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Chapter 2

The Next Day

Hermione was terrified to leave her bedroom. What if he really had seen her and would confront her about it? What if she walked out in the hallway and he was there? Waiting for her? What if he confronted her in class in front of everybody!?

It was too overwhelming to even comprehend. She decided to send an owl to Ginny with the password to retrieve her from her own bedroom. Half and hour later Ginny knocked on Hermione's bedroom door.

"Hermione! Are you in there? It's Ginny, I got your owl-"

Hermione flung open the door and hurled Ginny in over the threshold. Ginny let out a small surprised squeak. Hermione slammed the door shut and used her wand to re-install locking charms all over the door.

"Hermione! What's wrong with you?" Ginny asked in alarm watching Hermione desperately put all the locking charms.

"I have to do this Ginny!" Hermione replied waving her wand like a lunatic.

"What are you scared that Malfoy is going to burst in here naked or something?" Ginny asked grinning.

"YES!" Hermione shrieked turning to look at her.

"How DID you know!" She demanded at Ginny.

Ginny looked a mixture of perplexed and horrified.

"Hermione get a grip. What happened?" Ginny said taking slow steps to from Hermione.

"Oh uhh l-last night I uhh... saw... him... it... doing... him & her and it was..." She continued to mumble things under her breath that Ginny couldn't make out.

"Hermione!" Ginny yelled snapping her fingers between Hermione's eyes.

Hermione fell silent and looked at Ginny with wide eyes.

"Get a grip." Ginny repeated.

"Now sit down and explain to me... calmly."

Hermione nodded vigorously.

"Calmly." Ginny reminded her.

Hermione sat on the end of her bed and Ginny came to sit next to her. She then told Ginny everything that she had witnessed last night.

"All I wanted was some chocolate chip cookies and some sleep." Hermione concluded sadly.

Ginny giggled.

"You really did see that?"

"Yes. And I'll never be able to forget the look of it either." Hermione snapped.

"Well I say your lucky stars were shining last night." Ginny said happily.

"No certainly not, I was mortified & Ginny didn't you get the part where I said that he might've seen me... watching him!"

This wasn't the reaction that she had expected from Ginny.

"Well yes that bit you're a bit unfortunate in, but the rest... I would consider it a blessing to be in your shoes Hermione."

Hermione gaped at her.

"Well I mean he was utterly gorgeous wasn't he?" Ginny asked her bemused.

Suddenly a sharp rap on the door made them both jump. Hermione looked at Ginny with panic stricken eyes.

"I'll get it for you," Ginny said quietly getting up from the bed.

"Yes?" Ginny asked through the door.

"Is Granger in there?" Malfoy's deep voice asked from the other side of the door.

"Yes, but she's sleeping." Ginny asnwered on seeing Hermione's bewildered look.

They were met by silence.

"Malfoy?" Ginny asked.

But he apparently had stalked off because he never replied back.

"I don't want to go to classes with him today." Hermione said under her breath.

"You've never been one to let things disrupt you from your studies before," Ginny said walking back over to Hermione & sat down.

"Why start now?"

"Because Ginny this is a mortifing situation. How can I show myself?"

"You didn't do anything Hermione, and he might've not even have seen you looking on." Ginny bit at her in annoyed voice.

"Come on, this isn't going to have any effect on you... other than maybe a few blushes when you pass him in the hallway. What's Malfoy going to do about it? Nobody would believe him if he knew & told. Now get up, I'll take you to breakfast & walk you to your first class."

Hermione looked unsure, but eventually gave in. She went to her wardrobe across the room & pulled out her laundry fresh school uniform & robes.

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Hermione sat in between Harry and Ginny at breakfast staring down into her porridge depresently. Her spoon was held idly in her hand and she would ever so often dig random spots in her porridge bowl.

Harry and Ron were both watching her hesitantly with perplexed faces.

"Err... alright there Hermione?" Harry asked nudging her brotherly.

"Wha-oh yes." She said too quickly.

The boys exchanged glances.

"Umm ok then... then why don't you help us understand why you're being such an utter waste this morning?" Ron said rudely.

Harry gave him a you idiot! look and Hermione's head snapped up from her porridge bowl to glare at Ron.

"Why don't you just go drown yourself in the Black Lake Ronald." She suggested.

"I can't. I have a Quidditch Match in two weeks." He replied.

"Ignore him Hermione," Harry said turning to look at her.

"What he means is that we can obviously tell that something's got you in a stir... tell us."

Harry was being very understanding and kind, but Hermione was too stirred to deal with explaining to them her traumatic night.

"No that's alright thanks, Ron's made it quite plain that I'm just an utter waste. I'll deal with it on my own!"

With that she stood up from the table and left the Great Hall in a hurry. A pair of silver glinting eyes watching her every move.

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"Ugh!" Hermione growled walking alongside of the Black Lake flustered.

Sometimes her dear friend Ron knew just exactly how to make her so angry that she couldn't see straight. Seven years had passed and his maturity level hadn't changed anymore than the freckles on his face disappearing.

She humphed again and continued walking briskly along the lake with her hands clenched in fists by her sides. Ginny suddenly appeared on her side trotting along next to her.

"Ron's a prat." Ginny grumbled.

"But nevermind him. Let's just sit under the shade of that tree until first period starts." Ginny suggested when she had met Hermione stony face.

The girls settled down next to one another; Hermione quickly ripped a novel from her bag & began trying to read to push any thoughts from her head.

Halfway into a chapter the bell rang and Hermione had been no more satisfied with the book than she had been with it last night. She & Ginny quickly ran up to the castle and ran to their first classes of the day.

Luckily Ron and Harry were not in first period (Arithmacy) with her. She listened to Professor Annora ( I don't know the real Hogwarts teacher's name) trying to fight back her need for a sleep.

She had copied down eight inches of notes when the bell rang for the second class of the day. Care of Magical Creatures, with the Slytherins. Hermione walked as slow as possible to the class. She knew Hagrid would not mind if she were late.

She made sure to take extra unnecessary time in the lavatory trying to relieve her empty bladder, washing her already clean hands, and staring at herself endlessly in the mirror.

She eventually made it to class, twenty minutes late. Harry and Ron looked relieved to see her as she appeared outside Hagrid's hut where the rest of the class was. They walked over to her as soon as they saw her.

"You alright Hermione?" Ron asked her.

She glared at him.

"Look I am really really sorry about what I said to you at breakfast... I didn't know you where in that much a bad mood."

"Don't worry about it Ron," Hermione assured him with a soft smile.

"Really?"

His mouth gaped stupidly at her like a fish out of water.

"It's not a problem."

He smiled at her then looked back at Hagrid. They were continuing a lesson that they had had two years ago in fifth year about Thestrales that had been ruined by Professor Umpridge.

Hermione looked around the surrounding students & was happy to see that Malfoy appeared not to be present or at least he was far away & they weren't able to see one another.

She pulled out her Care of Magical Creatures notebook & a quill and began to write down furiously all that she knew about Thestrales.

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Draco stood, arms crossed over chest leaning against a massive pumpkin. Blaise stood on his left, Pansy on his right, his two classmates sneaking discreet glances at one another every time they thought Draco wasn't paying attention.

He dropped his arms by his sides lazily & pursed his lips. He was still very tired from lack of sleep last evening. His eyelids were heavy & would droop every few minutes. He growled internally. He shouldn't have let last night carry on so long.

He hadn't gotten into bed until dawn, catching barely thirty minutes of rest. He sighed. That Ravenclaw girl really hadn't even been worth it. He would've rather had the fond memory of dreams while he slept, rather than the ones of fucking her senselessly for no good reason.

Save a raging hard on. It hadn't been the first time that he'd been with her either. He sighed once more and let his neck crane so his head rested comfortably on his shoulder.

"Draco," Pansy whispered beside him.

"What's wrong?" She said, her teeth grazing his ear lobe.

He looked at her & smirked.

"Nothing. I'm perfectly fine." He replied icily with a matching icy glance.

Pansy looked away from him rolling her eyes. She should've known better. Draco would never, NEVER admit to any, ANY kind of weakness. It was as likely as hell freezing over.

Draco sneered at Pansy when she looked away from him. He hated how she alway acted as though she cared about him, they were dating yes, but they both cheated on each other all the time & everyone knew it.

Their relationship consisted of random acts of sex whenever they were in the mood & her wanking him off during classes when they were bored. Pansy was such a slut... but he was too.

Draco shifted his gaze towards the half-giant's shack of a house & saw the small figure of the one, the only, Gryffindor Princess, mudblood goddess of purity herself: Hermione Granger. His eyes narrowed.

Well goddess of purity certainly did not fit her introduction anymore. The mudblood Gryffindor Granger was a peeping Tom. A dirty peeping Tom.

Who knows what other dirty things she's into... He thought a smirk spreading across his face.

She probably shags both Weasley & Potter... He continued to think mental images spreading through his head, but he quickly shook them away.

Granger was standing next to Weasley & Potter, big surprise, with an enormous notebook out writing avidly in it. He chuckled under his breath, so as to not draw Pansy & Blaise's attention.

She was writing as though her life depended on it. Her eyes would dart back & forth across the paper as she wrote. Her cruly hair was down, surrounding her shoulders & splaying on the bottom of her notebook. Draco's pants tightened a fraction.

He loved long hair on girls; long, soft, curly hair, but Granger's hair looked anything but soft. He looked away from her absently catching the eye of Granger's fellow Gryffindor Lavendar Brown. She batted her eye lashes at him & smiled softly.

His thoughts of Granger were instantly lost into the bottom depths of his mind.

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Hermione had that feeling that somebody was watching her. But she was too cowardly today to look up & see if the owner of the eyes was the person she feared & dreaded most.

She made sure to pay one-hundred & ten percent attention to Hagrid, even though she already knew everything that there was to know about Thestrales. Instead she focused on making the letters in her writing on her notes perfect.

Ron passively would look onto her notes to write down occasional things he seemed to think were important & Harry seemed in a trance poking a beetle on the ground with a stick. Finally the lesson ended.

When the bell rang she dragged Harry and Ron in a sprint up to the castle for Transfiguration, which luckily was with the Hufflepuffs.

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After third period, lunch and the remaining four classes the students of Hogwarts all went to their dormitories, the grounds, the Quidditch pitch or the library before dinner. Hermione sat in the library with Ginny, Harry, Ron, Seamus, Dean, Neville & Luna.

They were all suppose to be working on homework, but Neville & Luna kept on pressing that the DA should form again this year just for fun, even though Voldemort had been defeated the preceding year. Within a few moments nobody, but Hermione was working on homework.

She was torn away from it however when Ginny told her that a Hogsmeade weekend was coming up on Sunday. Harry had made Quidditch practices Sunday evening so they could go into Hogsmeade.

The two girls began discussing where they wanted to go when they got there. They decided that they absolutely had to visit a new robes shop that had opened over summer in Hogsmeade, & had also agreed to go to Zonko's with Harry & Ron.

Dean peaked down at watch, then slammed his potions book shut.

"Time for dinner then," he said happily standing up from his seat.

"So Harry we'll definitely get the DA up & running agian?" Luna asked him with sparkling eyes.

"I'd really rather that we wait until the Quidditch season ends to start it Luna..." He answered rising from the table also.

After everyone was packed all eight of them left the library together & walked to the Great Hall. Once they entered everybody except Luna sat down at the Gryffindor table.

"Excellent. Roast beef." Ron said approvingly as he sat between Hermione & Harry.

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Draco rolled off of Lavendar Brown sweating & panting. They were sprawled on the top of Draco's covers in his bedroom in the Heads dormitory. Lavendar too was panting & making feeble attempts to regain control over her breathing.

"You're... really good Malfoy," she told him between breaths.

He ignored her, having heard this many times & sat up in the bed leaning his sweating back against the headboard.

"Pansy won't mind this will she?" Lavendar asked him sitting up and resting against him.

Draco shook her off & shook his head.

"It's none of Pansy's business."

He hopped off the bed and began to redress himself. Lavendar pouted at him.

"But she is your girlfriend right?" She asked him.

Draco rolled his eyes.

"Yes."

"Wouldn't she mind if-"

"You should've thought about that before you slept with me," He growled at her.

"And it's none of your business about Pansy & me. I only share with her what I wish too. We have a... special relationship if you must know."

He finished dressing with the sound of pulling up his zipper. Lavendar seemed to take it as her signal to get dressed as well.

"Don't come back Brown... if I want you I'll come to you. Not vice versa."

She looked at him curiously, but regardless continued dressing. Draco waited until she finally finished dressing. He didn't want to leave her alone in his room. Once she'd finally finished & gotten her school things she & Draco left the dormitory & walked down to the Great Hall for dinner.

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"Well I am stuffed, I'm going to go back up to my dorm to finish homework." Hermione said rising from the table.

"You want me to come with you?" Ginny asked with an intent look.

"I think I'll be alright. See you all tomorrow."

With that she left the Great Hall with her schoolbag and a napkin with a slice of strawberry cake on it. She walked along the corridor, up three flights of stairs and came up to the portrait of a small girl at a tea party in a violet dressed who was ironically named, Violet.

Violet was the obnoxious friend of the portrait of the Fat Lady & she was nearly almost always intoxicated by her spiked tea.

"Password?" Violet asked giggling.

"Pheonix tail," Hermione replied.

The portrait swung open to reveal a deserted common room. Hermione walked up to her dormitory, lit the fireplace in her bedroom, pulled out her essays/homework, and began working.

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"Quidditch match in two weeks mate," Blaise said enthusiastically to Draco over dinner.

"Are you ready?"

Draco had not only been made Head Boy, but Slytherin Quidditch Captain too.

"We have a bit more practices before we'll be ready." Draco replied shoveling some mashed potato into his mouth.

"Anything interesting happen today?" Blaise asked boredly.

Draco considered telling Blaise about last nights events & his late afternoon with Lavendar Brown, but decided against it.

"Not really. You?"

"I banged Ginny Weasley."

"What?"

"In a dream. But I wish it hadn't been, I wish I could really do it ya know?"

"She fancies Potter. Has since she first came here." Draco replied.

Blaise did not seem very moved by this statement.

"Thanks for pissing on my parade Malfoy."

Draco nodded and gave him a cheeky grin. After dinner the two boys went to the Slytherin dungeon where Draco sat on a leather couch next to Pansy. After a couple of minutes there Pansy put her legs across Draco's & began kissing his neck.

Draco closed his eyes and let his head fall back on the sofa, he was exhausted. Pansy kissed down his throat & bit him lightly. Then kissed up to his ear and swirled her tongue in his ear. Draco groaned.

"What do you feel like Draco?" She asked him, clearly begging for sex.

"Not tonight Pans. I have homework & I'm tired. I'll see you tomorrow."

He stood up from the couch, kissed her goodbye & left the dungeon. He walked up the three flights of stairs and went to the usual portrait of the stupid girl named Violet who wore a horrible violet dress & was always tipsy if not drunk.

"Pheonix tail," he said.

"Correct!" She said with an obnoxious uncalled for girly laugh.

Draco entered through the portrait to see an empty common room. There were however several books and papers littered all around the floor in front of the fire. Granger must've been here at one point doing homework.

Draco flung his school bag on the coffee table & pulled out his charms essay that was due in two days & a potions worksheet that he had to fill out with answers.

Ten minutes into working on his homework he heard shuffling footsteps behind him... then a barely audible gasp, and a person scurrying away quickly up stair & back into their bedroom. Granger. Obviously. He grinned broadly.

She was scared to look at him after last night. He wasn't ashamed that she'd seen, he didn't much less care either. He would be lying however if he said that it hadn't surprised him.

Was she afraid that he would yell at her, or hex her for watching? Or maybe she was just humliated? Maybe she was scared that he would tell all of her friends that she'd been watching? like they would ever believe him.

He wasn't sure what she was scared of exactly, but he definitely knew that she was scared of something & did not want to see him face to face. With a smirk he realized that he could use this to his advantage.

Get in her way purposefully just to make her day worse or make her more mad than usual. She was obviously uncomfortable about what she'd witnessed. Though she had been watching for a while, she had been aware of what she was doing & she couldn't deny it.

Chapter 2... these chapters are a bit shorter, sorry if you don't like that, but I do hope to make longer chapters as the story progresses...

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