A/N: Sooo another chapter I am so sorry for waiting so long to post but my exams are coming up and I really shouldn't even be writing this right now I should be studying but you know... hahaa anyways PLEASE rate it and review it, I accept all kinds of reviews as this is my first storie and I could really use some help! Plus I have mjor worries that I have made Draco way OCC! HELP!

Hermione stood at the end of the corridoor, her hair was a little messy locks form her previously elegant twist coming out. She hoisted her dress up a little more as she was still a little self concious about the cleavage it was showing. She eyed Draco. He looked good, leaning up against the wall, he had abandoned his dress robes and was only wearing his dress trousers and a crisp white shirt with the top 3 buttons undone, and the sleeves rolled up.
"Yes it's over." Hermione said, stopping about an two feet away from him. Draco straightend up and Hermione saw his eyes sweep her hungrily, lingering on her hips, her breasts and finally locking with her own eyes. Hermione sighed, and started walking again.
"I'll see you around, Draco." She said. As she brushed past him he grabbed he upper arm.
"Please, Hermione. Don't tease me." He whisperd to her as he pressed her up against the wall. Their eyes met and she smirked at him, he grinned down on her.
"You look beautifull." He said before he closed the distance between them kissing her. Her hands were pressed up against his chest and suddenly Draco felt her pushing him away. He moved only an inch or two so their faces were still very close together. He didn't say anything, just looked at her raising one eyebrow.
"Well, I'm through with this whole sneaking around. I want us either to be together or not. So if you want the privilage to kiss me, you'll have to take me on a date first." She grinned. He didn't say anything but bent his head down to her collarbone kissing her up to her ear where he whisperd.
"Are you sure?" Hermione let out the tiniest whimper, but then pushed him firmly away and replied "Yes!" she took a few steps back, grinnig even wider at the horrified look on Draco's face.
"What, did you expect me just to give up to you so easily. I know it's going to be hard being together, if you want that. But I am going to keep my pride, deal?" She said.
"Fine, but the deal starts tomorrow." Draco said. Moving closer to her.
"Because you look too damm amazing for me to be able to control myself." He said moving closer too her. Hermione started backing up, giving small quick glances over her right shoulder. Draco's legs were longer so he reached her before she could back away. But before his arms could incircle her again Hermione took a side step to the right opening a door to a cupboard.
"DEAL." She said. Draco flew in after her and in record time he had shut the door, applied muffliarto, locked it and lit his wand placing it on one of the many shelves there were around them. For a coupboard it was quite large, Hermione decided not to let Draco always be the one in charge. She walked up to him her hands toying with the buttons on his shirt as she kissed him hard. He wrapped his arms around her waist and squeezed her.
"ouch!" She said giggling and gave him a light smack on his chest. He growled a little at her and she pushed him into the shelves behinde him. A huge bucket of sponges suddenly tipped over and rained over them. But neither noticed as they were kissing again. Hermione started playing with the buttons on his shirt again. And feeling a little trembly she started unbuttoning them. She felt his hands run her over, all over. He only took them off her too remove his own shirt. Hermione could barely take in his perfectly chizzled six pack before she felt his arms slink around her waist and up her back, reaching for the zipper of her dress. That's when she took a few steps back, grabbed hold of his wrists and whisperd in his ear.
"Sweet dreams, see you around." And on that note she disabled the lock and stepped out of the cupboard, making her way up to Gryffindor tower.

Draco stood in the cupboard, breathing hard. That little tease! After a few seconds he realised that it was a littl silly to be standing there in the cupboard without a shirt on and the door ajar. He picked up his shirt and pulled it on, buttoning it croocked, but not noticing as his mind was far to focused on other things. He leaned up against the wall, breathing hard runnig his fingers through his already, very messed up hair. He ajusted his torusers to try his best to make the bulge in them a little less obvious and slid out into the corridoor. He decided it would be best to just return to the slytherin common roomand made a mental note to steer clear of Pansy, who had been pretending that they still had something. Draco knew the truth however. They had never had anything. As Draco rounded a corner he could hear faint noises, sniffing, it sounded like. He stopped in his tracks trying to listen. Yes, it was some one sniffling, and sobbing. Draco thought to himself that it was probably some girl who had lost an earring or whatever. But still, he went over to the classroom door, where he could clearly hear the noises were coming from. He didn't want to open the door though, what if it was Pansy. So he looked through the key hole. There in the middle of the classroom his eyes widend when he saw, Proffesor Smor. Her fists were clenched and she was muttering.
"No, I wont, I wont, I wont."
Draco straightend up. He wouldn't have admitted it but he was a little frightend. What should he do, he sure as hell wasn't going in there to confront her, he couldn't go and tell someone. So he did the thing he always did. He just left. What was going on. Draco thought, but really it couldn't be anything too bad. Could it? No he would put it out of his mind for now Smor was propbably just dealing with some personal crisis or whatever. He reached the Slytherin Common room said the password, and went straight up to his dormitory.

The next day was Saturday, he like usual didn't have any plans. He thought however that he would hopefully be able to make some plans with a certain bushy haird brunette. So he tried to think what they could do together. He could apporate with her somewhere, take her to a nice restaurant, or perhaps go shopping, or to some park for a picnic. No, these things were all very un Draco Malfoy. Even though it was tottaly un Draco Malfoy to be putting in this much effort to get a girl, that thought didn't bother him. But he still didn't want to loose his pride. He knew he shouldn't take her somewhere where allot of his classmates would be, they would get sneers and rude comments. Tottaly unnescisary. After a some brain stroming he thought of the perfect thing.
"Dear Hermione,
It would be an honor if you would join me for a little outing tomorrow. If you would be so kind as to join me then, please meet me in the entrance hall at 12:00 pm.
Sincearly,
D. Malfoy P.S Dress warmly as we will be going outside."

He signed of the letter with an unnesciary flurish and read it over twice. Then he summond his eagle owl and told her to take it to Hermione Granger as soon as possible.

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Hermione sat on her bed. It was 9:00 am and she was a little scared of what this day might bring. After meeting Draco in the corridoor Hermione had sneaked of into her dormroom and not spoken to a soul. Now though she needed to speak to someone, well not just anyone. Ginny. Hermione tip toed across the hall and into Ginny's dormitory, she didn't expect her to be awake and she was a little frightend to wake her dorm mates. But, when Hermione enterd, as quietly a she could, Ginny was sitting on her bead her back resting against the headboard and her knees up, she seemed to be writing in something. Ginny looked up when Hermione approched and quickly shut the book and shoved it under her pillow. Hermione didn't say anything however, she knew Ginny kept a diary and thought that there was nothing wrong with it.
"Hey, can we talk?" Hermione said her voice a little higher than ususal.
"Sure Hermione, what's going on?" Ginny said looking a little concerned.
Hermione decided just to cut to the chase, she really wanted this over as soon as possible, she just hoped that Ginny would take this well.
"Me and Ron split up." She said watching Ginny's face. Ginny just blinked.
"Oh. Well are you okay? Who dumped who?" She said studying Hermione.
"I'm fine thanks, and it was kind of mutual. Well it happend last night, you saw how Ron was acting, and so we got into a huge fight and then I left. And Draco was there..." She trailed off her voice getting smaller, feeling like she wanted to shrink in on her self, not meeting Ginny's eyes.
"Oh, I see." Ginny said a little cold now and Hermione could hear her swallow.
"But then when I went back to find Ron, you know after I had spoken to you, well I found him but, but he wasn't alone." Hermione said knowing Ron wouldn't want his little sister knowing this.
"What do you mean?" Ginny asked and Hermione sounding a little afraid of what she might hear.
"Eerm, well Lavender Brown was with him and they... well they were kind of... you know" Hermione finished blushing.
"HA!" Ginny exclaimed, and then added.
"I am sorry that he cheated Hermione, but so did you and I mean, at least he cheated with Lavender, not someone decent." She finished grinnig a little at Hermione.
"Yeah, well I men the break up was mutual, and we both decided not to spread it that either of us had been with anyone else." Hermione said a little guilty."But yeah, I was kind of smug that it was Lavender. I mean even he wasn't too happy afterwards." She said looking at Ginny who seemed to have come down from her burst of glee at her brothers activitys.
"What are you going to do about Malfoy though, 'Mione?" She said adjusting her position on the bed, tucking her legs under her.
"I don't know, well I told him if he wanted anything to happen he would have to take me out on a date and that I wasn't just going to give it up to him like it was nothing." Hermione said a little worried about Ginny's reply.
"Good girl, but did you tell Ron that it was Malfoy? I'm more than certain he and Harry would be at the very least a little miffed." Ginny said kindly.
"Yes, I did tell Ron but like I said we swore we wouldn't tell anyone else, but yeah as you guessed he was fuming when he found out."
"Hmm..." Ginny said a little furrow in her brows that reminded Hermione of Mrs. Wealsey.
"Do you think Malfoy will ask you out though? To go chasing after a girl isn't a very Malfoy thing to do you know, no offense." Ginny said.
"None taken, but Malfoy is really diffrent you know, and I think I might actually like him, I mean his personality, he's changed, he's nice." Hermione said drifting off into memories of the previous night, sitting with Draco on the cold stone floor with him whispering to her how good she looked.
"Yes. Hes also been seeming a little lonley these past few weeks you know, poor thing." Ginny said, and Hermione heard the definate note of sarcasm in that last bit.
"What do you mean, Ginny?" Hermione asked refering to the last two words of her scentance.
"Well, Hermione even though he holds your hand, tells you you look nice and whatever the dosen't mean he's 'changed' I mean don't forget this is a person who stood by and watched you get tortured, almost killed. This is a person to tormented you through all of your years at Hogwarts. This is a person that knowingly and willingly plotted to kill Dumbledore and this is a person you are plannig to go on a date with." Ginny said and Hermione saw her eyes flash a little when she said Dumbledore's name.
"I'm not saying don't do it, I'm just saying be really, really carefull." Ginny finished looking at Hermione with a weak little smile. Hermione nodded and asked Ginny not to tell Harry as it would probably cause an uproar.
"I don't want everyone getting all worked up over if, if it turns out to be nothing." Hermione said as she stood up to leave so Ginny could start getting dressed and ready for the day.

Hermione went back up to her room, plannig to go and get her school things so she could start that charms essay. She never really had to bother with school anymore, she felt a little like she didn't have to put any effort into staying top of the class anymore, the answers just came to her. When she came to her deserted dormitory however she immidiately spotted the eagle owl sitting on the isll outside he window. She opend the door window and the owl hopped in and held out a leg for her. Hermine took the small note that was folded neatly over twice and read it through. She grinned to her self. They were really going to make this happen. What was going on? This was Malfyoy, since when had he given a shit about anyone exept himself? Hermione decided to accept the offer and to reply at once, she tore a pice of parchment and wrote in aqua blue ink:
"Dear Draco,
Yes. I'll see you then!
Hermione. "
Her reply was a lot more casual, and she did this on purpose knowing he had been mocking her a little with the way he phrased his letter. After this she went down to the almost empty common room where as usual she sat down at one of the desks spread out her books and got to work.

Draco Malfoy sat on his bed in the boys dormitory's, two notes in his hands. One of them from Hermione, aceptin his invitation. The other was from proffesor McGongal telling him to please come to her office as soon as he could as the memory potion was ready. Draco however didn't have aclue what to do. He was exited about Hermione agreeing to go on a date with him. But then there was the awfulness of that note from McGongal, what in the name of fuck would he do. No way would he swallow that memory stuff, and no way would he tell them what had happend. He had seen the pity in Hermones eyes and he didn't need it. From anyone. So he decided it would be best to ignore it. The day passed slowly with Malfoy making far more trips to the libary than was nescisary and even a few trips past the portrait of the fat lady which he knew was the entrance to Gryffindoor tower, hoping he would run into her.

The next day Draco got up at 10 which was perhaps a little earlier than most sundays, and headed straight for the showers. He quickly washed, and then after dressing rather carefully in a plain white t-shirt and a balck sweater with black jeans,and his favorite slouchy black army boots. He then put on some cologne remebering how much she had liked it. He then went to the great hall to get some breakfast, he looked around to the Gryffindoor table a lot, and probably spent over a halfhour in the great hall just hoping to get a glimpse of her, but had no such luck. Next he went up to his dormitory where he got his broom and a black coat, a scarf and two pairs of gloves. Then in finall preperation he headed down to the kitchens giving the elves some very carefull instructions.
Looking at his watch he realised that it was already 12:03, he really didn't want to make her wait though so he all but ran up to the entrance hall. When he got there though she was not there he checked his watch again 12:06. He leaned up against the wall watching the staricase, waiting for her to appear.

Finally she did at 12:18. Draco didn't want to bother her about it but he was a little annoyed, all that changed however when he got a good look at her.
"Hi! I am so sorry I'm late Draco, I was all ready and stuff but, erm something came up." She finished a little lamely looking down. Draco wanted to know what had happend but deided not to pester her.
"It's okay." He said pulling her into a hug.
"Hi." He whisperd in her ear when they were close. Breathing in the honey scent of her. Pulling back she looked him up and down a little suspicious.
"So, eer whats the plan then?" She asked smiling. Draco grinned and shook his head.
"Nope, I'm scared you're going to back out if I tell you." He said taking her hand and leading her outside into the chilly October air. As he lead them into the grounds he examined her. She was wearing soft flat black leather boots. A pair of dark wash jeans that were fitted. And a plum coloured fitted pea coat. Her hair was loose, the big spiral curls falling down the midle of her back. She looked perfect.

Hermione stared to her left, looking at the blonde boy beside her. It had actually startled her how easy everything was, their conversation had flowed un interrupted as he guided them to the quiditch pitch. Hermione had guessed where they were going after a little while and was now feeling well a lot more than a little scared.
"So, tell me Hermione have you ever been on a broom before?"
"Yes. But I don't like it, and I've only ever been on one to play quiditch, never to travel anywhere." Draco let go of her hand and ducked up into the stands ducking out of sight for a spilt second and coming up with his broom. Hermiones eyes widend a little, she had been right.
"Well, I thought you might to see Hogwarts from a diffrent perspective, maybe one a little higher up than ususal?" He said phrasing it like a question.
"Eeerm, well I, perhaps I could just watch you?" She said her eyeborws furrowing a little. Draco laughed and took her hand, leading her over to the broom stick which was hovering at waist hight.
"Don't worry, well take it slow." He said and gestured to her to the broom and helped her sit, she flet extremely akward and inncompitent as he tried to exlpain to her how she should hold her legs and e.t.c. Then he climbed on too sitting behinde her wrapping his arms around her his mouth close to her ear.
"So you ready?" He asked.
"I guess." She said At those words Draco kicked off. Hermione squealed.
"Don't worry, I've got you." He said "We won't go high."
And they didn't he directed them around the pitch a few times never allowing them to go higher than about two feet in the air.
"Can we, could we go a little higher?" Hermione asked a little timid, not even sure if she wanted that herself.
"Sure, you just say when to stop. Okay?" Draco said and Hermione felt his chest shake with what she thought was laughter.
"Okay." She said smiling to herself. They rose up and climbed higher leaving the pitch and zooming over the castle until they were level with the very top of the astronomy tower.
"Wow, we are very high!" Hermione said feeling a little shaky but Draco squeezed his arms around her and she felt a little better.
"Just don't look down."He breathed and his breath tickled her. But then her thoughts were interrupted as they plumeted down, she was sure they were going to smack into the grass she yelled out Draco's name. But then it stopped. Hermione could her blood rushing to her brain, she felt very dizzy and her heart was probably going faster than it had ever gone.
"Are you okay? I'm sorry I shouldn't have done that. Do you want to go down?" She heard Draco's worried voice.
"No no, don't worry let me just wait for my heart to calm down and for me to get my breath back." They weren't high up now though and that thought made her feel better.
Draco took them over the castle agian and headed for Hagrids hut, then with a burst of speed they were over the lake. Hermione shut her eyes trying to push back thoughts of falling into it's deeo ice cold mids. Then they were slowing down, and as Hermione opend her eyes she saw they were levevery close to the ground. She soon flet grass brush her toes and the broom come to a standstill.

Draco was already off the broom and as Hermione moved her stiff lims in order to get off she saw him heading off behinde a tree and retviving something. As he walked toward her she saw he held a picnic basket.
"How did you get this here?" She asked as she watched him taking out various items. He spread out a blanket for them to sit on and enchanted a large bubble around it and filled it with warm air so they could sit in the october weather but feel nice and warm.
"This mornig I went to the kitchens and asked one of the elves to put this here and I told him what I'd like in it." He said grinnig at her as he motioned for her to sit beside him Hermione sat down deciding to leave the speech that was already forming in her head about elfish wellfare for later.. They were sitting on the bank of the lake under a big oak tree, but on the oposite side to the castle. There were numerous trees here but ones that looked younger than the ones of the forbidden forest. "Why here though?" Hermione asked crossing her knees and looking sideways toward Draco's face.
"Because it's out of the way, and it's a place that I have visited many times before, but never with anyone else." Draco said examining his shoes, looking up at her as he finished.
"What did you come here for?" She said "To think mostly, especially in 6th year, it was an awfull time for me."
"I can't begin to imagine." She whisped moving her hand and slipping it over his giving it a gentle squeeze. He smiled at her warmly.
"You hungry?"
"Starving actually" She laughed He straightend up and grabbed the food behinde him, laying out a magically heated flask of tea, scones, cucumber sandwhiches, and two slices of carrot cake, grapes, a chicken salad, and a bag of mint humbugs.
"This looks good" She said as he piled a plate up handing it too her. He smiled up at her.
"Do you mind if I ask you something."
"Ask away." She said too distrated by all the food.
"What made you so late?" He said noticing that she froze up.
"Oh, that." She paused.
"Well, you have to promise not to get angry, please?" She asked and he felt his stomach clench, she carried on though without his promise.
"When I was going through the common room to go and meet up with you I, I ran into Ron." She said glancing up at him through her long lashes.
Draco felt anger pulse through his veins at the thought that the Weasle could interfear with their relationship.
Hermione seemed not to have noticed his change of expression as she carried on.
"He asked me to go with him to visit Hagrid, when I said no I couldn't he asked me why, so I just told him." She sighed.
"And to ay the least we ended up in a huge row. Biggest one we've ever had. He threatend to tell people about us."
"WHAT?" Draco roared.
"It's okay, it's fine hush!" Hermione said hurryiedly sitting on her knees facing Draco.
"No it is not! That red headed git has no right to go around threatening you!"
"Ron didn't mean it, he was just saying things to say them, you know. I think he was perhaps just a little wounded that we were going through with this."
"Wounded, wounded? Why should he feel wounded, he shouldn't feel anything about us spending time together!"
"Sssh, Draco please don't make a big deal out of this." Hermione said placing a finger on his lips.
"Did he say anything about me?"
"He, well..." Hermions tone made crystal clear to Draco that the Weasle had probably called him every bad word in the book.
"Oh, I see." He said, hating how cold he sounded but not being able to cotrol it.
"Please Draco..." She said laying her palm on is cheek.
"I don't care about it. None of it." She said as she leaned her face in and pressed her lips to his. The kiss was sweet, gentle and quick, but when it was over Draco immediately wrapped his arms around her and leaed back taking her with him, kissing her and huggin her close to him.