A/N: Hey everyone! Here is chapter three. I hope I updated soon enough for you. Enjoy and happy reading. Oh and those reviews from the last two chapters, yea, they were really my friend Tara. She wants to become a cat thingy with magical powers but I have no idea how to incorporate that... Also, a shout out to all of my reviewers: im-mrs-draco-malfoy, isosexy, obsessivefanno.4, MisheardLyrics, CrunchyMunchers, HSFilm, ShySilverFox, justreaderr, Kojowren, and Kimm Possible. Thanks a lot guys for the reviews! I really appreciate it!

Disclaimer: If I owned Harry Potter, I would probably be talking to Tom Felton right now. I'm not, if you're wondering. Enough said.

As soon as we make it to the Great Hall, everyone is staring at us. At first, I wonder why but then I realize that Draco still has his arm around my shoulders.

"Draco, everyone's staring." I mumble at him.

"Well that's because I'm breaking all the rules. Now, you go on to your friends and if they give you any shit, tell me. And when you're done with breakfast, come and get me. Maybe we can be first to class." He winks and waggles his eyes at me and I slap his arm, laughing.

"Whatever, Draco." I say shaking my head.

As I walk to the Gryffindor table, everyone stares at me in awe and I feel confident and even a little cocky so I smirk. Huh, I guess Draco's wearing off at me.

"Hermione, why did you just walk into the Great Hall late, with Draco's arm around your shoulders? And why were you allowing it exactly?" I turn to look at Ron.

"Why do you care exactly? It's not really your business what I do with my boyfriend."

"Your WHAT?"

"You heard me, Ron. Don't look so surprised. Now why are all of you staring at me? Honestly, the food is gonna get cold." I reach to butter some toast and grab an apple. I eat the rest of breakfast in silence, ignoring the shocked stares from my peers.

I finish breakfast first at my table, saying that half the time I was eating, everyone was staring at me. So I do as I was told and I go get Draco from his table. He gets up and is about to lead me out of the Great Hall when Pansy clears her throat.

"Where are you going, Drakie?" I roll my eyes and look over at Draco who has made a face and is shaking his head at Pansy.

"Please stop calling me that, for the last time. And to answer your question, we have to get to class early as Head Boy and Girl." That is so not true but Pansy only sighs and looks at me. "I wish I was the Head Girl." Yea, well girls with a brain smaller than a pea won't be the Head Girl. Draco just shakes his head and smirks as we walk out of the Great Hall.

Almost as soon as we're out of view, Draco is pushing me to the wall.

"What exactly do you think you're doing?" I ask.

"Well, by the looks of it, I think I'm gonna kiss you into oblivion."

"Oh." I say back and he smirks and kisses me full on the mouth. He slides his tongue out and I open my mouth immediately. Just as he starts tugging on my blouse, Ron comes out and screams at us.

"Oh my GOD, Hermione! What the hell do you think you're doing?" But Draco just ignores him and he starts sucking on my neck so I can answer Ron.

"Well, I was just kissing Draco. And, I can do whatever I want because you're not my mother." I gasp as Draco hits a sensitive spot and bites down, leaving a mark. I watch as Ron turns as red as his hair and I laugh. Then, just to prove a point, I pull Draco up to my face and kiss him again and pull away for breath.

"Now, did you want something, Ron?" I say looking at the damage on my neck while Draco leans on the wall beside me.

"I wanted to know why you left the Great Hall with him.

Just as I was about to answer Ron, Draco speaks up. "Yea, 'him' is still right here, and she left with me because she can." Then the bell rings signaling the end of breakfast and students start to rush to their first class of the morning. "And now look what you've done. We wasted time talking to you when I could have been sticking my tongue down Hermione's throat."

"Draco! Don't say that! You're embarrassing me…."

"Oh, so you've made it to 'that phase' now have you? This…..I have nothing to say!" And with that, Ron stalks off. I watch and turn my attention back to Draco.

"You can't do that! Ron looked like he was going to hex you unconscious!"

"Yea, well as long as he' not touching what's mine, then I don't care what he does."

"What's yours? And what exactly would that be?"

"Besides you, well I have a long list. I'll tell you on the way to Potions!"

When I stop walking with him, he turns around and looks at me with a confused expression on his face.

"What?" He asks me, a little too innocently.

"I don't like being treated like property."

"But you are my property! I own you, woman!" He laughs at the expression on my face and I scowl at him.

"I don't belong to anyone." I state plainly.

Draco walks back towards me and puts an arm around my shoulders, laughing at my scowl.

"Hermione, I didn't mean anything by it! I swear! It was my 'possessive boyfriend instincts' taking over OK? I'll admit it, behind my cocky grin and all, I got slightly jealous of Weaslebee, Happy now?" I smirk at him. "Oh, do yourself a favor and wipe that smirk off your face. If you already look like me, people won't know what to say then."

I blush deeply and Draco raises a hand to my cheeks and smiles. "Well, off to Potions then"

After that day, news of my new relationship with Draco spread faster than a wildfire. Even if we never did make any precaution to hide it. I could never get to my classes without a snide remark or a dreamy look being cast my way. And every day Ron would give me hell about it. And one day, it got bad.

"OK Hermione, please explain to me what the fuck you were thinking when you decided to date Draco Malfoy? I mean, he's a bloody enemy! S'not like he magically became good and why would he fancy you of all people?"

I sit and listen to the hurtful words that are coming out of my 'best friend' and for some reason, I want to cry.

"Hermione, he doesn't even care about you for fuck's sake! He probably just wants to screw you and mark you under his file of 'used goods.' And you know what's worse? I know something was going on between you and that little bastard. I knew! But I didn't do anything about it!

He now has a very menacing look on his face and for the first time in my life, I am scared of my best friend, Ron Weasley. Even more so because I'm alone in a deserted corridor with him. I walk towards him with a pleading look on my face, and when I touch his arm, he grabs me roughly and yells in my face.

"Don't touch m-" But his attention is no longer on my face. He looks at the gold locket fastened around my neck. Aw, shit. "What the hell is that? Did, he that to you?" He narrows his eyes at me, waiting for my response.

I blink back tears and take a deep breath. The grip he has on my arm is uncomfortable and painful.

"Draco, well he gave it to me when he asked me to be his girlfriend. As long as we have feelings for each other, it won't come off."

Almost as soon as I whisper the last word, I feel myself being thrown to the ground and I whimper as my head hits the floor. This time I don't hold back my tears and sob at the pain being inflicted by someone I loved. I silently start to mutter for help from anyone or anything and I feel the necklace burn around my neck.

"How dare you betray your friends for him? You know you practically cheated on me, that's how close we were. But not anymore."

I look up to try and see Ron. Even though my vision is blurred and I want nothing more than to sleep, I can see that he is over me with a fist raised. I prepare for the blow when I hear footsteps.

"Oh my God! Hermione! What did you do to her, Weasel!" I seem to have lost my vision completely and I don't feel like talking anymore. But that voice sounded oddly like-.

"Malfoy, why do you care what I do to my girlfriend? How many different curses did you use to get to the most brilliant which of our year?"

"I used nothing you dolt! What the hell is wrong with you!" I feel my body being lifted off the floor and I want nothing more than to sleep. I breathe Draco's familiar sent and I smile. He caresses my cheeks and I instinctively turn into him.

"Well you obviously did because that is not the Hermione I know." I want to rip Ron's throat for saying that but I feel so goddamn tired!

"Weasel, you need to find something better to do than to accuse me falsely. I-I love her."

And he starts walking away, hopefully towards a bed. Did I hear him right? No, there's no way, right. But the more I muse over this thought, the more I realize that I love him too. I'm going to show Ron, and everyone else for that matter, that what I feel for him is real.

~OoOoOoOoOoOoOo~

When I wake up, I'm in Draco's bedroom. At first, I wonder how I got here but I then faintly recall last night's events. I turn over to a sleeping Draco and study him. He looks so peaceful in his sleep. He doesn't have a smirk on his face or a scowl. The way his mouth is open slightly. How his chest rises and falls. I smile at him in his sleep and kiss him. He wakes up and looks down at me, smiling slightly. Then, I remember something that he said yesterday.

"Draco," I ask, a little too innocently. "Is it true that you really love me?"

He furrows his brow at me; then, realization hits him and he blushes under my gaze in record speed.

"Oh, ah you were awake for that?"

I smirk at him. "I was awake for all of it. Oh and thanks for saving me from Ron." I shake my head slightly. "I don't know what came over him"

Draco growls and narrows his eyes, pulling me closer. "He wants you, Hermione. That dumbass wanted you and he got jealous so he almost hurt you. What exactly did you say?"

Possessive much? "Well, he figured out about our relationship on his own. But what really seemed to tick him off was when I told him the importance of the locket. Oh the locket! I was muttering for help and it burned my neck! Is that how you knew that I was in trouble and where to find me?"

He smiles sheepishly at me. "I kinda got the idea from you. Remember when you help Scarhead in fifth year with the DA? Well, I liked that idea and I used it on our lockets. So just so you know, you can contact me wherever and whenever. Oh and I'm going to kill Weasel. He had no right to do what he did. And what's worse, I wasn't there to help you."

"Draco, this is not your fault. Ron was just being a stupid prat." With that, Draco pushes me into his bed and is kissing me furiously. He slips his tongue out and I open my mouth immediately, with a moan. For a while, we fight for dominance and I sigh in the pleasure that he's giving me. I'm vaguely aware of his hand that has pulled down my night pants and is toying with my knickers.

"Hermione!" What the devil? Was that…Ron?

Draco then rolls his eyes and mutters to me. "Stay here. Please, I really don't feel like going to Azkaban for killing someone today."

I giggle as he goes over to open the door for Ron.

"Great timing you little shit. I swear, I was just about to shag Hermione but no, you show up. Fuck you. Well, what do you want?" Way to go, Draco. You just poked a sleeping bear in its goddamn face. Ron must have tried to get into the common room but was kept out and I hear Draco laughing. "Man, you looked stupid! Do you really think that I wouldn't put a barrier around this common room? You almost killed her! But if you want to talk to her, well, Hermione! Come here, babe!" I can hear the smirk on his face and I wonder what's gotten into him.

When I step out of Draco's bedroom, Ron reddens with rage, and then when he notices what I'm wearing, he looks worse than he did last night. I look down and simply shake my head at Draco, wearing his famous smirk. Draco's put me in one of his forest green shirts with a pair of booty shorts. I want Ron to feel awful about what happed so, I play along. I walk up to Draco and hug him around his waist and he instinctively puts his arm around my shoulder.

"OK, Weasley what do you want?" He's obviously taken aback with my use of his surname and probably how much I sound like Draco. Whatever. Like Draco said, he almost killed me, right?

"Oh, well I just came to say that I'm sorry. For what happened last night, I mean." He looks at me pleadingly but I just shake my head.

"Ron a simple 'I'm sorry' doesn't cut it, OK? Now if that's all you're here for, then you can leave. I have some ah, unfinished business to attend to." I giggle into Draco's shirt and he raises an eyebrow at Ron, daring him to say something else. Ron then leaves with a guilty and defeated look on his face and I let go of Draco and smile at the expression on his face as he shuts the door.

"What am I going to do with you, Hermione? The way you played that fool, it was very Slytherin like."

"Who said I was playing?" I'm then being picked up by the waist and I squeal in surprise.

"Well then, Miss Granger, do you want to attend to that 'unfinished business'?"

I blush and look towards his bedroom.

"Oh, and the answer to your question is yes." I furrow my brows in confusion.

"What are you talking about?"

"Well, since you're gonna make me say it again, I love you, Hermione. There happy?"

I look at the blush on his face and I smile. "I love you too, Draco." And with that, he kisses me full on the mouth, walking slowly towards his bedroom once again.

Thank God it's a Saturday because as Heads, we can 'sleep in' and get breakfast or maybe even lunch at a later date.

A/N: Well chapter three, I hope you liked it! You know, you can give me a hint as to how I did in a review. Now, I'm not pushing you all but some nice constrictive criticism would be nice. I'll try to have chapter four up sooner than later and I most likely won't be seeing any of you until after the holiday so Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everyone!

~torye