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thunk…thunk…thunk

It was amazing how entertaining the most mundane thing could be when one was bored.

thunk…thunk…thunk

Who would have ever thought that a simple tennis ball could produce so much joy?

thunk…thunk…thunk

Draco heard a door slam open; he quickly hid the ball in a desk drawer and tried to look busy with paper work. Suddenly his office door burst open and Terry Boot stomped in.

"You'd bloody well better stop what ever the hell it is your doing Malfoy," he said trying to keep his voice under control.

"Really Boot, like I told you the first three times I have no clue what you are talking about."

Boot looked ready to boil over, "You know very well what I am talking about that irritating thunking"

"Thunking" repeated Draco

"Yes thunking"

"Hmm…maybe you should get your self checked out sounds like the stress is getting to you"

Terry turned a very interesting shade of purple at that

"THE STRESS IT NOT GETTING TO ME JUST STOP THAT DAMNED THUNKING" with that he stomped out the door slamming it shut. The impact of the door shook the whole office.

Draco smiled, Boot was just to easy, it had been this way form the first they had started at St. Mungos, they both worked on floor three, Potion and Plant Poisoning. Boot was the head Herbologist and Draco was one of the hospitals main Potions Masters, they were both healers as well. Draco briefly thought about giving the ball one more go and then decided against it, he would let Terry think he had won for now and bring it back out in a few weeks. He sighed and looked around the office, he needed something to do the paper work he had been asked to do was done hours ago and he wasn't set to do rounds till later in the evening. His eyes fell on the clock on the wall. 11:45, he smiled as an idea struck him. He pulled his cell phone out of his pocket; it never ceased to amaze him some of the ingenious things muggles came up with without magic. He scrolled through numbers, most of them for restaurants near his flat that delivered. He smiled when he came to the number he wanted and pressed the call button. She answered after two rings.

"Hello?"

"Go to lunch with me" He demanded

"How did you get this number?"

"I have my ways, now I'm bored so go to lunch with me"

"Why don't you call one of your little groupies, I am sure one of them would be more then happy to accommodate,"

"As am I, but I want to eat and that's never the case when I call one of them, go to lunch with me."

"Why should I"

"I walked you home last night"

"I didn't ask you to."

"Yet I did any way, go to lunch with me it's the least you can do"

The line was silent for a moment and he thought she had hung up.

"Where?"

"That's what I like to hear, Starlight Café at one."

"Fine I'll see you then and you're paying" with that she hung up.

He snapped his phone shut "Yeah…she wants me"

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Hermione stared at her phone; she frowned and muttered "What the hell was that?"

"You ok Mione?" asked Ginny her face etched with concern and she looked at her friend.

They were sitting in one of the comfy couches that sat in strategic locations around the book shop that Hermione owned. After the war there had been many offers to work for the ministry, St. Mungos, and even Hogwarts, but Hermione had decided that she wanted to get back to her roots, so with the help of her Grandmother Nia, she had opened a muggle book shop.

"Yeah fine, that was just an unexpected call" Ginny looked at her for a moment, Hermione obviously wasn't going to say more and Ginny decided not to push the topic. She had come to Hermione's shop to see if she was Ok after last night.

"So you were saying," Hermione prodded

"Oh yeah, so after you left, Merlin I wish you could have seen it, When Ron finely told us what had happened, Hannah hexed him, and then told him if he even so much as walked through the front door of their flat he'd get ten times worse." Hermione smiled

"And here I thought that she was all sunshine and lemon drops"

"You and me both" Both women laughed.

"Well it's nice to know that she'll keep him on his toes"

"Or his arse if she keeps throwing those hexes at him, any way Hannah and I going to have lunch and we wanted you to come along"

"Oh well I'd love to but I can't, I have plans"

"Really? With who?"

"Umm…someone"

"The someone who just called?"

"Yes"

"And that would be?"

"Someone"

"You have no intention of telling me do you?"

"No not really" Ginny looked at her friend who was desperately trying to avoid eye contact. She sighed

"Ok Mione, but I will find out sooner or later."

"I know but I'm hoping it's later"

"Humph…Well I'm meeting Hannah soon so I should get going, have fun on your mystery date" she said getting up from the couch and gathering her bag and jacket.

"It's not a date!"

"Ok, whatever it is have fun" with that she blew Hermione a kiss and walked out of the little shop.

Hermione knew Ginny was annoyed at her, but the truth of the matter was that if she had told Ginny that the Mystery person was Malfoy, she would want to know why Hermione had agreed to the lunch, and she really didn't have a clue as to why. Malfoy was rude, arrogant, egotistical, and for some unknown reason utterly intriguing. Hermione sighed and looked at her watch 12:15. She got up and walked to the front counter, there was a young man sitting behind it engrossed in a thick novel.

"James" He looked up at her and blinked a few times as if he was trying to remember who she was.

"Yeah boss?" he asked her.

"I'm going to go run a few errands and go to lunch I should be back in about two hours, ok"

"Sure thing Boss, go do what you need to and I'll hold down the fort" Hermione nodded and grabbed her purse and jacket, and walked out of the shop in to the busy streets of London.

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"At this point I thought that I was home free, but I rounded the last corner and ran right in to Snape" Draco said his eyes dancing with amusement. Hermione was across the table trying to catch her breath from laughing so hard.

"What did you do" she gasped out.

"The only thing that I could think of claimed I must have been sleep walking because I had no clue how I had gotten there."

"And he bought it?" she asked

"Of course he told me that it might be a good idea to invest in a pair of pajama pants, in case there were future sleep walking incidences" Hermione laughed again.

"Oh my I don't think that our games of truth or dare ever got that daring in Gryffindor." she said

"I beg to differ, I remember hearing about a certain kiss the occurred between you and Parvati Patil" Hermione turned a brilliant shade of red and buried her face in her hands

"Oh Merlin you heard about that?"

"Granger the who school heard about that, there were more then a few guys that wished they had been sorted in the Gryffindor, Thomas was the big man on campus for a while for being the one to make the dare." Hermione turned even redder.

"I don't see why" she said shaking her head.

" I guess it's just a guy thing, but the idea of two girls kissing is hot," he said with a wicked gleam in his eye. Hermione opened and closed her eyes several times trying to say something any thing.

"Oh shut it Malfoy" she said and looked at her watch.

"Bloody Hell it's after three" she gasped as she leapt up," I have to get back to the shop"

"We haven't had dessert yet" Draco said " and they have the best Tiramisu I have ever had outside of Italy"

"I can't I should have been back at least half an hour ago" she said as she shrugged on her jacket." Thanks for lunch I had fun" she called over her shoulder as she ran out of the restaurant.

He looked at his own watch thinking that maybe her watch was off, but it was indeed after three, they had talked for two hours, he shook his head and signaled for the server to come over so he could pay the bill. As he walked out into Diagon Ally he couldn't help but think about how easy in was to talk to the pretty, dark haired witch.

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So there we have it my lovely little kittens, another chapter for you. I want to say Thank You to all my reviewers, kisses to you all.

Big Kisses to livngvendetta who was my first reviewer ever!

Next chapter more Anna and Tiramisu.