"Hey Hermione," Draco called out across the crowded corridor of the Ground floor. Students were taking their time to get into the Great Hall. It was starting to irk Draco.

Hermione turned around, but overlooked Draco. She seemed to be looking for someone in particular. Hermione had a slightly worried expression.

"Hermione," Draco tried again, but it was like she couldn't hear him over the other students. Her eyes continued to search the groups. Hermione kept skipping over Draco, like he wasn't even there.

Draco decided that he would make his way over to her. He was pushed and shoved by the students that wouldn't move, so he returned the favor out of frustration. Draco wondered why the crowd wasn't thinning out or moving. After a few minutes of trying to move, he saw that he wasn't any closer to Hermione than when he started. In fact, it seemed like he was further away now, further from her.

"What the hell is the problem?" he asked. No one seemed to hear him.

Hermione finally looked in Draco's direction. She was beaming, even her smile was dazzling.

Suddenly, the crowd the was next to Draco parted. There was a clear path all the way to where Hermione was standing.

"Excuse me!" Draco tried to get over to the clearing, but no one would budge. It seemed that he was packed into the crowd tighter than before.

The entire student body turned their gaze in the direction that Hermione had. It wasn't Draco that she was looking at. He turned around to see what had captured her attention.

There stood Ron at the bottom of the staircase. He had a smirk on his face as he started to cross the path to Hermione. As Ron passed him, Draco saw that Ron was wearing very nice dress robes. Draco looked around to see that everyone was dressed nicely, not in their school robes, like he was.

Draco turned back to Hermione. She was starting to redden from blushing so much. Ron took her by the arm. Draco hadn't noticed that she was dressed-up in Muggle clothes (a dark blue cocktail dress). What he did notice was how lovingly Hermione was looking at Ron.

"Well, I want to say thank you for coming to out engagement party!" Ron announced happily for all to hear. Cheers erupted from all over the room.

Draco felt his stomach drop. He could feel his heart break. Draco couldn't breathe. His mind wasn't functioning properly either. It seemed like the room was spinning around. Draco shut his eyes tightly.

When he opened them again, Draco was alone in a dark room. He found himself laying down on the cold ground. Draco looked up to see a light being emitted from somewhere above him. It was giving off just enough light to see in the immediate area around him. He slowly eased himself up into a sitting position, but that took what strength he had.

"I don't want to get up," Draco's hollow voice echoed in the emptiness that surrounded him of the dark room. There were several moments that went by with no other sound.

Then, Draco heard footsteps that were faintly approaching him. Slowly, a silhouette came into his focus. Draco could see that the figure was a girl with long, flowing hair that swayed with each step she took. Once she walked into the light, Draco saw who the person was. It was Luna.

She stopped about a foot or so away from Draco. Then, she crouched down so that she was eye-level with him. Draco could see the sadness in her eyes as she looked into his.

Questions were racing through his mind, but Draco wasn't sure where to start. He kept opening his mouth to say something, then thought better of it and clamped his mouth shut again. He just wasn't sure what to say.

"I told you she wouldn't go unnoticed," Luna said in her dreamy voice. She stood back upright and slowly disappeared back into the darkness. Draco could see that she had tears in her eyes.

He tried to call out to her, but the lump in his throat prevented that. Draco tried to reach out to her, but he didn't have the strength to get up. He looked up to see that he was all alone in the dark room.

Suddenly, Draco jerked himself upright. He was breathing heavily as he looked around. Draco saw that he was in his four-poster bed with the curtains drawn shut. He raised his hands up to rub his face, which was covered with a cold sweat.

It was a dream. Draco thought to himself. He took a deep breath before he peeked out to see if anyone else was awake. Not that he really needed to, the snoring that filled the dormitory told Draco that he was the only one that had waken up. Still, he quietly moved the curtain back and saw that no one else was stirred.

"What a way to start Halloween," Draco whispered to himself. Then, he got up and started getting ready for the day.

Breakfast wasn't a notable affair; though Draco did receive a box of candy from his mother when the mail arrived. Crabbe and Goyle joined Draco at the table. The two of them were making a ritual of it, to sit with Draco when he wasn't with his Gryffindor buddies. Draco wasn't paying much attention to their grunting today.

Instead, Draco was watching the entrance door of the Great Hall. He was waiting for Hermione to walk though. Draco couldn't explain it, but he needed to see her.

Finally, after waiting about fifteen minutes, Hermione came in the door. She was smiling as she was talking to someone behind her. Draco thought that it was Luna, but then Luna walked in beside her, only a step behind Hermione. After the girls walked in, Harry walked in behind Luna. He was having a conversation with her as they walked to their tables. Draco could see that Hermione was still standing at the door and still talking to someone just out of Draco's view. Hermione finally stepped into the hall, followed by Ron. He seemed to have just told her a joke or something else funny, because Hermione and Ron were laughing together.

Draco was regretting eating anything, because his stomach started feeling queasy. He felt uneasy as he watched Hermione and Ron make their way to the Gryffindor table. Images from the nightmare that he had the night before came rushing back into Draco's mind.

He got up and left the Great Hall. Draco wasn't going to lose his cool in front of the school. He started to head upstairs to get to his class.

You're just jumping to conclusions because of what Luna told you, Draco thought as he climbed the steps.

Draco kept himself busy with his classes and tried hard not to let his thoughts drift away. When the break came around, he went to the library to work on his History of Magic essay that was due later that week. Draco's feet were automatically taking him to the usual study spot, but he caught himself a few aisles away from it.

He wanted to see Hermione, almost like a desire that had to be fulfilled, but Draco wanted to make sure that he had the right words to say to her. Draco knew that he needed to tell her soon, though. His mind wasn't on the study material that was before him. Draco kept thinking about how he was going to finally tell Hermione how he felt about her.

The bell chimed that break was over. It broke Draco's train of thought. He gathered his things, with hardly anything added to his essay, and left the library.

As he walked into the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, Draco started looking for Hermione at the front of the room. She wasn't in her usual seat. Draco felt confused, because Hermione never was late for class.

"Oi!" Ron's voice came from the other side of the room.

Draco turned to see Harry, Ron and Hermione sitting together at the boy's usual table. He hurried across the room and took the empty seat beside Hermione, seeing as Ron was sitting on the opposite side of her. Hermione happily waved at Draco as he got settled.

"Alright class, please get to your seats and have your homework ready to turn in," Professor Lupin said before Draco had even got the chance to greet Hermione.

Draco was pulling what he needed for classes when he heard Hermione already scratching away with her quill. Then, she slid a folded up piece of parchment towards Draco. He looked at her with a raised eyebrow, but she just smiled at him. So, Draco opened the note and read it quietly.

Oh Draco! I've got something wonderful to tell you! I'll wait until after class to tell you the news!

What could make Hermione so giddy? And why is she back here instead of being upfront? What's going on?

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