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One Unforgettable Year

Chapter 11: Something Going On.

Info you need to know: "Talking"
Just to let you know: There will be repeating of some parts of the conversation which happened yesterday, just skim read through the conversation part if you want because you don't really need to read it again, it's just seen in a different POV in this chapter :)

P.S there are some swear words again, once again no offence intended to anyone! It's just for the story!

~A few minutes before Hermione's and Ron's argument, some other part of Hogwarts.~

Draco sighed as he just leaned against the wall waiting while Blaise and Lavender talked to one another. Lavender had come here a few minutes ago excitedly and told Blaise of her costume. From then on out Blaise became his perverted self and Lavender just giggled and played along with him. Draco got bored so he tried to zone them out.

Draco decided he was now too bored so he dragged Blaise away and they headed to the prefect common room. Truthfully Draco just wanted to make sure Hermione was okay because if Lavender was back then it meant she was too. Draco now cursed himself for bringing Blaise now he couldn't greet Hermione like he wanted to. Like a boyfriend.

A few minutes later they stopped outside the prefects' common room and frowned. The portraits expressions were different. The Lion (representing Gryffindor) and the Snake (Slytherin) were still intertwined but the Snake looked angry and the Lion looked upset. The Badger (Hufflepuff) and eagle (Ravenclaw) looked sad and pitiful. Draco and Blaise turned to one another and looked at each other both as confused as the other as to why the portrait was looking like that.

Blaise shrugged, Draco said the password, and Blaise stepped in first. Draco followed him. Draco bumped into Blaise as he had suddenly stopped moving. Draco frowned at him. Wondering why he would just stop walking all of the sudden.

"What the-" Draco began but Blaise cut him off by putting a hand over his mouth, stunning him into silence. Draco frowned again but this time at his best friend. Blaise used his free hand to put a finger to his mouth, indicating Draco to be silent. Draco's frown deepened. Then Blaise removed his hand from Draco's mouth and used it to point over to the direction of the common room furniture.

Draco saw Hermione, curled up on the sofa, a book in her lap. Draco smiled at that, typical Hermione. Then he frowned as he could see opposite her on the armchair the back of Ron's head. They weren't speaking, so it wasn't like Draco and Blaise were interrupting something. Draco was about to ask why Blaise had bothered to stop him when Ron spoke.

"Hermione?" Ron asked quietly, Draco hid his grin when his girlfriend didn't even give him a sideways glance.

"Hmm?" she replied absentmindedly.

"Are you and Draco going out?" Draco froze. How the bloody hell had Ron Weasley of all people worked that out. No offence intended to Ron but he wasn't the smartest of people. Draco changed his mind, offence intended. He still hated the Weasel after all. Hermione's eyes went wide with panic but then she collected herself. Blaise turned to Draco his head titled to the side slightly, questioning him. Draco shook his head and he meant it as a 'not now' kind of thing but Blaise took it as a no. Draco didn't bother to correct him.

"No. Why would you think that?" Draco's spirit only dampened slightly at her denying their relationship. After all he understood that they had to keep it a secret. He didn't want his father coming after them. Coming after her.

Draco and Blaise continued to eavesdrop on their conversation. They knew it was wrong and that they shouldn't but hey they were Slytherin's. Snooping is what they did. Draco grew angry frequently during the argument and Blaise kept a firm hand on his shoulder, digging into his shoulder everytime he felt Draco tense. Somehow Blaise managed to hold him back.

Blaise had to wrap both his arms around Draco though when Ron walked up to Hermione and pushed her. Draco was outraged when he saw her wince and wanted nothing more than to kill Ron then. He couldn't careless that they would be found out. All he wanted was to make Ron pay for hurting his Hermione. Draco once again froze at Ron's next words.

"I'm not like fucking Draco Malfoy." Ron whispered bitterly. Then added in a softer voice "Hermione why won't you just come back to me? See that Malfoy is just waiting to bed you and then he'll toss you aside. See that I would never do that. See that I'll always stay with you." he paused briefly then continued softly. "See that I love you."

Draco panicked for a moment worried that Hermione was going to say it back. That Hermione didn't actually like Draco and she was still not over Ron. Draco was tense as a cat in a dog pound but he didn't struggle against Blaise's hold anymore. His head hung low as he waited for Hermione to say those words back to the guy he hated.

He heard a slap. His head shot up and saw that Hermione's hand was still outstretched for the slap she obviously gave him. Ron's head was snapped to the side and Draco smiled gladly. He silently thanked God that Hermione didn't say it back, that Hermione was really over him. That Hermione was still Draco's.

"How dare you!" Hermione said angrily. Hermione right then hated Ron for a split second. He had said those words which he should've said when they were still going out. Not when he was trying to win her back. She wanted to scream at him for saying those words when she was going out with someone else but she couldn't. He didn't know that she wasn't single. "You can't go around saying you love me, Ron. Not when I've made it clear the feeling isn't mutual. I don't love you, Ron. I think I never really did. Not the way you love me. I'm sorry for that, I am. But don't think just telling me you love me is going to make me come running back to you. It's not."

Ron grabbed her wrists then and gripped them hard. She winced but he didn't notice it, he was too hurt to notice anything but the pain in his heart. He was still leaning down inches away from her face and now she couldn't push him away. No matter how much she wanted too. The two of them were still unawares of their company lurking in the shadows. Draco and Blaise kept it that way. For now.

"Why? Why are you choosing him over me?" Ron whispered his voice breaking. It sounded as if he was trying not to cry. And he was. He looked at her and she could see the unshed tears in his eyes. She felt another stab of guilt but ignored it for now. She didn't love Ron, she just couldn't.

"Choosing who Ron? This isn't about me choosing anyone over you Ron. I love you but only ever as a friend. I'm sorry it took me so long to realise that. You have to forget your feelings for me, Ron. You have to move on and find someone else. Someone who will love you back and love you just as much as you love them. And that person isn't me." She explained softly.

"What if I can't forget my feelings for you? They've been growing for over five years; I can't just forget them like that. Why can't you be that person? Why can't you learn to love me over time?" Ron said, softly. He was trying to persuade her but when Hermione had her mind set on something she stuck to it all the way to the end.

"You can, Ron and you will. I can't be that person, Ron. The six months that we were going out were me trying to learn to love you over time. There are some things even I can't learn, Ron. Loving you like that is one of them." Ron's head sunk low and his grip on her wrists loosened. Hermione gently removed her wrists from his and moved away from him. His head snapped up then, his eyes filled with determination. Hermione frowned at that and was about to question him when her lips were immobilised. By his.

Ron had closed the gap between them that had been growing bigger due to Hermione moving away. Hermione was shocked but not shocked enough to freeze. Immediately she began to push him away but he wouldn't budge. Draco – who Hermione and Ron still didn't know was there – was now completely outraged. The guy he loathed was kissing his girl! He could see Hermione was fighting to push him off but Ron wouldn't let her.

Ron was kissing Hermione roughly and not in a good way. He bit her bottom lip, hard. He then forcibly opened her mouth seeing as she wasn't and dipped his tongue in there and her eyes widened and she now moved onto hitting him. But he ignored it. He pulled her up and snaked one arm around her waist. Ignoring her hits and the fact that she wasn't kissing him back. The other hand roamed around her body until it rested on her arse. She screamed into his mouth and fully hit him then.

Draco couldn't take it any longer and truthfully neither could Blaise. They sprung over to them and Blaise ripped Ron away from Hermione. Draco gently took Hermione's head in his hands, their eyes locked and she looked up at him apologetically. She didn't know that Draco knew she was fighting Ron. Draco smiled softly and shook his head, silently telling her that he wasn't mad.

"You okay?" Draco asked softly. Hermione nodded, her lip felt swollen and she hadn't realised how hard Ron had bitten it. Draco did though he could see it. It was bleeding. Draco gently wiped away the blood with his thump and Hermione looked astonished. "Your bleeding." Draco murmured, mainly to himself.

"It's nothing." Hermione said, though it was starting to hurt ever so slightly. She wasn't going to tell Draco that. Draco then turned around, fire blazing in his eyes. Ron had been struggling to break free of Blaise grip, saying he didn't want Blaise's 'filthy' hands touching him. Blaise had just rolled his eyes and tightened his grip.

"You had no right to do that!" Draco hissed at Ron. Ron glared at him and if glares could kill Draco would be obliterated. Draco wasn't fazed though, he just glared right back.

"Why? It's not like she's taken!" Ron snapped. He meant it as a question though, he was still sure there was something more going on with Draco and Hermione that they were letting on. Hermione had just let Draco touch her lips with no complaint whereas when Ron had touched her lips (albeit with his own) she was hitting him. Yes, there was definitely something going on.

"So? It doesn't mean you can force yourself on her!" Draco snapped angrier than he had ever been. He then added to his retort knowing what Ron was going to say next. "And don't say you weren't forcing yourself on her! We saw she was pushing you away. What part of that did you not understand she didn't want you kissing her? Wasn't the fact she wasn't kissing back, screaming and hitting you clues?" Ron glared at him then, realising Draco and Blaise had been there more than a few moments.

"How long were you there?" Ron asked, irritated.

"Long enough." Draco snapped back.

"I think you should go and cool off, mate." Blaise said to Ron. Ron then turned his glare to him.

"I'm not your fucking mate." Ron said harshly.

"Believe me; I don't want you to be. But seriously go to your room of something. I think it's better that you stay away from Hermione for a bit." Blaise said calmly.

"Yeah course, make me leave you alone with Hermione so you can finally make the move. I know what you're planning Zabini, you and Malfoy. The second my back is turned one of you is going to screw Hermione toss her aside the other one will 'comfort' her then do exactly the same thing. Well I'm not going anywhere!" Ron said, hysterically. He really was paranoid for Hermione. If he didn't make it sound so psycho then Hermione would've thought he sounded sweet. The way Ron put though just made him sound nuts and jealous. Blaise sighed and muttered incoherently under his breathe.

"Look Weasley, I don't need to explain myself to you. I don't owe you anything but I do owe Hermione an explanation." Blaise said, Draco smiled softly at that, he knew exactly what his best friend was about to admit. He knew Blaise was like him, neither could show their emotions and feelings very well. That's exactly what Blaise was about to do.

"You want to know why I care about Hermione as much as I do? Well it's simple really. I've never had a girl who was a friend before. Sure I've had girlfriends before. Lots of them. But I've never had a girl who is just a friend, who I've never not kissed before who I never not slept with. Hermione's and mine friendship is new to me and truth be told I sure as hell don't want to lose it. So I protect it. You don't have to be worried about me trying to sleep with Hermione. Don't get me wrong she's extremely hot and if she wasn't my friend and as important as she is to me I'd probably be chasing her by now. But now that we're best friends, I'm not going to touch her like you think I am. Now, it would just feel wrong." Blaise said, making all his feelings known in that one moment. He sighed after that and only felt slightly embarrassed but he was Blaise so he didn't show that. Hermione felt touched by his words and never in her life did she think that Blaise Zabini from Slytherin would be saying something like that to her. She smiled and went over to him, made him let go of Ron and hugged him tight.

"Thank you, Blaise. You're a very important friend and person to me too. Not to mention very sweet." Hermione said sincerely to him and softly though Draco and Ron heard every word. Blaise chuckled and Hermione let go of him and she kissed him on the cheek.

"You're welcome. I should say stuff which is sweet more often." Blaise said and winked at her, Hermione giggled. Ron rolled his eyes muttered some curses towards them and stormed off to his room. Blaise shook his head as he watched him go then turned back to Draco and Hermione and titled his head slightly.

"Never thought I would say this but I think Weasley's on to something." Blaise began, Hermione and Draco frowned at that, not sure what part of what Ron had just said was supposedly right.

"Care to elaborate?" Draco asked curious. Blaise grinned but then nodded his head and looked at them seriously. No hint of joking was in his voice when he asked:

"What's going on between you two?"

A/N: ooh, Draco and Hermione are busted! Will they tell Blaise or make up a quick lie? Find out next chapter : ) Oh and a little insight to how Blaise feels about his and Hermione's friendship, hope you liked it! :) please review and tell me what you thought of this chapter. Thanks :)

Until next time – Tilda.