Chapter 4
When Draco and Hermione woke up the next morning they put on their robes and went down to the great hall for breakfast. Hermione was still trying to get past the fact that the Slytherin bad boy liked her, let alone loved her. How was she going to tell Harry and Ron? More importantly how was she going to tell Ginny? After all they were practically sisters. Draco looked up, after taking a bite of his toast, at Hermione. Their relationship grew a lot over the past month, but he didn't know how he could continue it once all his friends have arrived. He was, at this point, wishing he wasn't a Pureblood or a Slytherin so they could be together but even he knew that was impossible. At 7 o'clock everyone else arrived and Draco was surrounded by Blaise, Crabbe, Goyle, and Pansy, who was now all over him. A few minutes later, after they were done eating Draco was letting Pansy kiss him. All of Hermiones' feelings for him were quickly turning from love to jealousy.
Ooh, ooh, and I'm not jealous no I'm not
Ooh, ooh, I just want everything she's got
Ooh, ooh, you look at her so amazed
I remember way back when you used to look at me that way
Tell me what makes her so much better than me (so much better than me)
What makes her your every dream and fantasy
What makes her just everything that I can never be
What makes her just everything that I can never be
Because I can remember when it was me.
Dumbledore soon cleared everybodys' plates and asked for their attention. "This year I have done something different for the head boy and girl positions. This year I purposely choose one Slytherin and one Gryffindor to help achieve house unity. I believe that all of us would perform better if we all got along. Now I invite the head boy and girl up here. Mr. Malfoy, Miss Granger would you come up here please."
"no sorry I can't. I can't be anywhere near him professor." Hermione told herself as she got up and walked towards the staff table. As soon as Hermione got up there and stood by Draco she could feel Pansys' eyes burning a whole into the side of her head. She was relieved when Professor Dumbledore told them they could go back to their seats five minutes later because that meant she would be able to get away from Draco. When she got to the Gryffindor table she grabbed her bag and walked out of the great hall. She used the passageway she had used once before so she wouldn't be disturbed. Once she got to the portrait of the two dice, (one green, one red) that resembled chance. She muttered the password "Friendship" and walked into the common room. She knew that the walls to the heads' dorms were soundproof so she set her bag down on the couch, screamed at the top of her lungs and finally collapsed crying onto the couch. She didn't know how he could stand there and say goodbye when she was saying I still love you. But no of that mattered now because she was starting to realize that she was just a fill in while Pansy wasn't around. She was alone for about an hour when Draco came in.
"Are you okay Hermione? You left in an awfully big hurry."
"Shut it Malfoy. I don't want to hear what you have to say not now, not ever. Pansy's back so you have her. You don't need me to fill in for her anymore."
"What do you mean fill in for her."
"You know what I mean. You only used me until you could get her back and now she's here. You don't have feelings for me. So just admit it. "
"Fine then I don't. Are you happy now I said it." He told her as he walked to his room. Those were the hardest two words to say. He did love her, he truly did. He just didn't know how he could with everyone back especially Pansy. He knew that if Pansy found out she would tell his parents. That's why he let her touch and kiss him but how would he convince Hermione to believe that? She probably won't even talk to me now.