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"In the name of Merlin! What is going on here?!" His eyes were cold and black as he glared at the students but mostly at Draco. "You come with me, NOW." He pointed at Draco and flicked his head in the direction of the dungeons. They both left Hermione by herself, Draco dared to look back at her but Snape just pulled him away.

Hermione left the spot Snape found her and Draco a few minutes after the two left together. She walked into the Great Hall with a genuine smile on her face, a smile that she hadn't let show in many weeks. She had feeling that that meeting was going to change everything permanently. Of course she had had many other meetings with Draco before but she didn't feel that anything was going to change dramatically unlike the feeling that she had now. She knew it wasn't going to be easy; they would have to work hard everyday, with Draco Malfoy's destiny already created by his father, Lord Voldemort, and all the other Death Eaters. His destiny was to become a feared Death Eater just like his Aunt Bellatrix and his father, some what, to be Lord Voldemort's loyal servant and follower. And with Hermione's destiny which was being created as we speak. Being Harry Potter's best friend meant that she was to do great things and having the highest marks in her year helped. She is the brightest witch of her age. Every also knew that her and Ron Weasley would be together in the end. The two students shouldn't mix. Coming out of this alive would be a miracle and Hermione and Draco didn't dwell on the thought of miracles happening. Draco of course knew the exact same thing and he wanted to change both of their destinies at any cost.

"What the bloody hell are you thinking?! What if your father had been up here today then what?! He would've put a hex on you that would land you in St. Mungo's!" Snape threw his hands in the air and walked from where Draco was sitting to his desk on the other side of the room. "And he might of even turned you in to the dark lord himself." Snape turned around and paced back to Draco with his hands flailing in the air. And a look of disgust on his pale white face.

"But, you wouldn't have let him do that would you because of that unbreakable vow you and my mother have." Draco yawned with disinterest and a look of I-don't-care-anymore on his face. "Well at least now you know and I know you won't tell anyone, hell, I know you'll help me keep it a secret: You promised my mother don't you remember?" Draco gave that signature smug, conniving smirk.

"I can make you stop seeing her. I hope you haven't forgotten your job of the death of Dumbledore. I just wish you wouldn't do this to yourself and the Granger girl. I have been jumping to conclusions though; you have no actual feelings for her do you?" His face turned from anger to worry. He knew that if he got involved with her nothing good would come out of it.

Nothing.

Draco looked down. "I do have feelings for her. It just happened. Something changed that I can't put my finger on." He felt ashamed but knew it was wrong to. How could he be feeling compassion for someone all of a sudden? Draco was always taught, since he was a little boy that life was a game and you have to beat out the people who are weak and who you know can never win the game. The worst morals a family could have but it was just the Malfoy way. It was about lies, deceit, and greed. Draco was a player and was playing the most horrible game for his life and a spot at the top. Now it wasn't just himself he is going to have to worry about now that he is infatuated with Hermione Granger.

"Well," Snape gave a disgruntled sigh. "Draco you must know that this will make it hard and I have no trouble in telling you that.." Snape's expression changed drastically. "YOU MUST NOT DEFY YOUR FAMILY AND YOU MUSN'T STRAY FROM YOUR LIFE'S PATH!" He tried to stay collected but lost it when the first syllable came out. Snape couldn't let Draco ruin his life. What little life he had. Snape's greasy hair was shaken out of place as he had yelled.

"You cannot tell me what to do with my life!" Draco stood up, from the chair he had been sitting in, looked down at his house crest on his robes and walked to the door. He wanted to just open it and run but couldn't.

"That's what you think. I was given orders by certain people and I intend to follow them! You will do what I say and that's final." Snape smoothed down his robes to calm himself down. "You look a mess now I will excuse you from your classes so you can get some rest. Go." Snape looked at Draco with disgust a look that he had never given his favorite student.

Before Snape could give Draco a second look Draco was out the door and sprinting down the hall, the morning classes had started.

"Draco, you must know that as of today everything is going to change." Narcissa Malfoy was looking at her son while eating breakfast. Lucius was out doing ministry work. "You're going back to school and I don't want anything to surprise you okay?"

"Mother, I'm not sure I understand." Draco looked up at his mother confused.

"I want you to listen to Professor Snape no matter what he says." Her eyes had worry in the deep pools of blue.

"But mo-"

"Just Promise Me!" She was twisting her face up. You could tell that she was upset.

Hermione walked into Ancient Runes with a smile and thank goodness her friends weren't in that class because they would be asking questions of why she was happier than usual. She could her Ron's shaky voice nagging in her head.

"Hermione, Hermione, Hermione. Blah, blah, blah."

The brown eyed girl felt that all she was here for was to be the brains of the trio.

After class she went to potions and she would have to tone it down when she saw Harry and Ron.

Draco didn't catch up on his sleep he walked around waiting for class to end. He ended up seeing his clan of Slytherins as in Crabbe, Goyle, and Pansy.

Crap.

Draco stood there hiding around the corner where he knew they wouldn't see him.

"Don't they have something better to do? Like being in class! Honestly you're gone for an hour and they can't figure out what to do by themselves?!"

"UGH!" He groaned loudly and was sure that they could here. He covered his mouth as if trying to get the groan to come back into his vocal chords.

Crap, Crap, Crap!

"Who's there?!" Pansy screeched with her ugly maddening voice that sounded like fingernails on a chalk board. Yeah it was that bad. "Come on now we heard you no need to hide anymore." Pansy would never say it but you could tell by the way she was standing behind Crabbe and Goyle that she was scared. It was the fear of being caught for cutting class. After a few seconds she shrugged and came out from behind Crabbe and Goyle.

"Where in Merlin's name is Draco?! It's not like him to miss a class and without us too! There is something going on with him. It's like his mind is always thinking about something or someone else." She paused and seemed to think about what or who it was. "If it's some other girl I think I'll kill him!" She slammed her fist in the palm of her hand.

"Ha Ha.. It's not like you and Malfoy are dating though so-" Crabbe looked up from his unusually big pink cupcake he was eating and laughed about the thought until angered Pansy cut him off.

"Oh shut up! I know he is irrevocably in love with me he may not know it yet though." She ran her fingers through her short black bob of hair. Then she turned and gave the Crabbe a death stare that would've made him drop dead if he hadn't of looked back down at his food. "Besides whom else would could he be in cahoots with? It's kind of like destiny, me and him, if you think about it." She gave a smirk at her fantasy about Draco and her.

"Well Pansy I've seen him with some other girl. That really prett-" She gave Goyle a disgusted yet jealous gape which scared Goyle deeply. "Er, I mean bushy haired, ugly, turned up nose Gryffindor smart ass. Hehehe."

"Wait… That Granger girl? You're dreaming he could never be with that mud-blooded trash! He would never risk his initiation and I mean never! See what you have done? Your idiotic questions raise my blood pressure to radical heights." Pansy droned on about inconsequential information about her dreadful jet black bob which she thought was the most unsurpassed hair in the school. Draco slid down the wall while she screeched.

"How in the damn world does she think that she and I will ever be together? How can my reputation be crumbling right in front of me without me knowing? Is that how I sound talking about the mud-bloods?"

Draco leaned his head back and began tapping it against the gray colored stone walls.

Thud, thud, thud

After a short time had gone by he realized that the talking had stopped and Draco was finally alone.

He slid back up to his feet and walked slowly to his room.

"He would never risk his initiation.."

The word initiation kept running through his brain. Everything that he had done to become a death eater and everything he had done to make his family happy was at stake all the hard work.

Gone.

The same thing seemed to be happening. The two young lovers were content with each other and then it would come to a heart break decision. Pain filled tears and hugs. It would have to end soon in a brutal way no matter what happens.

Hermione finished with her lessons and went to find her friends. She had been in high spirits all day even after not seeing Draco in potions. She knew Snape had giving him a hard time after this morning. This morning was the most beautiful moment she could've ever had; so romantic having her own Romeo waiting for her outside her "balcony". She had gotten lost in her thoughts once again when she had found Harry and Ron.

"Hermione, have heard what people are saying these days about you?" Harry didn't even greet her with his friendly and smiley hello. He got straight to the point and was frank.

"No, I had no idea. I hate gossip and try not to listen to it. Makes my blood bubble." Hermione looked at Ron and smiled brightly. Ron just looked down with no expression, maybe there was one but she just couldn't read it.

"Yes, well, I don't know how to put this gently but-" Harry couldn't finish because Ron just blurted it out.

"You and Malfoy are seeing each other! You lied to us!" He threw his hands up and walked away from Hermione then back to her.

"What! You have gone completely mad! If you think me and that, that-"

"That git, ferret, prat, DEATH EATER!"

Smack.

Hermione had slapped Ron on his right cheek. She had snapped.

"Ronald Bilius Weasley you take that back! How you can you two of all people believe those rumors! Especially you Harry, I can understand Ron; you?" She backed away slowly looking back and forth between Ron and Harry with hurt.

Ron looked at Hermione with disgust as he rubbed his bright red cheek.

"Hermione, it's not that we don't believe me we just are having second guesses.." Harry put his hand on Hermione's shoulder. She rolled her shoulder back so he would get his hand off of her.

"Stop sugar coating it! Me and you both know that the rumors are true! We've seen it first hand!"

"Stop! Again I can't believe you! What are you going to do about it then? Keep yelling at me?! I haven't even explained myself!"

"What am I going to do?" Ron grabbed Hermione's face and kissed her. She pulled her away so fast that is more like a half kiss. She backed away and wiped her mouth. Ron ran up the stairs to his room. He thought that that it would fix everything; make her forget about Draco Malfoy. He also thought that she had feelings for him that hadn't been shown. He had shown her his and she turned a shoulder.

"Hermi-"

"Shut up. I don't need a lecture, and coming from you is even worse considering the fact that I have been the one all these years lecturing you. I have done everything for you. Stood by you since year one and now you are trying to hold me back from pursuing something I want?"

"Of course not! I just think that you and Malfoy aren't for each other. You two are sworn enemies!"

"Why because I'm friends with you and I have to have the same enemies as you do?"

"Not just that but you have loathed him since we started at Hogwarts and you can't just all of a sudden have an infatuation with him!"

"Infatuation?! It's not a lustful relationship! I love him and I'm sure he does to!"

"Hermione all the girls love him."

"No! When I'm with him I know everything is right. My heart beats faster and faster. I smile just thinking of his name. I smile when he smiles. I want to spend every moment with him. I'm not afraid to be clumsy or ridiculous with him. He hasn't called me anything foul and hasn't talked ill of my so called friends in a very long time. We love each others company and he tells me everything. He wants to change what his father has made him become. If that's not love then I have no idea what is." She furrowed her eyebrows and slowed down her breathing. Her brown eyes had focused on the fire burning in the common room.

"That's not love. Love is when you do spend every moment with him. When you want to do nothing but just lie with him and just listen to him breathe. When you know what every little gesture means. When you would die for him. When everything has gone bad and just knowing that there is one thing in your life that will make everything better. When nothing will stand in your way to be with your love. That's love." Harry looked at her with saddened eyes. He knew he was losing an amazing friend.

"How would you know? You've never been in love have you? Love is also when you want to say so much more but you don't have the time to list everything." Her voice got softer and she also knew that her friendship was deteriorating right in front of her.

"You can't be in love!" Now Harry's blood was boiling he hated seeing his best friend fall for an enemy.

"Harry Potter you cannot determine my feelings for me!"

"Shut up! You have no idea what you are talking about anymore!"

"Then why are you even speaking to me!" Tears were building up and she was trying to hold back. She didn't want to look weak.

"Then I won't! Not now not ever again!"

Harry ran up the same stairs Ron had not but five minutes ago and slammed the door up top.

Hermione was thunderstruck. She was confused.

"What the hell just happened?"

Her life had vanished.

She slowly sat on the red and gold carpeting and pulled her knees up to her chin. The tears that had built up had vanished. She was so upset that she couldn't even cry. How can she go on without her best friends; she was going to tell them everything but knew they would never accept it. She had hurt both of them and broke one's heart. But she couldn't help but think about what they were doing to her.

"The bastards. How can they abandon me like this? Why can't they understand? All because of one little thing. Shit."