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Ok here is the next chapter for my story…I will post a few more after this so we can get into the good parts of the story…lol if any one is reading this please Read and Review! It feels odd posting a story that no one reads! Well here it is anyway..

Classes went until 3:30 in the afternoon then everyone had just enough time to hang out with friends before dinner for Hermione and Draco this was not the case they had to spend almost every extra hour they had on their head duties such as planning Balls and organizing Hogsmeade weekends. So there they were inside the castle on a lovely afternoon arguing about everything they could come up with it was starting to bore Hermione she just wished Dumbledore would have had more sense than to pick him as Head Boy.

"Well all I am saying is that Dumbledore wants the Christmas Ball!" Hermione said loudly.

"And I'm saying that I don't want a Christmas Ball!" Draco shot at her.

"Well it's not up to you!" Hermione screamed.

"Um let me think a minute yes it is! I'm Head Boy!" Draco screamed back at her.

"Well I'm Head Girl I overrule you!" Hermione yelled.

"Who told you that?" Draco asked in a loud manner.

"No one told me I just do!" Hermione said as she flopped onto the armchair.

"We are never going to get anything done if we can't even agree on anything!" Draco said calmly.

"Well that's the problem you don't agree with anything I say! And vice-versa!" Hermione said.

"Well fine from now on we both have to listen to each others ideas, ok" Draco said.

"Fine" Hermione sighed.

"Ok now about this Ball if Dumbledore wants a Christmas ball then we can have a bloody Christmas Ball" Draco said.

"Ok that's one thing down we still have to do decorations, music, dress codes and menus!" Hermione said as she counted them down on her fingers.

"Well one thing at a time lets start with Dress codes Robes of Casual?" Draco asked.

"Well I have an idea you probably wouldn't agree but how about girls in white dresses and the boys in Black tuxes" Hermione suggested.

"That's actually a pretty good idea so that's Dress code down now music?" Draco asked.

They talked up until dinner they argued for a while before they left but in the end they decided the Weird Sisters as the band, Some traditional Christmas menus from various cultures and for decorations there would be of course two Christmas trees fully decorated on both sides of the staff table ice sculptures at the front doors, the enchanted ceiling would have snow falling from it and the rest of the hall would be decorated in tinsel, misle toe and other holiday decorations. Hermione was glad that they actually got something out of the way.

'Maybe this year won't be that bad after all' Hermione thought to herself.

Or will it?

That night Hermione and Draco had a small meeting with the prefects to talk about the ball and other things they missed on the train. They informed them of the Hogsmeade weekends they had already planned. There would be one that weekend and a couple of weeks later then there would be one on the weekend before the ball so everyone could pick up last minute things that they need. After they had finished briefing them they sent them al back to their dormitories. Then Hermione and Draco went off to do their rounds in the school trying to find all the students out of bed Slytherin's no doubt. Hermione and Draco of course had never done rounds before so they just decided to check the most obvious places people would go to hide or meet with others. Mostly they went to classrooms and bathrooms they found a small group of Slytherin's and escorted them back to their house. Than they found two hufflepuff girls in the bathrooms they also escorted them back. They were walking down a corridor after escorting the two girls back Hermione hoped that she could find more people up to no good so she and Draco wouldn't have to talk to each other sure their friendship was coming back to normal and they were hanging out a lot but Hermione didn't want her heart broken again even though she loved him so very much. So she just brought up subjects to do with school.

"So Draco have you finished that essay that Professor.Binns gave us?" Hermione asked.

"What essay? He didn't give us an essay" Draco said.

"Uh yeah he did just before you woke up" Hermione said as she laughed a little.

"When is it due?" He asked.

"Um not for a few days at least" Hermione replied.

"Oh good" Draco sighed.

Hermione laughed again.

"Well it looks like there is no one else around we might as well go back and get to bed" Draco said.

"Yeah I'm not going to argue with that!" Hermione said as they headed back to their rooms.

Once they were inside and about to head into their own rooms Draco turned around and asked Hermione something.

"Hermione, We're friends right?" He asked.

Hermione thought for a while,

'Friends wouldn't be that bad…Yes Friends is good' the voice inside her head said.

"Yeah" Hermione replied.

"Good, Goodnight Hermione" He said.

"Goodnight, Draco" Hermione said as they both turned into their rooms.

Draco walked in and flopped on his bed. It was almost 1:30 in the morning and he was exhausted. His thoughts began to wander onto Hermione they were friends but was that a good idea friends lead to feelings that not even he can control and he couldn't let that happen when his father was still about.

Just as her was about to go to sleep something begun to tap on his window. Draco got up and opened it. A large owl flew in and Draco noticed it at once it was his mother owl she had news of his fathers trial!

Draco took the letter from the owl and gave it some food and water while he opened it. He sat back down on his bed and took the letter from the envelope. He began to read.

Dear Draco,

Your father had his trial yesterday and well lets just say it didn't go too well. He has been put back into Azkaban for life but you and me both know even that place won't hold him in he'll get out eventually but I think we should just enjoy the time we have for now. When you come home this Christmas it will be different. I assure you that I love your father but a break from him will do us all good. Hope you are having fun at school don't get into too much trouble. I'll see you soon!

Love from,

Your Mother

Draco smiled from ear to ear his father was in Azkaban at least for a few months that was good enough for him. Then his smile faded his thoughts had once again drifted onto Hermione he knew the only way they could be together is if his father was gone and now he was but he hurt Hermione too much they would never be back together she wouldn't believe him.

'But she loves you' a small voice said in the back of his head.

'I hurt her too much she has moved on' Draco told the voice.

'She wants to be your friend' the voice said.

'She took too much time thinking about that she is obviously worried that I'll hurt her again' Draco told the voice.

'Ok do what you want but I'm just saying that maybe you should explain it to her before it's too late' the voice whispered.

'What do you mean before it's too late?' Draco asked the voice.

'I'm just saying she might have her eye on someone else' the voice replied.

Draco stopped what if she already had her eye on someone else? He would never have a chance then. Then the little voice came back to say one last thing.

'You are Draco Malfoy, Surely you can keep them apart' the voice said.

Draco smirked in his evil way. If she got a boyfriend he would be able to keep them apart he is head boy of course.

Well that's one of the chapters I will put up today…I'll go and do the others now! Please someone anyone review this story! Please! And tell people about it! Well off I go to upload the next one!

MEL