Chapter 5

The night before, Draco had tried to discover the reason that his father had finally trusted him enough to let him run a family business; unfortunately, there wasn't enough concrete information. There was a piece of information that seemed to be added out of nowhere. It turns out that the business belongs to Draco Malfoy, only Draco. He needed to find out why the business belonged to him, there was no way that his father would generously agree to give Draco a company, there was something very odd going on. After a long night morning arrived, and a very excited Draco would be leaving the Malfoy Manor for the entire summer.

Many hours later Draco found himself in the Los Angeles Airport. Why in the world would his father send him to America? Apparently there was going to be someone there to pick him up but so far he didn't see anyone. After scanning the crowd he saw a familiar face…..but wait it couldn't be, could it? Hermione Granger! What in the name of Merlin was she doing here? Is this some sort of sick joke?

"Granger. What are you doing here?"

A surprised Hermione turned around. "Malfoy! What are you doing here? What do you want? Why don't you go away? Even in America you're still here you arrogant….."

Just as Hermione was going to insult Malfoy a talk slender lady walked up to them. "Hello? Are you Hermione Granger?"

"Yes, and you are?" Hermione replied.

"I'm sorry, how rude of me. You look so much like your mother that I knew it was you immediately. My name is Sandra Lovewell, I'm your aunt. Who's your friend?"

"Aunt Sandra, this is Draco Malfoy and we're not exactly friends. We just have the unfortunate coincidence of knowing each other and even worse luck of having seen each other here."

"Now Hermione that's no way to talk about your friend. Draco Malfoy? Lucius's son? Well lucky for all of us that you two saw each other it saved me the time of having to look for you."

Both Hermione and Draco looked shock. Why would this woman be picking both of them up?

Draco looked rather shocked. "I'm sorry Ma'am but why would you be picking us up? Lovewell? Oh yes that's right my father gave me a letter to give to you." Draco handed the paper to Sandra.

Sandra:

I've agreed to allow Draco to return to America only because you're persuading me to do so, but he doesn't know anything. I'm warning you that I'm leaving this whole fiasco to you so if anything goes wrong it will mean serious consequences for you.

Lucius

Sandra's face seemed to lose it's color for a brief moment, but then she quickly regained her composure.

"Sandra? Are you okay? What did my father want?" Draco asked full of curiosity.

"Nothing Draco dear, your father and I have known each other for a very long time. Do you really think that if he didn't trust me he would leave his only son in my care? Well we should get going Herbert is waiting in the car."

"Herbert?" Asked Hermione.

"Oh yes Herbert is our chauffer."

Hermione was suddenly aware of how much her life was changing. She had never taken a ride in a limousine or had her own chauffer before. Her parents were right, her life was changing, but the only thing that she didn't understand was what Draco Malfoy had to do with this change.

Draco on the other hand was wondering the same thing. Why would his father send him to Hermione's aunt? Especially if she's a muggle, and why would Lucius make Draco ride in the same car as the mudblood. This is the same girl that Lucius had told him over and over again that she wasn't worthy of attending the same school as Draco, let alone breathing the same air. This is all so confusing. There are so many things that were occupying Draco's thoughts for example: the mysterious business, and the whole situation with Granger and her aunt. This makes no sense. Something's happening here and Draco needed to find out what.

A/N: Alright well this was another chapter. I kind of used this chapter to set the stage for the next couple of chapters. I promise that the next chapter will be a lot longer and full of details. Please review! The more reviews the sooner the update.

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