Draco opened a heavy eyelid the next morning as he was awoken by the sound of running water and a feminine voice singing a song he'd never heard of.
He had to admit; the voice was pretty good at singing.
Slightly confused about where he was, Draco stopped to think for a moment.
Right. Back at Hogwarts. Now living with the mudblood because the bloody ministry came up with some treasure hunt.
He turned his head to look at the clock next to his bed; the time read 7:30 in the fucking morning.
"What the hell is that mudblood doing?" he hissed and covered his face with a pillow, but that only muffled the sounds.
With a loud groan, Draco got out of his warm and comfortable bed, stomped to the bathroom door, before hammering his fist against the wooden door.
Hermione was rather startled as she heard the loud banging on the bathroom door, causing her to jump and hit her head on the tiled wall.
"What do you want, Malfoy?" she called, holding her head with her left hand, and quickly wrapped a towel around her body before pulling open the door.
There he stood, right in front of her, and half naked. Hermione swallowed hard as she tore her eyes from his chest and up to his face.
The hot steam and the scent of Hermione's vanilla shampoo and peach body wash hit Draco square in the face, and he quickly waved the hot air away with his hand.
"Could you be any louder in there?" Draco asked, frowning deeply at the witch.
Hermione cocked an eyebrow, "Oh, you want me to be louder?" she asked, and with a flick of her wand that she had grabbed off the sink, loud music began to play in the dorm.
Draco quickly covered his ears with his hand, frowning deeply at Hermione. "Fucking turn it off!" he yelled over the music, but Hermione shook her head, refusing to turn it off.
"Please!" Draco forced himself to say. Never in his life had he said please to anyone but his mother. And the last time he did, he was still running around in diapers and waving his toy wand in the air.
She abruptly shut off the music, staring at the boys face for a second. "Well, since you asked nicely…" Hermione mumbled, her eyebrows slightly raised.
He sighed a quick, "Thank you," and scurried back to his bedroom to gather his things so that he could take a shower once Hermione was done.
Hermione watched him disappear with disbelief, before disappearing in the bathroom again.
She closed the door behind her and leaned against it, staring at the fogged up mirror.
Had Draco Malfoy really just said please and thank you? To her?
Her mind swam with a billion questions for a few seconds, before a small lightbulb went off in her head.
The war must have changed him; it changed everyone after all. And who's to say that the blonde haired git couldn't ever change?
Hermione shook her head, freeing it from the thoughts that swam around her head, and quickly pulled on a pair of jeans and a tank top.
She brushed her hair, flinching whenever the brush hit difficult knots, and then tapped her wand against her hair, which dried it instantly.
Her hair seemed to be extra bushy and extra frizzy today, so Hermione decided to put it up into a bun, fastening strands of loose hair to the side of her head with bobby pins.
There was another knock on the bathroom door just as she finished.
"One second!" Hermione called and gathered her things before exiting the bathroom.
Draco and her exchanged a quick glance, and he closed the door behind him.
Not much later she heard the sound of running water.
Hermione looked at thick book in front of her, and then over at the large stack of books that was set on the table right next to her.
Draco and her had agreed, but not after a loud and lengthy argument, to scan through some books that might help them when they're stuck in the forest.
"Draco, could you stop being a lazy arse over there and read through at least one book? I'm not going to do all of this work by myself." groaned Hermione as she turned around on the bench, and looked over at Draco who was sitting in an armchair nearby, his eyes closed, and his breathing slow and even.
Hermione scoffed and stormed into the boy's direction.
"Malfoy!" she hissed, lightly shaking his shoulder.
Draco jerked awake and jumped out of his seat, his eyes wide and his body alert.
"Don't fucking touch me!" he spluttered as he slapped her hand away, and Hermione rolled her eyes with a sigh.
"You fell asleep." she explained.
Draco's eyed wandered around the room for a second before he realized that he was in the library, supposed to be studying with Granger.
Studying. Right.
"Whatever. Youve already read every single book in this damned library, Granger. So Why do we need to read these,again?" he grumbled and rubbed his left eye with a yawn.
Hermione sighed and crossed her arms in front of her chest. The ferret was right, okay. She already knew all about the plants and animal life in the forbidden forest; more than the old Caretaker Filch, she was afraid.
"…Whatever, Malfoy. Ill be going down to the great hall to eat dinner, now." Hermione walked over to the table where she had just been studying and flung her bag over her shoulder. "Oh," she stopped before she exited the library. "You should really put the books away, since the only thing you've done so far was sleep." And with that, Hermione disappeared out of the door.
Draco groaned as he watched her exit the library.
There she was again, ordering him around like a fucking house elf.
It was about time he taught her who the boss around here was.
With the swish of his wand, the books all flew towards the shelves filled with more books, and returned to their rightful place.
He too, grabbed his bag, and followed Hermione down to the great hall.
"I'm telling you, Harry. It's like hell having to live with that foul git! All he does is sleep while I'm the one getting ready for these next two fucking weeks!" the bushy haired witch explained to her best friend, Harry Potter, as they all sat gathered at the Gryffindor table to eat dinner.
Hermione stabbed her fork into her baked potato, pretending as if it was Malfoy's face.
"At least you don't have to live with Parkinson." Ginny blurted out, obviously angry at the world. "That bitch is taking up half of my room with her damn luggage, sleeps all god damn day, and whenever she IS awake, all she does is bitch at me an tell me what to do. In telling you now." Ginny held up a finger. "We'll be the first people to leave the fucking challenge."
And with that, she began to stuff her face with whatever was within The reach of an arm length.
Ginny was the kind of person who just eats her worries away.
There was one time where her and Harry had a major fight, and they were on the verge of breaking up, over something very silly she must add, and all Ginny did was eat.
And eat.
Whatever she could get her hands on, Ginny would eat it, not caring about what the hell it was that she was eating.
Surprisingly, she had manage to remain her regular, slim figure.
Hermione had always admired that about her.
Not a single day during that time did she work out, yet she didn't gain any noticeable weight.
"Well, maybe you should come to the library with me," Hermione suggested.
She had to admit; she needed someone else to lend her company.
Malfoy didn't do anything but sit in his corner and read some stupid fiction book or sleep, and that obviously wasn't going to help them out at all.
The youngest Weasley looked up from her chicken wings, and nodded her head.
"Alright," Ginny sighed as she wiped the barbecue sauce off her face. "Do you mind if we leave now? Because I honestly don't feel like putting up with the 'Drama Queen' of fucking Hogwarts."
Hermione watched the girls eyes flick to the Slytherin table, where Pansy, Draco, and his friends all sat conversing about something; the topic seemed to bore Draco, though. He yawned every now and then, giving his girlfriend of almost 4 years, Pansy, a bored look every now and then.
"Yes. Please. I don't feel like putting up with the ferret either." Hermione agreed before gathering her things and heading up to the library with Ginny.
{Authors Note: Sorry, I would've had this up yesterday, but it was my birthday and we went to the fair, and then played a video game all night. Sorry. :3}