They sat like that for about 10 minutes; Draco gently rocked her backwards and forwards telling her it'd be okay what should I say? I mean surely we haven't become this close in less than 24 hours, where's pot-harry and Ron when you need them? I can't leave though she clearly needs someone, I hope she stops crying soon though; she's too pretty to cry. Wait. No she isn't what am I thinking, I want her to stop crying because we've become friends. God this is so confusing, see this is why I was never Harry's friend before, way too much drama. Draco thought as they sat. Oh my god the first person that finds out is Draco Malfoy! I'm going to kill that wall. I can't wrap my head round it yet. I need to stop crying this isn't fair on Draco. God I just want my mum back! Except she wasn't my mum, not biologically which means I have to find my real parents. Oh god. Hermione thought as she tried to compose herself. Eventually she slowly released herself from Draco's arms. "I'm sorry. You didn't have to stay you know." Hermione said her voice still rough.

"Why would I leave? You were clearly upset hence the crying. I'm not heartless Hermione. Do you want to explain or just leave it? And this may sound kind of stupid but does harry, Ron and them know?"

"No! They don't know and please don't tell them yet. And do you seriously want to know?"

"I promise I won't tell them a thing. Sometimes it helps to tell someone."

"Thank you and okay. They day before we were due to return to Hogwarts I got called to the hospital. My mum had been there for two weeks. When I got there they said she had a couple of hours left at most and that she wanted to see me. I went in her room and she was so pale and fragile looking I was so scared. I went and sat next to the bed and she opened her eyes and said she had something important to tell me and begged me not to hate her. I told her I would never hate her and then she told me. I am adopted. I have a pureblood family who don't now if I am still alive and she didn't know if they were. She told me that my real parents couldn't be told where I was going as apparently Voldermort would have killed me if he ever found out. She gave me a ring and said that if they were alive when they saw it they would know who I was. She only got the first letter of the name out before she died though which was s." by this point Hermione was crying again, she handed Draco the ring so he could see.

He took the ring and then looked at Hermione "Do you want me to help you find your real family? I mean I understand if you don want to find them or if you don't want me to help."

"Would you Draco? Oh thank you! It's just I can't tell harry and Ron I can't deal with the sympathy. I know we have like only just become friends are you sure you want too?"

"I'll help Hermione. I promise. We'll start in the morning after the portrait's been done. But now you need sleep." With that they walked to there rooms which were next to each other. Hermione's had a lion on the door whilst Draco's had a snake.

"Night Draco." Hermione whispered.

"Goodnight Hermione."

They both put there pajamas on and climbed into bed. Someone said goodnight to me! Okay maybe I'm overly happy here, but no one has ever said goodnight to me. Ever. I hope we find her parents. I can't believe she hasn't told those two though. Oh well I promised her I'd keep it a secret and that's what I'll do. Draco thought as he rolled over and fell asleep. I can't believe he actually wants to help me. God this is so strange. Maybe I should tell harry and Ron. No. I'm fine I'll tell them when I find my parents. At least I don't have to do this on my own now. I guess he really isn't as bad as we presumed. Hermione thought as she drifted off into a peaceful slumber.

The next morning Hermione woke up by someone shaking her gently and saying her name. She put her arm over her eyes and mumbled "what?"

She heard someone laugh. "Come on you've got to get up we're meeting McGonagall in half an hour."

Hermione shot up and saw Draco stood next to her fully dressed holding a plate of pancakes. "I figured it'd be quicker for you to eat here." He explained trying to resist smiling.

"Thank you." Hermione shouted as she ran into the bathroom to get ready. She had a shower and then used a spell to dry her hair to save time. Over the summer she'd found a lot of useful spells like that. She used another one to gently curl it and applied a little eye shadow and lip gloss and ran back out to where Draco was still sat on her bed. She walked over to him and they shared the pancakes both thinking about how weird it was. When they had finished they walked up to the heads office together. When they arrived they had to sit still for an hour and a half not even able to talk. When they had done they had to wait for a charm to be performed so the picture could move and talk. They walked down to there dorm with professor McGonagall and the artist, they hadn't been allowed to see the portrait yet and were very excited.

When they reached there dorm professor McGonagall blindfolded them and placed the portrait on the wall where it would stay for a long, long time. "Wow. "was all they could say when she removed the blindfold the picture showed them both stood in their school uniform smiling down at them in the background was the school grounds. Both of them looked absolutely stunning and Hermione couldn't believe she could actually look that pretty. They thanked the artist and the professor and tried to decide a password. "How about Mr. Truffles?" Hermione asked innocently.

"You know, sometimes I really hate you." Said Draco sticking his tongue out playfully. "what about Principio fresco? It's Spanish for Fresh start."

"I like it, sure it won't ruin your slytherin rep?"

"They worship the ground I walk on, it's rather annoying really."

"Principio fresco it is then."

"Right. Come on then lets het change and head down to the library."

When they reached the library the decided to make a list of all the pureblood families still around that began with the letter s. 5 long hours later they had there list the names were; Sweylen, Snape, Stratshire, Stevenson, Sandlits and Sornit. For the amount of time it had taken them it was a surprisingly short list, but this was better it meant that it would take less time to find Hermione's actual parents. Hermione wrote to saint mungos saying it was for a school project and asked if any of these families had had children in the past 8 years. She also added a few extra names o that it wouldn't appear suspicious. After they had finished they realized that they'd missed dinner so Hermione decided she'd take Draco to the kitchens for some food before they went to meet Ron and harry.

Surprisingly Draco had never been into the kitchens before and didn't even know where they were, this made Hermione immensely happy to know that she knew more secrets than the slytherin. When they arrived here dobby came hurrying over and dragged them to a table. Within 30 seconds the house elves had brought them more food than they could possibly eat. Dobby was a little nervous of Draco at first being his former servant. However Draco had never beat him and they soon began talking like old friends. When they had eaten there fill they went to meet harry and Ron by the lake.

When they got there Draco and Ron instantly started talking about quidditch so harry told them that he and Hermione were going to walk around the lake and would be back in a bit.

"Hermione what's wrong?"

"What do you mean? Nothings wrong harry."

"Hermione please don't lie to me. You're my best friend. I can tell when something's wrong. You're clearly upset by something but something else is making you happy and you feel guilty for feeling even the slightest bit of happiness"

"I can only tell you part of it. I'm sorry but I don't want anyone to know the rest yet. Okay the reason I'm happy is because me and Draco are getting along really well I mean I know it's only been a day but he hasn't said anything nasty to m at all and he's even offered to help me with something. I can't tell you what right now I have to adjust first. I didn't even want Draco to know but to enter our common room we had to answer a stupid question."

"I'm glad you and Draco are getting on well, I honestly think we misjudged him. And okay, if you don't want me to know just now I can live with that just promise me you'll be okay."

"I'll be okay harry. I promise."

The two walked back to where Ron and Draco were waiting for them. "Come on you two it's getting cold and I for one don't want my nipples to drop off"

"Whoa too much information Ron. Way too much" Hermione laughed. They walked back into the castle with Ron linked to Harry's arm, Hermione linked his other arm and Draco linked onto Hermione's other arm. In a sense they all felt complete. They separated to go back to there dorms.

"Principio fresco" Draco said when they reached the portrait smiling at Hermione. her and Draco went upstairs and changed into there pajamas they spent the night talking and laughing about the arguments they'd had in the past it was only at half 11 that they realized the time and decided to go to bed as they had classes the next morning.

"Night Draco."

"Night Mia."

"Wait, what did you call me?"

"Oh I called you Mia like a really shortened down version of Hermione. I won't though if you don't like it." Draco mumbled."

"No I like it." Hermione smiled. "Night dragon". She whispered as she went into her room leaving a smiling Draco in the hall.

Thank you for my two reviewers (: I'm enjoying writing this story but I'm not sure if it's any good. I know Draco's out of character but I like him this way. Don't worry he wont always be Mr. perfect. Well I don't think so anyway not decided yet. Anyway thanks for reading.

Love suppress your childish fears x