Chapter 2

Day Two:Two Turtle Doves

Draco woke up the next morning with the biggest smile on his face as he stretched and got ready for the day. He decided to wear his emerald green, button up shirt today with his Khaki pants. He loved how it brought out his eyes. He made sure he grabbed the ornament and the gift for Granger. He then went and made himself some tea and flooed into work.

He exited the floo and looked around. No one was here yet. So he walked towards Grangers office and was just about there when he heard her voice inside. He knocked on her door.

"Enter." He heard he say. He opened up the door and there she was sitting behind her desk paperwork everywhere. She was wearing a purple blouse and a black skirt with boots that went up to her knees. She was also wearing the earrings he knew he had given her yesterday. Draco forget how to breath for a minute.

"Oh, Good Morning Malfoy". Hermione said with a smile.

"Morning, Granger," he replied sound a bit out of breath. "You're here early than usual." He said with a smile.

"Oh, I couldn't sleep last night." She replied "So I thought I would come and get some work done."

"Oh, anything on your mind?" He asked, hoping not to sound too different.

"No just… My secret santa gave me the most beautiful gift ever." She said, pushing her brown curls behind her ears to show him. "I was just wondering who it was is all." She sighed again.

Draco couldn't breathe, she was wearing them and he wanted to smile. "They are beautiful." He grinned.

"Was there anything you needed?" She asked him.

"No, I just noticed your door was shut. I wondered what you were doing here so early." He replied, turning toward the door to leave.

"Well, thanks for stopping by." Hermione said to him lost in thought.

"Have a good rest of the day." He replied.

Draco sighed as he went to his office down the hall. Now what was he going to do? He couldn't leave the gift on her desk with her in there. He lightly hit his head on his desk, thinking.

"Draco, you in there?" Blaise called, knocking on his door.

"Come in, Zabani." Draco said, still hitting his head.

"What's the matter boss?" He asked.

"Granger is in her office wearing the earrings I gave with her secret santa and I don't know how to give the second to her now." Draco replied while hitting his head some more.

"Mate, stop. I just seen her head down the hall to file some paperwork. If you go now, you might be able to do it before she gets back." Blaise said.

Draco hurried and took off running down the hall, placing the ornament and gift on her desk before rushing back to his office. Just as he was sitting down, he saw Granger head back to her office. He let out a sigh. That was too close.

"Did you do it?" Blaise asked, making him jump.

"I did. Thanks for letting me know she had left." Draco replied.

"Anytime, boss." Blaise said before leaving to go back to work.

Work went by so much better for him after that.

Hermione had just gotten back from filing her paperwork and looked on her desk, and smiled. Her secret santa sure was sneaky, that was for sure. She picked up the ornament - this one was white also, but had two white turtle doves painted on it. She found the button for that one much easier and pushed it. Inside there were two white turtle doves flying around they would stop and kiss then fly again. She seen the package flying below them and grabbed it. As the other time it grew to the size it needed too. With shaking hands she read

On the second day of Christmas my secret santa gave to me:

She unwrapped the present and out fell the most beautiful scarf she had ever seen. It was red, green and silver and so silky. Whoever her secret santa was they sure were spoiling her. The rest of the day she had a smile on her face.

Draco was in his office with a smug smirk on his face. He had heard her gasp all the way down the hall and he knew she had liked the scarf. He found it a few months ago and wanted to give it to her. He now had an excuse to gift it to her and he loved that he did. He hoped tomorrow she would wear it around her slim neck so he could see what it looked like on her. He really hoped that she liked all the other gifts. But most of all he hoped when she found out it was him she would agree to be his girlfriend and who knows what else.

Draco couldn't help but smile. He was falling in love with Hermione Granger and he hoped she would feel the same way. With that though in his brain he finished his day and headed home.