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Chapter 8

Hermione had a deep scowl etched on her face as she sat in her seat.

"You know, you really shouldn't frown like that," Draco drawled.

"I can do whatever I want," Hermione said, not caring that she sounded immature.

Draco smirked. "You're only angry because I wouldn't let you leave."

"What if I am?" Hermione asked. "What are you going to do about it?"

"Absolutely nothing. You look cute when you're angry," Draco said lightly.

Hermione didn't reply and turned around, pretending to look out the window so that Draco couldn't see the pink that was tingeing her cheeks.

When Draco didn't make any comments about her silence, Hermione told him in matter of fact tone. "You shouldn't say things like that. You'll give people the wrong idea."

"What kind of idea am I giving them?" Draco teased.

"You're-you...people will think that we're more then friends or something along those lines." Said Hermione.

"Friends?" Draco asked. "I didn't think that you thought of me as one."

Hermione averted his eyes. "Well, you did help me with things in the past. Also with letting me be co-head of this project with you and all." Hermione paused before adding. "I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm grateful and I wouldn't mind being your friend. That is if you want to."

To her surprise, Draco didn't make fun of her about the notion she had that she thought of him as a friend. Instead he simply said. "Sure. I think I'll like that too."

Hermione gave him a geniuene smile, and then said. "But don't think that we're on first name basis yet."

Draco laughed. "Of course I wouldn't have it any other way. One step at a time." He eyed her slyly and said, "Do you really not like the idea of people thinking we're a couple?"

Hermione rolled her eyes while she thought. 'He just had to ruin the moment'. "That question isn't even worth answering."

She yawned starting to feel a wave of weariness wash over her. She felt her eyes droop and she soon fell asleep.

Draco eyes widened when he suddenly feel a weight on his left shoulder. He looked over and saw that Hermione was leaning her head on it. He tried to remain still so he wouldn't wake her up.

Hermione woke up with a start, when the flight attendant said that the plane will soon be landing. She stretched her arms, as she readied herself for the landing.

Her palms began to sweat as she tightly held onto her armrests. Unknown to even her closest friends was the fact that she had a tremendous fear of when the plane is landing.

She knew that it is irrational and there is nothing or nearly nothing to be afraid of, but this was one of reasons she hadn't traveled with her friends in the past if it involved airplanes.

Thankfully there was an only minimal amount of turbulence.

Hermione followed the rest of her coworkers to where the luggage was. She waited patiently as everybody found their bags, since she didn't pack anything.

When everyone was ready they headed outside to where a bus was waiting to take them to the hotel.

The bus ride was short, around fifteen minutes. Hermione took a deep breath as she got off the bus; she was starting to feel bit nauseas.

As the people walked to the entrance of the hotel they were greeted by a group of the hotel's employees. They took their bags and personally showed each person to their room. Since Hermione didn't have any luggage she was taken up first.

She let out a sigh of relief, thankful that the trip was finally over, at least for now. She sat down on her bed with the activities schedule that she picked up on from a table and quickly glanced over it. She started to hum as she contemplated on what to do.

Hermione grabbed her purse and headed downstairs to the bar. She had been rather partial on drinking, but she felt like doing something spontaneous that day. She listened smiling softly as she listened to the pianist.

Hermione was reading down the list of beverages on the menu when the bartender placed a drink in front of her. She looked at the drink at first confused then suspiciously.

The bartender seeing this said, "It's from Mr. Malfoy."

"Oh," Hermione hesitated before adding. "Could you ask him if he wants to join me?"

"Of course," He answered and went over to Draco.

Hermione patiently waited for Draco to come, while she took a taste of her drink.

"How is it?" Draco asked.

Hermione put down the glass and said shrugging. "It's all right, but then again I'm not much of a drinker."

"I thought as much," He said. "I was surprised to see you down here."

"Although I'm not that surprised to see you here, why were you doing here anyway?" Hermione asked.

Draco smirked. "Oh you know, the usual. Tried to meet a few nice girls, but some obsessive fans of mine had to ruin it by attacking the girls."

"Obviously." Hermione said her words laced with sarcasm. "Why did I even bother to ask?"

"My point exactly," Draco managed to say with a straight face.

Unlike Draco, Hermione's mirth was bubbling up inside of her and she started to laugh. Once her fit was over Hermione cleared her throat. "So, what were you doing here?"

"Planning," Draco replied.

Hermione raised her eyebrows. "For?"

"I was trying to put people in groups for the different portkeys. If we tried to make all the portkeys one at a time it would take forever, even with magic." Answered Draco.

"Right. What are the groups so far?" Hermione asked.

Draco reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a piece of parchment. "Let's see...Eileen, Alanna, Jon, and Sean are in the first one. Lyra, Andrew, Hilary, and Matt are in the second. In the third one, there's you, me, Leigh, and Rob."

"Okay." Hermione said oddly elated by the grouping.

"Say, are you hungry?" Draco asked.

"Starving." Hermione said grinning.

Draco said causally. "Then let's go get something to eat."

"Like a date?" Hermione said teasingly.

"Maybe." Draco responded winking.

Hermione fought another laughing fit and said, "Come on."

Draco and Hermione entered a busy restaurant and ordered something to eat.

"Hmm-" Hermione trailed off as they waited.

"Something the matter?" He asked.

Hermione smiled in response. "It's nothing. I was just thinking how odd this is."

"I guess." He said taking his and Hermione's plate from the waitress.

"What do you mean you guess?" Hermione said shocked. "We used to be archenemies."

Draco corrected her. "No, me and Harry were mortal enemies. We were just...different in our views back in school."

Hermione thought this over for a moment, but couldn't think of a suitable replay.

The rest of dinner passed by quickly and Draco walked Hermione to her door.

"You know, you didn't have to walk me all the way to my room." Hermione said, fishing around her purse for her key.

"But I'm a gentleman, and I always walk lovely women to their doors," Draco said bowing to prove the point.

Hermione punched him lightly on the arm and then continued to search for her key. "Where is it?! Ah hah! Found it."

Draco rubbed his arm, his face distorted with pain. "That hurt."

"Stop that. I didn't even hit you that hard." Hermione said.

"Whatever you say." He said.

She waited a second before saying; "I had a great time today. I'll see you tomorrow."

"Bye." Draco said.

Hermione closed the door slowly behind her and grinned happily. If she wasn't feeling so giddy and light headed she would have questioned herself why.

She finished getting ready for bed when the phone rang. Guessing who it was Hermione picked it up. "Hey Malfoy, miss me already?"

"Hermoine?" Harry asked. "It's me Harry."

Hermione blushed. "Oh, Harry hi. Sorry I thought you were-"

"Draco I know. Is this a bad time?" Harry said.

"No of course not." Said Hermione quickly. "How did you know I was here?"

"I called your office when you didn't show up."

Hermione bit her lip. "I'm really sorry. The trip was kind of last minute."

"That's ok. Anyway, I called to tell you that I'm flying to Bali the day after tomorrow." Harry said.

"Really?" Said Hermione, not believing her ears.

He laughed. "Yeah. It's for my case. Why don't you meet me at nine in the evening?"

Hermione nodded her head, although Harry couldn't see her. "Sure, I'll see you then."

"Bye." Harry replied.

"Good night," Hermione said, and then put the receiver down slowly.

A/N: I know I know, I haven't been updating, I'm sorry. Do not worry I'm not one to stop writing something like this. Lately it's been getting harder and harder to write this, but your reviews give me the motivation to keep writing. So remember every one counts. For anyone who's reading Matchmaking, I will update soon. As always read and review.