Chapter 2 is up! I'm sorry if it's bad or anything...

*EDITED, DRACO DID NOT RUN AWAY FROM HIS HOUSE*

Chapter 2

"So that's why Malfoy wasn't acting like a git, then?" Ginny asked, confused, "Not making sense though"

Hermione smiled a little, "I'm not finished, Gin"

Ginny's light brown eyes widened in excitement, she began to smile widely. Hermione continued her story.

Flashback

She was sitting in a bench on a park, reading a copy of The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. She was wearing a blue cardigan, white shirt, black jeans, black pair of flats and dark maroon scarf around her neck, a black handbag sat behind to her.

"The Lovely Bones" a voice said. She looked to her left and saw Malfoy sitting in the opposite side.

"What are you doing here, Malfoy?" Hermione said harshly and closed her book.

"You look horrible, mudblood," Draco said, changing the subject. Hermione ignored him and continued reading her copy of The Lovely Bones.

"Harvey will not be caught" Draco gave her a spoiler.

Hermione glared at Draco, "I do not want any spoilers, thank you"

"Well, Lindsey—"

Hermione closed the book, "Can you just leave me in peace?"

Draco smirked and left.

Ugh, how she hated that smirk of his. So annoying, so irritating, so… Malfoy.

Hermione decided to leave after Draco left. She was putting her book back to her bag, which has lots of unnecessary stuffs she shouldn't have brought, when the photo she found yesterday, which she was sure was Malfoy's, fell to the ground.

She managed to put the book back to her bag and picked the photo from the ground.

Damn, she thought, why didn't she remember about this photo. She looked around and surprisingly saw Malfoy looking at the huge fountain of the park. She sighed and walked to Malfoy.

"Is this yours?" She asked him bitterly.

"How did you?" Malfoy shouted in reply, his eyes widened, "I never thought you would ever steal, Granger"

"It fell on the bookstore's floor yesterday" Hermione walked away, leaving Draco alone in the fountain.

End of flashback 2

"Gin, I'm afraid I can't finish the story of that day," Hermione said, standing up from the seat of the carriage.

Ginny looked around, "That really is too bad" she sighed, disappointed.

"I promise I will tell you later" Hermione smiled to her best friend, "Your room"

Ginny smiled back as they both get off the carriage.

"I think we better hurry now, it's almost time for supper and Dumbledore's speech"

They both ran in hurry, entering Hogwarts. As they were getting nearer to the Great Hall, they slowed down. The two of them saw Ron and Harry sitting in the Gryffindor's table, looking a bit worried. Ginny and Hermione looked at each other and went in the Great Hall.

"Blimey, where were you two at? You almost missed Dumbledore's speech!" Ron uttered in worry.

Hermione was going to reply Ron, but the whole students of Hogwarts have gone silent, the four of them knew what it meant, Dumbledore's speech. The four of them turned their heads and waited for Dumbledore to start his speech.

Dumbledore's speech took everybody's attention, as it did every year. When he finished his speech, Ron immediately grabbed a plate of chips (fries) and ate it with delight.

"So, where were you two?" Harry asked her and Ginny, gulping a glass of pumpkin juice.

"We were the last ones on the carriages, you get the picture" Hermione replied.

"We were sick worried about you two!" Ron shouted.

"We're sorry, we changed our uniform late—"

"We saw Luna and Blaise snogging!" Ginny cut Hermione's sentence.

Harry looked at Ginny in shocked, while Ron, who was drinking a pumpkin juice, spits out a bit of pumpkin juice—thank god it spits to the table and not at Hermione who was sitting in front of him.

"What?" They both shouted in horror.

"Luna?" Harry gasped, "Luna Lovegood?"

Hermione and Ginny nodded.

"Strange, indeed" Ginny said quietly.

Ginny, Ron and Harry talked about the huge difference of Blaise and Luna, which Hermione wasn't quite interested in. She looked at the Slytherin table and spotted Draco, daydreaming, he soon caught her seeing at him, which made Hermione blushed, but she managed a smile and Draco managed to reply a little smile.

Flashback

Hermione was eating gelato in the same park, sitting in the same bench. As she finishes her gelato, and stood up, she bumped to somebody.

"I'm so sorry" Hermione apologized, looking up, she saw Malfoy.

"Twice from no less than a week you've apologized to me, Granger" Draco stated, "and twice from no less than a week you've bumped me"

"Or perhaps you bumped me, Malfoy" Hermione replied bitterly. She walked away but felt a hand grabbing her left hand's wrist, which apparently was Draco's hand.

"Thank you" Draco whispered quietly

"Did I just hear Draco Lucius Malfoy, saying thank you to me?" Hermione said in a rather big voice

"And you will never hear me saying it to you ever again," Draco's grey eyes widened, "Mudblood"

"Why do we keep meeting…" Hermione muttered under her breath, "What are you doing here in the muggle world? And don't even think to change the subject" "Ferret" Hermione added.

"None of your business" He replied dryly, walking pass her, leaving her-

"Malfoy!" she shouted, tired of him leaving her again. He never turned back to just to look a little glance of her.

End of flashback 3

"Herms?" Ginny said, breaking her flashback, "Hermione?"

Hermione looked back at Ginny, Ron and Harry, "Hm?"

"We were just talking about Christmas holiday, are you coming to the Burrow?" Ginny asked.

"Let's see later" Hermione smiled to Ginny, "It seems that supper is done, should we go?"

"Sure" Ginny replied, standing up, "See you in the common room"

Ron and Harry nodded in reply as Hermione and Ginny walks to Ginny's room.

"Do you realize it, Hermione?" Ginny asked Hermione.

"Realize what?" Hermione replied

"The stares you're getting" Ginny grinned; Hermione looked around and saw boys starring at her and Ginny.

Hermione grinned back, "I think it's you who's getting it, Gin"

Ginny smiled and rolled her eyes.