CHAPTER 15 – His Confession

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Finally, Hermione found some words to say, "Why – did he tell you?"

"It's a kind of... well I'm not supposed to say. It's kind of a secret."

She stopped as they were already nearing the castle, looked Ginny in the eye and said, "Ginny, I just told you something what I have never told anyone yet. And you don't trust me to keep a secret? Especially since it involves Malfloy!"

Ginny looked afraid but still defended to keep her promise of not letting Hermione know. So, she slowly walked on to the castle leaving Hermione behind still aggravated.

"Ginny! Where are you going!"

She stopped and shouted back, "I'm sorry, 'Mione. I do trust you and you're my closest friend, but I promised I wouldn't tell you. Sorry!" She ran to the castle, stepping on the fallen leaves of autumn.

Hermione just stood there watching Ginny run away to her room probably.

Hermione then followed after her but headed to her room. When she got there, she had just hung up her dress in the cabinet and pushed off her shoes and jumped on the bed. As she turned to stare out the window, she noticed that she had laid on a tiny piece of parchment. She pulled it out and read its tiny writing:

Astronomy tower. After dinner.

That was all it said. But she knew it was from Draco since it would be so romantic of him to do these kinds of things.

Then it hit her: That's why he's been gone all day. That's why Ginny's been hiding why he told her. So that's the secret?

She felt loved and cared for and liked this side of Draco's persona.

Before she knew it, she had fallen asleep. Shopping all day was surely not of her favorite things to do since it wore her out and made her tired. But for some reason, working all night with homework was no challenge for her.

But she had woken up just in time for dinner. So, she freshened up and headed for the Great Hall.

When she got there she sat between in front of Harry and Ron. "Hello, Harry."

Harry had just looked up from his food and smiled. She turned to Ron and said, "Hello, Ronald."

He didn't listen to her and didn't greet her. "Ron? Ron?" Harry flicked a finger at his shoulder.

He looked up from his food that he didn't seem to eat but was sure to play with it, and said, "What? Can't you see I'm eating here, Harry."

"Ron! Hermione's here."

He looked at her and said, "Oh. Hi, 'Mione." He didn't look very optimistic or happy to see her. But Hermione knew there was going to be awkward moments since they had their last private talk. So she started to eat joyfully but then stopped to see that a familiar face was standing next to her, "Can I sit here?"

Hermione just smiled and said, "Sure, Ginny."

Ginny looked confused and sat down beside her. "Hermione? Aren't you mad?"

"For what? Why would I get mad at you, my dear Ginny?"

"Well, since you know, I didn't tell you why 'he' told me." She tried to lower her voice down so that Harry and Ron couldn't hear.

Hermione just laughed. "Dear, dear Ginny. I didn't get mad at you! It was just a misunderstanding. That's all."

Ginny still looked suspicious. But she continued, "Don't worry, Gin. I've got it all figured out."

Hermione had looked around for Draco but still to her disappointment, he wasn't there.

'Maybe, he's still preparing at the Astronomy tower. But why did it take him so long? He had the whole day.' Hermione thought.

As the time passed, dinner was done. Hermione headed to the Astronomy tower as fast as she could. She got there a few minutes after they had been released from dinner. She had gotten up the stairs and saw... no one there. She had been expecting Draco to be there already since he wasn't at dinner.

So, while waiting, she looked out at the stars that were beautifully decorated on the sky. But she had been disturbed by the arrival of someone behind her.

"Hermione."

It was the voice that was familiar to her ears but wasn't the voice of whom she loved. She had to turn around and see him so she had believed that it was him.

"Ron?"

"You looked surprised to see me. Like you've seen dementors come near you or something."

She looked down. "Ah—no really, I was just expecting someone else to turn up."

"Right." Ron sighed, "Malfloy."

"Ah... yeah. I thought he was the one who sent me the note."

"Sorry, I'm not your dream guy, 'Mione. But I needed to talk to you."

He advanced forward to her. And she said, "Okay, so let's talk."

"Look, that night, that Malfloy was... ah... attacked—"

"How did you know!"

"Ah--- that's what I wanted to tell you..."

"Tell me what Ron?"

"That I... did it."

"What? How could you?"

Hermione was going ballistic. But Ron tried to calm her down.

"Look, Hermione! I did it just out of anger... and out of jealousy, okay! Just... calm down."

"Ron— I can't calm down! My best friend just tried to kill my boyfriend! How can I calm down!"

Ron held her shoulder but she just pushed him away. "You--- asshole!"

She ran away headed towards her dormitory in tears. "Hermione!" he shouted back.