ok, i worked really hard trying to get this chapter right, i hope that you all like the type of character i gave hermione. have fun reading, and please review to tell me what you think about the story so far :)

"This is Miss, Hermione Granger." Hermione stood there as the teacher introduced her; she pulled her hair over one shoulder and then walked to a seat at the front of the classroom. The only seat that was left in the whole room. She sat down and waited for the teacher to continue speaking. After the whole 'please make her feel welcome' part of his introduction, he moved on to the register and then pulled a whiteboard pen out of a drawer and wrote down two peoples names on the dirty whiteboard.

'Draco Malfoy' and 'Blaise Zabini' were scribbled in writing that could just about be dubbed legible and then the teacher turned to glare past Hermione.

"I know that you guys like to think of yourselves as genius bad boys, but sneaking in to the school at midnight is not the way to prove it!" the teacher had gone from happy to serious in a matter of minutes. "Detention every day after school for two weeks!" he smiled at the other boy sitting next to the blond and the tan, dark haired boy. "And seen as I know you guys are inseparable, Theo you can join them." The blue eyed, Greek god impressionist looked up at the teacher.

"Fuck!" Hermione heard someone mutter from behind her and she assumed that it was the boy who clearly thought he had gotten away with it; the guy who looked Greek God-esqe – Theo , she assumed. She could hardly help giggling, nothing like this had ever happened at her old school – well it did, but they didn't get caught.

"Miss. Granger?" the teacher turned to stare at her and the whole class 'oohed' "Do you think this is funny?"

"No sir,"

He turned back to the class and dismissed them. Hermione followed the teacher with her brown eyes as he walked out of the room.

Hermione permitted herself to give another nervous laugh as she got up out of her seat and easily tucked her chair in. "The new girl is brave enough to laugh at us." The blond boy behind her snarled through his teeth. If she was being honest with herself, she was panicking almost enough to wet her knickers, but her mask on the outside stayed un-cracked – unbreakable; even to the Draco Malfoy, it seemed.

"Go on then, new girl." He stood up and Hermione could feel his footsteps through the vibration of the cheap laminated floorboards. "Tell us what you think is so funny." He breathed into her ear. She would be damned if she let the arsehole get the better of her.

"Why?" she smirked as she turned to face him, her lips an inch from his. The rest of the class had gone deathly quite as they watched them. "Is my opinion already so important to you?" She pulled one side of her mouth up in to a smirk that could give Malfoy's a run for its money. It was like this girl had been born to piss him off.

"Scared, new girl?" The whole class listened intently, hanging on to Draco Malfoy's every hate filled word.

She laughed and turned her face away from him, "I would rather die than be scared of something as stupid as you!" she felt herself get pushed down into her seat, her legs crumpled beneath the force that he exerted on her shoulder. Blaise yanked his friend back roughly by his shoulder; he knew Draco would end up regretting it if he hit her – mostly because he would probably get his arse kicked. This girl seemed to be the only one who would open her mouth to insult him instead of proclaiming their love.

"It's just that, seriously...you got caught?" she laughed and turned to face the trio sitting right behind her. "You didn't think that avoiding cameras was a good idea, or are you too vein to do that?"

The whole class burst into laughter and began turning to face the group of boys to see what their retort would be. It was nothing like Hermione to do something like this, but she just couldn't help it. She couldn't help slamming this guy back down into his place.

Blaise and Theo found themselves speechless, they had assumed that she would be one of those goody-goody girls who kept their heads down and their mouths shut, but they were clearly wrong. Draco was not having the same problem and he smirked, "What would a goody-goody bitch like you know about breaking into schools?"

"A lot more than you, obviously!" Draco had pushed his chair back, and it was a lot more intimidating when he was towering over her, so she stood again too, this time his hand didn't shoot out to push her back down. He was still a good foot taller than her, but she glared up at him defiantly.

"She's just like a female version of Draco!" Theo hissed to Blaise and Draco turned his head down to glare at them. Hermione taking this as a sign that she had won the argument began to pull her bag on to her shoulder, ready to march out of the class, but Draco had other ideas. He grabbed the hood of her jumper and pulled her back.

"You can only leave when I tell you to!" Clearly she didn't know how scary Draco could actually be.

Blaise looked over to his friend with a shocked expression, but it was a passing teacher who finally yelled, "Let her go, Draco." Draco didn't do as he was told and soon felt Blaise whack him somewhere no guy should ever be hit.

"Fuck, Blaise!" He gasped and looked over to his friend.

"Let her go." Theo snarled from the other side of him but he still had a grip on her jumper.

"I suggest you do what they say, I will kick a lot harder." Hermione pulled one side of her mouth up into a smirk as she pulled the cap back on to her head. "Plus, it's time to go to first lesson." As she finished talking the bell rang. But, the whole class was too shocked to move, Draco never snapped like this. He was a jerk and an insufferable git, but he never got violent...especially with girls.

"I said, let me go!" she grabbed on to his hand and twisted it, effectively making him release her. She had taken defence lessons at Queen Vick's and so she knew – sort of – what she was doing.

Draco didn't know what to do; so, he stood there staring until he managed to get out, "Don't touch me."

"It's not like I wanted to, but you left me no choice." She smiled and then began to walk away.

"Hey, I didn't say you could go!"

"I don't care!"

Draco was about to retort, but Blaise held a hand to his chest, "Try not to be a dick to this one!"

"Ha, as if he is able not to be a dick," Theo smiled and then turned to watch the feisty brunette walk out of the room, not realising where Draco's hand was aimed before it slammed painfully between his legs. "Shit!"

Hermione walked down the corridor, pulling her blue hood over her cap and walking quickly to try and find gym. Her first few lessons had passed without hitch. She had seen the tan, brunette and the boy named Theo, but she had managed to avoid the blond arsehole from her registration class.

How could a gym be so hard to find? It was supposed to be a huge building, which could usually be identifies by the awful stench emanating form inside.

She was sure that she had passed this corridor four times. They all sort of looked the same. She turned to the side, trying to find someone to ask, but she got slammed into the wall instead. "Oops, Sorry." The blond haired bastard didn't sound sorry.

"MALFOY!" a teacher shrieked and Hermione avoided the running teacher – no doubt trying to tell him off – by just a millisecond.

"Excuse me!" She called after the teacher and willed her to stop. For once, her will powers were working and the teacher turned around to face her. "How do I get to the gym?" Hermione was far from exasperated now; she was sweaty, annoyed and tired...and she hadn't even started the gym lesson yet!

Hermione finally pushed the doors to the gym open. Thankfully she wasn't late, because she didn't really want to end up with a detention on the first day. "And you are?"

"Hermione Granger."

"Ahh, the new student!" he smiled kindly, the class was mixed and to Hermione's horror, the one and only Draco Malfoy stood there among the rest of the class.

"Girl's Verses Boys Basket ball!" The teacher smiled across the assembled class. Including Hermione, the girl : boy ratio was still a little skewed. Thirteen boys and ten girls.

Hermione loved a challenge, but this was more like mission impossible. And the prospect of playing the game was even worse when Draco passed her on the way to the changing rooms and hissed into her ear, "Ready to die, Bitch?" He laughed and then walked away with another one of the guys.

Hermione gulped. Maybe putting Draco in his place before a gym lesson – where people were known to get injured – wasn't the best idea.

But there was no way she was going to let him know that she was scared of him. No fricking way. Bring it on.

She walked into the girls changing room along with the other girls and looked around. The teacher had given her one of the school's sports kits before, but now she was kind of dreading putting on the skimpy shorts and see through top. All of the girls in the changing room had stunningly tanned legs, and amazing bodies.

Hermione hadn't bared her body to the world, since it happened. But she didn't want to let him ruin her life anymore. She had to stop thinking about Caleb. There was nothing he could do to her now.

"Aren't you going to change?" A girl with straight, ginger hair asked her. "I'm Ginny by the way." She looked nice enough, Hermione thought as she walked to the spot next to Ginny and threw her bag onto the bench.

"Hermione."

"Yeah, you're the new girl who gave Malfoy a slap in the face this morning." Hermione assumed she meant metaphorically, but then Ginny spoke again, "Yeah, everyone was talking about it...you actually hit him."

"No. No I didn't." Hermione knitted her eyebrows together as she pulled her jumper and t-shirt over her head. "I may have told him he was vein and stupid – and threatened to hit him – but I definitely did not hit him!" Hermione couldn't believe that it had gotten around school so quickly.

"Oh, this is Luna by the way." She pointed to the small girl with waist length blond hair, who smiled shyly at Hermione.

After the normal introductions and questions that came with being a new student, Hermione found that she knew all of the girls in the changing room – remembering their names would be a completely different matter.

"You ready to get you arse kicked?" Ginny asked her as they walked out of the hall together.

"I don't get my arse kicked," she smiled as she looked over to Malfoy, "I kick arse, just ask him." She smiled over to him and smirked. He looked like he was snarling as he walked over to where the rest of the class had congregated.

"Miss Granger," the teacher turned to look at her, "I trust you are aware of the rules of basketball." She nodded, but the teacher went on – he was looking pointedly at two of the girls in the class when he laid out the following sets of rules. "No biting, scratching, jumping on peoples backs and punching people is forbidden."

"Forbidden, you hear that Luna?" A tall, dark haired guy looked over at the small blond who smiled devilishly. "Forbidden!"

"You scared?" Luna asked the boy innocently and he just laughed as he pulled the end of her ponytail.

"Of you...yeah!" she leaned into him, then harshly slammed him in the ribs with her elbow, and then the class turned their attention back to the teacher.

The teacher smiled at the group. "I guess we are ready to start."

"So basically I just –" Hermione was cut off as someone slammed into her, she looked past her and caught the back of the shirt of the boy who slammed into her.

Draco was startled as he felt himself being pulled back roughly by his shirt, "The next time you do that, I will personally castrate you!"

He grabbed on to her wrist and twisted it painfully, though she didn't wince as she didn't want him to think that he was getting to her. "Next time you talk to me like that, I will break your wrist."

"Draco!" the teacher was hovering above them and she fixed a steely gaze on Draco's evil looking eyes.

He held up his hands in mock surrender and then smirked before grabbing the ball of one of his teammates and running in to the middle of the court.

"You all right?" Ginny asked Hermione as she fixed an angry glare on Draco.

"Yeah, but he won't be."

Ok, so i know that Ginny and Luna aren't supposed to be in the same year as Hermione, but for the sake of the story pretend that they are. i don't think harry and ron are going to be very important to the story, so i dont know whether to make them characters in this story or not.

tell me what you guys thought of the story and i will try to update as soon as i can.