Confessions
So time passed by and Draco was being nice to Hermione, calling her by her first name, chatting to her, talking to her politely and generally being a nice person to be with. He also found out a lot about her, like she loved chocolate, her favourite types of book were romance, thriller, mystery and horror. He found out when her birthday was, and what she liked to do in her spare time. After a little over a month of spending time with her he had found out all there was to know about her.
It was now the 12th of February and Gryffindor and Slytherin were still paired together, even though the teachers were all well again. One breakfast Dumbledore told them that it would be too much hassle to put them back again and that they would remain in their pairs till the end of the term. Most people had been annoyed but Draco wasn't, he was secretly happy about it, it meant he could spend more time with Hermione.
He now knew how to make her smile and knew what annoyed her and how he annoyed her. It was a special day for Draco, he was going to apologise to Hermione for all the mean stuff he had done to her for the past 7 years. He was quite nervous about it because it was a lot he was apologising for. He thought his plan was working so far, as they spent their free time together when Hermione wasn't with Harry and Ron. Crabbe and Goyle never came and saw Draco, it could have been something to do with the fact that they didn't know the password to his common room. But the fact still remained that when Hermione went with Harry and Ron he was on his own, and he had spent most of that time wondering if Hermione liked him yet, and he was doing it at that moment while he was playing with his breakfast.
When Draco and Hermione were working together in their classes they were able to make it look as though they were just talking to each other out of boredom and they weren't too happy with the arrangement. But as soon as they were on their own they sounded like two best mates laughing and chatting together, if someone had caught them like that, they would have never have guessed that they were once sworn enemies.
Hermione was sitting with Harry and Ron at the Gryffindor table, they were talking about quidditch (big surprise), Hermione however was daydreaming, in fact she was thinking about Draco and all the time she had spent with him. She too knew all there was to know about Draco and some bits that he had told her she found quite sad and upsetting. She found that in the month and a bit that she had spent with him, in class and out of class (when she wasn't with Harry and Ron) she had grown to like him quite a lot. He was no longer mean, sarcastic and moody, but at some points quite cheerful, funny and good to talk to.
She began not to think of him as the boy who had made her life hell for 7 years but as her friend! She remembered thinking that she would never like him, and how much she wished he was never there, now she thought the opposite. She found it strange how much your feelings could change for someone in a month if you got to know them and that is what she had done. She had told him everything there was to know about her. Well, when she thought he could be trusted and that he wasn't being nice to her because he was playing a cruel trick. Hermione gave a dreamy sigh that caught Harry and Ron's attention, they stopped talking about quidditch to give her a bewildered stare. When she didn't respond Ron waved his hand in front of her face, she still continued to stare into space, she had a goofy grin on her face.
"Hey Hermione!" Harry said snapping his fingers in front of her face, "Earth to Hermione, come in Hermione!!" when she didn't respond again Ron grabbed her shoulders shook her and said "Hey!! Snap out of it!!!"
"Huh?" Hermione said confused. What had just happened?
"Finally we have your attention" Ron said sarcastically, "you were daydreaming and it took you ages to snap out of it!" Ron then smirked "Who were you thinking about? Anyone I know" He chuckled.
"Who said I was dreaming about someone?" Hermione asked, "and even if I was" she stammered, "why should I tell you?"
"Ok, ok, down girl I was only asking, but from reaction I think it was someone. Tell us who was it?" he persisted.
"No I don't want to tell you" Hermione responded, she finally started to finish her breakfast.
"Awww, come on tell us" Ron said again.
"No just leave it!" Hermione almost shouted.
"Why are you being so touchy, I only want to know who it is, can't you even tell your best friend who it is?" Ron was looking angry and sounding angry as well.
"No I can't and I won't tell someone who can't respect my own privacy!" Hermione's eyes flashed and she stood up and stalked out of the hall angrily pushing the doors open as she went. She huffed about the school corridors until she made it to the school library, just as she was about to go inside she gave a small growl of annoyance. She decided she would stay there until it was time for her first lesson to commence, unluckily it was potions, but she didn't care, at least she wouldn't have to work with Ron.
She only had to wait 5 minutes, when it was time to go she walked calmly out of the library and down to the potions classroom. She saw that everyone was just making their way inside and followed after the last person, taking her seat beside Draco. She sat down and immediately opened her book not looking around her, trying to stay calm. She saw Draco open his mouth to speak to her but at that moment Snape swooped into the room and began to try and teach them a healing potion. It helped to heal the mind as well as the body, giving the drinker peace and calm. Hermione found this a coincidence because it was exactly what she needed.
She thought her life had turned around since the fatal day in which she was late for breakfast and when the bizarre stuff had started happening. She had made it for over a month without passing out, being late, almost dying and being visited by strange people. She had not met with Andre since that night over a month ago, and she had almost forgotten about him. She had been with her dream guy every night and she was no closer to working out who he was.
Finally Snape stopped droning on and let them make the potion. He told them that if they wanted to they could take the potion with them if it was brewed correctly.
Draco then had his chance to talk to Hermione. She saw him walk tentatively towards her and she calmed down, so that he would not be the one she took her anger out on.
"Granger?" He said. They had realised that if they called each other by their first names people would notice there friendship. He began to whisper quietly so only she could hear what he had to say. "Meet me outside our common room after this lesson" She nodded. He nodded then they continued their lesson as normal with Hermione wondering why he wanted to meet her.
For both Hermione and Draco, Snape's lesson went very slowly and the time crawled by. At the end of the lesson their potions were brewed and Hermione asked Snape if she could take hers away with her, Snape looked confused for a moment as if he was wondering why the top student in the school would need this sort of potion, he then nodded saying that she should only take a couple of drops other wise it will make her too calm and relaxed, Hermione nodded and said that she had studied this potion and knew what to do, and what would happen if she took too much of the potion, she would slip into a deep sleep, quite like a coma, know one who has done that has ever woken up, Hermione shuddered at that thought.
Snape gave her another nod and she was on her way back to the common room to see Draco. Because it was a double potions lesson it meant that it went on till break. Hermione rounded the corner and there was Draco just as he said, waiting by the wall. As she came nearer he heard her footsteps and looked up and smiled, which she returned. He took hold of her arm and whispered the password and led her into their common room. Hermione was a little bit puzzled by this and knew that he would explain when they were inside. The wall slid shut with a quick snap behind them.
Draco turned around and looked a Hermione with a nervous look on his face. She grew increasingly anxious and asked him why he had whispered the password.
"Because . . ." He replied, "I have changed the password" He smirked "I didn't like the fact that Harry and Ron can barge in here anytime, plus they were hiding round the corner!" He gave a small chuckle.
"They were hiding round the corner?" Hermione gasped, "Why?"
"They have been following me since potions, they heard me ask you to meet me here. Oh and the password is: Dreams" Draco informed her.
"Ok, that's got the password sorted out, now why did you want to meet me?" She asked getting straight to the point.
"Well-l" He stammered, "you see I . . . I . . . wanted to ask you . . . well tell you actually that I . . ." He looked at her nervous once more, "what I really want to say is that I am . . . I am really sorry for they way I have treated you for the last 7 years" He grew red, "Do you think you would be able . . . to . . . forgive me . . . please?" He asked a little sheepish.
Hermione's mouth was slowly opening in amazement through his little speech and now she was looking at him with her mouth open at him like a goldfish. She shook herself and started stammering back "Well I suppose I could forgive you, yes I forgive you" She beamed at him.
He smiled back. "Thank you Hermione, I was really nervous in case you said no. I like our friendship."
"I wouldn't say no, you have been so nice to me over the last month, how could I say no!" She then hesitated ready to go when he said "Hold on I want to give you something first" She stood still amazed again.
He walked up to her, put his hand on her cheek and kissed her slowly on her lips. She stood there stunned as he actually blushed and ran out of the common room. She still stood there a smile forming on her lips thinking about what had just happened, she touched her cheek then her lips and smiled even more feeling that she defiantly didn't need the relaxing potion now. She then skipped out of the common room in time for her next lesson.
The day passed by in a whiz, and even the next day was lost in a blur, Hermione had spent the last day walking around in a whirl bumping into people and giggly to herself. Also blushing at the memory of her first kiss with Draco. Even when she looked up at him she blushed, and had to look away. She hadn't really spoken to Harry and Ron much, only when the Slytherin's didn't take the same lessons as her, could she be alone with them, but there was hardly any conversation. Finally she came to lie down in her bed at the end of a hard days work. She remembered that it was going to be the 14th the next day, and didn't really look forward to it, knowing that she would be alone again.
She sighed and started to drift off to sleep knowing who she would be meeting.
Hermione opened her eyes and there standing before her was her dream guy just as he always was. She sighed as he took her in his arms.
"What's wrong love?" He asked. He looked at her concerned, even though he was still a silhouette.
"Oh it's nothing" She pulled away from him and sighed again. "Well it is something" She began, "It's just I feel so guilty being here with you, and I still don't know your name!" She looked at him giving him a hint. "When I think I like someone else!" He let go of her hand and then asked who it was. She bit her lip and then before answering she looked at him seriously, "well I think I do, this incident happened and some other stuff happened, and well I think I like this guy called . . . Draco Malfoy! It's just that he has been so nice to me and well I liked the person I got to know!"
He looked really thoughtful, he just stood there looking at her.
"So you would understand that I can't see you anymore because I can't stand feeling so guilty, you do understand, don't you?" She looked at him pleading with her eyes that he would. "Would you like to dance?" He asked ignoring her question. He held out his hand to her, and even though she knew he was dodging the question she took his hand. He spun her round and caught her in his embrace. She was wearing a ballroom gown and he was wearing formal robes. They danced slowly as the wordless music filled their heads, and filled the air around them. She had her head on his chest and her arm round his back, his arm was round her waist and their free hands were clasped, they just danced slowly in the whirl of music until suddenly the dream faded and Hermione woke up.
Hermione sat up hating it when she was woken up in the middle of a good dream, and it had been good! She sighed and got out of bed, thinking of getting her book from the common room, she opened her door and went to try and find it. She was barely looking for a minute when Draco's door opened and he came out himself.
"Hi! What are you doing up?" he smiled at her.
"Just looking for my book, I got woken up" She smiled back at him as he came over and helped her look. They had been searching for about 5 minutes when Hermione noticed something odd. They were both humming the same tune, and it wasn't just any tune, it was the tune that she had just been dancing to in her dream, she knew that he couldn't have possibly heard it anywhere else as she had never heard it before, it had seemed entirely new. She stopped but he continued to hum, then it clicked, it explained everything, the Bloody Baron everything that had happened . . . Draco was the guy from her dreams.
A/N: Well it hasn't got that mushy yet but it will and to all you people out there who read this I am going to post a new chapter up at least every week, but under some circumstances it might have to be two weeks!! Well please review and tell me how I am doing!!! Water Demon.
So time passed by and Draco was being nice to Hermione, calling her by her first name, chatting to her, talking to her politely and generally being a nice person to be with. He also found out a lot about her, like she loved chocolate, her favourite types of book were romance, thriller, mystery and horror. He found out when her birthday was, and what she liked to do in her spare time. After a little over a month of spending time with her he had found out all there was to know about her.
It was now the 12th of February and Gryffindor and Slytherin were still paired together, even though the teachers were all well again. One breakfast Dumbledore told them that it would be too much hassle to put them back again and that they would remain in their pairs till the end of the term. Most people had been annoyed but Draco wasn't, he was secretly happy about it, it meant he could spend more time with Hermione.
He now knew how to make her smile and knew what annoyed her and how he annoyed her. It was a special day for Draco, he was going to apologise to Hermione for all the mean stuff he had done to her for the past 7 years. He was quite nervous about it because it was a lot he was apologising for. He thought his plan was working so far, as they spent their free time together when Hermione wasn't with Harry and Ron. Crabbe and Goyle never came and saw Draco, it could have been something to do with the fact that they didn't know the password to his common room. But the fact still remained that when Hermione went with Harry and Ron he was on his own, and he had spent most of that time wondering if Hermione liked him yet, and he was doing it at that moment while he was playing with his breakfast.
When Draco and Hermione were working together in their classes they were able to make it look as though they were just talking to each other out of boredom and they weren't too happy with the arrangement. But as soon as they were on their own they sounded like two best mates laughing and chatting together, if someone had caught them like that, they would have never have guessed that they were once sworn enemies.
Hermione was sitting with Harry and Ron at the Gryffindor table, they were talking about quidditch (big surprise), Hermione however was daydreaming, in fact she was thinking about Draco and all the time she had spent with him. She too knew all there was to know about Draco and some bits that he had told her she found quite sad and upsetting. She found that in the month and a bit that she had spent with him, in class and out of class (when she wasn't with Harry and Ron) she had grown to like him quite a lot. He was no longer mean, sarcastic and moody, but at some points quite cheerful, funny and good to talk to.
She began not to think of him as the boy who had made her life hell for 7 years but as her friend! She remembered thinking that she would never like him, and how much she wished he was never there, now she thought the opposite. She found it strange how much your feelings could change for someone in a month if you got to know them and that is what she had done. She had told him everything there was to know about her. Well, when she thought he could be trusted and that he wasn't being nice to her because he was playing a cruel trick. Hermione gave a dreamy sigh that caught Harry and Ron's attention, they stopped talking about quidditch to give her a bewildered stare. When she didn't respond Ron waved his hand in front of her face, she still continued to stare into space, she had a goofy grin on her face.
"Hey Hermione!" Harry said snapping his fingers in front of her face, "Earth to Hermione, come in Hermione!!" when she didn't respond again Ron grabbed her shoulders shook her and said "Hey!! Snap out of it!!!"
"Huh?" Hermione said confused. What had just happened?
"Finally we have your attention" Ron said sarcastically, "you were daydreaming and it took you ages to snap out of it!" Ron then smirked "Who were you thinking about? Anyone I know" He chuckled.
"Who said I was dreaming about someone?" Hermione asked, "and even if I was" she stammered, "why should I tell you?"
"Ok, ok, down girl I was only asking, but from reaction I think it was someone. Tell us who was it?" he persisted.
"No I don't want to tell you" Hermione responded, she finally started to finish her breakfast.
"Awww, come on tell us" Ron said again.
"No just leave it!" Hermione almost shouted.
"Why are you being so touchy, I only want to know who it is, can't you even tell your best friend who it is?" Ron was looking angry and sounding angry as well.
"No I can't and I won't tell someone who can't respect my own privacy!" Hermione's eyes flashed and she stood up and stalked out of the hall angrily pushing the doors open as she went. She huffed about the school corridors until she made it to the school library, just as she was about to go inside she gave a small growl of annoyance. She decided she would stay there until it was time for her first lesson to commence, unluckily it was potions, but she didn't care, at least she wouldn't have to work with Ron.
She only had to wait 5 minutes, when it was time to go she walked calmly out of the library and down to the potions classroom. She saw that everyone was just making their way inside and followed after the last person, taking her seat beside Draco. She sat down and immediately opened her book not looking around her, trying to stay calm. She saw Draco open his mouth to speak to her but at that moment Snape swooped into the room and began to try and teach them a healing potion. It helped to heal the mind as well as the body, giving the drinker peace and calm. Hermione found this a coincidence because it was exactly what she needed.
She thought her life had turned around since the fatal day in which she was late for breakfast and when the bizarre stuff had started happening. She had made it for over a month without passing out, being late, almost dying and being visited by strange people. She had not met with Andre since that night over a month ago, and she had almost forgotten about him. She had been with her dream guy every night and she was no closer to working out who he was.
Finally Snape stopped droning on and let them make the potion. He told them that if they wanted to they could take the potion with them if it was brewed correctly.
Draco then had his chance to talk to Hermione. She saw him walk tentatively towards her and she calmed down, so that he would not be the one she took her anger out on.
"Granger?" He said. They had realised that if they called each other by their first names people would notice there friendship. He began to whisper quietly so only she could hear what he had to say. "Meet me outside our common room after this lesson" She nodded. He nodded then they continued their lesson as normal with Hermione wondering why he wanted to meet her.
For both Hermione and Draco, Snape's lesson went very slowly and the time crawled by. At the end of the lesson their potions were brewed and Hermione asked Snape if she could take hers away with her, Snape looked confused for a moment as if he was wondering why the top student in the school would need this sort of potion, he then nodded saying that she should only take a couple of drops other wise it will make her too calm and relaxed, Hermione nodded and said that she had studied this potion and knew what to do, and what would happen if she took too much of the potion, she would slip into a deep sleep, quite like a coma, know one who has done that has ever woken up, Hermione shuddered at that thought.
Snape gave her another nod and she was on her way back to the common room to see Draco. Because it was a double potions lesson it meant that it went on till break. Hermione rounded the corner and there was Draco just as he said, waiting by the wall. As she came nearer he heard her footsteps and looked up and smiled, which she returned. He took hold of her arm and whispered the password and led her into their common room. Hermione was a little bit puzzled by this and knew that he would explain when they were inside. The wall slid shut with a quick snap behind them.
Draco turned around and looked a Hermione with a nervous look on his face. She grew increasingly anxious and asked him why he had whispered the password.
"Because . . ." He replied, "I have changed the password" He smirked "I didn't like the fact that Harry and Ron can barge in here anytime, plus they were hiding round the corner!" He gave a small chuckle.
"They were hiding round the corner?" Hermione gasped, "Why?"
"They have been following me since potions, they heard me ask you to meet me here. Oh and the password is: Dreams" Draco informed her.
"Ok, that's got the password sorted out, now why did you want to meet me?" She asked getting straight to the point.
"Well-l" He stammered, "you see I . . . I . . . wanted to ask you . . . well tell you actually that I . . ." He looked at her nervous once more, "what I really want to say is that I am . . . I am really sorry for they way I have treated you for the last 7 years" He grew red, "Do you think you would be able . . . to . . . forgive me . . . please?" He asked a little sheepish.
Hermione's mouth was slowly opening in amazement through his little speech and now she was looking at him with her mouth open at him like a goldfish. She shook herself and started stammering back "Well I suppose I could forgive you, yes I forgive you" She beamed at him.
He smiled back. "Thank you Hermione, I was really nervous in case you said no. I like our friendship."
"I wouldn't say no, you have been so nice to me over the last month, how could I say no!" She then hesitated ready to go when he said "Hold on I want to give you something first" She stood still amazed again.
He walked up to her, put his hand on her cheek and kissed her slowly on her lips. She stood there stunned as he actually blushed and ran out of the common room. She still stood there a smile forming on her lips thinking about what had just happened, she touched her cheek then her lips and smiled even more feeling that she defiantly didn't need the relaxing potion now. She then skipped out of the common room in time for her next lesson.
The day passed by in a whiz, and even the next day was lost in a blur, Hermione had spent the last day walking around in a whirl bumping into people and giggly to herself. Also blushing at the memory of her first kiss with Draco. Even when she looked up at him she blushed, and had to look away. She hadn't really spoken to Harry and Ron much, only when the Slytherin's didn't take the same lessons as her, could she be alone with them, but there was hardly any conversation. Finally she came to lie down in her bed at the end of a hard days work. She remembered that it was going to be the 14th the next day, and didn't really look forward to it, knowing that she would be alone again.
She sighed and started to drift off to sleep knowing who she would be meeting.
Hermione opened her eyes and there standing before her was her dream guy just as he always was. She sighed as he took her in his arms.
"What's wrong love?" He asked. He looked at her concerned, even though he was still a silhouette.
"Oh it's nothing" She pulled away from him and sighed again. "Well it is something" She began, "It's just I feel so guilty being here with you, and I still don't know your name!" She looked at him giving him a hint. "When I think I like someone else!" He let go of her hand and then asked who it was. She bit her lip and then before answering she looked at him seriously, "well I think I do, this incident happened and some other stuff happened, and well I think I like this guy called . . . Draco Malfoy! It's just that he has been so nice to me and well I liked the person I got to know!"
He looked really thoughtful, he just stood there looking at her.
"So you would understand that I can't see you anymore because I can't stand feeling so guilty, you do understand, don't you?" She looked at him pleading with her eyes that he would. "Would you like to dance?" He asked ignoring her question. He held out his hand to her, and even though she knew he was dodging the question she took his hand. He spun her round and caught her in his embrace. She was wearing a ballroom gown and he was wearing formal robes. They danced slowly as the wordless music filled their heads, and filled the air around them. She had her head on his chest and her arm round his back, his arm was round her waist and their free hands were clasped, they just danced slowly in the whirl of music until suddenly the dream faded and Hermione woke up.
Hermione sat up hating it when she was woken up in the middle of a good dream, and it had been good! She sighed and got out of bed, thinking of getting her book from the common room, she opened her door and went to try and find it. She was barely looking for a minute when Draco's door opened and he came out himself.
"Hi! What are you doing up?" he smiled at her.
"Just looking for my book, I got woken up" She smiled back at him as he came over and helped her look. They had been searching for about 5 minutes when Hermione noticed something odd. They were both humming the same tune, and it wasn't just any tune, it was the tune that she had just been dancing to in her dream, she knew that he couldn't have possibly heard it anywhere else as she had never heard it before, it had seemed entirely new. She stopped but he continued to hum, then it clicked, it explained everything, the Bloody Baron everything that had happened . . . Draco was the guy from her dreams.
A/N: Well it hasn't got that mushy yet but it will and to all you people out there who read this I am going to post a new chapter up at least every week, but under some circumstances it might have to be two weeks!! Well please review and tell me how I am doing!!! Water Demon.