So it looks like someone gets kissed in this chapter, hope you like it. It was hard to write, as it took me a couple of days to start it. Happy Reading! Thanks to everyone that Reviewed and added me to their favorite and alert lists! Special thanks to NotebookLover because she has been with me throughout all of my chapters. Yay!
At 6:00 on Saturday Hermione woke up and looked to her right to find Draco sleeping in the same place that he had been the entire week. Hermione didn't understand why Draco was being so nice but, even though she hated to admit it, she liked the attitude change. Hermione got up from the couch and went into the bathroom to cover up the red makes of her face from the previous night. She had caught Ron and Parvati in a snogging session. Lately Draco had been taking care of the prefects duties since Hermione was always up in her room bawling her eyes out. So far she had not resorted to the act from the night that she saw him ask her out, but that doesn't mean she hadn't thought about it.
They always say you don't know what you had until you've lost it, and now Hermione believed them. She hadn't known that she had such strong feelings for him until that fateful night and now it has come to bite her.
Hermione grabbed the cover up and covered her face in it in attempt to hide the claw marks in her skin. It worked for the time being but decided not to stay out in the halls for longer than needed. She left the bathroom and found Draco stirring. He stood up out of the chair and bent over to relieve the pain in his back from sleeping in the upright position. Hermione felt bad that he had been sacrificing his own comfort for Hermione's wellbeing. The only thing that irked her though was the fact that he offered to do it. All week he hadn't insulted her, or even laughed at her for her weakness. It was odd but she got used to it. He looked straight ahead to the fizzy haired girl and nodded to her asking if she was feeling any better from the previous night. She nodded but he knew that she meant no. He left her alone and went to the kitchen to get some coffee. He came back out a couple minutes later and handed Hermione a mug. She smiled to him and brought the steaming hot liquid to her lips.
Hermione sat down on the couch and continued to sip her coffee. Draco sat across from her in the chair and they stood there in silence while both of them contemplated about starting a conversion. Finally after a while of not speaking Hermione stood up and walked over to Draco.
"Hey let me take that for you." Draco had just finished his coffee and Hermione reached for it. Her hand grazed his and it suddenly felt like it was raining. Chills ran down her spine, confused she looked into his eyes trying to figure out if he felt something too, maybe the room had just gotten cold all of a sudden. The same look was in his eyes and that's when it erupted again, that feeling in his stomach, but this time Hermione felt it too. Hermione broke eye contact and started mumbling in an embarrassed fashion. She took the coffee to the sink and lay the cups down. Hermione turned around to find Draco there in front of her.
"You felt it too didn't you?" He asked in a strange voice. Hermione looked at him and broke away as she forced back a nod.
"Felt what?" she asked as she exited the common room and was now in the empty hallway.
"You know damn well what I mean." Hermione looked at him and his seriousness. She just nodded this time after finding no other escape. Draco just nodded and a new look came over his eyes. Butterflies swarmed in her stomach and chills ran threw her body. He was getting closer and Hermione was getting nervous. She had no idea what he was planning, or maybe she did but didn't want to. Draco was only five feet away now and closing. Hermione felt her hands start to sweat and her face grew hot. If she didn't know what was going to happen then, she did now. He was right in front of her now and just stood there, he looked into her honey auburn eyes and she into his now serene ocean colored ones, before she had just seen them as ice, but now it seemed as if that ice had melted.
He finally began to move again, his arms wrapped around her small frame and he tilted his head to the side.
"I'm sorry I was so cruel." Draco whispered into her ear during the hug. ((Ha. Did you think they were going to kiss?)) Hermione nodded as she wrapped her own arms around him. They stood there for a while until they were interrupted.
"Hermione, what the hell are you doing with him?" Ron came out from behind a corner and grabbed Hermione by the waist. He looked at her will mock-concern and they all did something unexpected. Ron did something unexpected, Ron kissed her but Hermione pulled away instantly and slapped him, something she never thought she would do. After seeing Hermione slap him he followed in suit but instead of slapping him, he threw a bloody punch to his face.
"Ron, go back to Parvati, you lost me the day you kissed her." Hermione sneered.
Draco feeling it was his turn, and loving the situation, added, "Weasel do you really think that she would never find out, I'm sure that you already knew. Now go back to the filth that you traded in for and leave Hermione alone." The fact that Draco had just stood up for Hermione had hit him harder than Draco's fist. He stood up and spat blood on the floor.
"I thought you were better than that Hermione, traitor." The next moment Ron was laying sprawled against the floor after being shoved into the wall behind him. However, Draco was standing many feet away, instead Hermione stood over him with her wand level with his face.
"Go back to your girlfriend Weasley, and if I ever catch you looking at me I won't hesitate to hex you into next year. If you like your wretched face than you would be wise to keep it to yourself. Oh and one more thing, good luck passing your NEWTS without me to do your homework, you know the ministry requires it now." Ron looked up to Hermione in fear, he knew that she had the knowledge of every hex and spell known to man, that and the fact that he wouldn't pass his 7th year was all truth. Ron had lost the only person that could give him an easy ride through school.
Hermione left him sprawled on the ground and walked over to Draco, she grabbed his hand and they left the hallway laughing. Hermione was "Slytherinish" after all. They walked together to the front of the school and out into the grounds. Hermione asked repeatedly where he was taking her but he remained silent. They walked along the edge of the lake until Hermione had sworn that she had left the country, there was no one around them. Finally Draco turned to her and sat her down on a bolder.
"Hermione, I'm sorry if I upset you but this is important. The past month and a half that we have been in school you have been very upset. I understand the shit about weasel but every time you go to sleep you cry. I'm just worried." Hermione looked at him and knew what he meant. She had gotten a letter in the mail a few days ago from her parents telling her that they had bought her the apartment that she had been looking at. On any other day she would have been happy, but getting the conformation only increased her anxieties. Obviously her parents didn't want her returning home because they had furnished it for her too.
"I'm sorry I've become a burden to you. It seems like I always have," Draco shook his head and held her telling her to go on, "My parents are disowning me, I've cut off all communication with Ron for the last time, and I'm sure that Harry won't talk to me either because of Ron. I have nobody." Draco felt her pain, even though his parents were cruel to him; he wouldn't be here without them. They kept him safe and happy in a way so Draco understood but couldn't relate.
"You'd be amazed if I told you I don't know the feeling. But, I do want to help, your wrong Hermione, you do have someone, you have me." Hermione looked shocked. He had used her first name for the first time and he had told her that he was there for her. She didn't know if she should believe him but when he hugged her and she felt that he had been truthful, she had opened up and let him help. She sure did need it.
"Hermione I have one more thing to tell you, even though I didn't think that I could ever say this I will. I'm an idiotic, immature, git who has been cruel his whole life because of his parents. I swear I am sorry for every thing that I have done to you. I can't believe I'm saying this now, I feel something, something that I never knew that I could feel. I see you and my stomach does flip-flops, I touch you and fireworks light up, I hear you and it's like angels are singing. I know that I'm not meant to have these feelings but I do and there is nothing I can do about it. I have to say that I am always in control of my feelings, but somehow you have swayed that." He said to her as he looked beyond her, deep inside her mind.
Hermione was again surprised with his confession but she felt no less the same. She looked at him and with much difficulty agreed with him, she felt every emotion that went through his body at the moment. But she didn't want to, this was the Slytherin jerk. She couldn't like him, and damn well not love him. Maybe there was something wrong with her, but there wasn't, she liked him and that was it.
Draco hadn't expected her to agree with him but when she did it sure did lessen the nervous tensions that were reeking havoc on his body at the time. He stood up, and she with him, he smiled for the first time in his life, it felt good as he hugged the girl again and nervously asked her to Hogsmeade. Much to his surprise she started crying and nodded.
"I'd love to, I'm sorry I'm crying, you must think of me as silly." She said as she wiped the lone tear from her eye. He just shook his head and his blonde hair swept in his face.
"No, I think of you as beautiful, and that you still deserve better than me, I'm very proud of the way you handled the weasel." He caressed her face and she felt another wave of butterflies. He had felt it to as they stared intensely into each other's eyes. The feeling grew in strength with each inch that disappeared, as their bodies grew closer. Hermione closed her eyes, along with Draco, and with a half-inch left they kissed. The fireworks cracked around them and it was like the world stopped, just for them.