Chapter Seven:

I'll Never Forget

Haley looked over to Draco and he shrugged his shoulders. He thought he knew Hermione pretty well her being his best friend and all but he had no idea she had felt this way about her sister. Haley looked over at her parents with tears in her eyes. They both looked down they didn't know what to say to her. Haley let a couple tears slid down her face.

"I am aren't I?" she said as she looked at everyone in the room. "I do get everything handed to me." She said Lucius was the closes to her and he wrapped her in a hug. She gladly took it hiding her face in his robes. She silently cried into his chest she never knew how bad she was hurting her sister. Draco came up to her grabbing her from his father and sitting her back down on the couch she curled up in his side. The adults came into the room and sat down in the vacant furniture. They started talking about anything and everything but the girls when Blaise and Hermione came back, if they came back, they would talk about the girls.

Hermione's sobs finally quieted down she leaned her chin on her knees watching the sun go down. Blaise scooted closer to her but didn't touch her. She sighed.

"You think I over reacted?" she asked.

"No," he answered, Hermione let out a dry laugh. "That might have not been the best time to do it but you didn't over react." He said. She turned her head slightly toward him.

"It was so weird almost uncomfortable to see her like that with them, to see you like that with them. I know there your parents but I've got to know you these last two weeks and it was easy to pretend you belonged to my world." She said shakily as she looked back out to the sun.

"You belong to our world Hermione, and one day soon you'll see that." He said.

"But what about Harry and Ron? They are my best friends, my only friends." She mumbled to herself.

"You have other friends Herm and a lot more then you think you do. Once you get your memories back it will be easier to see why Haley acted the way she did toward them. They're not really as bad as they seem." He said with a smile.

"Well you try fighting them in your fifth year and tell me there not as bad as they seem." She snapped. Blaise looked at her taken aback he had forgot that she had seen the wrath of the death eaters already. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to snap it's just she seemed so happy to see them when two years ago she was almost killed by them." Hermione said looking back out in front of her again the sun was almost all the way down and the full moon shone brightly above them.

"They would have never killed you, ya know hurt you maybe but never kill you." He said he caught a strand of her hair and tucked it back behind her ear. She looked back over to him with tears in her eyes again.

"I wanna love you, ya know." She whispered, he stroked her cheek and she closed her eyes leaning into his hand. He smiled and caught her tear with his thumb as it fell from her long lashes. She opened her eyes and looked at him and smiled. He stood up and held out his hand for her.

"Come on I wanna show you something." He said, her smile widened and she took his hand. He pulled her up close to him and kissed her. They smiled at each other he intertwined their fingers and started to walk down the hill. Hermione had a feeling she knew where he was going so she started to run pulling him along with her recreating her memory. Blaise laughed and ran with her. They got into the woods and Hermione let go of his hand and ran into the trees hiding. She didn't even have to think about it, she was going on instinct.

"Come on I know you know what to do now," she called as she peeked a look at him. He smiled in the direction her voice came from.

"Ready or not," he teased as he ran toward her. She knew he saw her so she took off running laughing. He chuckled to himself and ran after. "I'm so going to get you," he said as he pushed himself to reach her. Just like before she reached the clearing before him she stopped in the middle but instead of twirling and looking at the stars she looked back at him. He stood there smiling at her shoving his hands into his pockets making him look like a little boy again. Hermione smiled wider and he looked at the ground and he started to kick around a rock. She giggled lightly at him and he looked back up at her.

"What?" he asked smirking.

"You just look like you did when we were little, all shy and cute," she said shrugging. He smiled and started to walk toward her. She started to laugh again as she watched him, he stopped walking and looked at her confused.

"What now?" he asked as she shook her head trying to contain her giggles.

"I just remembered this one time when me and Draco were out in the back yard and we called for you to come see the frog we caught and when you found me Draco jumped from behind a tree and scared you so bad you peed," Hermione had to stop and contain her laughter. "Of course as soon as Haley heard you cry she had smacked both me and Draco and told us to pick on someone our own size haha," she finished Blaise looked at her astonished. He didn't say anything for a second he didn't want her to lose whatever she was thinking about slowly he started to walk toward her again.

"How old were we?' he asked, she kept laughing replaying it over and over in her mind.

"I don't know like five," she answered, and then she realized what she had just said and looked up at him. Their eyes meet and her mind was flooded with different pictures of her and Blaise, of her and Draco, of all four of them, flashes of Pansy and Crabbe and Goyle. Then she was seeing Blaise and her again.

They were at his house laying on the floor in the living room. He was laying on his back staring at the ceiling and Hermione was on her stomach next to him.

"You think he's going to be okay?" she asked looking down at her hands.

"I hope so, he's got Haley with him now though," he said looking over at her. "Hermione, Haley will take care of him," he said she looked up at him and tears in her eyes.

"I know," she whispered Blaise pulled her to him.

Next she was running through tall grass chasing Draco and Haley with Blaise beside her. Then she saw her and Blaise in the tree house he was dressed in a suit and she had an apron on serving him fake tea.

Next they were ten and they were walking down the driveway toward the little town they lived in. She was protectively tucked under Draco's arm and Haley was running ahead of them pulling Blaise down the road by the hand.

Next they were eight and her and Blaise where down at the creek that runs through the back yard. And she pushed him in.

"Uh Merlin Herm you're a brat," he said as he stood up.

"Oh what are you going to go tell Haley on me?" she laughed. He smiled up at her.

"No I'm going to do this," he said and he grabbed her wrist pulling her into the water.

"Blaise Daniel I will kill you," she screeched.

"Oh yeah?" he asked as he started to run down the creek as fast as he could. Hermione huffed and took off after him. He tripped over a root in the water and Hermione didn't see and plowed into him sending them both back into the water. They started to laugh and crawled out of the water and sat on the bank. "You ever been in love Herm?" he asked tapping her foot with his.

"Well I love mum and dad and Haley and uncle tom and Draco and you and everyone. But I don't love anyone like mum and dad love each other." she said as a matter of fact.

"Oh," he answered then looked down at their feet and he stopped tapping hers. She noticed and looked over at him.

"Why do you?" she asked, he looked over at her and nodded looking back at his feet. "Will you tell me who it is?" and Hermione all of a sudden got nervous something in her wanted him to say that it was her and she didn't know why.

"Well it's uh- it's you," he said his face slowly turning red. Hermione smiled and reached over pushing her lips to his cheek.

When Hermione came back from memory lane Blaise was standing in front of her with wide eyes. She smiled at him and put her hand against his cheek.

"Told you I'd never forget," she whispered. As soon as the words were out of her mouth Blaise had her in his arms spinning her and kissing her hard. When they broke the kiss she laughed out loud he laughed with her. Then he put her down but never let her go. "Oh that was amazing," she said shaking her head.

"Well I knew I was a good kisser but amazing huh?" Blaise said, Hermione smiled up at him pinching him. "Ah hey" he said twitching and smiling down at her. "What was it like?" he asked putting his forehead against hers. She smiled wider and started to sway her hips just like they did all those years ago.

"Amazing," she said again, "I can't even explain it; it makes so much sense now. Everything just feels right." She finished, he smiled again and leaned down and kissed her. She wrapped her arms around his neck pulling him closer to her. His tongue slipped into her mouth and she moaned pushing herself closer to him. He gripped her hips hard running his hand up her back and into her hair. He pulled back and kissed her lips softly three more times. "I love you," she mumbled against his lips.

"I love you too Hermione," he breathed pressing his lips to hers once more.

"We should probably head back I kind of made a mess in there," she said looking up at him. He nodded.

"Yeah we should, they're going to talk to us about school." He explained, Hermione pulled her eyebrows together in confusion. "You'll see," he said wrapping an arm around her shoulders and they started to walk for the forest. When they came back to the house Haley was pacing back and forth on the patio and Draco was sitting it the chair watching her.

"Haley," Draco whispered when he noticed the couple, Haley stopped and looked at him then looked over at the couple.

"Hermione I'm so sorry I had no idea that you even felt that way and your right I am a brat and-" she was cut off when Hermione hugged her.

"It's okay Hal's," she whispered. Haley was confused but hugged her sister back anyway. She looked at Blaise and he was smiling like an idiot and Haley's eyes got wide and he nodded at her. She pulled away from her sister slightly and looked at her.

"You got them back didn't you?" she asked Hermione beamed and looked at Blaise over her shoulder, and nodded.

"Everything just-" Hermione started

"Makes sense," Haley finished, they hadn't finished each other sentences like that in a very long time. Haley beamed and tears started to form.

"Oh Merlin Hal's don't start the water works," Hermione laughed, Blaise and Draco chuckled.