Chapter 12: Kiss and Tell
Hermione could not believe what she was about to do. She was on her way to Draco's cabin in the middle of the night because the girls in her cabin had dared her to kiss him. Hermione should have known that nothing good would have come out of the mouths' of those girls by the devious little looks on their faces. After she had accepted the dare, she learned that the girls had been trying to think of a good dare for her. Of course, the dare had to involve Daniel, and kissing him. Hermione was not thrilled when she heard what the dare was.
The campers didn't expect Hermione to do the dare, and neither did Sarah. They all were astounded when Hermione opened the door and said, "Well come on, let's go and get this over with!" Hermione then exited the cabin and started walking to his cabin. All of the girls gave each other shocked looks and they all quickly slipped on their shoes and ran after Hermione. The group silently made their way to Mr. Martin's cabin. When they got there, Sarah and the campers hid behind some bushes. The bushes were close enough to the cabin that they could make sure Hermione went along with the dare, but far enough away that they couldn't hear a word of what was being said. All of the girls waited with bated breath while Hermione walked up to knock on the door.
When she knocked on the door, Draco yelled from inside "Coming!" About a minute later he answered the door. "Hermione, why didn't you just use your key?" Hermione shushed him.
"I have to ask you to do something for me." She said.
"Anything, just name it."
"The girls were playing truth and dare, and I somehow ended up playing." Draco laughed at this. "The girls have dared me to kiss you." Hermione said trying to suppress a smile.
"Well come here. I promise I don't have cooties." Draco said smiling. Hermione leaned in and kissed him, thinking she would only give him a peck on the lips, but Draco thought otherwise. He put his arm around her and pulled her closer. The kiss deepened, and Hermione seemed to forget all about the campers and Sarah in the bushes. Only when Draco's tongue grazed her lip did she seem to snap back to reality. She broke the kiss and whispered, "I can't believe I forgot they were in the bushes!" Draco nodded.
"Well, I guess I'll see you in the morning?" he asked.
"Yeah, but at breakfast. I'm going to help Sarah a bit more with the campers." She told him. He looked a little disappointed. "Well good night!"
"Night!" Hermione said walking back toward the bushes. When she got to the bushes, all of the girls were surprisingly silent. Everyone had looks of shock on their faces. Sarah looked the most shocked out of all of them. Then out of nowhere the girls jumped and squealed, and shot all types of questions and comments at Hermione.
"How was it?"
"Oh. My. Gosh! I can't believe you just did that!"
"I always thought he was hot. Did you like it?"
"What did you guys talk about, we couldn't hear anything!"
While Hermione was quieting down the girls, Sarah was trying to make sense of everything. Was Daniel just being a good sport, or did that kiss mean something? Probably the latter, Sarah thought. She hadn't forgotten their little get together last night, even though she hadn't told anyone yet. Sarah was also thinking of what the others would say. She definitely had to tell them what happened. They would probably freak out more than her! Sarah's thoughts were interrupted by Hermione.
"All right everyone! We can talk about this back at the cabin, let's get moving." Hermione said, leading the girls down the path. Sarah ran up next to Hermione.
"What the bloody hell was that, Jay?" Sarah asked.
"It was a kiss Sarah, nothing more." Hermione told her calmly.
"It was more than a kiss! You guys were almost full out snogging on the steps!" Sarah hissed.
"Well, I guess he likes me or something. I'll have to ask him in the morning. I think you're right though, he was about to snog me in front of the poor little campers!" Hermione said in an overly girly voice. Sarah glared at her.
"I wasn't seeing any protests from you while he was about to snog you!" Sarah said loudly.
"Well, he was a very good kisser… Thinking about it, he was my first kiss since, well you know. He seems like a really nice guy, and I think I might ask him to go out on Saturday. He's pretty good looking too. What do you think?" Hermione asked.
"I think you're rushing things! You've only known him for three!" Sarah said yelling the last part.
"You can't tell me what to do Sarah Ann Thoman! I am 23 years old! I can run my own bloody life As a matter of fact, I'm going to go ask him out now, the sooner the better right? Why don't you just take the girls back?!" Hermione turned to the girls. "I'm sorry girls, you can ask me questions later, and I'll see you in the morning, good night." The girls all said good night and began to walk back with Sarah. Hermione turned and started walking back to Draco's cabin.
By the time Hermione reached his cabin, fresh tears were falling from her eyes and down her cheeks; she hadn't bothered to brush them away. Sarah and she had never fought like that, ever. When Hermione got to his door, she realized that she didn't have her key, so she knocked on the door.
Draco opened the door to see Hermione with tear stains on her face, and her eyes were all red and puffy. "What's the matter, Hermione?" Draco asked taking her inside. Hermione didn't say anything; she just threw her arms around Draco and began sobbing into his shoulder. He pulled her into a tight hug, before leading her to the couch. He held her until she began to calm down, and she had stopped crying. He looked into her eyes and asked again, "What happened?"
"Sarah and I had a row because she noticed how you kissed me. I wanted to kind of get her used to the idea of us being together, so I said that I was thinking of asking you out. She started yelling at me about moving too fast, and that I had only known you for 3 days and stuff like that. Now I'm here, and I feel absolutely horrible for yelling at her!" Hermione said, more tears springing from her eyes. Draco pulled her closer to him.
"It's okay, everything's all right. You guys will make up in the morning, and everything will go back to normal, I promise." He said pressing his lips to her forehead. Draco sat with her on the couch until she fell asleep. He was going to get up, but every time he tried she just tightened her grip on him. He decided to just sleep on the couch with her. Soon after she was asleep, he also was asleep.
Back in the blue jay cabin, Sarah was waiting up for Hermione so that they could talk. She felt just as bad, if not worse, about the fight that they had just had. After waiting for about two hours, Sarah fell into a restless sleep.
The next morning, Hermione woke up to find herself not in her own cabin, but in Draco's arms on his couch. She got up off of the couch and stretched. She looked down at Draco and decided that she better wake him up. About a split second before she reached to touch his shoulder, he shouted, "BOO!" She screamed and fell back onto the floor. Draco laughed at her.
"How long have you been awake?" Hermione asked.
"A while, I was watching you sleep." He told her.
"Oh, how very stalker-ish of you!" Hermione said giggling.
Draco smiled and said, "Haha, We need to get ready because breakfast is in 45 minutes." Hermione sat back on the couch and groaned.
"Do we have to? I know Sarah's going to be mad at me for not coming back last night. She also will have probably told everyone what happened last night, so we can expect lots of questions this morning. I really don't feel up to it." Hermione said. Draco sat down beside her and pulled her into his arms once again. She leaned back against him and sighed contentedly.
"Everything will be okay. We'll get through this together, I promise. I'll do anything for you; you're the best thing that's ever happened to me!" Draco said giving her a peck on the lips.
Hermione smiled and said, "Amazing as it is, I feel the same way." He took her chin and led her lips to his, where they locked in a passionate kiss. Hermione ran her hands through his hair, and his hands slowly moved down to her hips. He laid her back on the couch, but before they could get any further, there was a knock at the door. Draco groaned.
"Why does this always happen to us? Let's just ignore it!" Draco said leaning in for another kiss. Hermione held him back.
"No, you can't neglect your responsibilities as director! It may be important, so you need to go answer the door. I'm going to go take a shower and get ready." Hermione walked over to the bathroom, and Draco went to answer the door. When he opened it, he saw Sarah. She looked like she hadn't slept at all. She had huge bags under her eyes, and she just looked pretty bad all together.
"Hey Daniel, I was wondering if you've seen Hermione since last night. After the dare, we had a row, and she didn't come back to the cabin last night. I'm really worried about her." Sarah said shakily. Draco opened his mouth to speak but Hermione's voice sounded from inside.
"Hey Draco, do you have any more soap somewhere?" When Sarah heard Hermione's voice a range of emotions flashed across her face in a matter of seconds. Relief. Shock. Anger. It didn't take long for Sarah to glare at Daniel and then stalk away from the cabin.
"Oh, Bugger." Draco said.
As soon as Sarah left Draco's cabin she ran to find Mark, Josh, and Jessie. She stopped off at the Cardinal cabin first to find Jessie, but when she got there, Allison said that she had already left. Sarah ran over to the Hawk cabin, but she only found Mark there.
"Hey Mark! I have a lot of stuff to tell you guys! Where are Josh and Jessie?" she asked.
"I'll give you one guess since they're both missing." Mark said.
"Staffroom." They said simultaneously. They both ran full speed to the staffroom in the CLC. Mark and Sarah didn't bother to knock or open the door slowly because they both knew what they were doing. When they entered the room they saw Jessie and Josh snogging on the couch. Mark cleared his throat loudly to alert them that he and Sarah were there. They broke apart and both were blushing furiously.
"This had better be important." Josh said.
"Sarah said she has some news about Hermione and Daniel." Mark told him.
"You mean Hermione and Draco." Sarah told them. The three of them gasped.
"WHAT!" they all said. Sarah launched into a recollection of the past days events. She told them about when they met in the middle of the night by the rock, about what happened with the dare, and how she was in his cabin this morning. She told them that his name wasn't Daniel Martin, but Draco Malfoy.
"What kind of name is Draco Malfoy?" Mark asked. Sarah and Jessie exchanged knowing glances.
"What do you know that we don't?" Josh asked the girls.
"I think we should pay Draco and Hermione a little visit tonight after the camp game. We need to get to the bottom of this." Jessie said.
"Yeah, I agree. Sorry guys, but we can't tell you some stuff, it's not our place." Sarah told them.
"That's okay. We'll find out tonight." Josh said.
"Yeah, tonight." They all turned and walked down to breakfast, heads spinning with the new information they had all just learned.