'Perfect. Who cares if this might boost her ego, it will probably freak her out even more then she would be happy about it. Sure this isn't a very good plan. Actually it isn't a very good plan at all. Maybe I should save it. Maybe there was a way I could use it as blackmail…' Draco suddenly saw Blaize coming up behind him. Blaise just winked at him and they walked into the compartment together. Hermione looked up and at first only saw Malfoy and she glared, but then Blaise walked in and she smiled sweetly at him.

"Hey Hermione" Blaise said sitting down next to her.

"Hi Blaise," Hermione said batting her eyelashes at him.

"So, I know we just started talking," Blaise started. He put his hand on her knee and rubbed it. He was never planning on doing anything; he just needed Hermione to think he was very interested in her. "But I was wondering if you would want to do our homework together tomorrow night. I mean, its nothing special, I'd offer something better but there really isn't anything going on. And Draco invited me over so I think it would be the perfect chance for us to be together," Blaise finished looking at Draco pleading for a moment before Draco nodded his head. Blaise looked back to Hermione to see her looking at him dreamily. Blaise smiled at her, breaking her out of her trance.

'No, it wasn't a smirk like so many other Slytherins have. No that was a smile, a real, sincere smile. Wow, I think I'm falling for him already'

'What! In the whole 6 years you've been at Hogwarts, you've never fallen for someone that fast! And especially not a Slytherin that hated your guts these past 6 years.'

'Yeah, but it seems like he's changed. I think it's sweet, what's the problem?'

'The problem is that maybe it's not him that changed, maybe its you. Think about it. This is the guy that wanted nothing to do with you for 6 years, unless you count needing to be there to make you feel like shit. He was, and probably still is a Malfoy clone! How can you even be thinking about this!'

'Well I feel like I can trust him, so shove off' Hermione said to her mind.

"Sure, we can do our homework together, but just homework, okay?" She said, taking his hand from her knee. "Now if you'll excuse us, Malfoy and I have to round up the first years," And with that she walked out of the compartment and closed thee door behind her. When she got into the hall, she leaned up against the wall. She didn't know what made her say that. She thought she told that voice in her head to shove off. But for some reason she just said it.

"What the bloody hell was that all about?" Blaise asked back in the compartment, still very confused.

"I don't know. First she was drooling over you, and then she's walking out. But I guess she's right because we are nearly there."

"Yeah, I guess I'll try to talk to her later…" Blaise said as he walked out of the compartment. He was walking up a few compartments when he ran into Hermione coming out one of the near compartments, followed by a bunch of first years. "Hey, sorry about before, I guess I was a bit forward-"

"No, no, not at all. It's me who should be sorry. You didn't do anything. Erm, I have to get these first years where they are going, but would you meet me later tonight?"

"Meet you where?"

"I'm not sure, I'll owl you later. It'd probably have to be when Malfoy and I are patrolling."

"Okay, I'll see you later," Blaise said, kissing her cheek softly before walking off.

Hermione regained her composure. After a while, all the first years were rounded up and her and Malfoy had them standing outside, waiting for Hagrid.

After Hagrid got the first years, Hermione and Draco walked to one of the carriages towards the front of the line, as McGonagall instructed them to. Draco opened the door for her, as if to let her in first. It took her a moment to trust him, and she started to walk towards the door. The second she was putting her foot up, Draco pushed her out of the way and walked in first. Hermione rolled her eyes and put a scowl on her face. She walked into the carriage and sat as far from Draco as possible. Draco smirked and turned to talk to her.

"So, Hermione, you and Blaise…?" Draco asked, still smirking.

"Yeah, what's your point?"

"Well do you like him?"

"Do you honestly think, considering our past, that I'm going to sit her and discuss this with you?"

"Yes, actually I do."

"Well your dead wrong. I'm not going to discuss this, nor anything else with you," Hermione said looking away. Draco said nothing but looked away. Less then a minute later he heard a mumble.

"What was that Granger, I didn't seem to here you."

"I said, yes I do like him."

"Do you want to be with him?"

"In what way do you mean?"

"What way do you think I mean, Granger?"

Hermione thought about it, "Well I'm going to say that you don't mean the perverted way," Draco laughed, "So yes, I do want to be with him."

"Then why did you react the way you did back in the compartment?"

"I don't know"

"What do you mean, you don't know?"

"Well, when he said about coming over to our dorm, I started having a battle in my head, I guess you could say. One part of me was very happy and that he changed, but the other part told me that it wasn't him that changed, it was me."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, it was telling me that he wanted nothing to do with me for the past 6 years, but the year that I look different, he wants to be with me."

"Well if that is the case, He's not the only one…"

"What do you mean?"

"Nothing, nothing, I'm not sure what I'm talking about."

"Okay…"

"Yes, well, we are at the castle so I guess I'll see you later." Then Draco left the carriage.

Hermione got out of the carriage and waited outside the castle doors for her friends. Then she heard people talking about Quidditch and recognized the voices as the guys from the compartment. Considering she still hadn't found the girls and it was a bit cold outside, she walked up to them. The group walked up to the castle and into the Great Hall and sat down. Harry and Ron were sitting next to each other and Hermione sat down across from them, and soon she was next to Ginny. They were talking for a while, and the only times they were quiet was when the sorting hat had his song, and when Dumbledore made his speech at the end. They were a bit quiet when the food came out, but everyone managed to talk while eating.

All throughout dinner, Hermione would steal glances over at Blaise. She looked away quickly when Draco looked up at her. He was really looking at Goyle, but he saw her looking over in the background. He elbowed Blaise to let him know. The next time Hermione looked over at Blaise, he was looking at her. She blushed and he smiled and returned to his food.

"Hermione, am I crazy, or are you and Zambini smiling at each other?" Ginny asked.

"No, no, never, why would you think that?"

"Because of the fact that you 2 were looking at each other smiling." Ginny said smiling at Hermione and the spot she got herself into.

"You should have seen them on the train," Harry said annoyed.

"What happened on the train?" Ginny wondered aloud.

"We were talking earlier when he can in, put his arm round her waist and walked out with her. Later we saw him walk into her compartment and she walked out a little later in a huff, and then before we got off the train, we saw him kiss her!" Ron said angered.

Hermione was about to try and explain when Dumbledore ended the feast and told the Heads to come up to the front, where Professor Snape and McGonagall would show them to their dorm. Hermione walked up and reached the table at the same time as Draco. They followed their professors to the third floor and down the hall. They stopped at a portrait of the Hogwarts animals.

"Okay, your password is 'unity' so don't forget it. You may change your password, but you both would need to decide on it together, and inform the Headmaster."

"There is a list of rules and things you have to do for the year on the table when you walk in. Keep in mind that you have to patrol the corridors tonight to."

"That's it so we will be on our way."

With that McGonagall and Snape walked away. Draco muttered the password and both of them walked into their dorm. Draco and Hermione stopped as soon as they walked in. This was nothing new for Draco, but he was still stunned at how nice school dorms could be. For Hermione this was extravagant. The common room had gold and silver walls. On the silver walls, there were red curtains, and on the gold walls there was green curtains. It still had curtains, although there was no windows in the common rooms. They had black leather couches, and shelves of books lined up against the wall. There were 2 roaring fires in the room, 1 was by the sitting area and the other was by the desks and books. There were stairs and a balcony straight back from the entrance. The right stairs were red and gold, meaning it was Hermione's room, and the stairs on the left were green and silver, meaning they lead to Draco's room. At the top of the stairs there was a balcony where the doors to their rooms were. They could actually go up either stairs to get to their rooms; it just seemed they should go up the ones with their house colors. On the first floor, between the stairs there was a white door, which they were guessing led to the bathroom. It stood out quite a lot considering it wasn't either of the 2's house colors.

"This is beautiful," Hermione said amazed.

"It's alright. I'm going to go check my room."

The pair examined the rest of the dorm, separately of course, and met back up 2 hours later at the sitting area. There was a list on the table.

"Malfoy, we need to discuss this." Hermione said as she finished reading the list.

"Erm, yeah, you decide what you want to do, then write down what you and I are going to do, I'll be right back." Draco said, walking towards to portrait hole.

"Malfoy wait-" It was too late, he walked out the door.

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otay, um this is a bit longer than the other ones. sorry it took so long to put up this chapter, i wuz gettin ready for finals nd goin on vacation. imma post a chapter every day till sunday, so yea. tootles

christa