Disclaimer: I don't own anything of the Harry Potter brand. And because I make a Buffy refrerence, I don't own anything of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer brand either.
Shivering a bit, I stepped out into the frosty morning. I had never been up this early to go anywhere in a very long time. Stopping for a moment, I realized how beautiful the world truly was. When you just stopped for a moment and just looked. I smiled and then hurried off to my car. Turning on the heat instantly, I pulled out into the street. It was a good thing not many people were out on the roads because I was in deep thought. How did I fall for my enemy? Why did this have to be so damn cliche? Why couldn't I like some nice muggle who would be understanding of my witchcraft? I sighed, because I was always special in every aspect.
Knocking on Draco's door, I was fine. Yet the minute I saw him, my stomach was a mixture of butterflies and knots. I quickly figured Shania wasn't there and probably staying at a friend's. Draco directed me to the kitchen even though I knew where it was. Lined on the counter were various ingredients along with different cooking utensils. I raised an eyebrow at him and grabbed a bowl.
"You sure you can cook?" He laughed softly.
"Pretty certain." and he grabbed the flour.
"Okay Emerald, let's see what you got." I said and Draco looked at me in confusion.Then I realized, "Oh! Emerald...he's a very famous muggle cook."And turned to get a measuring cup. I quickly scooped some flour into the bowl and just as I was about to crack the egg into the flour, it seemed as if snow was suddenly falling in front of me.
That was when I realized Draco had purposely thrown flour at me.
I blinked and slowly turned to look at him. He smirked and then burst out laughing. I probably did look pretty funny, but he had actually thrown flour at me. What in the name of God's green earth...? I was a bit frozen in shock and disbelief, and then I felt the egg clutched in my hand. This totally had quite a few possiblities. Draco's laughter started to die down and he tried to get out.
"I'm sorry, but I couldn't resist." But I had other plans and threw the egg at him, hitting him straight on.
Onto his hair!
Now it was my turn to smirk, as his perfect hair was now astray. The one thing he took more pride in than anything else in the world.
"You do realize by bringing my hair into this, this means war."
"Do you think I care?" I asked and grabbed a handfull of flour. Once he saw I was serious, he took hold of the sugar. We both threw our products at each other at the same time, ducking to avoid being hit. I was under the counter when I saw a couple bars of chocolate up on the counter behind me. I snuck my hand up and grabbed the bars and quickly broke the chocolate into pieces. I popped my head over the edge of the counter, and aimed at the top of his head which could be seen on the opposite side. I threw a couple pieces and waited for him to put his head up completely. Sure enough, he did as I wanted and I quickly hurled the chocolate at him. Instead of retreating he instead started to move his way toward me. I quickly ran around the counter to avoid him, and eventually ended back where I orginally was. I suddenly felt a cold liquid being poured on my head and looked up to see Draco pouring milk above me. He was laying on the top of the counter. The jerk cheated. He simply smirked and faster than I thought possible, dissapeared.
I started to crawl along the floor, hoping to make it to the sink and Draco pounced. I got out from under him and turned on the sink to full blast and then took the sprayer attached and aimed it straight at Draco. He was drenched in seconds and tried to turn the water's path from him to me, instead he ended up with some pretty soaked windows. Draco eventually got so blinded with the combined water, and flour, sugar, and other odds and ends we ended up throwing at each otherwhile the water was on he slipped and fell on the floor. Apparently he wasn't about to go down alone and he pulled my leg and I fell as well. My legs over his, almost in his lap. And for the moment we did the only thing you really can do at a time like that.
Laugh.
I couldn't stop laughing as I just sat there in Draco's lap, probably looking a mess and not caring. As I calmed down I wiped the tears from my eyes and then realized the full situation. And for a moment we froze, just staring at each other. In that spilt second, I thought one word:
Perfect.
I realized that we were perfect for each other. Sure we fought like hell sometimes. Sure he was a sneaky, overly smirking, jerk, but he was also funny, smart, and funny. As if by magnetic forces themselves, we started to come together closer and closer.
"Your getting married soon." I whispered, as my eyes closed of their own accord. He nodded.
"I know." probably not even caring about my statement. Just as our lips were about to touch, we heard a commotion.
"WHAT'S GOING ON?" shouted Ron and Harry. I quickly jumped off of Draco and dusted myself best as I could.
"Flour throwing." I said sheeply, trying to keep my face from going completely red. "It led to war." I looked to see Draco still partly flour white. "As you can see, he surrendered."I could now see Ginny holding back a chuckle.
"Fun?" she asked. I wanted to glared at her, she had ruined a perfectly great moment. "What? You said Harry and Ron were going to put on the frosting."
"Wait...how did you know? I didn't tell you."
"I read minds." she said sarcastically. "Hermione Granger, you should know by now I know everything about everyone." I tried to not get creeped out by that statement. I looked around at the messy kitchen, and realized no cake had been made.
"Well I guess it would be great if there actually was a cake wouldn't it?" I asked myself. "Um...well I'm not sure what to say except sorry!" I heard Draco chuckle behind me. I also felt the glares Harry and Ron were giving him. I turned to Ginny, "Would you take care of this? I have to dry off." she nodded and I headed off to the nearest upstairs bathroom in the house. But Ron and Harry stopped me mid-way.
"Can this wait boys? I really need to clean up." I pleaded.
"Well that much is apparent." said Harry and I swatted his arm.
"Are you sure Malfoy wasn't doing anything?" Ron asked. I laughed.
"I'm sure." when Ron tried to object I answered, "I'm at the top of our graduating class and I've seen every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer known to man, SOMEHOW I'll survive."
"He's leading you down the path of sin!" shouted Ron, and when he realized how loud his voice was, he turned red. Harry and I laughed.
"Sin?" I asked. "Hardly. You guys know me, if trouble comes around I'll call you. You know that." and a moment of silence fell over us. "BUT I must get cleaned!"
I didn't think to bring my wand as it seemed like baking the cake would seem completely muggle method, with no magic involed. I washed the mess out of my hair and was drying my hair when I heard a knock at the door.
"Yes?" I looked to see Draco opening the door.
"Hey, how is the clean up going?" I asked.
"You would've thought they had never done any work in their life, except for little Weaselette." I glared at him.
"Her name is Ginny." I sighed. "Do you have a blowdryer anywhere? I didn't bring my wand with me." Draco dangled his wand in front of my eyes. "Okay and that works too." I chuckled. With a wave of his wand I was clean and dry again.
"Can I talk to you?" he asked me. I gave him a weird look.
"But aren't we talking now?"
"No, I meanin the 'can-I-have-a-serious-moment' talk?" I nodded.
"Certainly, what did you want to talk to me about?" I was half curious, half filled with dread of the possiblities of what he could say.
"I was thinking about what you've said to me recently. And your completely right, I do want you. I need you. And I'm possibly in love with you. I know that you return my feelings, and don't deny it, I see it in your eyes. And if things were different, I would break this engagement and wedding off so I could be with you." I was puzzled at this statement, 'if things were different?' "I just wanted you to know that." and he walked out of the bathroom. I was still confused as a couple minutes later I was walking out of the bathroom. But then my foot stepped on something, and as I looked at it I realized it was a piece of paper. Curious I picked it up and uncurled it.
I literally felt my heart stop and I'm not sure if I sank to the floor or not. I could only run the same words over and over in my head.
Shania was pregnant.
Oh wow...I haven't updated this story in what seems like forever. First off, I'm sorry but all I can say is that life has gotten in the way. PLUS I'm getting restricted on computer time. Hopefully that'll let up next month though!
I'll try to update this story more often. And to clear the air, this story is NOT, I repeat NOT finished. I've got a ways to go with it :)