Hey everyone sorry it took me so long to update I got really busy with school and stuff but this is the longest chapter yet so you like!

Confessions and Pain

Draco was walking towards the Great Hall when he was pulled into an empty class room.

"Harry what the, I'm hungry let me go eat" Draco whined as much as a Malfoy can whine.

"Oh you know you're not hungry enough to leave when you have a chance to be in control. Too bad this isn't one of those times" Harry whispered as he started a trail of kisses down Draco's neck. Just as Draco started to lean into Harry's kisses, Harry ran his hand down Draco's side and put his hand in his pocket and found his goal. When he had a complete hold on his money he pulled his hand out of Draco's pocket broke the kiss and whispered, "Thanks" and ran out of the room and into the Great Hall for lunch leaving Draco in a daze trying to figure out that he had just been played by Harry Potter.

Oh he is so going down Draco thought to himself as he stormed into the Great Hall with a look of pure rage on his face and his eyes fixed solely on one person. Harry Potter.

Hermione had been confused ever since potions. Ron had been acting weird around her all day and she didn't know what to make of it. He kept muttering things like, beautiful, but our friendship and the weirdest of all was when he muttered but what about last night. Hermione couldn't figure out what had happened between them last night but she thought maybe it was something that he had noticed that he had never noticed before.

As she was walking out of the library she decided to try to talk to Ron and tell him that she just liked him as a friend and didn't want anything more from their relationship. She hoped he would understand and still would want to be her friend.

Ron had finally decided to face what or rather who had been bothering him ever since he woke up this morning, Dean Thomas. Since he hadn't eaten lunch with Harry or Hermione he walked down to Care of Magical Creatures by himself. On his way down he saw Dean walking down by himself and he ran to catch up with him.

"Hey Dean, Dean wait up" Dean turned around to see Ron running towards him. As Ron got closer Dean's heart started to race and he realized just how he truly felt about the red-head that he had called friend for so long and now wanted to call him something else.

"Oh hey Ron what's up? Oh and I wanted to talk to you about last night" Dean tried to stay calm as he was about to tell Ron how he really felt about him. Oh no this is it he's gonna tell me that last night meant nothing to him and he just wants… but before Ron could finish his thought Dean took a step closer to him and whispered "I don't want to call you friend anymore" before the actual words of what Dean had said had sunk in and before Ron could feel hurt Dean moved closer and lightly kissed Ron on the lips. When he pulled away he said, "I want to be so much more".

After he pulled away, Dean blushed and ran to talk to Seamus about what he had just done. Ron stood there stunned until Harry came up and knocked him out of his trance by saying "I know I'm hot and all but seriously Ron, I'm already taken" "oh shut up Harry you know I wasn't starring at you, I was starring at Dean he just told me that he wants to be more than friends" Ron said still a little stunned as he and Harry continued to walk to Hagrid's hut. "Well that's great Ron I wish you the same luck that Draco and I have" "Ya know I think I'd rather have the luck that Seamus and Blaise have. Yours is a little to elementary schoolish if you don't mind me saying" Ron said jokingly as Hagrid came out and started class.

After about 10 minutes of listening to Ron lovingly rant about Dean in anyway possible Harry decided he was officially bored and wanted to find something better to occupy his time with. As if in an answer to his question a note appeared in his hand from none other than Draco Malfoy. Harry laughed as he opened thinking it was going to be cursing him to no end about what he had done early but it wasn't which in a way scared Harry when he read it Harry could only wonder what Draco was planning.

H

Meet me in our special place 8 o'clock tonight.

D

So vague Harry thought to himself either Draco was so upset he couldn't write to much or he and something nice planned. Harry hoped it was the latter because he personally didn't not feel like feeling the Malfoy Wrath today.

Hermione had spent the past hour and a half trying to figure out the best way to tell Ron that she only liked him as a friend, or so she thought. When she walked into the common room she say Ron and Dean studying, well Dean was studying Ron was copying his homework.

"Hey Ron I was wondering if I could talk to you for a second?" Hermione asked tentatively as she approached him.

"Sure thing Hermione what's up?" Ron asked as Hermione led him to a corner so they could take in private or as much privacy as someone at Hogwarts could get.

"Well listen Ron I've noticed that you've been acting a little strange around me and your actions have been a little confusing but I just wanted to tell you that I don't think of you in any way other than a friend" Hermione said hoping that she wasn't hurting Ron too much. But what Ron did next Hermione was not expecting, he started to laugh and continued laughing until she finally asked,

"And what is so funny Ronald?"

" Just the thought that I could like you as more than a friend Hermione I mean your like a second sister to be I'd rather be the one protecting you from guess not the one trying to be protected from"

"Oh" Hermione said a little stunned at what Ron had just told her "Well I hope there won't be any weirdness between us cause of this and if you'll excuse me I have homework to finish" and with that Hermione ran upstairs to the only person she could talk to about this not really understanding why it hurt so much.

Hermione was the last person Ginny expected to see in her dorm at 8 pm at night especially since she had been trying to avoid her while she tried to figure out the new feelings she had begun to feel for her best friend. But when Hermione ran into her room a wet mess she couldn't turn her away so she buried her feeling and began to comfort her distraught friend.

"Hermione are you okay? What happened?" Ginny asked hoping that her voice was filled with concern.

"Oh it's Ron and my big mouth always jumping to conclusions" Hermione said in between sobs.

"Bloody hell was did my stupid git of a brother do to upset you this time?" Ginny asked as just looked at Hermione.

"Well," Hermione began, Ginny could tell this was going to take awhile so she got comfortable on her bed, "Ron has been acting weird all day, he kept muttering to himself and it was always when I was around" as Hermione spoke she laid down and put her head on Ginny's shoulder completely oblivious to how nervous her friend got "and so I thought he was going to ask me out but I didn't want to hurt him so I went up to him and told him that I only liked his as a friend and hoped that he could understand, and then her started to laugh. Then he told me that he had never thought of me as anything more than a friend"

"But Hermione if you only liked him as a friend why are you so upset?" Ginny asked a little confused.

"Because of the way he acted in response to what I told him" Hermione said as she started to cry again.

For the next five minutes they sat silence until Ginny decided to talk to Hermione.

"Hermione there is something that I've wanted to walk to you about something…Hermione?" as Ginny looked out she saw that Hermione was asleep so she figured she just wait to talk to Hermione. Then she could formulate what she wanted to say. And with that last thought Ginny fell asleep holding the one she loved.

Snape always hated meetings with Dumbledore. He always felt so depressed and always found out a bit of information that never helped his mood. Usually after a meeting with Dumbledore Snape and Lupin would sit up talking about anything and everything to help calm Snape down. But tonight Snape did not expect to find Lupin and Lucius sitting on the bed hugging each other.

"So what's going on here?" Snape asked as he took his coat off.

"Severus you might want to sit down there's something you should know," Lupin said nervously as Snape sat down in a chair across from him. Snape did not like the situation he had walk into at all.