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Chapter 13
Draco turned Hermione around so that she was facing him completely. His lips did not move away from hers while they shifted. He slowly slid his arm around her waist and raised his hand to cradle Hermione's face.
Hermione couldn't think straight. What was Draco doing, nevertheless what the hell was she doing! Without thinking properly, she slowly ran her fingers through his hair. Surprisingly, this action caused the blonde to moan deeply inside her mouth. Draco pushed her up against the wall of his bedroom; he heard a few books falling down on to the floor.
'Screw the books...'
His arms left Hermione's waist and were placed right besides Hermione's head. Once he was settled in a comfortable position once more, Draco's hot mouth started to travel down to Hermione's neck. The brunette emitted a tiny moan, which caused Draco to move at a faster pace. When his fingers were hovering above her blouse buttons, Hermione decided that this should stop.
"We shouldn't," she panted, her cheeks colored a brilliant red.
Draco didn't want to take no for an answer, so he leaned in and gave Hermione a demanding kiss. Just when she was about to protest, the door suddenly opened. Hermione and Draco quickly separated, both of them flushed from their previous engagement. Standing in the doorway, Blaise and Pansy gaped at them.
"What the hell..." Blaise muttered so that only Pansy could hear.
"Beats me..."
The blonde Slytherin feigned a cough, and smiled hesitantly while running a hand through his already mussed hair. Hermione, who was too embarrassed to show her face, looked down on the floor with her arms crossed in front of her. She let her long brunette curls to hang down in front of her face a veil.
"Hope we weren't interrupting anything," Pansy mumbled to Draco.
"Um... yeah," Draco cleared his throat. "So, what do you need?"
"We'll tell you later," Blaise said in a strained apologetic tone while grabbing Pansy by the arm, while leading himself and his friend out of Draco's room.
Before Blaise and Pansy were out of earshot, Hermione said, "NO! Wait.. I mean. I'll think I'll be going. Draco. Pansy. Blaise."
She then bid the three Slytherins goodbye and rushed out of Draco's room.
Hermione quickly shut the door and ran back to her room as fast as she could. Meanwhile, back in Draco's room, Blaise started to laugh.
"What's so funny," Draco wanted to know.
In between his laughter, Blaise managed to say, "You (laugh) should've seen (laugh) the look (laugh) on her FACE!"
"Blaise, don't be so immature and thoughtless. What would you do if Draco and I walked in on you with the girl who you've loved since the beginning of the year?" Pansy tried to explain to Blaise.
"Good point."
"Woah, wait, what are you talking about when you just said 'the girl who I've loved since the beginning of the year?' In the beginning of the year we were... just-" Draco wanted to get things straight.
"Oh, sorry, I guess I got that wrong then. What I mean to say is that you fell in love with her ever since you first laid eyes on her," Pansy corrected herself.
"WHAT!" with wide eyes, Draco yelled.
"Even though what she just said did not make sense in any way, don't look so shocked, Drake. You, me, Pansy, and the school knows it's true."
"What are you talking about! For the past six years, I've loathed her and ... and-"
"And never dreamed of being of friends with her nevertheless fall in love with her?" Blaise sarcastically filled in the last parts of Draco's unspoken words. "Sorry mate, but you didn't quite succeed on that."
"I can't believe you guys are actually implying that I'm in love with a m-... a mudblood?" Draco barely managed to get the word 'mudblood' out of his mouth.
"He hesitated," Pansy muttered over to Blaise.
"I'm well aware of that," he responded irritably.
"I can't believe you two are that daft to think that I can't hear you from only a mere distance," the blonde hissed in an annoyed manner. He then added to himself, "It's like they think I'm deaf or something."
"We know you can hear us," the both of them simultaneously replied.
"Then what's with the-... never mind. I'm just going mad."
"Yeah, mad for a certain brunette Gryffindor," Pansy mumbled while rolling her eyes.
"I HEARD THAT!" Draco yelled in frustration.
"You know, I think I'm getting a tad sleepy, so I'll be off," Blaise even yawned as a hint that he was getting tired.
"Right behind you, Blaise," Pansy followed the retreating Slytherin when Draco stopped them.
"You two aren't seriously going to just leave like that, are you?" he asked flabbergasted.
"Like what exactly," Pansy narrowed her eyes.
"I don't know... leaving me hanging?" Draco tried to explain.
"What are you talking about? " the witch started to laugh hysterically.
"Mate, if you just wanted us to stay here with you, you could've just asked," Blaise patted his blonde friend on the back.
"Funny," Draco sarcastically responded.
"Damn right it is," Blaise did his best impersonation of a stoner.
The Slytherins just ended up laughing over Blaise's poor impersonation skills and teasing Draco incessantly about a certain Gryffindor for some time.
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Meanwhile, after Hermione's embarrassing moment back in Draco's room, she swiftly headed over to her room. Once she arrived, she stood in front of the portrait, contemplating for a moment.
'Did I just kiss Draco Malfoy? No, that's... that's just impossible. laughs inwardly Well actually, I didn't kiss him, he kissed me...'
Soon after she collected her thoughts, Hermione decided to head over to the Gryffindor's Common Room to see what her friends were up to. She slowly smiled when she started to climb the winding stairs to the Gryffindor Tower. Hermione missed her usual routine that she was so comfortable with. Now everything is completely new and foreign to her.
When she reached the portrait of the Fat Lady in her pink gown, Hermione had to ponder before announcing the password.
"Pink lotuses."
Hermione then added to herself in her thoughts, "What an odd password."
The portrait swung open, letting a low creak to emit from the brass hinges. She stepped in and was immediately greeted by the few students who knew her.
"Hermione! What are you doing here? I thought you were with Dr-" Ginny practically yelled, but was cut off when Hermione swiftly placed her hand over her friend's mouth.
"Wvat arph yew doing!" the red head tried to speak through the brunette's small hand.
"I need to talk to you. It's important," Hermione looked agitated.
"Ophkay, jfust let meph go?"
"Oh, right. Sorry."
"No problem. I'm used to my friends just grabbing me and placing their hand over my mouth to prevent me from speaking properly" Ginny joked.
"Sorry."
"Its fine, I'm just teasing. Well, come on then," the red head led her friend up to her room.
Before they went in, Ginny checked to see if any of her roommates were somewhere in the room. There was Angela and Christie-those two aren't any trouble, unlike girls who act like Parvarti or Lavender-but nevertheless, they hopped onto Ginny's bed, closed the curtains around them, and Hermione placed a silence charm around them.
Once everything was safe and secured, Hermione decided to tell her friend everything.
"We kissed, well technically he kissed me, but-"
"YOU WHAT!"
"We... er- kissed?" Hermione started to blush a bright red.
"Oh! I knew this was going to happen sooner or later!" Ginny squealed.
"Y-you don't think this is wrong, do you?"
"Absolutely not! It's like the whole Romeo and Juliet, star-crossed lovers! You know, Draco's a Slytherin and you are a Gryffindor. If we put Draco in the Romeo and Juliet situation then he would be a Montague and you would be a Capulet. This is so romantic!"
'That's what I thought... but then there's the ending that we have to consider about.' Hermione immediately thought back to the rose and the note that he had written to her.
"Gin, have you even read the book?"
"Yes," the red head responded in a matter-in-fact tone, but then admitted, "well, actually no but I do know the summary of it so-"
"So you do know that Romeo and Juliet both die in the end, right?" Hermione decided to enlighten her friend on this detail that haven't exactly reached out to the red haired witch at this point.
"Right..." realization finally hit Ginny, but then quickly added, "but that's just a book. This is real life."
"Sadly…"
The red head gave her friend a sympathetic look. Ginny was sure that Hermione wasn't over her parents death and for the past few weeks, Hermione had managed to pull off that she was completely fine. But now that she was away from the other people that would just make things complicated, the brunette let her true feelings show.
"Oh, Hermione..." Ginny grabbed her friend and gave her a huge bear hug that her mother was commonly known for.
The brunette sniffled and tried to pry herself away from her friend, "Don't bother, I'm fine."
"No, you are not fine. You didn't even have a chance to mourn for Merlin's sake! Hermione, there are times when it's not necessary to grieve, but in this case, you have to. It's a system that you just have to go through. You can't skip it, if you do it'll just mess up the whole process," Ginny tried to knock some sense into her friend.
Hermione just closed her eyes for awhile, not sure how to respond to this. Ginny was right, she had just tried to make it seem as if everything was fine and that nothing had happened. She even tried to prevent herself from thinking about the old memories she had with her parents when she missed and thought about them.
"I'm here for you and I'm sure Draco is too. So, now get on with the story. Details woman, I need details," Ginny quickly changed the subject.
Just as soon as the two were becoming emotional, they switched back to full girly mode.
After Hermione explained what had happened, Ginny squealed in delight.
"I don't know why you're so happy about this," the brunette grumbled.
"Have you not heard one single word that I have said to you this evening? THIS IS ABSOLUTELY ROMANTIC!"
Hermione rolled her eyes in disagreement.
"Don't you dare roll your eyes at me, Hermione Jane Granger!"
Just to make Ginny peeved, the brunette rolled her eyes slowly.
"Do that one more time and I'll go running towards Draco and tell him that you have been secretly but madly in love with him ever since your first year!" Ginny threatened.
Hermione decided to joke around and replied in a mockingly shocked voice while placing her hand dramatically over her heart, "Ginny! I can't believe you found out my deepest darkest secret!"
The two of them giggled uncontrollably. They slowly quieted down and it was silent for awhile.
"So, 'Mione... what are you planning on doing tomorrow. Now that you've kissed him, do you think you're capable of talking to him?"
"Of course I'll be able to talk to him. Just because we kissed doesn't mean that I would act differently around him.
"He might think otherwise," Ginny added at the end.
Hermione gave up easily and took the easy way out, "I'll know what to do when I get there."
The two continued on with their conversation, except it was mostly centered around the latest fashion, newest couples, or just boys in general. In the end, Hermione decided that it would be better if she just stayed and spent the night in the Gryffindor Tower, rather than her own room. Besides, she was in need of company.
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Back in the Gryffindor Common Room, Ron turned towards Harry with a concerned look on his face.
"Oi, Harry," Ron whispered to his messy haired friend.
The green eyed wizard looked over at Ron, "What?"
"You know, er- before school started. You liked 'Mione and…"
"… Yeah?"
"Are you," Ron raked his hand through his bright red hair, "are you all right with her and Malfoy being together?"
"It's not everyday that one of your best mates runs off with a Slytherin, but I guess I'm fine with everything that's going on between them. If I can't make her happy, then it wasn't never really meant to be," Harry sighed with a slight remorse in his tone.
The red head looked blankly at his friend, "Bloody hell Harry, are you positively sure that you're over her?"
"YEAH, I am!" Harry forcefully replied.
"All right, mate," Ron raised his hands in defense, "I was just concerned, you know?"
"Yeah, I guess so," he got up, "Look, I'm going to go on and head upstairs, see you later."
Harry walked up stairs without waiting for Ron. The red head just sighed and leaned back in his armchair. He closed his eyes for a brief second, and then just decided that he should go on up to the dormitories as well.
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After their share of fun was finally over, Blaise and Pansy finally headed back to their House's Common Room. Soon enough, Draco paced around his room. He thought about the kiss that he shared with Hermione, he smiled at the memory.
'If Hermione didn't like me, then she would have protested while we kissed, but instead she went along with it. Hell, she probably wanted it as much as I did!'
Draco then thought back when Blaise and Pansy had said that he had liked Hermione ever since he met her.
'That's not true; I started to like her during the third year, not ever since I laid eyes on her. The first two years I was just filled with stupid prattle from father about how all purebloods should hate mudbloods etc. Well, they won't need to know that particular information, since I am positive that it would only cause more ridicule.' '
The Slytherin walked over to his king sized bed and sat down on it. He reached down to the hem of his black shirt and pulled it over him. Usually, after Draco took a shower, he would just leave his shirt off since that was how he went to bed. But since Hermione was present at that time, he had put on a shirt. Now that nobody was here, he just took it off.
Before he turned the lights out, he thought out loud, "What the hell am I going to do tomorrow?"
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The next day, Hermione woke up with a groan. She slept on a spare bed in the girls' dormitories in the Gryffindor Tower. Throughout the night, Hermione tossed and turned, thinking about Draco and what might happen when they would meet again. She finally fell asleep around three o'clock in the morning.
Soon enough, the sun crept into the room; she could hear the other girls groaning and shifting their bodies so that they wouldn't have to face the obtrusive sunlight.
The brunette sighed and closed her eyes, 'What would other people say if I Malfoy and I became a couple? Not that I care about that or anything. Maybe I should just stay in bed and act like I'm sick. But Ginny's smart enough to see past that and would try to convince me that I should just act as if nothing had happened. Oh yeah, Blaise and Pansy saw us kiss, so that would be two others on the list, and finally, Draco. Merlin, what am I going to do now?'
Hermione looked around if anybody else was awake; nope, they were still slumbering on. She clambered out of her bed and crept out of the room. Luckily the door didn't creak and wake up the girls. Since Hermione slept in her school uniform, she quickly rushed over to the Room of Requirements to go and freshen up before classes would begin.
She took off her uniform and spread it out on her bed. With her wand, Hermione quickly cleaned it and pressed out the wrinkles. She was satisfied with the result and then went to her bathroom; she was in need of a long, warm shower.
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Draco didn't sleep at all at night; he was too busy pondering about what would happen the next time he would meet up with Hermione. The sunlight slowly crept into his room; he looked over at his glass window.
'I sure as hell can't avoid her, it would just cause some curious remarks about us, not that there even is an "us". At least she said that she had no regrets on saying yes to me.'
The Slytherin got out of his bed and walked over to his bathroom. He quickly washed his face and brushed his teeth. After that Draco ambled back to his room and got dressed. When he looked at the large grandfather clock that was placed at the far right corner of his room, he groaned. It was only seven o'clock, there was still an hour left until breakfast was served. Draco thought of reading a book, but he knew he would just soon become disinterested. He walked over to his closet and took out his broom. Draco smiled; it had been awhile since he had ridden his broom. He walked over to his large window and opened it. He climbed on and flew out of his room and into the air.
Draco inhaled deeply; it was nice to be outside. He flew out towards the Forbidden Forest and just drifted there. With content, he sighed and closed his eyes.
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Hermione finished her long and relaxing shower and she was so relaxed and comfortable. When she stepped out, she almost collapsed because her legs were too loose. Hermione's head was spinning around and made her nauseous for a second. Hermione quickly closed her eyes and steadied herself.
"Ugh..." she groaned while tip-toeing over to the sink.
The brunette opened her eyes and looked at her reflection in the mirror. She sighed and had to admit that she wasn't looking so good right now. Dark circles were inhabiting around the lower parts of her eyes which made her eyes look extremely dull.
'I know I'm not pretty or beautiful, so what does Malf- Draco see in me? Hell, I know he isn't going for my personality, or is he? rolls eyes Men. Hah! More like males in general. They are so confusing. Now, I need to think of a ne...'
Hermione let her thoughts wander while she brushed her dripping wet hair. After her hair was tame and good for the public eye, she walked out of her bathroom. Hermioneslowly put on her clothes and when she was done, she looked over at her clock. It was only seven thirty, thirty more minutes to waste.
The brunette thought to herself, "Oh, the professors won't mind if I'm in the Great Hall early, and I'll just bring Jane Eyre with me and try and reach a decent point. That sounds good..."
The Gryffindor walked over to the edge of her bed and picked up her tan, leather messenger bag. She then walked to the entrance of her bedroom and opened the door. Shifting her bag on her shoulder, Hermione stepped out and started to head over to the Great Hall.
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Once Draco was relaxed and almost ready for anything, he headed back to his room. Draco looked at his clock once more, it was seven thirty.
'Damn it, I hate it when time goes by so slowly...'
The Slytherin decided to go out and walk around the castle. Nobody in their right mind would be awake at this hour, including Ms. Norris and Filch. Draco quickly left the Head rooms and just started to walk around. Without realizing it, he was walking towards the Great Hall.
'Guess I've got food on my mind... come to think of it, I am getting a little hungry.'
Just as he turned at a corner, he saw a familiar figure walking only a few feet in front of him. Long, wavy, brown hair, considerably average length skirt, and an overstuffed bag that's about to burst open.
Draco smiled, 'Hermione...'
He swiftly walked over to the girl and just as he was only a few steps behind her, she turned around.
"What in Merlin's name ar-"
When she noticed that it was Draco, Hermione's eyes went wide with shock.
"I-I-uh..." she laughed nervously, "bye."
"Woah, woah, woah," Draco grabbed her wrist. "Where do you think you're going?"
The brunette didn't turn around to answer so she answered while facing the opposite direction, "Going somewhere that's none of your concern."
"Okay, but I'm curious, and don't you dare give me that phrase 'Curiosity killed the cat' because I for one do not resemble a cat whatsoever," Draco rambled.
"Oh yeah?" Hermione raised an eyebrow. Soon there was a mischievous look in her eyes, she continued, "Well then, curiosity killed the Slytherin."
"All right," Draco easily gave up, "but I'm bored."
The blonde hopefully looked at Hermione. When she noticed that Draco was looking at her, she rolled her eyes and answered.
"I'm not an amusement park, Draco. Go and entertain yourself somewhere else."
"I don't kno-" Draco immediately stopped and thought back, "Wait, did you just say my first name?"
"Does it really matter?" Hermione asked.
"Yes," the Slytherin smirked, "yes, it makes quite a big difference."
He was still holding onto Hermione's wrist, so he started to lead her somewhere else other than the Great Hall.
"Where are you taking me?" the brunette tried to match Draco's long and swift strides.
"Somewhere," he grinned.
When at last he reached his destination, Hermione groaned when she realized where she was.
"You've got to be kidding me," the brunette looked at the familiar sun and moon painting.
They were standing in front of the entrance to the Head rooms. Hermione pried her hand away from Draco's grasp and started to head back towards the Great Hall or at least somewhere else other than here.
"Well, if I was just kidding around then I wouldn't be doing this."
"Doing wha-"
For the second time in the same week, Hermione was being snogged by Draco Malfoy. The surprising thing about it was that Hermione was responding eagerly and was practically attacking him. At first, Draco was in shock because of the way that Hermione was acting, but soon began to smile. His plan was working in some odd and unbelievable way.
After a few minutes of heated passion in front of the Head rooms, Draco pulled away from Hermione panting. But as soon as he let her go, he just pulled her right back in towards his chest. When he heard Hermione trying to breathe correctly, he chuckled softly.
"What's so funny," she softly murmured.
"Oh, I don't know. Maybe that you probably just attacked me a few minutes ago?" he teased.
"I didn't attack you! You attacked me!" she fired back, but it was less intimidating since she was saying it into his broad chest.
"Fine, I'll admit that I was being 'forward' (making air quotes) at first, but-"
"Who bloody cares if it was the bird who was aggressive one or if it was the bloke! Now just say the bloody password if you want in or not!" the sun shouted at the two teenagers.
"Oh, shush. Can't you see they were having a moment?" the moon scolded the yellow orb.
"All right, but nevertheless what's the password."
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Once the two got in Draco immediately grabbed the brunette and pulled her towards the stairs. Hermione stubbornly stood still, resisting the strong pulling. The Slytherin turned around and gave her an exasperated look.
"I'm not going anywhere until you tell me why you brought me here," she firmly responded.
'Merlin... please tell me she did not just as me that question. She can't be that bloody clueless! Can she?'
Draco lifted one eyebrow and then responded, "All right then."
He swiftly leaned and wrapped his arms around her waist and started to kiss her gently. Hermione wasn't exactly prepared for this kind of response but at that moment she couldn't give a fuck whether or not she was kissing Draco Malfoy.
The Slytherin picked her up, which Hermione immediately responded by wrapping her legs around his waist, and started to lead her up to his room. Even though he was carrying a full grown teenage girl, he didn't stumble at all when he climbed up the stairs.
While she was being carried up to Draco's room, Hermione was quite aware of Draco taking her up to his room and knew that they weren't going to be only kissing. Instead of ruining the moment, she just went along with it and decided to wait and talk to him when they were up in his room.
Draco sensed Hermione stiffen when they crossed his doorway. Being the gentleman that he was around her, he stopped what they were doing and looked at her with concern.
"Maybe this isn't the right time," he started to untangle himself from the brunette and then leaned against the dark green painted wall.
Hermione softly sighed and gazed right back at him.
"Maybe you're right," the brunette murmured and then she suddenly pushed her body onto him and whispered in his ear, "but then again..."
She nipped his ear and placed soft kisses on Draco's neck. The Slytherin enjoyed this gesture that he was receiving for a moment, but gently pushed her away from him.
"Breakfast is going to be served really soon and-"
Hermione had a confused look on her face, "I thought you wanted this."
"I do, it's just that-"
"But what!" her voice became hoarse.
The Gryffindor had a hidden agenda up her sleeves; she wanted to prove to herself that Draco Malfoy was not the type of guy to have for a boyfriend. So she was practically throwing herself onto him. Hermione decided to go overboard with her act and tried to muster up fake tears. Her tears formed and obediently rolled down her cheeks. Although a part of her wanted to do this all along.
The blonde immediately cradled her face and kissed the tears away.
"Listen to me," Draco kissed her on her lips this time, "I really do... did want this, but it's all wrong. I don't want it to happen like this! I've gone too far this time and this isn't how it should be."
Hermione frowned and then leaned in closely; she placed her two hands on his chest.
She leaned closer till her lips were grazing his own.
"You're such a gentleman..."
The brunette had a smirk on her face that could match up to Draco's, she then bit his bottom lip and tugged it gently. Hermione pushed herself away from Draco and started to walk towards the door, hips swaying, when he grabbed her arm and pushed himself against her.
"You drive me crazy sometimes, you know that?"
With that, he kissed her deeply on her mouth. Hermione didn't respond so he pulled himself away from her.
"You're right, we shouldn't," he whispered in a low and husky manner and then turned his head away from her.
Draco walked over to his bed and sat down. Running both of his hands through his hair, he thought to himself, 'What the hell happened to her? She isn't usually like this! Hermione's starting to act like the rest of the girls in this school. If that's not the answer, then she could be just testing me if I would go all the way with her. If I started to go in that direction, then she would leave me and decide that she would never date me. What I just did was a right choice then, but now I just hope that I'm right about it.'
Hermione was surprised; she hadn't thought that he would resist a girl when she 'willingly' threw herself onto him.
'Maybe he's not all that bad...'
The brunette started to walk towards the door once more, but this time he didn't stop her. Before leaving the room, she looked back at his figure and sighed softly.
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"Oi!" Ron jabbed Harry on the side with his elbow, "Where's Hermione?"
Harry had a peeved look on his face, for his best mate had just interrupted him in his breakfast. He replied in an annoyed voice, "How would I know?"
"What about you?" he pointed his question towards his sister, Ginny.
"Okay Ron, let me go through this with you slowly so that you can comprehend what I am saying. One, Hermione doesn't live in the Gryffindor Tower anymore. Two, she left before any of us were up. Three, it has been less then ten hours since you have seen her. And four, why must you absolutely know where she is at the current moment?" the red headed girl said in a very slow pace.
In response, Ron said, "Well you should know that our Hermione is fraternizing with the enemy."
The raven haired teenager settled his fork down on his plate and started to rub his hands together in anticipation. He could just see Ginny reach over the table and smack his friend on the head.
"You twit," Harry chuckled, "you're in for it now."
"Wha-"
Without being able to finish his sentence, he was hit in the back of his head.
"Bloody hell! That hurt!" Ron started to massage the back of his neck.
"Too bad," Hermione sat in between Ron and Harry, "you shouldn't be talking about me behind my back."
"It wasn't like that at all, 'Mione!" the red headed boy started to defend himself.
"Oh, hush," she hissed while scooping some scrambled eggs onto her plate, "Now, if you don't mind, I'd like to eat my breakfast peacefully?"
Harry gave Ginny a questioning look, in which she just shrugged.
While Hermione was nibbling on a toast covered in butter and marmalade, she was thinking about a certain blonde Slytherin.
'Was I acting way too over the top with Draco? I mean, I wasn't myself in front of him, and he's knows that I don't act like that… Why am I doing this?'
While she was deep in her thoughts, Hermione didn't notice that Draco had walked into the Great Hall. He swiftly glided over to his table and sat down next to Blaise and Pansy. Draco then poured himself some orange juice and drank deeply. It was when Hermione saw out of the corner of her eye something blond sitting down, did she finally come back to the present.
Draco could feel her gaze on him, but acted as if he didn't notice. He started to make small talk with Blaise about something completely irrelevant.
Hermione sighed outwardly, catching the attention of Ginny, Harry, and Ron.
"Hermione, what's wrong?" Ginny, who was sitting across from Ron, asked in a concerned voice.
"It's nothing," she responded while pushing her eggs around her plate with her fork.
"I don't think it's just a nothing," Harry commented.
"I'm promise, it's nothing important. You know, it's just the stress that's gotten to me, but other than that, everything's perfect. Never could be better," Hermione replied in a fake cheery voice.
"You, my friend, need a seriously big hug," the raven haired teenager pulled her towards his chest and gave her a bear hug.
This time, it was Draco who noticed something going on at the Gryffindor table.
"What the hell is she doing?" he thought out loud without thinking.
"Who are you talking to mate?" Blaise asked, looking at his friend oddly.
"No one, but since I've got your attention, look over at Potter and his friends," Draco nodded towards the Gryffindor table.
"What about them," the blue eyed Slytherin didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
"Why the hell is she hugging Potter?"
"Who? Hermione?"
"No, Blaise, Ginny. Of course it's Hermione!"
"Beats me."
Blaise could care less why the two were hugging since he was too busy watching Ginny Weasely.
"Au contraire," Pansy joined in, "it was Potter who gave and is still giving the hug to Granger. Not the other way around."
Without any warning, Draco stood up from the wooden bench and strided over towards the Gryffindors. It was only a matter of seconds when he reached the table. The Slytherin walked over to the two teenagers and pulled Hermione up.
"What are you doing!" Hermione demanded while tugging her arm away from the Slytherin.
"Malfoy, let her go," Harry stood up and commanded in a calm tone.
"Potter, get this through your head. She. doesn't. like. you. All right?" Draco coldly responded.
The whole Gryffindor table grew quiet, nevertheless the entire Great Hall. The students were all eager to listen to what was going on between the three older students. Even the professors and staff grew quiet and started to listen intently.
Harry looked uncomfortable that the whole school was watching and listening in on their conversation.
"Look, this is becoming a bigger situation than it should be" Harry reached out towards Hermione's arm but Draco wouldn't let that happen.
He pulled the brunette up so that she was standing right beside him.
"Draco, be reasonable-" Hermione was cut off.
"Hermione… don't you understand?" Draco said in an agonized voice, "I love you."
The Slytherin cradled her face and gazed lovingly at Hermione. He then leaned in and kissed her deeply right in front of the whole entire school.
All right, so how was that? Like I said earlier, more angst is coming soon. So buckle up before you read the next chapter that I'm going to post! ) Oh yeah by the way, sorry about the whole mishap with the Blake and Blaise. Maybe I shouldn't have made up Blake's name that resembled Blaise's. Too late for that. So SORRY ONCE MORE!
Reviews (gotta love them) :
rizahawkeye21:well, you know Hermione hasn't really gotten used to Draco yet. But sooner than she thinks, she'll be returning her feelings for him in the public. PSHH who WOULDN'T want a guy to come up behind you and kiss you? It would be amazing? lmao
xridgegodessx: NEW REVIEWER! well, if you think that MY writing skills are above my level then you should've read some of my friends' poetry and stuff. It's.. amazing. but she's not on ff so blah. Thanks for the highschool thing, it's just that I might get lost. Yeah.. I'm not really that oriented directionwise, got it from my mum. Okay, now the story, I've started to read over what I wrote before I submit. If I still have problems, well... I'll learn how to fix those later in school.
rowlinghermione : Sorry about the misunderstanding. but the funny thing is that only two people detected it out of six. ilovefireyredheads : ANOTHER NEW REVIEWER! HUZZAH! So I'm guessing you're a ronald weasely fan? or you just love red heads. I'm just kidding : Thanks.. I guess. Lol.. the relationship confusion thingie. Not everything is perfect in love...
Seldom Darlin : pshh I hope it's a dream come true. (sigh) Well.. at least it'll give you hope that I'll be writing this story (i'm exaggerating) until I find a guy that likes me back... :( If only they could actually put up to the courage to go up to me and say "Susie, I really like you." (Sigh).. guys.
dracoshott28 : hubba hubba.. lmao. Yay.. you liked the ending! I was hoping for that kind of reaction. Lol.. don't worry, I was practically drooling while I was thinking of how draco would look in a tight fitted black t-shirt. yummy. You're the second person who mentioned the mix up with blaise and blake. Sorry for the confusion :( I can't believe I missed that while I was proofreading.
ilovefieryredheads : NEW REVIEWER! WELCOME! Thanks for the review and lol.. the whole relationship confusion thingie? It's very clear that love is never perfect.
All right, now how was that chapter? Yeah, I know... I ended TWO chapters sealed with a kiss. HEY! I like it since it's a good stop point for me.No kissing no ending. Now, we wouldn't that would we.
Until the next chapter
xXx33 susie