Chapter 4
Make-ups

Hermione awoke, feeling groggy. She sat up and saw that she still wore her ball gown. She hopped up, over Harry, and ran up to her dorm. Everyone was sleeping quietly. She threw the dress off and grabbed a knee-skirt and long-sleeved sweater. She threw her hair into a low ponytail and ran back downstairs.

She ran out of the common room.. She ran down to the Great Hall to see no one there. She searched her mind and remembered seeing Draco heading in a different direction after dinner once. She decided to try to find the Slytherin common room.

She felt so bad because she liked Draco. I like Draco Malfoy? What is wrong with me? Hermione ran down a specific hallway and saw Pansy Parkinson standing against a wall.

"Granger?" she asked in a snotty tone. Hermione wondered what she wanted.

"What?"

"I just wanted to tell you Draco ran away last night after..."

"The ball?"

"NO after he he killed voldemort and ruled the world, yes after the ball". Hermione's mouth fell open.

"What!"

"You heard me!" Pansy said, laughing. Hermione felt dizzy.

"He...He wouldn't have! He loves me-"

"Ha! He loves you?" Pansy laughed. "He'sHow could he ever love you!" Hermione felt tears well in her eyes and she sniveled. Suddenly, the wall to their left slid open and Draco walked out. Hermione turned on Pansy quickly.

"He didn't run away! He doesn't love you!"

"He doesn't love you, either!" Pansy wailed back. Hermione looked at Draco, who was glaring at her.

"Draco-please listen-"

"You got what you wanted...My job is done." Draco brushed past her, walking away. Hermione felt hate well up in her. Hate towards herself.

"I'm not me anymore! I'm not me without you! I'm not Hermione Granger without Draco Malfoy!" Hermione screamed after him. Draco stopped walking and turned to look at her.

"Well, I'm still Draco Malfoy without Hermione Granger." He turned around and walked away. Hermione bustled away down the same hallway and back up to the common room. Once inside, she sat down on the couch she slept on and sighed.

"Harry...Harry wake-up," she said, nudging him. He sat up and reached to his right for his glasses which were on his face.

"Huh? Wha-?" Hermione just looked at him. Ron came down, then. Harry could tell by the look on Hermione's face she'd had an encounter with Draco. Ron walked over quickly as Hermione stood up to leave.

"Wait-" Ron sat Hermione back down. "We have to talk."

"What is there to talk about? I hate you, and you have Lavender!" Hermione snapped. Harry backed away and went up to the dorm rooms to get cleaned up. Ron sighed.

"I hate Lavender...Listen to me! All she wants to do is look sexy and, yeah, she's pretty and she turns me on! Oh well! She has no real heart! Not like you! She doesn't have the beauty that you posses! You posses kindness, intelligence, you're caring and funny and, Hermione, I love you!" Ron said, pleadingly. Hermione wondered what was going on. How could this happen?

"Ron! After what you did to me...Why should I take you back? I'm in love with Draco-"

"Malfoy? He hates you! After what you did last night! Kissing me like that?"

"Kissing you like that? You kissed me!" Hermione argued. "And he does not hate me! He didn't have the full story! That's not fair!"

"Hermione, love isn't fair! Listen, I love you and I want you back! I kick myself so hard all the time because I dumped you. It just seemed like you didn't love me! You were always busy studying or something! And then when I dumped you, you turned all bad-ass, and you looked beautiful! Why couldn't-"

"Why couldn't I be popular and pretty when I was your girl?" Hermione asked, starting to cry. "That's what you were going to say...You don't love me! You just wanted popularity! I hate you!" Hermione got up and ran back out of the common room, crying. She calmed down while she walked.

She decided she'd go to the Great Hall and eat something. Maybe it would help take away that shaking in her legs. When she walked in, a lot of people watched her, including Draco for a brief moment. She walked straight over to him and pulled him out of his seat and out of the Great Hall, forgetting the food.

"Draco, listen to me!"

"No, Hermione! You just used me!"

"I just screamed at Ron that I hate him! I don't want Ron anymore! I want you!" Hermione said, holding onto his arms which had clutched her shoulders. She was afraid to let him go; afraid to loose him.

"Hermione...You really hurt me last night...You kissed him like there was no tomorrow-"

"There was no tomorrow! Not for us! That was goodbye! And he kissed me!" Hermione said. Draco sighed.

"Hermione, Pansy asked me to go out with her." Hermione looked down, Pansy was very pretty now, with long brown hair, silvery eyes, and a nice figure, she was beautiful, her pug faced features were gone like magic, maybe it was... Hermione felt her eyes glaze over.

"I hope you fall in love with her...I want you to be happy...Even if I can't..." Hermione let go of Draco's arms, knowing she'd lost him. She walked back into the Great Hall, wiping her tears. She sat down at Gryffindor table earning her looks from most, especially Ginny.

"What happened?" Ginny asked.

"We broke up and Ron and me fought, so I'm single. I'm alone. Nobody loves me." Hermione smiled weakly. Ginny nodded and turned back to her food and friends. Hermione ate a bite of oatmeal but felt sick to her stomach.

She got up to leave but found herself face to face with Draco. He grabbed her and, wrapping his arms around her, kissed her deeply and lovingly. Hermione was surprised at first, but she put her arms around him, too. They stood there, against all the odds, in love. Ron watched from the doorway, Harry walking up next to him, smiling.

Hermione broke away, panting, and backed away a little. "But...I thought...Pansy?"

"I just said that she asked me, that doesn't mean I said yes, in fact I said no...Because I'm in love with you." Hermione smiled. Why, she didn't know. Harry smiled wider watching her, still next to Ron.

"You really love her?" Harry asked.

"Yeah..."

"Be happy..."

"Why?"

"She's happy...If you really loved her, you'd be filled with great joy that she's happy with Draco." Ron looked at Harry.

"I guess you're right." Ron said.

Cusimhavingthetimeofmylife…I'veneverreallyfeltthiswaybeforeiswearthetimeofmylife…

Hermione sat by the lake, Draco next to her. She sighed as the blue water lapped against the grass. She suddenly stood and pulled her sweater off to reveal a white undershirt. She left her skirt on, slipped her shoes and socks off and ran and dove into the water. Draco quirked a brow.

"What're you doing?" Draco asked as Hermione resurfaced. She shook her curls away from her face.

"What does it look like I'm doing?"

"Oh...Well, why?" Draco asked.

"Because it feels good. And it's refreshing. And I like it. And-"

"Okay!"

"You can join me if you want..." Hermione said, invitingly.

"No...My hair would get ruined..." Draco smirked.

"Oh, God..."

"What?"

"My hair is ruined! See?" Hermione held up some of her hair.

"My skin gets too pale...I'm not built enough...I'm fat..."

"Draco Malfoy, you are not fat!"

"You wanna bet?"

"Alright!" Draco pulled his shirt off, slipped his shoes and socks off and ran and dove into the water as well. He resurfaced and shook his hair.

"See? I'm fat!" This, of course, was a lie. Draco was thin and built. He was sexy to Hermione (and me...sorry, I can just picture Draco...faints). She giggled and blushed a little as she realized her white shirt was see through and her bra was now visible.

Draco splashed her and she splashed him back. She laughed and dunked him. When he resurfaced, he dunked her, muttering, "You little!"

When Hermione resurfaced, she thrashed away from Draco only to see Ron walking towards the lake. She stopped moving, but Draco obviously didn't see Ron.

"What is it?" Draco asked. Hermione swam over to the grass and got out. She got her wand out of her shirt pocket and performed a drying spell on her.

"Nothing..." Draco saw Ron and he went under before getting out of the water.

"Hermione?" Ron asked as he approached.

"What?"

"Can I talk to you in private?" Draco glared at Ron as Hermione motioned for a minute and walked away with him.

"What is it?" she said when they were out of Draco's earshot.

"I just wanted to tell you I'm happy that you're happy. When you love someone, you're happy for them no matter what, just as long as they're happy. I just wanted to tell you that." Hermione smiled a little.

"Thank you, Ron. I'll always love you deep down in my heart because you're my best friend and always will be. Is this kind of like where we make up and repeat this whole thing over again?" Hermione said.

"No...I'm going to stay away from you for a while. I actually had my eye on one of Ginny's friends..." Hermione smiled.

"Good...I better get back to Draco before he suspects something's going on...See you." Hermione turned and walked away from him. Ron sighed as he felt her presence leave him.

He'd lost her to a Slytherin.

He still felt the pain of being over come by Draco Malfoy. I'm so pathetic. He walked back up to the castle, planning to ask Ginny's friend, Rachel, out.

Hermione watched as Ron walked away. She felt her love for him as a friend flourish again and she turned back to Draco.

"Nothing happened..."

"I know...Hey, Hermione?" Draco slid closer to Hermione.

"Y-Yeah?" Hermione said.

"I love you..."

"I love you, too..." Hermione kissed Draco's lips harshly, and they fell into the lake, laughing, and having the time of their life…like that song.

A/N: and I owe it all to you… well im going to sleep because my sister is yelling at me night…and the hotel has internet that I can't connect to that sucks because then you have to wait for the chapters…hehe…insert evil malfoyish smirk here