Authors note: Longer Chapter than last. Sorry if they seem OoC. I know Hermione does, but i was trying to give up she got a little more funn over the summer. And i know the whole share a common room head boy and girl thing is wayy over used, but thats the only wayy it'd work unless you make hermione a slytherin. Trust me, there's nothing wrong with those fanfictions, but this is an angst story, its a lot different. Please R&R. Thankyou so much to the people who reveiwed my first chpt. Thats what got me to start writing.

Disclaimer : I take credit for nothing . All belongs to J.K.R. except for unfamiliar charactors and the plot .

- Faded -

(So gold)

Seize upon that moment long ago
One breath away and there you will be
So young and carefree
Again you will see
That place in time...

So gold

5 years earlier

"Wow, Hermione! I cant believe thats really you! "

He hugged her tight .

It was real .

"Oh, really Ronald? And why might that be?"

She smiled at him. She knew why .

Ron turned to Harry and gestured to Hermione .

"Does that look like our Mione to you, 'Arry?" Before he could reply Ron shook his head back and forth . "See, it doesnt, you kinda look like a girl!"

Hermione rolled her eyes .

"Bite me, Ron ."

He grinned at the idea .

She walked up to Harry who had silently been waiting for her and Ron to finished and hugged him .

"Missed you, Mione."

They stood by the lake on Hogwarts ground . Since they were now 17 they could apparate wherever they pleased and didnt bother with the train.

It was there final year at Hogwarts.

&& Hermione had made head girl

Which everybody knew she would .

Even if Draco Malfoy is head boy, she didnt care. She'd been wanting this since her first year.

&& She got it .

Even the Malfoy part wasnt that bad. They shared they're own common room and each had separate rooms on each side of it, decorated in their house colors .She would just stick to her bedroom and the gryffindor common room. Then she only had to talk to him while planning dances and doing patrole.

That wouldnt be too bad.

Right?

"I missed you too, 'Arry."

She smiled.

Real smile.

She sat on the grass and hugged her knees and tsared out into the Lake. It was dark.

They didnt get to really greet eachother at the great hall.

"We should probably be heading back. Its almost curfew."

She told them without moving herself.

"We can afford to be a couple minutes late. See i happen to know the Head girl pretty well .."

That was Ron. He sprawled out on his back next to her and Harry still stood.

"Im gonna miss this place when the years older. "

Hermione's eyes stayed focused on the ocean.

"We all will, Harry."

Ron sat back up.

"But still, we got a year, right. Another year of the Golden Trio, The Fantastic four .. wait."
He appeared deep in thought as he pointed at Harry and Hermione as though he was counting.

"Forget that one, theres only three of us."

"And we'll still be together after. We all plan to become Aurors."

Hermione added .

"Yeah." Harry seemed far off.

" 'Arry, cheer up. Its the first day of school, our last year. I know what to do."

Ron smiled like his lightbulb had just lit.

"Lets go get some firewhiskey!"

Hermione shot up.

"Ron! You cant do that!"

He pouted at her and got on his knees in front of her.

"Hermione, Hermione, My best friend Hermione. But, but, its our last year, we need to get you drunk! Come on! Please. For me?"

She rolled her eyes and let him pull her to her feet.

"Lets do it."

She gave in.

The three of them raced back to the castle like they would have done, maybe 5 years ago.

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Hermione sat in the common room around a small round table covered in shot glasses of vodka and bottles of firewhiskey.

On her right was Ron and on her left Harry, and around the table sat Dean, Seamus, Parvati, and suprisingly Neville.

Seamus grabbed his glass. His hair had grown and he wore it off to the side so it cover one eye and he was constantly pushing it out of the way.

"Ready?"

Everyone downed there glass.

Parvati ran to the bathroom to throw up.

Ron let out a whoop. "Fill me up!"

He looked at Hermione and smirked at her.

"You want another fill, or are you gonna go be a girl with Parvati?"

She shot a glare at him and grabbed the entire bottle of firewhiskey and started to down it.

Ron whooped her on and she finished the bottle.

"Our little Mione is growing up!" He slung his arm around her and grabbed the bottle of Vodka and started to pur it in her mouth as Harry was on the floor dying he was laughing so hard.

Some got in. Most missed and soaked her.

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Hermione stumbled into her own common room after remembering the password. She had stood outside shouting rude obscenities at the protrait.

Malfoy lay on the couch, topless with a pair of satin green boxers on.

He had grown his white blonde hair over the summer and it hung full and it carved his face and fell halfway to his shoulders.

All Hermione thought was who stole his clothes?

She walked in and across the room as he stared at her with an awkward gaze. She still had a bottle of firwhiskey in her hand.

He laughed.

"Is the Virgin Mary drunk?"

She pointed at him.

"You . Yeah, you .. shut up." She managed to get put before he lost all control he had and fell into a fit of laughs.

She didnt seem to notice.

"Did the chipmunks steal your clothes? I think they stole my firewhiskey."

She was being serious too.

Though it never left her hand.

"Granger, get your arse in bed before you faint and vomit everywhere. Your gonna have a hell of a morning."

She couldnt understand what he was saying.

"Yeah?" She asked. She still had no idea what he said. "Thats cool."

He got up off the couch and grabbed her arm while walking her to her room.

"Granger, get the ruddy hell to bed. Shouldnt head girl no better?"

He smirked and let her go.

"Oh no. What .. What would Dumbledore think, if his precious head girl, on her first night was breaking how many school rules, and is drunk?"
He started toward the door smiling .

" I think i should tell him."

Hermione through the bottle to the floor and ran to him, falling halfway but crawled the rest of the way.

"No, Malfoy, No! You can't!"

He smirked at her.

"I think its my responsibility .. my job to tell him. He can find a replacement, im sure.

"Please! Dont tell him, i really really want to be big girl!"

"You mean head girl?"

"Yeah"

He laughed and kneeled down so he was eye to eye with her.

"Whats in it for me?"

She thought really really hard.

"Whatever, anything. Just please dont tell him, Malfoy."

"When I think of something ill let you know"

He stood up.

"Get to bed Granger."

She did.