I am so so so sorry my dear readers at how long it has taken me to update this story. I am currently writing chapter 6, and I hope to have it up soon. Thank you for being patient with me, and I hope you enjoy this long awaited chapter.

The weekend came fast for Hermione. During the week she spent most of her time in the Head common room, where she received many visits from Pansy, Harry, and Ginny.

Ginny, who had come over that Monday after class, had become fast friends with Pansy. All three were excited to go shopping this weekend in Hogsmeade.

Harry had gotten up the courage and asked Pansy to the Ball and Ginny was going with Neville.

On Saturday Hermione woke up at 8am, showered, and got ready, before leaving the Heads dorm close to 9am with Draco for breakfast.

"So any idea on what color dress you want to get?" He asked as they walked down the corridor.

"Nope, why? Would you to suggest a color?" Hermione asked sneaking a glance at Draco.

"Of course, Slytherin green." He smirked.

Hermione burst out laughing. "Draco, whether or not I am going to the Ball with you, I am still a Gryffindor. I cannot just wear my rival houses color."

"Oh come on Hermione. Please?"

"No."

"Please?"

"No."

"Please?"

"No." She laughed, and that is how they entered the Great Hall, arguing.

After a week of being seen together everywhere the whole school was already thinking of them as a couple. So no-one paid them any attention when they would walk in together and sit at either the Slytherin or Gryffindor table. This morning it was the Gryffindor table.

The couple kept arguing until they sat down. Once they sat down they realized that Pansy and Harry were having the same argument.

"I am not going to wear a red dress Harry."

"And I am not going to wear a green dress Draco." Hermione said looking across the table at Pansy and winking.

Both boys groaned, they knew they were defeated. Draco and Harry were definitely stubborn boys, but they knew that together Hermione and Pansy had them beat.

"Fine." Draco said. "Would you two like escorts to Hogsmeade?"

"No thanks." Pansy said shaking her head. "We can't gossip with you two trailing along behind us. No, why don't you two go hang with Neville and Blaise today until we meet you at the Three Broomsticks."

"Yes ma'am." Draco commented earning a slap on the arm from Hermione. "What?"

"Be nice." She said laughing.

"Girls are you ready?" Ginny said running up the side of the table.

"Yep!" Hermione said as she grabbed a piece of toast and jumped out of her seat.

"Me too!" Pansy said getting up too.

Together the three girls made their way out of the Hall.

"You wanted Pansy to wear red?" Draco asked as soon as the Great doors shut, causing Harry to laugh.

"Yep. I think Gryffindor red would look beautiful on her. You asked Hermione to wear green?"

"Yep! You know it's a shame we weren't friends until now. We think a lot alike." Draco and Harry started laughing.

"The nerve of those two, asking us to wear their house colors!" Pansy commented as they walked down the path to Hogsmeade. Ginny started laughing.

"Oh you can't be serious." She continued to laugh. "Well are you going to?" She asked looking back and forth between the two in question.

"I was actually planning on wearing a green dress, to match his eyes." Pansy commented looking down as a blush covered her cheeks.

"Really? I was going to find a silver one for the same reason!" Hermione said before starting to laugh. Pansy soon joined in, along with Ginny.

"So Hermione, what's the deal with you and Draco?" Ginny asked making Pansy raise her eyebrow, and look at Hermione.

Hermione looked off into the wood as she thought about what to say.

"Yes Hermione, you two do seem cozy." Pansy said elbowing her and giggling.

"Well I like him. Plain and simple. I'm just unsure how to approach it. What about you Pansy?" She said elbowing her back.

"I like Harry a lot, but I don't know how he feels about me." Ginny and Hermione shared a knowing smile before Hermione spoke.

"Oh I'm pretty sure Harry feels the same." Pansy stopped walking.

"What? How do you know?" Ginny and Hermione stopped and turned and faced Pansy.

"One time he fell asleep in the common room and in his sleep he was calling your name. We had both gotten in late that night and heard him. So we woke him up and asked him about it. Apparently he has been pretty smitten with you for a while." Hermione explained while Ginny smiled and nodded.

"Oh wow. Now I'm not worried to be around him! Thank you for telling me."

"No problem Pansy." The girls continued walking to Hogsmeade gossiping about everything.

They arrived to the dress shop at a quarter past ten. And immediately Hermione's jaw dropped. There standing in the 3-way mirror in a short slutty baby blue dress was Lavender.

"Oh hello Hermione." She smirked. "Don't you think Ron will just love me in this dress?"

"Really you need to slut yourself up to get my brother to notice you? That's sad Lavender!" Ginny sneered.

"Whatever Gin, oh and Hermione I heard about you little pity date. What did you do, beg Malfoy to take you? I'm surprised he'd ever give you two seconds. You're just a filthy Mudblood."

Ginny started to draw her wand when Hermione's hand shot out across her body. Ginny looked at the other girl to see her glaring at Lavender.

"She's not worth it Ginny." Ginny took her hand away from her wand, and shot a glare at Lavender.

"Say whatever you want Lavender. I know the truth. Draco likes me, and you're a slut. So wear your slutty dress and think you have Ron's attention but know this; one day he will get tired of you. And then he'll leave your slutty ass, or he'll cheat on you. Didn't you know? Once a cheater always a cheater. So have a nice life always wondering if he's cheating on you yet." Hermione said before turning and walking away from Lavender towards the racks of dresses.

Lavender stood there shocked as Hermione walked away, Ginny and Pansy laughing brought her out of her thoughts.

"You know Brown, she's right. Have fun!" Pansy said grabbing Ginny's arm and pulling her in the direction Hermione went.

As they walked away they heard her huff, "He will not cheat on me!"

"Hermione!" Ginny called out looking for her. She found her in the back of the store holding a silver dress.

"Oh that's really pretty Hermione." Pansy said coming up behind Ginny. "Go try it on. The bitch just bought her slutty dress and stormed out of the store, I have to admit what you said was pretty wicked, I didn't know you had it in you, Hermione."

"I didn't either." Hermione said as she smiled, but the smile faded fast.

"Mione are you ok?" Ginny asked.

"Yes I am, I'm finally over what your brother did. I just really hate her." Ginny and Pansy laughed.

"Well you put her in her place, I doubt she'll bother you anytime soon."

Hermione laughed. "Well I think I'm going to go try this dress on now." She said walking away.

"While Hermione went to the dressing room Pansy and Ginny started looking for dresses.

"So Ginny, what color are you looking for?"

"Like a light purple."

"Is that your favorite color?"

"No Neville says he loves when I wear it, says my eye shine a brighter blue."

"Awe! That's so sweet!" Pansy said as she took a dress off the rack. "Ooo what do you think of this dress?"

"Oh wow. You'll knock Harry's socks off with that dress."

"Hey girls? I need your opinions!" Hermione called.

Pansy and Ginny walked back to the front of the store. Once they saw Hermione their jaws dropped.

Hermione stood in front of the 3-way mirror in a spaghetti strapped floor length shimmery silver dress. The dress hugged her curves in all the right places and flowed in all the right places.

"Wow Hermione." Ginny said.

"You look beautiful."

Hermione turned to face her friends. "Do you really think so?"

"Yes!" They shouted in unison, making Hermione blush.

"Draco is going to love it." Pansy said.

"What are you holding?" Hermione asked motioning the dress in Pansy's hands.

"Oh, it's the dress I picked out."

"Well go try it on." Ginny said pushing Pansy in one of the open changing rooms.

"Ginny, haven't you found a dress yet?" Hermione asked.

"Nope, but if you hurry and get out of that dress, I'll let you help me look." Ginny said laughing.

"Alright, I'll be right out."

Hermione changed out of the dress and into her normal clothes and walked out of the changing room at the same time as Pansy. Pansy looked gorgeous in a strapless green dress that came down to her knees.

"Yep that will knock Harry's socks off."

"Wow Pansy, it's amazing, you look beautiful." Hermione said.

"You think so?" she asked doing a little spin in front of the mirrors.

"Yes! You should get it."

"Alright, let me change and I'll help you two look for Ginny's dress." She said walking back into the changing room.

After Pansy changed out of her dress they split up in search of the perfect dress for Ginny. After thirty minutes, however, Hermione and Ginny both gave up.

"I've found one!" Pansy yelled, she was holding up a medium length one shoulder light purple dress.

"Oh I love it!" Ginny said taking it from Pansy and rushing into the changing room. Ginny came out moments later with a big smile on her face. "I really love it. Oh, what do you think?"

"It looks great Ginny!"

"Yep, very beautiful." Pansy said.

"Alright let's go find shoes and pay for these dresses." Pansy said after Ginny changed out of her dress. The trio then headed towards the shoe section in the store. The girls found shoes and quickly paid for their items before shrinking them and slipping them into their pockets. They then made their way to The Three Broomsticks where they were supposed to meet the boys at noon.

They walked in to find Harry, Neville, Draco, Blaise, and Luna sitting in a big booth waiting for them. The girls sat down and were about to join in on the conversation until they realized it was about Quidditch. Hermione and Pansy shared a look of disgust while Ginny jumped right in.

"Hi Luna, how are you?" Hermione asked when she realized the girl was not in the Quidditch conversation.

"Hello Hermione, lovely day isn't it?" she said in her dreamy voice.

"Yes very lovely. What have you been up to, I don't see you around school very often."

"Oh I've been wonderful. Blaise here asked me to the ball last night." Hermione's face fell.

"Oh Luna, I wish we knew! We just got done dress shopping." Luna just smiled and held up her hand.

"It's ok Mione, I already have a dress, but thank you."

"Oh. So you and Blaise huh?"

"Oh yes, he is such a sweetie, but don't tell him that, he has an image to uphold you know." She said with a roll of her eyes.

Hermione, Pansy, and Luna started laughing and went completely unnoticed by everyone except Neville.

"So did you girls find your dresses?" He asked.

"Yes we did and we are so excited about them." Pansy answered catching Harry's attention which stopped the Quidditch conversation.

"Where are the dresses?" Harry asked.

"In our pockets." Hermione answered.

"So did you buy a red dress Pansy?" Harry asked with his eyebrows raised.

"No she did not, and before you ask Draco, no I did not buy a green one." Hermione said. Both boys groaned and Blaise laughed at how defeated they were acting.

"So what color dresses did you get?" Neville asked.

"Well I got…" Ginny started but stopped when Hermione kicked her under the table.

"I think the dresses are best left for a surprise. You will have to find out when we come down the stairs." She said with Pansy nodding beside her.

"Oh Draco, do you think you could get ready with Harry or Blaise? I would like the girls to come to our common room to get ready."

"Uh…sure."

"Yeah mate, come get ready in the Slytherin common room with me." Blaise said.

"Oh Luna, you are welcome to join us if you want."

"I would love to."

"Alright, we'll set up the plans this friday. Does anyone want anything? I'm going to get a Butterbeer." Hermione said standing up. Since everyone wanted a Butterbeer Draco got up to help Hermione.

"Are you sure you're ok with the girls coming over next saturday?"

"Yeah, I just wish I didn't have to wait so long to find out what color dress you're wearing."

"Sorry." She laughed. "You'll just have to wait." Together they walked back to their friends.

"Ron…Ron…RONALD!" Lavender yelled finally getting her boyfriends attention.

"Oh, hey Lav. What's wrong?" He asked when he saw her face. She had just gotten back from dress shopping and he actually didn't expect her back until much later.

"You love me, don't you Won Won?"

"Yes, of course." He said pulling her down onto his lap. They were alone in the Gryffindor common room because it was a Hogsmeade day, third years and up were out at Hogsmeade, while the first and second years were outside, riding around on brooms or getting into trouble. "Why do you ask?"

"Well I mean, didn't you love the bookworm?" Ron's eyes got slightly bigger when he realized why she was upset.

"Lav, you have nothing to worry about ok? You're the only one for me." He said running his hand through her hair. "Now, come on, go dry your pretty eyes and we'll relax together before dinner."

"Alright, can't have your girl looking bad." She said standing up and wiping her eyes before running upstairs to fix her make-up.

"You can come out now." He said once he heard the door to the girls dormitory shut.

"Oh Ron, I thought she'd never leave."

"Is every one ready to leave?" Hermione asked checking her watch; they had wasted almost the entire day just sitting around talking.

"Yep!" Harry said standing to leave. He held out his hand to help Pansy up.

Everyone else got up and led themselves out of The Three Broomsticks. They walked in pairs back to Hogwarts, Blaise and Luna were leading, followed by Ginny and Neville, Harry and Pansy, and Draco and Hermione brought up the rear.

"Hey Hermione?"

"Hmm?" she questioned as she looked out at the scenery.

"How are you holding up?"

"Oh Draco, I'm fine. I'm pretty sure I knew deep down that he and I weren't going to work." She said grabbing his hand.

"Ok, I'm glad you are good. Hey, want to see something funny?" He asked letting go of her hand, bending down and scooping up a handful of snow.

"Oh no! Draco don't!" She said, but it was too late, the snow was already heading towards the back of Harry's head.

*Splat* Harry turned around.

"Oh it's on Malfoy." He yelled causing the two couples in front of him to turn around to see what the commotion was. Then it was war.

The eight students walked into the Great Hall, thirty minutes late, and dripping wet. Snickers were heard throughout the entire hall but it didn't effect the students as they walked over to the Slytherin table and took their seats.

Professor Dumbledore walked down from the Head table to where the students sat down.

"Miss Granger, a word please." Hermione stood and followed the Headmaster out of the Great Hall. Once the doors closed Dumbledore started speaking.

"How are you holding up Miss Granger?"

"Oh, I'm holding up fine Professor. Draco and Pansy, along with Harry and Ginny have been very strong supports this past week."

"Ah yes, I heard that Mister Malfoy has asked you to the Yule Ball."

"Yes sir, he did, and Harry asked Pansy. We're all getting along very well."

"Yes I've noticed. Well I am glad you are doing well Miss Granger. I'll let you get back to your supper now."

"Thank you Headmaster." She said as she turned around and walked back through the Great Hall doors.

Ron saw the Headmaster lead Hermione out of the Great Hall and got up to follow. He made it to the Great Hall doors when Hermione came back in.

"Hermione." He said causing her to pause.

"Oh, hello Ronald. Do you want something?" She asked taking a defensive position with her are crossed across her chest.

"I thought we could talk you know, I miss you." He said reaching out and running his hand up and down her upper arm. This action caught the attention of Lavender and Draco. Lavender shot death glares at Ron's back while Draco got up and made his way towards the two. Once he reached Hermione he puthis hand on her lower back and then turned to Ron.

"What's going on here?"

"We were just talking is all. You can leave now Ferret."

"No, I don't think I will. Hermione doesn't want to talk to you. She made that clear when you came to the Head's dorm."

"Things change. I know she misses me."

"No she doesn't."

"Yes she does."

"No Ronald I don't. I don't miss you at all actually. And I'm happy without you, happier than I ever was. So please just leave me alone. I don't ever want to talk to you again." Hermione said before walking back to the Slytherin table to finish eating.

"If I were you, I'd listen to her."

"Why should I Ferret?"

"Because if you don't, I'll make sure your life is a living hell." Draco said before following Hermione's path to the table. Ron stormed out of the Great Hall.

"I can't believe he just tried to get her back."Lavender said to Parvati.

"You should dump him at the Ball that would teach him."

"Yeah." Lavender said thinking. "I just might."

"Hey are you ok?" Harry asked as Hermione sat down.

"Yep, totally fine."

"What did the Headmaster want?" Pansy asked.

"Yes what did the Headmaster want?" Draco repeated as he took his seat next to Hermione.

"He just wanted to see how I was doing."

"Ok, but what did the wanker want?" Harry asked.

"Me."

"You cannot be serious." Ginny yelled causing half the Hall to turn and stare at the group. "Oops."

"Yes but I'm over him remember?" Hermione commented. Draco glanced at her before looking across the table at Pansy. Pansy nodded once before returning to her meal. Draco also returned to his food with a big smile on his face.