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Author's note: Hey hoped you like the last chapter and if you didn't then… well… there's nothing I can really do about that, cos it's my story and if you don't like it don't read it! Okay, I think that will just about get rid of the people who don't want to read this story, not that anyone who didn't like the story would be reading this. Didn't I tell u, once I get going I can go on forever, my friends tell me that all the time, but I don't talk that much. Anyway…lol…after you have read this chapter I would really appreciate it if you could review. Now, to the story…

Chapter 2: Just a Slip of the Tongue

It was the morning of September the 1st and Harry, Hermione and Ron were just finishing having breakfast. Hermione had made the boys pack everything in there trunks the night before so they would have plenty of time to do things in the morning and not have to rush around.

They were getting the night bus to the station and would hopefully arrive at 10:30 giving them half an hour to say goodbye to everyone and maybe have a cup of tea.

At 9 o'clock Hermione was in her room making sure she did not leave anything behind when Luke Quartz pop up behind her. She turned in surprise.

"Luke, what are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be at work?"

"Nah, I'm on my morning tea break and I wanted to catch you before you went to the station," Hermione's boyfriend explained as he walked close to her.

"Oh, well in that case…" and with that she pulled him into an enthusiastic kiss. Luke leaned into it and started to wrap his arms around Hermione's body. Hermione was glad to have him there, not having seen nor heard from him in a while.

Story Fillerer In

They had met one day in Diagon Alley. Hermione was walking out of Flourish Blotts with her head stuck in a book she had just bought. When she was walking out the door, Luke had walked in, not looking at where he was going (he was in a hurry because he was on his lunch break and he needed to get a book and get back to work within twenty minutes), he knocked into Hermione and sent her flying.

After realizing what he had done and feeling very stupid, he offered Hermione a hand. She gratefully took his hand and upon looking up see saw a young handsome gentleman, with sweet-sorry blue eyes and gorgeous curly blonde hair. It was love at first sight.

Luke looked down at whom he had knocked over. He hoped that they weren't hurt by his clumsy act. She's beautiful, he thought to himself, even if I had have seen her I would have walked in to her, just to get her attention. Maybe ask her if she wanted to got out sometime. Well, I'll just ask her anyway now.

And that is exactly what he did; Hermione said "yes" with no hesitation and they made it a date. They went out that weekend and have been going out ever since.

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"So…how are you? And why haven't you called?" Hermione questioned Luke with a slight grin on her face. (Luke is muggle born)

"I'm better now that I'm with you, and you know why I didn't call. I couldn't, my boss has been making sure that I'm focused on work and my mum won't leave me alone. She thinks I can't live by myself, but I can! I really missed you and I'm going to miss you even more when you're at school. Make sure you tell me when the Hogsmedes visits are and I'll come down, okay?" Luke finished and leaned down to give Hermione a quick kiss.

"Yeah, of course. I have missed you too! And I'm really going to miss you at school. I can't wait til the first Hogsmedes visit when I get to see you next."

Hermione hugged Luke and buried her face in his chest. She just wanted to be close to him. Luke hugged her back and they stood silently in each others arms until Ron called up the stairs, "Hermione, what are you doing? We have to go soon."

Luke looked at his watch over Hermione's shoulder "Goodness, is that the time? Sorry Hermione, but if I don't get back to the office soon Mr. Weasley is going to crack it!" He gave her a long kiss goodbye and vanished.

Hermione went down stairs with her trunk. She set the trunk at the door along with Crookshanks' cage and went to see where the others were.

She found them; talking about a cute guy they had seen at Diagon Alley, in the living room. "Well, are we going or not?"

"Oh, yeah. Meet you at the door in a minute, we just got to get our trunks from up stairs and then we can leave." Harry replied and both boys got up off the couch they had been sitting on.

"Okay, I just have to get Crookshanks in her travel cage, which shouldn't take a minute," Hermione stated and then headed towards the back of the house where she had last seen her ginger cat.

"Crookshanks!" Hermione called out "come on, I've got a nice big rat for you to eat on the way to school!" It didn't take long until Crookshanks was jumping into Hermione's arms and she was walking to the door. She got there barely a second before the boys and they were out the door and on the night bus in no time at all.

The bus ride was uneventful, except Erin nearly run over ten Muggles. They were at the station by quarter passed ten. This gave them plenty of time to get on to the platform and meet up with the rest of the Weasleys.

By 1:30pm the trio had seen no sign of Malfoy or any of his gang. Hermione was glad to not have to talk to him before going to her meeting with Dumbledore at the front of the train at 2pm. She really couldn't be bothered taking points from anyone's house at this point in time.

She got changed into her robes at quarter to two and asked the boys (A/N: I always call my 2 bros "the boys" cos it is easier than saying both their names and I do it with my lil cousins as well. They're like one year apart and they're kinda like twins. It is soooo cute! Anyway, I thought I would call Harry and Ron "the boys" cos it is easier to type, kay? Kool!) "Hey, you know how I'm Head Girl? Well, who do you think is Head Boy?"

"Well, it was out of Ron, Ernie, I don't remember the Ravenclaw dudes name (A/N: that's cos I don't) and Draco" Harry replied.

"And obviously I didn't get it," Ron added to Harry's statement pointing to his bare chest.

"So, that leaves Ernie, the Ravenclaw or Draco." Hermione concluded. "I hope it's not Draco. I don't think I could live in the same quarters as him."

"Ernie wouldn't be too bad," Harry commented "and like Draco would get it, he is an asshole at anytime."

"And the Ravenclaw would we alright, I guess…" added Ron looking dreamily into the sky as if a hot guy was lying on the patch of ceiling he was looking at.

"But your not the ones that have to live with Draco if he got it," said Hermione frustrated with the answers she had gotten for the boys. She had this funny feeling that Draco had gotten it and that's why they hadn't seen him. "I guess I'm going to have to wait and find out when I get down to the front of the train. Ron, is there any meeting for the prefects?"

Ron snapped out of his daydream, "Yeah, but it's not til 3:30 so I'm not getting changed just yet."

"Okay… maybe you guys can go find the others while I'm gone?"

"Good suggestion Hermione!" said Harry grateful for Hermione giving him the idea, or else he problem would have stayed in the cabin alone, after Ron had gone, dreaming of hot guys or something. "We might just do that!"

"I better get going. I don't want to be late and I might get stuck in the middle of the train, so if I leave early… you guys can live without me, can't you?" Hermione babbled on.

"Yes Hermione, just go already!" the boys told her in unison.

"Okay, okay, I'm going!" and with that Hermione walk out of the cabin into the quiet corridor. It seemed to quiet for her liking.

At least she didn't have to tell anyone off on the way or get caught up by anyone walking from cabin to cabin. The walk down to the front of the train was quite peaceful actually. She got to the end door of the second compartment of the train. Once she opened it and went into the next door she would either meet no one or this years Head Boy. So she braced herself for the worst.

She opened the first compartments door and peered around the corner…

"Hello, I thought you had gotten Head Girl. Bet you didn't expect me to get Head Boy, did you Mudblood?" Draco said in a cruel tone.

"No, actually I thought you were the one that got Head Boy, I was just dreading having to live in the same quarters as you, that's all!" Hermione told him in an I-don't-care-what-you-think-I'm-here-to-do-a-job tone. No wonder the corridors were so quiet, Draco had told everyone off before I walked down here Hermione thought to herself.

Just as Hermione had finished talking the door to the cabin on the right opened and Dumbledore invited them in to give them their instruction and the keys to their rooms.

After the 'start of the year feast' Hermione wanted to just go to bed. Harry and Ron said their goodnights and went towards the Gryffindor common room while she tried to remember the path Dumbledore had told her and Draco to take to get to their room. It was in the middle of the castle and there were only two ways to get to it.

In all her years of being at the school Hermione didn't think she had been down the passage that held the Head Boy and Girl's Dormitories. She knew most of the castle inside out, no thanks to the Marauders Map, but she had not been down every single passage or ever gone exploring, so this would be the first time she would see the door of the Head Girl's own room.

After following all of Dumbledore's instruction she was finally there. There was only one door in the passage, which meant the dorms shared a common room. She guessed she was going to have to get used to having Draco around. They might even become friends. Who knew what the future would bring?

(A/N: "oo, oo, I know, I know," thinks Hermione in her mind every time she sticks up her hand. And I know what's going to happen! Do you? Back to the story so you guys can find out…)

Hermione walked in, through the door (A/N: just in case you didn't know how she got into the room, lol), and the first thing she saw was Draco in his boxers, spread out on the couch in front of the fire reading a book.

"I'm glad you've made yourself at home" Hermione exclaimed when see saw him.

"Well that's good, now we're both glad that I feel at home." Draco said in a sarcastic tone. "Maybe I'll be glad when you make yourself at home."

"Okay then!" and with that Hermione went to get changed into something more comfortable and appropriate for bed while Draco went back to the book he was reading.

I don't think Luke would like this very much, Draco wearing nothing but his boxers. Who does he think he is anyway? Hermione thought to herself while getting changed. I think we are going to have to have some rules around here.

She went back down stairs to have a look around and then she had decided she would have to talk to Draco about some general do's and don'ts in the common room.

There were two bathrooms, one next to each dorm; both had plain white walls and silver fittings. A kitchen, complete with sink, fridge, pantry, oven, stove and microwave, which had a white and blue colour scheme. It was pretty neat.

Hermione's dorm had baby blue and lavender coloured walls, Gryffindor bed covers and lots of neat artifacts covering the top of bookshelves (which were obviously filled with books) and her dresser.

Hermione thought better than to go into Draco's dorm just in case he had something lying around he didn't want her to see or maybe something she wouldn't like to see. So, she went into the common room to confront Draco.

He still had his head in the book and seemed quite relaxed. "Ummm…Draco, I need to talk to you about some general rules around here." Hermione said trying to be polite.

"Okay, wait a sec, I just want to finish this paragraph," uttered Draco with his head still buried in the book. A few seconds later he looked up. "So…what did you want to talk about?"

"Well, the way you're dressed for one thing!" Hermione declared

"What's wrong with the way I'm dressed?" Draco said looking down at his boxers.

"Well, for one thing, you're in your underwear. Do you think I want to see you in your underwear? I have a boyfriend you know!"

"Right, so you think I'm trying to impress you, is that it?"

"Well…" Hermione didn't really know what to say. The thought had crossed her mind but it wasn't the main reason she didn't want him dressed the way he was.

"God Hermione, I'm gay, OK! And have been for a while, so your boyfriend has got nothing to fear and neither do you!"

"What? You! Gay! I don't believe it!"

"Well you better believe it Mudblood!" Draco exclaimed "and you're not to go telling the whole world about this, right?" Draco looked a bit worried about trusting Hermione with his secret.

"Okay, but… why?" it was not like she would tell the whole school, maybe Harry or Ron but they wouldn't tell anyone.

"Because I don't want anyone to know, okay. I am aloud my privacy and if Harry found out I liked him, he would freak"

"What did you say?" Hermione couldn't believe her ears. "Did you just say you liked Harry?"

"Oops, did I say Harry, I meant Barry." How did I let that slip, Harry is going to think I'm nuts now and he will never go out with me Draco thought to himself.

"No you didn't. You like Harry!" Hermione knew Harry had had a crush on Draco at one time, she didn't know if he still did but now was a better time than ever to find out.

"And so what if I do, it's not like he likes me"

"You don't know that, he might grow to like you," Hermione was giggling at the plans that were coming into her head "and he hasn't got a boyfriend or anything at the moment. I could set you two up!"

"No!" Draco said quite firmly "I don't need any help from you to get a guy, and I don't like Harry!"

"If you say so, but you can't deny it forever!" Hermione said calmly "And another thing, don't call me a Mudblood"

"Okay, whatever you say, princess not-it-all"

"Don't call me that either!"

"Fine, but your not to tell Harry that I like him, got it?"

"Okay, I wont tell him" Hermione told Draco and then thought, but I will set you to up.

After a long talk about what they could and couldn't do down in the common room both Hermione and Draco went to bed. Hermione slept very comfortable knowing that she was going to have to do a lot a planning to get Harry and Draco in the same room as each other thinking that they are going to meet someone that likes them only to find that there enemy is that someone.

Meanwhile, Draco was having trouble getting to sleep. He couldn't believe that he had let the fact that he liked Harry slip out of his mouth. Hermione was surely going to tell Harry, whether she promised not to or not. I wonder what she meant when she said 'you don't know that'. Maybe Harry does like me and is as just as afraid of getting rejected as I am. Maybe she said it because she thought Harry would like me if he got to know me better and if we actually had a talk. Maybe we have more in common then we know. Draco's thoughts kept running through his head. Maybe Harry used to like me and stopped because he didn't think it would ever work. Or maybe he didn't stop but just pushed his feelings aside. Oh, I don't know. I guess I'm just kidding myself with this wishful thinking. Draco tried to stop himself from thinking about his problems and get to sleep. I can worry about this anytime; I really should get some sleep.

He lay on there, not thinking of anything for about ten minutes but it's hopeless. Maybe if I put on the radio (A/N: wizard radio that is) I can forget about my problem while listening to the music and then maybe get to sleep. So he got up and went over to his trunk to get his clock radio out. He set the alarm for the usually time and then turned it off. He turned on the radio and a Weird Sister's song was on. He lay back down on the pillow and went to sleep before the song had finished.

Author's Note: So that's the end of chapter two. Will Hermione live up to her promise? How will she set the up? All this and more will be answered in the next chapter and the ones to come. Hope you have enjoyed the story so far and I would love to hear reviews from anyone who reads this, even if it is bagging, or constructive criticism, it tells me how I can make this story better for you guys to read. Hope to update soon…Peace out!