Morning Surprises

Hermione woke up with the sun shining on her face. It came from the window and made tiny patterns along her cheeks. She smiled and stretched. Hermione thought of the dream that she had had. Draco had met her in the dead of night, they had kissed, and he promised to treat her the way she wanted to be treat. She smiled at the dream 'If only that was true... wait, OH MY GOD IT IS TRUE!' Hermione shot up like a rocket, "Lavender! Lavender wake up! I have some wonderful news!" She jumped onto Lavender's bed and was shaking her roughly.

"What? Is the school on fire?" Lavender asked, she sleepily blinked at Hermione.

"Ha! No, not even close! Last night I met a boy in the eastern tower and he asked me if I wanted to date him! Just guess who that boy was!" Hermione sat back on her heels, she had a grin from ear to ear.

Lavender woke up quickly when she found out she was going to hear some interesting bit of gossip. "Was it Ron? Or I bet it was Harry! It was Harry wasn't it!"

Hermione laughed again, "No it was Draco Malfoy." She continued to smile but she prepared for what happened next.

Lavender sat in stunned silence for a few heartbeats, then laughed. "Funny joke, Hermione. Now who was it really?" Hermione laughed and gave her a look, Lavender's face fell. "Oh my god, you're serious aren't you?" Her eyes became huge. "Oh my god, Draco Malfoy? Like Slytherin Draco Malfoy? Like pureblood little jerk Draco Malfoy? Hermione! Oh my god! Was that the best idea?"

Hermione laughed, "Probably not but I don't care. I really like him and from what I've gathered he really likes me too. You're the first person I've told, I don't want Harry and Ron finding out until they see us together. Promise you won't tell anyone?"

Lavender gave a stunned nod, "Yes, of course. I promise, yea... Wow, Draco Malfoy... I mean, just wow." Hermione smiled again, gave a shrill girlish sqeal and leaped off the bed. Lavender still sat on the bed, "Wow... Malfoy... I think I just felt hell freeze over..." Then she laid back down and tried to fall back asleep.

Hermione shot around the dormitory grabbing clothes, she was trying to find the best combination. She decided on her usual plain black robes, 'It'd be weird to be the only one wearing muggle clothes, here. I have no idea what I was thinking. Haha!' Her thought continued in the similar fashion. Hermione walked into the common room, but it was too early for most people to be wake just yet. There was no one there except for a few first and second years, but she didn't pay them any attention. She walked out into the Great Hall and grabbed some toast, she sat down and read the Daily Prophet.

Hermione had just started an article about someone spelling a bunny to be like the killer rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail when hands came out of no where covering her eyes. At first she was startled but then realized it was a game of guess who. "Who is this?" She asked the person, who ever it was blew on her ear. She giggled and tried to pull away but the pair of hands held on. "Is it, Harry?" Hermione asked, she moved her hands up their arms. She could feel the edge of their robes, the smoothness of their cheek, and the softness of their hair.

The hands moved her face side to side to signal that it wasn't. Hermione laughed again, "Is it Ron?" She knew who it was, she was just teasing him. She felt him kiss her ear, it sent a shiver down her back. Hermione could hardly keep from laughing, "Who is it, I really don't know." The pair of hands turned her face and she felt lips touch her's. They were of familar taste and feeling, "Oh, it's Draco." She smiled, and she felt him smile as well. He still covered her eyes until she said his name.

"You said my name third? Oh that's hurtful." Draco removed his hands from her eyes, he tried to give her a pouting look but he couldn't keep from smiling. "You'll have to make it up to me, you know." Hermione smiled as well.

"And how ever will I do that?" She blinked innocently at him. Then smiled again, but this time you could see darker thoughts slidding across her brain.

"I have a few ideas," Draco said, leaning in and whispering into her mouth.

"Oh tell me please, I'd love to know." Hermione teased back, their lips met again. They stayed in that position kissing each other, people started to file in.

"Weasly, has your family been evicted yet?" Pansy sneered at Ron, they were just outside of the Great Hall when they saw each other.

"Shut up, Pansy." Ron growled back, they entered the Great Hall only to be stopped by a crowd. Pansy pushed her way through, and Ron followed after her. Something stopped her dead and Ron ran right into her back. He expected her to say something biting but then he saw them. Hermione was kissing Draco Malfoy, or Draco Malfoy was kissing Hermione. Which he couldn't tell, his jaw dropped to the floor.

"Is that Draco... with Granger?" Pansy asked to no one in specific.

"No, it couldn't be." Ron answered, they stared at each other in shock. "No, I'm sure there is a reasonable explaination for this. Must be a spell or something." Pansy nodded at Ron's statement. They watched Draco smile down at Hermione as he stood and started walking towards the Slytherin table. They held each other's hand until they had to let go, it was so sickenly sweet to both Pansy and Ron.

Ron stomped over to Hermione and dug into her. "What the hell was that about? Draco Malfoy? What? Have you lost your mind? What's wrong with you?" He screamed down at her, she glared up at him.

"Nothing is wrong with me, Ron. I like Draco and he likes me, get over it." Hermione stood and stormed out of the Great Hall, Ron walked after her. A similar scene exploded from the Slytherin table only an octive higher.

"Hermione Granger? What the hell Draco?" Pansy shrieked, her voice was climbing to the point where only dogs could hear her.

Draco's reaction was different from Hermione's, he just stared up at her and said. "Really Pansy, do you have to shout so early in the morning? You're ruining my day." Then he turned back to his breakfast, he watched Hermione leave with Ron hot on her heels. 'She'll be able to handle someone like Weasly.' He said to himself, and he took a bite of bacon. Pansy stared at him, then tears filled her eyes.

"You'll regret hurting me, you and that little slut of your's." Pansy snarled, she turned on her heel and stomped out. Tears were running down her cheeks, but she ignored them and shoved first years to the ground if they didn't move out of her way fast enough.

"Have a good afternoon, Pansy." Draco called after her, sneering. His words stung and enraged Pansy even more.

Hermione had walked to the library, Ron was still bellowing after her. "Hermione! What's gotten into you? Will you slow down? Are you crazy? Why Malfoy? He's a prick!" Ron continued to yell random things about Draco at her, but she didn't slow down or listen to him. Hermione walked straight into the library, Ron was still yelling. The librarian forced him to leave, he glared at the woman but left.

Ron stormed away from the library, he didn't know where he was going and he didn't really care. Several first years gave him a frightened look, but he ignored them. 'This is worse then Krum! Atleast Krum was famous!' He seethed. Finally he came to rest beside the pond, he watched the sea creature under the lake bubble at him. But he didn't care, he glared at the thing. It seemed to sense that he wasn't in the mood to be intimitated and it slid away. Ron sat for a very long time glaring into the inky black lake before someone walked up to him. He didn't look behind him, he didn't care.

Pansy sat down beside him, "Weasly, I have a propersition concerning Draco and Granger." She began, he turned and looked at her suddenly interested.

Hermione had stayed in the library for about half an hour after Ron had left. It wouldn't surprise her if he was waiting around the corner so that he could continue yelling at her. She had pulled out one of her many books and was reading it when a perfectly formed rose appeared in front of her pages. It took her breat away with it's beauty. She followed the hand that held it up, and saw Draco smiling down at her.

"Oh Draco, it's beautiful." She said, and it truely was. Draco pulled a chair out from under the desk, and sat down next to her.

"I was thinking of giving it to a girl that is more beautiful then it is. What do you think I should do?" He said, he touched the petals lightly.

"Well who is the girl?" Hermione asked, she smiled slyly at him and he returned the smile as well.

"I don't know if you know her or not. She's beautiful, brilliant, pretty, sassy, sexy, and everything anyone could ever want." Draco said, he continued to smile. Hermione's smile became broader, she was absolutely floored. No one had ever said those things to her before.

"Well what is her name?" Hermione asked, she'd play the game.

"Oh her name?" Draco said, he was admiring the flower. "It's the most beautiful name I've ever heard. It's the most loveliest sounds put together to describe one person. Well her name starts with an H, ends with an E. And her last name is Granger." He pulled his eyes away from the flower and looked at Hermione's.

Hermione had never been this close to Draco, unless of course they were kissing. She saw that his eyes had a very faint ring of lilac around the pupil. She had heard of eyes being that color, but had never seen it on anyone. "Really? What's her first name?" She smiled again, but then frowned trying to keep a straight face.

"Don't frown Hermione, the girl is you of course." Draco said, he moved towards her and touched his lips to her's. It was the barest of kisses, but it still stole her breath away. He placed the rose on her book, "I have to go, Snape wants me to go see him about Quidditch. I'll see you later." Draco kissed the side of her cheek and left, he turned around once to see Hermione staring after him. She waved, and he waved back. Hermione picked up the rose, she took a deep breath of the smell. The rose would have been heart warming alone, but the fact that Draco said she was beautiful, brilliant, and sexy made her extatic. Hermione could hardly keep the stupid grin off her face. She did a small spell on the rose so that it would never wilt or die, it would always stay the same and never change. Hermione went back to her book, but she kept the rose in her hand.

"Is the rose from him?" Harry asked, she turned around. Her face hardened.

"You don't have to yell, Ron already said everything. He even repeated himself a few times. So don't try." Hermione turned back to her book, it made her sad that her best friends didn't approve of her relationship with Draco.

"I wasn't going to yell. I know you wouldn't listen to me anyways. But do you really think that it's smart Hermione? I mean, he is Draco Malfoy." Harry tried to be gentle and not make her angry.

"I don't think it's smart, but I don't care. He makes me really happy, and he hasn't done anything truely terrible to me." Hermione said, she didn't really want to sit here explaining herself to Harry.

"He did call you... that once." Harry pointed out.

"Yes he did, about three years ago. He's changed since then, please don't try to talk me out of this." Hermione said, she already had Ron so angry that he couldn't even see straight. She wanted Harry to understand.

"I'm not going to try to talk you out of it. I don't really like it, but I won't do anything. You deserve to be happy Hermione. But if he doesn't anything, I'll spell him." Harry smiled, Hermione returned the smile.

"Now if only Ron could take it so well." Hermione laughed and looked back at her book.

"Ah, yes. Ron, well it won't be a boring week atleast." Harry said, they both laughed. They didn't know that at the exact moment Ron and Pansy were plotting to make sure that it wasn't a boring week.