Chapter 1- Stupid Git

Hogwarts had only let out two weeks ago, but Hermione already missed Ron and Harry. "I wish Harry would call, but the Dursleys probably won't let him," she said out loud as she curled up in a chair with a book. Although it was a sunny day, Hermione didn't feel like going outside. She had just flipped open her book and began reading: Chapter 1- It was raining and it was like all the- when the doorbell rang. Hermione got up to answer it, but her mom beat her to it.

"Wow, Hermione, look at this bouquet someone left for you! I didn't get a bouquet of flowers when I was 15! Lucky you… funny," Hermione's mother trailed off, "you'd think someone would be here to make sure you got it." Hermione looked at the flowers, a bouquet of about 35 daffodils and one rose.

"Who could've sent them, dear?" asked Mrs. Granger, "Daffodils aren't in season and if they were, they still look awfully fresh. Try to find a card."

"There's just this," Hermione said, holding up a card that had her name written in emerald green letters. "Oh, no! They're wilting! I better put them in some water!" As Hermione walked back in, she thought, "Maybe they're from Viktor, or maybe Ron, no, Ron wouldn't do that, or maybe Harry…" as she thought this, her heart gave a little jump, "No, he likes stupid Cho Chang…"

About a week later, there was the exact same bouquet of daffodils except there were two roses in it, lying on her porch. Her name was written in silver though. "Well dear, you obviously have a secret admirer. Who could it be?" inquired Mrs. Granger.

"I don't know… maybe it's Ron or-" her heart leaped yet again, "-Harry. It could possibly be Viktor- you remember him don't you?"

"Of course, who could forget Viktor," replied Mrs. Granger.

"I know!" said Hermione, "since these flowers came a week apart, maybe we'll find out next week."

The next week came and yet again just the flowers were lying on her porch; 33 daffodils and 3 roses. The same thing happened the next week and the next until about the middle of July.

The doorbell rang loudly. "Hmm, time for my weekly bouquet I guess." Hermione walked to the door and opened it. This time someone was standing there with the flowers. It was someone she didn't particularly want to see standing on her front porch when her parents were gone. "Uh… hi…" he said, blushing slightly, "Didn't think you'd get the door that fast…"

"What are YOU doing here?" said Hermione; " It's just not enough for you to torment me constantly at school, is it? You make my life miserable at school, so now you've decided to torture at HOME! So now instead of putting up with you for part of the year I have to put up with you all year! Are you some sort of STALKER or WHAT? How did you get my address? Do you think I enjoy being tortured by you, DRACO?"

" God, Granger don't get all hissy," Draco replied, irritated, "Why did I even bother… I knew this was going to happen. KNEW IT! Here." He shoved a card and the flowers at her and turned on his heel. "Why did I even try?" he muttered as he walked away.

Hermione took the flowers inside along with the card. "Hmm… should I burn them or just pitch them?" she wondered, " Might as well read the stupid card." She sat down and viciously tore out the letter.

Dear Hermione,

You're probably going to wonder why I showed up at your door and why I bothered to write this. You know what I'm also wondering why I bothered to write this. Especially since you probably wish I was dead and hate my guts.I thought I should start this out with an apology. I'm sorry I made fun of your family on many occasions, sorry I called you a Mudblood (even though Ron chucking up slugs was pretty funny), hoping you would get killed by the basilisk (my father finally told me what it was), sorry I made your teeth grow (a good thing came out of that right?), I'm sorry that I made fun of your friends, and I'm sorry for anything that I may have done or said over the past five years. Yes, that does include my many impersonations I have done of you without your knowledge (although they are rather good).

Turns out that the entire time I was bullying you was because I was jealous of the fact that you are a REALLY great witch and I like you. So by insulting you I a) convinced myself that I was too good for you and b) picked up a girlfriend, stupid, ugly (even uglier than Umbridge) Pansy Parkinson I finally figured out I liked you in the third year and I wanted to distract myself from thinking about you by dating another girl and told myself a pureblood shouldn't even be friends with a Muggle-born.

Well Pansy turned out to be a total waste of my time, so I decided that this summer I would try to at least become friends with you (maybe more?). So, I started by sending you daffodils thinking that you would figure out it was me through the green and silver ink and the fact that daffodils are part of the narcissus family (hint, hint). It took me hours and hours of talking to my parents. My mother doesn't care too much if my friends and girlfriends are purebloods or not; it's my father whose all uptight about that. I finally convinced him though. I told him you were an excellent student and could possibly help my grades (I lied) in Transfiguration and Charms since you're awesome at that. He finally said yes, not because he changed his mind about half-bloods, Muggle-borns, and Muggles, but because I annoyed the heck out of him. So now I'm sitting at my desk, writing this note/letter or whatever you want to call it and wondering if you would say yes if asked you out. Or maybe if you would just be my friend. Just send an owl or something, use your cat if you have to, just send me an answer to this. It can be anything like "Yeah, sure whatever" or "YOU ARE A STUPID GIT AND I LOATHE BREATHING THE SAME AIR AS YOU" just as long as it's an answer.

-Draco

"Well,he is a stupid GIT thinking I'd go out with HIM! Well, at least he has a sense of humor," Hermione said out loud. Then she started thinking of all the qualities she liked about Draco: his pretty silvery blonde hair, those icy gray eyes (she got chills thinking about those), his smile was kind of pretty and he was smart with a great sense of humor when he wasn't making fun of people. "Oh well, what could it hurt to say yes? My feelings maybe! I'll ask Harry… no, Ron… no, I can't get a good answer from them." Hermione said.

"A good answer for what?" Mrs. Granger's voice startled Hermione.

"N-n-nothing…" Hermione stuttered as she hastily shoved the letter out of sight.

"Ok… if you're sure," replied her mother.

Hermione got a sheet of notebook paper and began writing-

Dear Draco- "No, that won't work… to affectionate…" Hermione scribbled it out- Draco you stupid git- "To mean even for him…" She scribbled that one out too- Yo, Draco whaddup dawg?- "Naahh…" She scribbled it out again. Finally, she figured it out-

Draco,

Haha. Very funny joke. I thought it was hysterical, so now I'm going to send it to Ron, Harry, all my Muggle friends, and Pansy.

-Hermione

P.S. You ARE a stupid git and as much as I dislike breathing the same air as you it can't be helped unless you died. So hurry up!

Hermione scribbled out the last part. She wrote his name on the front and was all ready to mail it when she realized she didn't have an owl and the Malfoys most likely didn't receive letters by the Muggle post. So following Draco's advice, she tied the letter to Crookshanks' neck. "Take this to Malfoy Manor," she told Crookshanks.

"You WHAT?" Lucius Malfoy roared, " Oh smart thing to do Draco… just my luck to have a complete idiot for a son-" he mimed ringing a door and in a slightly higher voice- "Hi, this is Draco and I want to know if you would go out with me even though I made you look like a complete-"

"That's ENOUGH Lucius. I think what Draco did was fairly brave, especially considering how you teased and harassed her for the passed 5 years…" Narcissa stated.

"Harrassed is a bit strong, don't you think, mum?" Draco asked.

" From what I read in the little letter-" Narcissa began.

"YOU WROTE HER A LETTER!" Lucius shouted before laughing, " You-wrote-her- a-letter. Good job! That is the-"

"As I was saying," Narcissa sniffed, "You definitely harassed her and if you-"

"YOU READ MY LETTER!" Draco shouted, "THAT WAS PRIVATE!"

"And your diary is quite interesting, too," Narcissa teased, " 'Hermione is so sexy when she wears her hair down' or 'Harry Potter should just-' Oh, hello kitty, how did you get in here?"

"CROOKSHAAAAANKS!" Draco bounded over to him, startling the poor cat. He untied the note and read it.

"… '...going to send it to Ron, Harry… and PANSY!… P.S. You are a stupid git… HEY!" Draco said indignantly, " Hmphh…I thought she would come up with a better answer."

"Let me see," Lucius said.

"No!" Draco retorted.

"Let me see!"

"NO!"

"Give it to me!"

"DAD! IT'S-"

"Don't YOU SHOUT AT ME!"

"Who's shouting at who? 'Cause I think- MUM!"

Narcissa had stealthily snatched the letter from Draco's hand, "Thank you dear! Blahblahblah… oh, so she thinks you're a git and hates breathing the same air as you. Hmm… maybe she wouldn't if you brushed your teeth more often-"

"MUM!"

"If she hates you that much, maybe you should-" Narcissa began.

"-jump in a bottomless pit," Lucius interrupted.

"How would that help?" Draco asked.

"Well, when you fall in a bottomless pit," Lucius stated, "You die of starvation."

"Oh."

Later up in Draco's room, he was furiously scribbling on a piece of paper.

Dear Hermione,

Please don't send this to Pansy or Potter Or Weasley. Will you please, please, PLEASE say yes? You get to see my house! (Ooooh!) Did you know that if you fall in a bottomless pit, you die of starvation? (Just found that out!) PLEASE WRITE BACK! MY SUMMER IS GOING TO BE EXTREMELY BORING! (Especially since my dad ACCIDENTALLY killed my pet rabbit, I did have a ferret but I really didn't want it after fourth year)

-Draco

P.S. I will hyperventilate and drown myself if you say no. NO, I AM NOT LYING!

P.P.S. I will hyperventilate and jump around my room screaming if you say yes.

"Oh, Hermione, you've got mail." Mrs. Granger handed Hermione a letter, "Here you go."

Hermione ripped it open. She scanned it quickly and as she finished she said, "Whoa is he random! Well, duh you die of starvation, 'cause it's not like you'll die from the impact of hitting the bottom. Draco had a FERRET and a RABBIT!"

"Who's Draco?"

"Never mind, mom."

As soon as her mom left, Hermione got a sheet of paper and wrote:

Draco,

Would you really hyperventilate and run around screaming? I would pay a lot of money to see you do that. Of course you would starve falling in a bottomless pit, I mean, it's not like you'd die from the impact of hitting the bottom. You had a FERRET and a RABBIT? What were their names and, please don't tell me you killed your ferret because if you did the answer to your question would be no.

-Hermione

As soon as she finished this, Hedwig came swooping in and dropped a letter on the floor. She perched on the windowsill and began to preen herself.Hermione picked up the letter and opened it,

Dear Hermione,

Sorry it took me ages to write. I've been really busy. You'll never guess what happened! I got a letter from Cho and she asked me if I wanted to go out with her over the summer, so obviously I said yes. She's fantastic, even more than I imagined! Of course, she'll never be as good as you!

Anyway I hope you've been having fun this summer so far. I went to Ron's house for a while but I'm back on crummy Privet Drive now. Oh well, maybe I'll visit you later this summer. Anyway, I've got to go, I'm supposed to meet Cho at the movie theater!

See you,

Harry

"Fine! That solves it!" Hermione said, "I'll say yes to Draco! And it's all your fault Harry!"