Chapter 12

Winter vacation was as boring as possible, thought Hermione walking through the platform barrier. Just before she climbed onto the train she caught a glimpse of blond hair and felt her heart flutter. In her bag, was the present that she had gotten him before break. She slowly walked into an empty compartment and sat there. Hermione could not recall how long she sat there staring out the window. Soon she heard the doors slowly opened.

"Hermione?" The voice questioned.

"Yes, Draco is that you?"

"Of course." He said smoothly sitting across from her. "How was your vacation?"

"Fine, it was long and terribly boring. How about yours?"

"Ahh, you see mine was excruciatingly long and terribly horrifying. But that is not what I wanted to talk to you about." He touched his fore arm while saying this. His break was spent in meetings. Both good and bad. He finally realized the complete strength of Voldemort. This was because he was late to a meeting because he was with the Order. He still had bruises from Voldemort's wrath. His mother was the one that took care of him when he returned home. But when his father found out of her helping he forbade her to saying that he needed to learn to respect his elders.

"Does it hurt, much?" Hermione watched as her voice brought him out of his revere. She could tell something was wrong but knew he would not say anything. Over break she tried to figure out who the new deatheater was and just knew it was him. Especially, when he touched his arm. At first she was pretty angry that he went through with the ceremony. But then she thought about the new order member and just believed with all her heart that it was him that had joined.

"Wha-at?" He stuttered this he knew what she had asked but wanted to confirm it. It frightened him that she knew. He sort of figured she would be angry.

"I said, does it hurt?" She watched him as he looked at his arm.

"How did you know?" He looked at her with a nervous gaze.

"I just knew. If you keeping touching it everyone will know." He just kept quiet and looked out the window, forgetting everything that they were talking about.

A/N: I am sorry that this is so short. I just wanted to put something up so everyone knew I was still writing. I have just been so busy. It is the end of the school year, so I have Validation papers, finals to study for and state golf. Practice has been horrible. So again I am so sorry. For all of those who have reviewed I just want to say Thank You. And more chapters are coming. Once school ends there will be a lot more updates. So thank you for reading and Please Review. Again I am so sorry for the short chapter.