Chapter 18
Intoxicating Obsession
It was Friday, the night of the girl's sleep over in Hermione house. She had been looking forward to it all week. It had been so long since she had actually spent a night with her friends and just hung out with them. She got her stuff ready and headed out to the common room. Draco was lying down on the couch reading a book. When he noticed Hermione had a small overnight bag over her shoulder he shot up and looked at her with a confused face.
"I am heading to the girl's dormitories in my House and I will be there all night. It's a girl's night thing." Hermione said as she as she headed to the door.
"Isn't the Chess tournament thing going on tonight?" He asked.
"Yeah, but we will be upstairs away from the chaos." she replied shocked that he even remembered that. "I'll be back tomorrow and if anything happens you know where I will be. You should remember the room and window." She continued and smiled at him mischievously. He nodded as he shrugged and returned the same type of smile. She then left and headed towards the Gryffindor common room.
Hermione arrived at Gryffindor common room and had a hard time trying to push through the heavily crowded room as people watched others playing chess. She finally made her way up to the 7th year girl's dorm room.
"Wow! I am worn out by just trying to make my way through that. I never realized how may Gryffindors there were until now." Hermione said as she dropped her bag on the floor and fell backwards onto a bed. She lay there and tried to catch her breath.
"Yeah, I never thought I was going to make it through alive." Lavender said laughing.
"Alright, now that everyone is here lets get this thing started." Parvati said as she ran over to her bed bring out a bunch of cosmetics and hair styling stuff.
After they were all done up they started to talk about sex.
"You know what is the best? Sleeping naked!" Lavender said.
"I know I love it! There is nothing like it. It's so freeing," Another girl added.
"Have you ever slept naked Hermione?" Parvati asked.
"No," Hermione answered.
"You should, what with you having your own room and all." Lavender said. "I wish I could but sharing a room makes it impossible."
"So Ginny how are things going with Harry?" Parvati asked.
"Well," she started, as she began to blush, "things are going good, but nothing has happened yet. We aren't rushing into any thing. Although it gets hard to stop before it gets too far you know?" Ginny replied.
"Yeah." Some girls said together. Then they all laughed.
After hours of talking and the girly things were finished they all got ready for bed. Ginny and Hermione shared Hermione's old bed. They talked silently for a while still able to hear the excitement from downstairs, and then fell asleep.
The next morning the girls got ready and headed down to the Great Hall for breakfast. As they entered Draco noticed Hermione come in with them and felt relieved, not that he didn't believe that she didn't go where she said she was.
The girls sat down to eat and noticed that the guys weren't there yet. Then the guys came in one by one looking extremely tired. They had been up pretty late the night before. When Hermione and Ginny fell asleep the boys were still going strong.
Finally Ron and Harry tiredly made their way to the table. Ron sat next to Hermione and grabbed some food, it seemed almost like slow motion. Harry laid his head on Ginny's shoulder snuggling close, Ginny smiled.
"Long night?" Hermione asked trying not to laugh at the sight of them. Ron and Harry nodded not saying a word and yawned at the same time.
"So who won, then?" Ginny asked as Kiara sat next to Ron who had immediately laid his head on her shoulder still eating.
"Ron. It came down to the two of us," Harry said not really sounding like himself.
"Oh, so you came in second then Harry?" Hermione asked.
"Yeah, it was great I actually thought he had me, but I check-mated him," Ron said tiredly.
"Oh Harry that's great," Ginny said as she kissed him on the head.
"Mmmmm," Harry said as he closed his eyes and smiled. He started to fall asleep.
"So what time did you finally make it out of there, Kiara?" Ginny asked.
"I left when I had to do my rounds so, not very late. I figure it had to be either Harry or Ron that would win. They really played. It was great." Kiara said.
"Well I think that you two guys need to head back to bed and get some more sleep. That is an order from the Head Girl." Hermione said after Ginny had woken up Harry, who had fallen asleep. The two of them headed back up to their dormitories.
For the rest of the morning Hermione and Ginny hung out with Kiara and her friends. They had a great time talking about this and that. When lunch came around Harry and Ron looked so much better and where very much awake. They told stories about the tournament all through lunch.
After lunch Hermione decided to let the couples be alone and headed to the library to return some books and to see if there was anything that interested her. She got so caught up with the books that she spent the entire afternoon there. Once she became aware of the time she packed up her stuff and headed off to the Great Hall for dinner. After dinner was long over she headed back to the Head's common room. Ron and Harry kept at it and told more stories about their amazing chess skills to those who remained in the Hall.
When she got there she could see Draco sleeping in a chair with a leg hung over the side of the arm of it. He was propped up in the corner of the chair with his head leaning against the side. The book that he was reading was still open in his lap. She noticed that his shirt was mostly undone. Oh how much she wanted to go up to him and run her hands against his chest, taste his skin and his lips with her own. She wanted him to quench the burning fire that blazed inside of her for him, and him alone. Instead she noticed a different fire.
The fire had mostly gone out. He must have been asleep for a while. She decided to throw a few logs onto the fire so he wouldn't get cold. She didn't realize that he woke up and watched her bend over to revive the fire for him. He eyed her and wanted to jump on her and have his way with her, to caress her as he ran his fingers along her bare skin and to taste the sweetness of her tongue. He instead closed his eyes again before she turned around to head back to her room. She stopped and looked at him and thought to herself, "How can someone that is so bad look so good?" She then turned to her room and shut the door behind her.
After a minute or so Draco could feel the warmth of the fire. He decided to go back to his room and change his clothes.
Hermione decided that she would go take a shower, so she put on her bathing suit and her bathrobe and headed out to the common room to head to the bathroom. When she got out to the common room, Draco was sitting on the couch staring into the fire. He heard her come down her stairs and turned his head and stood up. She stopped and looked at him not really knowing why.
"How was your girl's night 'thing'?" Draco asked as he leaned up against the back corner of the couch.
"It was a good time." Hermione answered while she ran her robe's belt through her fingers.
"And the chess thing, how did it go?" He asked starting to look at her robe, then back to her eyes.
"Ron won, you know you don't have to be nice to me," she said. He shifted his gaze over to her portrait to see her lion asleep. "I already told you that I am not going to tell your secrets." When she said the word secrets Draco noticed that the lion woke up and looked around, then noticed that she was in a conversation and fell back to sleep.
"I know you already told me, I believe you." Draco replied as he returned his eyes to hers.
"Then why are you messing with me? What are you playing at?"
"I am not playing at anything." Draco said starting to get upset.
"So is this some kind of attempt to get into my knickers?" She said also starting to get upset.
"I could've gotten into your knickers anytime I wanted to. And as for the whole messing with you thing, don't forget that you have been making comments to me and I also see the looks you give me. So if anyone is messing with anyone it's you!"
"Oh don't turn this around on me. You may have been able to get into my knickers," 'Did I just say that?' She quickly thought, well there was no denying it, "but I recall you saying 'no girl is worthy enough to be with me'. So if you ask me you are the one who has been messing with me, and when something happens between us you become completely reclusive. Well with the exception of Halloween but nothing really happened. So what am I supposed to think?"
"Hey you have been the same way! As for the worthy thing it was true until… besides you're a virgin too. Isn't that why you still are too? Because no one has been worthy?"
"You don't know anything about me." Hermione said as Draco started to walk closer to her. She remained planted.
"I know more than you think." His voice calmed down. "You once asked me why I followed you. At first it was because I wanted to talk to you about what you had seen and maybe try and scare you into not saying anything. I started to follow you and after a while I became intrigued, obsessed with you, with your life. When I'm around you it's like I'm intoxicated by you. I guess I could call you an intoxicating obsession. And when I am with you, touching you, I can't get enough. I am addicted to you. You are worthy, I just hope that I am worthy of you." He said as he stood in front of her looking deep into her beautiful brown eyes. She didn't have a response. She didn't even know what to think. Her heart felt heavy in her chest and her stomach started to flop.
He gently put his hands on both sides of her face and leaned in kissing her softly at first. It was different this time, not like before. When he kissed her it felt like he had drained her of all her energy, her eyelids felt heavy as her eyes rolled back in her head. Her body soon responded and they began to kiss each other excitedly. Draco guided her to the wall behind her and softly pushed her against it. He put his hands on her waist on the outside of her bathrobe. He started to feel for the belt and slowly untied it. He opened the robe and slid his hands in around her bare stomach and waist and pulled her closer to him.
"You are so intoxicating." He said as he moved his kisses down her neck while he ran his hand up her slightly bent leg. That sent shivers up and down her spine. He himself was feeling quite dizzy. He loved the feeling of her fingers running though his hair. He was about to pick her up and take her over to the couch, because he had no plans on stopping, when his forearm started to burn. She noticed because he flinched and pulled away to look at it. He went back to kissing her but stopped, then tried again, but just couldn't. He looked very frustrated. He then walked away from her facing the other direction.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" He yelled so loud it made her jump and brought her hands to her mouth one covered the other. It wouldn't be surprising if the whole school had heard him. She stood there wide-eyed with her bathrobe wide open and still leaning against the wall. After standing there breathing heavily for a few moments he grabbed his black cloak from the couch and stormed out of the portrait. Once again he did not even look at her.
"I didn't even notice that his cloak was there. He must have known about the meeting and that's why he was waiting out here." She said to herself. She shook her head and took a deep breath as she closed her eyes for a moment. She exhaled opened her eyes and pulled her bathrobe closed and headed to her room. She decided to get dressed and go on her rounds a little earlier than usual. Hermione threw her clothes on over her bathing suit and left, still trying to figure out what was happening and trying to shake the feelings that coursed through her body.
When she returned to the Head's common room she noticed that Draco was still gone.
"Well Draco will probably be gone for awhile so I think that I am going to take a shower naked and then a nice relaxing salt and bubble bath naked. He shouldn't be back for hours… right?" Hermione told herself. So with that she went to her room and undressed completely put on her bathrobe and headed to the bathroom. She took a shower first and finished her usual shower chores and got out. She didn't bother drying off as she filled the tub with water salts and bubbles. She was so excited because this was her first bath in a long time and she was able to do it without wearing a bathing suit. "Bathing in the nude is so much better than in your suit." She thought. She folded a towel and put it right next to the tub and climbed in. She lay on the bench and laid her head down on the towel. (The tub was large enough to swim in not a whole lot but the deepest part had to be about 4 feet deep. In the shallower end there was a bench to sit and lay on.) She relaxed and closed her eyes….
A/N: Well this is the first part of the night… Well Bookworm1214 I think your question will be answered lol. (Winks) Well all of you go on review so I can update…go on now!