Chapter 1
"Malfoy!" Blaise panted as he caught up to Draco, "Why weren't you at breakfast? Professor Snape handed out our schedules and he was wondering where you were."
"Wha-oh, hey Zabini," Draco stammered as he noticed the tall, dark extremely attractive young man standing in front of him, Gosh! Why does he have to be so darn good-looking! Draco thought Oh bugger, I did NOT just think that!
"Hey, so…where were you?"
"Oh, I was with Pansy," He smirked.
"Getting a good snogging in before classes start, eh Malfoy?" Blaise laughed, nudging him in the ribs.
"Yeah," He sighed, "Not the best I've ever had though."
Blaise laughed again, "Then I suggest next time you choose your partner better. I gotta go now, I'm meeting someone in a few minutes and I would hate to keep her waiting."
As Draco watched Blaise strut out of sight, he made his way down to the dungeon, Whoa! Does he have a nice butt or what? Argh! Pull yourself together Draco! What the heck is wrong with- "Oy! Watch where you're going!" He shouted as he knocked someone over. She hit the ground with a soft thud as her books fell all around her. "Here let me help you." He said as he bent down to help her up and noticed then, that it was just Granger, "Oh, it's you." Straightening back up he added, "Watch where you're going next time."
"Watch where I'm going?" Hermione yelled, as she started to pick up her books, "Need I remind you, Malfoy, that is I who is on the floor, not you!"
"Right," Draco smirked, "Well best be off!" And with that, he left.
Hermione watched as Draco walked off, leaving her on the floor, surrounded by fallen books. Oh bugger, she thought as she picked up her crumpled arithmancy book, that Ferret boy is such an arrogant git! As she grabbed the last book, she felt a shadow standing over her from behind. She turned around to see Blaise Zabini standing there.
A few weeks ago, a group of Slytherin girls were pushing Hermione around when Blaise came over and stood up for her. "Problem ladies?" He had asked. "Oh there's no problem," Hermione had replied, thinking that Blaise would just make it worse, "Right, like I'm gonna believe that," he sighed as he stood between the Slytherins and Hermione. He turned and looked at the group, "Come on girls, why don't you go flirt with Draco Malfoy, I'm sure he would just love the attention!" "Eeeek!" One of them shrieked, "Lets go!" And they continued to babble about Draco as they walked off. Blaise had turned back to a sobbing Hermione sitting on the ground and said, "Aw, there, there, my dear. It's alright." "No it's not alright!" Hermione sobbed, "Here I treat you like a dung-beatle and you come and help me! I am so sorry." "Don't worry about it." And from that moment on, Hermione had been giving Blaise "Tutoring" every day.
"There you are my lady, why did you leave me there waiting for you like that?"
"Oh," Hermione blushed, feeling that it must be a pretty funny sight to see her sprawled on the floor holding a huge pile of books, "Hello Blaise, I didn't think you were coming, I waited for over 10 minutes!"
"Here, let me help you," he offered, taking her books. He put his arm around her waist and pulled her to her feet, "I am sorry dear. I was running a little late. Filtch caught me running down the hall and almost gave me detention."
"I understand," Hermione said as Blaise ushered her to the nearest, unoccupied classroom. He sat her down while relieving himself of the pile of books. He then sat down beside her and began kissing her. He held her close, wrapping his arms around her waist. She responded by grabbing his neck and pulling him into an even tighter lip lock. They were stuck in a tight kiss that seemed to last forever, when there was a loud…
BANG!
Followed by a shout, "What in the name of You-Know-Who is going on here?"
Hermione and Blaise pulled apart to see Harry and Ron standing in the door way.
As Draco made his way to Snapes office, he thought about his run-in with Granger, Maybe I shouldn't have left her there. I was the one who ran into her. She didn't deserve that. Then another voice inside his head said, Of course she deserved it! Her and her little companions have done nothing but do what ever they can to make my life terrible! But right then he reached Snapes office,
KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!
"Enter," Came a misty voice from inside the room. Draco obliged. "Ah! Mr. Malfoy, we missed you at breakfast."
"Yes, I'm terribly sorry about that, I…….Overslept!" Draco explained
"I see, well here is your schedule."
Draco took his schedule, thanked Professor Snape, and walked out of the office. As he looked over his schedule, every thing seemed great! Until he got to…
"MUGGLE STUDIES!" Wait till my father hears about this! He decided that right then he would go write to his father.
Father,
I am quite upset about a class I just found out that I have. They have given me muggle studies! I know that you will not tolerate this! You hate muggles and I know that you will fix this!
Your son,
Draco
"There, that should do it." He gave the letter to his owl and watched it fly away into the distance.
Later that day he got a letter from his father saying:
Dearest son,
I am fully aware of your schedule Draco, and I gave them permission to put you into that class. So you can either live with it or give up you magic and leave school!
-Father
