Author's note: Okay, so I decided to continue it since some of you thought I should. This will be the last chapter with a song in it for a while, so if that part bugs you, please don't stop reading.

Vasya: I thought you weren't going to continue this.

I wasn't.

Vasya: Then why are you?

Because my wonderful readers thought I should.

Vasya: I knew it. If they told you to jump off a bridge you would.

Would not…you know what? Just shut up and do the disclaimer.

Vasya: She doesn't own anything. Not the song The Art of Breaking by Thousand Foot Krutch, not the characters….not the plot…that's mine.

:Throws a pillow at Vasya: Thank you Vasya, that'll be all. Much thanks to the people that reviewd last time. It only takes a few seconds to make my day! R&R, on with the story!

Chapter Two: The Art of Breaking

"Draco, are you out of your bloody mind? Do you remember what happened last time?" Blaise asked dumbfounded as Draco finished telling him what had happened only an hour before. "Oh why am I asking you? You obviously don't remember, or you wouldn't even be considering this!" Blaise now shouted.

Draco shook his head at his best friend. He should have known he would react this way. "Blaise, I know I shouldn't be giving her another chance, but I can't help it. I'm still in love with her, Blaise."

"Please tell me she doesn't know that," Blaise said as he hit his head on the wall. Of all times, why did Draco have to be distracted by a girl when they were in the middle of a tour? It had happened to another friend of Blaise's, and he had ended up leaving the group after that tour. Blaise wasn't about to let that happen to Scarlet Dragon.

Draco looked at his feet. "No, she doesn't know. I was going to tell her that night before she left me," Draco said sadly. He looked desperately up at Blaise. "Please, Blaise. I know you hate this, but I can't let this opportunity go to waste."

"I know you can't Draco," Blaise answered as he sat down on the couch next to his friend. "I just don't want you to leave the group for some girl. We wouldn't be here right now if it weren't for you, and I don't think the rest of the group could handle continuing without you."

After hearing this, Draco burst out laughing. "Blaise, I'm not going to leave Scarlet Dragon just because of Hermione. I love the band, the music, the fans, everything. Just because I'm trying to work things out with Hermione doesn't mean I'm going to leave the band."

Blaise considered for a moment. "You promise you won't leave us because of her?" He asked looking Draco in the eyes.

"I promise, Blaise," Draco said laughing.

The next day, Hermione walked back into the club with her friends as she searched for a table close to the front. She quickly dragged them there, and made them sit down.

"Gosh Hermione, Scarlet Dragon is supposed to be our favorite band, not yours!" Lex laughed as Hermione pushed him into his seat. "What's your hurry?"

"I just want to make sure we get good seats for the concert," Hermione smiled innocently.

Cassidy laughed. "Sure you do, Hermione. I saw you follow Drake after the concert yesterday. You're here to see him, aren't you?"

Before Hermione could answer, Chris butted in. "You actually spoke to Drake? Why didn't you get me an autograph?" Chris half shouted half laughed.

"No, I didn't get you an autograph. Why are you calling him Drake? His name is Draco," Hermione said puzzled.

"Fans of Scarlet Dragon all call him Drake. He even signs his autographs as Drake Malfoy, though I heard there's a trick to the part of his last name. I've never seen his autograph though to know what it is.," Leslie answered.

"He takes the end of the y back around to cross all the way though Malfoy. Not only that, but I hear he has the coolest handwriting ever. I wish I could actually see it," Donny answered. Suddenly the lights dimmed, and the spotlight shown on stage and the instrumental break stopped.

"Okay, enough of Blaise and Riley showing off, let's get back to the real songs!" Draco shouted as he jumped up on stage.

"That is a real song!" Blaise and Riley yelled in unison, looking quite offended as Draco laughed.

"A song without words is no song at all," Draco replied jokingly and ducked as Blaise chucked a stick at him. "Okay, let's get on with the rest of the show!" Draco yelled again as the crowd cheered.

"I think most of you remember The Art of Breaking right? Well in any case, here it goes. Yes in case you were wondering, I wrote this one too. Quite impressive, isn't it?" Draco laughed as Riley and Blaise started the song. The crowd jumped up and came up close to the stage and danced as the song went on.

Every time I call you on the phone
I listen to it ring but no one's home
I can't explain the energy that
You give me when I'm left here alone

Hermione looked down at her feet as Draco sang. That verse had to be about her. She had refused to answer her phone whenever Draco tried calling her after she left him. Now she regretted it.


And every time I pass you on the street
You won't even turn and look at me
I never would of thought that things could
Go this far but please believe me

What, was this song talking about their relationship completely? He had passed her in the park a month after she left him, and when he called out to her she pretended not to hear him. When he tried walking toward her, she had apparated.

I'll pick you up, won't let you fall
I'll build your trust and it won't hurt at all,
Your only drug will let you down,
I'm through now, so take me and blow me away

When I feel numb I'll let you know,
I won't become what I was before,
You cannot kill what's not your creation,
This is the Art of Breaking

Hermione knew where this came from. Draco had sworn to her he would never change back to how he was while they were in school. She hadn't believed him. Then again, he had said that while he was trying to reason with her after she had left him.


I think I might just lose my mind
If I have to watch this one more time
I can't explain how many times I've
Stayed for you when you were on my mind

No one ever said that it was easy
So come out of the cold and stop your bleeding
I never would of thought that things could
Go this far, but please believe me

Are you gonna run away, and leave me here alone?
Are you gonna run away, and leave me here?

Draco pointed straight at her as he spoke the last few words, and the audience erupted in cheers. That settled it. It was about her, then.

"Alright folks, my voice needs a bit of a rest," Draco said. The audience groaned and protested, as Blaise and Riley burst out laughing.

"You? Drake, you just had a break through our five minute instrumental! We should be the ones complaining about breaks, not you!" Riley said through his laughter. Blaise on the other hand looked ready to chuck another stick at Draco.

Draco just winked and looked back at Hermione, before jumping off the stage and walking towards her as best he could through the crowd. Blaise and Riley exchanged glances, before nodding that they understood as they too got off the stage to make way for the next band.

The second Draco reached Hermione, he grabbed her hand and started leading her away through the crowd, all the while being begged for autographs. The two got to Draco's dressing room, and he pulled her in before shutting and locking the door.

Hermione sat down on the couch and watched as he nervously looked anywhere but at her. Suddenly she pulled him next to her on the couch, and kissed his cheek. Draco smiled.

"I've missed you so much Hermione. You wouldn't believe the crazy things that have been going through my head since you left," Draco laughed as he draped his arm around her.

"Draco, there's something I need to tell you," Hermione said nervously.

"What is it, Hermione? Oh don't tell me, you've found someone else. Of course you have. A beautiful woman like you can't be expected to not find someone else after a whole year," Draco rambled, until Hermione kissed him to silence him.

"Draco, there's no one else." Draco visibly relaxed. "But the dream you had four months ago wasn't a dream," Hermione said quietly looking down at her feet.

Draco was stunned. "What do you mean it wasn't a dream?"

"I needed to be with you, but afterwards I realized I shouldn't have come, so I cast a spell on you so you would think it was a dream," Hermione said as she looked at her hands, finding them suddenly quite interesting.

"So you mean you and I…" Draco trailed off, still trying to absorb what he had just heard.

Hermione nodded. "Yes, we did. But I still have more to tell you, Draco."

Draco shook his head in disbelieve. It couldn't get much worse, right?

Little did Draco Malfoy know, his life was about to be turned upside down.