**DRACO**
I got up from my seat and made sure that the prefects were taken the new students to the dorm. I was going to speak to my father, but he had already gotten up and left. I wandered through the crowd until I found her. Hermione was overlooking all the students walking out of the great hall.
"What do we do now?" I asked her. She turned around so fast, I must have scared her.
"Oh, um, well, I suppose we should go find our dorm, since the prefects are taking the new students to their common rooms."
"Sounds good to me, except I have no clue where it is," I replied smirking.
"Just follow me, Mcgonngal told me on the train."
"All right," I replied and followed after her.
"It is on the 5th floor," she said breaking the silence as we were waiting on the staircase to change.
"That will be a wonderful walk to potions in the mornings," I said laughing. The potions classroom was in the dungeons, so before it was a quick walk. Now it would take ages just to get to class. Hermione smiled, but said nothing. We continued to walk and walk until we finally saw a portrait of Professor Snape. I thought all the old professors pictures hung in the headmasters office, but I guess not. He sat in a great chair, smirking his usual smirk wearing all black robes looking as he always did.
"Hello Ms. Granger, Mr. Malfoy, such an odd pair to be head boy and girl, don't you think?" he asked us.
"I suppose," I said.
"Serverus," she almost whispered and the portrait swung open. I surely hope the password would change. Anyone could figure it out if only on accident.
We both walked into a candle-lit up room. It had hardwood floors, black leather couches and chairs, a huge fireplace already burning filling the room with the sweet smell of burning wood, two huge desks at either side of the room, and three doors toward the back of the room, one containing the letter "H" on it, one with the letter "M" on it, and the other was blank. I went straight into the room with the m, figuring it was my room. I was right. I opened the door to a room of my dreams. It was huge. The floors were dark grey brick with a huge black rug on top, across the room on the opposite wall was a huge king size four poster bed with dark green bedding. My trunk was brought up to the table on the side of the bed and my pajamas were laying across my bed waiting for me. To the left was a wardrobe, with my clothes already hung up on hangers. I loved house elves, but I made a mental note not to leave a mess so they wouldn't have much to clean up, unlike every other year where I would purposely not do anything just so they would have to. To my right was a fireplace, burning with a freshly made fire to heat up the room. It was wonderful. I was sick of that old twin bed I spent so many nights on. I couldn't help myself and ran and jumped on the bed. It was soft and comfortable and the sheets were too. They must be made of satin.
"Ahem," I heard someone say. I looked up and Granger was standing in my room with a grin on her face. "Like the new room?" she asked laughing.
"Its perfect, yours?" I relied ignoring the fact that she just witnessed my inner child coming out, something no one ever sees.
"Way better than sharing with a bunch of crazy girls," she replied and we both busted with laughter.
"Have you looked in the other door?" I asked her.
"No, thats why I came to get you."
"Oh, all right, lets go have a look." I replied and we both left my room. We walked up beside the portrait door and opened the unmarked door and I opened it.
As the door opened we were both frozen in place. When we stepped inside there was two doors on either side we each opened one up. Inside was a huge vanity with a toilet and walk in shower. The shower was remarkable on its own. It was about 5x5 with shower heads all over the ceiling and walls. I couldn't wait to shower in here. We walked through the opening and both of us stopped. There was a pool, or bathtub as big as a pool. It had a fountain of heads that had every color bubbles you could imagine pouring into the steaming pool. There was a towel rack that kept the towels warm, and it also had two robes, one with an H and one with a D. To the right of the pool-size bathtub was a hot tub bubbling that looked like it held about 6 people or so.
"Fancy a dip into the hot tub?" I couldn't help but asking her.
"It is so tempting, but first we must do our rounds," she replied frowning.
"That will take an hour at the most. Today is friday, classes don't start until monday so we can take a nice dip before bed. We don't have anything important to do tomorrow. What do you say?"
"Sounds good to me," she replied giggling.
We walked along the corridors watching for any students out of bed. Thankfully, we didn't find anyone. We walked into each of the common rooms. As we got closer and closer to the Gryffindor Common room, we heard screaming and music from three hallways down. When we goth there the Common Room was in full swing of a back-to-school party. We walked in to find Ginny and Neville, the two prefects for Gryffindor.
"What is going on?" Hermione had to scream for Ginny to be able to hear her.
"I don't know. I just came back from taking a shower and this is what I walk into," she screamed back, obviously pissed.
Neville was running around screaming at people to shut up, but with no luck.
Hermione walked to where the music was playing out of a huge stereo system and unplugged it. Everything went silent. "What the hell is going on in here!" she screamed. "I am appalled that this is coming from this house. I am surprised Professor Mcgonnagal hasn't came to see what all this noise is. 100 points from Gryffindor, for showing such shame to this house and acting like a bunch of bloody fools!" she screamed. I was not expecting that.
"This mess better be cleaned up by the time we get back or there will be even more trouble. And don't you dare leave it for the elves to clean up!" I told them all. We both strode out the door. I had never seen Hermione this mad.
"What were they thinking? Having a party like that the first night back. I understand that there are no classes until tomorrow but it is after curfew and they don't need to be so loud. It was never a problem when I was in the house. What has it come to?" she said all too jumbled together. She was over thinking again.
"shhh, it will all be ok. Im sure since you docked 100 points the first night back it will not happen again," I said trying to calm her down. It seemed to help. We continued to walk along the corridor until we got to the Slytherin common room. There were a few people walking around but not many. We only stayed a few minutes and then left.
"Are you ready for that hot tub now?" I asked her.
"Oh, most definitely," she said beaming at me. We took one more glance in the Gryffindor common room. Not one person was out of bed, so we quickly left.
We walked back up the stairs to our room. We changed into our swimsuits and met in the hot tub. It was too relaxing.
"So tell me how much you have changed," she asked me.
"Well, I have come to realize that who your parents are doesn't make you a good witch or wizard. Even Voldemort himself wasn't a pure blood, so why should anyone care about that? I am going to try to be nicer to everyone as well. You know, I always wonder what would have happened if I accepted Potters friendship all those years ago instead of making him an enemy. I hope we can both put past behind us and just move foreword." I didn't expect for all of that to come out, but since I was being honest with everyone, and I really like Hermione, I figure why not, what could her knowing my thoughts hurt.
"My Draco, you have changed," she replied.
We sat there in silence enjoying the jets of warm water pulse against us for another hour. I noticed faintly in the background soft music playing. I don't have a clue what it was, but it was very sweet and relaxing.
"I think I will go to bed, it has been a long day," she finally said breaking the silence.
"Your probably right, what are your plans for tomorrow?" I asked her. I would love to be with her all day; her presence alone is intoxicating, but I suppose this is too soon for her to know that. I will try to just be her friend for now.
" I haven't really thought about it. I suppose hang out with Ginny, maybe go visit Hagrid. What about you?"
"I must go talk to my father. I had no idea he was coming here this year." I replied.
"Well, good luck with that and good night," she told me and with that we both got out, changed and went to sleep. I tossed and turned for what seemed like hours. Memories haunted me like they had throughout the summer and I couldn't hope to fall asleep. I finally gave up and went to sit by the fire. I noticed a book sitting on the coffee table and picked it up. It must be Hermione's. I started flipping through the pages, not even caring to glance at the title, and before I knew it I was sound asleep.