a/n Alright, there is a reason why Ron has mellowed out, and that is because of Luna. Love can do crazy things to people. Harry is too over protective of Hermione for a reason too, but he isn't over protective of Ginny, just to let you know. You'll find out in other chapters though.
Hermione POV
When I woke up in the morning I quickly got dressed into a shirt and jeans because it was the weekend. Then I ran downstairs shoving the letter Malfoy had given me into my pocket and passing by Malfoy himself.
"Slow down Tanith!" Malfoy yelled after me, but I ignored him and continued on my way.
Ginny was sitting at the Gryffindor table when I got to breakfast. I dragged her away from her food hurriedly and pulled her over into the hall.
"Hey, I was eating!" She complained I rolled my eyes.
"I think what I have to say is more important at the moment," then I told her what happened all yesterday.
"You saw him naked!" Ginny squealed loudly.
"Yes, now will you keep it down," I whispered to her.
"Then he saw you naked," Ginny said lowering her voice too. I nodded my head.
"You girls must stop talking about me all the time," Malfoy said walking over to us with a smirk.
"How do you know we were talking about you?" I asked scowling at him.
"It was just a guess," he said and winked at Ginny again, who blushed. "I know you really have it in for me Tanith."
"UH!" I said storming away. The only reason we talked about him was because Ginny wanted to know! I hated him; he had called me a Mudblood my whole entire life. I hated him!
I went off to the library and hid in the corner. Sadness overwhelmed me as I thought about my parents. Lately I haven't come to the library to read, I come to cry. I put on that fake cheeriness in front of my friends, but inside, I'm really crying. Silent tears trickled down the side of my face as I curled up in a ball and looked out the library window.
The smell of books haunted my nose and I watched as the rain beat against the window. Soon I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer and fell asleep in the chair; no one would come looking for me for hours. I had great friends, but they weren't that good at comforting. I mean look at Harry, he is probably the only one who could relate to me because he lost both his parents too, but no. Instead he has been avoiding me like the plague whenever he can. Either avoiding me or sticking to me like glue, something was definitely up with him.
My dreams were nothing, I saw nothing and then I felt my work move. I actually felt myself begin to move. I opened my eyes a crack and I realized that someone had picked me up and was carrying me up the stairs towards my common room. Who was it though? I kept my eyes shut trying to figure out who was bringing me up the stairs.
Who ever it was was very strong and I felt I don't know… protected in their arms. I smelled the musky smell of cologne, it seemed so familiar. So it must be someone I know. Maybe Harry or Ron? I don't know, nor do I care at the moment. I nuzzled my face into his robes and sighed before letting the rocking carry me into a light doze.
I woke up again when I felt myself being put into my bed. Who ever it was pressed their lips softly to my forehead before leaving my room. They left only the lingering smell of their cologne behind. I tried to open my eyes, I honestly did, but I just couldn't open them. I must have been really tiered, but then I realized that I had cried my eyes shut. There was this goo keeping them shut… EW! I washed it off and looked at my tear blotched face in the mirror.
With a quick concealment charm I hid the blotchiness and went down the stairs to grab something to eat. I was slicing up an apple into bite size pieces when Malfoy walked in. I turned my back to him and continued cutting, meanwhile my mind was analyzing the possibilities for Harry being my mystery man. I hummed quietly to myself and a smile found its way onto my face. A real smile, someone actually cared for me. I couldn't believe it! I felt like shouting it out to the world.
I was still humming as I popped a piece of apple into my mouth and grabbed my book from the counter. So happy in fact that I offered Malfoy an apple, which must of startled him. I say this because he looked up at startled and sort of fled form the room tripping over his feet all the while. How un-Malfoy like.
I went back up to my room and popped Simple Plan into my CD player and began to listen to 'Welcome To My Life.' Soon I was swept up into the music and pressed the repeat button as I let the music sweep me away again…
Do you ever wanna run
away?
Do you lock yourself in your room?
With the radio on
turned up so loud
That no one hears you screaming
No you
don't know what it's like
When nothing feels alright
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
When 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 the big fake smiles and stupid
lies
But deep inside you're bleeding
No you don't
know what it's like
When nothing feels alright
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
When no one's there to save you
No
you don't know what it's like
Welcome to my life
No
one ever lies straight to your face
And no one ever stabbed you
in the back
You might think I'm happy
But I'm not gonna
be ok
Everybody always gave you what you wanted
You never
had to work it was always there
You don't know what it's like
What it's like
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
When no one's there to save you
No you don't
know what it's like
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
When no one's there to save you
No you don't
know what it's like
Welcome to my life
Welcome to my life
Welcome to my life
-Simple Plan (Welcome To My Life)
It must have been hours later that I finally went back down the stairs to find Malfoy sitting on the couch starring at the ceiling. I was humming 'Welcome To My Life' as I went to the fridge in the kitchen and grabbed a glass of water. When I got back out I saw that Malfoy was still sitting their, but this time I realized that he was only in his boxers again. Quickly I left thinking about Ginny and then a brilliant idea struck. Ginny!
"Ginny, come on. Sleep over my place!" I said and Ginny smiled happily and grabbed her stuff from her own common room. Then together we left for my common room.
The moon was just rising as I got to the common room, "Unity." Then we were in, but of course I hadn't warned Ginny about Malfoy and his er… clothing or lack there of.
"Wow," Ginny said as she walked into the common room, but she wasn't looking at the room. Malfoy looked up to see Ginny staring at him and I grinned wickedly as she blushed profusely. "Great er… room!" She wasn't able to save herself and judging by the smirk on Malfoy's face he knew what she was talking about.
"Come on, let's put your stuff upstairs before we grab something to eat," I said and Ginny followed me. We changed into our pajamas in my case, a pair of short shots and a tank top. Ginny was wearing a long sleeve shirt that went down to her knees, so you couldn't see that she was wearing shorts. She grabbed her camera out of her bag.
"I want a picture!" She squeaked excitedly.
We went downstairs, grabbed some food and headed back up. Ginny of course got her picture of the shirtless Malfoy. I think he is still blinking his eyes in confusion, that camera flash was bright. The door didn't shut all the way, but I didn't notice. We put down the food and Ginny glared at me. Oh uh.
"Why didn't you warn me!" She shrieked hitting me in the head with a pillow.
"Hey!" I said grabbing a pillow and hitting her back.
Soon we were consumed by a pillow fight and screaming very loudly. Feathers were every where and we were bouncing on the beds, I had brought another one into the room for the sleep over of course. This is what I needed, distraction.
After a particularly violent swing on Ginny's part I skidded across the floor on my back and ran into a pair of feet, which were attached to some legs, whish were attached to the rest of Draco Malfoy's body.
"Um, hello," I said trying and failing to get up.
"What are you two doing in here," he asked looking around at the feather laden room and Ginny who was standing on the bed with a pillow.
"Nothing important," I said finally managing to stand up.
"Just try to keep it down, I'm doing something important and don't need to be interrupted by you two," he said scowling.
"Ok," I said turning to Ginny.
"In coming!" Ginny said and I dunked the pillow just in time and it hit Malfoy square in the back and a flash came form the room. I looked over to see Ginny holding up her camera, she had gotten it on film. He hunched up and turned around at us, Ginny was red in the face and I was leaning against the door frame to stop form falling over. I was laughing that hard!
"Give me that camera," he said through clenched teeth.
"Don't give it to him Ginny," I said.
"Give it to me," he said, lurching into the room.
"Run!" I screamed to Ginny and she laughed. She threw me the camera and I pocketed it and made a copy of it, with out the film and passed it to Ginny. Now Malfoy wouldn't get the right camera.
Ginny ran from the room and I followed while Malfoy blundered after us. We were laughing so hard at Malfoy's red face that we didn't notice the portrait whole open and Harry walk in. He stood there mouth agape and of course I wasn't looking where I was going, so I ended up running into solid muscle.
"What are you doing?" Harry asked, looking at Ginny who was waving a camera over her head and Malfoy who was red faced and out of breath.
"Um…" Ginny said and she handed Malfoy the camera. The fake camera mind you, but Malfoy didn't know that.
"Thanks," he sad straightening out. I stared at him wide eyed. Did he just say thanks?
With that Malfoy left the room to let us deal with Harry. Not good…
a/n I know it took me a long time, but I wrote it! Yes, tell me what you think! I hope you liked it!