SOSOSOSO SORRY FOR THE WAIT AND THE SHORT CHAPTER, BUT I JUST WANTED THE NIGHT TO END. DON'T WORRY, THE MOMENT YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR, DRACO REVEALING WHO HE IS, IS COMING UP SOON. REVIEW!!

Chapter Twelve:

"Please don't tell me that just because your night ended well that you're going to forget about before," Ron said as he and Harry walked to the stairs after saying good night to the girls at the door.

"The boy whose tormented our best friend is now snogging her in dance clubs and she doesn't know who he is," Harry said. "Of course I'm going to forget about it."

Ron rolled his eyes. "Do you suppose we tell her?"

"Why don't we find out some more about him from Emelyn," Harry suggested. "Where do you think she is?"

Harry and Ron found Emelyn in Hermione's room looking at a book. She slowly turned a page and studied it intently.

"Emelyn, we need to talk."

Emelyn looked up at Harry and Ron, who were now facing her from the bed and wall. "How do you guys know Drae?"

"How do you know Draco Malfoy?" Harry asked.

"I love the ocean," Hermione sighed as she kicked off her shoes. "I never get to see it often enough at school."

Draco took Hermione by the waist and walked slowly to the waves. He took in a slow breath of ocean air. "I know what you mean. All we have is a lake," he accidentally slipped out.

Hermione looked up at him. Their hair was blowing in the gentle wind. She put her head on his chest and let him lead her to the end of the nearest jetty. "What's your school like?"

Draco looked out at the ocean and though to himself for a minute. "Students walk around the grounds whenever they have free time. There's a sports field, a lake, a forest, and there are secret passages everywhere. The headmaster is old and is always giving the students as many chances as they need, but other teachers are just horrible. One of them doesn't even crack a smile save a few incidents. We have to take all these crazy subjects like herbology and care for, er, creatures. Everyone is in cliques, but these cliques go beyond the normal high school cliques."

"I know what you mean," Hermione said. "At my school, we're divided into houses and there are all these rivalries based on house. There's a boy at my school who even says that his house is superior and that he would rather die than be put into one of them."

"I'm sure it was a childhood mistake," Draco said, trying to soften her idea of the school him. "Believe me, no one is like that for the rest of their life."

Hermione shrugged and looked up at the stars. She let out a soft chuckle and turned to Draco. "We've known each other for only a few days and I'm sitting here wishing we were done with school so we can move on with our lives." She sat up and looked him in the eye. "It's like I've known you for years."

Draco looked into her eyes. 'She's so beautiful,' he thought to himself. "I know how you feel," he replied, pulling her in for a gentle kiss.

'How can my life have changed so much in one week?' Hermione asked herself. "How do you know Emelyn?" she whispered as they slowly pulled away from each other.

"When we were younger," Emelyn began, "when I still lived in the UK, I mean, and Hermione's mom took me to a park and then I ditched Hermione at the swing because all she wanted to do was read. I guess we were in a playground for magical and muggle ki-"

"Muggle?" Harry and Ron looked at each other. "Are you a-"

"No, well, not so much. I used to be able to do little things, but only when Hermione and I were together," Emelyn interrupted. "Drae is. And he told me last summer."

"Well sorry, but your Drae is our Draco Malfoy," Ron burst out. "He's spent the past six years making our lives miserable, especially Hermione's."

"I get it now!" Emelyn exclaimed. "You guys are the friends that he talks about! He's liked Hermione for a while, y'know."

"He has?"

Emelyn nodded her head. "I'd tell you more, but it's all his secrets, not mine. So now," she held up the book, "why don't you explain a few of these interesting pictures, haha."

Hermione held on tighter to Draco's waist as he pulled into her cousin's driveway. She didn't want the night to end. She took in his scent and closed her eyes. She felt the motorcycle turn off and lean a little to the left.

"Do we have to go inside?" she whispered.

Draco sighed and looked up at the full moon. "Look, I can see Venus," he said, pointing up at a bright star.

Hermione giggled and moved his arm to the left. "That is Venus." She sighed and melted into his chest. "They say that there are two Venuses."

"One for spiritual love and one for physical attraction." Draco looked down ad her, wrapping his arms around her petit body. "She also is called Aphrodite."

"Two names for two worlds."

Hermione looked up at him and gave his lips a soft peck before leaving the comfort of his arms and walking to the house and falling asleep in Emelyn's room, waiting for her cousin to come back. Draco stayed out for another few minutes looking at the stars and then heading to his room to talk to Emelyn.