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Draco and Hermione found themselves being carried under each of Joes arms, all the way up to Principal Annie's office, for the 2nd time that day. They were both a little worried, the big man didn't look too happy, and they couldn't really blame him; his shirt was completely soaked.

He set them down at the door, and walked in without knocking. "Hello, how can I----what happened??" She stood up and walked around her desk to get a closer look. "You two do realize you were supposed to wash the room, not each other right?" Their clothes were so wet they were dripping all over her office. She really wanted to do a drying charm, before they ruined her nice carpet, but it was out of the question.

"Well? What happened this time?" She should have known better than to ask such a loaded question. They both started shouting at one. She waited for them to get it out of their systems before directing the question to Joe.

"Well ma'am I was sitting right outside the door when I heard a whole bunch of shoutin' going on, so I opened the door to investigate when suddenly I was bombarded by water from the hoses from the sink."

"I see," she said, glaring down at the two biggest pains in her ass. "Joe, why don't you go home, I've got it from here." He nodded, glared at Draco and Hermione one more time, and then left the office. She turned her attention back to the students and noticed they were both glaring at each other again.

"Is it really that hard to make it a few hours without trying to destroy each other?" Before they could answer she said, "That was a rhetorical question. Obviously manual labor isn't enough to teach you a lesson. I'm just gonna have to try something even better tomorrow." She couldn't believe she hadn't thought of this before. Sure it was a little unethical, but desperate times called for desperate measures.

"I want both of you to be here in my office tomorrow at 7:30. Now go home and change before you catch something." At least this time they had the decency to save there incessant arguing 'till they had left. She just heard the beginnings of "You're such a stupid prat," before they were out of ear shot.

She let out a sigh, before packing up her stuff and heading home. She had a lot of prep work she needed to do before morning.

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When Hermione got home she headed into the kitchen where she knew someone would be. Marie was just putting something in the oven, and then turned around. "Hey Hermione, how was school?" She really did like her foster mom, she was very sweet.

"It started out pretty good….but I've kinda got detention for the next week: before and after school." She didn't look Marie in the eye as she said this, yet she could still sense the disappointment washing from her.

"What did you and that Malfoy boy do this time?" For some reason, she always made it sound like her and Malfoy were in cahoots or something.

"I maybe, kinda, sorta punched him in the face." She reached for an apple, but Marie swatted her hand away.

"Why on earth did you do that?"

Hermione really wished she had thought up what to say on her long walk home. "He stole my journal and was about to read it to everyone. I had to do something! And then we had to go clean up the Home EC classroom, and got in a water fight, and now we're in even bigger trouble."

She looked up at her, and it was as though Marie had just noticed how wet Hermione was. "Oh dear, you better go get yourself cleaned up and in some dry clothes. We'll talk about this later Hermione. And can you send the boys down here to finish their chores?"

"Sure." She walked up the creaky stairs to the boys room. Marie and Bob were also taking care of three boys. At least I'm not as bad as them, she thought to herself, as she told them to go downstairs. Then she walked into her room, and started getting ready for dinner. Afterwards, she really needed to call one of her friends, maybe Jenna or Lindsey.

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When Draco got home he walked straight to his room. On the way home, the driver had told him his parents had gone to a fancy party and wouldn't be home until late. There was money on the counter for him to order something, but he wasn't really that hungry. He just wanted to get out of his wet clothes and take a nice hot shower.

When he got out, he went to lie down on his bed and started thinking. Thinking about earlier that day when he had grabbed Hermione's journal. She may think her punch had been what stopped him from reading it to everyone, but it was what he had read in those few seconds, that had really stopped him in his tracks.

I really miss mom and dad. They seem to be slipping away from me a little more everyday. And I'm sure Bob and Marie are going to send my back to the orphanage after all the fights I've been getting into lately….

As much as he hated the girl, Draco wasn't completely heartless. And he knew those fights she was talking about were because of him, not that he always started it. Maybe I should lay off a little bit, just for a while. After all, if Hermione left, who would he torment all day long? And with that thought he got off the bed and went downstairs to order some Chinese food.

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Hermione got off the bus in front of the school around 7:25, about the same time she saw a black shiny limo pull up in the busses only lane. She hurried into the school, hoping to get there before Malfoy caught up to her. She had spent most of the night wondering what punishment Miss DeBoard had in store for them this time. The worst one she could remember was going up on the roof and cleaning off all the debris; she really did hate heights.

She reached the office and knocked on the door. A voice told her to go in, and she opened the door right as she heard footsteps hurrying down the halls. She walked in and sat down in a chair in front of Miss DeBoard's desk. She looked up a few seconds later to see Malfoy walk in and sit down next to her.

Miss DeBoard had been looking for something in her briefcase when they walked in, but now that she had found what she had been looking for she looked up at them. "Well I hope this will teach you guys a lesson. I've decided that your punishment will be this." She opened the box on her desk and pulled out a pair of handcuffs. She looked at their faces and saw them look confused for a moment. Then she saw it click, and both looked a little pale.

"Everyday I want you to report to my office, where I will handcuff both of you to each other. You will then spend the day with one another, and maybe that will teach you to get along. When school is over, you'll come see me and I'll unlock you."

Hermione looked horrified. Being stuck to Draco Malfoy was probably the very last thing she ever wanted to do. "Miss DeBoard, how long will we have to do this?"

The principal looked at her. "Until I decide you two have learned to get along."

"I am not going to let you attach me to that thing!" Draco seemed to finally come to his senses.

"Well Mr. Malfoy, it's this or I expel you for fighting, as well as doing $1000 worth of water damage to the Home EC classroom. Which reminds me, you two will also have kitchen duty for however long it takes to pay back the school."

This seemed to shut them up, and Annie walked over to them. "Give me your arms please. Thank You." She walked back to her desk, and pulled out two pieces of paper. "Here is your new schedule." She handed them each a copy. "Now, you're dismissed. And remember, the sooner you learn this lesson, the sooner it will be over."

She watched them walk out of her office, and then laughed. This should be fun, she thought, as she pulled out a little screen. She had placed a charm on the handcuffs that would let her see and hear everything that happened.

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Draco and Hermione had walked down a few hallways before realizing they had nowhere to go. They stopped and looked around for a few moments, then Hermione said, "Why don't we go to the library?" Draco looked at her like she was nuts.

"I'm not a nerdy bookworm, so why would I want to spend my free time with one in the library?" She glared at him

"Can you please try to be nice, I'm not happy about this either, and I want to hurry up and be as far away from you as possible. There won't be a lot of people in the library, so if we go there, we won't have to deal with everyone staring at us."

As good an idea as it sounded, Draco didn't want her to know he liked her idea. Unfortunately, he couldn't come up with anything better, so he reluctantly started walking towards the library. At least none of his friends would be caught dead there.

They spent the 15 minutes before class started sitting in an empty corner trying to pretend the other wasn't there. Hermione pulled out her new schedule, and saw that it wasn't really all the different. The warning bell rang, and they both picked their stuff up and headed to Spanish 3 with Señora DeAndrade.

When they walked into the classroom, Hermione saw her friend Kyle sitting at the front table, and went to sit next to him. "What do you think you're doing Granger? I don't want to sit with that freak all period." He started to walk to a table at the back of the class but Hermione didn't budge.

"Kyle is not a freak, you jerk, and I don't want to sit all the way back there. I want to sit with my friend and pretend you don't exist." She tried to sit at the table, but Malfoy wouldn't move either.

"I agreed to go to the library; it's only fair that I get to sit where I want now." He smirked at her, and started to drag her to the back of the room.

"We never agreed on that. And stop dragging me like a dog on a leash!" But he didn't. He kept walking 'till he reached the table and sat down. She tried to drag him back, but he didn't move. Sighing in defeat, she sat down as far away as the handcuffs would let her, and mouthed "sorry" to Kyle.

By this time the entire class was staring at them weird; all wondering what was going on. Señora D. walked into the room and began her lesson. Hermione really hated this teacher. She was so bubbly and high pitched, and annoyed the crap out of her. This was going to be a long day, she thought to herself.

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An hour and a half later, Draco and Hermione were sitting in the Mr. Nichols' Chemistry classroom. Hermione was looking very smug, because it was her turn, and she was sitting next to Kyle and Hannah. They were busy checking their homework with Kyle's (the brainiack) Draco just rolled his eyes at them. Honestly! She made it so hard to try and be nice. Not that he was really trying.

Mr. Nichols walked into the room, gave a quick glance towards Hermione and Draco, trying not to laugh, and started taking attendance. When he was done, he began going over their to do list.

"Today we're going to be doing an Acids and Bases lab. Get in groups of 2, find a workstation, and wait for my instructions. Go!" Everyone got up and started claiming each other. Draco and Hermione reluctantly went over to one of the tables. Hermione was really annoyed. Usually she worked with Kyle, who always knew what to do. Draco was just glad he didn't have to listen to Kiera tell Mckennzie about her sex life any more.

"Ok class, what you're going to do is see how much of the Hydroflouric Acid it takes to neutralize the base in front of you. Obviously the HF is diluted, as in its regular form it is strong enough to go right through your skin. However, it is still dangerous, so PLEASE do us all a favor and don't spill it on anything, including you. There's also a packet on the table with all the instructions. Get to work."

There was a bunch of bustling around the classroom as each group began getting their lab ready for action. Hermione grabbed the packet, while Draco stood there next to her looking bored. "Ok, first we need to measure out 10 mg of the dish detergent, and then test its pH level." Draco continued to stare off into space. "Hello! Earth to idiot, the detergent is right next to you."

He looked at her. "So, what's that got to do with anything?"

"I can't reach it, so could you please grab the base, put it in the middle and grab a pH strip from the box next to you, and start paying attention!" She didn't realize how loud she was getting, 'till she looked around and saw a bunch of heads turned towards her staring.

"Fine Granger, and next time can you try NOT making me deaf?" He smirked, and handed her the detergent and pH strip. She took it and measured out the 10 mg. "What? No thank you? Where are your manners?"

Hermione didn't answer, just went on to step 2. "Ok, now we need to measure out 20 ml of the HF into a glass beaker." So she grabbed a pipette and started doing it. Draco was getting more bored by the minute, and could feel a yawn coming on any second. Without thinking he took his hand and covered his mouth right in time for the yawn.

A second later the whole class heard a loud, "DAMNIT MALFOY!" Mr. Nichols looked over and was about to tell her off for swearing when he realized what had happened. Hermione had rushed to the sink and was rinsing her hand with water and the base detergent, while the HF was spreading all across the table. Nichols rushed into the back room and grabbed a cleaning product and instructed Brady, a senior in the class, to take care of the table. He walked over to Hermione to check on her hand. It was starting to turn red, whether from the acid or from the scrubbing he wasn't sure.

"Miss Granger, I think you should hurry down and see the nurse. The HF shouldn't do much damage, but we'll want to make sure. Obviously you can go with her Draco." Hermione began storming out of the room, with Draco following her. When they left the room he couldn't help but laugh. This was two days in a row that he'd gotten out of class.

But laughing was probably the dumbest thing he could have done at the moment. "What the hell is your problem Malfoy?! Making me dump that HF all over everywhere, my hand is burning and you're laughing?"

Draco decided to just keep his mouth shut and let her rant.

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