A/N: OMG! You reviewed! You really do love me! You people are the best. Okay, I'll leave this short since I made you wait so long. I'm trying to make this chapter longer…hope it works! See you at the bottom of the page! OH WAIT! ALMOST FORGOT, HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE CAME OUT AND I GOT IT AT 12:41AM ON July 16, 2005. Okay, NOW I'mma shut up.

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Chapter 4: Hermione's Reaction

"Malfoy! What are you doing here? It's after hours!" Hermione exclaimed.

"I could ask you the same thing…but I didn't come find you to talk." Draco said back with a nearly slurred voice.

"Ugh, whatever. Move." Hermione demanded.

"Ooh, not very friendly, are we?" Draco asked with his hands in the air, moving out of the way. She was going to come out and upstairs sometime…and he'd be waiting.

Hermione took her time in the kitchen, making sure that she would eat enough to keep her full and long enough for Malfoy to leave. What's up with him? She wondered. He's been acting so strangely lately. After eating a slice of pie, a fruit tart, and a great ice cream sundae, she realized she had been there for a while. She had gotten everything she had on a tray to carry up to Ginny. Finally, she went out of the kitchens and headed back upstairs, being just as careful watching out for professors as she did coming down.

"What took you so long, Hermione?" Draco popped out the corner suddenly. Her name coming from his mouth sounded so weird…almost forbidden, yet familiar. But Hermione didn't show it, she toughened her face and asked in a rude tone, "What's it to you?"

"Well, I just wanted to make sure my girlfriend got back okay…" he said.

"I don't know why you're standing here then; it's not like I'm your girlfriend." Hermione said matter-of-factly.(A/N: I always wanted to put that in a story. "matter-of-factly" sounds so sophisticated…haha.)

"You say that like you're so sure." Draco said as he slowly walked toward Hermione, causing her to back up.

"That is only because I am…" Hermione said. When her back hit the wall, Draco pressed his body against hers, making her tray of food collapse onto the ground. "What are you…what are…" She was cut off by Draco's lips on hers, it felt so right. She couldn't believe this was her enemy—WAIT A MINUTE! This was her enemy! She was kissing the enemy! As she came to her senses, she tried to push him away but he was far too strong for her. Suddenly, she realized she was a witch and pulled out her wand. "STUPEFY!" she yelled as she blasted him onto the other wall. He was left unconscious as she pointed her wand towards the tray and splattered food and muttered, "Reparo." Just like magic, (A/N: Mainly because it is,) the food gathered up onto the tray and back onto Hermione's hand. She gave the unconscious Draco one last glance and left quickly.

"I don't know what happened, one minute I'm walking up, the next, he pops out of no where, and then he kisses me!" Hermione explained the whole story to Ginny while she was listening contently and eating her apple pie.

"Weird." Ginny replied.

"Totally." Hermione said. "Don't take this the wrong way or anything, but when he kissed me…it was like…I don't know. It felt like it was right. I think I'm going crazy. I'm going to call it a night…see you in the morning."

"Good Morning Hermie!" Ron exclaimed happily the next morning as he reached for half a dozen pumpkin muffins.

"Good Merlin! Ron, save some for the other students, they have to eat too you know!" Hermione said as she sat down between him and Harry.

"Sorry." Ron apologized.

"So, 'Mione, we heard about your little incident with Malfoy. He's such an ass. Don't worry, we've got it under control." Harry said.

"Okay, thanks you guys. What would I do without you?" Hermione smiled.

"Love Malfoy" Ron muttered while Harry elbowed his rib.

"What was that?" Hermione asked.

"Oh, nothing. You'd be lost without us." Harry said confidently.

"Oh, whatever. You'd be even more lost without me." Hermione replied.

"Okay, let's start going to Potions, it's a long walk. We can't afford to be late again." Ron complained.

"Correction, YOU can't afford to be late again. I'm just fine, but now's not a good time to start. Let's just go. Double potions…well, at least we get a break after that." Hermione said.

The trio walked out of the Great Hall, down the halls, and into the Potions Dungeon together with one person watching them the entire way. (A/N: Three guesses who.)

The potions class went by uneventfully since it was Advanced Potions and most if not all of the students knew what they were doing. (Luckily, Neville wasn't there to mess everything up and lose points). After the bell rang, Snape had finally dismissed the class.

"Goodness, those were the longest hours of my life. Maybe Snape stops the time so he can torture us even more." Ron complained. "Plus, we've got a 3 feet long essay to write! How did I make it to Advanced Potions anyway?"

"Even I don't know that." Hermione joked as they were walking outside for their break. Pretty soon, Harry and Ron got into a discussion about what they're going to do to Snape on the last day of school.

Out of no where (again), Draco came from behind and backed Hermione into a wall. Suddenly, he started feeling her body while forcing a hard kiss on her lips. When he finally let go for air, Hermione screamed, "HARRY!" And faster than lightening, Harry came on over with Ron at his side. Immediately, Harry grabbed Draco off and Ron brought Hermione away to protect her. Once, she got away, Ron ran toward Draco and punched him hard in the eye and he fell. Then, Harry let backed off then came back to punch him in the stomach. They both hit him until he was sure to have bruises. Right before he passed out, he saw Hermione with a mixed expression of mostly revenge, with a smirk. He also noticed a small look of worry in her eyes, but it quickly went as he passed out.

"Whoa. Thanks Harry. I was really in trouble there, I didn't think he'd stop and he held me too tightly for me to get my wand and I was running out of breath, and I was panicking and I felt like he would go all the way and nobody would come because I couldn't talk because he wouldn't let go and I felt so weird and I felt helpless and—"

"Okay Hermione, it's okay. It's over now." Harry said soothingly while hugging her reassuringly. They walked back into the Gryffindor Common Room leaving Malfoy on the ground of the nearly deserted hallway.

"Thanks. I love you guys." Hermione said as she hugged both Ron and Harry. "Well, I'm tired…I think I'll talk a nap. I'll see you guys later okay?" She tip-toed and gave each of them a peck on the cheek as they both turned a bright shade of scarlet as if she had never done it before. She went to her room and lie on her bed. Okay, so maybe she lied, she wasn't going to sleep; she was going to think…a lot. Why did it feel so familiar when Draco had kissed her? Wait, did she just call him Draco? But the sound of it rolled off her tongue smoothly as she said it. But the question was…why? It seemed so strange, like he was her soul mate in a past life or something. She fell into a dreamless sleep thinking about it.

"HERMIONE! Are you in there? Open up!" Hermione woke up to a voice that had definitely belonged to Ron's.

"Hold your hippogriffs, I'm coming!" Hermione shouted lazily as she walked towards the door. "What do you want?" she asked once she saw Ron's face.

"It's lunchtime, I was just checking to make sure you didn't die in there, you've been asleep for a long time." Ron said.

"Oh, Ron! I'm alright. Goodness, you have to stop worrying about me so much. I'll be fine." Hermione replied.

"Well, lunch started a while ago. Wanna come eat?" Ron said hungrily.

"Yeah, sure. Why not? Since I'm not sleeping anymore." Hermione said.

"Okay, let me get Harry and we'll walk down together." Ron said.

Once they got down and started eating, Hermione noticed Malfoy staring at her. She saw a look in his eyes…of beg? No way, Hermione looked down and started eating. She then noticed he got up from his table and ran out of the Great Hall.

While Malfoy was in his room, he kept thinking of why Hermione was behaving like this. Putting a spell on him, having Harry and Ron beat him up. Well, whatever it was, he was sure to get her back into her normal state, he thought as he grinned mischievously. He was going to get her back. He quickly got out a pen and wrote down:

…the more you put me through,

The more it makes me wanna come back to you…

A/N: THERE WE GO! That's my fourth chapter. Sorry it took so long to post it up! But it is longer than the rest of the chapters! I'm so happy! I finally got my iPod! Yay me! Okay, well, I can't wait to actually START reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince! Too bad some bitch gave away the ending on a message board. Don't worry, I won't tell you guys! Okay, well, for those who thought Hermione's potion wore off, I don't know how you got that idea, but it didn't. Please leave a review because they're my motivation to write! Thanks, I love y'all!

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