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CHAPTER FOUR: Double Date?
Draco Apparated to the hotel he was staying at in America. He supposed Blaise would be late, as he always was. So he decided to wonder around for awhile. After a short while he heard Blaise's footsteps behind him.
"Draco, buddy! How are you?" he said enthusiastically.
"Oh I'm just great. What can be more fun than spending my summer with you?" Draco said sarcastically.
"Well I suppose we should get to our rooms and unpack. The first competition starts tomorrow doesn't it?" and rushed off towards the elevator.
Draco sighed. This was going to be a long summer.
Hermione gave her cousin the best of luck before she headed off towards her seat. She never was very interested in sports but seeing her cousin participating in such she couldn't help but be proud. She sat down next to Harry along with Jade's team.
"Do you think she'll win?" she asked, starting conversation.
"I'm pretty confident. She showed quite a lot of skill during her training. What do you think?" Harry replied.
"I agree. I think she'll at least get the bronze medal. But she's going for the gold."
The competition began and both Harry and Hermione cheered wildly for Jade.
Jade's went through Japan, Australia, Greece, and Brazil like they were fruitcake, but when the last competitor came, there she had something to worry about. England. Jade walked over to Harry and Hermione and swished off her mask.
"Oh my god, I'm going against Katherine Engelmann this is insanity. I'm going to lose! No not really." Jade said sitting down and taking a drink.
"Who's that?" Blaise asked looking down at the fencing ground.
"HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW!" Draco obviously annoyed he was even there. Everyone in the stands was looking at him and he shot them cold glares and turned around.
"Well she's going against Katherine Engelmann; she's going to be in big trouble." Blaise said. "Oh she's representing America. Ha, like they can beat England."
'Stupid Zabini had to drag me to this stupid event. Wait, who the hell is that?' he thought seeing the back of Hermione's head. 'Well whoever it is, she looks good. He brings me here to check out girls and I can't even see the girl I want to check out! Stupid Blaise forgot those bloody binocu-thingy's.'
"Oh okay, the girl representing America is Jade Jasmine, erm…Jade Jasmine. Oh God," Blaise muttered.
"What?" Draco asked thinking Blaise just saw 'his girl.'
"Uh nothing," Blaise said.
"Now for the last competition; England vs. the USA," The spokesperson boomed through the microphone. "Representing England: twenty-one year old Katherine Engelmann and Representing the USA: The world's youngest professional fencer, fifteen year old Jade Jasmine GRANGER!"
"Granger? BLAISE!" Draco yelled and turned his head to his so-called friend.
"Oh yeah…what Granger?" Blaise replied.
"Don't play dumb with me Zabini!" Draco hissed.
"Listen alright, she might not be related to Granger and why do you care?" He asked trying to change the subject from getting pounded by Malfoy.
"I don't," Draco lied coolly. 'I hope that girl I was staring at wasn't Granger.'
"Alright England steps up to the middle of the mat and the USA follows, they shake on it." The spokesman said through the microphone loudly.
"Good luck." Katherine said.
"Thanks." Jade said and they both swished around and walked to the ends of the mat and face each other in ready positions.
"The bells ring and they begin!" The spokesman boomed again. "Granger is showing great defense, but can she keep it? Oh Engelmann goes in for the hit and wow, Granger has jumped up and flipped backwards, amazing. Alright Engelmann is on her defenses now and Granger looks like she's quickening and oh, 2 points for Granger! Back on the mat Granger takes a false swipe to Engelmann and Engelmann resents. Good try Granger. Okay, now both Granger and Engelmann are on one hand.
"Do you think you can win?" Katherine asked Jade.
"Let's see," Jade said sliding under Katherine who takes 2 hits to the legs.
"6 points for the USA and 2 for Engelmann," the spokesman said.
After many hours, the results came in…
"To the Bronze Medal!" boomed the spokesperson. "'Katie Larks!" A tall blonde girl walked up to receive her medal and congratulations.
"To the Silver Medal is Katherine Engelmann." Katherine
"To the Gold Medal is…" Hermione held her breathe. "Jade Jasmine!" Harry and Hermione applauded and cheered for her as Jade looked up at them with pride. Harry whistled and Hermione clapped till her hands were red.
By the time they met up with her at the end of the competition she was sprinkled with confetti only to have flowers shoved in her face and bright smiles from her cousin and new friend. She smiled at them and hugged them both tightly.
"I can't believe I won this!" she exclaimed showing the medal. "I should write Mom ASAP!" They chatted and talked all the way to the parking lot when Hermione caught a glimpse of platinum blonde hair around the corner. She could've sworn she knew him from somewhere. The thought was quickly tossed aside and they went back to their hotel rooms.
"…I swear that brunette was checking me out!" Blaise was bragging.
"Uh-huh. Sure, Blaise. She barely took a glimpse of you," argued Draco. He had been still thinking if that girl was Granger. "If it wasn't for you and my mother I wouldn't be here in this Muggle place. I can't believe my mother even approved! What would my father say?" Draco said.
"Whatever let's just go get cleaned up and find some dates. Then we can go find a good restaurant or something," said Blaise not really caring about anything other than girls.
"Whatever you say…" replied Draco dryly.
Hermione sighed. "I can't believe my little cousin just won the Gold Medal at the Olympics!" she said in a mushy voice.
"Hermione, don't call me that! It makes me sound like a little kid! You know you're only older by a month or so!" replied Jade, putting her hair up. Hermione gave her a look. "Okay, six months! Let's hurry up so we can go celebrate at that new restaurant!" she twirled around in front of the mirror. "How do I look?" she asked.
Hermione stopped putting her hair up and turned around. She looked stunning; a long violet dress went well with her hair. She wore spotless white gloves and beautiful diamond earrings, necklace, and bracelet.
"So?" she said impatiently.
"You look like a winner," Hermione said. "I'm sure Harry will love it," she added, winking.
"What?" Jade asked. "I err… I guess." She blushed.
"So you admit it?"
"W-what?" she asked, acting a lot like Ron.
"Admit that you and Harry like each other?" Hermione pushed the question.
"Well of course we like each other! We're friends!" she lied. She actually sort of found Harry attractive...
"Let's go partaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!" she changed the subject and headed for the door.
Hermione grabbed her purse and walked out. They met Harry in the lobby and he looked quite good himself. He looked very good in a tuxedo. But his hair was still its usual mess.
"Shall we go?" he asked, obviously stunned by Jade's appearance.
"Oh yeah," Jade said after checking Harry out. He noticed and smiled to himself.
They walked out of the hotel and took a sparkling white limousine to the new French restaurant, Les Cordon Blue.
They gracefully stepped out of the limo and walked into the restaurant. It was very fancy. Chandeliers hung from the ceiling of the entrance room. The waiters and waitresses were bringing glasses of wine to the tables.
"Do you have a reservation?" asked an accented voice.
"Oh yeah. Three for Jade Jasmine Granger," said Jade. The clerk nodded and led the way to the table.
The rooms were dimly lit creating a romantic atmosphere. Hermione, looking around the room, accidentally tripped and landed in someone's arms.
"Oh I'm so sorry," Hermione said mentally cursing her clumsiness. She looked up to see herself face to face with Draco Malfoy. "MALFOY!" she screamed in shock. "I—I mean…" Hermione stopped.
Jade turned around and found a very handsome, blonde helping her cousin up. She would've recognized him anywhere. Hermione had described him many times as a stupid, juvenile, ferret, or intolerable git. This was the perfect opportunity to get back at her for "match-making." Now it was her turn. She smiled evilly.
"Hermione are you okay?" she asked. "Who's this? Oh YOU must be the infamous Draco Malfoy! Hermione has said so many, many, things about you."
"We really have to get going!" Hermione said trying to cut Jade off.
"No! I'm hungry and we just got here, hey have you had dinner yet?" Jade asked Draco who was making a confused face.
"Um no we were just go—"
"We were just going to eat," Blaise finished for him staring up and down at Jade. "Hello I'm Blaise Zabini, and you are?"
"Jade Jasmine Granger, you know Hermione and Harry right?" Jade said.
"Unfortunately, yes," Draco drawled.
"Malfoy," Harry said insignificantly as he arrived. Draco replied with a cold glare.
"Okay that's great! Come with us we were just about to sit down." She walked off as the others followed.
"Blaise! What were you thinking?" Draco whispered. He still couldn't get over that he was checking out Hermione Granger!
"Well what was I supposed to do? I can't turn down a hot babe's offer!" he said and walked ahead of Draco.
"Great. First Blaise, now the Boy Wonder and his girlfriend," Draco muttered before following.
Hermione just stood there in shock. She couldn't believe Jade could do this to her! She knew how much she hated Malfoy! What had she done to deserve it anyway?
"Jade! What the bloody hell is going on?" Harry asked confused. He didn't sound too happy about having dinner with Malfoy and Zabini either.
"What? I was just being friendly! Hurry up I'm hungry!" she said cheerily, as if she hadn't invited her cousin and friend's worst enemies to dinner.
Hermione sighed. This was going to be a long night. She quickly tried to take the seat next to Harry but Jade already occupied it. 'Great,' she thought. She slumped over to the only available seat next to Blaise who had taken the seat across from Jade and was attempting to use his "charm" on her.
Draco was the last to arrive at the table and made a disgusted face as he hesitated to sit down next to Hermione. He actually thought that Hermione was looking quite nice. She had definitely changed since he last so her. She had all the right curves and her hair was no longer bushy but was now in soft, brown waves. Her hair was put up and a stray hair fell across her face. Draco had the urge to push it away. She looked very nice in that red dress. Suddenly he remembered that she was Hermione Granger, a Mudblood. He came back to his senses to see Hermione looking at him in confusion. He changed his facial expression back to disgust and slowly took a seat next to her careful not to make any contact.
"May I order your drinks?" A waiter with French accent said.
"Do you have any Peppermint Snaps?" Jade asked.
"Yes, Mademoiselle," The waiter said scribbling it on his notepad. "Anything else?"
"I'll have what she's having," Draco said.
"Let's all just have Peppermint Snaps," Blaise said.
"Alright five Peppermint Snaps." He walked away and arrived a few minutes later with their orders.
"So what are you doing here, in Muggle Athens?" Hermione asked eagerly, looking at Draco.
"Ahem, well it's not like I wanted to go here. Blaise just dragged me along to check out girls," Draco said eyeing Blaise who had blushed slightly.
"That's weird," Jade said.
"So you're from America?" Blaise changed the subject again.
"Yes, well Hawaii actually," Jade said.
"Oh well…uh…that's interesting…" Blaise commented losing his "charm."
Hermione could see Harry becoming jealous, but she could also see that Jade was bored.
"Yes, that is really interesting, have you always lived there?" Harry butted into the conversation.
"No, I moved to Washington to go to Salem and it's like a boarding school so I lived there." Jade said.
"Wait, you're… a witch?" Blaise asked quietly.
"Uh… duh!" Jade said.
"I didn't know you had other wizard relatives," Draco said.
"Well why would you? I mean you haven't really come up friendly and asked," Hermione snapped.
"Your soups," The waiter said passing everyone their broccoli cheddar soups.
"So err… where are you staying at?" Blaise asked Jade.
"The Plaza Hotel," Jade answered.
"So are we," Blaise said. "I'm in room 585," he said and they exchanged room numbers, including Draco, Harry, and Hermione's. They ate in silence for awhile and finally Jade decided it was time to take action, or in other words be obnoxious.
"So Draco, I've heard so much about you from my cousin over here," she said gesturing to Hermione. "You don't seem like such a stupid git as she says you are," she smiled evilly when she saw both of them blush. "And no offense, but you aren't as hot as she said you were, either."
Harry spat his soup all over Blaise.
"WHAT?" Hermione, Harry, Draco, and Blaise asked.
"Uh…excuse me I have to use the restroom…" Hermione walked a few feet expecting Jade to follow, which she didn't and turned back and grabbed her arm while whispering "COME WITH ME!"
"Why?" Jade asked stupidly. But she didn't really have a choice since she was being dragged over to the bathroom.
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?" Hermione raged, obviously embarrassed.
"What exactly did I do?" she asked still playing dumb. Hermione groaned.
"Let me see…number one: you invited Zabini and Malfoy over to have dinner with us, two: you embarrassed me in front of my worst enemy and best friend, three: you lied! I definitely did NOT say Draco was…attractive!" Jade just stood there and acted like there was nothing wrong.
"Well I was just trying to be friendly and I didn't lie. Okay so you never really said that but I can tell you were thinking it! I could see that dreamy look on your face!" she said. She knew her cousin really didn't have a dreamy look on her face but she loved to irritate her.
"WHAT? That look on my face is DISGUST! God what is wrong with you? Are you purposely trying to humiliate me!" Hermione yelled. Actually she had in fact shown disgust but had actually started thinking of Draco as…well, not as slimy as he was the previous year. He had changed over the summer. His hair was no long glued to his scalp but hung down over his face. His once ferret features were now "manly" and Quidditch had paid off for his body. He was slim but also very muscular. Hermione couldn't help herself and let the dreamy look Jade was talking about cover her face.
She quickly recovered from her daydream and snapped back to reality. Jade was looking at her with a smirk on her face.
"Then what was that expression you just showed me right now?" Jade asked. Hermione turned red, but that didn't stop her from defending herself again.
"That was just…nothing. Okay? What are you doing anyway? Trying to get us together or something?" she asked sarcastically.
"Actually I was just trying to get back at you for trying to match-making me and Harry which is not working. We're just friends and we're staying that way. But as I was saying, I was just trying to humiliate you but since you do seem to find Draco attractive I'm very happy with myself," she said still smirking.
"You're pathetic, I mean honestly, Draco Malfoy, the one that has been calling me a Mudblood and insulting everyone supposedly on a lower class than him for years? I'm not stupid," Hermione snapped.
"People can change you know."
"Yeah, sure and you don't like Harry."
"I DON'T LIKE HARRY WE'RE JUST FRIENDS!"
"Yeah you do like Harry."
Jade frowned and walked out and Hermione followed her out with a grin on her face. They sat down in their respected spots and they all started to attend to there salad. Jade simply poked at it.
"Uh…so…what happened to Blaire?" she asked.
"Um…it's Blaise," corrected Draco.
"Ya, okay, whatever, like I care," she said and Harry's face lit up slightly. "Where is he though?"
"Oh he's in the bathroom cleaning off Potter's spit," Draco smirked as Harry blushed. "So, Hermione, love, since when did you think I was hot? I mean, I knew I was very attractive and I'm really flattered but you're just not my type," he said his smirk widening as he saw Hermione go pale.
"Okay that was just WRONG! Don't ever, ever call me that! And I most certainly DON'T think you're hot," she lied. She always had been a bad liar.
"Really?" asked Draco raising his eyebrow. "I'm surprised. Most girls drool over my good looks," he bragged. Both Hermione and Harry rolled their eyes.
"Well those girls have probably thought you were cute when you were a FERRET!" Hermione retorted. He was such a git sometimes. Wait…scratch that. He was always a git. Draco turned red with anger but forced himself to calm down. He was in a restaurant and he had to keep his cool. Even if it was a Muggle place.
"At least they like ferrets better than buck-tooth beavers!" he spat angrily.
"I am NOT a buck-tooth beaver!" she complained.
"Thanks to the one-and-only…ME!" he pointed out. Hermione groaned.
The whole night was filled with insults and retorts going back and forth from Hermione and Draco. Jade and Harry just ignored them and talked amongst themselves and Blaise continued to flirt with Jade. Or at least try to. People looked at them and decided to ignore the odd people. Jade was starting to get sleepy by the desserts and so she fell asleep. She rested her head on Harry's shoulder and fell asleep there.
"Potter, looks like you got you self a girlfriend," Draco said ignoring Hermione's incessant taunts.
"Shut up Malfoy." Harry said in a regretful shout. Jade was startled and woke up and shot up hitting Harry in the nose. "Ow!" Harry shouted.
"Oh Harry! I'm sorry," Jade apologized, giving him a napkin and holding his hand to his nose. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, it's alright."
Draco looked at them and smirked, "What a cute couple." Harry sent him a glare, Jade just stared at him, Hermione kept insulting him, and Blaise kept attempting to flirt. "What?"
"Well you and Hermione make a cute couple too," replied Jade and that made everyone shut up and he and Hermione blushed.
"What is it with you people!" Draco asked. "Why do you insist Hermione and I get together?"
"Uh…why do you keep calling her Hermione?" Blaise asked. Draco just sat there thinking, 'Oh shit.'
"Um…we've got to go…" said Jade. "Nice meeting you…I guess…see you soon. Actually I doubt I'll ever see you again so bye." They picked up their things and walked out, dragging her cousin and "friend" with her. But Hermione didn't realize she left her purse.
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