Wow, two chapters in two days! That has to be a new record!! This story might end up being a lot longer than I expected, that's alright with me, I just want to tie things up in a good way. R/R!!
Bags were packed. The school was a flutter with excitement, the year was over, time to go home. Harry had since almost forgotten about what had happened between him and Draco. It wasn't easy, but with help from Hermione and Ron, they had made it easier than it could have been.
Ron beamed up at Harry from the floor as he was picking a few stray objects out from under his bed,"Why so glum mate? You'll be spending a lot of the summer with us!"
"I don't know." he said with a sigh,"I just don't know." He was lying. He did know why. He wasn't going to see Draco over the summer. They would be no chances to try and convince him that they did love eachother. He would be forced to move on more completely than he had already.
"It's about Draco, isn't it?" Ron asked now sitting up throwing the objects into his trunk.
Harry didn't speak, he only nodded. Ron, searched his mind for things to say to his bestfriend, something that would cheer him up, and suddenly, something came to mind, something he had heard his mother say on several occassions. "Mum always said, that if you love someone, you have to let them go. They'll come back to you if they are truly yours." he smiled lightly.
"Thanks Ron. Means a lot to me. You trying to help me and all."
"Hey, what are best friends for?"
The platform at the train was crowded. Students were saying goodbye to teachers, and exchanging information with friends they had gained over the year. Harry, Ron and Hermione were trying to push through the crowd to get on the train and find a spot before all of the other compartments were taken. Ron had already stepped onto the train, Harry was about to take a step when something caught his eye. A certain blond haired slytherin.
He stopped completely in the door way and stared at him, stared at him like there would be no tomorrow. "Harry, what are you doing?" Hermione asked looking in the direction of his gaze. "Oh." she said when she finally saw what he was looking at. "Harry, go on inside." She pushed on his back gently but Harry just continued to stare at him, Draco looked at him a few times and turned away to laugh and joke with the others. He knew what he was doing. He had to make it hurt, just like all those times Harry had made him hurt.
"It's all in the past." Harry told himself and took a step onto the train.
Hermione stopped and watched Draco herself, he turned again and looked to where Harry was once standing, when he realized Hermione had caught him, he turned quickly and walked off to the other end of the train. "Yeah, I thought so." she said to herself.
When she reached the compartment where Ron and the rest of the gang was sitting, she plopped down beside Harry who was reading a magazine that Ginny had handed over. Within a few minutes, the train pulled away from the platform and Harry looked up to watch Hogwarts pass by his window. He sighed, he hoped, that over this summer, he'd be able to put everything behind him.
While everyone was busy reading or sleeping, Hermione told Ron she was taking a walk and left the compartment. She made up her mind, she was going to settle this. She walked toward the end of the train of which she knew Draco would be sitting and began to look inside each compartment. After a few minutes of nothing, she was happy to stumble upon a very nervous looking Colin,"Have you seen Malfoy?"
"Yeah," Colin said,"he's back there in the last one. Watch him, he's with his gang."
"Thanks Colin." she said and set off towards the compartment.
She stopped in front of the door and watched them for a few minutes before pulling the door open, "Malfoy, I need to speak to you."
Crabbe and Goyle jumped up and stood in front of the door blocking any entrance that she may have had. "I have no business with a mudblood such as you."
"It's about you know who." she said. Crabbe and Goyle looked at eachother, confused, which is nothing new. "Stand down." Draco said suddenly. Once again, the two eyed eachother, but obeyed him. "I will speak to you, but only for a bit."
"Draco?" Pansy asked.
"It's important. Stay here." he said looking at everyone in the compartment,"I mean it."
Once Hermione had found a empty compartment a few away from the one Draco was sitting in, she began to tell him everything. The pain Harry had been put through, the inner turmoil he had gone through because of the affection Draco had showed him, and was still showing, and yet, the way he was pushing him away, and this was making him even more confused than he ever was before.
Draco listened to her speak,"it won't work." he said lightly.
Hermione raised a delicate eyebrow,"what won't work?"
"Us, this, everything. It just cannot be."
"Make it work. Draco, I know you better than you think I do. I've watched you watch him. I think this is fate. Make it work."
"I don't think I can."
"Harry needs someone, as much as I hate to admit it, I think he needs someone like you."
The train began to slow and a summer drizzle began to splatter against the windows. Hermione stood leaving Draco where he sat,"just please think about it. Harry is miserable, and I think you are too. Don't wait too long though. He just may move on." She turned and walked away from him. He put his hands up to his head. What was he going to do?
The trio stood on the platform waiting for their parents, or in Harry's case to come and pick them up. Hermione's parents showed up first, followed by Ron's who were quite content to stand and wait for Harry's relatives to come for him. "Take care Harry. I hope things work out. Feel free to write me whenever, I'm always here for you." Hermione said. She hugged him and smiled at him,"Everything will be ok."
She walked off with her parents as they asked her questions about her year. Draco stood watching the crowd surrounding Harry. Hermione saw him and shot him a look that told him he better make a move soon and went back to conversing with her parents.
Draco was in for several long weeks.