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They got back from the great hall at about 7:30pm they were all laughing because Draco was sitting with them and everyone's faces were blank and they just kept staring even Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape were staring Dumbledore however just sat there and occasionally smiled at them. As they were heading back to Hermione and Draco's dormitory to talk they were stopped by an irritating voice.
"Hey Draco!" the voice said. They all turned around only to see Pansy Parkinson staring back at them.
"What do you want?" said Draco.
"I just wanted to know when you are going to stop spending time with the mental people and the mud…" said Pansy but she was cut off by Draco.
"Finish that word Pansy and you will wish you had never been born" said Draco his voice rising slightly.
"What is that supposed to mean?" said Pansy her voice also rising.
"It means you listen to me and go away OR you stay here and wait for me to get really angry" said Draco staring her in the eye.
"You don't scare me Draco" said Pansy but everyone else knew she was scared.
"Oh we both know you are scared Pansy you have seen my dark side once before do you really want to see it again?" said Draco stepping forward.
Pansy shrieked and shook her head and ran away.
"Dark side" said Hermione disbelievingly.
"Oh Yeh you don't want to get me started" said Draco pretending to be evil.
"Well anyway thanks for sticking up for me" said Hermione.
"Anytime" said Draco smiling. They all walked back to Hermione's room and played exploding snap for a couple of hours then they sat there and talked. At about 1:30am they all fell asleep in different places around the room.
The next few days went by very quickly nothing much really happened Hermione finally decided which guy she was taking to the dance his name was Daniel Turner. Draco was going with a snooty Slytherin girl called Parisa. The day of the ball was getting closer it was now Thursday and the ball was on Saturday night. Hermione and Draco were in charge of the decorations and music for the dance. Hermione chose multi colored streamers and balloons. Since the dance was like any normal school dance they had a CD player and Draco choose a lot of different Muggle songs stuff like Anastasia, Justin Timberlake and a few more. Hermione was now getting all worked up about what she was going to wear; she now came up regularly with different out fits in her hands and asking for opinions. After a couple of hours she finally made up her mind she was going to wear jeans, a pink halter neck top, hoop earrings and her hair in loose curls. Harry and Ron didn't take that long to decide what they were going to wear they both decided on jeans. Ron was going to wear a Blue top that said Take Me Drunk I'm Home which he thought was very entertaining. Harry however was going to wear a white shirt and a leather jacket he was going for a biker look.
Friday went really fast and it was now the day of the ball there were soo many girls running around asking for hair brushes clips and lots of other things the guys however just sat back and relaxed the ball wasn't as big a deal to them. It was 4 hours till the ball and Hermione had just left to go get ready.
"Why the bloody hell does she have to get ready now?" said Ron looking at Harry.
"I don't know remember she was just like this when we had the Yule Ball" replied Harry. When there was 2 hours till the ball Harry and Ron decided that they should start getting ready. They got back to there common room only to see a heap of girls screaming and running around the place looking for misplaced items. Harry and Ron pushed their way up to their dormitory.
"My god the girls have gone bonkers" said Ron as they finally reached the boys dormitory. As they walked in they noticed that not many of the other guys were fretting either they were all sitting down and reading.
"Oh so you guys got through did you?" said Neville looking up.
"Yeh what the hell is wrong with them?" said Harry sitting down.
"I don't really know much except that about ten of them forgot the time and now they can't get anything right they actually came in here looking for their make-up" said Neville.
"Well we'd better start getting ready we don't want to be late or the girls will be very angry" said Ron walking over to his trunk and rummaging through it. It only took them about twenty minutes to get ready and they headed down to see if the girls had settled down. But as they headed down they heard quite they peered around the corner but no one was there.
"They must be in their rooms" said Seamus. So they all sat down and talked for a while.
It seemed as though they were talking for only two seconds before they could hear the pitter pattering of all the girls' feet.
"OK ready everyone" Seamus said standing.
"Yep" Ron said also standing up. Within ten seconds all the Gryffindor girls were running around the common room whispering to their friends excitedly. Harry was looking around to see where Hermione had got to. He scanned the room and then noticed a stunningly pretty girl walking towards him. It was Hermione! Harry was in awe he had never seen her like this before the last time she had looked close to what she did at he moment was at the Yule ball when they were in grade four.
"Hermione you look amazing" Harry said. Ron turned around at the mention of her name but he couldn't see her.
"Harry aren't you going to introduce me to your-HERMIONE?" Ron said finally realizing who she was.
"Y-y-You look g...ggreat"He said stuttering.
"Thanks you guys look awesome to" she said happily.
"Wait why are you here?" Ron said.
"What do you mean?" Hermione said weirdly.
"No not that I mean why aren't you in your common room?" Ron said suspiciously.
"Oh I just came from there" she said simply.
"Oh ok so where are you meeting Daniel?" Ron said looking around.
"At the Grand staircase" she said almost happily.
"What's the matter Hermione?" Harry said spotting the look on her face.
"Nothing" she said trying to cover her look with a fake smile.
"Well shall we get going" Ron said not knowing what they were talking about.
"Yeah ok" Harry said still looking at Hermione.
"I'm ok Harry really" Hermione assured him. Harry did not pursue the matter any further and decided just to forget about it. They headed out the portrait hole and proceeded to the grand staircase.
They arrived at the bottom of the Grad staircase and were greeted by their dates Harry could not stop staring at Meaghan she looked HOT she was wearing her long honey brown hair down she had a loose black halter neck top and faded blue jeans with holes in them with long black boots they were like a matching couple.
"You look beautiful" Harry said smiling
"Thanks you don't look to bad yourself" she said happily kissing Harry. Ron walked up to Olivia and his mouth literally almost fell to the floor Olivia was wearing a pink mini skirt, a purple top, platform heels and her blonde hair was back in a clip with little curly bits at the back
"Wow I mean wow" Ron said staring at her.
"Aw you're so sweet" Olivia said obviously getting the point of his words. Hermione made her way towards Daniel on her way she walked past Draco who smiled at her she smiled back then he stopped smiling as his date continued to talk. Hermione was now standing in front of Daniel in her words he didn't look too bad he was wearing cream cargo pants and a light blue top and loose sneakers.
"You look great Hermione" he said surveying her.
"You look great to" she said again putting on a fake smile.
"Shall we go in now" Harry said linking arms with Meaghan.
"We shall" she said laughing. They all entered the great hall it was set out like a high school prom. They all headed out to the dance floor and began to dance to 'lose yourself'. After the song had finished they all returned to the tables for dinner. They served burgers, chips and coke. As they were eating Hermione wasn't really paying any attention to her date she felt guilty but she couldn't stop staring at Draco and he kept staring at her she smiled at him and he returned the smile Hermione felt warm inside his smile melted her she just wanted to be with him.
'My god I can't believe I am sitting here thinking about Draco Malfoy I guys who tortured me for five years ok I'll think about something else ok umm Daniels top very nice Daniels face not as nice as Draco's' Hermione thought to herself.
"Damn it" Hermione said aloud.
"What?" Daniel said staring at her.
"Oh umm I forgot something I'll be back" she said rushing out of the Great hall.
Draco looked up from Parisa and saw Hermione running out of the great hall.
"Parisa I got to go" Draco said.
"Why?" Parisa asked.
"Um I need to go do something" he said.
"Well ok but hurry up" Parisa said.
"I will" Draco said running out after Hermione.
Hermione ran out into the grounds and sat down at eh nearest bench.
"What the hell am I thinking?" Hermione said to herself.
"Ok just sit here for a while and go back in" she said and she continued to talk to herself.
Draco saw Hermione run out into the grounds so he followed he crept out of the door and saw her sitting on a bench with her head in her hands.
"Hermione" He said walking closer.
"What? Oh it's you leave me alone" she said turning away.
"Did I do something?" he said bowing his head.
"NO! It wasn't you" she said turning back to him.
He sat down next to her and looked deep into her brown eyes. Hermione looked up and she saw icy blue eyes staring into hers.
"Hermione will you tell me what's wrong?" Draco said hopefully.
"You don't want to know" she said.
"Yes I do" he said.
"Well it's ah umm I think I like you and I don't' want to because that would never work out and Harry and Ron would kill me and you don't' even like m-" She stared rambling but was interrupted when Draco kissed her.
She felt like she was in heaven. They broke apart and just looked into each others eyes for a moment. Hermione was the first to speak "I-I think we should go back in and tell our dates" she said getting up she didn't feel right.
"Yeah and I better get a head start before Ron and Harry come after me" he said jokingly.
"Don't worry I'll deal with them" she said as they walked back to the Great hall.
They walked through the doors and decided they should split up and tell their friends and their dates. Hermione looked over at Draco as he was telling his date she didn't take it very well "WHAT!" she yelled. "You're dumping me for the mudblood!" Parisa said angrily. "Yes" he said simply. Parisa stared at him thinking that he was joking but when she realized he wasn't she stormed off. Hermione was looking around for Daniel but she couldn't find him. She went over and asked Harry.
"I think he went in there" he said pointing to a door.
"Thanks" Hermione said walking over to the door and opening it.
Hermione gasped in surprise she had just walked in on Daniel kissing another girl from Ravenclaw. He looked up and saw her leaving and to his surprise she didn't look to sad she was actually skipping with joy so he got up and closed the door. Hermione walked over to Harry and Ron who were waiting at the tables talking about something. Hermione approached carefully
"Harry…Ron" Hermione said as they looked up at her.
"Hey Hermione umm Where's Daniel?" Harry said looking around.
"Oh umm I found him with another girl so I don't' think it s going to work out" she said simply.
"Oh my god are you okay?" Ron said standing up.
"Yeh I'm fine I hooked up with someone else anyway" she said half smiling
. "Who is it?" Harry said also rising from the table.
"It's Draco Malfoy" Hermione said quickly and backed away hoping they didn't get what she had just said.
"What!" they both yelled causing everyone in the hall to look at them.
"Oh Sorry" Ron said blushing while helping Harry push Hermione out of the Great hall.
"What do you mean you and Draco hooked up" Harry said angrily once they were out of the hall.
"I mean I am going out with him" Hermione said equally as angry.
"Hermione brain check you are talking about Malfoy a guy who teased you for five years a guy who you once got pleasure from punching" Ron said frowning.
"I know I know but it's different now he's different" she said hoping they would understand.
"Hermione his father s a death eater he tried to kill us all" Harry said.
"But he is not like his father" Hermione said.
"How do you know that" Ron said raising his eyebrow.
"I just know okay" Hermione said, she knew they were trying to change her mind and they were beginning to.
"I have to go and sort some stuff out" Hermione said walking back to the dance.
She looked around and spotted Draco she kept to the opposite side of the room. 'What if he is just playing' she thought to herself. 'No he wouldn't do that' said another voice in her head. Another song started as Draco got up and spotted Hermione looking at him from the other side of the room she didn't look happy this worried him so he walked towards her. Hermione was listening to the song that was playing…
I don't have the time to take it slow
Count down to three and here we go
I can tell how you feel I know where you lye
Can't mess with the groove of trick the vibe
Hermione thought this song was trying to say something to her so she kept listening…
Don't be afraid baby don't be shy
Cause I can see what you want shinning in your eyes
And I can feel the heat that you're trying to hide.
But that's the part of you that I want inside
Hermione knew there was some kind of hidden meaning in this song and she was just starting to get it she looked in front of her he was getting closer...
It's alright I know where to start
Let me guide you through, through the hardest part
It's alright touch me in the dark
Bring me closer to the hardest part
Just when that a passion is lurking
What I want and you ah want the same
He was getting really close her heart was pounding…
Don't have to pretend that this is real love
Just do what I say and that's enough
Don't you be afraid baby don't be shy
Cause I can see what you want shinning in your eyes
And I can feel the heat that you're trying to hide.
But that's the part of you that I want inside
He was in front of her and he was leaning in Hermione thought for a second and then also leaned in there lips were about to touch then...Fireworks were going off in her head she was so happy they broke apart and continued to dance for the rest of the night as a couple…or are they?
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I hope that was alright I tried to make it longer please R&R It really helps to know if anyone is reading! I can take some hints and stuff but please no flames! Thank you
MEL