A/N: I've had a major case of writer's block so please forgive. Well, enjoy this chapter!

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The Kiss

A few weeks had gone by and Draco and I had gradually become good friends. We helped each other with homework and we talked to each other about random things whenever we were bored. He told me little things, like how his mother was the only person to ever say "I love you" to him and how he doesn't actually like Pansy, she just clings on to him because he was her 'first'. Everyday at breakfast, Ginny, Lavender and Parvati asked me whether I had found out what his personality was like, and everyday I said "Not yet."

One night, Draco and I were just talking. I asked him a question that I had been pondering on for a very long time.

"Draco, are you going to be a Death Eater when you're older?" I asked.

He looked at me, dumbfounded "Uuuh...umm…"

"Well? Are you?" I asked.

He stared at the ground and said "This is going to be hard to believe but…no. I'm not going to bow down to some evil lunatic that gets others to do his dirty work for him and I don't want to become like my father, he's cruel, cold, heartless and so many other evil things that I don't want to be. Plus, the thought of killing innocent people makes me sick!"

I smiled warmly at him and said "It's not hard to believe. Over the past few weeks I've realised how kind you really are. If I just met you today and we talked just like we did, it would be hard to believe that you were even thinking of being a Death Eater."

He smiled a genuine smile, something that he'd been doing lately, and said "Thanks Hermione…you know, you're my only true friend…apart from Blaise that is."

I was astonished. Apart from Blaise, I was Draco's true friend, "What about Crabbe and Goyle?" I asked.

"Oh they're just some of my cronies that follow me around because I'm 'Slytherin King' and because their fathers want them to; they don't know a single thing about my life…why did you ask me about whether I was going to be a Death Eater?" He asked.

"Oh, it's just a question that I've been pondering." I said.

After a few silent minutes, he turned to face me, he held my hands and said "Hermione, I just want to thank you, for being such a good friend. You've turned me against all the lies I've been brought up to believe, you've shown me other emotions that I've never felt before…heck, my ice cold heart has probably thawed out." I chuckled when he said that.

He carried on and said, "I just hope you can forgive me for all the wrongs I have done to you, like calling you that horrible name, and making fun of you whenever I had the chance. I now know that blood is blood, it's all the same so I shouldn't have called you mudblood."

His face was inches away now, and with every passing second, he moved a centimetre closer. I looked in his eyes and felt like I was drowning in pools of silvery-blue. I could tell that he meant it, so I swallowed and said "I-I forgive you Draco." It was barley a whisper, but he heard me.

I heard him whisper back "Thank you" and with that, he leant forward and captured me in a passionate but gentle kiss. He let go of my hands and held on to my waist while my hands snaked around his neck. He licked my bottom lip begging for entrance and I gladly let him enter. When he moved to kissing my neck, his hands found the top of my blouse, but as he undid the top button I snapped back to reality. "Draco…" I murmured.

"Yeah?" He asked.

"We can't do this, not yet." I said.

He looked at me straight in the eyes and said "Well, it's worth it waiting for you love."

I giggled and said, "We also have to tell Harry and Ron about…us."

I faltered a bit when I said "us", but it was because I wasn't entirely sure whether we were in a serious relationship. He seemed to notice, and it was as if he read my mind because straight away he asked "Hermione Granger, would you do me the honour of becoming my girlfriend?"

I smiled and said "Of course I would."

He grinned and kissed me again. When we broke apart I said "We can't tell Harry and Ron yet though. A few more secret snog sessions and then we can tell them."

He smirked and asked "And exactly how many more secret snog sessions should we have before we tell them?"

I giggled and said "As many as you want hun. But it's late now, we should go to bed."

He nodded and kissed me one last time before he said "'Night Hermione."

"'Night Draco." I replied.

Well,I have finally completed this chapter!I was really excited whenI wrote the kissing part XD squeal

I'm not really sure, butI think that the next chapter is going to be the last chapter, it dependsI guess.

Have a great day

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