A/N: The real action begins. Alas, Hermione and Draco may realise…is this the end? Ignore that sentence. I just wanted to sound like a smart cool old dude.

Because Now, I Am a Pureblood

Chapter 10: Let the games begin

"I SAID WAKE UP HERMIONE! YOU'RE GOING TO BE LATE!" I heard someone scream in my ear.

"Ow...your going to break my eardrums." I groaned. I hadn't gotten any sleep last night…you can thank Ginny and I was fatigued.

"Hermionee…" The person, who I realised was Ginny, said again. I snuggled underneath the covers. "That's it!"

Before I knew what was happening, Ginny seized the covers off of me, opened the window, and threw them out. I groaned.

"Ginny, do you know how hard it is to get up if you didn't get any sleep last night because someone was yelling about how veelas were attacking Freddie?"

"Oh no! Veelas were attacking Freddie? I've got to get to him to see if he's okay. And you," Ginny wagged her finger in my face, "get up, because we need to launch the plan."

That's right, the plan! I made a mad dash to the bathroom, cleaned up, got changed, put on makeup, grabbed my bookes, and I went outside of the Gryffindor portrait hole.

"Hermione!" Parvati yelled and motioned for me to go over there. She stood next to Freddie, Ginny, Lavender, Harry, Ron, and Benjamin. "Are you ready?"

"Yup!"

Benjamin took my arm with his and led me into the Great Hall.

Everyone stared at us as if we had slugs coming out of our nose.

I looked at Draco. He was fuming.

I looked at Dean and Seamus. They were giving me the thumbs up sign.

Benjamin took me to the table I usually eat and Ginny and the crew followed. Even Freddie was sitting with us today. With everyone staring, I felt like I was living in a fishbowl.

"Eat! Mind your own business!" Benjamin yelled. I was grateful.

Ginny sat on the other side of me with a good view of Draco.

"He looks like he's ready to rip off Benjamin's head." Ginny told us.

"No worries," I assured her. "I know Draco. He'll be mad, then jealous, then…" I remembered something. This wasn't good. "Oh no Gin! Parvati! Lavender! Draco won't stand around and beat Benjamin up, he'll fight back! It's something we overlooked. He is so competitive and—"

"Oh no," Lavender said, "He's flirting with one of Annabelle's friends and smirking at us!"

"Benjamin! Do it now!" Parvati fiercely whispered.

Benjamin leaned over to me and kissed me for a whopping ten seconds. During the kiss, I felt no spark like I had with Draco which was sad. I mean, he was good at kissing, but Draco made me feel a mushy inside and special. I think there's only one guy in the world that can do that for a girl…

When Benjamin pulled back, ending the kiss, all of the Gryffindor and Ravenclaws cheered. Some of the first year Hufflepuffs cheered, but they didn't know what was going on.

I looked over at Draco and smirked. He looked as if he were about to explode. I swear, steam was coming out of his ears. So he snogged Annabelle's friend but only for a couple of seconds. She was taken by surprise, but then she tried to kiss him back and he moved out of the way causing her to fall out of her seat.

So this is how it was. Wherever Draco saw me with Benjamin, he would grab the closest girl he could find and wrap his arm around her glaring at me. Benjamin would kiss me and I would smirk at Draco. Draco would kiss the girl, the kiss lasting no longer than two seconds, and wipe his mouth after.

It was a war. And it was on.

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All hell broke loose when I was with Benjamin (of course) in the corridor when we smacked into Draco. All the students watched intently and Ginny was in front of them all saying things a football coach would say like, "Go get em mate!" and "Score!". I suppose she ate lots of chocolate frogs again.

"What are you doing Hermione?" Draco sneered with cold eyes.

"What am I doing!" I said in disbelief. "You mean what were you doing with Annabelle the other day!"

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"Yes you do. You were cheating on me."

Draco walked over and slapped me in the face. There were a lot of gasps and oohs on the crowd.

"Don't you ever think I would cheat on you."

"She kissed you." I whispered, tears springing to my eyes.

"And you think that it's okay when he," Draco pointed at Benjamin, "kisses you?"

I wouldn't back down. Not now. I had to win. This was more of a game than revenge. Somewhere in my mind, I had forgotten why I was doing this. Only the little voice in the back reminded me. But the competitive voice said that I couldn't crack first.

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Like a game of ping pong, people looked to Draco's side to see a girl hanging on his arm, and they looked back to how I would react with Benjamin.

It's very frustrating, you know? Kissing a guy who you don't love. And having to kiss him a lot. Ugh. I would love for this to end, but I don't want to lose

It's NOT a game, my voice of reason said.

So? Draco's playing at it like it is, my other voice said.

Doesn't mean you have to too!

Yuh-huhh!

Nuh-uhh!

Yuh-huhhhhh!

Stop! Look, you know your relationship can't be saved if you continue this nonsense.

Go away!

"Hermione." Benjamin said.

"Yes?"

"You spaced out."

"Sorry."

"You okay?"

"Yeah…"

"I know you're not."

"I know. It's just that, this plan was to get Draco jealous and see what wrong he did. It was also for sweet revenge. But now it's sort of like a competition. I want so desparately for it to stop."

"I know what you mean."

"My relationship with him can't be saved now. There's no hope. Maybe I should stop this."

"You can still be with Draco. You just have to be the bigger person and stop first."

"I hate being the bigger person Benjamin. I hate stepping down."

He laughed. "Sounds to me like you've got some testosterone in you."

I playfully shoved him and said, "I'm just scared Draco won't talk to me after this."

"Maybe he will. Maybe he won't."

"Thanks a lot," I sarcastically said.

"No problemo."

"Well, I'll take your advice. I'm the first to stop this. But I'm also glad I did this little scheme. I think my character was building."

"Hermione, I am not buying into that load of crap."

"Ha. I know. Actually, if it weren't for it, I wouldn't have met such a great friend."

"Aw thanks. You too. Actually, you're my first Gryffindor friend."

"Really?"

"Yes."

"Well, you can go back to seeking girls out. Now that you're free of me."

"Actually, I just need to come out of the shadows with this one girl."

"You mean you had a girl during the plotting?"

"Yup."

"You bloody git," I laughed. "Well I suppose I'll sort this out."

"Yeah. See you around!"

I walked to the Head's common room and found Draco there.

"Draco. Uhm…I uh think we should sort this out…"

"I know. Look, I think I should've told you this earlier. Annabelle put a charm on me so I couldn't speak nor move so she could kiss me. I think her scheme was to break us up because she knew you were coming over there."

"Yeahh…why didn't you tell me in the first place?" I asked confused.

"Because you might've thought I was lying. I can tell you still don't fully trust me."

"How did you know?"

"I could tell."

"Well, Draco, my little plan was to make you guilty and jealous when you saw me with Benjamin. I guess the plan had holes in it seeing you did the exact same thing when you saw us…"

"That was insane. But Hermione, I need you to trust me again. I know it's hard to seeing I hated you because you weren't pureblood. But I started to realise how stupid I sounded and the only reason I did hate muggles and muggleborns was because my father brainwashed me. It was coincidental that it was after the time you told me you were pureblood. Hermione, I would love you either way, muggleborn or not."

"I…guess I was naïve." I admitted.

"Yeah…so…we back together?"

"Yeah. Sorry for everything."

"Me too." I kissed him until he told me he had a surprise.

He covered my eyes with a handkerchief, went to his room, and took the blindfold off.

"Draco!" He had a birthday cake for me. No one remembered my birthday today with the plan and all.

"I love you," He whispered. "Happy birthday Hermione Kingsford. You're seventeen now."

"I love you too."

A/N: So basically, this chapter was the falling action. The next chapter is the last. I'm making another fanfic. I hope you all will read it! Expect it in a few days or something. It's going to be drama/romance.