A/N Thanks for the reviews. Here is Chapter 4 so enjoy!

Chapter 4

As September drew to a close the weather got colder and Hermione grew more and more thankful that she had a common room of her own since the Gryffindor one was always packed with students trying to get out of the cold. The only people who had the password to the Head's common room apart from her and Draco were Blaise Zabini and Ginny. Hermione didn't trust Harry and Ron with it. She thought they might come and hex Draco during the middle of the night.

Hermione and Draco were also getting along quite well now. He smiled at her a lot more and he even talked to her civilly in front of his friends. Draco also spent a lot more time in their common room. Draco claimed that the Slytherin dungeon was too cold and the library too quiet but Hermione didn't believe him.

Over the past few weeks Hermione had noticed just how good looking Draco was. He wasn't as pale as people thought he was and he had these amazing grey eyes that Hermione thought looked right into her soul every time he looked at her. She liked how his blond hair fell into his eyes and somehow his smile always made her stomach flip. She couldn't deny it now, she liked Draco Malfoy. She never told anyone about it and thought that it would pass because there was no way in a million years that Draco would ask her out.

The prefects, Hermione and Draco were all gathered in an empty classroom to discuss the upcoming Halloween Ball and deal out the duties. Draco had told Hermione that she could chair the meeting and he would add in anything he thought was important. Hermione thought this a very gracious offer since she knew that he liked to be in charge.

Hermione tapped the table in front of her with her wand and everybody stopped talking.

"Right, now as you know at the beginning of term Dumbledore announced that there was to be a Halloween Ball. Specifically a masquerade ball. Now is one very important question that we have to answer before we allocate duties. Do we open the ball to all years or just to fourth years and above?" Hermione finished speaking and there was a general consensus of allowing everybody to go rather than excluding the first three years of the school.

"Right now we have that sorted we need to allocate who will find the music, who will sort out the food, who will sort out the decorations and who will be in charge of advertising." Hermione then asked in turn who would like to do what and wrote it all down. She was just writing the last name down and also thinking how surprising it was that Draco hadn't said anything when the Slytherin prefect said "And what will you be doing?" with a sneer. Hermione saw Draco's jaw tighten and Ron's fists clench but she just said "The Head boy and I will be overseeing the whole operation."

"Overseeing? I could oversee things better than you could" The prefect said and everybody drew in breath. To Hermione's surprise it was Draco who spoke.

"No you couldn't nobody could. Hermione has given you your job and you will stick to it. Her decision is final and you will accept it." He said forcefully. With that the meeting dispersed. Hermione and Draco walked back to their common room together but all Hermione could think about was the fact that Draco had called her Hermione in public.

"Something wrong?" he asked

"No nothing I'm fine she said smiling and he smiled back. He loved her smile.

The weeks leading up to the Halloween ball kept Hermione very busy. She had to oversee everything and keep on top of her homework and to top it all off she had to find a dress.

In fact finding a dress and mask was easy in comparison to finding a date. It was the week before the ball and everything was in place. She just had to find a date. She was sat eating lunch with Harry and Ron, a rare occurrence in these past few weeks when Ron suddenly asked her "Hermione will you go to the ball with me?" It was done without any kind of tact or romanticism that Hermione immediately said no. She looked over to the Slytherin table where Pansy Parkinson was laying a hand on Dracos' arm and Hermione felt a surge of jealousy. She was sure she liked Draco now and she wanted him to ask her to the ball but she didn't get her hopes up.

The rest of the day was cold and wet and Hermione having finished all her homework was curled up on the sofa reading a book when Draco came through the portrait hole holding something behind his back. He came and stood in front of her.

"Ummm Hermione can I ask you something?" He said quite shyly.

"Of course" She said.

"Well the thing is, is that I've liked you for a long time and I was wondering if maybe you wanted to go to the ball with me?" He looked at her with his piercing grey eyes.

"I'd love to" Hermione said smiling. On the outside she looked calm but on the inside her thoughts were going crazy. He asked me! He finally asked me!

"Oh and I bought these for you" He said pulling out a bunch of roses from behind his back and giving them to her.

"Thank you they're lovely" Hermione said smiling even more. Draco bent down gave her a kiss on the cheek and said "You're lovely".

A/N Hope you enjoyed this chapter. I hope to update again soon.