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Chapter Eleven: Secrets

"We can't tell anyone, right?" Hermione was drying off her body. It was pointless to even do it; the sun was doing most of the work for her.

"No…no one must know we even know each other. We can communicate by owls, but we have to keep them confidential."

"My owl flies to my window every time someone sends me an owl. Either that, or Moon sends word to me that I have mail and he, of course, did not read it."

Draco nodded. "Good, good. Send a notice around the office letting everyone know that the mail you receive must be sent directly to you. No exceptions."

"I will…I was thinking of doing that anyway."

"We have the same brain waves, don't we?"

"I think so…" Hermione smirked.

"We'll have to think of a meeting time…how about every night at midnight?"

Hermione nodded, smiling. "That sounds good to me. Midnight…where will we meet?"

"Under the willow tree…no one really sits under there anyway. And if there is someone under there…I'll find a way to let you know where we will meet instead."

"Owl post?"

"Probably. Either that or I'll sneak into your office and leave a notice beneath your door again. This time, don't answer the door until I leave, okay?"

"Of course. I usually don't answer my door much anyway…and if I do, someone tells me that I have to answer the door…you know how that goes."

"But I thought you never had a door before."

"I built a door for my cubicle. People were walking in way too much and it was driving me absolutely crazy. Whoever has my cubicle now is probably thanking their lucky stars that they got mine."

Draco laughed. "You are the cleverest witch I know, my dearest Hermione."

"Everyone says that…" She blushed.

"They say it because they mean it. Why would we say something that nice and not mean it?"

"Oh, I've gotten that before…too many times."

Draco sighed. He knew exactly how she felt.

"Shall we say goodbye here or will you walk me to my office?"

"I'll walk you to the front door of the Ministry and then I'll let you go in from there."

"Fair enough."

Draco gently grasped her hand, which made her jump ever so slightly. Hermione looked down to notice that there was something in his hand that was rather chilly.

"What's in your hand?"

"Nothing."

The two of them began walking, still bickering over what was in Draco's hand.

"Come on, it's something metal."

"For the six hundredth time, there is absolutely NOTHING in my hand!"

Hermione grinned. "Of course there is."

"You are a little sneaky bitch! You saw me put it in my hand, didn't you!"

"No! I just felt it in your hand when you grabbed mine!"

Draco paused, noticing they were about a block away from the Ministry and there was someone standing outside. "Here…I have something for you."

Hermione turned her head to the side, confused. "What?"

"Close your eyes and put your right hand out."

She did as he told her to. After a few moments, Draco tapped her shoulder. "You can open your eyes now…"

Hermione did, and the look on her face was priceless. Draco had given her a beautiful gold bracelet with a small heart charm upon it. Engraved in the heart was the words Draco + Hermione 4Ever.

"Draco…you didn't have to do this…"

"Oh, but I felt compelled to at least give you something…we just started dating again after four years of separation…I wanted to give it to you the day I saw you for the first time in four years, but I didn't know if you still loved me…"

A single tear fell down Hermione's cheek, but she quickly wiped it away. "Thank you…so much. I will treasure this forever."

"You have to get going…someone is coming for you."

She turned, noticing Moon's quickly paced steps. After quickly planting a kiss upon Draco's soft, full lips, she ran over to Moon.

"Hello, Lionheart. Who was that fine young man you were kissing over there?"

Hermione faked a look of surprise. "What do you mean?"

"I mean, that boy you kissed before you ran over to me."

"Oh…he was a one night stand. Nothing really interesting, actually. We did it, woke up this morning, and then we said goodbye. Nothing to it."

"Then why did you kiss him goodbye?"

Hermione stared at Moon with a look of confusion. "Why are you asking so many god damn questions, Moon? For Merlin's sake, maybe I have feelings for him!"

"Do you?"

"Is this about the letter you gave me?"

Moon looked away. "I thought you really cared about me…I guess not."

And with that, Moon ran off, the tears falling down his face faster than rain.

"Moon!" Hermione called after him, but she knew it was too late.

She had broken his heart so badly, she didn't know if he would ever speak to her again…