Chapter 7

Breakfast was silent; no one said a word at all. You could hear a pin drop from a mile away it was so quite. I wasn't expecting anything else. This didn't happen often, but sometimes I would say the wrong thing and then I would get the silent treatment for at the most a week, or whenever they needed help on homework or something.

I had gotten myself into some deep shit this time. Not only was I talking bad about them behind their backs, but I was talking bad about them behind their backs with Ron's sister and Harry's girlfriend.

After breakfast we went to Diagon Alley to get our school stuff. Ginny and I went one way and Harry and Ron went the other. Any other year we would all be going to the same places all together, but I had to go and fuck it all up.

"Where do you want to go first Ginny?" I asked still in the clothes I had worn to the concert.

"Want to go get our robes first?" Ginny said looking around at the shops.

"Ok." I said and we started towards Madam Malkin's shop.

Once inside the shop we were greeted by Madam Malkin, she lead us around the isles of robes showing us ones she thought would look nice on us. Once we had chosen our school robes and new dress robes, we left the shop and headed down the street.

"That was fun." I said to Ginny as we passed by Ollivanders wand shop.

"What?" Ginny asked.

"Every time she looked at me it was like she was trying to see if it was actually me. Like Hermione Granger can't dress like this? She is supposed to look like the goodie goodie she is, but I'm not. Fuck." I said as I ran into someone. "Sor- Malfoy watch where you're going, you ass."

"Why don't you take a page of your own advice Granger?" said Draco Malfoy as he walked off.

"What an ass." Ginny said looking back at him.

"He can go fuck himself." I said still mad from everything that had happened today. "Let's go get our books and shit and get out of here."

"Ok."

I was still in a bad mood when we got back to the burrow. I took my stuff and went straight up to Ginny's room. Ginny was right behind me.

"Someone's still pissed." She said as she closed the door behind her and locked it.

"You got that right. I don't really know why though." I said lighting a cigarette.

"Maybe it's just all the drama going on right now." Ginny said shoving a towel under the door. "With Ron and Harry being asses and all that's been going on. You're probably a little stressed."

"Yeah probably, I wish they would stop being such big babies about all of this. There being stupid." I said pacing in front of my bed while taking angry drags from my cigarette.

"It's not really their fault." Ginny said looking over at me with a look of annoyance. "They haven't seen you all summer and now that you're here you barely spend time with them or talk to them. Now they heard you talk about them behind their backs, they probably feel that they have done something wrong or that you're not there friend anymore."

"But it's not like I'm going off to tell Voldemort Harry's secrets or anything like that. I'm spending time with my boyfriend." I said getting angry. "I won't be able to see him for a really long time. Plus he thinks I'm going to leave him for someone at Hogwarts."

"I know." Ginny said sitting down on her bed. "It's just…"

"What?"

"They miss you Mione."

Days later I was sitting in the Heads compartment on the Hogwarts Express. I hadn't talked to Ron or Harry yet and Ginny and I hadn't been really seeing eye to eye at the moment. The compartment was empty and I was dying for a cigarette, but I knew as soon as I lit one someone would walk in. So I just sat there all alone trying to think of something else other than what I needed.

"Fuck!" I said as the compartment filled with a loud ringing noise. "I really need to turn this down. Hello?"

"Hey, what you doing?"

"I'm on the train to school." I said, I had told him all about Hogwarts other than the fact that is a wizarding school. "What are you up to?"

"Nothing, I still got a week until school starts for me and I have nothing to do. My life is so fucking boring without you."

"I'm sorry. I wish I could be there with you. I can think of some things we could do and not be bored." I said with a smile.

"Don't you start." Justin said with a chuckle. "I really don't want to have to deal with anything at the moment."

"Sorry, but you know I can't help myself. Fuck." I said getting jittery.

"What?"

"I need a cigarette." I said whispering into the phone.

"Then light up."

"I can't, someone might walk in and then I will get in trouble before the school year starts."

"Well then don't complain. It's annoying, you know." Justin said laughing.

"Fuck you." I said getting mad. "Is there anything you needed to tell me, because I think someone is about to-"

As soon as the door to the compartment opened I shoved the phone into the pocket on my hoodie, but I didn't end the call. I looked up and saw none other than Draco Malfoy walk, or really strut, into the compartment. I groaned, was he really the Head Boy? I'd rather shoot myself then spend the whole year with the ferret.

"Please tell me you're not head boy. I might just have to kill myself." I said with as much disgust as I could put into it.

"As if I'm pleased with this," Malfoy said sitting down across from me. "By the way you're still on the phone with someone."

I had momentarily forgotten about Justin's call and gave Draco a confused look. But then I heard Justin's voice coming from my pocket and blushed a little bit. Pulling out the phone from my pocket I brushed a strand of hair behind my ear.

"Sorry someone just walked in I have to go." I whispered into the phones receiver.

"Ok, I'll call you later then. Ok?" Justin said sounding disappointed.

"Ok, I'm sorry."

"It's ok. I love you, Hermione." He said, bringing a smile to my face.

"I love you, too Justin. I can't wait to see you again." I said slightly forgetting Malfoy was in the compartment with me.

"Neither can I; are you coming home for Christmas?" He asked and I heard music turning on in the background.

"Yes, I'll probably be home a week before and a week after, but that is no were near enough time. I wish I could come and see you whenever I wanted. That is the only thing I hate about this fucking school, well that and some other things that I can't say right now." I said hearing Malfoy chuckling to himself.

"Yeah, I get you." Justin said laughing too. "Well Johnny just got here and I don't want to get you in trouble so I better go."

"Ok, I love you." I said glaring at Malfoy, who was still laughing.

"I love you to Hermione. Have fun at school, I'll call you later."

"Ok, Bye."

"Bye, love." Justin said quickly ending the call before I could cuss him out for saying that.

"Urgh, I hate him." I said closing the phone and putting it back in my pocket. "What Malfoy?"

"I would have never thought you'd say one word bad about Hogwarts. It seems so unreal." He said, his words dripping with sarcasm. "Let alone you having a boyfriend."

"Fuck off Malfoy." I said looking out the window. "Just because I don't go around fucking every guy at Hogwarts doesn't mean I'm incapable of it. I'm not you."

"Thank god for that because if you were me I would have to be you and I just couldn't handle being a mudblood." Malfoy said smirking at me. "I'd have to kill myself."

"Maybe I could just do that for you." I said crossing my arms over my chest and glaring at him. I was about to say something else when McGonagall walked in.

"Ah, good you're both here. Now I want to go over what you will be doing this year." She said sitting down next to me. "Other than your studies and Prefects meetings, you will also be in charge of all the school dances and trips to Hogsmeade for this year."

She stopped and looked at both of us as if to reinforce what she was going to say next.

"You both have been chosen, not only because you both have the best marks in your year, but also because I believe you too can work together to show your fellow class mates that, even though you are from very different houses you both can be civil to one another, almost friendly like."

"You expect us to be civil? I can barely stand to be in the same room as this pure blood basted, let alone be civil towards him." I said looking at McGonagall like she had gone crazy.

"Miss Granger, I will let you know I expect to not be talked to in such a manner." McGonagall said slightly startled that I had sworn. "I expect you two to find some way to work around your differences and set an example for the school. Do not roll your eyes at me Mr. Malfoy." She said turning to him. "You two are the only students in this school that have a chance of showing others that we should come together, to unite to defeat Voldemort. Now, I will leave you to it and I will see you at the feast."

With that McGonagall left and silence filled the compartment. After a while of silence I reached over to the door and pulled down the blind.

"What the bloody hell are you doing Granger?" Draco said looking over at me.

"What the fuck do you care?" I said opening the window a crack, then sitting back down. "I need a fucking smoke." I said reaching in my pocket for my pack. "Ahh, Fuck! There in my jacket!"

Malfoy just stared at me as I reached up into my trunk and started looking for my jacket. I had practically pulled all of my things out before I found it on at the bottom. Pulling it out of my trunk I had accidently knocked out my rubber duck with it.

"Shit." I said quickly putting it back and casting a spell so my trunk would repack its self.

"Wow Granger, you really brought your rubber ducky with you?" Draco said laughing. "You got your blanky in there too?"

"Shut the fuck up Malfoy!" I said glad that he didn't know what it really was.

I closed my trunk and sat back down with my jacket. Digging through the pockets I finally found my pack of cigarettes. Pulling one out I glanced up at Malfoy, he quickly looked away with a smirk on his face. I reached back into my jacket's pockets looking for my lighter. Glancing back up at Malfoy I found him staring at me again.

"What?" I shouted at him, making him jump.

"What do you mean 'What'?" He said pretending he wasn't staring.

"You know what I mean, Malfoy." I said putting back the lighter and blowing out smoke.

"I have no idea what you are talking about Granger." He said staring out the window.

"Whatever." I grumbled sitting back in my seat. I pulled my jacket on over my shoulders and continued to draw the addictive smoke into my lungs. It was going to be a long year.