Chapter 5: Their Arrival

Hermione walked into the Great Hall and walked towards the Gryffindor Table with a disgusted look on her face. She wanted to be with her brother and away from those idiots she used to call 'friends'. She got weird looks from everyone because no one knew whom she was. After the First years were sorted Professor McGonagall stood up, called Hermione up, and continued speaking once she was there.

"Students. This is Hermione Lily Zabini. She was Hermione Granger but she found out over the summer that she was adopted. Blaise Zabini is her twin brother. She has stated her wish to be resorted so we shall do it for her. Hermione…" she motioned to the stool and the Sorting Hat.

'Zabini eh?' the hat said to her 'I'm guessing you would like to be with your brother huh? Well. I can see how you have drastically changed over the summer. Very cunning and outspoken. A definate rebel. Yes I think Slyhterin will do quite nicely. Yes. Gotta be…' "SLYTHERIN!"

Hermione got up and ran over to Blaise and Drcao. She sat down in the seat in between them. Dumbeldore got up to speak.

"Welcome to another year at Hogwarts!" Everyone cheered. "I would like to introduce the Head Boy and Girl for this year, Drcao Malfoy and Hermione Zabini! Come up here please you two." They walked towards the front of the hall amidst the Slytherin's cheers. "Now as you both know your duties I would like to inform all of you that you may go to these two" he motioned at Hermione and Draco "at anytime with your problems, if you would rather talk to a peer than a teacher. I must ask though, if they are busy with patrols or organizing or schoolwork please don't bother them too much if you can help it. Thank you, now you may eat." Draco and Hermione walked back to their seats.

"Mione, we really need to look at those folders of duties tonight. I can't believe Mcgongall forgot to mention the fact that we are going to be like peer counselors." Draco said, almost upset.

"Yea, I know, you would think she would've mentioned that. Oh well, hey let's go, I'm sot of tired. I'll see you tomorrow bro." She leaned down and kissed Blaises cheek and dragged Draco to the front of the hall for directions to their Common Room. After they got them, they walked out f the Great Hall, every eye following them out.

"Hey Harry, let's follow them ad see whats going on." Ron whispered in Harry's ear as they watched Draco and Hermione leave the hall, hand in hand.

"No Ron. I don't want to. I don't think it's a good idea. They are probably just going back to their common room and going to bed." Harry answered Ron, not wanting to meddle in Hermione's buisness.

"Yea, exactly Harry, that's what I'm afraid of. Hermione, Malfoy, sleeping, in the same vicinity." Ron just looked at Harry.

"Wow, Ron, I didn't know you knew such a word!" Hary said laughingly. "But, come on, you know Hermione wouldn't do anything that she wasn't ready for. And anyway, she said it herself, they are betrothed." Harry didn't want to believe Hermione changed so much that she would give herslef to Malfoy of all people. She wouldn't either, and he was just wishing for it.

"Yea, whatever, do what you want, I'm following them." Ron got up and walked out of the hall. Harry rolled his eyes exasperatdly and got up and went after him. "Ahh, I thought you'd see it my way Harry." Ron said when Harry walked out of the Great Hall doors.

"No, I just want to be there to see you get yelled at when Hermione catches you." Harry said. "I still say you are parinoid and I don't know why you want to hurt her so badly. I am going to go and apologize and I don't care what you do." With that Harry ran up to where Hermione and Malfoy were walking. "HERMIONE!" He called, hoping she'd turn around.

"HERMIONE" Came towards them on the way to their common room.

"Uh-Oh, Dray, do ya think that I should talk to him, or just ignore him and keep going?" asked Hermione.

"Uhh, seeing as he has been running after us for 3 corridors, I'd talk to him, otherwise, you are going to kill him." Draco said.

"Fine" She said. She turned around and waited for Harry to catch up. "Yes Harry?" she asked when he was right in froont of her.

"Hermione, I'm sorry for how I acted before, I realize that you care about your brother and malfoy, I just found it a hard concept to grasp. I tried to get Ron to come to but he decided to be stubborn, as a matter-of-fact, he's been following you all the way up here hoping to find you doing something wrong. I went with him because I thought it would be funny to see you yell at him." Harry said.

"Yea, it would be. But you said he was following us, where is he?" Hermione asked.

"Come on Mione, think about it. How did we always get to do adventures? How did we always get up to Moaning Myrtlye's bathroom so we could pull that prank on him, huh? Think about it." Harry said, trying to hint something. Put it this way, Draco was extremely confused.

"Oh, wow, duh. So, how far away is he, no wait don't tell, I just figured it out." Hermione said. She walked over to a suit of armor that hid a passageway only Hermione, Ron, and Harry knew about. "Hello Ron." She said, and reached out into mid-air. Draco didn't know why, there wasn't anyone there. But before his eyes, Hermione pulled off the invisibility cloak. "Ya know Ron," she said, "if you are gonna spy on me with Harry's invisibility cloak, you might as well pick a hiding spot that I don't know about."

"Aww, come on Hermy, "she grimiced at the nickname, "You know for a fact there are no hideaways that are in this castle that you don't know about, with all of our late-night escapedes."

"Yea, well figure something else out. Now as for you following me, why?" She asked.

"I wasn't that comfortable with you around Malferret." He said, sadly.

"Sorry, but I'm sorta dating him now, and don't call him Malferret, If you can't call him Draco, at least call him by his proper surname!" Hermione said. "Can't you just except this, Please!" Hermione was pleading with him now. "I know you used to like me, and I'm sorry you never asked me out, though I doubt if I would've said yes, but I'm sorry your chance is gone, I'm with Draco now."

"Yea, I'm sorry Hermione. Friends?" he asked and stuck out his hand. She took it and said "Friends"

"Yea, well I'm sorry to have to say this, but Mione, we have to get to our dorms, and tell these two idiots the password to Gryffindor tower as they wouldn't be able to get in for another half-hour otherwise." Draco said.

"Fine. Guys, the password is Ol' Voldie stinks just so you know. We had to come up with something makin fun of Voldemort now didn't we. At least I didn't make it Voldemort straight out or more that 90 of the Gryffindors would be left stranded outside the common room." Hermione said. "K, well I'm gonna go now, see you tomorrow guys."

As Hermione and Draco walked he was pondering what had happened back there. What did Potter mean by 'sneaking into Moaning Myrtle's bathroom to play that prank on Malfoy'? He was curious so he said… "Mione, what did Potter mean by you playing a prank on me?" Hermione just smiled.

"I'll tell you when we get to our rooms." She said and kept walking. "It was actually very hilarious, though you might not be too happy, because we actually did pull it, you just didn't know." She winked at him, turned and stopped in front of a portrait with Lily and James Potter in it. She said their password that she decided to use (Draco didn't like it much) 'Lily Flower' and walked in.

'Lily Flower' Drcao said. When he got in the common room, he saw Hermione trying to disapeer up the stairs. "Oh no you don't. Come here." He pulled her by her arm and captured her lips with his. He reluctantly broke the kiss five minutes later. "So, about that pranks?" At this Hermione burst out laughing. "What's so funny?"

"Well, in Second Year, before I got petrified, we thought you were the Heir of Slytherin. So a month before Christmas we started brewing Polyjuice Potion, ok well I did. At Christmas, when Crabbe and Goyle came out of the Great Hall, I had Hrry and Ron put out 2 cupcakes on a banister. They were filled with a sleeping draught. After they ate them Harry and Ron smuggled them into a broom closet, nicked their shoes, grabbed their hair and ran upstairs to me. We all drank our potion, but it turns out that instead of turning into Millecent Bullstrode like I was supposed to, I turned into her cat." At this Draco burst out laughing. "It's not funny, its not meant for animal transfigrations, I was stuck like that for a month. Anyway, after they turned they went down to the dungeons, to try to find the Sytherin Common Room. You came along. Bad-mouthed me, they said that they had to go to the hospital wing when they started changing back and then, well you should know the rest. I ended up petrified without knowing whom the Heir of Slytherin then they ended up killing a giant snake. That really was an eventful year, second year was. But yea, there's the 'prank' we pulled." Hermione finally finished her story.

"Wow, sheesh, talk about an invasion of privacy Mia." He laughed.

"Mia? What is it with you guys and your nicknames? Sheesh. I think Ron's name for me is the worst! Hermy!" She shuddered a bit. "But, yea. We had fun second year. Well, truth be told we have had fun adventures since we got here. (a/n: Oh, just so you know, this is pre OotP because I din't like Sirius dying so w/e)"

"Cool. But seriusly do you mind me calling you Mia?" She shook her head. "Good. Now lets explore" He turned around, seeing the room for the first time, he gasped in awe, as did Hermione.

The common room alone was probably bigger than the Gryffindor and Slytherin put together. It was decorated in Silver and Gold. Hermione walked up the stair to her room, expecting it to be Gold and Red. She wasn't dissapointed. She groaned in frustration, she was sick of Gryffindor colors. With a wave of her wand it was turned to Light blue, Silver, and Black. Now content, she let out an excited shriek and jumped on her bed. Draco came bursting in thinking something was wrong but stopped short at the dight of her room.

"Hey, Mia, that's not fair, how com you get your favorite colors while I get stuck with silver and green?" He asked indignantly.

"Maybe they just like me better." Seeing the beginning of a rant coming on she said quickly. "I was just joking Draco. My room was Gold and Red but I didn't like it so I changed them." He looked sheepish at that and muttered something under his breath that sounded very much like an 'oh, oops' She giggled and he blushed.

"Hey Mia, do ya think you can do my room, I don't know the spell?" He asked lookingup with a slight pinkish tinge to his cheeks.

"Sure, come on." They walked into his room. "Okay, what colors do you want?"

"Umm…Black, White, and Navy Blue" He said.

"Ok, hang on." She muttered something under her breath and waved her wand. His room was suddenly his favorite colors.

"Thanks Mia" He then grabbed her and kissed her passionately. It turned into a full on snogging session. Then suddenly they heard a loud 'AHEM'. They whirled around. Standing behind them in the doorway was…

TBC

(HAHAHA JUST KIDDING!)

Anyway, standing in the doorway was…

Blaise Zabini!

"Blaise Alexander Zabini! Don't dothat! Sheesh, are you trying to give me a heartattack? Wonderful twin you are!" She rolled her eyes and gave him a threatining look. "How did you get in here anyway?"

"I figured out the password. And I'm sorry I scared ya sis." He walked to her, wrapped he rin a hug and kissed her forehead.

"Yea, ok, ok you are forgiven. Now as there anything you needed?" She asked pushing him away.

"Yes as a matter-of-fact. Two things. First was to tell Drake not to touch you or push you to do anything other than kiss." At this he glared threatiningly at Draco. "Second was to cme tell you that there is a Welcome to Slytherin Party in our Common Room for you. Come on!" He started to half pull her, half carry her out the door.

"Balise! I can walk ok! I'll go, just let me change." She repeatdly hit Balise on the back until he let go. He let her and she walked up to her room to get dressed.

A/N: PLEASE READ: IMPORTANT! Okay, well I decided that I am going to change my penname from Flyleaf Freak to Kiss From A Rose. So I thought I would inform so you could find my story again. Thanks. Review please. Just so you know, I'm not going to repost again until I get more than 5 reviews, at the least, so, yea, I'll post more chapters for the more reviews.

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