Forbidden Love by Kuls
Disclaimer: The characters and setting do not belong to me. They belong to J.K. Rowling. However, the plot is mine.
On with the story!
Chapter 3:
When Hermione woke up the next morning, she heard Draco in their shared bathroom so she decided to change and go down the breakfast and take a shower later. She decided not to tell Harry and Ron about her and Draco last night on the way. 'Why had he kissed me?…what am I thinking? Why would I ever want him to kiss me? Ick!'
She was so caught up in her thoughts that she didn't notice she was about to bump into a certain redhead until it happened.
"Oh, sorry Ginny."
"That's ok. You headed to breakfast?"
"Yep. You coming?"
"Sure," and they walked arm in arm to the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall. Hermione sat next to Ron and across from Harry. Throughout breakfast, she made light conversation between the friends. She didn't want them to notice anything worrying or confusing her until she wanted to tell them. Hermione turned her head and caught a glimpse of silvery hair. She, then, turned back to observe what Draco was doing. He looked up and caught her gaze but looked away quickly, embarrassed of his behavior the night before.
"Anything wrong, 'Mione?" Harry interrupted her thoughts.
"Oh, uh, no," she answered quickly and made up an excuse of needing to go to the library so she could get away before they could ask any more questions.
Since it was a Saturday, she spent most of the day in the library just reading and doing homework. She was secretly trying to avoid Draco for fear of what he might say next.
Finally, she headed off back to her common room because of the hour it had become. She found no one there, which relieved her, so she sat on one of the couches and gazed into the fire, thinking about recent events.
Draco walked in without her noticing. For a minute, he just stood there and watched her form. Then he went over and sat on the other end of the couch, looking into the fire as well. Hermione looked a bit nervous as to what was going to happen so he spoke first.
"Look, I'm sorry about what happened earlier. I don't know what came over me."
"That's ok." Why was she being so understanding?
She got up to change into her pj's. When she came back into the common room, Draco had changed into his 'lazy pants' and t-shirt, and was sitting in front of the fire, reading a book. A closer look told Hermione that the book was a collection of short stories by Edgar Allen Poe. (A/N - I know it's a muggle author but I couldn't think of anything else.)
"You read Poe?" she asked astonished.
"Yeah, my mother gave me this book for my last birthday. I have to say I've read it over probably about 20 times. I really love it," he explained.
Then they started discussing "The Tell Tale Heart." Once they started talking, they didn't stop. They talked about everything from books to school to their families. Hermione was so surprised that she could actually open up to Draco when they weren't jumping down each other's throats. Draco noticed the same. When Draco saw a ray of sun peek out behind the trees, he decided to check his watch for the time.
"Wow, it's morning already."
"What! It feels like it's been an half an hour since we started talking," Hermione said truly surprised and immediately started to worry about her classes but then remembered that it was Sunday so she could sleep in.
Draco smiled genuinely at Hermione. "We should get some sleep before everyone else wakes up."
"Right behind ya," Hermione agreed, yawning.
She went into her room and immediately collapsed on her bed and fell straight to sleep. Draco did the same.
In the morning, Hermione decided to get into the shower before Draco needed one. She turned on the hot water and went back to her room to get a change of clothes. Then she stripped down and climbed in. In all this, she forgot to lock the door between the bathroom and Draco's. When he woke up, he went straight to go take a shower but froze in the doorway as he noticed another person was in the shower. A little more investigating told him it was Hermione's perfectly shaped body in the shower. He stood there and watched, clearly surprised and liking his view. The hot water was dripping down her head and face to her breasts and flat stomach to her rounded hips.
She finally noticed someone else in the room and jumped to see him standing there watching him. She hurriedly grabbed her towel to cover herself, soap still on her body, and getting her towel soaked. This startled him out of his thoughts and he immediately went back into his room and closed the door.
Being so embarrassed, Hermione got right of the shower, not completely done, and quickly got dressed in her room.
She peeked out of her room to see if Draco was in the vicinity so she wouldn't bump into him and be embarrassed. She went straight to breakfast and tried to act natural around Harry and Ron. Hermione had made it through all of her classes and lunch that day without looking at or talking to Draco, which she was happy about. However, what she dreaded was walking into the common room and seeing him there. She was on her way with butterflies in her stomach. When she climbed through the portrait hole, he was sitting there on the couch in front of the fire. She quickly made her way to her room, closing the door behind her. She set about reading a book she had borrowed from the library.
Once it was about 10 o'clock, she checked to see if Draco was still in the common room but he wasn't so she went out and read there.
Draco, having just finished getting ready for bed in the bathroom walked out of the bathroom to find a sleeping Hermione and a book dropped onto the floor beside her. He walked over to check if she really was asleep. 'She really is very cute, sleeping there. She looks so perfect and peaceful…Wait, what are you thinking? UGH.'
But he couldn't just leave her there so he decided to carry her into her room and slip her under the cover of her bed. He had to resist the urge to give her a once over with his hands but he succeeded. He left her there to sleep while he went to bed in his own room, thinking about her.
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-Kuls