A/N: I hope you all like this chapter! I won't be able to update for awhile because I'm going out of the country for about 10 days. I will try to update as soon as I get back. Reviews are always appreciated!

Hermione picked at her dinner uninterested. She was very nervous about the lessons tonight and she did not know why. The lessons would be just the same as they were before except with much more tension. She was very hungry, but the nerves killed almost all of her appetite. Both Harry and Ron noticed that she was not eating and they knew why, but did not say anything to her. She finally took one more feeble sip of pumpkin juice and pushed her plate away. Hermione had been debating whether to keep the lesson tonight and had come very close to going to McGonagall and canceling with an obvious lie like "I'm not feeling well". Hermione knew this would not work so she had not gone to talk to McGonagall.

After a few more minutes of watching Harry and Ron stuff their faces with food, something that she hated watching, Hermione stood up and put her bag over one shoulder. "I'm going to tutor Malfoy now. I'll talk to you guys later." She scowled about Malfoy.

"Bye Hermione." Harry waved to.

"Bye," Ron barely managed to get out as his mouth was bursting with food.

Hermione waved to them both and slowly meandered up to the prefect's common room. She did not really care if Draco had to wait for her today. By the time she was at the common room's door she was in a bad mood. She did not want to be there and she did not care who knew. Hermione mumbled the password and walked in to the common room. Draco was already lounging on the couch with his book on his lap. Hermione slouched down next to him on the couch.

"Hi Hermione," Draco said awkwardly.

"Hello, Malfoy."

"So I guess we're back to using last names?"

"Yes," Hermione said quickly. "Do you have a problem with that?"

"No," Draco shook his head. Obviously Hermione was in a bad mood tonight. "I guess we should get started." He said gingerly.

"Sure, if you actually want to be taught by me." She cocked an eyebrow at him.

"Look, I made a promise to Pansy that I wouldn't be taught by you anymore. It wasn't my choice-"

"Ok let me cut you off for a second. You promised her, so yes it was your choice. Also why the hell would you agree to something like that when the lessons were going just fine?"

Draco's breathing sped up. The only thought that came to his head was because she thought that I liked you. He couldn't say that though…could he? "Well, you see, after Pansy and I got back from Hogsmeade. The day that she caught us having drinks, she…uh…she kind of thought that I was falling for you, so I promised not to see you again. To make her feel better because of course I didn't like you."

Hermione's mind raced and her stomach clenched. He must be lying; Pansy can't have actually thought that he liked me. That's absurd. She opened her mouth and all that came out was "Oh," She took a few steadying breaths. "Well I know she's your girlfriend and everything, but she's off her rocker." Hermione had a smile playing at the corners of her mouth.

"She's not my girlfriend anymore." His words were staccato.

"What happened?" Hermione's anger was washing away yet she still tried to hang on to it.

"Well, it's pretty simple, I broke my promise. I was going to be tutored by you again." He shrugged like it was no big deal even though it was.

"I'm sorry. I wish this hadn't caused so much trouble." She was lying of course, but she tried to make it sound like it was the truth. Truthfully she did not care one bit if that pig faced girl had dumped him.

"It doesn't really matter." Draco looked around the room as if to find something else to talk about.

"Why don't we just get started?" Hermione offered feeling equally as awkward as he was.

"Are we just going to start with what we learned yesterday?"

Hermione looked down at the list of topics Professor McGonagall had outlined for her to teach. She ran a finger down the list. "Yep, it's here and we can start with that if you want."

"Sure, do we have anything to use for the spell?"

"I think there's a chess set in here somewhere." She stood up and looked around. It was not on the bookshelf, the table or anywhere else it could conceivably be. Hermione scooted herself under one of the couches to see if it had been stored or pushed under there by accident. Draco, who had joined the search slid in next to her.

Hermione lay her chin on the floor after seeing that there was no chess set underneath it. Draco looked over at her his silver eyes piercing into her deep brown ones.

"I really am sorry Hermione." He sighed. "For everything that happened after Hogsmeade I mean."

"It's ok. I guess I understand making a promise to someone you like. It just didn't work out very well." Hermione felt like she was giving up too easily, but with his eyes drilling into hers like that she couldn't help but forgive him. "I think you could have handled it better."

"I know I could have." Draco took his eyes away from hers and looked around.

"You know what? I just remembered that I think I saw a couple of chess pieces in the envelope that Professor gave to me." Hermione pushed herself out from under the couch and Draco followed suit.

Hermione opened up the envelope and reached all the way down to the bottom. She fumbled around for a moment until her hands grazed a few smooth marble pieces. She pulled them out and placed them on the table. She laughed at how long it had taken them to find these. Draco was focused already and Hermione quickly stopped laughing so that he could concentrate.

Draco did well. He was able to get a knight to gallop around and one of the pawns to hop around. He had trouble getting the queen to move, but Hermione assured him that he could get it next time. It took awhile to clean up because this included catching the pieces Draco had animated. Together they caught them fairly easily and then both packed up their bags.

"I'll see you on Thursday Hermione."

"See you then." Hermione turned to go when Draco caught her arm. He pulled her towards him and their lips met suddenly. Hermione pulled away after letting the kiss linger for a few seconds. She could see that Draco's eyes were huge in shock at what he had just done and was sure that her eyes could only be as big as his. "What was that?" She asked him weakly; Hermione was searching for the emotion that she was feeling.

"Um…I think I just kissed you."

"I think you did." Hermione's cheeks became a brilliant red.