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Ok here is the next chapter that I am putting up especially for my anonymous reader 'dingdong' for reviewing thanks for that! Well here it is!

"So, what's up?" Hermione asked.

"Um well this isn't very easy to say but I want to talk to you about what happened last year" Draco said slowly.

"What do you mean?" Hermione asked.

"Hermione you need to know the truth now that it's safe" Draco said.

"Ok then you're really starting to scare me" Hermione whispered.

"Hermione do you know why I did what I did last year" Draco asked.

"Um I don't know so many answers to choose from... Because you used me, you're pigheaded you're an assh-" Hermione began ticking off reasons on her fingers but Draco stopped her.

"No that's not it, See the reason I did it was because of my father" Draco said.

"I'm not following you" Hermione said.

"When I went home last summer I needed to make sure you would be safe I knew that If we were still going out my father would know and probably kill me or you so I came to a conclusion that the best thing to do would be to break it off until he was behind bars" Draco said.

"You're joking right?" Hermione asked.

"Nope" Draco replied.

"Why Draco?" Hermione asked with tears in her eyes.

"I wanted you to be safe" He said.

"Did you even think about telling me this before you did this?" Hermione asked as her voice rose in anger.

"Yes but If you still had feelings towards me than me father would have noticed the only way was to make you hate me" Draco said.

"So why tell me this now when I finally get on with my life?" Hermione asked.

"Because I still- I still love you Hermione I needed you to know that" Draco said.

"Well now I know but you're too late I've moved on" Hermione said.

"What are you talking about?" Draco asked but he knew that she was with that new guy Raju.

"I don't know I need to think some things over" Hermione said as she got up and ran to her room.

Hermione stayed up in her room for ages she cried but mostly thought about what she was going to do now she really loved Raju and they had a lot of fun together and they had so much in common but then there was Draco who she knew her love for Draco would always be deeper no matter what she did he was always in her heart but he lied to her and hurt her. Hermione just sat on her bed she couldn't think of the right solution she would love for everything to go back to normal but that would mean giving up Raju and she wasn't prepared to do that. She laid her head down on her pillow and cried some more.

The next day Olivia and Meaghan came up to check on Hermione as they hadn't seen her in ages and were terribly worried Louise was also but she was delayed she had a study session with another seventh year as she wasn't doing to well in Potions. Olivia knocked on Hermione's door there was no answer but they knew the password so they said it and went in. The found Hermione curled up in a ball on her bed still crying.

"Hermione what's wrong?" Meaghan asked.

"Yeah where have you been we've all been so worried?" Olivia said.

"I'm sorry but I just didn't feel like hanging out today" Hermione said.

'Why not?" Meaghan asked.

"Because me and Draco had a talk last night and I really just need to think" Hermione said.

"What did you talk about?" Liv asked.

"Well he said he had something really important to tell me but I've been avoiding him for so long but last night we finally had the talk and he- he told me..." Hermione said as the tears were once again welling up in her eyes.

"What did her said?" Meg asked worriedly.

"He told me that- that he still loved me" Hermione said as more tears came crashing out.

"What!" Liv and Meg yelled together.

"He said the he still loved me and all that stuff last year was just a set up so his dad wouldn't hurt him or me" Hermione whispered sadly.

"Well what are you going to do now?" Meaghan asked.

"That's exactly what I don't know I love Draco and I love Raju I can't possibly choose" Hermione said.

"Well you're gonna have to choose soon" Liv said.

"I know but it's so hard I mean how do I even choose I've loved Draco for so much longer but he hurt me and Raju and I have so much in common" Hermione said as a few more tears fell.

"Well what you have here is one big problem" Meaghan said.

They sat there for ages and ages just talking about both the boys and why they would be a good choice but still Hermione couldn't choose she couldn't hurt either of them.

Olivia and Meaghan left Hermione to be alone after a few hours as they both knew that she had to decide this on her own. Hermione only had to sit there for just awhile longer before she made her decision. She took out a piece of parchment and a quill and began writing. After a few minutes she was done and sent the owl to the persons room she knew she could never do it in person but she would have to face him sooner or later frankly she preferred later. Hermione sat down on her bed and sighed she knew that some part of her inside would always regret the decision she just made.

Draco was sitting in his room thinking about Hermione as usual. He knew that he should have told her earlier before she got involved with this Raju guy but she was avoiding him for so long he never got the chance and now her fears that he will loose Hermione for ever because of one mistake he never should have made. He just sat there thinking of other ways he could have settled things last year instead of breaking her heart. Before long his thoughts were interrupted by an owl tapping on his window. He got up, walked over to the window and pushed it open. The owl slowly glided into his room and landed on his dresser. Draco walked over to the large owl and untied the letter. He ripped open the envelope, took out the letter and began to read.

Draco,

I have thought a lot about what you said to me earlier it meant so much to me that you were trying to protect me but you're too late I am already in love with another man and he loves me back I wish inside that things could just be the way they were but now I know that it may never be possible I have grown closer to Raju and you and I have grown further and further apart. I know I shall somehow always regret my decision, But if this is a mistake I must learn from it either way. Maybe someday we will be right for each other again but you hurt me a lot last year and I am just not ready to take you back. You never know this might be a good decision with all the stuff that happened to us last year someone or something trying to keep us apart don't you ever think that maybe we just weren't meant to be? I want you to know that a part of me will always love you forever; I hope we can be friends.

Hermione

Draco laid the letter own next to him he couldn't believe it he actually lost her for good. Draco felt like crying he didn't but he sure felt like it. He knew Hermione was his one true love and not one part of him doubted it and he just lost her. Another thing he couldn't believe was that she picked some new guy over him…Why? Draco knew that inside he had always thought that she would take him back but obviously he was wrong but he needed to find out. He got up off his bed and quickly wrote a note to Hermione. He sent it off with the same owl when he had finished.

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MEL