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One Unforgettable Year
Chapter 13: The Same Thing?
Info you need to know: "Talking". Thinking.
~14 days later, 21st October 2012. The day of the Halloween Ball~
The whole school was buzzing for what was to happen later. The Halloween Ball. It was a Saturday so the students thankfully could relax in the day until it was time to get ready. Everyone except the Prefects and Heads'. They were organising everything and had to make last minute adjustion. Which was what they were currently doing. Hermione took it upon herself to make a check list and currently she was walking around The Great Hall, checking things off her list as she went.
"Lights, check. Speakers, check. Food and Drink, check." She muttered under her breathe, at the last one she paused and went back to the long food table at the back and picked up the spoon in the blood red punch and poured some into a cup. She warily took a sip. "Not spiked, check."
"It might not be spiked now, but I guarantee later it will be." A voice said from behind her. She jumped and turned around to face Draco. He smirked at her and she narrowed her eyes at him, causing him to chuckle.
"Then I guess I'll have to check it again later." Hermione said reasonably and began to move on to the next thing on her list. Decorations. Draco followed her. Hermione took no notice of him, instead continued on with her job. After a few minutes though, Hermione began to feel uncomfortable. She could feel his gaze on her, his eyes boring into her. Hermione suddenly swung around and put her arms across her chest. "Can I help you with something, Draco?" Hermione asked, she was in her work mode. A working Hermione was a serious one. Draco just grinned and shook his head. She nodded and carried on with her checking but Draco still followed her, still kept his gaze on her.
"Stop looking at me." Hermione muttered after a few minutes. Draco chuckled, darkly.
"Is there a reason I can't look at the prettiest girl in the world?" Draco said, Hermione looked up at him and he smiled down at her. She felt heat rise to her cheeks and she looked down again.
"You're making me uncomfortable." Hermione stated when she felt her cheeks go back to the normal temperature. Draco just chuckled and she pushed him playfully. Draco continued to follow Hermione around and she felt slightly more comfortable with it. Neither of them noticed the sour person sitting in the corner watching them, glaring at them with eyes that could kill.
The person in the corner was Ron. He still felt something was going on between his Hermione and Malfoy, especially since they were always with each other. Usually flirting and he had seen Malfoy go up to her room countless times. Including the day were people went to Hogsmeade to get costumes. He wasn't sure why he had seen Malfoy go up to her room and neither of them returning for a few minutes but he was determined to get answers. He just didn't know how at the moment. He felt a presence next to him and heard someone sit down but he took no notice. He was lost in his thoughts about Hermione and Malfoy. About what they were and if they were anything how he could stop it.
"Looks like we're on the same page for once, Weasel." A voice said next to him. Ron turned to glare at the beautiful Slytherin Princess. Pansy just blinked at him and looked at him with a 'Seriously?' gaze, he continued to glare. She rolled her eyes and sighed.
"What do you mean, Parkinson?" Ron snapped. He and Pansy weren't friends. They never were and he never wanted them to be. He didn't want to be on the same page as Pansy. It meant that either she was turning nice or he was turning horrid. The latter seemed more believable. Even if Ron didn't want to believe it.
"Well we're both not happy about how… close, Granger and Drakie have become. It's obvious there's something their hiding from us. My Drakie doesn't flirt with girls, he charms them. Not acts like a goofy idiot. I'm sure Granger, doesn't flirt either. She doesn't seem the type to know how." Pansy whispered in his ear. Making sure to use Granger instead of her nickname. She was pretty sure Ron wasn't going to be happy about that.
"Don't insult, Hermione." Ron hissed. Pansy looked away and rolled her eyes and then smiled sweetly at him. She stroked her hand along his shoulders and Ron tensed at her casual touch.
"We both want one of them gone. You want Draco gone, I want Granger gone. I'm sure if we work together we can accomplish that. Whatever Draco and Granger have, they shouldn't. Draco is meant to be with me, a pureblood. Granger's getting herself in danger if she gets too close to Draco, his father will be after her. Maybe even The Dark Lord, too." Pansy said, continued to talk quietly into his ear, so only he could hear. Maybe, to also attract him with her own 'charms'. But it was Ron, the only girl he had his eyes on was Hermione.
He looked over to Hermione who was with Malfoy. Still. Ron's fist clenched when he saw them flirting. Malfoy had grabbed her check list and Hermione was trying to get it off him, her eyebrows furrowed as if she was annoyed. But she couldn't keep the smile off her face, even though she was trying. Ron felt the low grumble erupt from his throat as he growled at them. He didn't like seeing Hermione, his Hermione so close to Malfoy. Malfoy the guy he loathed, the guy who had treated him and his friends like nothing but crap for the past seven years. His friends were stupid to trust him, but Ron wasn't.
"I'm in." Ron whispered to Pansy, not tearing his eyes away from Hermione and Malfoy. "What do you have in mind?" Pansy smirked, she thought she might have had to do some more persuading than that but she supposed Draco and Granger had helped in their own little way. Pansy slinked her arm through Ron's and walked away from him. Talking in murmurs of Pansy's plans. Not so nice plans.
Hermione went on her tip-toes still trying to get the check list off her stupid boyfriend. She was smiling though, it was kind of fun. Hermione shook her head of those thoughts, she was working she wasn't supposed to be having fun. Stupid, Draco and his damn sexiness and playfulness distracting me from my work. I never had this problem with Ron.Hermione thought to herself, though she wasn't really mad. Thinking of Ron she stopped reaching for her check list when she saw in the corner of her eye, Pansy walk off with Ron. She stopped smiling and frowned instead, bewildered. Draco saw the change and titled his head, questionably. Wondering why she had suddenly changed moods.
"'Mione? You alright?" Draco asked, softly. Hermione had been staring after Ron and Pansy but snapped out of it when she heard his concerned voice. She looked up at him and smiled and nodded.
"Fine. Just saw Ron and Pansy walk off together, wasn't something I thought I would ever see." Hermione said, Draco frowned at that and looked in the direction Hermione was looking. He of course couldn't see Ron or Pansy because they had walked away. "I'm glad if they're getting along, but really, couldn't they have done it when they weren't given jobs to do?" Hermione said, shaking her head. Draco smiled at that, typical Hermione.
"They probably weren't even doing their jobs in the first place." Draco said and followed Hermione again. She nodded, agreeing then smirked as she snatched back her check list. Draco pouted at that.
"Hey, no fair I let my guard down!" Draco protested. Hermione just smirked, one she got from him. He smiled at that, his smirk on Hermione looked sexy. He wondered if he looked sexy when he was smirking. He concluded that he always looked sexy, this was Draco after all.
"Draco Malfoy never lets his guard down!" Hermione teased and started to go back to her job.
"Maybe, except I let my guard down with a few certain people that I care about a lot and trust. There used to be only one person I let my guard down with, now there's two." Hermione smiled at that. She knew what he was getting that. But also knew that her boyfriend didn't share feelings very well, much like Blaise.
"Hmm, let me guess. Blaise and Pansy?" She asked, jokingly. He raised his eyebrow at that and gave her a 'seriously?' look. Hermione just giggled.
"Well, you're right on one of them at least. Blaise is one of the two." He said and stepped closer to her, she had to crane her neck so she could look at him. Seeing as he was taller than her.
"Oh? So if Pansy isn't the other one then who is?" Hermione said, playfully. All thoughts of working forgotten. Draco tend to do that to her. Make her forget about all things except him.
"You." Draco whispered and leaned down till their lips were inches apart. They both wanted to close the gap but knew that they shouldn't. They were still in public and they shouldn't even be this close. They jumped apart when they heard someone clear their throat. They turned to see a smirking Blaise with his eyebrow raised and arms crossed over his chest.
"Am I interrupting?" Blaise asked, amusedly. Draco glared at his best friend, Hermione blushed and shook her head.
"Not at all." Hermione said and started to go back to work. Before she went out of ear shot of two of her important guys (Harry being the other one) she turned around. "Thank you, though Blaise. We needed that." Blaise just continued to smirk but he nodded.
"Anytime." He replied, she nodded and walked fully away. Draco sighed as he watched her go, Blaise chuckled.
"I thought you guys were lying low?" Blaise asked, still amused.
"We are. Just sometimes I wish we weren't." Draco muttered.
"I get it; you want to be able to show her your feelings even when you're in public." Blaise said knowingly, Draco sighed but nodded. "But I'm not sorry that I interrupted when I did, 'cause if anyone else saw you then you'd be in shit loads of trouble. Even if you didn't end up kissing. I know you want to be able to touch her and kiss her anytime you want, Draco but just remember if you do then that might just be putting you in danger. Even if your dad just comes after you Hermione won't let you go through that alone. She's too stubborn when it comes to her friends to stay out of danger. If it comes to a fight she'll stay by your side, even if it kills her." Blaise said, wisely.
"I hate it when you go all wisdom like on me. As much as I want it all to be a bucket load of crap, you're right. I am trying to be careful, just sometimes it's hard." Blaise grinned at that.
"Hey, I never tell you a bucket load of crap. I'm always right." Blaise exclaimed, Draco rolled his eyes at that.
"Sure, whatever. Oh wise Blaise. Please enlighten me with your infinite knowledge." Draco said sarcastically.
"I said I was always right, not that I knew everything." Blaise said dryly.
"Isn't always being right and having infinite knowledge the same thing?" Draco asked, kind of confused now. Blaise shrugged.
"Fuck if I know. I'm always right when it comes to you, not other shit." Blaise said, Draco shook his head at his best friend but he was grinning.
"You're an ass." Draco stated, grinning. Blaise grinned back.
"I love you too, buddy." Blaise said, Draco rolled his eyes.
"I said you're an ass not I love you, dick." Draco said, starting to walk away.
"Isn't that the same thing?" Blaise said, mocking him from a few moments ago.
"Dick." Draco said, still walking away.
"Love you too, sweetie." Blaise called after him, earning weird looks from a few of his fellow students, he just winked at them. Draco didn't turn around whilst he gave his best friend the middle finger, just kept on walking as he did so. Blaise chuckled. Knowing he had reassured his best friend.
He decided seeing as he wasn't actually doing anything that he would head back to his room. He walked out of the room, making sure not to go near exit where Hermione was nearby. Knowing that she would find him something to do. Blaise escaped unnoticeably and headed back to his room, humming quietly to himself. He wasn't really paying any attention to his surroundings but his head snapped up when he heard familiar voices talking quietly. He couldn't quite put the voices to names or faces though.
He stopped humming and walking and stood still, concentrating on the faint voices. He decided that it was just a little further up and too the right. Quietly he walked further and then turned to his right. Sure enough there was a door, slightly ajar. Blaise frowned wondering who it was. He quietly walked to the door and opened it slightly more so he could peek in. He made sure he didn't gasp when he saw the familiar backs of Ron and Pansy in the room. Talking quietly.
He was close enough now to hear though. So he did what he pretty much all Slytherin's did. Eavesdropped.
"You understand the plan?" Pansy asked, Ron. Ron nodded.
"It's not that hard. I distract Hermione, Ginny and the other girls in your dorm while you go in and ruin Hermione's dress so she can't go to the Ball with Draco. What's not to understand?" Ron said, monotonously. Blaise raised his eyebrow at that. Weasley was working with Pansy? Now that wasn't something he ever thought would be possible. He figured their mutual hatred of Draco and Hermione being close brought them together. Not good.
"Good, just make sure you don't screw up. If I get caught because of you then I'm taking you down with me." Pansy threatened. Blaise couldn't see it but Ron rolled his eyes at her.
"I'm quaking in my boots, Parkinson." Ron said sarcastically.
"I mean it, Weasel. I hate Granger as much as you hate Draco. There is nothing that I won't do to keep my Draco away from her. Just as I'm sure that there's nothing you wouldn't do to keep Granger away from Draco. We have that in common, so don't screw up." Ron got up then and Blaise got ready to leg it.
"I'm not going to screw up. Make sure you don't either, Parkinson. Later." Ron said. Blaise didn't stick around to find out if there was anymore. He legged it and when he was sure he was far enough away he stopped. He thought back over what he had just overheard. Only two words could show how much Pansy and Ron teaming together was bad:
"Oh shit."
A/N: So Blaise has discovered Pansy's and Ron's 'evil' little plan, is he gonna stop them or will Pansy get her way? Find out next chapter! Please review telling me what you thought, but most importantly I hope you liked it!
Until next time – Tilda