Chapter 2

Hours had passed when Draco finally came to his senses. He thought, "What had just happened? Did what just happened really happen?"

He walked out of the library and started walking to Slytherin Common Room. When he got there, he sat down on a couch in front of the fire place. He felt really tense.

A few minutes later, he felt a hand on his shoulder; he didn't look up at the person. All he did was just stare into the burning fire. It felt like his insides were burning like the fire in front of him.

When he didn't look up, the person said, "Draco, why weren't you at dinner?" Draco realized it was Pansy. He didn't reply, he just continued staring into the fire.

"Draco? Hello?" she said.

Without breaking his gaze, he said to her, "Pansy, leave me alone. I don't want to be bothered right now so just get."

Pansy asked, "Why? What's wrong? Tell me what's wrong Draco."

Draco didn't reply. Pansy got irritated and shook his shoulder asking, "What is wrong with you? Talk to me Draco." She bent over to give him a hug, but before she could, he got up saying, "If you won't go, then I'LL GO!" and he stormed off to his dormitory.

Draco walked into his dormitory and closed the door behind him. He stood there with his back leaning against the door and his head resting on it. He felt so bleak and miserable.

He laid down on his bed and tried to think. He thought of what happened in the library. He thought to himself, "I can't believe it. I was there, about to tell her, when the idiot had to just come and ruin everything! I was so close, I was about to tell her... but now I can't. She's with Weasel-Bee now."

It was horrible, it made his head ache and for the first time he felt pain, deep inside, it was weird. It was pain he had never felt before. It felt so strong and painful, and he realized it was all coming from his heart.

Draco had never Loved anyone before, sure he's gone out with Pansy and a bunch of other girls, but he didn't actually Loved any of them. He never really fancied any of them. But what he felt for Hermione was so much different, it was Love.

She was his first Love, and now his heart was broken.

Draco was irritated, he couldn't stand the pain inside. "Why did I... how did I ever come to actually, Lo... Lo... ER! Have this kind of a feeling for her!" he shouted. Draco thought, "What had made me fall in Love with Granger...?" Then he remembered, he Loved her because of her kindness. "Her kindness... The way she's always helping others." Draco closed his eyes and remembered the times when he would watch her.

He remembered one time when a first year was yelled at by Filch for turning his cat purple. The girl was crying so hard that Hermione told Filch she did it and she got a week of detentions for it.

There were many times when Neville was nervous and scared of Professor Snape and didn't get his potions right so she would always help him. She'd always help Neville and if it weren't for her, he probably wouldn't have been able to pass the class.

He remembered another time where he was down in the kitchen before Christmas break to get a snack and saw her with a huge handful of what looked like knitted socks. She was trying to give the elves each a pair of socks, but the elves all shouted at her and slammed the kitchen door in her face. She just smiled and set all the socks on the floor in front of the door and said, "Merry Christmas!"

He'd never seen anyone kinder than her in his entire life. His whole life, his parents never showed any affection towards him, all they did was spoil him and get him the things he wanted, but they never were loving and caring. No one ever showed any signs of caring towards him. In his life, he had never had anything to do with someone who was caring, kind and Loving. He needed, he wanted someone like that. Hermione was someone like that.

He laid there in his bed thinking of the past memories of her and soon, he fell fast asleep.

Days passed by quickly and now it was graduation day. The graduation took place inside the great hall. There were beautiful decorations everywhere with the colors of all the Houses. The hall was full of chairs, thousands of them. At the place where the teachers usually ate, the teachers were sitting down. The front of the seats in the hall was where the seventh year students sat and the rest of the seats were filled by the parents, students, and other guests. All the seventh years sat with their houses in alphabetical order and had their house color graduation and caps on. Each of them looked excited and nervous.

The graduation started with the Minister of Magic as the guest speaker giving a long speech. Soon, Dumbledore started calling each student up one by one.

One by one, each student got their diploma. Soon Hermione was called; she got up there with a bright smile on her face, shook all the teachers' hands and took the diploma from Dumbledore. She looked beautiful and happy.
After what seemed like five hours, the graduation was over.

There was a party afterwards where all the students attended. Everyone was having fun; all the students from different Houses were getting along and enjoyed themselves. There was Butterbear, pumpkin juice, cauldron cakes and lots of other things to eat. Draco hung out with his group and laughed and had fun, but every time he saw Hermione and Ron, it killed his happiness. The two were like magnets, they were always together and the two had large smiles on their faces. Draco tried to have fun and not look at them.

The party ended really late and everyone went to their dormitories and fell asleep...

The next morning, the Hogwarts express arrived, everyone waved bye to the teachers and got on. As Draco passed the compartments, he saw Hermione and Ron in one, they were holding hands and Harry and Ginny were in there as well holding hands. The four of them looked so happy. Hermione was smiling and laughing as Ron was talking. Draco was about to go in to say something insulting to them one last time on their last ride on the Hogwarts Express, but decided not to.

Draco was heart broken, but then he was happy to see her like that. He was happy that she was happy.

Draco walked on and soon found his friends and sat with them. The train ride being their last time riding it, felt real short.

They all got off and there at the train station were everyone's family waiting for them.

Draco turned and saw his driver waiting for him. He turned and looked at Hermione. She was with Ron; the two had just gotten off the train. Draco looked at her one last time before he left. He looked at her and smiled hoping that one day he will see her again and hoping things will be different next time he sees her and hoping... just hoping that next time, he'll get his chance...