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Draco woke first the next morning. He laid there in bed just watching Hermione sleep. He couldn't believe how much he loved her. She started to cuddle closer to him in her sleep. He smiled. He leaned down and kissed her on top of her head.
Hemione opened her eyes and looked up to find Draco looking down at her. "I didn't sleep in too late did I?"
"No. It's not too late. We still have plenty of time to get ready and get to breakfast. I want to thank you again for coming with me last night. It really meant a lot to me that you would come meet my mother."
"I would do anything for you Draco. I had a great time seeing your house, and meeting your mom. She was really wonderful, I can see why you love her so much." Hermione reached up and placed a light kiss on his mouth.
"What was that for?" He asked smiling and pulling her even closer.
"Nothing. I just felt like kissing you. Come on we should get up and get ready for breakfast. I need a shower." Hermione started to get up when she realized that she was still naked. She summoned one of Draco's t-shirts, and a pair of boxers, and got up.
"I could use a shower too. Do you mind if I join you?" Draco slipped on a pair of boxers and walked over to her, wrapping his arms around her waist.
Hermione still wasn't all that comfortable with Draco seeing her naked. She knew that she was being silly, but she was a little embarrassed. She thought about it though, and it wasn't like he hadn't seen her naked before. She decided it would be ok. "I suppose you can join me."
Draco followed her into the bathroom and watched her turn on the shower and get everything ready. When the shower was ready she turned so that her back was facing him and began to get undressed. Draco smiled to himself, she was still so shy around him. He moved over to her and slowly turned her around. He lifted her chin so that she was looking into his eyes. "I love you Hermione. You don't need to be shy about being with me. I think that you are beautiful."
"I know, I love you too, I just can't get used to the idea of standing naked in front of another person. I don't like feeling so exposed." Hermione blushed and gave him a shy smile.
"It's just me." Draco backed away and removed his boxers he then stepped into the shower and pulled Hermione with him. He stood there for a moment letting the hot water pour down on his head, he then moved allowing her to move into the stream of the water. He backed slightly away from her, looking at her as the water cascaded down her body.
Hermione opened her eyes to find Draco looking at her. She moved so that he could step back into the water. She watched him as he ran his hands back through his hair as the water ran over him. He really was gorgeous. She stepped forward and started to move her hands over the ripples of muscles in his chest and stomach. She moved both hands up his chest to his shoulders, and pulled him down for a kiss. Wrapping her arms around his neck. She started to nibble on his bottom lip asking for entrance. He willingly gave it to her, picking her up in the process. Hermione wrapped her legs around his waist, deepening the kiss even further. Something about standing here in the shower with him, watching the water pour down over his perfect body made her lose all self-control. She pulled away from the kiss momentarily. "Draco. I want you. Please. Make love to me."
That was all that Draco needed to hear. He moved Hermione back so that her back was against the wall supporting her. He then moved himself into position. He thrust into her. He needed her so much, and he knew that she needed too. "Oh Hermione, you feel so good." Draco moaned as he thrust into her harder and faster each time.
Hermione couldn't take much more. She knew that she was close to her climax, she could feel it. "Draco, oh…Draco! Faster!" Hermione tilted her head back onto the wall and rode out the orgasm. It wasn't long after when Draco followed.
Draco pulled out and allowed Hermione to slide down so that her feet were on the floor. He was bracing himself against the wall of the shower, waiting for his breathing to return to normal. He leaned in and kissed her roughly. "I love you so much Hermione."
"I love you too Draco." Hermione kissed him back just as roughly. She then moved him back so that he was again standing directly under the spray of the shower, and squirted some of her shampoo onto her hand. She then reached up, having to stand on her toes due to the height difference, and began to lather soap onto his hair.
Draco leaned forward so that his head wasn't directly under the water, and also to give Hermione better access to his head. He loved the way her hands felt as her fingers massaged the soap into his scalp. When Hermione was finished he leaned his head back and allowed the soap to rinse off of him. They then switched places and Draco did the same for Hermione. Next Hermione brought out her body wash, and they both took turns washing each other, which of course took a lot longer than normal.
When they were done with their showers they realized that they had taken too long, and they no longer had time to go to the Great Hall for breakfast. In fact, if they didn't hurry they were going to be late for their first classes. They quickly dressed, grabbed their books and hurried out of the dorm.
When their classes were done for the day they had a meeting to go over plans for the upcoming Halloween Ball. They were meeting the prefects in their common room an hour after classes finished. Hermione was worried. That would mean that Ron would be there. She was hoping that he could remain civil. At least Ginny would be there too. Maybe Ginny could help control her brother. Hermione and Draco were at dinner with Ginny and Blaise now.
"Do you guys have any plans yet for the Ball, 'Mione?" Ginny asked excitedly.
"Well, we are hoping to find someone here at the school who would like to DJ for us. Do you know anybody?" Hermoine asked hopefully.
"I think that Dean Thomas may do some DJing. You might want to ask him. Other than that, all that I can suggest is put up fliers. Someone is bound to answer. What about for decorations?" Ginny asked scooping another serving of shepherd's pie onto her plate.
"Well the decorations are already so great every year, we're not really sure what we can do to top that. That's why we're hoping to get more ideas at the meeting tonight. We were also trying to figure out if we want there to be some kind of a theme with the costumes, or something." Hermione added shaking her head at Ginny as she watched her shove a fork full of food in her mouth. She had an appetite like her brothers, that was for sure.
"I think that it should be a couples theme. People should come dressed as things that come in pairs or something like that." Blaise piped in.
"Hey, that's a great idea. Don't you think 'Mione. People could come as Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella and Prince Charming, Adam and Eve…" Ginny started.
"That is an awesome idea. That's what we should do. Don't you think Draco?" Hermione turned to Draco to find out what he thought.
"Yeah it sounds great. Good idea Zabini. Now do we still have to have this stupid meeting tonight?" Draco was not looking forward to having a prefects meeting in his common room tonight.
"Yes. Just because we have that settled, doesn't mean anything else is. I'm going to go talk to Dean now. I want to catch him before we head to the meeting so that I can tell everyone if he's up for it. I'll meet you back in the common room when I'm done." She kissed Draco, waved good-bye to Ginny and Blaise, and hurried to the Gryffindor table.
"Dean. Hey can I talk to you for just a second?" Hermione sat down across from him.
"Yeah…sure. What's up?" He said not knowing what she could possibly need to talk to him about. They had never actually been friends or anything.
"Ginny said that you were a DJ and I was just wondering if there was anyway that you wanted to DJ the Halloween Ball?" She asked him smiling.
"I guess. I was going to go with Lavender to the dance, but I guess that I can still dance even if I am the DJ." He seemed kind of disappointed.
"Of course you can. And you will be getting paid for it, of course. Thanks a lot Dean this really helps me out a ton." She smiled and got up and hurried off to her common room to get things ready for the meeting. When she got there Draco had already conjured up some extra chairs for the meeting. "Thanks. I talked to Dean and he said that he'd do it, so that's the music taken care of. If we get everyone to agree on the decorations we'll be done with everything except advertising, picking our costumes, and setting up the day of the dance." She heard a knock on the door and she went to get it. It was Ginny and Ron. "Hey Gin…Ron. Come on in. Everyone else should be here shortly." Hermione put a spell on the portrait hole to hold it open so that she wouldn't have to open it every time more people arrived. She then moved to take her seat next to Draco.
Once everyone got there Hermione started the meeting. "As you all know we are in charge of the decorations and music for the Halloween Ball. The music has already been taken care of it is going to be a DJ. Dean Thomas has agreed to do it. We have also decided on a theme it's going to be famous couples. You and your partner will dress up like people, or things that traditionally go together. All that we really need to work on is decorations. Does anyone have any ideas?"
"I have one. There are some new Halloween fireworks at Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes. We could get some of those and set them off at the beginning, they would last through the whole dance. They have all different kinds, pumpkins, ghosts, skeletons." Justin Finch-Fletchly chimed in.
"That's a great idea Justin. I hadn't even thought of those. Ron, Ginny, you guys could probably get us a pretty good deal on those, right?" Hermione asked.
"Yeah, I'm sure if we sent Fred and George a toilet seat, they would be more than happy to send all of the fireworks we would need." Ginny joked. Everyone laughed except Ron, and most of the Slytherins.
"Anything else?" Draco asked. In a hurry to wrap up this meeting and get these people out of his room.
"I think that the decorations that we usually have are really good. I think that we should just check with the Weasley brothers to see if they have any other Halloween goodies that would work well, and I think that would be plenty. The Great Hall looks awesome for the feast every year." Hannah Abbot added.
"Well, if everyone agrees, then I guess that's it. Ginny if you wouldn't mind talking to Fred and George, and finding out what they have that would be good for the dance, then I think that we have everything that we need. The meetings over. You can all leave." Hermione said.
"No problem 'Mione. I'll write to them tonight and find out what they've got. Talk to you later. See you tomorrow at breakfast. If you actually show up." She winked at Hermione before walking out of the portrait hole.
After everyone had left Hermione removed the spell from the door allowing it to close. She then went and sat at her desk and pulled out some parchment, ink, and a quill.
"What are you doing? Little Red said that she would write the Weasel twins." Draco asked leaning over her.
"I'm not writing them. I'm writing my parents. I want to tell them how school has been going so far, tell them about you, and I want to see if there is anyway that we can visit them this coming weekend." She said, scratching away at her piece of parchment.
"What do you mean if we can meet them? Where are we going to meet them?"
"Well, I figured that we could floo to Diagon Alley, and meet them in the Leaky Cauldron. I want them to be able to meet you. Besides, that will be a good time for me to ask them if it's ok if I spend the Christmas holidays with you at the manor."
"Do you really think that they are going to want to hear about me, meet me, and ok you staying at my house for the holidays all in one week?"
"Trust me. Once my parents meet you, they'll love you. I just can't ask them to let me stay at the house of some strange boy that they've never met. We'll have to ask Dumbledore of course before we go, but I'm sure that he'll ok it. He oked our trip to the manor." Hermione finished her letter and folded it up. She sealed it with magic. "Would you like to walk with me to the owlery?"
"Of course I'll go with you." He kissed her forehead, and followed her out towards the owlery.
Well, that's all for now. I hope this chapter doesn't seem pointless, I just wanted to get them ready for Halloween, and to get Hermione ready to ask her parents about staying at Draco's for Christmas. Hope you like it. Please review.