A/N: Warning. Draco is extremely OOC in the chap. I wanted to. So I did.

Disclaimer: don't own it.

Sometimes only a Kind word is needed.

Draco rushed after Hermione as soon as he got out of the Great Hall. He followed her into the Heads Common Room.

"Hermi…Granger. What's wrong?"

She turned to look at him, tears flowing freely down both cheeks.

"Everything Malfoy. Everything. Why is it nothing I do is good enough? I try so hard each and every day, and still I screw it up." Hermione half sobbed, half ranted.

"Hermione, I don't know what you mean. What isn't good enough? You are beautiful, intelligent, kind, caring, and completely loyal. When did that become not good enough?"

Hermione looked up at him once again. "Y…You think I'm beautiful?" Her face turned hard with anger. "Malfoy don't joke at a time like this. We said we would be civil remember?"

"Of course I remember. You said we could be ONLY CIVIL! Never FRIENDS! Do you know how much that hurt? How torn apart I felt?" Draco screamed at her. He threw himself backwards onto the blank uncomfortable couch.

"I didn't think it would matter Draco. I honestly didn't think you were serious when you said you wanted to try to be friends. In all honesty, I thought it was a plot to get me to trust you, and then humiliate me."

"Hermione, I would never…okay never is a strong word, but I'm serious right now when I say this. I want to be your friend."

She looked at his face for implications of a lie, and surprisingly found none.

"Okay Draco. Let's try this again" she said with a smile.

"Too late for that now. I mean, honestly, I put myself out there, I took a risk, and for what? You not believing me? Well I should say that I think I am rather affronted at this offer. Does this mean we can only be friends when you deem it possible?" he responded.

Her mouth widened to an overexaggerated "O", and her eyes grew as large as saucers.

"I am sorry Draco, I didn't mean to…"

She never got to finish her sentence as she noticed the fact that Draco was trembling. Not in the sense that he was cold, but due to the fact that he was trying so hard to rein in his laughter.

"Oh you! That is not funny Malfoy!" she shrieked.

"Oh…….yes………it……..is" he choked out between the laughs. "You actually……..thought……….I was……..serious!"

"Hmmphh" she replied stomping her foot. "Well if this is the way you are going to act…"

"I'm sorry. I'll stop. I promise"

"Fine Draco. Now, let's get down to business. I want this room to be as cozy as possible. I like the color grey, and I love pale green. What do you think of those colors?"

"I think that someone has a little Slytherin in her" he responded.

"I do not! Grey is not the same as silver. And it is a pale green. Not that horrid bottle green your house favors."

'No Slytherin in her huh? That will soon change…"

"Well…? Waiting here Oh Captain?"

"That's Master to you, and yes the colors are fine. Can the couches be black?" he responded cheekily.

"Of course Master" she responded mockingly. "Mione be happy make couches black."

"Your house-elf sucks. Stick to English" he said laughing at her horrible impersonation.

"Yeah well……let's just arrange the room."

So they did, and about 20 minutes later the room was looking much homier than before. Pale green walls, with a grey carpet and black molding. The fireplace mantle was black, as were the couches and the coffee tables. Pale green and grey pillows sat upon the couches contrasting sharply with their background. They sat their surveying their work. Suddenly, Draco flicked his wand at the fire happily crackling in the hearth. It changed from its traditional red, orange, and yellow combination, to a very pale silver color, which after a few seconds turned a silvery green.

"How did you….?"

"Magic Hermione."

"Haha. No, seriously. How?"

"Well, I knew a spell to change the color of an object, so I adjusted the charm accordingly and now we have a color coordinated fire place." Draco replied.

"Why the silver though?" she questioned, looking at the fireplace switch the colors.

"Look at our rug. It's got some silver threading weaved in."

It was true. She looked down at the floor. It looked as though it were a lake glittering with moonlight. In a word, it was breathtaking to behold with the firelight glinting off the silver strands.

"Oh Draco. It's perfect." She practically breathed the words, her voice was so soft.

"Yes, well. It comes with the territory. I'm perfect, therefore anything I make will be perfect."

"Kind of like the enlargement potion you made in Snape's class last year?" she asked chuckling.

"Hey! Zabini's hand grew back to the normal size after an hour or so!"

"Yes Draco, but the fact is that it had to GROW not SHRINK to its normal size. We were making an enlargement potion, not a miniaturizing potion."

She dissolved into a fit of giggles very unlike her, at the memory of that Potions lesson.

Her faced turned almost totally red from the force of her laughter and her eyes started tearing. She had never looked more beautiful in Draco's opinion.

"Hermione. I meant what I said before…about you being beautiful. You are. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Okay?"

She looked up at him, her facial expression clearly showing shock at his words.

"Draco………………it's nice of you to say and all, but I'm really not…"

She was interrupted by a finger pushed against her lips.

"Hermione, don't." And with these words, he moved his finger away and leaned down. Brushing her lips in the briefest way possible, he stood up and walked to the door entitled Head Boy, leaving her completely dumbfounded.

All of a sudden a loud banging at the door that was located next to the statue of Branwyn.

"HERMIONE!"

A/N: Okay. Another chapter done. And its pure shit. I mean honestly, I suck. A lot. But still had to write it. It's not very long, but then again most of my chaps aren't. I hope you will review. I love them. A lot. And I hope you will read my other stories, "Double Vision, It should NEVER have happened, and It was meant for her." I should be uploading another chapter soon. My internet was taken away though so it has been tough trying to get the computer downstairs to do what I want.