Outside the muggle restaurant Draco reached for Hermione's hand again. She let him take it and turned to him.

"Dou you think they'll really keep silent?" she asked Draco, worry clouding her eyes. Draco nodded.

"I'm sure of it. They're Gryffindors, aren't they?" he said with a smile and leaned in to kiss her lovingly, unaware that they were still being watched by Seamus and Dean. Together they walked behind the nearest bush to apparate to Diagon Alley. In the Leaky Cauldron they kissed goodbye and Hermione flooed to The Burrow. 'Well, here it goes.' She thought..

Ron and Harry were de-gnoming the backyard when Molly Weasley called them into the living room. They stopped hurling the short, ugly gnomes over the fence immediately since it wasn't either one's favourite activity. They decided to race to the house, they seemed to compete a lot these days. None of them spoke it aloud but their next competition was going to be Hermione, a competition which they were both going to loose. Ron and Harry both had feelings for Hermione, both wanted her as a girlfriend and the other knew about it. They had spent long night discussing it and decided not to tell her in fear of ruining their friendship. Besides, they were still angry at her for snogging Malfoy in the Leaky Cauldron.

"'Mione! What are you doing here?" Harry and Ron exclaimed at the same time upon entering the living room and seeing Hermione sit on the worn couch, looking very nervous. Hermione stood up.

"Hey guys." She greeted them softly. "I-I wanted to talk to you about...about the other day."

'She obviously feels bad about what happened with Malfoy.' Ron thought biting his lip.

"Well, you might as well sit down." He told Hermione indicating to the couch behind her while sitting down in a nearby armchair, Harry followed suit.

"Well, you both knew that my mum was pregnant." Hermione began and they both nodded. "Yesterday, after you guys left, I went home and my parents told me- they told me that I am adopted." She looked up at Ron and Harry for a moment before continuing. "It all came as such a shock for me and I just grabbed my wand and ran out of the house and apparated back to the Leaky Cauldron. I don't know what came over me, I just went over to the bar and ordered one firewhiskey after another-"

"Hermione! You drank firewhiskey? How'd it taste?" Ron asked excitedly and Harry gave him a stern look.

"It doesn't matter how it tasted, it was just a stupid thing to do. Needless to say, I got really drunk and that's when Malfoy came in. my mind was really foggy so I didn't say anything as he sat down next to me, pulling his usual jokes and saying how 'disappointed' he was in me, star student of Hogwarts, getting wasted in a bar. After a while I got up to stumble towards my room and he stopped me. I asked him what he wanted and he just kissed me. I would have stopped him, but I couldn't get control of my muscles, much less think, so I just kinda gave in without wanting to. And that's when you two came in." Hermione finished her story. She felt really bad for lying to Harry and Ron. But she had to, in order to keep them from killing Draco, or herself for that matter. they looked as though they believed Hermione's story and she gave a feeble smile, now feeling very guilty, too.

"I believe you Hermione. I'm sorry that we yelled at you without listening to you, even when you called out to us." Ron answered Hermione.

"Yeah, me too. Forgive us?" Harry added and Hermione got up to hug the two of them.

"No problem, guys. And my mum had the baby. It's a girl, her name's Julia and she's beautiful." Hermione said as she hugged them.

"I'd love to see her someday." Harry told her.

"I'm sure you will. At the end of term at the latest, when we get off the train for the last time at Kings Cross." Said Hermione.

Molly Weasley entered the room

"Hermione dear, do you want to stay for dinner?" she asked the guest with a huge smile. Hermione hasn't visited them in a very long time. Molly secretly wished that she would get together with Ron, but certainly didn't mind if she got together with Harry, either. She just couldn't picture her with anyone else. Good thing she didn't know about Malfoy.

"Sure, I'd love to Molly." Hermione answered although she had already eaten but she thought it would be better to spend some more time with them.

"All right. Could you three set the table, please? Dinner will be ready in 20 minutes." Molly smiled as the three teens as they headed off into the dining room to set the table.

As promised, everyone was seated at the Weasley's huge dinner table and Hermione and Harry had to answer Arthur's questions about muggles once again.

"And what exactly is a computer?" Arthur wanted to know.

"Well, it's an electronic device and you can do lots of things with it. Like playing games, downloading music or movies and writing stuff and then saving it on the hard drive so it won't get lost." Tried Harry to explain. Arthur looked clueless.

"I didn't understand a word of what you were saying just now to be honest." Arthur said and Hermione giggled.

"You don't have to, Arthur." She assured him.

"So, Hermione, are you the Head Girl this year, or what?" Fred asked Hermione, but it might have been George, she could never tell.

"Yeah, and I can't wait." She answered, smiling a real smile for the first time she had been here.

"Congratulations, Hermione, dear." Molly Weasley said giving her a big smile.

"Yeah, I knew you'd make it, Hermione." Congratulated Ginny Weasley who was sitting next to Hermione who smiled again.

"Thanks!" she exclaimed.

"I wonder who the Head Boy is." Ron spoke up.

"Malfoy." Hermione responded quietly, giving a quiet dreamy sigh that only Ginny heard.

"Huh?" Harry asked dumbfounded.

"I said Malfoy is Head Boy this year." She repeated. Ron made a disgusted face.

"Jeez, 'Mione. I'm about that, you actually have to room with that slimy git." Ron said, giving her a sympathetic look. Hermione had to bite her tongue to keep from saying anything to Ron, like that Draco isn't a slimy git but a nice person, even if he doesn't show it to everybody. "If he ever does anything o you, you just tell us. Then he'll have us to answer to." He added.

"That's right. Just tell us and we'll take care of it." Harry added. Hermione smiled.

"Sure, I will." She said. When everybody went back to eat their dinner Hermione smirked slightly. But Ginny saw this and made a mental note to ask her about it later on, Hermione didn't have any reason to smirk like only a Malfoy would.

After dinner Ginny and Hermione went up to Ginny's room to have a little chat. They haven't done that in ages and both missed it. As soon as Hermione closed the door behind them Ginny started talking.

"So, Hermione, tell me. Why'd you put on that smirk a la Malfoy before?" Ginny crossed her arms before her chest but with an amused smile on her face. Hermione blushed.

"I-I wasn't smirking." She stammered prepared to deny anything Ginny was going to say.

"Yeah right. And that little dreamy sigh you gave when you said Malfoy was Head Boy?" now it was Ginny's turn to smirk as Hermione blushed crimson.

"You heard that?" Hermione's face couldn't possibly turn any redder.

"So, anything you wanna tell me?" Ginny asked her friend.

"There's nothing between me and Draco!"

"Draco?" Ginny asked, smirking more and more.

"All right! I'll tell you everything!" Hermione gave in. "Did Harry and Ron tell you what happened yesterday in the Leaky Cauldron?" Ginny nodded. "All right, well I let him kiss me because I wanted to, not because I was drunk, which I wasn't." Ginny was kinda shocked and her jaw dropped.

"Why don't you start at the beginning?" she suggested and sat down on the bed, Hermione following suit.

"Well, when I ran out of the house I bumped into Draco, literally. He asked me if I wanted to get a drink in the Leaky Cauldron cause he said I looked like hell." Hermione and Ginny smiled. "I said yes and once there we talked. When it was late I wanted to go to bed when I realized I didn't have a room yet. So I went to Tom, the owner to get one but he said they were booked. Then Draco said I could share his room with him, we would have to the next school year anyway. He would have one side of the bed and I the other. I said yes again. We both lay with our faces toward the middle of the bed and when I had my eyes closed and he thought I was asleep he leaned over and kissed me lightly and said :'good night Hermione.'"

"He did?" Ginny asked. "That's sweet."

I spent the next day with Ron and Harry. When they left I talked to Draco and he called me Granger again. When I asked him why he said he has always called me Granger. Then I said he didn't call me Hermione last night his usual sneer was wiped off his face and he actually stammered something about me hearing that and that I must have been awake when he kissed me. I said I was awake and he asked why I didn't stop him." Hermione paused.

"Go on!" Ginny urged and Hermione couldn't suppress a smile.

"I said it was because I didn't want to stop him. then he came over and kissed me. That's when Ron and Harry came in."

"But they said you were snogging, not just kissing." Ginny urged her on. Hermione blushed again.

"Well..." Hermione let the sentence trail off. Ginny giggled.

"So you did?" she asked, now laughing. "Did you share a room that night, too?"

"I don't see how that concerns you, Ginny Weasley." Hermione said, pretending to be outraged.

"So you did...how is he?"

"Ginny!" Hermione exclaimed. "I- we didn't!"

"It's all right. I would have been a bit disappointed in you if you did. I guess you have to go now?" Ginny asked. Hermione nodded.

"Yeah, but I'll see you on the train." Hermione said and went downstairs to say good bye to everybody. Then she flooed back to the Leaky Cauldron to tell Draco all about he visit to The Burrow.