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I was so happy to finish writing this, I love putting my characters through pain. It gives them so much raw emotion and I think everyone connects to that better. Tell me what you think, I hope you enjoy the second installment! I tried to make it longer than Chapter 1 and I'll just let you get to the story now. ~May Reach

Chapter 2

Hermione

I couldn't believe his nerve. How could Ron do such a thing to me? He doesn't know anything, just because he used to be that way, well for seven years of our life, that doesn't mean he's bad now. I eventually got over the shock of being broken up with Ron; after all it was me who did.

I dried my eyes and tried to make them look normal before walking down stairs to the common room. Draco was sprawled out on the couch with an Apple and a book. He nodded curtly in my direction to acknowledge that I was there. I got a glass of chocolate milk from the fridge and downed it in one swallow. Chocolate always worked wonders for this kind of situation.

"Draco." I said not really planning on what I was going to say. He paused mid bite looking up at me; Draco looked as if he was making out with it. "You would want to be my friend right?"

Draco chewed the bite slowly as if considering the matter. "Yeah." He replied licking his lips from the Apple Juice.

"Good. I have a plan; Ron doesn't think I could ever get along with you. I was thinking that I would bet him that I can live with you for a week and then see his reaction." I said in a rush not really thinking, my mind was still frazzled from the breakup and hours of crying.

"What exactly does this entail?" He said setting the apple on the glass coffee table and wiping his sticky fingers on his pants.

"It means that we'd actually act like friends. You know, like you and Blaise or Harry and I." I stopped. "That's a bad example, like Ginny and I. That's better."

"So tell each other our deepest, darkest, secrets and who we have crushes on?" He asked.

"You talk to Blaise about who you like?" My eyes widened incredulously.

"No. Well sometimes but that's beside the point." He turned an embarrassed red. "I figured that's what you and Ginny do."

"Oh right, Sometimes I believe I'm losing it." I replied smiling. "Well, maybe not crushes; that could be awkward. Just stuff that went on in our day, or how our classes were, how we're feeling. Not necessarily the secrets either."

"I believe you do have yourself a deal Granger." Draco smiled and held out his sticky hand for me to take. I shook it even though my hand was now covered in his spit and apple juice. Then I went upstairs and into the bathroom to wash my hand off.

Draco

I heard water running upstairs and knew that my sticky hand had made her wash her hands. After I nearly tore the book page out though I decided that I should probably wash my fingers, that apple was a clingy one.

I washed my hands in the sink, the book at spine breaking point rested on the table behind me. I leaned up against the sink after I was done. I looked at the book, it was a romance and it was intriguing, the main characters had been enemies for years, but one break up later and they're falling in love. Something then clicked in my mind; that sounded like the exact relationship I had with Hermione.

I looked at the book again and went back to the break up scene, I had laughed at the time but now it reminded me of earlier today. Then I flipped through a couple pages of her tearful crying and found where she asked if they could be friends. That was what Hermione had just done to me. I flipped back to where I was reading and a bet had been placed that she had to live with him, and then there was their first kiss.

I threw the book at the wall and then ran for the portrait hole just as Hermione was coming back down stairs.

"Draco, where are you going?" She asked concerned, just as the book girl had done.

"I'm going to talk to Blaise, surely you don't need to know where I am every second do you?" I sneered and realized that was the response the book man had given the girl.

"Okay, see you later." Hermione said sitting down in an armchair and curling up in it.

I ran for it, it couldn't possibly happen to me right? There was no way that I could ever fall in love with Granger. It was just coincidence that everything was lined up with the book. There was one difference though, the guy had been in love with the girl and that was why he hated her all those years, because her beauty drove him nuts. That was different; there was no way that I was love in Hermione. I calmed down and I had already reached the dungeons before I made that connection.

There had been no reason to worry; Blaise would just think I'm crazy. Besides Hermione would never think that I was in love with her. Unless she were to really love me and my actions were suspicious; I didn't see how they could be though, she would never put it together. I don't think Hermione had ever read that book as it was.

Then it hit me, I had left the book in the common room after I threw it at the wall. Hermione would see the abused book and pick it up, and then she would probably read it. I turned around and ran all the way back to the common room. I ripped the door open and bolted inside looking for the book, Hermione looked up surprised. The book was clutched in her hands.

"Draco, is this-" She started to ask, I didn't even know what she was going to ask but I interrupted her yelling:

"No!" Then I grabbed the book from her hands and ran for the stairs disappearing into my room.

A few minutes later I heard soft footsteps come up the stairs; there was a quiet knock on my door.

"Draco are you okay?" Hermione whispered through the door, I could hear sadness and worry in her soft, rose petal, voice.

I didn't respond, just pretended to be asleep and I heard a soft sob before her door was shut quietly. Then a muffled hoarse scream. I had been the second one to hurt her in one day. I was a horrible friend.


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