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The next few days seemed to fly by. Hermione was spending most of her time hanging out with Draco, Ginny, and Blaise. It was Saturday morning, and Hermione couldn't wait for her date with Draco. They had invited Ginny and Blaise to come along. Since her fight with Ron and Harry, Ginny had become Hermione's best friend. They spent a lot of time together when they weren't with their boyfriends.
Hermione yawned and snuggled closer to Draco. Since the night when Hermione asked him to stay with her, Draco had spent every night in her room with her. She breathed in his scent, she loved the way that he smelled. She could heard the sound of his heart beating as he slept. She was always the first to wake in the morning, but she never woke him. She loved the peaceful way that he looked when he slept. She sat up slightly and moved some hair off of his face. He made a wiping motion on his face and sighed. He slowly rolled towards her, opening his eyes slightly. "Morning beautiful. How long have you been up?"
"Just a while. I didn't mean to wake you. Did you sleep well?" Hermione moved up so that they were laying face to face.
"I always sleep well when I'm with you." He reached his arms around her waste and pulled her closer. "Do you want to go down to the hall for breakfast, or just check what we've got in our kitchenette? We could have the house elves send up something if you'd like."
"I think that we should go down to the hall. We need to talk to Ginny and Blaise and finalize the plans for tonight. Do you want to take a shower first, or do you want me to go?" Hermione yawned and stretched. Rolling over to the side of the bed to get up.
"Wait a minute, you're not going anywhere yet. It's still way too early. Get back over here." Draco grabbed Hermione's arm and pulled her back into the bed next to him. "What's the rush to get down to breakfast. It's Saturday. Can't we just stay curled up in this nice warm bed for just a little longer?" He looked at her with a pleading puppy dog face.
"Oh...how can I say no to that? You really are impossible, you know that?" She moved back under the covers and cuddled up next to him. She smiled up into his face. Draco smirked back at her, and pulled her into a long kiss. Hermione instantly opened her mouth allowing his tongue entrance to explore. She moaned into the kiss and relaxed fully into his arms. 'I guess he's right, there really is no rush to get down to the hall. Besides, this is a nice way to spend the morning.' She pulled slightly back from the kiss. "On second thought lets just stay here for breakfast. We'll go talk to them at lunch. I just want to enjoy laying in your arms for as long as possible."
"That's the best idea I've heard in a while." Draco pulled Hermione over so that she was sitting on top of him. Hermione leaned over him and started placing little kisses all over his face. "I love waking up every morning to your kisses. I'm not a morning person, but if I get to wake up every morning to you, it's well worth it." Hermione moved her kisses back to his mouth and pressed her tongue against his lips. Draco instantly complied and opened his mouth slightly. Hermione bit softly on his lower lip causing Draco to moan longingly into the kiss. Hermione smiled to herself, she loved knowing that she could make him want her by just a simple kiss. They hadn't gone further then kissing. Since they got interrupted by Ginny they never let things get that far. Hermione knew now that she wanted Draco to be her first, but she just wanted to give the relationship more time before they took such a big step.
Hermione pulled back and looked into Draco's eyes. They were more blue then normal. Over the week Hermione started to notice that Draco's eyes changed with his moods. When they were a dark stormy gray, he was angry. They were a cool calm gray when he was deep in thought. When he was happy they turned a soft icy blue. The only time that she saw the color they were now was when they were alone together, usually after they had been kissing. It had an almost lustful appearance to it. It was a deep intense blue. When Hermione looked into his eyes at these times, she could almost feel his need for her. She kissed him one last time, and then moved to get off the bed. "Come on Draco, I'm hungry. We can eat, and then get some of our mounds of homework done before we go out tonight."
"Ok, we'll get up. I still can't believe the amount of homework that we have gotten. It's only the first week." Draco got up and followed her out of the room and down to the kitchen for breakfast. As he watched her reaching into the cupboard for a plate to put the toast on, he could clearly see her tattoo that matched his own. He had also noticed that she had a small butterfly on her ankle. He smiled at how much she had changed from the bookworm she had been. "How many tattoos do you have exactly? I mean I've seen the dragon symbol, and the butterfly, but do you have any others?"
"Yes as a matter of fact, I have one other. It's a black rose. It's high up on my back, between my shoulder blades. Why do you ask?" She moved over to the table with the toast and some marmalade in her hands.
"I was just curious. To look at you, you don't seem the tattoo and piercing type."
"Well, you can't tell everything about a person from their appearance. I was going to get my eyebrow pierced, but I want a career at the ministry and I didn't think that it would be appropriate. I find tattoos and piercings to be a nice way to express yourself."
"So the symbol for dragon represents your love for Dragon, but what do the other tattoos represent to you?"
"Well, the butterfly is a representation of freedom. Butterflies fly without boundaries. It symbolizes the freedom that I have gained from my overprotective parents. Since I went away to school, and fought in a war, they have stopped being so overbearing. I finally feel like I'm free. I can be my own person. The rose is my favorite flower. I picked a black rose because a black rose has no thorns. Do you have any other tattoos besides the dragon symbol?"
"No. I want to get a tattoo of a snake around my other arm."
"Always a Slytherin. Well, I think it's about time that we hit the books. If we don't get started we're never going to have everything done. Do you want to work here, or go to the library?" Hermione stood up and went to the coffee table and started rummaging through her mountain of work.
"Let's go to the library, there's more room to spread out. Besides we should get some research started for our diplomacy class. I also want to check out a couple of books for that potions essay."
"Your right I had forgotten about that. Two feet on the uses of gillyweed in potion making. The only thing I know about gillyweed is that it allows you to grow gills so that you can breathe under water. How am I ever going to fit all of this stuff in my bag?" Hermione was trying to shove all of her textbooks, and enough ink and parchment for all of her homework into her bag.
"Use your wand Hermione. Shrink the stuff. You are a witch." Draco had already shrunk his stuff down so that it fit easily into his bag, and was standing there ready to go.
"Of course. Why didn't I think of that?" Hermione quickly shrunk her books down to a more manageable size, and zipped up her bag. "Let's go, we're wasting time. We need to hurry if we want to get anything done before lunch." They both walked out of the dorm hand in hand, and walked towards the library.
Hermione and Draco had been working for almost an hour when they heard the sound of a stack of books slamming down on the table next to theirs. Hermione turned to tell them off for making a racket and disturbing her. When she did however she saw that it was Ginny and Blaise. "Oh, hey guys what's up? Ready for some dancing tonight?"
"Hey 'Mione. I'm always ready to dance. I just hope that I can make a dent in this homework before we leave tonight. I can't believe how much homework I've gotten. I thought sixth year was supposed to be easy compared to fifth."
"I'd like to be able to tell you that it gets easier but it doesn't. Oh...Madam Pince is giving us the evil eye. Let's hold of the rest of the conversation for lunch time."
"Good idea." Ginny stroked the spine on her Monster Book of Monsters, and opened it up. She had an essay on dragons to do. Two rolls of parchment, because they are Hagrid's favorite.
Hermione went back to working on her essay for History of Magic. She was hoping to finish this essay and have plenty of time to work on Snape's essay before lunch. She glanced up at her notes, and pulled them closer knocking over a couple of her books. With another glare from Madam Pince, Hermione ducked down to pick them up. As she was picking them up she glanced over towards Blaise and Ginny's table, and saw that Blaise's hand was up Ginny's skirt. Hermione jumped hitting her head painfully on the table. She sat up quickly so that nobody would get suspicious. She couldn't believe what she had just seen.
Draco looked up from his work to see what the thump was. Hermione's face was beet red, and she had a look of complete shock on her face. Draco pulled a blank piece of parchment towards him and scribbled a note on it, and passed it to Hermione.
Hermione picked up the note. It said, "What's wrong?" Hermione hurriedly wrote back. "I just looked under the table, and saw Blaise's hand up Ginny's skirt." Hermione passed the note back. The look of surprise had still not left her face.
Draco read the letter, and smirked. He smiled up at Hermione before writing a response. "That doesn't surprise me. Blaise also has a bit of a reputation, it was just always overshadowed by mine. I wouldn't read too much into it though. It's probably nothing." He handed the note to her, and went back to his essay.
Hermione read his reply and then folded up the note and shoved it in her bag. She then tried to push what she had just seen out of her mind so that she could concentrate on her homework. It was already almost 11:00, at this rate she was never going to finish two essays before lunch.
The rest of the day passed by uneventfully. At 8:30 Ginny came over to get ready for the club with Hermione. Ginny had picked out a short jean skirt with a blue, sparkly halter top. Hermione was wearing a black knee-length skirt with slits up both sides, and a green tube top with silver rhinestones on it. When they had gotten dressed they started doing their hair and makeup. Ginny sported a curly up-do with ringlets that hung down framing her face. She had smokey blue eyeshadow on, and sparkly lip gloss. Hermione left her hair down curled in millions of tiny ringlets, she had on a pale green eyeshadow that sparkled, and some of Ginny's sparkly lip gloss. When they were finished getting ready they both stood in front of the mirror admiring each others look. "Hermione you look amazing. Draco is going to drop dead when he sees you. Especially the colors, you look like you were born to be a Slytherin."
"You look great too Ginny. You should think about keeping your hair curly, it looks really nice. Well, are we ready to go meet our men?" Hermione looked in the mirror once more before walking towards the door.
"I'm ready. I can't wait to see how the boys look. Can you believe that we are dating the hottest guys in school?"
"I still can't believe that Draco picked me when he could have anyone in the school."
"I can 'Mione. Look at yourself. I just don't know why Blaise would want to go out with me."
"He really likes you a lot Gin. Draco told me. I think that you guys are adorable together."
"Come on lets go, we don't want to keep them waiting." They walked out of the room and down the stairs to the common room.
"Wow! Hermione you look incredible. You don't look so bad either Weaselette." Draco couldn't take his eyes off of Hermione.
"You might want to close your mouth Malfoy. If you start drooling, I'm out of here. Where's Blaise?" Ginny was trying not to giggle at the look on Draco's face.
Draco still didn't take his eyes off of Hermione. "Huh? What? Oh yeah, him, he's in my room finishing getting ready. He'll be down soon." Draco walked over to Hermione and wrapped his arms around her waist. "You really are beautiful you know that? I must be the luckiest guy in the world."
"Oh please I think that I'm going to throw up. I'm going to go see if Blaise is ready." Ginny started walking up the staircase towards Draco's room.
"You look pretty good yourself, Mr. Malfoy. I'm afraid that the other girls at the club are going to try to steal you away from me." Hermione looked up into his eyes and could see all of his feelings expressed there. They had gone back to the deep blue color they were showing earlier.
"I'm not interested in any other girls. You don't have to worry. You will have all of my attention tonight." With that he pulled her closer to him and kissed her. He started backing towards the couch, and when he got there he dropped onto it, pulling Hermione with him. She was now sitting straddling his lap. She deepened the kiss.
"Oh Merlin, guys, that's disgusting. Get a room! Look are we going to get out of here, or would you guys like us to leave you two alone?" Blaise and Ginny had come out of Draco's room. Hermione looked up and rolled over off of Draco.
"What took you guys so long to come down here? By the way Blaise, that color lip gloss does nothing for you." Draco was slightly irritated at being interrupted. "Come on let's go. If we don't get out of here, by the time we get there the dance floor will be packed. We're going to walk there, traveling by floo powder is too dirty, and lets face it, I look too good to ruin my appearance with ash and soot." Draco was wearing a pair of jeans that looked like they were custom made to fit him, and a green silk button up shirt over a black wifebeater.
"Always the arrogant prat, Drake. We all know that it's me that looks good." Blaise was wearing a pair of jeans, with a black button up shirt part open to show the green Slytherin shirt he was wearing underneath.
"Geez Ginny, maybe we should just go ourselves, that way these two can stay here and fight over who's hotter. It's so obvious that it's us."
"She's got a point there Blaise. I think that the hottest in this room is definitely Hermione." Draco looked Hermione up and down, and then nodded, affirming that he was right.
"I beg to differ again Drake. Ginny is obviously the sexiest woman in the room. No offense Granger."
"When you two are finished, I want to go dance," Ginny said. She gave Blaise a puppy dog look.
"I can't deny that face. Come on lets go." They all walked out the door, out of the castle and started the long walk to Hogsmeade.
They had been dancing at the club for almost three hours. The dance floor was crowded, and everyone was having a great time. Hermione was right, every other girl there seemed to be watching Draco. She felt so lucky that he was hers. It felt nice knowing that the most desirable guy in the room and he only wanted to be with her. Hermione was started to get tired, but she didn't want to ruin Ginny's night. Draco seemed like he was ready to go too, but Blaise and Ginny weren't slowing down at all. "How much longer do you think they are going to want to stay here? My feet are killing me." Hermione yelled into Draco's ear as they danced.
"We don't have to stay, they know their way back to the castle. Why don't we just go back." Draco shouted back. It was hard to hear a thing over all the music.
"I don't feel right about leaving Ginny behind."
"Ginny will be fine. She's got Blaise with her. Blaise won't let anything happen to her, I promise. Let's go back."
"Alright, but let's tell them before we leave." They went over and told Blaise and Ginny. After saying good-bye they both walked out into the cool night air. "It feels so nice out here. It was bloody hot on the dance floor."
"Did you have fun?"
"Oh yeah I did. It was really great. I'm just tired of standing I just want to get back to the castle and relax. Look at the time, it's after 1:00."
"Come here. Hop on my back, I'll give you a ride back to the castle." He squatted down in front of her giving her a chance to hop on.
Hermione climbed on his back. "Are you sure you can carry me all the way back to the castle? Aren't you tired?"
"A little, but I'll be fine. I could carry you around for hours."
Hermione gripped tighter around his waist with her legs, and leaned in to kiss his neck.
"What do you think you are doing Miss Granger?"
"Just showing you how much of a good time I had tonight, and how much I love being with you." Hermione continued to kiss a trail all across the back of his neck, and pulled his shirt down a little so that she could kiss along his shoulders. "I'm not bothering you am I?" She breathed cool air along the area she had just kissed, caused Draco to shiver.
"Not at all." Draco said. His heart was pounding and his breathing was becoming more ragged. He couldn't wait to get back to their dorm and continue this. He began to walk faster so that they would get to the castle faster. They were almost there now.
They walked up the steps and into the entrance hall, here Draco let Hermione slide back down to the floor. He turned around and pulled her close, placing kisses all over her face, working his way to her mouth.
"Oh Draco. I want you so bad." Hermione whispered as he kissed his way from her mouth to her neck.
At this Draco picked her up in his arms and carried her the rest of the way to the portrait hole. When they got there he said the password, and carried her up the stairs to his bed. He laid her down gently on the bed and looked deep into her eyes. There was a new sparkle there that he had never seen before. "Are you sure that you want this Hermione? I don't ever want you to do anything that you will regret."
"I'm sure Draco. I've never been more sure of everything. Please. Make love to me." She reached up and grabbed Draco and pulled him down for a kiss. She instantly started unbuttoning his shirt. She then slid it off of his shoulders and moved to pull the wifebeater up over his head. She ran her hands along his firm chest.
Draco reached down and slid the tube top up over Hermione's head. He then lifted her up so that he could remove the black lace strapless bra that she had been wearing under it. He kissed down her neck to her bear chest. He kissed all over her chest and her stomach making sure to stop and give each nipple some attention. As he was sucking on her right nipple Hermione let out a moan. Draco smiled at this and moved to pay some attention to the one on the left.
"Oh Draco! I need you so much." Hermione's nails were practically digging into Draco's back. She pulled him up and started to undo his pants. She could already feel his erection pushing hard against the rough fabric. She unzipped them and pulled them down, next sliding the boxers down with them. This released Draco's erection. Hermione stopped for a moment. She had never seen a naked man before.
Draco noticed that she stopped and leaned down to kiss her. He moved down and slid Hermione's skirt off. He looked down at her, and could see that she was embarrassed. "You are so beautiful Hermione." He moved back up to place kisses on her face to calm her. He moved his hands down to her matching black lace panties, and slowly slid them down and off. He then also took off his pants and boxers and threw them on the floor.
Hermione felt awkward laying naked in front of Draco. She looked away from his eyes and started to bite her bottom lip. Draco reached down and lifted her chin so that she was looking into his eyes once more. "Please don't look away from me Hermione. If you want to stop, I will. I just want you to feel comfortable with me."
"No, I don't want to stop. I've just never done anything like this before. I don't know what to do." She closed her eyes.
"Hey, look at me," Draco said softly. Hermione opened her eyes. "I won't hurt you I promise. Just relax." He layed down beside her and ran his hand down her stomach. He stopped when he got to her clit to brush over it with his thumb. This caused Hermione to shudder and to moan his name. He moved his hand lower, and inserted one finger into her opening.
Hermione squirmed and moaned again. Draco started moving his finger in and out slowly. Hermione was clutching the sheets and her eyes were rolling back in her head. She was moaning regularly now. She had never felt anything like it before. "Oh Draco, I want you so bad. I need you."
"I'm just trying to make it easier for you. I don't want to hurt you." Draco then inserted a second finger. Hermione gasped and clenched her eyes shut. "I didn't hurt you did I?" Draco stopped moving his fingers giving Hermione's body a chance to adapt.
"I'm ok, just don't stop." Hermione had opened her eyes, and was biting her lower lip. "It hurts a little, but it feels so good."
Draco continued to move his fingers in and out. He could feel Hermione getting really wet. He knew that she was close to climax. He knew that if she climaxed it would make it easier for him to enter her without hurting her. He started to move his fingers in and out more rapidly. Hermione's whole body tensed up and she screamed out his name. Draco waited for her breathing to slow before he removed his fingers. He moved over and kissed her passionately on the lips. Positioning himself over her body. "This is going to hurt a little Hermione. If you want me to stop at any time, just tell me and I will."
"I will." Hermione knew that this was going to hurt, but she wanted it so bad. She had never had these feelings before, like if he didn't make love to her, she would explode. "Please Draco. I need you." She looked up into his eyes and saw her own passion reflected there. She felt Draco position himself over her opening, and then he slowly started to enter her. Stopping every once in a while to let her body get used to his size. At first Hermione felt this feeling like her body was being ripped in two. She bit her lip hard to keep from crying out. She didn't want him to stop. The pain subsided, and she felt him push himself further into her. She felt him hit a spot that sent shivers through her whole body.
Draco was watching every emotion play across Hermione's face. He could tell that she was feeling pain, but knew she didn't want him to stop. He could tell when the pain lessened, and then when he went in a little more, he felt her whole body shiver. He knew that he had hit the spot. He pushed in even more, causing a loud moan to escape Hermione's lips. He could tell that she was trying to be quiet because she kept biting her lip. "You don't have to worry about being quiet. Noone can hear us." He was breathing heavy. He pushed in all the way, waited for her body to adjust, and then started pushing in and out, slowly at first.
Hermione had never felt so good in her entire life. She pushed herself down harder onto him. She started to move in rhythm with his pumping. "Faster, please, Draco. Faster." Hermione could feel the tingling all over her body. Draco complied and started pumping faster. He was close to his climax, but could tell that she was too. He continued pumping into her and when he felt her tense around him in climax, he climaxed too. He pumped into her one last time, and then relaxed onto her. They were both breathing heavily.
Draco pulled out and rolled over so that he was laying on his side next to her. He brushed some of her hair that was sticking to her forehead away. He leaned forward and placed soft kisses on her face. He had never felt so happy, and content in his life. "You know Hermione...I think I'm falling in love with you," he said between breaths.
"I think that I'm falling in love with you too." Hermione gave him a weak smile. She was exhausted.
Draco kissed her once on the forehead, and then once on the mouth. "Goodnight beautiful. Get some sleep."
"Goodnight Draco." With that they both cuddled up together and fell asleep.