A/N: Song: (I Hate) Everything About You Artist: Three Days Grace.

I have actually never heard this song, but I stumbled across it and knew it was perfect, so here it is!

At the point where the lyrics point out keeping roommates awake, I have used this "sigh and scream we make" as nothing sexual I am afraid, because that just won't work.

Song of the Heart's Embrace

Chapter Eight

(I Hate) Everything About You

Every time we lie awake
After every hit we take
Every feeling that I get
But I haven't missed you yet

Hermione had screamed at him, shouted, swore loudly.

Draco had growled, he had punched things, he had thrown things at her, swore loudly.

Hermione lay on her bed; thankful he had gone to the couch to sleep. She knew he wouldn't go again, she just knew it, because he knew she was all he had.

Draco slept surprisingly well on the sofa and vowed that Hermione's bed was cursed with dirty dreams. He still felt like he wanted more from her, but he didn't miss the bed, or miss lying next to her.

Every roommate kept awake
By every sigh and scream we make
All the feelings that I get
But I still don't miss you yet

The arguments got worse every day, they got phone calls from neighbours to ask if they were alright, a policeman even called in once to see if things were alright, each time Draco and Hermione had just answered the same thing;

"We're just going through a rough patch, family problems."

With that explanation, they had gone, only sometimes to come back again. Hermione even got a call from a lawyer about whether they needed help deciding who was going to keep what.

"We're not married!" Hermione had shouted down the phone. "We're not even together! What on earth do we need a lawyer for?"

Draco had tried not to laugh, but hadn't succeeded and this only caused another fight.


Only when I stop to think about it

Hermione was in the shower, which meant they wouldn't be fighting for at least two more hours. She thought deeply about the situation and didn't even notice the salty droplets trickle down her face in warm trails.

Draco took this opportunity to think about it also, not realising that he had left a mark in the cushion where his nails had torn into the fabric.


I hate everything about you
Why do I love you
I hate everything about you
Why do I love you

The conclusion was the same both ways.

They hated each other.

They genuinely wanted to gut each other.

They hated each other and didn't know why they loved each other.

They didn't even know they loved each other.

It was confusing them so much they were fighting.

However, anyone would be confused when they realised the one person they hated the most turned out to be the one they loved the most.


Every time we lie awake
After every hit we take
Every feeling that I get
But I haven't missed you yet

They were still fighting still vowing to hurt the other in painful ways, but they didn't mean it, not really. Yes they lay awake and thanked the heavens that the other wasn't there, but they felt. They felt for the other deeply.


Only when I stop to think about it
I hate everything about you
Why do I love you
I hate everything about you
Why do I love you

But the conclusion really wasn't enough, they hated each other and loved each other, but there wasn't a way to bridge them together.

The conclusion, they had to rest on one of them.

The easiest to rest on; hate.


Only when I stop to think
About you, I know
Only when you stop to think
About me, do you know

"Hermione?" asked Draco, his face popping around the doorframe.

Hermione had smiled at the use of her first name and they knew everything was all right again, well almost all right, they still knew.

The still knew that the other felt the same way.

They still knew that they would never be able to talk it through together.

"Can I come back to the bed?" Draco questioned, his face soft and neutral.

"No…" Hermione had murmured, making Draco from darkly, "but you can come back to our bed."

They were friends.

No more than that.

They were friends that hated each other.

No more than that.

They were enemies in love.

No more than that.

They were people who only felt the love, never acted upon it.

No more than that.


I hate everything about you
Why do I love you
You hate everything about me
Why do you love me

"Draco?" Hermione whispered as they lay in bed.

He looked over to her and grunted in reply. She propped herself up on her elbows and looked over him, her hair tickling his cheek gently.

"I hate everything about you…" she said, her face completely blank.

"I hate everything about you…" he replied, as if it were obvious.

"Why do I love you?" she growled and his eyebrows shot up, disappearing into his hairline.

"Why do I love you?" he replied and she frowned.

"Fair enough… I think it's because we're the same you and me…"

"Hardly…"

"Hear me out, unless you want to fight…"

"Is that a threat, Granger?"

"I'm serious, Draco… I think we love each other because we know each other, we feel the same way, well we know why we hate each other…"

"Because you're a Mudblood…"

"Fucking hell!" Hermione yelled, the covers flying off.

"Well it's true!"

"Well you're a death eater!" Hermione growled aggressively – not to mention pathetically -, her heart beating faster.

Hermione aggressively rolled onto her side. Draco smirked, wrapping his arm around her tightly.

"Fuck off," she growled aggressively.

"We hate each other because we're Granger and Malfoy, we love each other because we're Draco and Hermione, does that answer your question?" he purred, making a shiver travel up her spine.

It did.

It made sense.

They hated each other because in their school days Malfoy had to hate the Mudblood Granger and Hermione had to hate the pureblood death eater's son Malfoy.

They loved each other because they had finally learnt the other's first name, not literally, but the had learnt what made people want to call them by their first name, what made people want to be with them.

Now that is a love-hate relationship.


I hate
You hate
I hate
You love me

However, one question lay unanswered and that was the bridge;


I hate everything about you
Why do I love you

A/N: I hate short chapters… I hope you liked it, please review. I am officially clarifying that there will be a total of ten chapters, the next is called Used Me. and it is not the name of the song, because the name frankly would have suggested Draco was cheating.

Please review.