Ok so I have decided I will update once a week. I knew this time I took a bit longer, but right now lets just say that life keep on getting in the way. Lol. I do have a life you know, or at least that's what I tell myself. Haha. Anyways, so I'll try to post once a week, and sometimes if I just fell like it or have the time for it I'll post sooner.
So I do think this chapter will take us to a turning point. I want to have some action already. Lol
Ok so no more delays. Here it is!!
Chapter 9 "Encounter"
It had been a while since that they Hermione had spied on the boys. She wanted to find out what they were talking about, but she knew that there was no way she could bring it up without somehow managing to tell them she had been eavesdropping.
She sighed as she watched them play muggle chess, their frustration at having to move the pieces by themselves clear on their faces.
Zabini had won 2 out of five games, as had Draco, they were going for the last game.
She picked up a magazine and started to read.
"I thought you didn't read magazines." Zabini said turning to her.
"Oh, come o. Granger reads anything that is in front of her. Including cereal boxes." Draco said with a smirk.
Hermione made a face at him.
"Actually, I'm just looking for some entertainment. You two are just too boring." She said in a dismissal tone.
The boys laughed freely.
"You'd be surprised at how much entertainment I could bring you." Draco said in that oh so arrogant way of his.
Zabini burst out laughing. "I don't want to hear it, man." he said
"Neither do I." Hermione answered not looking at them.
"Yeah, I'm sure you would rather feel it." Draco continued.
Hermione threw the magazine at him.
"Shut up, Malfoy."
Draco's eyes flared up with anger. And Zabini just kept on laughing. Draco picked up the magazine and was about to throw it when something caught his eye.
"Looking at hairstyles?" Hermione said in a tone as if she were talking to a little girl.
But Draco wasn't listening. H kept on staring at the magazine. His face became unreadable, much to Hermione's surprise.
Zabini got up and went to look at the magazine. But unlike Draco, he did react. He took the magazine away from Draco so fast that he almost tore it. He walked to the chimney and threw it into the fire.
Hermione looked at them in surprise.
"What is it?" she asked in a whisper.
But neither of them answered her. Zabini grabbed Malfoy by the arm and pulled him to th bedroom.
"We will be right back." He said holding a hand up to Hermione, to stop her from following them.
Hermione saw as the door closed.
She so desperately wanted to know what they were talking about, but this time it was different. She couldn't just go to the door. They could open it any second.
Then she remembered that she was, after all, the most brilliant witch of the century. She smirked at herself, for not thinking of it before. She grabbed her wand and tapped it against her ear and muttered a hearing spell. This allowed her to know what they were talking about without having to go and stick herself against the door.
"It was them." She heard Draco's frustrated voice.
"Who?" Zabini asked.
"Them." He said pointedly. As if the word said exactly who he was talking about.
"What else did you see?"
"They had them."
"They had who?"
But Hermione didn't hear a response from Draco because at that moment Zabini put a silencing charm on the room.
"Damn." She muttered.
She took the spell off, since she could already hear the people from other rooms.
'Who could they be talking about?' Hermione asked herself.
She tried t distract herself. But she just kept on staring at the door.
Finally, after what seemed like a billion years later, they stepped out of the room.
"Are you ok?" Hermione said standing up.
Draco just nodded once, his expression still unreadable.
"Ok peoples. I leave you. I have to do some things of my own." Zabini said as he put his jacket on.
Draco just nodded again. Hermione smiled.
"Bye." She said as Zabini walked out the door and then closed it.
She looked at Draco, who was already looking at her.
"So…" Hermione said.
"So, want to go get some icecream?' he asked suddenly.
Hermione arched an eyebrow. "But you are still weak." She answered.
"Granger." He warned. "I told you. You are not my babysitter."
"I'm not saying that, it's just that…" she trailed off.
"Do you want to go or not? I'm going with you or without you. But it would be better if you just stick with me." He said in a bored tone.
"Why?" she asked.
"Because," he said looking away. And then meeting her eyes again. "I am your babysitter." He said simply with a small smirk on his lips.
Hermione rolled her eyes. "Fine. Let's go."
"Cool." Draco said.
They both slipped their jackets on and went outside.
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"Did you know that the Space Needle is approximately 1,320 Milky Way candy bars tall?" Hermione said.
Draco rolled his eyes. "Don't care." He said. 'Only Granger would think of reading the pamphlet book about the Space Needle when she was actually standing in it.' He thought as he looked trough one of the telescopes.
"Did you know that In May 1996, the Space Needle welcomed the Olympic Torch Relay with a special fireworks show as it passed through Seattle on its way to Atlanta for the Summer Games?" she asked, still reading from the book.
"What are the Olympic Games?" he asked as he turned to look at her.
"They are—"
"No wait." He said interrupting her. "I don't care."
Hermione rolled her eyes. "You are in a new place. Why not enjoy it?"
"That's what I'm doing, thank you very much. I'm looking at it, not reading about it." He said as he sipped his coffee.
"Besides." He continued. "As the great Isaac Newton said once. Information is not Knowledge." He said matter of factly.
Hermione burst out laughing. "You surprise me, Mr. Malfoy." She said as she walked through the glass door to go inside.
Draco found himself mesmerized by that laugh. He shook his head, a smile still playing around his lips.
'Granger' he thought as he looked at the buildings surrounding him.
"I was thinking," Hermione said as she stepped next to him.
"What a surprise." Draco answered.
Hermione chose to ignore that. "Maybe we should go on one of those tours things."
"What tour things?" Draco asked, looking at her.
Hermione showed him another Pamphlet. Draco took it and read.
"Seattle: get to know it." Was what the front said.
"You are kidding." Draco said, pushing the paper into Hermione's hands.
"No." she said simply.
"I'm not going." He said looking away.
"Fine. I'll go without you."
"You can't do that."
"Yes, I can." She said turning away from him to make her point clear. But she couldn't go more than two steps. She felt something tugging at her hand.
"What…" she said turning to look at him. But Draco was just smirking. He then raised their intertwined hands. He had put a spell on them again.
"I told you." He said, the smirk now more pronounced.
"Not again!" Hermione whined.
Draco just laughed.
Hermione tried to pull her hand free, but it was useless and she knew it.
Suddenly she gasped.
Draco snapped out of his arrogant thoughts and looked over at what Hermione had seen, wondering what she had gasped at.
The smile that had still been on his lips banished when he saw the man. It was the same man that had attacked Draco at the ocean.
"Damn." Draco muttered as he pulled his hood on.
"Cant he leave us alone?" Hermione said as she too pulled her hood on.
"Come on," Draco said as he started to pull Hermione the other direction. "I don't think he has seen us."
But he shouldn't have said that, because at that exact moment the man turned to look at them. A quick smile appeared on the man's face.
"Fuck." Was all Draco said as he started to walk faster. Running would call for too much attention.
Hermione trailed behind him.
Then Draco found the perfect thing. There, against wall were about three couples, all of them kissing.
Draco looked back at the man, he could still see him, but it was clear that the man had lost site of them.
So Draco did the only thing he could think of. He pushed Hermione against the wall.
"What are…" but Hermione couldn't finish the sentence because all of a sudden Draco's lips were on hers.
Her first thought was "Ew" but as the kiss became deeper, something that Draco hadn't expected, her thinking changed.
Or rather they weren't thinking about anything anymore. Nothing existed but them.
Draco pressed himself tighter to Hermione, pressing her hard against the wall. Her arm tightened around his neck and his around her waist, her left hand and his right one still intertwined together.
Hermione could feel herself running out of air, but she didn't want to separate from him.
'Dear god,' she thought. 'The boy can kiss'
She wanted to laugh, she wanted to cry and she just wanted to keep on kissing him.
She felt his arm tighten around her waist. They were as close as they could be. There was no more space between them.
Finally, Hermione broke apart. She felt dizzy because of the need of air. Draco was panting hard. They were still in each other's embrace.
Draco rested his chin on top of Hermione's head, trying to catch his breath.
Slowly, Hermione slid her arm off from his neck as Draco's hold became softer.
"Do you think he is gone?" she asked him between breaths.
It took a bit for Draco to answer. "I don't know." He said in a whisper, since talking normally was out of the question right now.
He lifted his head and looked around cautiously. He could no longer see the man.
But then he thought of telling Hermione that the man was still there just so that he could kiss her again.
'Whoa!' he thought. 'Where that hell did that come from?'
He looked back at Granger.
'Psht.' He thought. 'I don't need an excuse.'
She looked up at him, waiting for him to answer.
He was about to tell him that the man was gone, but he so got lost in her amber eyes. They were bright, and it gave him a funny feeling inside to think that he had something to do with it.
He opened his mouth to tell her, but all of a sudden she smiled.
Hermione still felt like laughing. She blushed and a small smile escaped her when she thought back to her previous thinking.
Draco's face was also flushed, she was pleased to see.
Her smile widened. As she stared into his grey eyes.
She could tell that there was an inner battle going on in him, and yet she couldn't bring herself to think about what it could be.
She could only think about his lips and the way they felt on hers.
He had pretty girl lips, she decided. He was all man, except for his lips. They were full and pink. Pretty girl lips, she thought again.
She was about to ask again, if the man was gone. But Draco swooped down and kissed her gain.
That kiss was soft at firs. It was as if he was asking her for permission. Something that he had never done.
Whenever he was with a girl, he did everything, and the girl just had to follow, even if she didn't like it. But that was impossible, for a girl not to like his way.
But with Granger he felt different. He felt as if he was the way he was with the other girls he might insult her. And he was surprised to find out that he didn't want to do that.
But Hermione accepted his kiss. That surprised him. He half expected for her to pull away.
The kiss was still soft, but passionate. Hermione felt her knees go weak, and she felt like she would collapse at any second. But Draco held her.
He once again pressed her hard against the wall, trying to keep his balance as well.
They drew apart again to get their breath back. Draco started to kiss her neck. It took all of Hermione's energy to not faint.
"Malfoy," she said breathlessly.
"Mmm?" was his answer
"We should leave."
"Why?" his voice was muffled.
"Because, we could get in trouble."
"Get in trouble?" he asked lifting his head and meeting her eyas.
"Yeah."
"Why would we get in trouble?"
"Because, there are a bunch of little kids watching us, their angry parents behind them and I think I see a policeman coming." She said in a matter of fact tone.
Draco looked behind him to see that the scene that Hermione had described was in fact, true.
"Oh." Was all he said as he started to walk toward the door, pulling Hermione with him.
Hermione gave the whole crowd a cheeky smile as she muttered her apologies.
Draco just chose to ignore everybody.
Once they were off the large tower they burst out laughing.
They started to stroll down the sidewalk and were just turning around the corner when they bumped into that man. Hermione let out a scream at the same time that the man pointed his wand at them.
Draco tried to run, but all of a sudden everything went black, and he could feel himself falling backwards, Hermione in tow.
"Finally." The man muttered. And that was the last thing that both Hermione and Draco heard before hitting the floor and falling unconscious.
So there you go. That was chapter 9 an it was about 9 pages long!! Lol
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