Chapter Eleven: A Slip of the Tongue
Hermione fell down to the floor and started to shake the blonde haired boy. She shook him hard or at least tried to.
"Draco! Wake up! What's the matter?" Hermione started to whimper.
Ginny who was watching this from a few feet away, told Hermione,"Mione, I think I'm going to wake up Blaise." Ginny looked pretty shocked herself, she had just seen her brother Ron and his friend just brutally hurt Hermione and including the boys, Draco and Blaise. Ginny pulled out her wand and casted the spell that would take the stun spell away from the raven haired boy.
Blaise mumbled something.
"What did you say, Blaise?" Ginny asked silently.
Blaise opened one of his, showing his vibrant blue eyes towards Ginny.
"Ginny? Is that you?" Blaise muttered.
"Yes, it is."
Blaise slowly tried to get up, with his eyes squinting from the pain.
"Damn Weasely, he can give a pretty good stun charm," Blaise said while looking down at Ron who was lying near the wall. Then his eyes moved towards Draco and Hermione.
"Shit, not this again," Blaise said while cursing.
Hermione reached towards Draco's face, she gently brushed her fingers across his cheek. His bangs astray, she pushed them back and kissed him on his forehead. Then she looked up at Blaise.
"Do you no what's happening to him?" Hermione said.
"Yeah, he bloody didn't take his potion. Damn it, I told him to take it just incase. Being a big headed git he didn't," Blaise started muttering. Hermione still looked at Blaise for an answer and replied. "You do no that his father has him on the Crutacious Curse almost every time that he sees him, right?" Hermione nodded. "Well, from all that pain, it sort of damaged his nerves." Hermione gasped and looked down at Draco. "Yeah, horrible right? He has to take this potion that he makes by himself and takes it when he feels as if he's stressed out. When he stresses out way to much, he blacks out."
"What would've made him stress out so much right now? Well, besides the fact that he had to fight... for me."
Ginny piped up and said," Hermione, I'm not sure if I should be telling you this, but Draco had been meaning to say some important things to you. That would've brought pressure."
Then Blaise added," And on top of that, he was pretty pissed that Finnigan was starting to fancy you. Also, he was pretty nervous that he was going to be with you, like going to Hogsmeade with you."
Hermione smiled at the thought that Draco Malfoy was nervous about going to Hogsmeade with her. She asked,"Blaise, does he have the potion with him right now? Do you think?"
"Most likely. You can check in his pockets. It's a tiny black bottle with an emerald dragon on it," Blaise instructed.
Hermione felt the pockets of Draco's pants, while she did this she started to blush slightly, but told herself that she had to do this for his sake, and that she wasn't doing anything wrong. When she felt something, she pulled it out and saw the bottle with the emerald dragon.
"Is it this, Blaise?" she asked while holding up the small vile.
"Yeah," Blaise said while shuffling his feet in the snow. "Give him the whole thing."
Hermione looked up. "Are you sure?"
"Positive."
"If something's wrong with him, you're dead Zambini!" Hermione said jokingly, but was really serious at the same time.
She opened the small vile, green smoke curled up from the bottle then diminished into the air. Hermione took a note to herself to ask Draco what this was made of. She leaned over with a bottle in her hand but then abruptly took out her wand and hexed Harry with an Impediment Charm. Then she turned quickly around and carefully opened Draco's lips. Hermione then took the bottle and poured it into his mouth. She gently wiped his lips with her fingers, which were still lingering for at the spot where there were little drops of blood. Blaise and Ginny were still looking at the two, thinking that their job was well done, even if Harry and Ron nearly made it impossible. They also both knew, that Hermione loved Draco, but would deny it when it was asked. And it was probably the same with the young blonde Slytherin.
Hermione took Draco's cold hand into hers and cried," Why can't Harry and Ron just leave me alone! Why can't anyone leave me alone! What's so bad if I talk to Malfoy, it's not like I'm going out with him!"
That stopped Ginny and Blaise from smiling.
"Er - Hermione, are you saying you wouldn't want to be Draco's girlfriend?" Ginny asked simply.
Hermione looked up," I don't know!" Then she fell onto Draco's chest and started sobbing madly.
(A/n: And this is Hermione's thoughts)
Why is my life so miserable?
Hunny, it isn't miserable. You have Draco.
What do you mean I have Draco?
Well, it's obvious you like him.
No I don't! ... He's just a friend.
A very sexy and hot friend.
WHAT? You're my conscience... then, are this partially coming from me? Because, that's just wrong! Draco, hot? Um... no.
So you're agreeing with sexy? All right, that's better for me.
What? Wait! Are you just leaving me like this?
Well, obviously. Ooooh! I think he's waking up Hermione!
Ginny was walking towards Hermione, when Draco mumbled something, "Why the long faces everyone?" Hermione immediately stopped crying and looked at Draco's face. Then looked up at Blaise and Ginny.
"It would help, you know. If you got off my chest? I know I'm irresistible, but not in public Granger," Draco said grinning.
Hermione hit him on the chest slightly with her hand and then got up. She gently brushed her skirt, which she regretted on wearing, and pulled in her jacket to keep the cold air coming through. Draco was still on the floor, with his hands on the back of his head, half smiling at Hermione. Then he thought back from what had happened and jumped up so quickly that it made everyone jump at least a few inches off the ground.
He rushed over to Hermione, his hands on her shoulders asking," Hermione, are you okay? Did Potter and Weasely hurt you in any way?"
"Other than, Harry attacking me, and Ron laughing, no, I'm fine," Hermione said sarcastically.
"That wasn't funny," Draco said back in a serious tone.
Hermione smiled slightly, and then looked over to Ginny and Blaise. They were facing each other holding each others hands.
"Ginny looks happy," Hermione thought to herself, and somewhere in the back of her mind, she wished that she would have one of those moments that Ginny was having right now. Gazing into your lover's eyes and seeing all the love in them. Draco noticed Hermione gazing upon Ginny and Blaise, and it seemed as if she was longing to be like that. Then something caught on with him in his mind. He remembered that Ginny had hinted that Hermione did wanted to be his girlfriend before everything had happened.
"Granger, I need to talk to you for a second,"Draco said without emotion in his voice. Hermione turned and looked at him strangely, then just hesitantly walked towards Draco slowly. Hermione was looking down on the snow while taking small steps, like she was counting how many feet there were to get to him. But she was just having fun. Draco sighed, then thought in his mind," Taking her bloody time, ... if she's going to keep at this any longer, I swear I'll just yell this whole 'Do you want to be my girlfriend thing'. 5...4... (Hermione was coming closer to him) 3... 2... (she was almost there... 1...
Hermione stood right in front of him and asked," What did you want?"
Draco was caught off guard and stumbled on his words," Er - I meant to ask you about being the- couple"
Hermione took it the wrong way and said," You mean them? Ginny and Blaise? Well, yeah, they would be a couple. They aren't officially, but they should. Why are you asking?"
(A/N: this part, just this part, Draco's thoughts are going too italicized. Not his conscience though all right?)
Draco sighed. She doesn't get it! Then said out loud,"Yeah, they do look like a couple, they should be together." God this is going to be harder than I thought it would.
"Malfoy, I know this might sound weird, especially since you're a guy. And you would probably not usually do this," Hermione started in a low voice. Draco looked sharply at Hermione thinking that she was going to ask him. "I was thinking that we should get (At this point, Draco was positive that she was going to him to be his boyfriend.) Ginny and Blaise together. You know, play matchmaker on them." She finished with a happy tone. Draco shoulders slumped down, he seemed pretty disappointed, Hermione noticed and said," Why? Do you not want to do this? I mean, I could do it by myself, but it would look pretty suspicious. I mean, Blaise is your friend, and Ginny's my best friend. And...you don't like the plan do you?"
"No, it's okay," Draco said glumly.
Hermione smiled, Draco sighed, and Ginny and Blaise just smiled at each other.
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All four of them were walking towards the Magical Book Nook. Hermione grew crazy when she saw the size of the store and the amount of books that were filled in almost every single corner of the store. That was so far they could see.
"Oh, I'm so excited!" Hermione squealed.
"Well, obviously. Aren't books your best friends?" Draco said in a taunting.
"No, my best friends are Ginny, Lavender, and Parvarti. Evenif they made me wear this stupid skirt with this really uncomfortable top, and on top of that! These boots are killing my feet!" Hermione complained. "Ugh… this is the last time ever that I'm going to ask you all for help." This time talking to Ginny, she shot Hermione a very hard evil look. Then they just burst out into laughter. Blaise and Draco looked at each other and shrugged.
"Mind you Hermione, that skirt looks sexy on you," Blaise said trying to make Hermione feel better. Hermione smiled at Blaise and told him thanks. Draco shot a menacing glare at Blaise, and then nodded towards the back. The guys fell back just a few feet while the girls were in front of them
"What was that?" Draco whispered towards Blaise.
"What do you mean, what is that?" Blaise whispered back.
"You were telling Hermione that she was sexy in her skirt!" Draco grew annoyed.
"Yeah, because one, she does, and two, it was a compliment," Blaise defending himself.
"Well, what if she takes it the wrong way, and thinks that you like her!" Draco said angrily.
"What the hell do you mean Draco! You think I would like her? When you bloody well no that I'm in love with Ginny!" Blaise softly shouted.
"Wait, you love that Weasely girl?" Draco asked.
"Her name is Ginny and yes, I do!" Blaise said in a very pissed off tone.
"Oh."
"Yeah, OH!" Blaise said angrily. Then just walked towards Ginny and turned his head around and shot him a very angry look.
Draco sighed and walked slower while the three of them were walking towards the Magical Book Nook.
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Hermione still was seriously sad and hurt from what Harry and Ron had done to her a few minutes ago, but then a small part of her was happy because of what Draco had done to help her. She sighed softly while Ginny was right besides her chatting away, not even noticing that Hermione wasn't even paying attention.
"-And that's why I like him. Do you think we would be perfect together?" Ginny asked while looking towards Hermione. She then noticed that her friend wasn't listening at all, so she snapped her fingers in front of Hermione's eyes and she stumbled over snow.
"AHH!" Hermione yelped and fell on her back. "Damnit, why do bad things always happen to me?" She muttered to herself.
Ginny started laughing to herself, but couldn't hold on to and she fell down on the snow laughing her head off. Blaise, who wasn't really with them, was looking at the girls. Just now noticing what happened, so he waited for Draco to catch up with him, forgetting about the incident that had just had happened.
"Draco, you think they've gone mental?" Blaise asked in a worried voice.
Draco looked at the red head who was laughing while clutching her stomach, and the brunette who was on the floor muttering to herself. "Maybe they have gone mental," Draco replied to his worried friend.
Ginny tried to stop laughing, but she ended up coughing. Blaise rushed to her side and helped her up. Ginny whispered some stuff to Blaise's ear and he started to laugh too, but not as serious like Ginny had done before. Draco walked silently towards Hermione, and bent down next to her. "Are you okay?" Hermione jumped up slightly, she looked up and then down while cursing to herself, "Shit, that was the second time!"
"Are you okay?" Draco asked once more. He was still quite worried.
"Er- ... I guess?" Hermione half-heartily said to the Slytherin boy.
Draco faintly smiled, and reached out his hand. Hermione smiled slyly, and took it, but pulled extremely hard. Draco was caught by surprise, and landed in the snow right next to Hermione. He got up and Hermione started laughing and grabbed a palm full of snow and shook it gently on Draco's hair. He looked towards Hermione and jutted his bottom lip out.
"Don't give me any of that Mr. Malfoy!"Hermione said playfully with a serious face, and with her index finger, she pushed back Draco's lip. Then, Hermione slowly got up and brushed off all the snow. Draco, who was still sitting down on the snow, looked up at Hermione. She had very flushed cheeks from the cold, and her glossy auburn hair was framing her face.
"She looks like an angel," Draco thought to himself, but shook it out of his head, when Hermione stuck out her hand.
"Truce?" Hermione asked while giggling.
Draco looked at Hermione mischievously, and grabbed her hand, but did the same thing that Hermione had done to him. He pulled Hermione down on top of him, Hermione yelped in shock, and landed on Draco's chest. He then rolled Hermione over, so he was on top of her.
He leaned in and whispered in a husky voice, "That was for payback."
Meanwhile, Ginny and Blaise having a little snowball fight of their own, stopped when Blaise grabbed Ginny by the waist and held her. Ginny, shaking a little placed her hands on top of his. Blaise and Ginny smiled without neither or them knowing.
"Look at them," Blaise whispered in Ginny's ear, causing her to shiver. Blaise felt her shiver, and sort of smiled.
Ginny managed to get some words out of her mouth,"Yeah."
"Don't they look so comfortable together?" Blaise asked. Then Blaise thought, like we are right now...
"Mmmhmm,"Ginny faintly replied.
Hermione, under Draco, felt blush rising towards her cheeks. She thought, "I hope Draco doesn't notice. What the hell, why am I saying Draco? It's Malfoy! MALFOY!" She tried hard not to look at Draco, because if she did, she had an urge to kiss him right in front of Blaise and Ginny. She couldn't do that, it was just... wrong for her to do. Draco noticed that Hermione avoided his gaze. Hermione was looking the other way towards Blaise and Ginny, but not noticing what they were doing, since Draco's face was in her mind. How she longed for him to embrace her and to shower her with sweet kisses. But then, the other side of Hermione, the stubborn side, argued that she shouldn't be with the likes of him. Deep in her own thoughts, she did not notice Draco leaning in. Draco thought that maybe kissing her gently would make her look at him. So he leaned in closer to Hermione, who had know clue, gave her small peck on her cheek. Hermione still did not notice, Draco frowned, and then gave another small peck on her neck. Hermione did not notice, to deep in her thoughts, but she did feel something on her neck.
'You're giving me no choice but to do this woman, so you better not hit me,' Draco thought to himself. He felt a little tired, his arms sore, trying to keep him balanced. His right arm gave in, so he was only holding up barely, by his elbow. Draco raised his left hand and cupped Hermione's cheek, and turned it towards him. This made her finally come to her senses, but before she could even speak, her lips were met with Draco's. She immediately closed her eyes in unison with Draco. The kiss was so sweet, and tender. This was abnormal for both Hermione and Draco. When Draco stopped and looked at Hermione, he smiled. Hermione blushed, and leaned in slightly and gave Draco a small kiss back on the lips. This made Draco grin even wider, Hermione giggled.
"Er-... Draco, could you get off of me?" Hermione asked in a meek voice.
"Oh, yeah, sorry about that," Draco said while he started to blush.
Inside Hermione mind, she said,"Aw, he's blushing!"
Then other part of her mind was saying, "What in Merlin's Beard are you saying!"
So they both got up, Draco up first, and held out his hand, then said," No funny business, not this time."
Hermione smiled, and took his hand and brought herself up. They hadn't noticed, but they were still holding each other's hands.
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They walked towards Ginny and Blaise; Blaise still had his arms around Ginny's waist, but soon dropped them. Hermione and Draco noticed, they looked at each other and smirked. Blaise coughed, then said, "You two lovebirds stopped snogging I see."
Hermione gasped and started blushing, Draco blushed slightly.
"It was really sweet though," Ginny added.
This made Hermione blush even harder, she felt Draco's hand tense in hers. She then noticed they were still holding each other's hands. She took her hand away from Draco and made a quick excuse.
"I-.. I'm g-going to the b-b-bookshop," Hermione stuttered, then ran towards the shop.
"I'll just follow her along," Ginny said to the two guys, and ran after Hermione.
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Hermione kept on running till she went into the store. The place smelled like fresh cup of coffee and the new pages of books. She breathed in all of it and sighed, while Ginny was walking towards her friend who was obviously mesmerized. Hermione slowly started to walk towards a shelf that had a sign saying 'Animals', but stopped and turned around. She noticed Ginny walking a few steps behind her; she laughed and said, "Ginny, are you going to just follow me around like this while I'm here?"
"Psh, no!" Ginny answered while taking a few steps forward towards Hermione.
"Then come on!" Hermione said while waving her hand.
Ginny walked over towards Hermione, and then raised an eyebrow, "Why are we in the animal section? Out of all the shelves, you just had to go on and pick this one, didn't you?"
"Why? What's wrong with animals?" Hermione queried.
Ginny rolled her eyes and muttered, "Whatever."
Hermione giggled, and then said in a tone where a mother was talking to a baby, "Ginny, would you like to go over to the 'Romance' section?"
Ginny laughed, and then sarcastically commented, "Ha, ha Hermione, you are so funny."
It was silent for awhile, and then they just ended up laughing so hard, that one of the book keepers had to come over to them, to tell them to be quiet. So they just started to giggle while walking towards the romance shelves. On one section, there was a label that said ' Muggle Authors ', there were many books under this section. Ginny squealed with delight. Hermione had gotten Ginny into romance novels from the Muggle world. There was this one book that made Hermione cry and she wanted her friends to read the book, and this book so happened to be on the shelf. Hermione grabbed the book and held it out to Ginny, "This is the best book in the world."
Ginny read the title, Goodbye Doesn't Mean Forever by Lurlene McDaniel. She took it from her friend's hands and turned the book over. (A/n: this is a real book.)
"What's it about?" Ginny asked while skimming over the summary.
Hermione laughed and answered, "That is for you to find out."
"Hermione!" Ginny whined.
Hermione shrugged, "I can't, Gin. I'll just be ruining the book, so just shut your mouth about this book, and just buy the book."
Ginny scowled, but then slyly smiled, "If I get this book, will you get this one book that I've read?" Over the summer, Ginny read Of Sex, Lies, and Obsession by Denise Demourge (a/n: pronunciation dee-moorj .. if that's right? Oh, if that's really is something like a title, sorry, I didn't know.) Ginny knew that Hermione would hate this book, but it would be funny to see Hermione actually read it.
Hermione sighed, "Fine, it can't be that bad can it?"
"I don't know it depends on how you rate 'bad'" Ginny told Hermione while walking and looking at the signs to figure out where the book was. She stopped right in front of the shelf that had the sign Sexual Love. Hermione stopped with her, but looked at the sign and started to blush madly. She hurriedly looked down and said, "Gin, you cannot possibly want me to read a story out of here!"
Ginny nodded and said, "Yes, in fact I do." Then Ginny started to look for the book that she was going to get Hermione to read. While she was searching Hermione was mumbling," ... how on earth am I going to read such a book! ... Never mind that, where am I going to hide it! ... oh great, Lavender and Parvarti are going to have a madhouse about this when they found out."
Finally Ginny found the book, it was pretty large for just a novel, and the red head told her friend to open her arms so she could drop the very very heavy book. When the brunette opened her arms, and Ginny placed the book on Hermione's arms, Hermione toppled over from the book's weight and size.
"Merlin!" Hermione whispered harshly.
While Ginny was standing up and then she laughed to herself.
"Gin, aren't you going to help me get up?" Hermione asked in a louder voice.
Ginny nodded while still laughing, she reached out her hand to help Hermione. When Hermione was all good, standing up while holding the heavy book, Hermione looked at the cover. Her eyes grew wide and she covered the book with her arms and body.
"Ginny Weasely! Why - ! YOU-!" Hermione was starting to yell at her but she couldn't have the right words to say.
"Okay, "Ginny started, "if you're wondering why I picked this book out for you, is because, I've read it, Parvarti and Lavender have read. Nearly all the girls in Hogwarts have read this here book."
When Hermione didn't say anything after that, she kept on going, "You're probably wondering how I got to read this book? My friend Amelia Adams said I could borrow it. Now it's your turn to read it."
Hermione finally spoke up, "But Ginny, this is about..." Hermione lowered her voice, "...sex!"
"Um. Hermione, that's the whole point. The story's about this one girl who sleeps with a ton of guys." When Hermione's eyes widened again, Ginny finished, "So basically she's a slut. She gets guys to sleep with her which leads to lies on top of lies and so forth. But soon enough, she comes upon this guy who she really likes, but he won't go near her for her reputation. So she tries to change who she is and blah ... you'll just have to read it."
"Fine, Ginny I'll read it, but you have to read that book that I picked out for you, and I'm going to pick another book since this book is so abnormally large and heavy!" Hermione told her friend.
Ginny shrugged, "Whatever. Just as long as you read that book."
Hermione walked while looking towards the shelves, or let's just say, not looking where she was going, and collided into the blonde haired Slytherin's chest.
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REWIND AND AFTER HERMIONE STARTED RUNNING WITH GINNY FOLLOWING AFTER HER
"I-.. I'm g-going to the b-b-bookshop," Hermione stuttered, then ran towards the shop.
"I'll just follow her along," Ginny added.
Draco watched the brunette run over to the bookstore like a blast-ended skrewt was chasing her, while the red head went after her. Blaise started to chuckle, but then started to laugh harder and louder. Draco looked towards the side to see what on earth was making Blaise laugh so hard right now.
"What's your problem?" Draco asked.
"You...laugh laugh ... and her! laugh laugh" Blaise said barely saying the words.
Draco raised one of his eyebrows,"Blaise, you've got a problem, you know that? A mental problem."
"Whatever," Blaise answered his friend. "But you have to admit, Hermione must have been seriously embarrassed to turn red like a tomato and run off."
"Well, that's because we just kissed and we were holding hands. Then you said if we were done kissing and stuff and she noticed that we were holding hands so she ran off," Draco said without thinking. Then he added, "I didn't mean to say that."
"Mate, do you like her?" Blaise said his face getting serious.
Draco looked shocked and started stuttering himself,"Wh-Wh-What do you m-m-mean by that!"
Blaise started to tease his friend, "You do like her, don't you!"
Draco looked flabbergasted, but regained speech and yelled, "I ... do not.. LIKE HER!"
Blaise started to sing," Draco and Hermione, lying on the snow, K-I-S-S-I-N-G! First came kissing, then came making love, now here comes Draco and Hermione's wedding!"
Draco's mouth dropped opened and looked shocked. "Blaise, you've got to be kidding," Draco said while looking around to see if any Hogwart's students were around. Not one of them was, unless you count Blaise ... and Harry and Ron, pretty badly beaten up. Still Draco whispered, "You say that one more time, I swear -"
Blaise didn't even give a thought, and started to sing on the top of his voice,"DRACO AND HER-"
"ALL RIGHT BLAISE! I like her! Are you happy now!" Draco said in a very pissed off tone.
This time Blaise's eyes were round, "God mate, I didn't really mean for you to say all that stuff, but you like her? I mean, I was just joking around!"
"You have a funny way of joking around," Draco muttered.
Neither of them spoke for awhile, and then Blaise broke the silence.
"Sorry," Blaise said sadly.
Draco sighed and said, "Whatever just don't tell that Weasely girl or Her-Granger."
"Don't call Ginny 'that Weasely girl' I so happen to care," Blaise answered back, but soon smiled wickedly, "You were about to call Hermione, Hermione."
Draco laughed, "Do you know how idiotic you sounded just then?" Then Draco added sarcastically, "And I'm really sorry."
Blaise laughed with him, and then said, "I'm going over to see Ginny. Coming?"
"Sure, why not."
When Draco and Blaise arrived into the bookstore, they started to look for Hermione and Ginny. They first started at the animal section, and then they kept on going and going until they found a book keeper.
"Excuse me; did you see a red head with a brunette?" Blaise asked.
"Yeah," the book keeper said in an annoyed voice. "They were laughing they're heads off, so I had to hush them up. This is bookstore for god's sake, also like a library or a sanctuary. It should be quiet."
"Can you take us to them? If you know where they are," Draco said in an annoyed voice himself. His thoughts were, "God, can this woman not know that we are looking for them, and we would want to see them right now?"
"Sure, whatever. Follow me," the lady said while walking really fast.
While Blaise and Draco were following behind, Blaise whispered, "She's got a problem."
"Yeah," Draco answered.
The lady stopped abruptly and pointed to the isle where Hermione and Ginny were.
"They're in here," the book keeper answered and left to go and check up on the other books.
Blaise and Draco looked up at the aisle's name. They laughed but then heard Hermione and Ginny:
"Fine, Ginny I'll read it, but you have to read that book that I picked out for you, and I'm going to pick another book since this book is so abnormally large and heavy!" Hermione told her friend.
Ginny shrugged, "Whatever. Just as long as you read that book."
So Draco stepped forward to meet Hermione and eventually talk to her, but ended up her colliding into his chest.
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Once Hermione collided into someone, she fell down; the book went over to the side. When Hermione landed on her rump she whispered but loud enough to let Draco, Ginny, and Blaise hear,"Oh, Damn... Ow!"
Ginny laughed silently while leaning on one of the shelves, Blaise just followed behind his friend and when he noticed Hermione on the floor, with a book a few feet away from her, he guess that Hermione bumped into the Slytherin.
Without looking up to see who it was, she started to stand up, and started saying, "I'm so sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going." Hermione went over and grabbed the book, and finally looked up. She saw Draco with an amused look on his face; Hermione's cheeks had a slight tinge of pink coming.
"Oh, it's you," Hermione said while looking down, while holding the book.
Draco ignored what she said and asked, "You should look where you were going."
Hermione looked up and Draco who still had a hint of amusement on his face, she was about to say if he actually cared but he said," But, of course, since your so attracted to me, you just had to collide into me."
Hermione rolled her eyes, and answered sarcastically,"Oh yes, Draco. You are so attracting that I couldn't help but bump into you."
Ginny was standing behind Hermione but Hermione didn't know about that, so Ginny started mouthing repeatedly, "Ask for the book!" When Draco finally got what she was trying to say, Draco asked, "So, what's that book about?"
Hermione started blushing, and tried hiding it from Draco, by putting it behind her. "Nothing!" Hermione said a little too quickly.
Draco smirked, "It's not something naughty is it?"
Hermione blushed harder,"Er-no?" Hermione answered.
"Well, your face is betraying you, so let me just see the book," Draco asked then smirked when Hermione took a step back.
Hermione shook her head, "No."
"Okay, suit yourself,"Draco said, then muttered,"Accio Hermione's book." The book zoomed out of Hermione's hand and went into Draco's.
"Damn, it's heavy," Draco muttered, and then read the title; he looked up at Hermione who had a shocked face.
"Don't look at me like that, it's like you've just seen magic the first time," Draco jokingly said. When she didn't answer, Draco took a step forward, "Are you embarrassed that I'm looking at this?"
Hermione choked out, "Yes."
"Oh, trust me, I've seen more embarrassing things from you that you will never no," Draco said while laughing slightly.
Hermione's eyes grew wide, "What did you see!"
"How do you know if I've seen something, or heard something?" Draco asked jokingly.
"Malfoy!" Hermione's voice wavered for a moment. Then she looked at Draco hardly, then slapped him on the shoulder and started to walk off. Draco smirked, and then looked at Blaise.
"I think I'm going to go over there with Granger."
Blaise nodded, while Ginny moved slowly towards Blaise.
"Granger, wait up," Draco said while running towards the brunette.
Hermione turned around and frowned, "What do you want?"
"One," Draco started, "you forgot your books, and two, and I was just kidding about me 'seeing' you."
Hermione gave a huge sigh of relief, "Good."
"But, could you tell my why on earth, are you buying a book about this subject. I thought you were all holy-," Draco started, when Hermione interrupted and said, "Well; Ginny said she read it, and nearly all the girls at school. So I thought I'd try it."
"I see. So if all the Hogwart's girls went and jumped off a forty foot cliff into the depths of water would you jump with them?" Draco asked.
"Yes, someone has to go down and save them," Hermione stated.
Draco quirked an eyebrow and said, "You are unbelievable."
"Thank you," Hermione replied and gave a mock bow. Draco shook his head, and walked towards a cashier. Hermione followed after him wondering what he was doing. Then it hit her.
"Are you going to get that for me!" Hermione asked.
"It seems like I am," Draco slowly said.
"I can pay for them myself Malfoy," Hermione angrily said. "It's not as if I'm dirt poor you know."
"Mina, let me just buy them for you," Draco said while waving off his hand, and not noticing what he just called Hermione.
"What did you call me?" Hermione asked while thinking about what the Slytherin had just said.
"Granger," Draco said and looking at the girl questioningly.
"No... you called me Mina," Hermione told the boy.
"I did, did I?" Draco asked Hermione, she nodded. "Well, it must have been a slip of the tongue."
"Okay," Hermione said disbelievingly while rolling her eyes, then walked off to the connecting cafe' that was in the bookstore. Draco watched as Hermione was walking, then thought for a moment and noticed he had called Hermione, Mina.
Why on earth would I call Granger, Mina?
'Probably cause you call Granger, Mina in your mind, and grown so used to calling her Mina.'Draco's conscience said.
I do?
'You are so thick at times, you know?'
Whatever Draco replied just like Hermione had done.
When Draco paid for the two books Hermione had gotten two cups of coffee. While he was walking towards Hermione, she shrugged and said, "I didn't no whether or not you liked sugar and milk with your coffee, so it's just the regular strong one."
He took the cup from Hermione's hand, but brushing his fingers with hers for a moment. Draco didn't notice, but Hermione did and she started blushing. The blonde looked down and asked," What'd you put in it?"
"Just a little milk," Hermione said still having a pink tinge on her cheeks. I didn't know he had an effect on me this much. Then Hermione's conscience said ' He doesn't have any effect on you Hermione Antoinette Granger! You are blushing, no, just pink from... the cold!'
But it isn't cold in here! Hermione fought back in her mind.
While Hermione was talking inside her head, Draco looked up at Hermione who was just looking down at her cup thinking intently. Draco moved closer to Hermione, when she didn't notice, he snapped his fingers. Hermione jumped up, her cup almost spilling everywhere.
"Huh? What?"
"You know, you've been really distracted lately," Draco commented while walking towards one of the stools at the bar.
"Oh, I was just thinking... about things, "Hermione replied while following him, and sitting in front of Draco. "Well, thanks for buying the books for me."
"No problem. Well, you know... remember what I said about couples? You know I was wondering if - "Draco started, but Hermione interrupted and said,"Oh, you mean about Ginny and Blaise?"
Draco sighed and answered,"Yeah... I guess."
"What about them?" Hermione asked while drinking her coffee.
The Slytherin mumbled, "I don't know."
"Well, I think they already became a 'thing' without them even noticing. They do look right for each other..." Hermione stated, then drank a little of her steaming coffee, but burnt her tongue while she was at it. Hermione squealed and started to fan her tongue even though it would do no good. Draco sat and looked at Hermione trying to cool down her burnt tongue. He chuckled silently while sipping his coffee carefully.
"Whabs bo bunny!" Hermione tried asking by not moving her tongue around.
"You, trying to cool your tongue. Very entertaining."
Hermione rolled her eyes at Draco and his response was to smirk.
"Well," Hermione started after a few moments of silence and waiting for her tongue to come back to normal again," I placed an impedimenta curse on Harry. Ron'll just have to wake up sooner or later and un-hex him."
"Yup."
"Draco, I've been meaning to ask you something."
Draco looked up, both shocked that Hermione had called him by his first name, and maybe once again, she was trying to ask him to be her boyfriend.
"What was the whole deal about you collapsing? Blaise told me a little about it while I was trying to go through your pockets to find that bottle. But seriously, could you tell me what happened?" Hermione asked.
"Oh," Draco's face fell, once more, he now knew that Hermione would never like him and would never in his life would ask him to be her boyfriend. So he went on and told her about what happened.
"Father placed too many Crutacious curses on me when I was young. The curse made some of my nerves to become weak and if there's too much stress going around with me, my whole body shuts down, unless of course, if I take that medicine or if somebody gives it to me. Professor Snape told me how to make it. I've known how to make the potion before this whole shutting down of the body system began, so no worries," Draco explained.
"Well, Blaise told me that you were partially stressed because you thought Seamus Finnigan was fancying me. Is that true?" Hermione queried.
"Yes."
"Does that mean you're jealous about guys liking me or me liking them?"
"What do you mean by you liking someone!"
"Oh, I'm just saying."
"Granger, are you telling me that you do like someone or not."
"I DON'T!"
"Oh... sorry."
"But wouldn't jealousy mean that you would like me in some kind of way."
"Of course," Draco said, "but in a friendship sort of way now."
"Really, do tell more."
"Maybe next time, when I buy you a drink."
Hermione sighed; she knew she wouldn't get through to him.
"Fine, but this better has to be soon!"
Sorry this took so long. Well, I hope you enjoy this. I'm not so sure if I should keep on doing this story. Thanks for all the reviews though. And please tell me if I should keep on writing this. The more I try and write and finish this story, the worse I think it's turning out. I started this new one called "Undeniable Love." It's better than this, and on notebook I've started something else. Arghh.. I don't really like this story right now. But please, still help me and decide?
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