Chapter 8
Not long after I finished my cigarette I must have fallen asleep because I woke up to Draco shaking me.
"What the fuck Malfoy?" I said sitting up in my seat. "What do you want?"
"I was just trying to tell you were almost at Hogsmeade." He said sighing and walking over to his side of the compartment. He had already changed in to his robes. "You don't need to bight my fucking head off, geez."
"Oh, well thanks." I said unsure of what I should say.
"Whatever, I'm leaving." Draco said as he walked to the door. "Oh by the way your phone was ringing fucking loudly Granger."
Draco left the compartment and I changed in to my robes and I pulled out my phone and set it on vibrate before I forgot to, again. I checked to see who called knowing it was Justin, but just in case it wasn't. Seeing he had I called him back to see what he had wanted.
"…Ring…Ring…Hello?" A female voice said catching me off guard.
"Um, hi; who is this?" I said checking my watch making sure I had time.
"Hermione? It's Jessica, Justin's friend." She said as someone yelled something in the background.
"Oh, hi Jessica, I thought I had the wrong number or something." I said sitting down. "Is Justin there?"
"Yeah hang on." I heard her call Justin and waited.
"'Ello?" His voice slurred.
"Hi Justin, did you call me earlier?"
"Yeah, 'Mione I miss you." He slurred once again. "Everyone misses you."
"I miss you too, but Justin are you drunk?" I asked pretty sure he was.
"No, I only had two drinks and that's it." He said getting defensive.
"Well I just wanted to know why you called, but I have to go. Sorry, but bye Justin. I love you."
"No don't go!" He said.
"I have to so bye." I said.
"No please do-" He said as I hit the end button. Justin was kind of hard to deal with when he was drunk, unless you were too.
I grabbed my things and left the compartment as the train slowly pulled into Hogsmeade. As Head Girl I had to help with the first years. By the time Malfoy and I had gotten them all on the boats and made sure everyone was off the train, we were the only ones left.
"Great." I mumbled as I walked over to the last carriage. Draco fallowed behind me.
"Look Granger, I'm not ecstatic about this arrangement either." Draco said coming up beside me.
"Really, you could have fooled me." I said sarcastically as I climbed into the carriage.
"Whatever." Draco said turning and looking away from me.
I looked up at the castle and sighed. As much as I missed Justin a little part of me was glad to be back. This had been my home away from home for the past six years, and even if Ron and Harry were pissed at me that would change and we would be on another adventure soon. Although I could have done without having Malfoy as Head Boy, but I couldn't change that now. I sighed and looked at Hogwarts again a large full moon rising up behind it, hopefully not a sign of what was to come.
"Attention! Please may I have your attention?" McGonagall said as she walked around the head table to the front of the hall. "Thank you, now to those of you who are new welcome, and to the others welcome back. Mr. Filch would like me to remind you that the Forbidden Forest is off limits to all students and that all Weasley Wizarding Wheeze products are prohibited and will be confiscated."
People all over the hall groaned and whispered to their friends.
"Now I would like to introduce you to the Head Boy and Head Girl for this year." She paused and waited for the hall to quiet down again before continuing. "Thank you, now your Head Boy for this year is, Mr. Draco Malfoy. Please come up here Mr. Malfoy."
Draco slowly stood up from his seat and made his way to the front. The whole time the Slytherin table and a few others who Draco was nice to cheered while the rest of the hall was silent. When Draco made it to McGonagall she handed him his Head Boy badge and shook his hand.
"Congratulations Mr. Malfoy." She said to him before turning back to the hall. "And this year's Head Girl is Miss. Hermione Granger. Miss. Granger please come forward."
All eyes in the hall turned to me and cheers erupted all around me. I stood up and walked up to the front, high fiving people and getting clapped on the back as I went.
"Congratulations Miss. Granger." McGonagall said when I met her at the front handing me my Head Girl badge.
"Thanks." I said back, but you could barely hear it for the loud cheering. McGonagall raised he hands and waited for the hall to get quiet again before she spoke.
"Thank you and now I present you with this year's Head Boy and Girl." She said and started clapping smiling at as.
Once again the hall erupted with the sounds of every one clapping and cheering. It was amassing and all I could do was smile. I had no idea that this many people liked me, or rather liked me better than the others who could have been Head Girl. I look at Draco out of the side of my eye and saw that his famous smirk was plastered on his face. He turned to me and reached out his hand. I took it and in front of the whole school we shook on an unspoken agreement to at least try to tolerate each other. Once again McGonagall raised her hands and quieted the hall.
"Now, there are warm beds waiting for you in your dormitories. The Prefects from each house will show the younger students to their rooms. Goodnight." When she had finished speaking the hall erupted with noise once again, but this time it was the defining sound of benches scraping along the floor. McGonagall turned back to Draco and me and smiled. "I've very glad that you two have decided to show such a good model for your fellow students. Professor Dumbledore would be proud that is two favorite students would do so." As she said this tears formed in the corners of her eyes; she hastily wiped them away. "Well, I guess I should show you to your dorm now. As you know the Heads get their own rooms away from the rest of the student body. But the room changes every year."
"What do you mean by that?" I asked fallowing her out of the hall.
"Well the rooms will change to the user's preference. Like if you, Miss. Granger, would rather have a more muggle looking room with more muggle things, the room would adapt to it; while Mr. Malfoy's room would probably reflect his room at home." She said turning down another corridor. "Your room will change to your 'dream room', just by thinking about it."
"That's amassing; it must be some really amassing magic." I said feeling my pocket vibrating. Justin. He was probably still drunk and calling for some stupid reason that only he understands.
"It's an old spell that had been rediscovered a couple of years ago." McGonagall said stopping in front of a small painting of a young girl. "Good evening Denise."
"Good evening Professor." Denise said, her voice was very light and sounded as if it was coming from a faraway place. "Who are these two students?"
"This is Miss. Hermione Granger and Mr. Draco Malfoy. They are this year's Head Boy and Girl." McGonagall said smiling to the painting.
"Oh how delightful." Denise said in a board sounding voice.
"Hello Denise." Draco said taking a step toward the painting. "It's very nice to meet you."
"Nice meet you as well Mr. Malfoy." The girl said studying Draco's face.
"Please call me Draco." He said coolly.
"It's very nice to meet you as well, Denise." I said not wanting to be shown up by Draco.
"The pleasure is all mine, Miss. Granger." She said turning to look at me.
"I would rather you call me Hermione please." I said smiling at her.
"I suppose you would like to come in?" She said obviously board by our conversation.
"Ah, yes." McGonagall said. "The password is Gillyweed, but it's only temporary, you can change it later."
"Correct. Enjoy your night Miss. Hermione, Mr. Draco." Denise said as the painting swung back into the room.
"Thank you." I said as we walked into the room.
The common room looked like the Gryffindor common room and, from what Harry and Ron had told me, the Slytherin common room had combined. The room was rather large, there were large windows that shown out to the lake and part of the Quidditch field. In between the windows were three doors. It went set of windows, door, another set of windows, door, another set of windows, door, then the last set of windows. The door to the far left had the Slytherin crest on it and Malfoy walked that way. The door to the far right had the Gryffindor crest on it so I went to it.
"Well it's getting late," McGonagall said turning back to the painting. "I better let you get some rest. Goodnight."
"Goodnight Professor." I said turning back watching her as she left. Draco echoed my response and went into his room not waiting for her to go.
Once the painting was shut I turned back to my bedroom door. It was made out of a thick wood and looked like it had been there for years. I place my hand on the cool brass knob and pushed the door open. The room looked just like the rooms in Gryffindor tower. I was rather disappointed that this was my dream room. I closed the door and walked over to my bed. Looking around the room I saw it had a large dresser to the one side of it and next to it there were more windows looking out over the grounds. Next to the windows was my bed and next to that more windows and a door.
Puzzled I got up off my bed and walked over to the door. Opening it I found it was a bathroom. It looked much like the prefects bathroom. In the one corner to my right was a large bath the size of a small pool, with many different faucets pouring into it. To my left was a large counter with two sinks in front of a large mirror. Across from the bath was a shower and next to that was a toilet. As my eyes traveled around the room a thought popped into my mind and I hated the answer. I was going to have to share a bathroom with Draco Malfoy.
Even though we were trying to be civil to each other I couldn't share a bathroom with him. Now this will make me sound like a pampered little drama queen, but I can't stand sharing a bathroom with anyone. At home, at someone's house, even here at school; I don't know why, but the idea of it is just disgusting to me. No one knows about it though mainly because I do my best not to show it and I'm trying to get myself use to I sharing. But still sometimes I can't handle it.
Just as I turned back to my room the door to Draco's room opened. I walked quickly into my room hoping he hadn't seen me, but sad to say I wasn't that lucky.
"Granger." Draco called as I hurried into my room. Slowly I turned and walked back into the bathroom.
"Yes Malfoy?" I said leaning up against the door frame to my room.
"It seems that we have to share a bathroom." He said a smirk playing at his lips.
"I can see that." I said turning my attention to the large mirror over the sinks.
"Well I just wanted to let you know I was going to take a shower." He said stepping farther into the room.
"Why are you telling me? You want some company?" I said folding my arms across my chest.
"Only if you're offering," He said a smirk plastered across his face.
"Ugh, God no! I have a boyfriend, Malfoy." I said dreading that I even said that. "And I wouldn't be with you if you were the last person on Earth muggle or not!"
"Geez Granger, I was only making a joke." He said walking over to the counter and sitting on it. "And anyways you're the one who brought it up."
"Shut up Malfoy." I said turning and walking back into my room.
"But like I was saying Granger, If you every want to-" I cut him off by slamming my door closed, but could still hear him laughing as he turned on the shower.
Sighing I leaned back against the door. My room still looked like it did before, but I really hadn't expected it to change. Reaching up I locked the door and ran my hand thought my hair. Stupid Malfoy making me say stupid things. He would never let me forget about it and I was pretty sure he would try to find out more about Justin.
I groaned and pushed myself away from the door. I needed a smoke and that's when I noticed that my trunk wasn't at the foot of my bed, or anywhere else in my room. A small bubble of panic welled up inside of me as I quickly looked around my room. I first went to the dresser to see if my clothes had just been put away, but there was nothing there. Had they searched my trunk and found my cigarettes and stuff like that? No, maybe they just haven't gotten it to me yet or maybe it's under the bed. Quickly I ran over to the bed and looked under it, but all I found were a few dust bunnies.
"Lovely." I said standing up and looking around the room once more. "As if today wasn't going any better; maybe…"
Before I could finish my thought I opened my door and ran out into the common room. I really didn't want to wake McGonagall because my trunk was gone; especially if I could get suspended for it. So I looked around the room for a while, but came to no avail. Angry I rolled over the back of the couch and stared into the fire.
"Ugh, I can't believe I don't have my trunk." I mumbled to the fire. "What if they put it in…"
I sat up and look towards Draco's room and just looked at it for a while. Draco had to still be in the shower, it had only been what? Ten minutes? Slowly I got up and made my way across the common room to Draco's room. I stood at the door for a minute longer before I turned the handle very slowly. Pushing the door open I saw that Draco was still in the bathroom, but my trunk wasn't in his room. I opened the door a little wider just to make sure it wasn't in a corner or hiding. I stepped into the room just as the door to the bathroom opened.
It was only for a second, but I caught a glimpse at Draco's amazingly toned body. He was muscular, but not bulky like muggle body builders; although, Draco could probably beat the shit out of them. I jumped back and closed the door behind me just as Draco closed his bathroom door. Trying to make as little noise as possible, I ran across the common room and back into my room.
I might have lost my trunk, but all I could think about was Draco's amassing body. I stood there leaning against my door thinking about Draco until my mind snapped me back to reality. This was Draco Malfoy I was thinking about. Malfoy! The boy who tormented me the past six years and never said a kind word to me or my friends. He was a god damn Malfoy for fucks sake! And I had an amassing boyfriend! What the hell was going on?
'Your horny as hell and would fuck anything that walks right now.' my mind thought.
That was it, it had been about a week since I was with Justin last and my body wasn't use to going that long without a fuck. Wow that really makes me sound bad, but who cares it's the truth.
Sighing once again I pushed away from the door and walked over to my bed. I was going to have to sleep in my underwear for the night and hope my trunk was here in the morning. I pulled off my sweater and dropped it onto the floor, where it landed in a heap. I walked over to the window as I unbuttoned my shirt. The sun had set hours ago and the moon was high in the sky casting a pale glow over everything. The moon seemed to have a magical effect over everything. Maybe that's why the best things happened at night. I pulled off the shirt, but left the silky tie around my neck. I liked the way the smooth fabric felt on my skin.
I pulled my wand out from the holster I had made for it and set it down on the night stand. I had kept my wand on or near me at all times even when I was with Justin. There was a bloody war going on and it was literally very bloody. It may have been the bloodiest war the Wizarding world had ever seen. Even though others might consider one of the muggle world wars more gruesome, more innocent blood had been lost than ever before. There were even less students here than in past years because parents didn't want to have their families broken up encase there would be an attack; which is understandable, but rather stupid. Hogwarts had to be the safest place on Earth or at least Europe. But even Hogwarts wasn't all that safe from the war. Even last year Dumbledore died because of it. Although it was proven that he had planned it all out with Snape, I still couldn't shake my feelings of dislike towards him or Draco for that matter.
Draco was the one who was supposed to kill Dumbledore, on Voldemort's orders. Truthfully I was rather surprised to see him back at Hogwarts. And I'm pretty sure Harry and Ron were too. Actually I'm more surprised that they didn't kill him when they first saw him, but it doesn't really matter now. Harry and Ron weren't talking to me and I really don't give a fuck about them right now either.
Walking back over to my bed I dropped the shirt into the heap with my other clothes. I sat on the bed and pulled off my shoes and let them fall where they wanted. As I pulled off my last piece of clothing and dropped it to the floor a shadow of a bird past over me. It made me jump a little, but only for a second. I looked out the window, but the bird was gone. Turning back to bed I grabbed my wand and turned off the light. Crawling into bed I couldn't help but let my mind wander back to Draco's body.