Chapter 6- What Would

What would?

"Hermione, I think we should stop seeing each other."

Hermione's ears started ringing. Her heart began to pound, and she wasn't exactly sure if she was hearing him correctly.

"W-what?" gasped Hermione. "What- why? Why are you saying this?" cried Hermione.

"Hermione, don't you realize? We're not going to work! It was insane of us to even think we could do this, what about your friends? Your family? You know my family will never-"

"Oh, now you care about your damn family, Draco? Since when? What ever happened to hating them? And now you want to leave me?" yelled Hermione.

She began to cry hysterically, and fell into Draco's arms, and it hurt all of the more.

"Hermione, I'm sorry, it'll be better this-"

"No! No it won't be better, Draco! I love you! I need you! Don't do this! Please, don't do this, I don't care about those two anymore, I love you!"

"Hermione, I know that's not true, I know you care about Harry and Ron, and they're certainly more important than me," began Draco.

"But, I don't want to let you go! Don't make me, please…" cried Hermione.

Draco's eyes began to water as well.

This is what Draco is thinking, right now:

He doesn't want to do this. He really doesn't want to do this. He loves Hermione more than he's acting, he cares about her more than anything, he even gave her his virginity, and Draco would never do that if he didn't care about the girl. He would rather get killed, be resurrected, and killed again. But this was something he had to do for her.

He never knew what it meant to have a best friend, well, until he met Hermione, but he never had friends like Hermione had Potter and Weasley, and he knew he would rather give up Hermione than keep her from them.

That's what was going through Draco's head.

"Hermione, please, you're making this more painful than it already is…"

"Then why are you doing this!" yelled Hermione. "Don't hurt me, or yourself. I love you too much; this is killing me, Draco..."

"I'm sorry, Hermione. We have to do this. I have to let you go."

A week had passed, and June finally cam upon Hermione. This was definitely one of the hardest years of Hermione's life, especially after having her heart unexpectedly torn out.

She was sitting on the big plushy couch, studying for her Ancient Runes final, and Ron came down the stairs. He sat across from Hermione, and opened up his Advanced Charms book, but he constantly glanced at Hermione.

They sat, studying for about a half-hour, and then Ron finally stood up, and headed for the boy's staircase, but he paused, and turned to Hermione.

"Hermione, I know you loved him, and I just wanted to say…" began Ron.

Hermione stared at Ron, and waited for him to finish.

"I wanted to say I was sorry, for being so mean about it. I mean, I know he had to have done something amazing for you to fall for him, right?"

Hermione stood and gave Ron a huge bear hug. "Thank you, Ron."

Ron felt some what perplexed, but didn't continue to speak about Malfoy.

Things were somewhat like they were before Draco. Hermione breezed through her N.E.W.T.'s , and she was forgiven by Harry and Ron. But she still felt empty.

It was as if the past two years were meaningless, that her time with Draco was only a dream, and that none of it was even real. That was the last thing Hermione wanted to feel.

Only Harry and Ron seamed to have spotted Hermione's unhappiness, and neither of them was very sure if they could help her, and they weren't sure if they really wanted to, because they didn't want to see her with Malfoy.

Draco was empty as well. Words could not describe his dread. He knew now that since Hermione was no longer going to be in his life, he would hate everything, forever. It's hard to justify who was having a harder time, Draco or Hermione. Personally, as the author, I would say Draco.

He had nothing.

"I hope that I passed all of my N.E.W.T.'s," said Ron about a week before the end of Hogwarts.

"I mean, I dunno what I'll do if I can't get into Auror school that'd be dreadful, I'd have to do something terrible, like work for my brothers." Ron made a gagging motion, and managed to get Hermione to giggle. This made Ron grin, and was some what elated that he managed to make Hermione happy.

"You think you passed, Harry?" asked Ron. "Oh, I think I did alright, ever since me and Sam broke up, things aren't too easy…"

"You and Sam broke up?" asked Hermione suddenly.

"Er, yeah, why?" asked Harry. "Oh, just, surprised, I thought you guys would last forever…"

Harry was taken aback, but didn't think of it any further.

Hermione began to wonder if forever love even existed, because if two of the truest couples didn't last, what couple would?