Chapter 2

When Hermione had reached the train station, ready for her ride on the Hogwarts express, the first thing that her dark eye's searched was the blonde headed Slytherin. She thought that maybe a glance at him would tell her why she had been thinking about him most of the holidays. But she couldn't see him and soon her friends were sweeping her up into the air. She hugged them all in turn and even earned a kiss on the cheek from Ron. Ginny quickly pulled her aside and the started talking of all the gossip they had missed during the summer break.

"You'll never believe what happened." Ginny whispered between giggles. Hermione looked at the red heads shining eyes and new this was something she couldn't miss.

"What?" She asked hurriedly.

"Me and Blaise got together!" Hermione and Ginny screamed. "We saw each other at Diagon alley and hung out for a couple of hours. By the end he had wormed out of me that I had liked him for the past two years. Then he told me that he had liked me too…and then, he kissed me!" She sighed at the memory of it. Hermione was grinning from ear to ear, if only something like that fairytale had happened to her.

They kept talking about Blaise until the Hogwarts express went to leave and then they got onto a topic, which Hermione was only more than happy to speak of.

"Did you see Draco Malfoy? Oh my god, he is so hot this year!" Ginny said glancing at the famous Blonde. Hermione smiled and turned to look at the material. Ginny was right, he had grown many muscles, and his hair fell onto his eyes before he swept it off again. Hermione blushed as the deep blue eyes glanced her way and she turned quickly around to talk with Ginny again. Ginny had seen this and opened her mouth in understanding,

"So, do you like anyone this year?" She said cheekily.

"Nope, boys are such bone heads." Hermione told covering her face.

"Aha, so then…" She lowered her voice to a whisper, "…why are you drooling over the sight of Draco Malfoy? Huh?" Hermione dropped her suitcase. She looked around making sure no one was listening.

"How did you know?" Hermione whispered harshly. Ginny shrugged,

"I know you Hermione, but I can't believe you didn't tell me. I'm your best friend."

"I know, I just didn't want to tell anyone, I was ashamed."

"Mione' don't be ashamed. He's HOT! And, Blaise said that he was single!" Ginny squealed.

"What? What about Pug face Pansy?"

"Pansy was apparently always the side of the plate." Ginny squealed. Hermione opened her mouth in surprise then understanding hit.

"Wait, what am I thinking? I can't like Malfoy, he's Slytherin and he hates muggle borns." Hermione shook her head and continued hauling her trunk onto the train. When the two girls had settled down Ginny continued,

"His dad has just gone to Azkaban for hating muggle borns, he's not gonna hate you anymore, and I have a feeling you two are gonna be working closer than usual this year."

"What? What do you know? You have to tell me." Hermione practically screamed. Ginny smiled.

"Just something Blaise said, he said that there was going to be a lot of interhouse friendships this year. So go for it. Your drop dead gorgeous this year and you have the best curves that I've seen so far." They laughed at this and then heard a cough,

"She's quite right about that you know." The husky voice of a red head came through the door. The girls looked up to see Ron and Harry coming through the door. Ginny rolled her eyes and Hermione blushed. Harry sat next to Ginny, careful to keep his distance. He knew only too well how overprotective Blaise could be.

"So, what have you lovely young ladies been discussing during the absence of the prince charming?" Harry said faking a look of pride.

"Ha! Yeah right!" Hermione said laughing and hitting him playfully on the head.

"And its none of your business what we talk about. Is it Gin?" Hermione said putting her nose in the air hiding a smile.

"No it definitely isn…"

"Miss Granger, may I see you for a moment?" The voice was Professor McGonagle's (Sp?)

"Oh, uh, sure." Hermione said surprised. She stood up and followed the stout woman out of the compartment. When they reached the hall of the train, the teacher turned and looked Hermione in the eye.

"As you were informed in your letter, you have become head girl! You were also informed of all the duty's and such that you will be doing, you were not however informed of who head boy was. Therefore I would like to introduce you to Mr Draco Malfoy."

Malfoy stepped into the hall from one of the nearest compartments, followed by head of house Snape.

"Miss Granger." Snape said with a cold nod.

"Now, as you know, you will be sharing a common room, along with the prefects but you have a separate lounging room all to yourselves. And separate dorming rooms. You will share a bathroom. That is all, you may go." Hermione walked away pleased and frightened all at the same time…

Meanwhile…

Draco walked away from Hermione and the Professors pondering all the while about how he was to make his move on her. Blaise had told him that he and Ginny were finally together and that Ginny was a prefect so the four of them would be in the same common room this year. The teachers had decided that Gryffindores and Slytherins would house together while Ravenclaws and Hufflespuffs would house together.

He continued down the hall not noticing the startling brown eyes following him from a near by compartment. As he reached the end compartment he stepped inside and noticed his best friend sitting there. They briefly shook hands, and sat down to talk.

"So, hows Ginny?" Malfoy asked half-heartedly. He didn't really care but he needed to be supportive of his mate.

"She's great! How about you, you got anyone special in mind?" Blaise asked peering at the blonde out of the corner of his eye.

"No, there's no one worth it at this dump of a school." Draco told hiding his lie with a quick shake of his head.

"Bullshit! I know you've had your eye on Granger." Blaise said punching his friend in the arm. Draco's eyes widened.

"Is it that noticeable?" He asked. Blaise laughed.

"Only to me mate. Im sure she hasn't noticed."

"You've got to help me get to her."

"All I can do is talk to Ginny. I'm not going to talk to her my-self. She'd suspect something." Blaise said sceptically.

"Yeah, wait, why am I even thinking about this. She would never go out with me. I've given her crap for the last six years. She'll hate me." Draco said putting his head in his hands.

"Don't be so sure about that." Said a new voice. Draco looked up to see Ginny walking through the door and perching herself on Blaise's lap.

"What?"

"Shh!" Ginny said hurriedly before Hermione Granger walked through the door, looking rather bad tempered. She took one glance at the group then said,

"What? What did you do?" She hadn't heard the conversation that had gone on before the girls had walked in. Ginny had heard parts of it, and acted as was necessary.

"Nothing 'Mione, don worry about it." Ginny said patting the seat next to her.

"Whats got you in a foul mood?" Blaise asked Hermione as she sat down in a huff. She scowled at him and kept quiet.

"Fine don't answer me." He said the occupied him-self by rubbing his hand up and down Ginny's back. Hermione's scowl deepened. Ginny's plan was to bring Hermione and Draco together by force, and Hermione didn't like it. Ginny figured if Blaise and her ignored the two of them then eventually they would have to talk.

Draco peered at Hermione with interest. She looked quite good this year, and her angry mood made her look kind of sexy! He tried to rid his head of the thoughts of Hermione coming over to sit on his lap. Then kissing his neck, sucking playfully. Uh oh, too late…

"Excuse me, I need to use the bathroom." He said running out of the compartment. He ran down the train halls trying to remember were the toilet was. When finally he found it…

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Draco walked back down the compartment halls until he came to a stop in front of his. Hermione seemed to still be in her bad mood because she was whispering something harsh in Ginny's ear while Ginny just rolled her eyes. He walked in and took the seat opposite Hermione and watched as Hermione scowled at him. He smirked in that hot way he did and Hermione melted. He noticed it too. Her eyes widened and a red blush rose in her cheeks. But she was still scowling, just finding it hard to keep it that way. The rest of the journey to Hogwarts Ginny and Blaise spoke while Hermione listened to her Walkman playing 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams." By Greenday, and Draco reading a book about muggles.

Finally they arrived at Hogwarts…