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CHP.5

Hermione sat up instantly in the dark. She heard something. She knew she did. She looked at her clock. It was 2:30 in the morning. She sighed. What the heck was that noise? She jumped off of her bed and opened her door. She looked out into the Fire-lit common room. He was awake.

She walked up and sat beside the tired looking blonde.

"Hey." She said after about a minute of silence.

"Did I wake you up?"

"I don't know... I heard a bump on the wall and I was scared so I woke up."

"Sorry. I was going to read and I was trying to get a book from the shelves but I fell so...yah."

"Oh...that's alright. I don't mind." She said with a yawn.

"Why are you up so early?" she asked him.

"Couldn't sleep. I'm too...awake. To sleep." he said with a smile.

"Awake? Why? You had coffee or something or what?"

"No... It's just...awwww...never mind..." he said with a sigh.

"No. Not never mind. What?" She asked with a playful smile.

"Okay. I'll tell you. But I don't want to hear any lecture's or anything or the sort. People have already lectured me enough and I am not changing my mind about doing it so don't even try. Alright?" He questioned her with a stern look.

"Right."

"Okay. For about three years now... I have been... using drugs."

She smiled inside. "What kind?"

"Crystal Meth."

She smiled really wide at him and ran into her room.

'Damn I scared her off. Oh well.. I'll tell her I was joking in the morning. Why was she smiling? Eh. Oh well..."

Hermione came bustling back into the room. She was holding something.

'Okay I guess I didn't eh. Whatever. What's that she's carrying?' He thought to himself.

"I've got a little confession. First off... I would never lecture you. Ever. Well...for something like that I wouldn't at least. Put out your hand." She said timidly.

He looked at her with a weird quirk in his eye. But none-the-less he held out his hand.

"Good now close your eyes."

"Right." he said as he shut his eyes.

She put the little bag into his hand and closed it for him.

"Good now open your eyes."

He opened his eyes and looked down into his palm. 'Woah.' He thought. 'She does it too.'

He looked into her eyes. "You do it too." He said with a smile.

"Yea. What's your reason?"

"I don't know if I should tell you... I mean I just barley started talking with you and I don't know if I should trust you." He said pleading that she would be trustworthy with his eyes. He could really use a good friend right now. Perhaps even more.

"I won't say anything. Promise." She said with nothing but truth in her eyes.

"Alright. But I'm trusting you. And I really hope you mean what you say. But yeah. Well it's a really long story... you sure you wanna hear it?"

"Yea...I've got until like...6:30 so why not?" said with a triumphant look on her face.

"Okay... Well... it all started with my mom. You know her right? Narcissa Malfoy." He stole a glance at her beautiful face. "Well... My dad has been rather moody lately so he's been taking it out on her. And I got kinda stressed. So I did the only thing I thought possible to help myself escape it all. I got high. Well. My father kinda went a little overboard Saturday night..." He trailed off with a saddened look. He looked up at her and she nodded her head.

"And well... he killed her. So...I dunno. I've just been getting high ever since." He said as his eyes started to water up. Just as his tears were about to spill over his eyelids he got up and turned to look into the fire. "Oh Draco..." She said. "I'm so sorry." Her voice full of emotion.

"It's alright." He said in a wavering voice.

She got up and did what she thought she'd never do. She hugged him She hugged him while he was crying. The tears poured down freely over his face and she held him close. "Shh... Shh.. It's alright...It's all right... Don't cry..." She said soothingly over and over again while stroking his hair.

He broke away from her warm embrace.

"I'll send him to jail. I'll make him pay for what he's done." He said while wiping off his tears.

"I've already sent the ministry officials. He should be getting locked up any time soon now..." He said with a malicious voice.

"Did you know that she was the only person I have ever loved?" He asked with a stray tear running down his face. Hermione wiped it off with care.

"I'm so sorry." She said calmly.

"It's alright." Even though he knew it wouldn't be.

"So," He said turning and sitting down on the couch. "Why do you do it?" He asked expectantly.

Hermione looked at him with shock. She could lie and say something else. But he had just poured his heart out to her and that wouldn't be fair. Yet she didn't want to tell him. She hadn't told anybody yet.

Draco could obviously see her look of discomforted pondering in her face.

"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to .I understand." he said with a hint of sorrow in his voice.

"No. No. No... It's not that. I do want to tell you... it's just... this has been my secret for so long... and I haven't even told Harry or Ron yet..." She said quietly.

"Oh. That's alright."He said with a saddened look on his face.

Hermione came and sat down next to him.

"Okay." She began slowly. " It all started when I came home from Hogwarts last year." She said with a sad look on her face. "I got home and everything was just fine. My mom was working later than normal because she had gotten a raise so it was basically just me and my dad all day. For the first three weeks everything was just fine. Me and my dad had gotten along fine... We went shopping for everything I needed together. Clothes, shoes, make-up..." she said pointing to the dark black circles of eyeliner drawn around her eyes. "And then one night..."she said her voice getting shaky. Draco knew where this might lead to. "One night he went to the bar and he stayed out until it closed. My mom wasn't home yet so I was waiting up for my dad on the couch. He stumbled in and I greeted him with a stern 'hello'. He looked at me and smiled evilly and told me to sit on the couch. So, not wanting to upset him, I did. And it was there where he... where he... where he..." She trailed off as the tears began to pour down silently. "It was there where he raped me. Ever since that night he did it over and over again... so I did the only thing I could do to remain happy. I did this." She said holding her little bag in her hands. The tears pouring down her face faster than ever.

Draco looked up at her sad expression. He got up, scooped her up in his arms and sat back down a held her. He held her tightly and he rocked her like a little baby. She fell asleep in his arms. He sighed, he wanted revenge on her old man. He lay down with Hermione still in his arms and conjured up a blanket, which he pulled over himself and Hermione. And there, they fell asleep together in perfect harmony.

Six thirty came and went as the two lay sleeping.

Pretty soon seven thirty came, and so did eight thirty, and nine thirty and ten thirty.

The portrait door opened a little bit and Dumbledore's head poked in.

He looked at the two sleeping and he saw their tear stained faces. He smiled and figured something bad had happened during the night and wrote up and note.

Hermione dear, Draco,

Not to worry about going to classes today. Please don't bother. I have already cleared it with your teachers. I am sorry about whatever had been happening with the both of you and I don't want you to stress.

Sincerely,

Albus Dumbledore

He lay the note on the coffee table next to their still figures and walked swiftly, yet silently out of the room. He walked away toward his office satisfied that they were getting along well. He conjured up excuse notes for all of their teachers and sent them off with his owls.

Draco lay awake trapped underneath the form of Hermione Granger. He lay reading the kind note Dumbledore had left and settled back in shutting his eyes hugging Hermione closer.

Hermione's eyes fluttered open.

"Draco... What time is it?" She asked suddenly.

"Eleven." he replied with his eyes still shut.

"Oh my gods! I over slept! I gotta go!" She said and she tried to move but Draco held her even tighter.

"Draco! I've got to go! We've got to go! We are late!" She said struggling.

"Relax Sleeping Beauty." He said brushing a stray hair from her face. "Dumbledore has excused us. I guess he stopped by to see where we were and saw your beautiful tear-stained face... and he excused us from all classes today. He's said not to stress out." He said looking at her disgruntled face fondly.

At first she looked so angry. But then her anger turned into a smile. She closed her eyes.

"I'm going to go get into the shower." Draco said calmly. " I'll be back." He said with a wink and he walked into the bathroom swiftly.

A/N: and don't flame me please.