Chapter 2
Hermione sighed as she looked out her window. It was summertime and it was raining. She hated the rain, it always made her feel empty inside. As she looked out the window, Hermione's mind began to wander to someone else whom she knew who always looked empty. He never smiled and his deep gray eyes always seem to be looking for something or someone to understand. She flashed back to a night she couldn't soon forget.
Flash back
Hermione sat in the library late one night, it was a night like any other. As she was packing up her school things, she stopped as she heard a door opened. 'That's funny I thought I was the only one with the spell to open the front door?' A short sigh came from the other side of the bookshelf. Hermione pulled a book off the shelf slowly and peeked through to the other side.
Draco Malfoy sat alone on the floor. His legs were straight out in front of him and for the first time that Hermione could ever recall, he seemed relaxed. The man before her was not the Draco Malfoy, everyone hated. This was a different man. One filled with pain and sorrow. He no longer appeared to be impervious to the world around him. The icicles in his eyes had melted and the mask he wore so well had fallen.
He sighed again and slumped back against a bookcase. He closed his eyes for a moment. When he opened then again, he pulled off his cloak and opened his book bag. There was a blue bottle in his hand. He looked around quickly, as if checking to make sure the coast was clear. He then removed his shirt and rubbed the liquid on his chest.
Hermione had to cover her mouth to keep from screaming. What she saw made her want to cry. When he was done he pulled himself together and left just as he had came.
Flash back end
'Who or why would anyone do that to him? And why would he hide it?' Just then a knock came at her door.
"Hermione honey, your father and I have decided to send you to your grandmother's for the rest of the summer... We're going on a trip around the world as are our second honeymoon." Her mother cried from the other side.
