A/N-> 17 chapters...still can't believe I got this far...anyways writers block is a terrible thing. I got a new kit to help me out though so I hope to post more often. Please review!

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Chapter 17 Stood Up

Hermione walked into the common room and didn't see Draco there. She wandered around, figuring he must be late, something must have turned up. She didn't know why she was attracted to him, but she was, and she couldn't help the way she felt. Yet, sometimes she had a strange feeling the Draco didn't feel the same, like he was just putting on a show to get some from her.

Oh my god, he's standing me up, Hermione thought. Why the hell would he do that? I thought he liked me. Well, I was obviously wrong.

An hour had passed and he had still not shown up. Fed up, Hermione headed down to the Great Hall. She plopped herself in the middle of Ron and Harry, extremely pissed off.

She looked over to the Slytherin table, and sure enough, the familiar blondie was sitting there, Pansy draped all over him. She narrowed her eyes at him as Harry and Ron exclaimed worried glances.

"Umm, Hermione, is something wrong?" Harry asked and put his hand on her shoulder.

"No, nothing's wrong" she snapped and continued to glare at Draco. She was waiting for him to turn and look at her, but he didn't.

After a few moments he happened to glance at her and his eyes widened. Shit, how could I forget, he thought to himself, tilting his head towards the doors and holding eye contact with her.

He got up and started to leave the Great Hall. He waited for at least ten minutes and Hermione still didn't show up. He glanced into the Great Hall to see her eating her supper.

He glared at her for a moment. What did he see in her? He really wasn't sure, but he came through the Great Hall doors and everyone watched him as he walked steadily towards the Gryffindor table, towards Hermione.

"You coming or what?" he blurted out. Ron and Harry looked to Hermione to explain what was going on.

"And why should I?" Hermione asked. "You forgot before so maybe I didn't see that gay little head motion of yours that you had made."

Draco felt his cheeks become red and hot with annoyance. She had to do this, didn't she? Right in front of the frikkin 'punk ass' Gryffindors.

Well fine, he thought. I'll just wait until she gets back to the common room. She has nowhere else to go but back to her room.

He glared at her one final time and stalked back out of the Great Hall. Many heads turned and watched him leave.

"What are you looking at?" he snapped to a first year Hufflepuff. The first year shrunk down in his seat and the hissing of whispers started up the moment Draco had left the Great Hall.

He stormed into the common room, humiliated, completely and totally humiliated. He started to pace the room, knowing she wouldn't be back for a while. It was obvious with the way that she had acted towards him that she would avoid him.

It was then that he thought back to why he forgot about meeting her.

Flashback

Draco walked through the hall and toward the common room when he was stopped by Professor Snape.

"Professor Dumbledore would like to see you in his office about your mother, Mr. Malfoy" he said, no emotion or feeling coming through his words. Snape stalked off leaving Draco quite confused at what was going on.

Draco walked down the hallway towards the stone gargoyles. Professor Dumbledore was standing outside waiting for Draco.

"Perhaps we should take a walk Mr. Malfoy" he said kindly, leading him down the long hallways.

"I suppose you know that your father's been trying to get your mother to pay his fee to get out of Azkaban, but she has been putting it off?" Dumbledore asked as they walked past the Transfiguration room.

Draco nodded. Please don't tell me she finally gave in, he thought to himself.

"Well our worst fear has approached us. Your father has been freed from Azkaban" Dumbledore said solemnly.

Draco turned around and started walking in the other direction. He wasn't going to listen to Dumbledore rant about his family. No sir, that was not going to happen.

End Flashback

At that moment Hermione stormed into the common room.

"Start explaining" she exclaimed. "Because you're going to need it."

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Riley