A/N: I have decided to start each chapter of this fanfiction with a song, so if you have any ideas for songs I could put in the last chapters, say it in the reviews, it'll help. Thanx!
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LAST CHAPTER:
I felt someone from the other end of the hall looking at me. I turned around and smiled at him. He blushed slightly and turned around to look at his house friends.
My parents' story
By: A.Lupin
Chapter 7: Welcome to my life.
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No you don't know what it's like
When nothing feels all right
You don't know what it's like
To be like me
To be hurt
To feel lost
To be left out in the dark
To be kicked when you're down
To feel like you've been pushed around
To be on the edge of breaking down
And no one's there to save you
No you don't know what it's like
Welcome to my life
Do you wanna be somebody else?
Are you sick of feeling so left out?
Are you desperate to find something more?
Before your life is over
Are you stuck inside a world you hate?
Are you sick of everyone around?
With their big fake smiles and stupid lies
While deep inside you're bleeding
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Simple plan – Welcome to my life
"Hello class. Gryffindors, please sit down and behave" Snape said as he sat on his chair. Ron, who was sitting by my side went red with anger.
"Calm down, he's always like this and he does it to make you angry and then have an excuse to take points from Gryffindor" I explained and he sat down still furious.
"Remember that in three days time you have to give me your first report of how your potion is going and explain the process it has made throughout this time" oh no. with all the thing that had happened, I hadn't remembered the potion!
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"What happens if you don't hand it in?" Beverly asked curiously.
"I would fail and I wouldn't be able to get the job I wanted…"
"Please Hermione, don't exaggerate, you can't be so desperate only because you wouldn't be able to give in the summary"
"I was! I couldn't lower my standards if I wanted to get the job!" she said angrily.
"Please mummy and daddy, stop fighting. What happened next?" they both smiled at her daughter's peace ability.
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The rest of the class passed smoothly and without many incidents. When it had ended, I picked my things up quickly went to the Slytherin part of the room.
"you didn't get enough yesterday, mudblood Granger?" Crabbe said smiling and coming close to me. I tried to get away from him but he came even closer.
"Dra-Malfoy, I need to talk to you about the potion project" I said, looking for help. He was talking to that stupid Blaise Zabini and hadn't heard me. "Please Malfoy! We need to talk!" he turned around and saw Crabbe close to me, smirking maliciously.
"What do you want, H-Granger?" he approached both of us and pushed Crabbe away, who groaned.
"We need to do the potion, Draco!" I whispered. He agreed and we went away to our common room.
"Has Crabbe done something to you over there?" he asked with a concerned tone of voice that made me smile.
"No, but nearly. Come on lets start" I said as I talked out my cauldron.
"Not now, 'Mione!" he said lazily.
"'Mione?" I asked raising an eyebrow. Only my best friends call me that!
What surprised me was not his laziness, was that he called me 'Mione. He had called me Mudblood (but not anymore), Granger, and even Hermione. I was OK with it, but then he called me what only Ron, Harry and Ginny call me. It was strange coming out from his mouth, but I liked it so much. And don't ask me why.
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"Why?" Beverly teased her mother. Just the way Draco did.
"I see she has inherited that from me. She also likes teasing you, 'Mione" Draco grinned.
"oh shut up both of you!" she said rolling her eyes.
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"I mean, not now, Granger" he rectified, as the blush disappeared from his face.
" you can call me Hermione, but only by best friends call me 'Mione"
"I'll call you what you want, understand, Granger?" he asked trying to sound superior.
"Whatever" I sighed "but we have to start the potion!" I remembered.
"What will you give me if I do it?" he said with a sexy smirk. I started to say 'Accio wand' but he was quicker and disarmed me. "what will you give me?" he repeated.
"Nothing. But we need to start!" I said desperately. No he wouldn't give in so easily and I knew it. He was Draco Malfoy! What would he want? Maybe he wanted me to let him copy the homework or something similar.
"Kiss me" it surprised me so much. A kiss? Draco Malfoy wants a kiss from mudblood Granger? Ha! But then I thought… yes, I had a plan. Then I agreed. He looked surprised when I did. I leaned closer to him and he closed his eyes. I smiled and kissed his cheek.
"What?" he asked angrily.
"You said a kiss, but not where" I smirked triumphantly. I was not that stupid to kiss Draco Malfoy because he was asking for it.
"Stupid Granger! So intelligent…" he murmured. So he thought I was intelligent? I asked him. "No, I mean…" I win.
"Ok, ok, lets start" I said moving towards the cauldron. He sighed and admitted I had won.
7. Draco
That was NOT fair. Why does she have to be so intelligent? Wait I said intelligent? Maybe bookworm or know-it-all but not intelligent!
Anyway, why did I say I wanted a kiss? Bah it was not that I was wanting it more than I want Pansy's… I was wanting it as someone else, it was not special
"I was lying to myself back then, you know? I had started to feel something for you. You were the only one who was not afraid of me, the only one who I cared about. Because if I had no one to torment, I would be soooooooo bored." He said looking at his wife smiling.
"So you used me so you weren't bored? Not because-"she started angrily.
"No… that was at the start, but not afterwards…"
We had a free period afterwards so we spend the whole hour doing the potion. I thought it would be boring but I was wrong. We spent most of the time talking like civilized people and there was never an uncomfortable silence between us. She laughed at my jokes and the hour passed quicker than I had expected.
The next days were similar. We had to write the report so we spent most of our free time working together. It wasn't like I thought. I had always thought that when Hermione worked with a group or in pairs she was the one who did the work and no one talked. It was not true. I also did things in the group and she didn't boss me around and we always talked, I had a good time.
"now I will start to say the marks of your reports" Snape started "Pansy Parkinson an Neville Longbottom, T" Pansy glared furiously at Neville who looked like he would start crying at any moment "Crabbe and Goyle, A" they smiled. If they had been Gryffindors, they would have also a T. "Draco and Outstanding but Granger and Acceptable because I can imagine Draco did all the work" what? That was not true! Her hand rose in the air.
"Sorry Professor, but we both did the same amount of work" she said reasonably. Potter and Weasley were glaring angrily at Snape. For once, I mentally agreed with her.
"Are you questioning my marking?" he asked raising and eyebrow. She started to reply but I don't know why I did it for her.
"Its true Professor, we did the same work both" the class was silenced. Normally Draco Malfoy would be glad they had lowered someone's mark only because she/he was a mudblood but not now. Even Snape was surprised.
"Oh…ok…I see Draco you have compassion. You are like your father, you know" he said smiling. He turned to Hermione "Outstanding, Granger"
NO. I was NOT like my father, never. I was angry, really angry with Snape. He was lucky the class had ended.
I arrived to my common room and saw her smiling.
"Thanks Draco!" she said sweetly and hugged me shortly and then, when she realised what she was doing, she pulled apart and blushed. What the hell was she doing? Not that I didn't like it … stop it Draco, I would love to have another one… STOP IT! ok, ok, I hate her, I lied to my Death Eater's conscience.
Then, she went to her desk and started to work.
I sat down at my couch and looked furiously at the floor, thinking of what Snape had said. Who did he think he was, talking like he knew me? How did he dare? A voice interrupted my thoughts.
"Draco, do you have spare parchments?" she said politely.
"NO! And don't bother me again, understand, stupid mudblood-" I stopped as I realised what I had said. I had snapped at her for no reason… I had thrown all my anger at her.
"I won't and thanks, Malfoy" how I hated to hear her not say my name but my surname instead. I was so stupid.
"I sorry 'Mione but I…"
"Granger" she corrected. I asked her to listen to me but she wouldn't. I stunned her. She wouldn't listen so I stunned her. Great. Now she thought I would do something to her. And I saw the same expression I had seen in her face when I saw her in the floor with the other Slytherins. She was scared of me.
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"oh, no, you're always fighting!" Beverly said, sobbing
"don't worry darling, every thing will be okay" her father said softly as he brushed her hair.
"then contiunue!" she said, her anger raising. Then, her parents started to laugh.
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"Hermione let me explain, please. First of all, I wouldn't have stunned you if you had listened to me. I was angry and you paid for it. Snape, in the last class told me I was like my father, and I'm NOT like him. Definatly. I hate what he does, insulting and killing innocent people just because of their parents. I hate him with all of my heart and I will never be like him, I see no sense on what he does.
So when Snape told me I was like him, when really I NEVER want to be like him. He made me angry and you paid for it. I'm… so…sorry Hermione" a tear slid down my cheek. It was a mixture of hate against Snape and resentment for what I had said to Hermione. I had never said sorry to anyone.
"I'm sorry, Draco. For not listening to you." The charm had weared off and she came towards me. I would have expected me to slap me or something but she didn't. She came near me and hugged me tightly for the second time that day and didn't let go for some moments. "I know you aren't like your father. I see it in your eyes". She then continued to press me against her. She had forgave me and believed me. She had comfort me like never no one had done before. She was my one and only real friend. (A/N: I know this is really cheesy)
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"And Zabini, Parkinson, Crabbe, Goyle…" Beverly asked
"They were my friends because of my power, my richness. Not as a human being, like she did" Draco smiled at his wife and kissed her forehead.
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"So you don't want to marry Pansy Parkinson? You wouldn't like to have born in the Malfoy's family? Then why are you in Slytherin?"
"Me. Want. To. Marry. Pansy. Parkinson? Never" I said truly. I didn't have to tell her, after all, I had to fake I loved Parkinson, not hate her. But she had something that made me tell her everything. "As for liking to have born in the Malfoy's family… well I am powerful, rich and handsome but I do not share their ideas. And I am in Slytherin because long ago some Malfoy cast a spell on the sorting hat so it put each and every Malfoy in Slytherin. Welcome to my life, Hermione Granger" after my confessions, she thought about them for a moment. Oups, that last sentence had a double meaning… I meant that now she knew my life, not that now she had entered my life… well maybe….
"Then why do you still call me mudblood?" she asked me.
"tradition. I like teasing you" I said sincerely and smirking. She laughed and punched my arm friendly. Since when we were so close friends? But it wasn't like I didn't like it… I smiled, a real smile, so rare of me 'whoa Draco, you're thinking like that too much. Remember she is Hermione Granger, the one who used to be your enemy…' 'wait, she didn't use to be she still is my enemy' I forced myself to think over and over again.
A/N: In the next chapter you will see her side of the story (summarised) and when they are with their friends.
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