yeah," They ran through the last stretch of woods, down a hill and back to the school.

"I'm gonna go to my room. You don't wanna come with, do you?" Blair said as they walked into the school and started stretching. Hermione looked at her, wondering if she should.

"Sure," Hermione said. They walked up to the third floor, stopped in front of a painting of an angel with roses in her hair, said the password and walked in to a totally Fein Shui-ed out room. Hermione smiled as a tiger walked out of the bed room.

"You're allowed to keep those here?" Hermione asked.

"Yeah, I was going to get a lynx but this big guy was about to be put to sleep, so I got him instead." Blair told her as the big cat rubbed up against Hermione's leg.

"You want anything to eat or drink?" Blair asked taking off her white t-shirt, exposing a light pink sports bra and her tan skin. Hermione looked around the room and walked over to the book case. She had a lot of young teenage girl books. Blair looked over at Hermione; she was looking at the books. It was so like her; around the school she was known as the nerd and bookworm. People hated her for being a smart young woman.

"Hey, bookworm," Blair said smiling. Hermione stood up straight and turned around grinning. "You want anything?"

"What do you have?" Hermione asked.

"Everything, you name it, I got it." Blair said.

"I'll just have some water." Hermione replied lamely, pushing back the loose strands of hair in her face. Hermione sat down on the couch and the tiger rubbed up against her again.

Blair then came out sitting next to Hermione with a jug of water and two cups.

"Do you think Draco really does care about me?" Hermione asked.

"Obviously, he can't keep his hands off of you. And he doesn't want anyone to know so that shows that he doesn't want you to get hurt. That day at the candy shop, when he had to go, he was going to talk to Jessie because she was saying things about you two. He didn't want Jessie to hurt you like what's-her-face did that one time after the Quidditch match."

"Bella Krazk? How did Draco know about that, I didn't even tell him."

"I told him, he felt pretty bad after that. He cares more then you would know, he just doesn't want you to get hurt by all the Slytherins. That's why he made up the rumor about me and him, so the other ones would die down." Hermione looked at her glass of water. She drank the last of it and then got up.

"I've gotta go, I'll see you at dinner though." Hermione said walking out. Blair nodded and then drank the rest of her water.

Hermione rushed up to the common room and saw Draco looking out the window, the wind blowing his hair around. He was picking the pedals off of a flower and letting them fall to the ground. Hermione smiled, and ran up to him from behind, wrapping her arms around his chest. He stood up straight and tried to look behind.

"How about some nice champagne tonight with a round of playing doctor perhaps," She kissed his neck and then said, "And then we can do whatever else you would like to do." Draco grabbed her hands from his neck and turned around lacing his fingers with her. He licked his lips then bit his bottom one.

"Look, I don't mean to disappoint you but I'm not in the mood."

Three times! Three times in the last two months he had passed up sex! Draco must have been losing his mind. Or was it four times? Draco was still going crazy.

"What do you- why?" Hermione asked, pulling her hands away from his. He slapped his hands on the sides of his legs, shoved them in his pockets and then shrugged.

"I hate vampires. Sorry if she's your best friend and all, but I hate vampires."

"She's not a vampire, Draco and she's hardly my best friend. She has natural fangs. I don't even know her that well."

"Doesn't matter, I hate vampires." He said again, walking past her.

"Well should I ask you about the things you told Marissa Ryans?" Hermione asked.

"I told her we had sex and that was all. She's my cousin, she's my best friend, and if she wasn't my cousin I'd probably be with her right now." Hermione gritted her teeth. The thought of him and Marissa Ryans made her jealous. Marissa had never done anything to her, she was always nice, but she didn't want him with her…even if they were cousins. "Besides I told her that she had to swear on my mother's life not to tell."

Hermione turned around and looked at Draco. He looked stressed out. "Sex would just put more weight on my shoulders anyway."

"I never said we had to have sex again, I was just trying to make it up to you. I was a bitch and I had no reason to be. Draco, you never really understand things, do you?"

"What are you talking about?"

"You don't get why people are there for you so you push them away and out of your life."

"That's not true, look at you. You're here for me."

"Yeah, but you still would rather have me not be here. I don't know what I do to you; I don't know if I make you nervous, I don't know if I ask for too much, I don't know if I do not deserve for your time." Draco looked at her, still chewing on his lower lip. He looked her up and down. He wanted to smother her with love. He wanted to scoop her up in his arms and kiss her, he wanted to dance with her, and he wanted to touch her hair.

"Your worth every minute and second that I'm with you, Granger. Your worth so much more to me then all of those other girls. That's why I chose you to be with. Because you're perfect."

"Then show me, Malfoy." Hermione said calmly. Draco walked towards her, turned her around and then slowly took out the ponytail, his fingers infatuating themselves in the lush locks. He then ran his hands down her arms, lowering himself to the ground, down her hips, her legs and stopping at her feet. He loved her body. He ran his hands back up to her neck, sending chills down her spine. He moved her hair away from her face and then kissed her cheek. Hermione stared ahead out the window and over the grounds. She put her hand on his cheek as he planted trails of kisses down her neck and her other hand on his arm which was around her waist.

"We were all born innocent, Draco, so why aren't we all now?" Hermione whispered. Sometimes Draco wondered why she said things like these. But her questions made him think. He looked at her still thinking. She stared into his eyes, her own eyes filling with tears. "I'm afraid of being without you, Draco."

"Don't, because I will always be with you." He whispered. Hermione turned around and kissed him.

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Hermione sat down next to Harry and Ginny. Ginny hadn't talked to her very much since the ball room dancing incident. Harry looked at her and forced a grin.

"What's going on?" Hermione asked. Ginny huffed. She sounded like the big bad wolf. Ginny was good at holding grudges. Hermione had guessed it came along with the whole actress routine.

"The Slytherins are supposedly going to trash the Gryffindor Quidditch stands." Harry said looking over at them. Ginny glared at Hermione.

"And your little boyfriend is planning to trash them too." Ginny said. Hermione turned to her and glared at her.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Hermione asked.

"Oh please, Hermione, everyone knows he just made up the Blair Conwell rumor just to cover up the shit you and he did together." Hermione clenched her first under the table.

"That shit never happened, Ginny."

"Every sixth year saw Malfoy kiss you. He was into it too. And then you went after him."

"Ginny, I went after him to ask him why he would pull a stunt like that."

"Whatever." Ginny rolled her eyes.

"So now are you going to go spread rumors that he and I did shit together?" Hermione asked.

"No, I haven't said anything, but you sure know how to keep quiet. You haven't even made an effort to talk to me because you were so embarrassed." Ginny said. Hermione rolled her eyes.

"That is such bull, I've talked to you more then I talk to that scum called Malfoy in the last month."

"Take it outside, you guys." Harry said.

Hermione watched Blair and Snape talk with Draco. She grabbed some food and scarfed it down as fast as she could. Hopefully she wouldn't throw it up.

Hermione got up angrily, feeling the food float around in her stomach. Draco watched her from the corner of his eye; there she was, getting up mad at her friends after force eating a whole bunch of food going to throw it up in the bathroom. He wished he could run after her to make sure she was okay.

Hermione walked out of the bathroom after almost throwing up the food, but luckily she had stopped herself. Tears streamed down her face as she propped herself against a wall. She sniffed and stood there in the dimly lit hall way.

She stood up straight seeing a dark figure move closer to her. Finally in the light, she could see his features. Draco walked up to her and wiped away her tears once again. "I saw you run out; I wanted to make sure you were okay." He said quietly.

"I'm more then perfect, Draco, you shouldn't have walked out after me." Hermione told him.

"I didn't, Blair walked me out."

"No one believes your rumor, Draco." She said, brushing the hair out of his glittering eyes.

"Oh yes they do." Hermione grinned. Draco smiled at her, feeling selfish. He had never felt that way about someone. He had never wanted someone to himself so bad that it hurt inside. He was jealous of everyone around him when she was there. He was even jealous of Blair when she and Hermione were running together. She was like a dream to him; she was so perfect in every way.

Hermione turned and looked down the hall; she could hear someone coming. She pushed Draco away and then ran into the bathroom. Draco fell against the wall and then put his hand over his heart, sighing heavily.

He looked over and saw Blaise and some girl from Hufflepuff walking out of the dark hall that was barely used to go anywhere.

"There's my chum." Blaise said and skipped up to Draco. He slapped him lightly on the face a few times. Blaise always seemed happy, almost too happy. He then watched the Hufflepuff girl walk off, staring at her ass. "She is so fine."

Draco stared at Blaise and smirked. If only Blaise knew who Draco was thinking about. "What'd you do with her?"

"Nothing, she did stuff to me. Don't tell Jessie though. She'll kill me." Draco nodded. First he would tell everyone and then everyone would tell Jessie. Blaise could have cared less if Jessie found out.

"So, who's on your mind lately?" Blaise asked.

"Ah, you know me; I don't need a girl right now. Besides, I've been with, like, everyone in this school." Draco said coolly.

"Even that mud blood? Is she good in bed?" Blaise asked smiling.

"Oh, definitely." Draco said trying to sound sarcastic. Blaise laughed and punched Draco in the chest.

"Come on; let's go get something to eat." Draco stood up straight and followed Blaise a little ways but then felt a hand grasp his collar and pull him into bathroom for a quick kiss.

"I meant it; you're the best I've ever had." Draco whispered pulling away and smiling. Hermione bit her bottom lip to contain her own smile as Draco ran out of the bathroom and up to Blaise's side.

Hermione leaned against the bathroom wall and finally smiled her heart out; she had never felt so beautiful in her life.