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'Draco Malfoy wants me to be his girlfriend?' I had to ask, "Are you serious?"

He laughed and looked me directly in the eye. "Yes. I am. I like you, a lot. I want to get to you know you better. I want to know what makes you, you. To understand why you do certain things. To find out what those things are. I want to know all your little quirks. I want you."

"Wow." I said. I stared at him thinking, 'He's serious.'

"Wow good as in 'Wow that's awesome!' or wow bad as in 'Wow he's delusional.' ?"

"Wow...as in 'Wow, I'm going to be Draco Malfoy's girlfriend. Who would have ever thought?' I sure didn't." He pulled me closer to his side resting his chin on the top of my head.

"So...not to push my luck, but is that a yes?"

"Yes, Draco Malfoy I will give you the great pleasure of being your girlfriend. I want to wait until I tell my friends about what's happened, explain it to them. Am I allowed to tell the what you told me?" He nodded happily. I imagined explaining the situation to everyone and laughed out loud. When Draco looked at me strangely I elaborated. "I was thinking about explaining it to everyone and can't you just see Harry and Ron writing a letter to Tonks and everyone else immediately to make sure you're telling the truth?"

Draco laughed and then agreed. "Yeah then when they get the letter back they'll think it was intercepted by me or something. Hmm...you know what I think I'm going to do, is write to Tonks and explain everything that's happened. I told her all about how I was feeling this summer. I've always had a soft spot for you but was probably the meanest to you because of it." I looked at him questioning, "Draco, that doesn't make any sense."

"Sure it does." he answered. "If I was even the least bit nice to you my parents would have been angry with me and trust me they would have found out. I was always scared that some day I'd slip and be nice to you because I couldn't really think of a reason to mean to you. I came up with one though. My reason for being so mean to you all those years was because I worried I'd be too nice if I wasn't mean."

I laughed. "You're crazy you know that? But you're right, it does make sense. I can't say for sure because it hasn't happened to be but if the roles were reversed I'm pretty sure I'd be the same way. I do think it's a good idea though to write to Tonks. I'd like to write to her too if you don't mind."

"No not all." he answered and I could feel him smile against my hair. "I'd love it if you agreed with me and besides Tonks would be excited to hear about everything that's going on between us." He reached down and grabbed hold of my hand laying it face up on his thigh and began to draw circles on my palm. "When I told her about how I felt she was so excited. 'The best person ever for you' was the term she used I think, and I agree. You're going to help me become a better person and I can't wait. Actually, would you like me to be there when you tells Harry, Ron, Neville, and everyone else? I'd like to apologize but I don't know when the best time is."

I thought about it. "They'll probably not believe me at first. So maybe not right away. I am pretty sure they're going to write to verify the story. Actually if they don't say it I'll suggest it. They should probably hear it from someone else too. So I'll let you know. I'm going to talk to them tomorrow afternoon. We don't have a class and Neville told me during dinner that Snape gave them an essay and they'll probably want help. I can tell them then." I moved my fingers to intertwine with his and looked down at them. "Ha. How's that for unity?"

Draco laughed. "I'm not sure Dumbledore exactly had what we were just doing in mind when he wanted us to become unified." I began to feel a bit warm as I thought about what we were just doing and wanted to do it again.

"What were we doing again? I don't quite remember." I said impishly.

"Should I refresh your memory?"

"Yes, I think that's a great idea." He smiled and bent down to kiss me. Gentle but firm. A now familiar rush swept through me and every sense I had became alert wanting to take him all in. To hear him, to see him, to smell him, to touch him, to taste him. The kiss began to become deeper and I moaned against his mouth. 'No. Hermione this isn't right. Not yet. Too fast.' the little voice in my head called out and I listened, it was usually right. I pulled back breathing hard. "I remember now." I said breathlessly.

Draco laughed and stood up. I missed his warmth when he'd gone from me and looked at him with a pout on my face. He laughed again and tugged on my hand pulling me up from the couch. "Come on Hermione." He said as tugged on my hand. "Time to go to bed." I stopped and stared at him. 'We were just talking about how it was too fast and he wanted to go to bed?' When he turned to find out why I had stopped he saw my face and laughed again.

"Not to my bed Hermione. Yours, it's after eleven and I thought it was time we both turned in for the night. In our own bed." he added smiling at me.

"It's after eleven?" I gasped and looked at the grandfather clock in the kitchenette. Sure enough it said 11:17. 'Shit! I gotta get to bed. We've got class in the morning!' I looked back at Draco startled at how long we'd been talking. He gave me a quick kiss on the forehead and pulled me to him in a giant hug. After a about a minute and a half I finally pulled away.

"Night." I said and began to walk toward my room. When I got to the door I realized he still hadn't said anything. I turned around and found him staring at me. "Enjoying the view?" I asked him startling him out of staring trace. "Aren't you going to say goodnight?"

"Of course. I'm sorry. Good night, Bellezza"

"Bellezza?"

"In Italian it means beauty. Oh and the view was incredible." He grinned at me and walked into his room. I walked into mine and leaned against the door after I shut it. I mentally reviewed everything that had just happened. Only one word really described it and it came out in a whispered breath,

"Wow."

There's not really a cliffy here, it actually kinda ends on happy up note. Hee hee but now you get to look forward to the whole Hermione explains what's going on to everyone else in next chapter! it may take me a day or two to get it up, i won't be home tomorrow night or sunday morning, so i'll get it written and on the quickest I can

GENERAL THANKS TO EVERYONE:
I have over 100 reviews, i wasn't even expecting to get fifty! I'm amazed and throughly excited that so many want to comment and/or read my story! So, THANK YOU everyone who's ever read or reviewed my story. Even if it had only been one person who'd read my story and reviewed to let me know I'd still post it just to get the one review, so please know that each and every person who reads this mean the world to me because you took the time to share your life with mine!

Blu Kali, PLEASE DON"T HURT HIM! we can't do "things" to him if he's hurt...hmm or maybe a bit of the florence nightengale syndrom..;)

Hawaiian-Rachael , thanks! i hope you liked this chapter too! Knut for your thought...a littleover cliqued, i knowbut still works!

Lady of the Moon, good, I'm glad you aren't leaving me! Every realtionship has trials, i just can't wait to figure out how theirs are going to go! You wouldn't just bang someone you've hated for six years after like 3 day would you? Nope I wouldn't either, that's why I'm not going to rush the sex thing

Ray, I'm glad you liked it, sorry about the lack of sexual content but if you read what I said above to Lady of the Moon you'll understand why I did it.

Artemisia, it is sweet isn't it? Wouldn't you just LOVE a guy to ask you out like that? It would be O-MAZ-ING!

Natty, I'm glad you liked it! I hope you liked this one too!

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stefix3, hunnyfry, wouldn't we all? (hunnyfry is my version of sweetheart)

Gothhottie, YAY! I avoided pain because hermione said yes! it would have been slightly hard you to hurt me, but I was worried for a second all the same, then i remembered, "oh yeah, she says yes"

Jaleo, thanks for the encouragement and I will! I think I'm going to stay up awhile and write a bunch!

Celebrien, "hacked in half like Con-Po chicken"...interesting, what's Con-Po chicken? I have a feeling I should know, it sounds so familiar! please let me, I heart that line and seriously considering using it with your permission after you tell me what Con-Po chicken is!

Joelle Drees, totally understand and wasn't upset! I don't really know how I'd do the review thing in the review post so I think i'm just gonna stick with the comments at the end! If you have any tips for things you see that could be better please let me know!

LyingUnder-BlueMoons, WELCOME! i'm always happy to have a new reader! without someone to read the story, even just one person, it's simply a plot and words, but when someone is there it becomes a story, full of people, personalities, it becomes a world of it's own! sorry waxed a little poetic on that, sorry bout the language but it's rated "M" for a reason, some more sexual stuff to come, but for right now, langauge