"I'm starving," Ron said as they made their way to the great hall for dinner.

"When are you not?" laughed Hermione. She was very nervous and trying to hide it. This was the first real test. Draco would be there, the whole school would be there, and they had to ignore each other. No, she qualified; they had to hate each other.

How was she going to tell Ron? She had to do it, but she didn't know how. 'hey Ron, I know that you're in love with me and all, but I'm going to pass on you and go for the one person that insults everything we are with his very breath.' Yeah, probably not a good tactic. He was one of her best friends. She couldn't keep it from him, but she didn't want to have to tell him either.

Ginny glanced at her as they walked through the doors. Hermione gave her a nervous look then took a deep breath and followed her friends. She tried to keep looking forward, but her head turned just a little as her eyes sought him out at the Slytherin table. He was staring at her. Her breath caught. He had his head down so she couldn't really see his eyes, but she knew that they were on her. Forcing herself to look away she sat down by her friends. She couldn't help but glance his way again to see if he was still looking at her. His head was turned away from her talking to his friends, but every now and again she caught him glancing towards her.

"Well that went ok." Ginny whispered. Hermione looked at her relieved.

"So how was your break Hermione?" Neville asked from across the table.

"Oh!" she said, surprised, searching for something to say. "Good. Nothing really special. Just a lot of boring stuff."

"You really missed a great time at our house." Ron jumped in, "especially the end." He glanced at Harry and Ginny.

Harry glared at him. Then, when he saw how red Ginny had gotten, he said, "Ron, drop it, alright."

"What? I was just commenting-"

"I said drop it Ron." His voice took on a hard edge.

Ginny couldn't help herself. She grabbed Harry and pulled him to her, for a sudden kiss. It was wrong, she knew that. Stupid too, but he wouldn't stop picking. "There," she said as she pulled away, "now you got an encore. Wasn't it exciting?!" She stood up and stormed out of the hall. Hermione glared at Ron then got up to follow.

"What the bloody hell?!" Ron muttered.

"I told you to stop it." Harry said. "I asked you not to mention it. You couldn't help it could you?!"

"Hey, I'm just trying to help, ok. You two are never going to talk about it without a little push." Ron defended.

"Did you not think that maybe we should talk about it in our own time?! Or, in this universe where you're right, did you really think that the great hall was the best place for it?! Over dinner?!"

Ron paused. "I just wanted to help."

"Ron, just because you want me and Ginny together, does not mean that you can force it. It doesn't even mean that a simple kiss is going to lead anywhere. Just drop it, ok, and let us work it out on our own."

"Fine." Ron grumbled as he reached for a dish. Harry got up and followed the girls.

"Ginny." Hermione called as she started up the steps.

"I know it was horrible of me, but I couldn't stand it anymore!" Ginny turned on the top step and stared down at her friend, tears running down her face. "Why can't he let it go?! I don't even know what happened! We kissed! I haven't even talked about it ourselves yet! And yet he can't leave it alone!" she crumpled on the floor.

Hermione went up to her and sat next to her. "He's a boy. I think that's the best defense we can give him. And he's Ron, so he doesn't exactly thin before he speaks." She put her arm around her. "You know that he's not one to consider how everyone present will take something before he says it."

"I know. It just gets to me sometimes."

"Ginny?" Harry stood at the bottom of the stairs looking up at the girls.

Ginny turned her head and wiped her eyes quickly, "Yes?" she called looking back at him.

He stepped up onto the first step. "Can we…" he paused and looked at Hermione, "can we talk?"

"Oh, well, I should be…" Hermione looked to Ginny for the ok, she nodded, "going, and getting… homework… yeah, I have homework I need to be doing." She stood up and backed awkwardly away, before turning and hurrying off.

Harry walked up and stopped next to her. Looking around he spotted an empty classroom. "Come on. Let's go in here." he motioned to the door and put out his hand to help her up. She took it and they walked into the classroom.

They stood there for a minute in silence. "So…" Harry finally said. "Look, I'm no good at this. I don't claim to have a lot of experience. And I won't lie to you and tell you that I know what the other day was about, I just…"

"Don't want to ignore it anymore?" Ginny volunteered when he didn't finish.

"Yeah, and I think it would be better for everyone if we got down to it all."

"Right. So… yeah." Ginny looked around for something else to say.

"Yeah."

"Ok, I'll start I guess. Well… it's not like I didn't like it. It was nice… "

"Yeah. It was… nice" Harry ventured. "I just… it may sound bad, but I never really thought of you like that before, you know. I mean, you were Ron's little sister, and I was always busy…"

"To say the least." She smiled.

"This is new to me. I mean, after the other day… well I definitely see you in that light now." He blushed. "I mean… God I'm making a mess of this!" He walked over to stand in front of her. "Alright, look, I did see you like that, but I didn't give it real thought… and now… well I obviously wasn't thinking of you in a little sister capacity the other day… I just… I don't know how it is I feel right now."

"I understand that. I'm feeling the same way, and don't worry, I get what you meant, I probably wouldn't be able to put my thoughts across any better. "

He laughed. "I think that makes me feel a little better."

"So, then are we good? I mean, are we going to be able to go back to normal?"

"I hope so…" He smiled. He suddenly felt a little awkward. What else was he supposed to say? He also realized that they hadn't really said anything. Why had he kissed her? He had no idea, but he was suddenly feeling the urge to do it again. Just the thought of her sitting there crying. He didn't want her to cry. He reached out and rubbed his thumb on the underside of her eye.

Realizing what he was doing he cleared his throat and stepped back. "Well I guess we had better get back. After all you're probably hungry."

"Yeah." Ginny laughed. What had just happened?! "Plus Hermione is probably wondering around wondering if I'll come running out crying or something."

Harry laughed. "Yeah. Ok, well…"

"Yeah…"

Hermione figured she would head back up to the dorms. She didn't really feel like going back into the great hall and having to face Ron right now. It had already been hard, but after that. God! How stupid and insensitive could you be! Not that Ginny's reaction was much better. The reaction to along the table had been interesting, but the whispers they were going to hear in the hallway tomorrow between classes was going to be horrible.

She didn't really want to have to go back in there and face the fact that she couldn't be open about her feelings either. It was probably cowardly, and she would have to do it soon anyway, in the hall and in classrooms, much smaller than the great hall, but she didn't want to face it yet. Not while last night was still fresh in her mind.

As she passed a tapestry a hand shot out from behind and pulled her into a dark corridor. Her mouth was covered just as she was about to scream.

"That's not exactly the reaction I was hoping for." Draco whispered in her ear as he pulled her up against him.

"Well when you pull a girl into a dark place without warning you can't get a really excited reaction." She said. It was strange that she couldn't see his face, but it was so dark in here that even if she was facing him she wouldn't have been able to see him. "Did you have to choose somewhere so dark?"

"I was thinking of you when I picked this place." He said, trying to sound affronted, but the laughter in his voice gave him away.

"Oh really," she turned in his arms and put her hands on his chest. "And how were you thinking of me?" she asked, looking up at what she hoped was his face, but all she could see was a faint outline.

He leaned down so that he could whisper in her ear. "I figured you wouldn't want me to see you blush when I asked you how you were feeling today."

"Oh." She said. He was right, she was blushing, and if he saw her she would just be more embarrassed. "Fine." In fact she was feeling something very far from discomfort standing like this with him.

"Are you sure?" He asked as he started kissing her neck.

"Yeah," she sighed as she tilted her head.

"Oh good." He said, just before he captured her mouth.

She melted into him as he kissed her. Suddenly all of the stress of hiding everything was forgotten and all that existed was the two of them, holding each other here in this dark corner of the castle. She wanted to stay here forever and never leave.

It seemed like they had only been there for a second when they started hearing voices coming down the hallway. "Draco. People are coming."

"Makes it more fun doesn't it?" he laughed.

"Draco!" she gasped as she hit him. Then she laughed. "I'm seeing a whole new side of you now that everyone is back. We really should be going though."

He caught her as she moved toward the tapestry. "You really don't have that much experience with sneaking around do you?" he sighed, "with the amount of times Potter and you got out of tight scrapes I would have thought you learned something. If you're hiding, you don't go walking out in a big crowd and give away your position." He paused for a minute, "Unless you're in a less secretive spot…" he trailed off. "Trust me; it's best if we wait here for everyone to go, then you can sneak out when it's quiet."

"What about you?"

"I'll wait here for a few more minutes. Then I'll leave. I have more excuses for sneaking off then you do."

"I don't know, the library generally works for Harry and Ron."

"I think it works for most people actually." He smiled.

They had to have been in here for a while if she could actually see the fact that he was smiling at her. "How do you always make me lose track of time?"

The topic change made him pause. "I like that I can make you lose track of things." He leaned down and kissed her again.

"I need to get more used to that." She said when he pulled back. "Last thing I heard out there was a lot of voices, now it's silent."

"You should probably go." He whispered.

"What if I don't want to?"

"Trust me, I'll find other places to steal away to."

"Hhmmm …" I think I like the sound of it.

"I'll turn you yet." He laughed then kissed her and started pushing her gently toward the tapestry. "Now go, I'll see you later."

She dug in her heels and turned around. "Alright, but not before I get another kiss." She leaned up and kissed him silly then turned and left with a laugh.

"That girl is going to kill me," His face split into a wide grin.

A/N – ok, so I just discovered the best movie ever!!! It's Tom Cruise, Tim Curry, and Billy Barty (oh Iddy). It's called Legend! I'm sure that it's a big thing for people and some may hate me for not knowing it till now, but I have just discovered it and I love it!!! Tom Cruise is so little and cute, and Tim Curry is all hidden again, so him!

Anyway! So yeah, another chapter, yay! I'm going going going!!! I figure I've got until school starts up before I get distracted again, so that give me a month to write as much as I can. The problem is I'm also working on my actual book, so there is a bit of a war going on. This one is sooo much easier!!! Lol. :)