A/N:so sorry, yes these chapters are slow coming, and I am so ashamed hangs head, my RP threads have been suffering also, where here it is. And yes I am trying to make them longer. It's a lot more difficult than it sounds. Enjoy and please review...for all 4 chapters so far all I have is 11 reviews...sad I know.

•Chapter 5: Secrets&Pain

"Ginerva Molly Weasley, what the hell are you wearing?" Ron asked infuriated more than he was in fourth year when he discovered Harry had put his name into the goblet of fire, or at least he thought he had. Harry just stood there with his mouth open gawking at her as she walked up. His eyes followed her hips as she put one foot in front of the other, and her skirt swung side to side. Her red hair was flying spontaneously in the light wind, his eyes moved to her lips and noticed a lollipop pursed between them. Her hand rose to her mouth and she removed it slowly sucking it on the way out. She had stopped off at a candy store on her way to find the boys. A smirk crossed her lips as she saw Harry staring at her. Ron finally noticed it too and slightly punched him in his arm.

"Come on Mate, that's my sister, pick your tongue up off the floor please" he said in a pleading voice.

"Sorry Mate" Harry said kinda embarrassed as he rubbed his shoulder and looked slightly at the ground but still takes glances at her until she was standing in front of them. 'Gods, she looks good' Harry thought, 'why did I ever break up with her again?' he asked himself, her looked to her and she was smirking.

"Hello boys" she greeted them and winked at Harry. "What's wrong Ronniekins?" she asked in an innocent voice as she proceeded to walk to an outside café and sat down at one of the tables. She crossed her legs and leaned her elbows on the wire table sticking the lollipop back in her mouth.

"Are you bloody serious!" he asked outraged as Harry followed Ron, who was following Ginny over to the table."That was not what you were wearing when you left us, what happened to your other clothes?" he asked annoyed as they both sat across from her at the table.

"What, this?" she asked referring to her outfit, "me and Hermione when shopping, you knew that" inside she was laughing hysterically, barely able to keep her composure. If her outfit was getting this kind of reaction out of her brother, then she was defiantly getting the reaction she wanted from Harry, and that was proven by his lack of verbal skills at the moment. She smiled licking the lollipop once more.

"Where is Hermione?" Harry asked finally speaking looking around behind Ginny.

"She had to run to the book store to pick up something for her mom, they saw it the last time they were here or something"she said, grateful Harry had changed the subject, but for how long she didn't know, Ron did look pretty mad.

Hermione was currently taking her last drag and proceeded to stand up and put out her cigarette in a crevice between two bricks in the building and looked to her right, and her jaw dropped. Her body went still, thinking that maybe he didn't see her. Only if she was that lucky.

Draco was throwing away his remaining food in a rubbish bin just by Knockturn Alley and was about to turn to go find his mother when he heard movement and looked to the space behind the bins, and a second later a girl with bushy brown hair appeared and was putting out what looked like to Draco a cigarette, he had read about them once in a book about muggles at school and they had a picture next to it. His mouth dropped when he realized who it was, for two reasons. One, 'she was smoking', was the thought that went through his mind, over and over again, with the second as an under thought and kind of hidden deep, 'wow, she's changed and hott', he shook that one away the second it surfaced to his fore mind. He watched her as she got a shocked expression on her face.

"Hello Granger" escaped his lips with an air or disdain in it. "And what do we have here?" he asked leaning a little closer to get a better look even though he knew what he was looking at.

"Nothing!" she said very forcefully, and walked out from behind the rubbish bins and tried to walk past him but he grabbed her arm and she jerked back. He looked down and into her purse and saw them.

"Are those what I think they are Granger?" he asked, loving every minute of this conversation and encounter. She struggled and tried to get away, finally she just gave up and stood there next to him helplessly. She got her confidence back again, at least a little bit.

"I don't know what you are talking about" she said holding her head high and trying to hide her open purse. "Just let me go" she pleaded with him. 'oh god' she thought, 'I'm pleading to Draco Malfoy, I've really sunk to bottom" she hung her head.

"No, I think you do" he said lifting her arm and getting a better look, "yes those are cigarettes" he said smirking,

"How do you even know what those are?" she asked mockingly

"I do read Granger" he said matter-of-factly.

"Don't tell anyone, please" she found the words slipping out of her mouth before she could stop herself, and about dropped dead after realizing what she was doing, asking Draco Malfoy for a favor, she might as well be asking Voldemort for a favor. Her heart sank when she realized this over school by the time the first class began, and her reputation would be ruined. At that moment she was more vulnerable in front of him than she had ever been with anyone in her entire life, and she was literally scared shitless. She looked up at him and stared directly into his ice blue eyes, a tiny tear formed in the corner of her left but never fell.

Draco looked down at her, and his eyes locked hers. The pools of brown that were her eyes mesmerized him, specks of gold shimmered here and there, and it was as if this was the first time he had seen her, really seen her. For some reason at theat moment he felt all her pain, and understood what it meant to feel. He instantly let go of her arm, she had begun to shake. He plastered a smirk on his face trying to hide what he was feeling and scowled at her,

"Go!" he yelled, she looked at him astonished, not believing what she had just heard. "Go, get out of here, you're secrets safe" he said a little softer as he leaned closer to her. With that he turned around and walked away. Leaving Hermione there shocked that someone she had known for 6 years had just done a complete 360 right in front of her eyes, unless of course he was lying.

Draco turned down a cobble street and stopped, he breathed deeply and slumped against the wall to the ground, 'what was that about?' he asked him self as he put his head into his hands and sighed. Moments later he stood and went and found his mother, she asked how was his food, he replied that it was good but said nothing of his encounter with Granger, to tell the truth he was slightly embarrassed.

Hermione walked directly towards the quidditch shop right after she dried her eyes and recomposed herself. She had completely forgotten about the book.

"Ginny!" she called waving with a smile on her face as she spotted the three across from the qiuidditch shop sitting at a table. Ginny turned and waved. Hermione sat next to Ginny and across from Harry. She placed her bags next to her on the ground and looked at them, "what's going on?" she asked with a cheerful disposition, she had a way of hiding her feelings when she wanted.

"Nothing" they all replied at different times.

"Matching outfits I see?" Ron asked, looking a little awestruck after seeing Hermione, and now kinda understood where harry was coming from, but it was still his sister.

"ya, well I guess so, we didn't really plan it" Hermione said looking at her outfit then Ginny's.

Ginny laughed and looked at the ground and searched over Hermione's bag, "Hey where's the book for your parents?" she asked.

Hermione eyes went a little wide remembering the lie she had told to get away from Ginny, "Oh," she started looking for another lie to cover up her previous, this was beginning to be a problem, "they didn't have it" she shrugged.

A few minutes later the waitress returned with Harry's, Ron's and Ginny's food, Hermione at that time ordered and they enjoyed a peaceful late lunch. As soon as they were done they spotted Mrs. Weasley walking towards them carrying a massive amount of bags, they all stood up and grabbed a few and the four paid for their meal and found Fred and George and Floo'd back to the burrow.

Hermione laid in bed that night replaying the events of the day. He couldn't understand any of it, Draco wasn't known for his kindness, at that moment Hermione almost saw a person inside him and this made her feel slightly sorry for him. So much had happened to him, if anything like that had happened to her, she would have been a wreck. He lost his father, and no matter what kind of father he was, he was still his father. Hermione rolled over onto her side and looked at Ginny lying across from her,

' we're so lucky' she thought, ' we have families, a mother, a father, and you have siblings, I don't know what I would do if I lost either of my parents.' With that thought, Hermione snuck over to Ginny's bed to make sure she was asleep and apperated outside to have a cigarette. She smoked it quickly, not wanting to be discovered missing, by the end she felt a little light headed and quickly apperated back inside. She slid down into the covers, closed her eyes and went to sleep.