Surprise, Surprise!

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Sorting went by unusually fast, as did feast. Of course, Hermione was too anxious to eat much. After all, she had to share a common room with the Head Boy, and she didn't even know who that was! She waited until Harry and Ron began a heated conversation about Quidditch before she escaped the Great Hall and found her Common Room (with McGonagal's instructions, of course).

She walked into the Common Room and the hearth was already aflame. Draco sat in a large black plush chair, reading. Hermione walked carefully over to him.

"What're you doing?" she asked.

"I'm washing my hair, Granger," he said, sardonically, "What does it look like I'm doing?"

Hermione smirked. "Well, I know what you're doing, but why are you doing it here?"

Draco stood up and flashed his Head Boy badge at her. She nearly fainted.

"You got Head Boy?" she exclaimed, "I thought for sure…"

"Harry would get it? As if I'd let share a Common Room with my woman. No… I made sure I did better than him on the N.E.W.T. exams so I could sneak into your room at night and have my wicked way with you."

His eyes twinkled strangely and Hermione wondered if he was serious. Then something hit her. What did he just say?

She began stuttering inarticulately, completely at a loss for words. She smiled brilliantly, took a deep breath to steady herself, and walked over to him.

"What?" he asked, narrowing her eyes at her.

"You called him Harry, and- and…" Hermione hugged him tightly.

"Yeah, and what?"

"Your woman?" she said, looking up at him, "I take it you've grown quite fond of me?"

If only you knew… he thought, If only you knew…

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The first week of classes was, as per usual, pretty much review and book assignments. Except in everybody's favorite class (yeah right!)- Potions. Snape immediately bombarded them with notes and lab work, breathing down their necks, and criticizing every move that poor Neville made. However, since their fifth year, Neville no longer buckles under pressure. After facing Death Eaters and Voldemort, Snape wasn't even a bump in the road- to any of them. His marks were now almost as good as Ron's. Which meant that he was still a far cry from Hermione's.

She tutored- they said tutored, but she called it a study group- Neville, Ron, Harry, Ginny- who is in advanced Potions- Luna, Dean, Seamus, and, surprisingly enough, they had acquired Blaise Zabini. He was a good guy, basically, and Hermione wondered, at first, why he was in Slytherin at all. That is, until he proved to be- well… a bit of a pervert. However, it was usually good natured fun.

Hermione snapped out of her dream just in time to notice that she was about to add her notes to the potion. She grinned sheepishly, hoping that nobody had seen her near slip-up. Class ended and they dropped off their things and went to dinner.

"Okay, you guys," Hermione said, "Are we studying tonight?"

"It's Friday, right?" Ron said.

"Sarcasm, Ronald, is not always the answer," she retorted, "Somebody needs to tell Blaise."

"I'll do it!" Ginny volunteered immediately, "I'll write him a note."

She pulled out a piece of paper and a muggle pen from her purse and scribbled something down. She folded it neatly and walked by the Slytherin table toward Draco, discreetly slipping the note down the back of Blaise's robes as she passed him. She bent down to whisper to Draco.

"Hermione wants to talk to you."

He stood and walked to the Gryffindor table behind Ginny. He sat down next to Hermione and turned to her.

"What did you want to talk about?" he asked.

"I don't know- Ginny?" she asked, turning to her friend.

"She didn't need to talk to you, I needed to get a note to Blaise without attracting too much attention," Ginny said, grinning.

"Oh…" he said, "Well, as long as I'm here…"

"What?" Hermione said, narrowing her eyes.

"Well… what are you doing tomorrow?" he asked.

"Actually, nothing," she replied, "Why?"

"No reason… just curious," he said.

Hermione looked over at Ginny, raising her eyebrows. Ginny shrugged and Hermione looked back at Draco.

"Tell me why," she demanded.

"It's a surprise. But if you want to find out you have to do something," Draco said.

"What?" she asked anxiously.

"Meet me in the Astronomy Tower tonight after dinner," he whispered in her ear.

Hermione nodded, confused and intrigued all at once.

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Okay… next chapter gets kind of explicit. (Chorus of "FINALLY" is heard from the readers) Lol. Yes, the moment you've all been waiting for! Hermione and Draco's first time 'together'!!! Bwahahahahaha! Review or I shan't go into any detail a'tall!