Chapter 2:
His lips grew dangerously close, not like they had done before, but with something more behind it. "Hermione" he said out softly before placing his lips onto hers, as she kissed him passionately back. An uncontrollable smile swept over Hermione's face when she realized she was truly kissing him. Butterflies flew anxiously through her stomach and she felt as if she was high just from their physical contact. She let out a soft sigh, as his face pulled away from hers, blurring… she frown as she woke up from her dream. That kiss really affected her more than she wished. It had been three days since his lips found hers and how she wishes they found each other again in a similar way as several of her dreams had. Draco had been avoiding Hermione as much as she had been avoiding him even though she wanted to see him and talk to him; she was full of embarrassment and fearful of rejection.
Then came Tuesday. Hermione knew a judgment day was coming, where the truth was going to be spoken of. She had been in her corner of the common room working diligently on her homework that would be due a week from then as Draco walked into the common room, staring at her determined. Curiously she looked up welcoming him to be the first one to speak.
"Does it haunt you to?" he sneered as she sighed, Draco was usually very blunt, it figures that he would be blunt in this situation as well. Hermione sighed.
"Yes" she whispered, regretting the day's bringing. She looked into his eyes, which showed confusion which was completely different from the presence he gave before her.
"I hope you know that it was an accident." He cleared his throat looking off to the side quickly, in hopes of regaining himself. "Because we can not have awkward moments between us when I tell you of what Dumbledore informed me moments ago." Hermione looked up at him puzzled, waiting for him to finish off what he begun. "Apparently, we are supposed to plot together a Halloween ball and to our dismay, it begins with us dancing." Hermione's stomach sank, only in wishful thoughts that were obviously going to be crushed because of his tone. She nodded. "So I figure…" he paused looking at her carefully, checking her emotions, "… that we begin planning tomorrow evening before head duties here in the common room. Sound good?" Hermione simply nodded before continuing her homework, hoping that her image play helped make him disappear faster so she could allow her hopes to crush in peace.
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Draco looked up to his reflection in the mirror. Sighing enraged with himself.
"Why do you even care" he spat out loud towards himself. "She's a bloody muggle. Father says they're worthless and non-deserving of magic" You don't agree with your father though. His inner voice answered back. "NO. Father wants me to be a Death Eater, Follow in his Footsteps, Marry Parkinson." His body shuddered at the latter part. So, your point? You still think of her. "NEVER MORE." He gritted through his teeth, banging his arm down onto the countertop. Glaring at his body that was glistened from his shower he had just taken. You kissed her. "IT WAS AN ACCIDENT" he argued. You're in denial. His mind was a fierce battle, always has been. "Why MUST this pester me?" He roared. Who's more deserving? Your conscious or what you think you should do because you're afraid of your father? "Shut up" he said smashing his fist down once more onto the surface.
Draco turned his head, staring at the door that was connected to her bedroom. Secretly he wanted to run through the door and confess his true feelings and that he was bloody insane for saying his kiss was an accident because he truly meant it. However, he knew better. His father would find out and he would be slaughtered out of fury from his power-hungry father. He knew there was only one person he could trust with the truth and he needed to see him fast.
Turning quickly Draco walked out of the bathroom, placing on his clothes and rushing over to the Slytherin house, finding his best mate, Blaise.
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"So let me get this straight…" Ginny started off, making sure she understood every point in the situation before forming her opinion. "Malfoy and You… have been getting along famously in your Head Dormitories, you hurt yourself, he comes to the rescue, healing your wound… you stupidly stand up because your mind is at a daze, and fall onto him accidentally onto his lips, which is where you kissed him?" Hermione slapped her forehead and shook her head frantically.
"No no no no… I fell off balance because his healing method takes longer than any I've known of causing me to land onto Dra- Malfoy, who kissed me in the end." Ginny just nodded soaking the information in like a sponge, trying to understand all angles.
"And then he came in talking to me a few days later, coming off saying that what he did was an accident… How can that be an accident Gin? I mean honestly we snogged for a solid five minutes, how can you have a mistake in that length of time? And more importantly, how can a person avoid another for a certain amount of days only to barge in and announcing it was an accident without even looking in your eyes proving that they were to be taken seriously?" Ginny almost got a headache at the speed that those words came flying out of Hermione's mouth, but she was able to catch the main focused parts of the speech.
"Well… This is Malfoy. He is a stupid Git." She laughed. Hermione glared at her for a moment. "Oh lighten up, it was only a joke. Alright, lets see here." She said pondering, "It seems to me he doesn't really mean that it was an accident. His father controls a lot of him; he can hardly do actions based on his own opinion. If he's going to play hard to get, I say, give him a taste of his own medicine." She grinned. Hermione returned it.
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Blaise Zambini walked back and forth pondering for a moment, stealing glances back at his worried friend, Draco Malfoy. "I guess the only thing I can advice you mate is that you need to get her out of your mind. You claimed it was an accident to her, so hopefully she'll take that bait and give in but just in case," he paused digging into his pocket looking for something, "There's this fifth year, quite pretty I think, here's her name. Owl her, give her that famous Malfoy charm and have fun. Take your mind off the bookworm because we both know your father will kill you." Draco nodded, reaching out for the piece of parchment that Blaise possessed in his hand. "Good Luck Mate"
Draco stared at the name for a few moments; Jade Verdan was signed neatly with a soft heart floating off to the sign as personal symbol. Draco sighed wanting to crumble the parchment up into a small ball forgetting the thought, but once more Father popped into his thoughts. He walked over to a Slytherin desk in its common room, scribbling down a letter for Jade. Sighing, he folded it up and placed it into an envelope making his way his Owl.
Within an hour, Draco got a response from his letter to Jade. She was, as most girls would be, flattered and overly excited from Draco's attention. After reading the parchment, he prepared himself for dinner, and later a quick snogging with Jade in the dark hallway next to the potion's classroom.
Jade was short, five foot four or so with shimmering green eyes that gleamed. She had brunette hair, similar to Hermione's. She was pale like Draco and had an evil impression that seemed to seep off her bones. With a sneering smile she greeted Draco immediately by inclosing their distance to being zero. He took the initiative of making the first move, by lowering his head and devouring her lips in a strong kiss. Jade moaned out her pleasure of having Draco Malfoy treat her in such a way.
While Draco was off snogging Jade, Hermione waited for him as planned to discuss their ideas over the Halloween ball. She stared at her muggle watch, sighing as she realized she had been waiting fifteen minutes for him. Might as well begin night duty. She walked over to her desk scribbling that she left early for duty since he was already extremely late and left the room, checking the halls for students who decided to not take the curfew seriously.
As Hermione neared the potion's classroom, she heard a girl's giggle coming from a dark corner parallel to Snape's door. Hermione laughed inwardly at how she was about to ruin the couple's fun as well as how much they're going to beg her to not deduct points.
"Lumos" she muttered to her wand, lighting the corner before her, revealing a very disgruntled Draco with his hair every which way and a brunette with swollen lips quickly buttoning her blouse up while recovering from the shock of being caught. Hermione's eyes widened to the sight. Jealousy seemed to seep in every corner of her soul. She couldn't say anything, she just found out where Draco was and what he was busy doing. She continued to stare until she realized she was choking back some soft tears. Angered at what she just had seen and at herself for being so angry, she ran all the way back to her bed room, without saying a word.
Draco looked down at Jade and sighed while he straightened a few strands of hairs in place and said goodnight, before rushing back to the head dormitories, in hopes Hermione didn't lock herself in her bedroom. Wait, why am I hoping she doesn't lock herself in her bedroom, do I want to talk to her? He thought to himself as he ran after her shadow that was dimming away quickly around a corner. What am I doing? He groaned, still running, catching the portrait door right as it was closing. Inches away from the door Draco yelled out the password (Never Tickle A Dragon) just in time to slide through the door before it finished opening again completely.
Out of breath he looked up seeing Hermione's body turn the corner on the stairwell to her bed room, "HERMIONE" he yelled. She didn't respond but kept running. He sat down on the sofa catching his breath staring up at the bedrooms. Without control he laughed at himself for being so pathetic. She caught him snogging some girl, she got upset and ran off, and he ran after her? What was wrong with him? He sighed, retreating to his bedroom, falling asleep with thoughts of why exactly he cared that she got upset over his random snog session.
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The next morning came all too slow for Hermione since she spent most of her night crying over her stupidity. She thought it was ridiculous for her to be upset over Draco with some other girl. Why was she being this way? These feelings bugged the hell out of her. Finally when her alarm went off she went to the bathroom to prepare for the day.
Draco woke up groggily wishing that it was the weekend already but unfortunately it wasn't. Hearing the shower, he stayed put in his room, waiting his turn. This routine was rudimentary. Hermione would take a shower first, dress and put her make up on while he strolled in walking into the bathroom to brush his teeth. After Hermione was finished with her make up (which wasn't much), she would leave and Draco would have the bathroom for himself so that he could shower. He waited a few more minutes before the shower stopped, and walked in as expected while she finished brushing her teeth. Draco looked over at her giving her a gentle smile while she returned his smile with an apathetic glance before she went back to spitting out her toothpaste.
"Morning" Draco said hoping to be on her good side. She glanced at him coldly, spraying a splash of body spray before turning to walk out the door as the fragrance engulfed Draco's senses. He sighed at the scent, wishing it was there in a different way, lingering before him, but alas it wasn't. She wasn't happy with him and she wasn't going to be easily convinced into forgiving him. His thoughts continued as he reached the shower, stepping inside hoping for a good day.
Later that night, Draco waited for Hermione to come down to begin head duties for the night. When she finally did she didn't look too happy about being with him for the night. He tried several times to strike up a nice conversation but only to be turned down every time. Rejected again and again and again this was beginning to hurt his pride.
"Seems like a pretty good night… so far we only caught one student out of their dormitories." Draco said smiling down towards her, watching her walk alongside of him with a great distance.
"Yeah." Was all that she let out Draco sighed. Just ask her what's on your mind already Draco! He gained his composure and looked down at her and stopped walking. Soon enough, Hermione noticed and looked back at Draco. She gave him a look as if asking him what he was doing but still said nothing. They were only five feet apart in distance. She sighed, stepping back towards him, ready to urge him to continue on with the routine route.
"Why are you being so cold?" he spat out instantly when she was only a foot away. Just as fast as he said that, she rolled her eyes.
"You don't see me asking you why you are an insufferable git that doesn't have any respect do you?" she spat harshly.
"Come on Hermione, what is wrong with you?" he asked again, pushing for answers.
"Like it matters Malfoy." She sneered. Mentally he laughed, how arrogant she was acting, like he does when dealing with Weasel-king and Pothead.
"Does it relate to the fact that I was with Jade last night?" when he said this, Hermione's eyes flashed a hurt emotion before turning back to being apathetic.
"What you do is your business, but please next time, plan your" she paused, seeming to pick delicate wording, "snogging sessions to where it better accommodates previous matters that you said you'd attend to." she finished as she turned on her heel to continue walk.
"Merlin, Hermione. This is what its about, the fact that I forgot of our Ball Planning?" he groaned. He thought she was jealous but she wasn't. His worry and fears were over nothing.
"Of course, what else would it be about? Are you that conceited? Thinking I was upset and jealous that you were snogging some girl in the corner? HA!" she let out, laughing, trying to be strong. "Do us all a favor and get over yourself Malfoy." Draco's eyebrows furrowed, building in anger from what she just said that was clearly a lie.
"Oh, but yet you ran to your room, not just because you were angry… oh no, but because you were going to cry. Cry because you were upset with what you saw not because I forgot of the planning we were going to do. You didn't leave because you were angry that a fellow head member was fooling around after curfew because you would of deducted points or chewed me out verbally or even would go to a professor over it. No Hermione, the truth is you were upset because I was kissing someone else. You were crying because I wasn't kissing you and it hurt you. I'm not stupid. I heard you Hermione, bawling your eyes out in you room. I stood outside your door, wanting to apologize. I just didn't have the guts to knock." He spat back venomously. Suddenly he felt a sting slide across his right cheek. She had slapped him.
"You're heartless and cruel Malfoy!" she cried out, trying to hold back tears but her flush red face was showing that she wasn't strong enough to hold it. It was as if that slap knocked all his cruelty out of his bones. Hermione began to run again, but this time Draco wouldn't let her get away. Oh no, this time he was going to stop her and make her know every little truth, irregardless of what Blaise advised him
A/N: Thanks for the reviews thus far... I love seeing them. So do some more. I don't know if its that long or that great but I'm fairly pleased with it.
COMING SOON:
"Look, I lied, okay? It was no accident"