Just Little Games
LostLoveIsDead
Chapter 5.
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Hermione Granger looked herself in the mirror. She patted down a piece of hair that was sticking up and pined back a piece of hair that was sticking in her face. The luminous glow of her perfectly white skin stood out against her brown curls. After putting on a light coat of natural looking make up she grabbed her small clutch that she would be bringing to the party with her. She was wearing a simple black dress and a necklace that was a very pale pink color with matching shoes. She took one last glance in the mirror and sighed, It was going to be a long night.
She started to walk down the stairs and the long corridors until she came into contact with Draco Malfoy who was in between the Gryfendor common room and Slughorn's room. He was dressed in a completely black suit like usual but with a white tie this time. Considering he was always put together this didn't make too much of a difference.
"Granger." He nodded, looking her up and down as if he was judging a piece of meat.
"Malfoy you can stop looking at me like I am steak now." She laughed walking up to him as he began to walk next to her.
"Well don't you clean up nice?" He smiled with a hint of sarcasm.
"Watch it Malfoy." Hermione laughed.
"I didn't say it was a bad thing." He grinned as they came to the door the the party. They both stared at the door for a while.
"Well?" Hermione looked at Draco.
"Lets go." He said with a lot of resentment buried in his voice. They both walked into the room, luckily, it was crowded enough so that no one would really see that they were together.
"Hermione?" Harry looked up to see her with Draco.
"Harry!" Hermione said unsure of herself and trying to ignore the current situation. Draco sneered as the boy who lived came over to greet them.
"Uhm, Hermione... Not to be rude or anything but... Why are you with Malfoy?" Harry asked trying to comprehend the current situation.
"I'm not...really... I was just trying to make Ron jealous and-" Draco cut her off.
"And I thought it would be easier then party crashing, Potter." Draco grimaced, he was perhaps one of the best liars Hermione had met.
"Plus, Its not like I would really come here to be with a stupid muggle born anyway." He sighed.
"What did you just say?" Harry asked Draco, immediately catching onto something.
"What?" Draco still had the same amount of malice in his voice. Hermione looked nervously between the two. She after all, had never been the best liar... until she met Harry.
"You said muggle born..." Harry looked at him questioningly.
"No I didn't." Draco said matter of fact-ly. "I know what I said. I said Mud-" But he was cut off by someone else.
"Harry! Come over here for a minute!" A disoriented looking Luna Lovegood said to him.
"I'll be right back Hermione" Harry smiled at her as he turned to talk to Luna for a moment who was wearing an incredibly outrageous outfit.
"Close call?" Hermione looked at Draco who looked a bit angry.
"Close call? You call that a close call! You have no idea how risky this is!" Draco yelled in a hushed tone trying not to draw any attention to himself.
"Well you agreed to it!" Hermione whispered back.
"Oh come on Granger! You know I didn't want to come!" Draco argued back throwing one of his hands up in the air.
"Crab roll?" A student dressed in white carrying a platter walked over to them.
"No!" They both commanded in unison as they looked back at each other and resumed where they left off. The boy practically had dropped the trey of crab rolls and went on to ask another pair of people if they would care for some.
"I can't believe you Draco, You should have just said no and I could have taken someone else." Hermione said as Draco grabbed two glasses of what looked like whine of a man's tray and handed one to her.
"You practically made me agree to it! Plus who else would you have taken?" He asked taking a large gulp of the substance in the glass.
"Cormac McLaggen!" Hermione said taking a sip from her drink.
"McLaggen? Why the bloody hell would you have wanted to take HIM?" Draco asked, disgusted.
"Well he wouldn't sit here arguing with me!" Hermione yelled, frustrated.
"But we are together!" Draco said in a very, very hushed tone.
"I'm here with you aren't I?!" Hermione asked him taking another sip of her drink and holding back from getting hysterical.
"Care to dance?" He asked her.
"Excuse me?" Hermione asked raising an eye brow.
"You heard me. Care to dance?" Draco asked Hermione again.
"I thought we weren't supposed to be here 'together'" Hermione mimicked.
"No one is watching" He motioned from the corner to the rest of the room. Everyone was enjoying themselves, not really paying attention to one another. Even Harry and Luna were dancing on the far side of the room.
"Come on." He said pulling her by her waist closer to him and taking her hand as they swayed back and forth.
"Why the change in heart?" Hermione asked plainly, but curious.
"I'm already here... I might as well enjoy myself." He said with his priceless grin.
"Draco Malfoy... enjoying himself?" Hermione said sarcastically with a small laugh and smile.
"Oh shut it Granger." He grinned as well.
"You shut it Malfoy!" She grinned back. The dance came to an end not too long after. They broke apart and went back to their awkward conversation fillers. Eventually Luna and Harry came back over.
"Hermione. Malfoy" Harry smiled, then grimaced.
"Potter." Draco said, with malice but not as much venom as usual.
"Hey Luna" Hermione smiled.
"Hello Hermione." She smiled, "Sorry. I don't believe I know you." Luna turned to Draco who raised an eye brow.
"You haven't herd of me?" Draco asked.
"Well I've heard of you, but never met you personally."
"Its just Malfoy, Luna... ignore him." Harry said.
"Well if she wants to meet me let her meet me." Draco looked Harry straight in the eyes.
"Uhm, Its getting late. Lets go Malfoy. I'll see you later Harry and I'll see you tomorrow Luna" Hermione grinned and ran out of there as fast as possible dragging Draco along with her. Harry looked at her suspiciously as she left he exit.
"Don't worry about it too much Harry. I'm sure she will explain everything in the morning." Luna said to him placing a hand on his shoulder.
"I'm sure" He said turning to Luna.
"Come on lets dance" She smiled sweetly as Harry looked at her innocent face and went back to dance with her.
Back in the hallway Hermione was running as fast as she possibly could with heals on.
"Hermione! Stop running!" Draco yelled as he finally caught up with her who had just made it to a large window ledge where you could see the bright white snow falling from the dark night.
"I'm sorry Draco, I should have never dragged you there." Hermione said sitting on the ledge looking out.
"Its okay. I'll get over it." Draco smirked sitting down next to her.
"What am I going to tell Harry?" Hermione sighed draping her hand over the ledge and out the window.
"You can figure it out in the morning. Just explain to him it was just to piss off Weaslebee. I'm sure he will understand." Draco said draping his arm over as well and taking Hermione's hand.
"He isn't dumb...He will know somethings wrong." Hermione sighed.
"Well Granger, It's the holidays. I'm sure he can let it go just for one night." Draco told her.
"And what makes you say this?" Hermione asked him.
"No idea." He said looking out, "Just trying to make you feel better." He laughed.
"Thanks a lot Malfoy." Hermione said as her content expression dropped to a frown.
"Anytime Granger." He grinned looking at her flushed face, she looked at his lifeless one.
"Draco..." She trailed off before she saw him looking up, she looked up as well to see mistletoe hanging from the ceiling.
"Marry Christmas Granger" He smiled and pulled her in for a kiss.
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A.N.: Thank you to all my reviewers! I didn't get too many reviews on my last chapter but some feedback on this one would be nice! I'm working hard on keeping them In character but, Its pretty O.C. for the most part. My apologies! Be expecting an update somewhere between tomorrow and Saturday. Most likely to be on Saturday. Thank you all! :D 3