Next chap. And, to Hogwartsstollaway, r u sure you don't want cookies or something while you wait in your corner? ( no offence)
and too JokittyEmiMousey, I really, honestly, I don't know what will happen, if Hermione and Draco make it, or weather Draco does something so Hermione turns back to Ron…I honestly don't know, but if it goes Draco+Hermione, please, PLEASE don't hate me or get angry
Ok, thanks to everyone who reviewed, and THE REVIEWS ARE CLIMBING STILL!
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Once Hermione was in her room, she remembered her letter. She walked over to her desk and opened the draw she put it in. It wasn't there.
Hermione started to panic. She had things written in that letter that could never see the light of day until her parents read it and she was ready- and she wasn't ready!
Then she remembered pansy going through her desk looking for Aj.
Pausing slightly on her way to her door, Hermione wondered why pansy would look for Aj in desk draws…Ahh well.
She has my letter, and that's all that matters! However, Hermione didn't make it to her door. Another thought bothered her. What if Pansy only through it away?
Hermione crossed back to her desk and looked around the floor, and underneath it.
She saw no letter. Still, Hermione looked around the rest of her room, hoping that pansy didn't have it on her person.
Though, ten minutes of fruitless searching, not letter addressed to Hermione's parents turned up.
Hermione decided to go and see pansy.
When she walked into the common room, she saw that the Slytherins where sort of dirty dancing.
Hermione shook her head, and headed for pansy, who was still tied up in her corner, unable to move.
She made straight for her, but Malfoy saw her and crossed her path.
'Back out Granger?' he smirked.
Hermione ignored him, and walked past to pansy.
'Where is my letter Pansy?' Hermione asked with as much kindness she could master.
Pansy smirked and shrugged smartly.
Hermione whipped out her wand, pointed it at pansy's sorry face, and bent close.
'Listen Parkinson, I wont curse you into oblivion if you just give me back my letter.' Hermione spoke dangerously, and loud enough for Pansy, Malfoy and the surrounding people to hear.
Pansy looked Hermione straight in the eye, determined not to let her see the fear that was growing inside her like a plant.
At the Slytherins silence, Hermione's angry intensified.
'Give it to me!' she shouted.
When Pansy only smirked, Hermione waved her wand, and Pansy's mouth piece , that was preventing her from talking, fell to the ground. But Hermione wasn't in the mood for being nice. So, with Pansy's given speaking ability, extremely large warts started growing on her face.
'It's in my pocket.' Pansy whimpered as she felt the warts grow and mass.
Hermione reached for her pocket, got her letter, put it in her own pocket, and waved her wand again.
Pansy's mouth piece reappeared, and the warts stopped growing, but didn't go away.
'You look too pretty like that Pansy for me to remove it.' Hermione said, but she did remove them.
On her way back to her room, the room, which hadn't been quiet, was dancing, the music blaring.
Malfoy talked to her as she walked.
'Come on granger, dance.'
Hermione, who had cheered dramatically since she got her letter back smiled.
'No, I don't think so.'
Malfoy smirked, 'Why? Are you scared?'
Hermione smiled again and shook her head.
'No Malfoy, im not scared, I just don't want to at the moment.'
It was then that Hermione had reached her door.
'Look im sorry.' Hermione was going to hug him before she remembered the people around them.
She only smiled and retreated to her room.
When Hermione was in her room, she was very tired. So, she headed to the bathroom, had a relaxing shower, and hopped into bed, remembering to cast a silencing spell before she fell into a deep deep sleep.
The Slytherins partied into the early hours of the night. Most had forgotten pansy, and as Hermione was asleep, it was up to Aj to release her. But, unfortunately for pansy, Aj had fallen asleep on Jamie's shoulder at about 2 when they had finally stopped dancing and had sat down.
Most laughed when they heard that, because it meant pansy would be tied up unless Aj woke, or Hermione did.
But some of pansy's friends were beginning to tire of Aj and pansy being tied up. So, being cruel, they crept up behind Aj and Jamie, who was talking to Blaize and Malfoy, and sounded a firecracker from their wands.
Malfoy, Blaize, Jamie all jumped, but none as much as Aj, who's heart was beating so quickly, she feared it would explode.
She was panicking and fretting about. It took Jamie three minutes to calm her, while Blaize and Malfoy had a go at the girls, who, before the boys got at them, had been laughing at Aj's reaction.
Aj was so distort, she hadn't asked who had done it until ten minutes after resting her head on Jamie's shoulder, trying to calm down. After then, her heart began to slow, and returned to a normal, healthy beat.
When she could breath properly, she got up and faced the girls, who where cowering in a corner because of Malfoy and Blaize.
'YOU IDIOTS! YOU COULD HAVE CAUSED HER TO HAVE A HEART ATTACK!' Malfoy yelled, who had taken a certain liking to Aj- not that way, he just liked her as a person.
Blaize was much the same.
'IF YOU EVER, EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL CURSE YOU UNTIL YOUR BEGGING TO DIE!'
Aj, who was surprised at the boys reaction, told them to calm down. She was always much calmer when it came to talking to people she wasn't happy with. But if she was really mad, she gave a certain vibe off that made people cower. Her hair fell into her face at a curtain angle, that made her looked all the more scary- and her voice was a cherry on top. She glared at the girls, and when she spoke, though it wasn't yelling, it was deadly vicious.
'Why in Merlin's name did you do that?' by now, most of the room had silenced to watch. Aj sounded like a tiger that had been woken from a peaceful slumber, or a lion in the same position- even a bear being interrupted in its hibernation, growling. Soft, but deadly.
'WE want you to release pansy!' one said, who seamed to not be frozen to the spot like her friends. She spoke with courage, and Aj would normally have had admired this, but not now. Now, she despised them beyond all reason.
'And what if I don't want to?' Aj asked, the growl loud and clear.
'We will force you.' However much the girl was scared, she sure as hell wasn't showing it.
'We?' Aj began laughing. 'Whose we?'
The girl looked behind her, to see no one but the stone wall.
All of her friends had gone to the side, determined to make it clear to the girl and Aj that they wanted no part in this.
'Fine, I will then.' the girl snapped.
'Well, I believe you would, but im just too tired.' Aj turned and headed over to couches where Jamie, Malfoy and Blaize had been sitting. Now, all three where standing, watching like everyone else.
'No, let her go!' the girl screamed.
'I forgot the spell.' Aj answered simply, sitting on the couch, then smirking.
'I will wake the Mudblood then!' the girl screamed, and ran for Hermione's door.
When she tired opening it, she found it was locked.
Knowing the whole room was watching her; she sighed in frustration and headed to Malfoy's room instead.
His was unlocked, but when she disappeared through it, she tried the bathroom door, and the balcony door, to find both locked.
She returned to the common room, which was still dead silent, and headed over to Aj.
'Please release pansy.' she begged.
Aj smiled and said, 'Now, that wasn't that hard was it?'
The Slytherin glared and Aj waved her wand, and pansy shot to her feet.
Afterwards, the girl kept clear of Aj and the boys much did pansy and the rest of the group.
Aj was so angry, and afraid that they would do something like that again, that she didn't fall asleep, only looked more and more tired.
'Come on, Aj, fall asleep.' Jamie said when he saw her desperately trying not to fall asleep, by pinching herself.
Her arm was going red. 'I can't.' she said.
'Yes you can, they won't do it again. Just close your eyes.' Jamie answered.
Aj did close her eyes, not meaning to fall asleep, but she kept them closed for too long, and in a minute, she was falling to her right, her head hitting the soft armrest of the couch.
The party ended at 4:30. Well, that's when people started sneaking back to the Slytherin common room anyway.
Once all but Blaize, Jamie and Aj had gone, Malfoy realized how tired he was.
Aj was still asleep, now curled up on the couch, her head resting on the armrest, completely unaware of what's going on around her.
Jamie was sorry when he woke her, because she looked so peaceful. He woke her however with much more curtsey and niceness than the Slytherin girls had.
HE knelt down in front of her, and gently shook her.
'Aj?' he whispered.
Her eyes opened, and she smiled.
'Oh god, how late is it?' she asked, sitting up, rubbing her eyes.
'Its about…4:35 in the morning.' Blaize answered.
Aj realized the emptiness of the room, and laughed.
When she got to her feet, so almost fell back down, but Jamie caught her just in time. He smiled at her, than told Malfoy and Blaize that they were going to go.
'Yeah, I'll come too.' Blaize answered.
Once the those three were gone, Malfoy headed to his room, fell on his bed, and was immediately asleep.
Hermione woke, with no sun on her. She felt strange because of it- she had grown used to the warmth of the sun greeting her when she woke from her slumber. But today, it was MIA.
She threw the covers off, thinking that maybe she had woken too early for it to have risen yet.
But when Hermione looked at her watch, she saw she had woken up like normal, same time, 7:00. But the sun wasn't up.
Then, Hermione could have kicked herself, she looked out the window, and saw it was covered with dark clouds. Clouds that seamed to be growing blacker and darker with each passing minute.
Hermione sighed, but headed to the shower, hoping to find happiness in the warmth of that. Seeing the sun in the morning, somehow made Hermione feel happier about everything, but now that it was amiss, she had to find something else to make her feel happy. And a shower was the answer her brain offered.
Once her shower was done, Hermione got dressed in a clean pair of robes, and entered the common room after putting the letter to her parents in her bag.
It was a pigsty!
The furniture was still out of place from last night where the boys had moved it so they could dance, drink cups where everywhere, covering the couches and chairs, the floor- everywhere. Even some clothing, shirts and cloaks, had been left behind. Bowels that had contained food were all over the ground- yet some managed to stay on the tables, the food itself was in so many places Hermione didn't bother to count.
Ok, so the Slytherins knew how to party, but they also knew how to leave a mess!
Hermione was about to start cleaning it up with her wand, but then she remembered, this was Malfoy's party, no hers. So, she put her wand away, and headed off to the great hall for an early breakfast.
Malfoy woke, and looked at himself in the mirror.
He hadn't changed from his school robes the day before, so the cloak was hanging off his shoulders loosely, the shirt was unbelievably crinkled, and his pants weren't in any better state. His hair was defiantly bed hair, sticking up in all different places, with his tie hanging loosely around his neck.
Malfoy smirked at his reflection, before getting out of the clothing, and getting into the shower.
When he got out, he rapped one towel around his waist, and he used another to roughly rub his hair dry.
After his hair was dry to his satisfaction, Malfoy walked into his room to look for some fresh robes. He found some lying in the bottom of his trunk, and put them on. He combed his hair, packed his bag for the day, and walked out into the common room.
His bag, which had been on his right shoulder, fell to the floor with a slight "thump" when Malfoy saw the sad and sorry state the common room was in.
He knew he'd have to clean it, and he couldn't put it off, because other wise, he wouldn't do it at all. But being Malfoy, he had thought that he should leave it to the house elves, as it was their job to clean, but then again, Granger would practically force him to do it.
A funny image of Hermione holding Malfoy's legs and using his as a vacuum cleaner, his mouth sucking up all of the mess crossed his mind, and he laughed.
So, realizing he'd have to do it, he got out his wand, and set to work.
With the clothing, he put them in a pile beside his bag, vanished the cups and the left over food, sent the bowels on their way down the passageway to the kitchens, and moved the furniture back with Wingardium Leviosa.
Malfoy checked his watch when he was done, and saw he had half an hour to eat breakfast before first class.
The Slytherin stashed the clothing in his room, grabbed his bag, swung it over his shoulder, and ran for the great hall.
When he got there, he saw many Slytherins where there who had been at the party, but they all had bags under their eyes, and looked grumpy.
Malfoy spotted Blaize and Jamie, and headed over.
'Where's Aj?' Malfoy asked once he had sat down.
'Over with Granger.' Jamie answered, eating a bit of toast.
Malfoy looked up and down the Gryffindor table, and spotted the dot of green among the red.
She was indeed sitting next to Hermione, and talking and laughing with Harry and Ron.
over at Gryffindor table
'Yeah, so anyway, it was so funny when I spoke to her! She was so scared!' Aj laughed.
Harry and Ron laughed too, and Hermione grinned broadly.
Aj was telling her friends about the previous night, and what she had said and done to pansy and her friend.
Hermione paid attention, not having been there for that part.
'And she tried to get into your room, Hermione, but everything was locked apparently.' Aj said.
'Yeah, I locked everything, because I wanted to get to sleep, and I couldn't hear her knocking, because I had a silencing charm on my room.' the Gryffindors and the Slytherin laughed.
'Hang on, I'll be right back, I'm just gonna get my bag.' Aj said, before she got up, and walked briskly over to the Slytherin table.
She smiled at Jamie, Malfoy and Blaize, got her bag, told them she'd see them in class, and headed back over to Hermione, Ron and Harry.
'I'm just gonna rush up to the Owlery, to deliver this letter before class.' she said.
Hermione snapped out of her mind daze, and said she'd join her, needing to post a letter herself.
The two friends walked to the tower quickly, both not wanting to be late.
They got there, to see the owls all sleeping.
Hermione picked a brown owl, while Aj went to her own owl, a large snowy one, much like Harry's, though, Aj's was a boy.
Both girls attached the letter to the owls, and watched them fly off into the black sky.
Once the birds were only a mere black spot, darker than the background, the girls headed off back down the castle to Charms.
Ok, next chap's up. Please read and review, and I'll be grateful.
Please don't be mad at me if this story doesn't go to what you'd like. I try to take all of your ideas and add them, but that can't always happen.
PROBLEM!
I am suffering a writer's block! I NEVER get one of those, because we know what's happening, but it cant happen to quickly- I need something to happen in-between Hermione and Draco going out…please help! Like, you know how I have had the party, that was a act of the moment, cause it broke the story up…PLEASE HELP! So, you know the plot- Draco likes Hermione, Hermione likes Draco, they have to figure out what to do…Aj and Jamie get closer and closer each day…Ron is doing something- that's my secret;) and Harry's up to something. Please either review with some ideas, or email me.
thanks
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