Chapter 6- It Hurts

When Hermione entered the Heads apartments she couldn't see Draco in the living room. She remembered what he told Ron and Harry and she became angry. She burst into his

room and found him on his bed. As soon as he saw her, he stood up to face her. "How DARE you tell Ron and Harry about what happened between us! That is NOT a public

matter and the last people that I would tell is THEM!" she yelled. Draco narrowed his eyes "Oh, Im sorry, but Im not the one who hooks up with every other guy she can find. You

might've been a virgin this morning but you've been a whore for far longer!" he yelled back "What on earth did you want me to do when I found out that you were STILL hooking

up with Potter!". Hermione was taken aback. This was not the way she wanted things to end up. "Get the fuck out of my room" he said in a low and dangerous voice. Hermione

was frozen to the spot. Not even during the previous years when they fought was he this menacing. "ARE YOU DEAF? GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY ROOM, YOU

DISGUSTING MUDBLOOD NO-CLASS WHORE!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. Hermione gasped and in less than a second the tears poured down and she ran as fast as

she could out of his room. When she got to her bed she was breathless and shattered. After Draco yelled at her did she realize in the most bizarre situation just how much she

wanted to be with him and how much she wouldn't be able to survive if he hated her. She screamed at the top of her lungs to release everything: her pain, her anger, and her

frustration. She collapsed on her bedroom floor and sobbed so hard she didn't know how she was still alive. She began to feel dizzy. She was pressuring herself too much by crying

this hard. But she wasn't aware that Draco Malfoy was seeing her like this from her bedroom door with a horrified expression on his face and tears rolling down his cheeks. He has

NEVER cried because of someone else's suffering. He couldn't believe he was the one who caused her all this agony. But his idiotic pureblooded Slytherin pride prevented him

from taking her into his arms and apologizing. He retreated to his room quietly, mentally kicking himself for not doing what he really wanted to do. But now he thought about it more;

the damage was done, so he might as well keep his pride at the top.

Hermione woke up with an awful headache. The images of yesterday came flooding back. Well, she didn't want to remember it. She took a very long shower trying to get all the

bad thoughts out of her mind. She made her way to the Gryffindor table, avoiding very carefully the Slytherin table. She sat herself next to Harry. "Morning, Hermione. Are you

ok?" he said concerned when he saw her tired look "Yeah, Im fine" she said in a small voice and attempted to eat some of her porridge. Harry put his arm around her shoulder and

gave her as small squeeze "Whatever it is, you know you can count on me" he whispered in her ear and gave her a small kiss on the cheek. She gave him a small grateful smile and

began to eat. This was witnessed at the other end of the hall by a pair of gray eyes.

The day seemed to be dragging itself for Hermione. Potions took forever and she couldn't help but glance once in a while toward Draco's direction, avoiding him from catching

her doing this. Draco, secretly, was doing the same thing. When finally lunch came, Hermione excused herself and went into the library. She bumped into Ginny. "Hey, Mione. Is

there something between you and Harry by any chance?" asked Ginny with a small grin on her face "Hey, ummm…Im not sure right now, Gin. I mean, its not that I don't like him…

but I don't know where we stand" "Yeah, I hate when that happens. It makes it harder to know if that's the right person for you". Then Hermione remembered that she agreed to

help Neville out. "Hey Gin, who do you like?" asked Hermione. Ginny thought for a moment. "You know what, I haven't thought about that in a while, I'm not sure anymore"

"Well" started Hermione carefully "I've noticed that Neville isn't that bad this year". Ginny looked at her for a moment "I haven't thought about that either. He isn't that chubby

anymore now that I think about it, and after his braces he has quite a nice smile" said Ginny to herself. Hermione grinned This might not be as hard as I thought "Maybe you

should, perhaps, go for Neville, after all, it would be quite a good catch. The guy isn't the smartest, but he's sweet and considerate AND he's great at Herbology". Ginny smiled

"You might be right, Hermione, you might be right".

After the classes ended for the day, Hermione headed for the Gryffindor tower and talk to Neville. He found him playing chess with Dean. "Hey Neville, can I talk to you for a

sec?" she said. Neville excused himself and went with Hermione to the boys dormitory. "What's up?" he asked "Well, I talked to Ginny" she said. He paled a little and started to

get nervous "Oh…and…what happened?" "You know what? I think you have good chances with her" Neville's eyes widened "Really? You think?"" Yeah, and I also think you

should ask her to the Halloween dance". Neville beamed and hugged Hermione "Thanks, Mione! Oh, thank you so much!" he said and then he ran out humming to himself happily.

Hermione smiled, she loved seeing her friends happy. "Did I interrupt anything?" said Harry, entering the room. "Not at all, come in" she said "Well, I think I can come in

considering that its my room" he said with a grin. Hermione hadn't realized that she was indeed in his room. "Oh, will you look at that" she said. He made his way to her and

cupped her cheek "Hey, have you thought about what we talked about?" he asked. Hermione looked into his eyes "He hates me now" she said. Harry embraced her. In a way he

was happy because of this because now Hermione could be his, but in another way it was hurting her and he didn't want to see her hurt. She backed away a little, "I have to go,

Harry. See you tomorrow?" she said. He nodded and kissed her forehead. She kissed his cheek and left the room and made her way back silently into the Heads apartment.