A/N: I won't be updating again for a little while, I'm sorry. I hope you guys like this chapter! Please review.

Hermione stumbled back to the Gryffindor common room terribly confused. Ron and Harry were waiting up for her. Hermione knew she was going to give something away, she was flushed and her eyes were still huge from shock. She put her head down and walked by them hoping that they would not see her. It was hopeless because they had seen her the second she walked into the common room.

"Hey Hermione, how was tutoring?" Ron asked.

"Oh it was fine." She smiled weakly.

"Did Malfoy cause any more trouble?" Harry asked protectively.

"Um, not really, we just practiced what we learned in class yesterday." Her voice was very high and nervous.

Harry noticed her voice, "Hermione is everything ok?"

Hermione wanted to yell that everything was not ok and that she was very confused about everything because the boy that she hated the most had just kissed her. There was also a huge possibility that she had enjoyed kissing him and wouldn't mind if it happened again. In fact in had happened again after the first time he kissed her. Then Hermione had grabbed her bag and walked as fast as she could out of the prefect's room. She was sure that this was not the right way to handle this, but she was not really good at kissing the person she hated the most.

Instead of telling the truth she just replied with, "Yes, but I'm just really tired and need a good night sleep." She muttered under her breath as she walked to the girl's dorm, "Oh damn we have potions tomorrow."

Ron looked at Harry and raised his eyebrows. "Something's up again, even I can see that."

Harry nodded in agreement. "Maybe she'll want to talk about it tomorrow."

This was not the case; Hermione was not anymore talkative in the morning. Harry tried to coax her into talking by telling her about Ron and his chess game. Ron had beat Harry as usual. Normally, Hermione would have something to say about Wizard's Chess because she did not like this game, but instead she just sat there and ate her breakfast quietly.

No more talking occurred as they left breakfast and walked down to the dungeons for double potions. They took their seats as class began. Harry noticed that Malfoy looked back at Hermione once and as he did red began to creep onto his cheeks. This made Harry very suspicious. As class went on Hermione talked some, but did not mention anything about the night before. Harry planned on asking her about it later.

When everyone was packing up for the end of class Pansy walked past Hermione and gave her a very dirty look and rolled her eyes.

"So Granger how's tutoring going?" She pursed her lips.

"It's going just fine." Hermione said through clenched teeth.

"Well I hope you don't think that just because I dumped Draco that he's fair game for you now." Her eyes squinted into a glare. "Because he doesn't like dirt like you," Pansy smirked and then walked away.

Hermione wanted to laugh in her face and tell her that apparently Draco did like "dirt like her". She kept herself composed and tried not to let her face go red as Draco walked past her. She waited for Harry and Ron to clean up and then they walked out together. Next period they had herbology with the Hufflepuffs and Harry was looking forward to the time they could spend talking.

They walked out to the greenhouses through the cold December air and were glad for the little warmth that the greenhouses provided. Once they were allowed to begin the lesson in groups Harry began to talk.

"So Hermione you never really told us how the lesson went last night."

"Well, it went good, we just worked on the spell that we learned in Transfiguration on Monday, and I think I already told you that." She nodded. "He actually picked everything up fast."

"Then why were you so late? If everything went so well," Harry pushed on.

"We just talked a little bit. I mostly yelled, but it was a productive talk nonetheless." She shrugged and continued with what she was doing.

"What did you talk about?"

"Pansy broke up with him." Hermione blurted out before she could think of anything else to say.

"You talked about his personal issues?" Harry looked very confused.

"No, at first it was other things and then we discussed him and Pansy."

"Why did she break up with him?"

"Because he promised not to tutor me and then lied and started to get tutored by me again." She was really hoping it would not go any further than this.

"Oh," Harry could only think of one more question. "And why was Malfoy blushing when he saw you this morning?"

Hermione's face turned bright pink. "I…wouldn't know…" She kept her eyes away from Harry's.

"Did he do something to you Hermione?" Harry was feeling angry now.

"Harry nothing happened. I promise."

"Well, if I find out that something did happen, I will seriously hurt him." Harry raised his eyebrows.

"Thank you for being protective Harry, but you don't have to worry."

The class ended soon after their conversation and Hermione was thankful because she did not know how much longer she would have held out against Harry's questions. All she really wanted to do was to find Draco and talk to him. She needed to know how he was feeling right now. She needed to know what he was thinking. Before all of this she needed to know what she was thinking. She felt like her brain was going to explode for the first time in her years at Hogwarts and it was not due to overstuffing it with knowledge, it was over a boy.

Hermione walked back into the school and looked around for Draco, she knew she could not just go up to him and talk, but she had to find him. She slowly walked back up to the Gryffindor common room. When she was walking down the hallway to the Fat Lady's Portrait she heard someone whispering her name. She turned and saw Draco.

"Let's go somewhere. We need to talk."

"Ok, talking sounds good." She smiled at him.