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To Hermione's relief her eyes dried from the wetness of her tears and her eyes were no longer red from her crying. She was no longer confused by the feelings she had felt for Draco. She had dismissed them as results of the shock of Malfoy being Head Boy. She took comfort in this excuse and had recomposed herself to her normal confident self. When Hermione and Ginny were informed that they would be arriving at Hogwarts shortly, Hermione excused herself and went back to the Head's compartment to get her robes.

When Hermione got to the compartment, she froze. If she had to confront Malfoy, what would she do? 'I'll just pretend like nothing happened and be my usual self' She thought this to herself as she opened the compartment door. She peered inside, and thankfully, there was no sign of Draco. She breathed a sigh of relief and entered the compartment. She quickly grabbed her robes, locked the door and began changing. When she was done she stowed her clothes into her trunk and placed her wand into her robe pocket. Grabbing a mirror from her trunk, she made some last adjustments to her appearence, put her things away and retreated to the hallway.

As she closed the door and turned to return to her compartment, she almost ran into Professor McGonagall and Malfoy.

"Ah, hello Ms. Granger, would you please step inside your compartment? I need to speak with yourself and Mr. Malfoy about your duties as Heads of this school." Hermione nodded in response, turned around and opened the door to the compartment. Once inside Hermione took a seat to the left of the door and McGonagall took a seat to the right. Draco, knowing that it would be inproper to sit next to a Professor, grudgingly took a seat next to Hermione. Hermione glanced at Draco as he sat down and to her despair, he caught her looking at him. Hermione, always a quick thinker, smiled malicously at him, trying to create the illusion that she was reminding him of what had happened earlier. To her surprise he just gave her a sneer back, apparently, he had gotten over his shock from earlier. Hermione turned her attention back to McGongall, trying to focus on what her professor was about to say.

"Before I begin, it is my pleasure to congradulate you on being chosen for your positions. It is a great honor to be the Heads of this school. Now, as for your responsibilites... Every Tuesday and Thursday, you must patrol the hallways. You may take and give points as you see fit, but do not abuse this privlege... You are allowed to use the restricted section in the library and are allowed trips to Hogsmeade without teacher permission. Also, I expect the two of you to be civil towards each other, I am not asking you to be friends, but please get along. You need to set an example for your younger peers. And lastly, as part of Dumbledore's house unity, you will be sharing the Head's dorm."

"What!" A shocked cry came out of both student's mouth as Professor McGonagall told them this last piece of information.

"Yes. You will have your own rooms and you will share a bathroom and a commonroom. Once again I am not asking you two to be friends but I am asking you to cooperate with each other so that this school does not erupt in chaos. Got it?"

Hermione and Malfoy both nodded their heads in unison and their eyes widened from what they had just been told. Professor McGonagall stood up out of her seat and started to leave the compartment. Just as she was leaving she told the students, "Oh, and go to the first carriage please. You two will share one on the way to Hogwarts." The students just nodded again and stared at their feet.

After Professor McGonagall left, both Hermione and Malfoy sat in their seats thinking about what they had just been told. Hermione, recovering from the shock first, stood up and left the compartment, on the way to the carriage that she would be sharing with Malfoy.

Once off the train, Hermione quickly spotted Harry and Ron, not wanting to talk to them just yet, she made her way to her carriage trying to conceal herself so she would not be seen. Unfortunatley, Harry and Ron had already seen her and they ran over to her and stopped her in mid-stride.

"Hey, Hermione, we just wanted to say that we were sorry about earlier. We understand that this position is really important to you and that you want to do your best at it." This mumbled apology came out of Ron's mouth and she could see Harry nodding in agreement.

"I'm sorry too guys, I guess I just lost my temper. I know you're just trying to protect me..." Though Hermione accepted the boys' apology, she did not fully trust them to not get in the way of her performing her duties as Head Girl. She suspected that she would be getting a lot of these apologies this year.

"Okay, let's go get a carriage, and lets try not to pick one with bad wheels this year, Ron..." Harry, remebering last year when Ron had wanted to pick the carriage, and he had picked one with horrible wheels, and none of them had been able to keep any food down.

"Yeah, yeah... If you're sooo good at everything Harry, why don't you pick the carriage..."Ron, blushing at the mistake he made last year, quickly made a weak come back to cover his embarassement. Harry smirked and started to walk off, in search of a good carriage.

"Wait, sorry guys but I have to share a carriage with Malfoy..." Hermione's voice trailed off as she said this, as she noticed the heat rise in both of her friend's faces.

Harry, wanting to stop Ron from another outburst quickly spoke up, "It's okay 'Mione, we understand." Though Ron glared at him, Harry restrained his friend from making a fool of himself. Harry and Ron turned around and went to find a carriage and left Hermione standing by herself, watching them go. She had wanted to share a carriage with them, of course, but she couldn't ignore the responsibilites of Head Girl. She snapped out of her trance and quickly walked to the front carriage and climbed in.

"Why hello, Mudblood..." His sneer was harshing than usual but Hermione was not surprised, she assumed that he was trying to get back at her for what she had done earlier.

"Oh shove off, Malfoy." She did her best to sound hateful, but when she looked into his face, she wasn't sure that he was convinced. Hermione took a seat across from Malfoy and stared out the window, not wanting to even look at Malfoy.

When everyone had gotten into carriages, the leading carriage's driver hollered at the horses to 'get moving'. Once the ride had begun Hermione was relieved to have a reason to stare out the window. The scenery they were passing by was beautiful, the autumn leaves were in full color and the hillsides look magnificent. Though Hermione kept her gaze outside of the carriage the whole time, she couldn't help but feel the burning gaze of her companion. She wanted to turn to him and tell him to shove off, but she didin't want to invoke an argument, so she tried her best to ignore him.

When the ride was over, the driver didn't go further into the courtyard as he usually did. Instead, he made an abrupt stop. Hermione was thrown across the carriage towards the already standing Malfoy. Afraid that she might fall on the floor and hurt herself, Hermione's instincts told her to grab hold of Draco. Not wanting to injure herself, Hermione listenend to those instincts and threw her arms around Draco's neck. Draco's surprise at her grabbing him and his quick seeker reflexes caused him to grab Hermione's waist. The force of her fall pulled there bodies together, and their faces, centimeters apart. Hermione looked up into Draco's face and gave him a weak smile, which she hoped, came across as an 'I'm sorry for falling on you.' Draco's mind was jumbled, he didn't know what to do. He had never been this close to her before, besides what happened on the train, he felt the curves of her body and looked into her hazel eyes. Coming to a not at all well thought out decision, he pulled her body closer to his crashed his lips onto hers. Without hesitation, she leaned her body into his and began running her fingers through his hair. Hermione sighed and thought 'This feels so right,'. As she thought this his tongue begged her mouth for entry, she immediatly opened her mouth and let her tongue struggle for dominance. Draco began running his hands up her shirt, and at this, Hermione's sensible brain kicked in. She pulled away, breathless and said, "Draco, what are you doing?" Not leaving him any room to answer, she rushed out of the carriage and slammed the door. She hurriedly found Ginny so that Draco wouldn't have a chance to answer her.

"Hey 'Mione, is something wrong?" Ginny, seeing Hermione's flushed expression, wondered what had happened to make Hermione red and flustered.

"Nothing Gin, just had a hard time finding you." She gave Ginny a forced smile and began to rattle off about how tough potions would be this year, and hoped that this conversation would convince Ginny that nothing had gone wrong...

Back in the carriage Draco had fallen onto one of the seats and rested his elbows on his face and had buried his hands in his face. He was carefully thinking over what had happened, realizing that he had to get out of the carriage to carry out his duties as Head Boy he got up and walked over to the door and before opening unbidded thoughts came into his head, 'Oh, what have I done?'

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