Ok, as promised
Hermione was shocked when Malfoy sat next to her. She looked at him, then noticed Blaize and Jamie sitting next to Parvati and Lavender, both of whom were blushing.
The head girl rolled her eyes and looked over at Harry and Ron, who were as shocked as she was.
'What are you doing here Malfoy?' Hermione asked, turning back to him.
'Eating, Granger, what does it look like?' Malfoy replied, taking some chicken off a plate which was in front of him.
'Why don't you eat at your own table?' Ron spat. His attitude towards Malfoy had only changed a small amount.
'Because I have a good view from here Weasel.' Malfoy replied smirking.
Blaize and Jamie were flirting with Lavender and Parvati, who were flirting right back.
The sight was sickening to Hermione.
'Lavender, Parvati, can I talk to you?' she asked, getting to her feet and dragging them to theirs.
'Be back in a minute boys.' Hermione muttered, practically pushing the two Gryffindors out of the hall.
'What was that about?' Hermione asked when they were outside on the steps.
'What was what?' lavender asked.
'In there!' Hermione snapped, waving her hand towards the doors of the hall. 'With Blaize and Jamie?'
'We where only flirting.' Parvati said, rolling her eyes.
'Only flirting? It didn't look like only flirting! It looked like you two were going to announce your ENGAGEMENT!'
'Calm down herms, we know what we're doing.'
'Lets hope so.' Hermione said, sighing and walking back up the stairs to the hall.
When she entered, she saw most of Slytherin sitting at the Gryffindor table.
Pansy had taken up Hermione's vacated seat, and Malfoy wasn't looking too pleased.
Hermione walked towards them, then stopped.
Malfoy spotted her. 'Pansy, move. That's Granger's seat.'
'No.' Pansy said, flicking her hair and turning to talk to Aj who was sitting next to Harry.
Hermione rolled her eyes and headed back out of the hall. She stopped however at the end, and crossed over to the Slytherin table. The end of it was completely empty of students, so Hermione sat herself down and began eating there, alone.
It was much more pleasant than Hermione first thought. No Slytherins. No Gryffindors…no nobody. So much more quieter- unlike the Gryffindor table, which was by far the loudest table in the whole hall.
Aj though, had noticed Hermione's absence and looked around for her. She spotted her in her quiet area, silently eating.
She rose and walked over to her, and sat next to her.
She smiled at Hermione, who smiled back.
'Why are you all by your lonesome?' Aj asked, pouring herself some pumpkin juice.
'Cause it's not the same- the people asking questions on their homework…alone is sometimes good.'
'Oh ok.'
'And besides, Malfoy's over there with his friends.' Hermione added.
'Well, their not all that bad.' Aj said thinking as she looked over at them.
She spotted Malfoy watching them. She smiled, and he smirked though his eyes shifted to Hermione.
She was watching him too.
'You know, stuff being alone. Time to show some backbone.' Hermione said, getting to her feet and walking back over to were she was originally sitting. Aj stood and followed, wondering what Hermione meant by backbone.
Hermione walked, head held in the hair determinedly
She walked up behind pansy and stopped.
Many stopped talking to hear what she was saying. Aj, Malfoy, Harry, Ron, Blaize and Jamie included.
'Pansy, move.' Hermione said.
'No.' pansy smirked, turning around.
'Pansy move.' this time, Hermione put more force into her voice.
'No.' She repeated.
'Fine then.' Hermione pulled out her wand and waved it at Pansy. She levitated in the air. Hermione smirked as pansy started yelling. Hermione moved her from the seat, and had her glide half way down the row before letting her hit the floor with a "thump".
Hermione smiled at her, before sitting in her reclaimed seat. Everyone looked at her before smiling and laughing at Pansy who was rubbing her backside. Hermione smirked before getting a cup of some drink.
Most of the laughing died down and everyone went back to their conversations.
Hermione was very tired within one hour of reclaiming her seat. She yawned and said good night to Harry and Ron before exiting the hall.
She walked the castle alone, humming to herself.
She reached her portrait and walked in, then over to the balcony.
The cold wind whipped her face as she watched the grounds.
Pretty soon, it was too cold. She walked back inside, intending to have a shower and get into bed.
She walked into the common room. Malfoy was in there, pouring over some essay.
'You ok?' Hermione asked watching him pull his hair in frustration.
'Yeah, im ok.'
'No your not.' Hermione smiled, coming up behind him and reading what he was reading.
'You need help?'
'No.'
'Fine.' Hermione got a small red book with gold trimming and at sat herself down on a couch.
'Have you got this book?' Hermione asked Malfoy holding the book she was reading in front of her.
'Yes why?' Malfoy asked, looking at the book.
'Mine has coffee or something spilt on the pages.' Hermione said, sounding sulky.
'Oh. It's in my room though.'
Hermione was silent a minute.
'Oh alright. Come on!' Malfoy said, throwing down his quill in anger. Hermione smiled and got to her feet and followed him to his room.
Malfoy's room was very tidy. Hermione looked around while Malfoy threw things from his trunk to the floor.
'Where is it?' he asked himself when he didn't see it.
'I might have left it in the bathroom.'
'Why would you have left it in there?' Hermione asked him as he walked over to the bathroom door.
'I was reading it the other day while I combed my hair.' Malfoy smirked as he opened the door.
Hermione rolled her eyes and followed him in.
Sure enough, sitting on the sink bench, near the mirror was Malfoy's copy. He's however, wasn't red with gold trimming. Instead, it was green with silver trimming.
'Are you sure its not wet or anything?' Hermione asked smiling.
'If it is, or if it gets damaged in any why while you're borrowing it, you have to pay me back.'
'With what exactly?' Hermione asked skeptically.
Malfoy only winked at her as he reached down and picked up the small book. He handed it to Hermione, whom took it and walked out of the bathroom.
As the school year wore on, Christmas approached the castle of Hogwarts. Moods became Christmassy as the season approached. But Christmas meant some exams were not far behind. Some people were saddened by this, but soon became happy as they were rewarded a trip to Hogsemade the weekend before Christmas.
Most of the school had expected Hermione and Malfoy to get together, but so far, nothing had happened besides the kiss or the occasional Slytherins at Gryffindor table. Hermione was sick and tired of telling people nothing was happening, but whenever they asked her about the kiss, she always blushed and turned away a small grin on her face.
Malfoy had nothing of the sort. As he was the one to kiss Hermione, he had people badgering him to do it again. When they did ask about the kiss, he didn't blush nor turn away. He grinned sneakily and winked before answering quietly- 'You should try it- she's a fabulous kisser.'
Hermione had gone off at Malfoy once he had said this, because she had boys trying to kiss all for that entire day. When she had had a fit at him about it, he only smirked, but he continued to do it which infuriated Hermione more.
But on one sunny day, just after Care of Magical Creatures, he told a Slytherin in his year, and the Slytherin, called Slax, (AN nice name uh! hahaha) approached Hermione after the lesson.
It had gotten very ugly.
Slax had approached Hermione from the front, but she didn't expect he was going to kiss her. He walked right up to the Gryffindor, and kissed her.
At once, Hermione was slapping him, though like Malfoy, he played Quidditch, so he was no match for Hermione's petty hits.
Malfoy, however, was.
He ran over to them and ripped Slax of Hermione.
Slax stood back, grinning broadly.
'Your right, Draco, she does kiss well.' At this comment, Malfoy punched him square between the eyes.
Slax fell into the dirt.
Hermione was too shocked to say anything, much was the same with Harry and Ron, though they were looking a lot more furious at Slax.
He however got to his feet and smirked at Hermione then at Malfoy.
'Looks like she likes my kisses better Draco, mine render her speechless they are that good.'
'Yeah well, what do you practice on? Pansy?' Hermione said, regaining her composure.
Malfoy burst out laughing, as did much of the crowd who had gathered around. Pansy was among them, and she looked disgusted.
'Kiss that thing!' she screamed, looking at Slax.
'Malfoy, I am I better kisser than you any day.' said Slax, looking defiant.
Malfoy stopped laughing and smirked at him. 'I'd love to see you prove it.' he said.
'Fine then. ALL GIRLS HERE GET IN A LINE NEXT TO GRANGER!' none of the girls moved. 'OR I'LL CURSE YOU INTO OBLIVION!'
At this, all girls moved into a line on ether side of Hermione.
'Excuse me, but cant we do this later?' Hermione called. Many people looked like they agreed.
'FINE!' yelled Slax, who was getting frustrated. 'SATURDAY NIGHT, TWO NIGHTS FROM NOW, MEET BY THE LAKE! then we'll see who's the better kisser.' he added quietly, looking over at Malfoy.
'WAIT!' Malfoy called when everyone was walking off. 'Rules.' he said quieter. 'Girls, if you turn up, you will be kissed.' Malfoy coughed, though it sounded a lot like he was saying "by me". he went on. 'You must let either of us talk to you about Saturday night.'
Everyone nodded and walked off towards the hall, all talking- girls mostly- about their big chance to kiss Malfoy.
Hermione stayed behind with Harry and Ron.
'Why was I dragged into that?' Hermione asked.
'Because Granger, you're sexy, cute, smart-' Malfoy said from behind her before Hermione turned around to stare at him.
'Its all your fault I was in the middle of that anyway!' Hermione said angrily.
'Thought you'd like some more attention.' Malfoy said, shrugging and walking past her.
'Creep.' Ron muttered as they continued walking.
In the hall, word had quickly spread about Slax's and Malfoy's kissing duel. Many girls wanted to take part.
'Its this Saturday right?' Hermione heard some girl saying behind her.
'Yes.' replied her friend.
'Ooo, that's only two days from now- will it be long enough to pick an outfit and do my hair?'
Hermione snorted in disbelief.
'I don't know!' her friend sounded worried. 'Lets get a head start now!'
And both girls walked quickly from the hall.
'Unbelievable.' Hermione said.
'I know. But Hermione, it might take you two days to straighten your hair- better get a head start.' Ron said grinning. He got a roll thrown at him in response.
'What next?' Harry asked, taking a bit out of a roll.
'Charms!' Hermione said, ducking from one of Ron's rolls.
'Children! Do I need to put you two into separate corners?' Harry asked, grinning madly all the same.
Hermione and Ron ceased their short food fight.
After ten more minutes, they decided to walk to charms.
Many students were now starting to file out of the hall, and off to their next class.
Charms pasted as normal, but the talk was of the duel. Hermione was beginning to tire of it.
Sitting in front of them was lavender and Parvati who were looking at a magazine under the table and whispering to each other- something Hermione found very distracting as she was trying to listen to Professor Flitwick.
'Do you think your mum will be able to buy it in Diagon ally and send it to you before Saturday night?' lavender asked Parvati.
'Dunno.' Parvati answered. 'But she's never failed yet.'
Both girls giggled.
'Excuse me, but could you please be quiet up there?' Professor Flitwick asked from the front.
Both girls blushed and closed the magazine.
Once the bell rang, the class filed out and off to their next lesson- Divination.
Back in Professor Trelawney's days, people would dread going up into her classroom, where the blinds where always drawn, fire constantly burning, perfumes always in the air. But now, since Professor Cherly came into the picture, everyone wasn't dreading it as much.
The room was filled with the afternoon sunlight as they entered and sat themselves at the back of the room.
This lesson pasted much like Charms. But this time, a note was going around to all girls in the class.
When it came to Hermione, she read it then rolled her eyes.
Hey girls!
You know, this is the lesson in which Professor Cherly announced that the hottie, Draco Malfoy liked someone? Well, now he's having the kissing competition against Slax also of Slytherin- most of the school will probably be there, mostly girls I would think- I AM! wouldn't that mean he will kiss the girl he likes?
Ooooo who is it? But I think we all know. Lets pray we are wrong.
Hermione was suddenly aware that most of the girls in the class were watching her. She closed her eyes and pretended she didn't care as she passed it onto Lavender and Parvati who were very eager to read it.
All throughout dinner that night and rest of the next say, notes were flying around during classes asking the girls who was the cutest boy out of Slax and Malfoy.
Hermione, who had gotten one of these nearly every two minutes always wrote another option so it was either:
Slax
Malfoy
None
Hermione always wrote "none" but didn't circle anything.
Saturday was full of girls walking around, looking at each other, sizing them up for their chances of being kissed.
Hermione couldn't care less.
But on Saturday morning, Malfoy spoke to her in their common room.
'You coming tonight?' he asked.
'Maybe.' Hermione answered.
'Ok.'
'Why?' Hermione smiled. 'You want me to come?'
'Possibly.'
'Anyway, I think I will.' she added quickly though at the look on Malfoy's face, 'Only because I have found a spell.'
'and what is this spell?' he asked.
'Well, the girls who are being kissed, will all have a mood charm on them. If they like the kiss, a white spot will appear, if not, a black spot. If they have kissed you, a green ribbon will be above them, Slax, a red ribbon. If they have kissed neither of you, a brown ribbon will be on their above their heads, both, a blue ribbon.'
'You've put a lot of thought into this, haven't you?' Malfoy said, smirking.
'No, its just that for the past two days, girls have been asking me to find out spells for the duel, and so I did.'
'Uh hu.'
Saturday night came.
All the students moods were different. The girls, excited, the boys, curious.
All the stuff noticed this, but ignored it.
So, at five o'clock, most of the school made their way down the grounds to the edge of the lake where Malfoy and Slax stood waiting.
'Let the games begin.' Slax said to Malfoy, whom smirked.
Hermione was there, Harry, Ron, lavender, Aj, Parvati and Ginny at her side.
All the girls who were entering, lavender, Parvati and Ginny included, walked up to Malfoy and Slax, who put them in one long line along the bank.
'Granger, if you will.' Malfoy said.
Hermione stepped forward and cast her spell.
'Moodonto!'
'What was that?' some people cried.
'It will enable us to see what mood these lovely girls are feeling.' Slax said, who was obviously sucking up to the girls.
Malfoy rolled his eyes, spotting this at once.
'Ok, this is how it will work.' Malfoy said, then explained what Hermione's charm had done.
She herself had sunk back into the crowd, watching with Harry, Ron and Aj.
'Wait.' Malfoy said. 'Someone is missing.'
he looked around for Hermione.
'Ahh, there she is, Come on Granger.'
All heads turned to look at Hermione.
'Oh, yes, come on, granger, this was all started because of you. IT would be wrong if you weren't in there.' Slax said.
Hermione shook her head, but suddenly walked forward, Aj pushing her.
'I'll do it if you will.' she mumbled.
'Erm…alright then.' Hermione said, feeling much better that Aj was joining- Aj was one of the first to flatly refuse to take part.
They joined the end of the line, but someone wound up in the middle.
The line consisted of 31 girls.
Malfoy was at the right end of the line, Slax at the other.
'This really is ridiculous.' Hermione said to Aj.
'READY! GO!'
All the girls in the line teasned. Brown ribbons were above all their heads.
At the right end, one change to a white spot, with a green ribbon, good sign for Malfoy.
At the left, one changed into a white spot with a red ribbon.
Five girls on either end had been kissed, all with white spots on their heads, wit either a green or red ribbon.
No girl had turned either boy down yet.
Parvati was the first.
She was number 8 on Slax's end. Her ribbon changed from brown…stayed brown. She had refused to kiss Slax.
he scowled, but moved on.
No girl had refused Malfoy.
All whom he had kissed so far had white above their heads, and a green ribbon.
By the time they got to the middle, Hermione, three girls had turned down Slax, none had turned down Malfoy.
Both looked at Hermione for a minute, before Slax moved forward.
The crowd held their breath.
Many thought Hermione was going to let Slax kiss her, and she did, but a black spot appeared above her head.
Malfoy smirked broadly.
It was his turn.
He moved closer.
Again, many in the crowd thought she wasn't letting him kiss her, but she did. This time, however, the black spot turned into a white one, the ribbon going blue.
Malfoy smirked as he saw this, but Slax growled.
Then they moved on, continuing down the line.
When it was all over, at about 7:30, in the last stretch of the line, for Slax, none turned him down. Malfoy, though, had got 3 turned him down.
They were equal.
Both were shocked that it was tied.
'One more kiss.' Slax suggested.
'Yes. But whom?'
Slax snorted. 'Granger of course. She is the reason this all began.'
'No way. I will not have that responsibly put on me!' Hermione called.
'Well, who then?' Slax asked.
'I will.' Aj said.
'Fine by me.' Malfoy said.
'Alright.' Slax agreed.
Both made their way up to were Aj was standing.
'But what if she cheats?' someone called.
'What would be the point?' Aj snapped back, clearly offended someone accused her of cheating. 'I am a Slytherin- I don't care who wins.'
'Fair point.' Hermione said.
'Just can we get this over with?' Aj said.
'Ok.' said Slax. 'Who first?'
'Ladies first.' Malfoy smirked widely.
Many laughed,
Slax went a bright red.
'Then why don't you go Draco?' Slax relpied.
'Because gentalment always lets a ladie go first.' Malfoy smirked.
'Why you little-'
'Boys!' Hermione called. 'Slax, you prick, just go first.'
And so, glaring, and furious, Slax lent forward and kissed Aj.
The spot on her head turned white, ribbon remaining blue.
When Slax saw this, he pulled back, smirking.
'You sure you don't want another go?' Malfoy asked. 'Because it will need a lot more than that to win over me.'
'No, im sure that was more than enough.'
'Fine.'
Malfoy lent forward and kissed Aj.
Although there was not much "passion" so to speak, Aj was still extremely shocked. True, she had thought Slax was a fantastic kisser, but this out powered his by heaps.
If this isn't a passionate kiss, I wonder what is? Aj asked herself.
The white spot above her head brightened, making the crowd erupt with applause.
Malfoy was clearly voted the best kisser in all the school.
Ok, this chap seamed a little lame to me…it was much worse before though, it was something completely different, but it was very lame.
But I dunno, I don't have to read it!
I also, as some of you know, wrote another story in the middle of this one, so my mind was else were.
Please R&R and tell what I can improve or loose.
Aj