Chapter 6: realizations and explanations

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It was the next morning and Hermione had just woken up. She rolled over to check the time and saw that it was only 8:20.

'Thank god we've got an extra day off classes?' Hermione thought to herself as she slowly began to climb out of her bed.

She walked to her cupboard and chose her clothes for that day. She picked a short denim skirt that was about half-way up her thigh and a light pink halter that said Brat in black sparkles. She also grabbed her bra and underwear then made her way to the bathroom. She opened the door and walked in to see Draco standing at the sink brushing his teeth, and wearing only a towel.

"Really Granger, if you want to see me in the shower that bad, you're going to have to get up earlier" said Draco, except it sounded weird because his mouth was still full of toothpaste.

"You know Malfoy, you really shouldn't go round snogging Pansy, not when her rabies have gotten so bad." replied Hermione nastily.

"It's not my fault every chick in this school wants me?" said Draco staring at himself in the mirror.

"I've decided you don't need to breathe air anymore Drakie, and no not every girl in Hogwarts wants you, least of all me?" said Hermione as she began brushing her hair.

"And why don't I need air, miss ?pick-me-I-need-to-show-off Granger?" sneered Draco.

"Well," said Hermione as she turned to face him "Your head is already so full of air, and its starting to push your minuscule brain out of your ass, so I figure the reason your always smirking is because, at long last your constant attempt at smirking is starting to hurt your head!" stated Hermione simply, while smiling sweetly at Draco.

"Well guess what Granger? You are seriously fucked in the head" replied Draco.

"Is that the best you can come up with Malfoy? Honestly! Now get out of here so I can have my shower." ordered Hermione.

"No I don't think I will leave, I wouldn't mind seeing you in the shower." said Draco advancing slowly towards Hermione.

"Malfoy, get the fuck away from me and out of this bathroom, I'm fucking warning you" threatened Hermione, grabbing her wand from the bench.

"Or what Granger?" sneered Draco "Whatcha going to do about it? I'm allowed in this bathroom t—" Draco was sent flying backwards out of the bathroom when Hermione hit him with an Expelliarmus spell.

(A/N ? Hermione just loves cutting him off mid-sentence doesn't she? Lol)

"That, Malfoy is what I was going to do about it." said Hermione calmly as Draco slid down the wall and hit the floor. "Now if you don't mind I'll go have my shower!"

DRACO'S POV

'Who the fuck does that Mudblood think she is? To curse me, and boss me around like she owns me!' I thought.

Then a second voice began arguing with him.

(A/N: Maybe he's going crazy!)

'But you did tell her you wouldn't mind staying in there to watch her shower?'

'What the? I'm arguing with myself! And its not my fault she has those luscious curves that- No! No luscious curves! I am not falling for her! Am I? Oh my God! I'm still talking to myself! There has gotta be something wrong with me!' As I decided this I checked my watch and saw that I still had 20 minutes until breakfast at 9, so I decided to go for a walk around the school and hopefully run into someone I liked. I walked out of my room to see Granger walking down the stairs in a short skirt that showed off those tanned legs? 'Argh! What the hell is wrong with me?' I thought as I sped up and was out the portrait door before Hermione's foot had even hit the last step.

END DRACO'S POV

Hermione watched Draco hurry out of the portrait door and she followed, though at a much slower pace, hoping to bump into Ginny as she hadn't spoken to her best friend in ages. She was almost at the entrance to the Great Hall when she heard someone call her name.

"Mia, wait up." called Ginny.

"Heya Gin, I haven't talked to or seen you in ages!" said Hermione as she greeted her friend with a hug.

"So how's sharing a room with the one and only Draco Malfoy?" asked Ginny as she and Hermione made their way over to the Gryffindor table.

"Can you say fucking annoying? Coz that's what it is" answered Hermione, rolling her eyes.

"Oh okay then, I thought it'd be more interesting and all, seeing as what his reputation of Slytherin Sex God is like!" replied Ginny.

They sat down and helped themselves to toast and coffee.

"Well yeah it's interesting, but he is so full of himself and what's really creepy, is I catch him staring at me every now and then." said Hermione, taking a sip of coffee

"Mia, you cannot blame him for staring, half the guys in this school do when you walk past. They can all see that you've changed." Ginny turned to face Hermione once she'd finished talking.

"Yeah, I know I've changed, but it's not that much of a big deal? Hermione said softly "Is it?"

"From when you went home last summer to now? Yes it is a big change for the guys here."

Ginny and Hermione stopped talking as Harry and Ron walked up to them.

"Hey babe." Harry said to Ginny as he sat down next to her and kissed her cheek.

"Hey yourself" replied Ginny smiling at Harry (A/N: Yes they are going back out in this story.)

"Hi Mia." said Ron softly

"Heya sweetie! I missed you yesterday on the train." said Hermione as she kissed Ron's cheek "And I'd stay but I have some stuff to do before I go see Dumbledore."

"Okay catch ya later?" said Harry waving goodbye, then turning back to talk to Ginny.

"I'll see you soon? Ok?" said Hermione to Ron as she bent down and kissed him softly on the lips.

"Ok baby, catch ya?" replied Ron, and then turned back to his food as Hermione walked off.

AT THE SLYTHERIN TABLE

'See, she's going out with Weasel, so she's off-limits.' thought Draco to himself.

'Wait what the hell am I thinking? I don't want to be with her and even if I did the fact that she's going out with Weasel wouldn't stop me.'

"So have you figured out that Granger is hot yet?" Blaise asked Draco.

"Huh? What? Oh well yeah I 'spose she is a little bit hot." admitted Draco.

"Finally! I told ya she was hot!" exclaimed Blaise, just as Pansy walked up to them.

"Of course Draco knows I'm hot!" laughed Pansy, as she tried to sit on Draco's lap.

"Pansy, you fucking whore, you look like a pug-faced bitch, just like you ran head-long into a wall, get the illusion that I like you out of your head coz no matter what you do or say, I will never go out with you!" Draco practically yelled, as he stood up causing Pansy to fall on the floor.

"But, but Drakie-"

"Do NOT call me Drakie!" Draco called back to her as he walked off back to the Heads' Dorm. "See you round Blaise." he said as he walked out of the Great Hall.

IN DUMBLEDORE'S OFFICE

It was 11:00 and Hermione and Draco had just arrived in Dumbledore's office.

"Now as this years Head Boy and Girl, you are expected to complete a series of tasks. Your first one is to plan a dance/ ball whichever you choose to call it. It can have any theme you want and once you have decided what it is please come and tell me, I need your answer in a week or less." Said Dumbledore as soon as they had all sat down. "Are there any questions?"

"Um, no not about the dance, but how is it that you didn't die when Professor Snape Avada Kedavra'd you?" asked Hermione softly. "If you don't mind telling us that is."

"Well, I'm not going to go into detail, but the person who is actually dead in my place is Mundungus Fletcher. You see he was in debt to me and he said that he really wanted to do this for me, so he took some Polyjuice potion and I was hiding all through that battle" said Dumbledore sadly. "Now I have some business to attend to, so if you could kindly leave, that would be much appreciated."

Hermione and Draco left Dumbledore's office together and walked silently back to their common room.

"Seed Of Love?" said Hermione and they entered

"Well, I guess we can talk abo-"

Hermione stopped talking as Draco pushed her up against the wall (again!) with his lips covering hers. Hermione resisted at first, but after a few seconds returned the kiss.

'Hermione what the hell are you doing?' She thought 'You're going out with Ron!'

After a little bit longer Hermione pushed Draco away, and looked up at him with her big chocolate colored eyes full of tears. He just looked back down at her, his eyes full of lust. He went to kiss her again but she knocked him out of the way and ran up to her room with tears streaming down her face.