Author's Note : im so so so so so so so so so so so so SO sorry for not updating in a trillion years! you see, i was just elected class representative and i have had a TON of homework when its like...what, the 3rd/4th week of school? well, anywayz, hope that this chapter was worth the wait!

It was late at night by the lake. Fireflies were everywhere. Every where she walked, small pale pink flowers bloomed slowly. She was walking towards the bridge in a flowing light white dress. The light breeze was pushing her soft brown curly hair away from her face. She walked towards the bridge with grace; she almost looked like as if she was floating. The moment she got to the bridge, she stopped. Her full pink lips formed into a soft smile. She looked up towards the moonlit sky; her eyes reflecting the full moon. She looked at me, and reached out her hand towards me. She cupped my cheek with her hand. She stopped smiling now and she was getting closer. She closed her eyes. She was so close…

"Hermione…"

"What'd you say, Malfoy?" Draco Malfoy groaned and woke up. He covered the pillow over his head.

"Malfoy, get up!" Hermione Granger complained. "If you don't get out of bed right now, Snape… or I am going to give you detention! Get up!" Hermione took one of his pillows, and hit him with it. He groaned. He rubbed his eyes and sat up.

"Granger, you know, you may just win the "Most Annoying Dud" award… in other words, the M.A.D. award!" When he didn't hear her response, he looked at her, and saw her blushing and she quickly turned her gaze to the floor. Draco wasn't wearing a shirt, and the blanket wasn't covering his upper half of his body, revealing his muscled chest.

Instead of being embarrassed, he smirked.

"Like what you see, Granger?" he asked, teasingly. To his delight, she blushed harder and bowed her head down more.

"Well, if you don't mind, I would like to take a shower (he smirked wider when she blushed even harder)." He was about to stand up and leave, when she muttered something and quickly walked towards the door.

"Granger, I think you went through the wrong door." Draco laughed. She came out of the bathroom door, looking as though she wanted to be slapped. When she left his room (using the correct door this time), he snorted while shaking his head.

Granger, Granger, Granger… who ever knew that you had such a…dirty mind?

Draco stretched, stood up, and walked to his bathroom. He stripped off his clothes, turned on the water. The hot water was splashing on his head; making most of his thoughts on Hermione Granger disappear down the drain.

Oh my gosh, Hermione! You are so stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Why did you have to go into his room?

…

That didn't sound right at all… Nope… not right at all…

Hermione walked towards the dungeons. She was walking so fast and muttering to herself so much, that she wasn't paying attention to where she was going. That all ended with colliding with something… or someone hard, making her fall flat on her butt on the floor. To make things worse, a big riiiiiiiiiip was heard, indicating that her book bag ripped open, which made most of her stuff fall out. Hermione groaned.

First, she and Draco were supposed to do early morning patrols around the east side of the dungeons, because it was prohibited to the students. Hermione didn't know why, so she didn't even bother to ask why they had to patrol there. Next, when he didn't come out of his room for about fifteen minutes when they were supposed to start patrolling, he literally made her storm up to his room to wake him up "gently." Then she just had to smack him with a pillow, and reveal… something that she thought that she would never see from Draco Malfoy. Then she just had to walk into his bathroom out of embarrassment, which made things sound very, very wrong. Now here she was, late for patrols, with most of her belongings scattered all over the floor, and due to her speed and all that mathematical stuff, she must've knocked out the person who she bumped into!

Oh my Godric Gryffindor! The person! I hope that whoever I bumped into, I didn't…really knock him out or anything!

…

But that would have been funny I really did knock him out. Hermione added as an after thought. Hermione pulled herself up, so that she was standing above the person who she accidentally bumped into. She gasped when she saw her new friend, Nikko Kingston, on the floor below her.

"Oh my… goodness! I'm so, so, so, so, so, so, so---"

"Okay, okay; I know that you're sorry." Nikko said teasingly, pushing himself off of the ground so that he and Hermione were standing across from each other. Hermione, blushing furiously now, muttered something inaudibly.

"So…" She began awkwardly. He flashed one of his killer smiles at her.

"So, Hermione. I heard that you set up an organization called spew," he said, brushing his hand through his black hair. Hermione, whose attention was fully on Nikko now, didn't really feel like correcting him for called S.P.E.W., "spew."

"Yeah. Where'd you hear that from?" She asked curiously. Harry, Ron, and herself were the only members in S.P.E.W.… and from the trying-to-not-to-be-obvious looks of it, she didn't think that Harry and Ron would be jumping around about house elves.

…

Not that she does that.

He smiled at her again and said, "I just know… One can tell just by looking at a person." Hermione blushed and looked down. Holy crap! He's been watching me? Oh my God! He's flirting with me! Since when have guys ever flirted with me?

When Hermione didn't say anything, Nikko gently lifted her chin up so that they were looking eye to eye. She literally melted looking into his grey eyes.

"I really…really… like you, Hermione," he said softly. Hermione's breath got caught in her throat. Her eyes glanced quickly at his pink lips, before looking back into his eyes. In someone else's eyes, that person must think that this would be awfully cute. But in Hermione's eyes, she thought that the whole situation was deliriously funny. I mean, he likes her, and she likes him. After something bad happens, they kiss and make up. She really wanted to roll her eyes right now, because it sounds so… cliché. Without realizing it at first, he was slowly pulling her closer. She saw his eyes close, which made her close her own eyes as well. She smiled, waiting for what would happen next.

After taking a nice warm shower and embarrassing Hermione, Draco was in a very good mood. He sent a house elf to send him some breakfast. After eating, Draco felt like today was going to be a great day. On his way down to the dungeons for late-patrol (he snorted thinking of it as "late-patrol;" since it was very early in the morning), when he heard footsteps.

"Hey…you! You're not supposed to be wandering around here." Draco called out to the person. The person muttered something inaudibly, and stopped; although he could still hear footsteps even though the person stopped.

"I'm sorry. I never… realized that this area was out of bounds," a girl said. Draco couldn't think that this day could be any better. First, embarrassing Hermione, having a good breakfast, and getting someone in detention! …Well, even though Dumbledore didn't announce yet that they weren't supposed to be in the east section of the dungeons, Draco still felt like busting whoever she was, because… that's just Draco.

"Sorry is no excuse. What house are you in?" Draco asked smugly.

"Gryffindor." The Gryffindor girl stepped out of the shadows. She had hazel eyes and red hair, looking very much like one of the Weasley's; but Draco doubted that she was a Weasley, because she looked like one of the new students in their year.

"Ah, yes. Brave Gryffindor… brave enough to break the rules? Potter always broke the rules anyway…" he saw the girl clench her fists angrily. "…so I don't think that it would be a big surprise to McGonagall when she sees you lot at her office. She probably must be used to it by now. Now let's see… detention tomorrow with Snape. I'll let him decide what to do with you, Ms. Want-to-be-a-Weasley." Draco turned around and left to catch the other person she was with, hoping to get another person in trouble.

"That's Maggie Evans, excuse you," she called out coolly. Draco stopped and turned around with his eyebrows high.

"Well, Ms. Evans, but I believe that you have to be in your common room, the Great Hall, in classes, or out shagging Weasley. Now if you will excuse me, I will go ahead and catch your friend, so that he could get detention too." Draco said, almost politely…if you call it that way. Maggie was too taken aback to even stop Draco from leaving. Draco turned around and smirked. He so had the last say in this conversation… he always did.

"Silencio," Draco said quietly, pointing the wand to his feet. He did not want to scare the person he was chasing… although it would be quite hilarious if he or she jumped up in the air and went his pants…

Maybe it is a Weasley…

"…just by looking at a person." Draco heard suddenly. He slowly went towards the voice's direction; his back leaning against the wall. It sounded like a boy's voice. Thank God it's not She-Weasley, because that's just a wrong mental image.

Silence.

It seemed as if the person stopped talking because they knew that he had company… but how can that be when he silenced his footsteps?

"I really…really… like you, Hermione," the boy said.

Hermione? Hermione? Hermione! Granger! She's supposed to be giving him detention, not fooling around with boys!

…Oh my… she freaking forgot the plan! She's supposed to be with me here! Ergh…

Draco took a peak around the corner and saw Hermione with that new guy in their year… Nemo? Rico? Nikko? No… that's not it… He saw him getting closer to her. He could not think anymore. His blood was boiling and anger swept through him. He clenched his fists tightly. All that he wanted to do was punch that new kid until he became a bloody pulp. But to his horror, he saw Hermione smiling just when they were only inches apart from each other.

Oh my God! She's going to kiss him! No! No! No! No! No! She's supposed to… no, wait… m-maybe she's in a trance! He put some sort of spell on her! That's it! Granger, you're so bloody stupid! …just to let this guy go! Oh, come on! If you're not going to give him detention, I will then!

Just before their lips touched, Hermione felt Nikko's hand move her chin harshly. Nikko fell to the floor, with Hermione clutching her aching chin next to him.

"Malfoy! What in the bloody hell do you think you're doing?" Hermione screamed at him, rubbing her chin.

"Shut up, Granger. There are people still asleep," Draco said roughly. His wand was out now, and was pointing it towards Nikko, whose eyes widened in shock and amusement.

Hermione was furious. I was this close to getting my first real kiss, and he just barges in and ruins it all! Uuuggghhh!

"Granger, why didn't you stop Nemo here?" Hermione muttered "Nikko" under her breath. "Well, yeah, whatever! Doesn't he know that they weren't supposed to be hanging around the east wing? It's called patrolling, Granger. That's your job." Draco said as if he was talking to a five year old. "And if you did it correctly, you wouldn't be caught up in this mess."

Hermione was affronted. "My job? My job? Malfoy, look at what you're doing! You're hurting a…a… an innocent student here!" Hermione said, not entirely believing herself.

"I'm doing my part, Granger. Why don't you do yours?" He said. Hermione got confused, because she didn't know what he was talking about. She thought that he was talking about their Head responsibility, but the tone in his voice was entirely different. So instead of arguing back, Hermione looked down on the floor pouting angrily.

"Well anyways, Nikko was here with another student." Hermione widened her eyes and looked at Nikko, who was still looking at Draco with surprise and amusement. "No, not in that way, Granger," he said seeing her expression, "I heard him and Maggie Evans's voices. She must've told him to escape. I gave her detention, and I don't see why he shouldn't get detention either. So… detention with Snape; his decisions." He smirked when he saw Nikko's defeated face.

"Granger, I think that we have some… things to talk about." He turned around and walked, not even bothering to help her up. Hermione stood up grumpily. She cast Nikko an apologetic glance, and followed after Draco, who couldn't help but look smug.

Author's Note : weeeell? whatd you think? good? bad? is draco jealous? did hermione seriously forget their plan? well, whatever you think, please review!

oh yeah, no more "in the upcoming chapters" thing anymore, because it will just leave me confused ; )

oh yeah, please dont hurt me for not updating in a trillion years!