Draco kissed Hermione and it was like the long drink he had been waiting for. She sat there letting him kiss her, but not kissing back. After a minute she pulled back and said what she was dreading to say. She knew it wouldn't make him happy, but she didn't want to disappoint him once they were in a relationship.

"Draco I think that you like me too much. You shouldn't like me. I wouldn't make a good girlfriend. I have no experience and I just think it would be better if we went our separate ways and just forget this ever happened." She tried her hardest to look at him but she couldn't bring herself to do it.

"You don't mean that. I know you don't," he said. Hermione could hear the pain in his voice. "Damn it Hermione! You want this just as badly as I do, I know you do. I can see it in your eyes. Or maybe it's the fact that you can't look me in the face that was the dead giveaway. What are you afraid of Hermione?"

"I'm… I'm, not afraid." She said her voice wavering.

"Oh yeah, now that was convincing." Draco scoffed sarcastically. "Come on Hermione, I'm bloody begging you to be with me. I have pretty much lost all pride and dignity to the one person, except Potter, that I thought would never be able to bring me down. I don't like this position of vulnerability very much to say the least, but never the less I am still a Malfoy and I'll be damned if I don't get what I want. And I want you."

Hermione sat with her hands folded in her lap, her head down. She fought not to shed the tears that were threatening to fall and she thought, "Merlin, how do you say no to a speech like that?" She took a deep breath and looked up. His expression was nervous but hopeful at the same time. Her heart was screaming "Yes! Yes! Yes!" but she was still the Hermione Granger who thought about everything forty time over from five different angles, and she wanted to think about it. "Draco, I… I need some time. Just to think it over, okay?"

"No." he said simply.

"What?"

"I said no. You already have an answer and we both know it. I want to know right now. The only thing that 'thinking it over' would do would be giving you more time to think up even more ridiculous excuses as to why we can be together. Besides, why did you kiss me in the first place if you were planning on backing out like this? You must have some feelings for me."

"You can't just put me on the spot like this, I need to…"

"Yes or no Hermione?"

"But I don't…"

"Yes or no." He said firmly.

"Yes." She let the word slip out of her mouth knowing that after she said it there would be no way to take it back again.

"Yes?" He asked tentatively.

She cleared her throat and took a long deep breath. "Yes." She said confidently. He smiled and pulled her into his arms.

"I'm not letting go, not even for a second." He told her.

"I know." She replied happily, realizing how close she came to ruining everything between them. "I'm sorry. I don't know why I was being so… weird. I think I was scared."

"Wait, Hermione? You have had a boyfriend before right? I mean, I would hate to have to be your first, you probably don't even know how to snog properly." Hermione frowned and could almost feel the color draining from her face. She had only dated Victor for a few weeks, and that was long distance so it wasn't a very physical relationship. She gave Draco a you-have-got-to-be-kidding-me look and he could no longer keep a straight face. He broke out into a grin and said, "My, my, my. I never imagined that the smartest witch in Hogwarts would be this gullible. I was only teasing, Love."

"Yeah, and if either one of us needs snogging lessons, its you." She said playfully.

"Oh that's it. Come here you," he pulled her onto his lap and kissed her passionately. She wrapped her arms tightly around him and ran her fingers through the soft hair at the nape of his neck. In the middle of their passionate kiss, Hermione hopped off his lap and started for the door.

"Hey! Where do you think your going? No way are you just leaving me like that!" Draco said standing up and following her.

"My, my, my. The big, bad, Slytherin has a weakness." She said playfully.

"Ha! You are not a weakness, just a… distraction."

"Hmm, a distraction? Well I must be a pretty big distraction if you're following me around like a lost puppy." She said teasingly.

"I am not! I could ignore you if I wanted to." He said defensively.

Hermione smirked. "I've got him right where I want him." She thought. "Ha, I'd like to see you try." She said.

"Alright, fine." He replied aloofly. He immediately regretted accepting her challenge though. As soon as she turned around to start walking again, her hips had more of a sway to them, and she flicked her hair over her shoulder. He stayed a few paces behind her, but just far enough for it to look like they were going the same direction, but weren't together. He had no clue where they were going, but he still followed her. Hermione suddenly dropped her wand on the ground and he could hear her mutter, "Woops." As she bent down slowly to pick it up. Draco could tell she had done it on purpose, just to torture him. She slowly straightened up, knowing that she had just given Draco a perfectly good view of her backside. His mouth was dry and he swallowed hard, trying to fight off thoughts of Hermione. "Stay in control Draco," he told himself. "Its no big deal, just going for a little walk is all." A bit farther down the corridor, Draco noticed that it wasn't only his attention that Hermione was catching. She was attracting the stares of other boys as well. It was no secret that Malfoy's were jealous and possessive people, but Draco had finally gotten Hermione and he wasn't willing to share any bit of her.

She had almost reached the Owlery when she felt two strong hands tighten around her waist. "Perfect timing." She thought.

"Alright Granger, you win this time. Just stop the hip moving and the hair flicking and all the smirky flirtyness. The smirk is mine." said a voice in her ear. She smiled. She turned around and grabbing him by the collar, she dragged him into the empty classroom she had stopped in front of. She pulled him in and shut the door behind them, then pushed him up against the closed door. She leaned in so they're lips were almost touching.

"I knew you would crack." She boasted.

"This time, Granger, this time." He said. He looked down at her hands, which were placed on either side of his heart then back up at her face. "Since when did you become so… sexy minx-like?" he asked.

"Well, some one had to do it since you became such a softy." She said smiling.

"Take that back! I have not become a softy." He protested. He grabbed her by the shoulders and spun her around. She felt her back hit the wall, hard. Her bent down and kissed her fiercely on the mouth. He pulled away after a minute, breathing heavily. "See? I've still got it." He said proudly. She giggled.

"Oh please. You're a hopeless romantic Draco Malfoy and you know it."