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Chapter 20

Hermione sat on top of the bed and stared up at the ceiling. If a nice story from father was nice on a rainy day then what was she supposed to do?

Hermione felt as though she'd just been shoved off the bed and she yelped out in pain. She then looked up to see who had pushed her but she found she was looking at a ghost-like person who looked an awful lot like Draco.

Hermione wanted to go up to him and ask what was going on but she found that she couldn't move. She huffed in annoyance but then noticed a girl was standing next to him with the faint shadow of her last smile still echoed on her face.

She looked a lot like herself if Hermione thought about it. The girl looked as though she was about to say something to the boy but he was not paying attention to her and ignored her.

"It's rude to ignore people." The girl said and the boy only glared. "It's not nice to glare. It is a sign that you are ignoring me if you are turning the other direction from where I am. It's mean to ignore people that are trying to help you. It means your bored of me if you do a sigh that deep. You could at least prevent yourself from rolling your eyes at me. That hand gesture is not a nice thing to do at somebody."

The girl started to point out all of the flaws and mean things that the boy was doing. It seemed that the boy didn't want to speak to her after presumably telling a story from the heart and the girl was using this method to get him to speak again.

It wasn't working with him speaking though. It seemed to be amusing him, the girl too. The girl continued until the boy had a small smile on his face.

Slowly, they both started to fade away until Hermione was left in an eerie silence. Silence? That was strange… Where was Draco?

Hermione had left him sitting on the sofa and there had been at least some sort of sound coming from him but to the girl on the floor, it sounded as if she were in a completely empty house apart from herself.

Hermione decided to shrug this off though as she felt herself regain the control over her legs. She stood up and went back to sitting atop of the previously neatly made bed.

What had that vision thing meant? Did it mean she had to make Draco smile? Or did it mean that she needed to annoy the living hell out of his arse?

Not too long ago, Hermione would have wanted it to be the annoy the living hell out of his arse one but now that they had spent more time with each other, Hermione was starting to secretly hope it was the make him smile one.

Hermione had never really seen Draco smile and she, for some strange and unknown reason, wanted to witness it. She wanted to be able to see him forget himself and smile. She wanted to be the reason he smiled.

Hermione wanted there to no longer be a permanent scowl, sneer or smirk upon his pale face. She had absolutely no clue what had brought about this change of her heart as he was still the blond, evil, smarmy git he'd always been. She just thought it was perhaps him admitting unknown things to her.

She would have never thought that his father was so vile and he would be forced into doing all of these things as his son. She had always thought Lucius Malfoy's views were preposterous and disgusting and maybe if Draco had not been a Malfoy he would have been different but this was taking things to a new level.

Hermione also had to remind herself that if Draco had not been a Malfoy, he would not have been Draco at all. She still had to question herself as to when she started to look at things this way but let it slip for now as the silence was deafening her now.

Hermione thought she may just check on Draco, just to be sure that he was perfectly alright.

Oh, stop Hermione. The brunette scolded herself. It's only Dra-Malfoy. It's not as if you really care, do you?

Hermione found herself in the living room three minutes later, gazing in horror at the scene before her. Draco was gone. The room was empty. There was a gap in the wall where the tunnel had been and a smear of blood painted unknown words on the wall.

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