Disclaimer: All you recognize (actually everything except the plot) is not mine, it's J.K.R.!

A/N: Oh, I like this chapter. I know it's a stupid way to start an Author's Note, but I really like this chapter. By the way, we are close to end of the story: next chapter will be the last one. Hmmm, I had to write something important in this A/N, but I can't quite remember what. Oh, yeah! I had to tell you that what started as a funny story is slowly turning into a fluffy one, sorry for that. Well, I really hope that you'll enjoy this chappie in any case.

To Halo of Darkness: Thanks for being my beta-reader and my friend.

That's It

Hermione walked down the grounds of Hogwarts. She didn't really know where she was going, she just wanted to be alone with her thoughts. The morning breeze was cold but she didn't care. She passed Hagrid's hut and reached the Forbidden Forest. Hermione didn't mean to do anything stupid. She was searching for a place where nobody would have disturbed her. She sat down on a big stone near the trees and breathed deeply.

"Hey, Granger!"

Hermione sighed. She had just sat down and someone has already found her. She opened her eyes and saw Crabbe walking slowly towards her.

"Crabbe?" she exclaimed, surprised.

"How are you?" he asked her.

"Fine, thanks," she answered, eyeing him suspiciously.

"Very, well," he said, smiling.

"What are you doing here, Crabbe?" she asked him, sitting up.

"I followed you," he admitted.

"You did what? Why?"

"Because I have to talk to you," he said, stepping towards her.

"Talk to me about what exactly?"

"About yesterday," he said, coming nearer to her.

Hermione sighed. "Crabbe, yesterday, it was all a-"

"Call me Vincent," he said with a smile.

Hermione looked at him. "Oh, you know your name. Malfoy told me that you didn't," she said thoughtfully.

"You hang out a lot with Malfoy, don't you?" he asked quickly.

Hermione gulped. "We are Heads and we have to do things together."

"Yeah, that what he always says," said Crabbe, stepping towards her again, but this time, Hermione started to take a step back.

"Anyway," he said, smiling, "I wanted to talk to you about yesterday."

"You already said that and I was trying to tell you that yesterday was a mistake," she said again.

"Did you know, Hermione, that you are the first girl that I kissed?"

"Really?" asked Hermione without any surprise.

"Yeah, and it was the best kiss I ever received," he stated, coming closer to her.

Hermione took another step back, "It was the only kiss you ever received, Crabbe," she said, stressing the word 'only'.

Crabbe seemed to think about that. "Yeah, but it was great anyway," he said after a while.

"Well, yeah, thank you, but you see, I came here to stay a little bit alone and-"

"Oh, but I came here because you were alone," he said, smiling.

"Really?" Hermione started to have a very unpleasant feeling.

"Yeah, I know that I'm important to you," he said, stepping towards her. Hermione took another step back, but this time, she knocked into the trunk of a tree.

"Really?"

"You saved my life."

"No, see it was just-"

"Twice."

"Twice?" she asked puzzled.

"You stopped Malfoy," he said, stepping again towards her. He was getting dangerously close.

"Oh, well, he would have never killed you," she said slowly.

"You don't know him," he said, getting so near to her that their faces were now just inches away.

"Crabbe," said Hermione, trying to push him away.

"Please, call me Vincent," he repeated, "And now, I wanted to thank you."

"What do you want to do to me?"

"Just thank you," he said, smiling maliciously.

"Well, you have done that, now you can go," she said weakly.

"I love you," he said quickly.

"I-I don't," said Hermione without thinking.

He let out a small laugh. "I don't mind." Hermione tried to walk to her right, but Crabbe stretched out his left arm and stopped her, then he grabbed her left arm.

"Cra – Vincent, let me go," she said, looking at him imploringly. Her wand was in her pocket, but he would have stopped her if she tried to pick it up.

"Not before I've thanked you in the right way," he said, leaning down to kiss her. Hermione moved her face away, but Crabbe grabbed her chin and forced her to stay still. She closed her eyes and tried to hold back the tears, waiting for an unwanted kiss. But luckily, that kiss never arrived.

Hermione heard some people screaming and then, with a loud bang, she felt that Crabbe was flying away. When she opened her eyes, she saw a bunch of people running towards her. Draco was in the front, followed by Ginny, Luna, Harry and Ron.

"Granger," said Draco, stopping in front of her, "How are you?"

"Get off, Malfoy," said Ron, pulling him away. Draco looked at him with a murderous glare.

"Hermione, how are you?" asked Ginny, concerned.

"I-I'm fine," she stammered then, she looked at Crabbe who lied on the ground unconscious.

"What spell did you use on him?" she asked, worried.

They all looked at each other. "Well, everybody used a different spell," said Harry.

"For example?"

"I Stupefied him," said Harry.

"Ron and I used the Petrificus Totalus spell," said Ginny, while Ron nodded.

"I used the Expelliarmus spell," said Luna dreamily. Everybody looked at her.

"But he didn't have his wand," pointed out Harry.

Luna smiled and shrugged her shoulders, "You never know."

"And you?" Hermione asked Draco, fearing the worst, "You didn't use an Unforgivable Curse, did you?"

"Oh, yeah, Granger, I'm so stupid that I would use an Unforgivable Curse," said Draco sharply. Hermione sighed in relief. "I Stupefied him, like Potter."

Hermione lowered her eyes. "Thank you."

"Hermione, why was Crabbe about to kiss you?" asked Ron, coming nearer to her.

Hermione reddened. "Well, because I-"

"Yesterday, you went out with him," exclaimed Ginny.

Harry and Ron looked at each other and burst into laughter. "Don't be silly, Ginny," said Harry. Hermione's face became a bright magenta colour. Harry looked at her and his laughter faded away. "You didn't go out with him yesterday, did you?" he asked, lowering his voice.

"Actually, I did," she said quickly.

Harry and Ron looked at her with their mouths wide open. "You did – why?" asked Ron who couldn't believe his ears.

Hermione looked at Draco. "I cannot say that," she said quickly.

"You cannot say why you went out with Crabbe?" asked Harry, "Why?"

"Because-"

"Because I made her promise not to tell to anybody," Draco cut her off.

Everybody looked at him. "What's going on?" asked Harry suspiciously.

Draco looked Hermione. "I think that we can talk now," he said matter-of-factly, "The bet is over."

"Bet?" asked Ron.

Hermione sighed. "It's better if I explain everything, then," she said, looking at them. Draco nodded. "Well, I don't know really where to start-"

"Why don't you try from the beginning?" asked Ginny, smiling.

"Yeah, maybe you are right," said Hermione, biting her lips, "Well, first of all you have to know that Malfoy and I are more then-"

"Enemies?" asked Ron, hopefully.

"Head Boy and Head Girl?" asked Harry.

"Friends?" asked Ginny, smiling mischievously.

"Lovers?" asked Luna, calmly.

"Luna, don't be silly. How can they be more than lovers?" said Ginny, smiling.

"Well, maybe they have married in secret and now are husband and wife," she explained dreamily.

"What? No, no, Luna, nothing like that," said Hermione quickly, "But actually, we are more than friends."

"Hermione, you don't mean that-" the words died in Ron's throat. Hermione nodded. Ron paled and Harry with him.

"I knew that there was something going on between the two of you," said Ginny triumphantly.

"You knew and you didn't tell us?" asked Harry bemused.

"Would you have believed me?" she retorted sharply. Harry thought for a while and then shook his head. Ginny smiled. "See? Now, Hermione, can you please go on?"

Hermione nodded. "Well, it all started last week. Malfoy and I were – well – having fun and-"

"What do you mean by 'having fun'?" asked Ron hoarsely.

"Oh, Ron, they were eating Chocolate Frogs and playing Wizarding Chess – what do you think they were doing?" asked Ginny, rolling her eyes.

"I think that they were having sex," said Luna matter-of-factly.

Hermione became even redder. "Yeah, well, thank you Luna. Anyway, after having had fun, we started to talk about boyfriends and girlfriends. He said that he had more experiences than me and I said that that was not true, so we started to list all our former partners and – that's funny – we discovered that we had the same number of well experiences."

"Hermione, how many boyfriends did you have?" asked Ron, glancing at her.

"Seven," muttered Hermione.

"What? And who are they?" asked Ron quickly.

"Never mind that, now, Ron," said Ginny, cutting him off, "I'll tell you later if you really want to know."

"Thank you, Ginny," said Hermione sarcastically.

"You are welcome," she said smiling.

"Hermione, just go on, please," said Harry, rolling his eyes.

"Oh, yes, sorry. Well, the fact is that we made a bet: the first that would have won someone's heart won the bet. Malfoy had to win Luna's heart and I, Crabbe's," she said.

"What? Who chose that?"

"Malfoy chose Crabbe for me and I chose Luna for him," she looked at Luna, "I'm really sorry, Luna. I didn't mean to do anything bad to you. I was just really, really angry with him for picking Crabbe for me," she said sheepishly.

Luna smiled. "Oh, don't worry, Hermione," she said reassuringly, "I've earned a free Butterbeer because Draco paid for it and then I finally realized that I'm in love with someone because when I was in the Three Broomsticks with Draco, I thought only about a Gryffindor boy," said Luna dreamily.

"Who?" asked Ginny quickly.

Luna's smile became wider. "Neville."

Draco turned a unpleasant green colour. "You were thinking about Longbottom while you were out with me?" he asked unbelievingly.

"I'm sure you were thinking about Hermione," said Luna smiling. Now it was Draco's turn to blush, along with Hermione. "Anyway, who won?" asked Luna, breaking the silence that had fallen upon them.

"What?" asked Hermione, without understanding immediately what she was talking about.

"The bet. Who won the bet?"

Hermione looked at Draco. "Oh, well, I think that nobody won," said Hermione slowly.

"You won," said Draco seriously.

"No, I didn't. He kissed me and said that he loved me, but we didn't-"

"What do you think he would have done to you if we didn't interfere? Sit down and talk about 'Hogwarts: A History'?" asked Draco rudely. Hermione lowered her eyes.

"Cool, Hermione, you won!" said Luna, clapping her hands.

Everybody looked at her. Then, Ron glanced at Hermione. "I can't believe that you are going out with Malfoy," he said angrily.

"W-we are not going out," she stammered, "We just-" but she couldn't find anything intelligent to say.

"You just have sex," said Ginny smiling, "But, Hermione, with Draco Malfoy."

Hermione looked at her. "Oh well, if I'm not wrong, you went out with him, too."

Ginny looked at Draco. "Luckily, it was a secret."

"I had to list my girlfriends," he answered simply.

"You went out with him?" asked Harry, who was looking at Ginny as if she was from another planet.

"Yeah, at the beginning of this year, but it was only for a week. It didn't work between us," she said matter-of-factly.

"Luckily," muttered Harry. Ron didn't have the force to say anything.

"Well, I think that we should take Crabbe to the Hospital Wing," said Hermione.

"We'll bring him there. You'll have to talk," said Ginny smiling.

Hermione looked at Draco. "Yeah, maybe we have to talk."

"Let's go then," Ginny said, elbowing Ron who wasn't going to move.

"B-before you go, I have to ask you one thing," said Hermione slowly, "Can you please keep the secret between us?"

"Of course," said Ginny.

"Like I would go around saying that my friend is in love with Malfoy," snapped Harry before he walked away. Ron simply nodded and Luna smiled.

Hermione and Draco looked at them while they levitated Crabbe in front of them and climbed the hill up the castle. "Do you think that they will say something?" asked Draco.

"No, didn't you hear them? They are my friends," said Hermione smiling.

"Well, if it was my friends I would have to pay them to keep their mouths shut," said Draco.

Hermione smiled. "Thank you," she said softly.

He looked at her puzzled. "Thank you for what?"

"For saving me from Crabbe," she said, lowering her eyes.

"Well, sure," he said quite uncomfortably.

After ten long minutes of an awkward silence, Hermione spoke, "Should we go back to the castle?"

"Yeah, we better go," said Draco, walking towards Hogwarts.

When they reached the oak door, Draco stopped. "Granger?" he said.

"Yes, Malfoy?" she said, turning her face towards him.

"I was thinking, do you have something to do tomorrow evening?"

"Apart from the meeting with Professor McGonagall?" she asked, raising her eyebrows.

"Oh, bloody hell, I forgot," he murmured.

"Can I remind you that you promised to me that you would never forget another meeting again?" she said bossily.

"I won't," he said, pushing the door.

"Malfoy?" she called shyly.

"Yeah?"

"But if you want, on Tuesday evening, I'm free," she said smiling.

Draco smiled back. "Same place, same hour?"

"Same place, same hour."

They headed to their own common rooms smiling and starting to count down the hours until Tuesday night.