If any of you have not read "The Bet" yet. I think that you should, just to know what has happened between Hermione and Draco and what has gone on just to have a better understanding of "Dreaming Reality." Please don't be mad at me for the ending of "The Bet" because have no fear, the sequel will always be here.
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Chapter Six
Eat Pie!
Hermione was alone in her room. She sat on her bed reading a dream book. Trelawney had told her to pay very close attention to her visions and her dreams.
She was trying to find by any means of what her dream meant.
But so far, she was having no luck what so ever.
"Dreams are a conversation with oneself, a dialogue of symbols and images that takes place between the unconscious and conscious levels of the mind." Hermione read aloud from the book. (A/N: I did not make up that sentence. It is a direct quote from one of my books. So please do not give me credit for it. Lol.)
Suddenly she heard a knock on her bedroom door.
"Who is it?" Hermione asked.
"Who else would it be?" Draco mumbled under his breath to himself. "It is I, Draco Malfoy." he answered stupidly.
Hermione quickly got up and walked over to her bedroom door.
"What do you want, Malfoy?" Hermione asked pulling her door open.
"May I come in, Mione?" Draco answered her question with a question but never stated his business for being there.
"Mione?" she asked, looking quiet surprised. "Since when did you start calling me that?"
"Yeah, you know? Mione. That is your nickname, isn't it?" He said. "And besides, Granger is so yesterday." Draco added with a laugh, giving her a smile.
Hermione couldn't help but to laugh and smile back at him.
"So…can I come in?" Draco asked again.
"I…….suppose." Hermione moved aside so that Draco could enter her bedroom.
He walked in and immediately took a seat on her bed.
"So what do you want?" Hermione asked one more time. She now saw that Draco was laying all over her bed.
"Your bed is really soft." he said, his head resting on her pillow.
"Is that what you came here to tell me?" She walked over to him and took a seat on her bed next to him.
"I came here to talk to you about what happened on the train." He made a very small pause then continued. "I felt a connection between the two of us." he told her honestly. "Like we were meant to be or that we were together at one point of our lives."
He still spoke very honestly to her.
"I felt the same way." Hermione spoke up. She suddenly had the urge to tell him all about the dream she had had, just to see what he could make of all this.
"Draco." Hermione blurted out. "I had this dream, about you and I. We…we were in love but no one seemed to approve of it."
"Why am I telling him this?" her thoughts rang but some how her mouth just kept moving and the words just kept spilling out.
Draco had heard what she had thought but didn't bother to say anything. Instead, he just kept listening very intently.
"Pansy was so jealous." Hermione continued. "She wanted to get back at me so badly. Some how, she got Ginny to turn against me." Hermione made a quick pause. She was trying to think of a way to make this long story short.
"In the end, I was shot by my own best friend. I…..I was dying in your arms, Draco."
As she spoke, images of her dream flashed through her mind. "When I finally died, you gently laid me down on the cold wet ground. You were so mad. Mad at everyone."
"You were mad at Pansy for doing what she had done but most of all…you were angry at yourself. You felt like you had let me down. Let yourself down."
"You wanted so badly for things to change." Tears started to gently roll down Hermione's cheeks as she stood in front of Draco, who now sat up straight on her bed. "You didn't care if you had to sacrifice everything just to have me by your side once more."
"Even if we couldn't be together, you just wanted me alive and breathing."
"No one seem to have noticed that you had snatched up the gun that Ginny had once dropped to the cold earth. You shouted at Pansy. You were still so very angry. Finally you raised the gun and…"
"Committed suicide." Draco finished her sentence for her.
"Does that mean you had the same dream?"
"No." Draco answered. "But I remember it so vividly and clear though. Like I was really out there." He said, still very truthfully.
Draco got up and moved over to her.
He gently pushed all her tears aside. He then slipped his arm around her waist and pulled her closer toward him. Hermione's gaze fell to his hand and then back up to him. She was wondering why he was being like this.
Draco began to caress her. Perhaps just to piss her off. It was indeed working but the very second he begun to speak, she couldn't help but to give in.
"We are meant to be together." he lied as he whispered softly in her ear. Draco had no idea just how right his words really were though.
He turned his gaze over to her again. His face was so close to hers that their lips just barely touched.
"I love you." he spoke softly to her, his lips still just barely touching hers.
"This is perfect." he thought to himself. "All I have to do is keep dwelling on what happened on the train and she will believe every word I say. She will hang on to my every word."
Hermione didn't know what to do. Part of her wanted to just push him away but another part of her still wanted to believed that she felt a connection and only wanted him to hold her tight.
Just as Draco went to kiss her, Hermione suddenly remember all the things he had done to her over the past six years.
How much pain he had caused her, all of the torturing he had done, how much suffering he had put her through, all of the foul names he had called her. So on and so fourth.
She quickly pushed him away.
"Oh, so one minute you call me a bitch and then the very next minute you're telling me I'm the love of your life." Hermione hissed at him.
"Yes, well you are my bitch." Draco blurted out before he could stop himself.
Hermione's mouth dropped open all the way to the floor in total shock at Draco's words. She stood there and stared at him in disbelief.
Draco slapped himself in the forehead. "I mean…."
"Get out." Hermione said through clutching teeth.
"But….." Draco tried to tell her he was sorry but Hermione wouldn't listen.
"GET OUT!" Hermione shouted.
"That is not what I meant." Draco said, refusing to leave her room.
"Oh really? Then what did you mean, Malfoy?" A very livid Hermione asked rather rudely.
"I dunno. It just slipped." Draco replied.
"Oh, it 'just slipped,' did it? Well you know what else is 'just going to slip,' Draco?" she made quotations with her fingers as she spoke. "When my foot 'just happens to slip' and kick you in your balls again, you know what I'm going to say, Malfoy? I'm going to say it 'just slipped.'" She answered her own question, not even giving him a chance to.
"Now get OUT!" Hermione finished, bellowing.
Draco still didn't move.
"Fine. I'll leave then," Hermione said, seeing that Draco wasn't going to move an inch. "because frankly, right now I really don't want to see you." Hermione turned on her heal and started for her bedroom door.
"Wait." Draco said, reaching for her. He grabbed her arm just as she reached her door. Hermione turned around at his grasp.
"What!" she said rather rudely as she now faced him once more.
"Would you just listen to me." Draco demanded. He just had to make her listen. He just had to fix everything so that his plan, his sweet revenge, would work.
"No. You listen to me." Hermione stood her ground. "I wouldn't be surprised if this was just another plan of yours to try and get inside my pants or whatever. I'm not like your girlfriend, Malfoy." Hermione almost shouted. "I'm not like Pansy. I'm not easy and I'm not going to let just any guy have a relationship with me all because they say 'I love you.' So why don't you just take whatever plans you have of ruining my life and torturing me even worse then you already have and go sod off." she finished telling Draco off and turned on her once more.
She headed straight for their common room.
Draco, who was left standing alone in Hermione's room, was stunned for a second. He then ran into the common room after Hermione only to find that she was already on her way out the portrait hole.
He quickly ran after her.
"Why am I so eager to fix things all of a sudden?" His head ached with thoughts. "Maybe because you don't want to be running around the school in your underwear, Draco. That would give the golden trio something to laugh about. And for Merlin's sake, I can not let Blaise win this bet."
But poor Draco, doesn't even realize that he is in denial.
"Hermione wait. Please." he said chasing after her but Hermione wouldn't slow down.
Hermione was now growing closer to those big double doors, in which lead to the Great Hall. "For your information, Parkinson is not my girlfriend. I hate her. As far as I'm concerned, she is nothing to me but a bitch too." Draco said, trying to make Hermione listen to him.
"Oh, so now she is a bitch?" Hermione said angrily as she stormed into the Great Hall, her hair flowing behind her. Hermione then turned around to face Draco who had just entered.
It was late at night so no one was in the Great Hall. No one except Harry and Ron of course but neither Draco nor Hermione had noticed them sitting at one of the tables, playing wizards chests.
Harry suddenly looked up to see what all the commotion was that had just entered. Ron, who was stuffing his face with pie, looked up as well.
"Well I could have told you that for one and for two now that you finally called her a bitch, what are you going to do now? What, two seconds later are you going to say she is the love of your life too."
By now, they had already noticed Harry and Ron sitting there but neither bothered to say anything. Harry and Ron were still staring in bewilderment at the two, trying to figure out what they were going on about.
Draco was taken aback by what Hermione had just said. He opened his mouth to say something but quickly closed it again.
"What, no come-back? I expected better of you." Hermione said, pretending to be sympathetic as she mocked what Draco had done to Harry. "I mean trying to juggle two woman at the same time. I know I'm here but where is Parkinson?" Hermione tantalized him and she very much enjoyed every minute of doing it.
Draco was still at a loss of words but he couldn't possible let, as he would say, 'the mudblood' shut him down.
"That's right, Granger. Keep talking. You can say whatever you want now but you have no idea what lays ahead for you. You are truly in for a rude awaking."
"Is that a threat, Malfoy?" Harry said, getting into the matter.
"No, Pothead. That's a promise. I'm going to make Granger's life a living hell, worse then I have ever done before."
"Is that so?" Hermione said. She walked over to Ron who was still stuffing his face with pie. Ron had been trying to tell Malfoy off but no one could understand him with all the pie in his mouth.
Hermione quickly picked up Ron's pie with her hands.
"Hey!" Ron let out a cry, chunks of food still crammed in his mouth.
"I hope you are hungry, Malfoy." Hermione said, inching toward him.
"Don't you dare." Draco demanded. Harry and Ron knew exactly what Hermione was going to do and let out a laugh.
"Granger, I'm warning you-----" Draco's words tried to escape but before they could, Ron's half eaten pie landed in Draco's face.
"Eat pie, Malfoy!" Ron blurted out with even more laughter.
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"THAT IS IT. I'VE HAD IT." Draco said very lividly as he stormed into the Slytherin common room.
"What happened to you, Draco?" Pansy said sympathetically, rushing over to him. She began to pick pieces of pie out of his hair. Draco ignored her, shoving her aside and proceeded over to Blaise who was practically on the floor dying of laughter at the very sight of Draco.
"What the bloody hell happened to you, mate?" Blaise said, choking with laughter still. "Did you get into a fight with a pie again? I thought I told you about that." Blaise laughed.
Crabbe and Goyle joined in with the laughter.
"Ha Ha. Very funny. But I'm done. I quit. It's just not worth it anymore."
"Oh my god." Blaise said sarcastically, clamping a hand on his open mouth. "Don't tell me that you're thinking about backing down now. Well in that case, since you're going to have plenty of time off your hands now because you're not going to go through with it, maybe you would just rather strip down to your underwear and go parading around the school." Blaise laughed.
Crabbe and Goyle and even Pansy, couldn't help but to laugh even harder now.
It was true, Draco had total forgotten about that, with everything that had just happened.
"So what do you say?" Blaise said, showing his deepest sympathy for Draco. He now began to speak seriously. "This was all of ours plan to get back at Granger for being that know-it-all, pompous, little book worm."
"You were the one that came up with it. Remember what she did to you?" Blaise was trying to talk some sense into Draco. Make him remember what Granger did to him. "This is your plan to show her who is in control. This is your plan……. This is your revenge. You must carry it out until the very end, Draco."
"Crush her heart into millions of tiny pieces. Make sure she will never love again." Blaise's words echoed in Draco's head. "So what do you say?"
"I say, I'm going to carry this plan out until the very end. I'm going to make her pay. She will be the fool this time." Draco said giving an evil grin, pieces of pie started to drip down his face.
"I think you better take a shower before you do anything." Pansy said clinging to his arm once again.
"You should probably just use the bathroom here, Draco." Blaise said, giving a deep smirk but no one seen to of noticed it. Which could only mean one thing. Blaise just came up with another evil plan.
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A/N: So there it is. I hope you guys liked it. Remember to review and tell me your opinions about this chapter.
Oh and thank you so much, Fallen-Angels-Whisper, for your idea. I really appreciate it and you as well, are greatly appreciated. Thanks again.
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I'm also going to tell you that I probably won't be up-dating anytime soon. Last night I found out that my grandma has cancer. So, I'm really not in the writing mood right now. I will try my hardest to get you the next chapter soon but if I can't I really don't want to loose any reviewers. So please promise me that you guys won't stop r&r.
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