"So Hermione, where were you really last night? I really didn't see you last night?" Ginny and Hermione were in the girls dormitories while everyone else was at Hogsmade.
"Ginny how come you didn't go with everyone else to Hogsmade?" She asked.
"Same reason you didn't. Now why are you avoiding the question?" Ginny asked.
"I'm not avoiding the question."
"Then why aren't you answering it then?" Hermione started to get annoyed.
"Because there's nothing to tell."
"Then where were you last night? Come on Hermione please tell me! I promise I won't tell anybody! You use to tell me everything!" By now Ginny was on her knees begging Hermione.
"I was in The Hospital Wing Just mending Draco." Ginny was in complete awe.
"Did you just call him by his first name?" She whispered. (Oh big deal!)
"Yeah so? It's his first name isn't it?" She didn't see the deal. It's just a name.
"Yeah. But he's our enemy! We don't use their first names!" She screamed.
"Correction, he's your enemy."
"What's that suppose to mean?" She questioned.
"He's my friend." She said as if it was obvious.
"WHAT! Hermione you can't be serious? Why are friends with that ferret?" Hermione got up her face very red now with anger.
"First of all don't call him a ferret and second of all we actually have a lot in common! But I don't see why you care anyway!"
"What's that suppose to mean?" She yelled.
"Just forget it!" She ran out the door and out the entrance to the common room and ran to the library. She found that the library was empty, which was good for her. She went to the back of the library, and went to a table and started to cry. What she didn't relies was that there was someone else in the room with her. At first she that it was Madame Prince. But when that person put their arm around her she knew instantly that it was Draco.
Draco picked her up from the table and made stand straight. Hermione hugged him and put her head into his chest, crying her eyes out. He rubbed her hair. She died down into soft sobs. Draco lifted her head up. He looked into her red puffy eyes.
"What happened?" He asked with concern.
"I think Ginny hates me. She wanted to know what was happening the other night and I told her that we were doing nothing really and I used your first name. So then she gets all mad at me saying you're our enemy so we can't use your first name. I told her that you weren't my enemy you're my friend and now she's all mad at me." Tears started to fill her eyes again. She put her head back on his chest waiting for his response.
"It's ok Hermione. She can't tell you who you can or can't be friends with. Or even who your enemies are for that matter." This seemed to cheer her up. She had a big smile on her face. They stared at each other for a total of minutes. Hermione couldn't stand it anymore! She kissed him. He didn't object, instead he just kissed back. They stood there sucking each other's faces off for a half hour when they heard noise.
"Did you hear that?" Draco asked breathless.
"Yeah. The other students are back from Hogsmade. Come on let's go somewhere else before someone finds us." They left the Library and were ended out the castle doors when someone called out Hermione's name. She turned around.
"Hermione! Wait up!" Harry and Ron were running over to them.
"Oh no!" She panicked.
"Hermione, Ginny told us what happened. Are you ok? Did Malfoy hurt you?" Hermione was really looking angry now. (Whoa stand back!)
"Draco has not nor will he ever hurt me. And I don't know what your drainage sister told you but Draco is my friend and there is nothing that you guys can do about that!" She screamed. Harry looked at her with wide eyes.
"My sister is not drainage! If you ask me I say you're the one that's drainage! You think you're so smart that if someone said they changed you would believe them! How thick could you get?" Ron yelled with much force in his voice. Hermione eyes once again started to fill up with tears. This time it was Draco's turn to do some of the yelling.
"Hermione's the smartest student in this school! And she's caring enough to give someone like me a chance. Unlike you trolls. I don't even know why she would befriend people like you who just take advantage of her! All she ever was was be nice to you and all guys would do is just copy down her homework just to get good grades! And now your yelling at your for having good judgment? If you were her true friends than you would let her befriend whom ever she wants! If you ask me you're the people who are really hurting her! Come on Hermione." Draco guided Hermione outside to the grounds. Harry, Ron, and the other people who had formed around them listening to the whole thing, looked dumbfounded. Harry and Ron just looked at each other.
"Thank Draco. Thank you so much! You said to them what I wanted to say for years." She was still stunned by how he defended her.
"So how come you never told them then?" Draco was smiling. Proud of himself at what he said.
"Because I was trying to convince myself that they would never do that. But I guess I was wrong. But man did you see the look on their faces when you said that? I'll never forget those faces." Draco was laughing to. They did make pretty funny faces. Draco and Hermione went back to kissing.
