Chapter 5

A/N: disclaimer: I own nothing. I know, it's really sad.

Recap:

"Wait." Hermione said softly.

Malfoy put his stuff down on the couch and walked up to her.

They were inches apart. She was leaning closer to his lips.

She softly whispered 'Malfoy' and leaned closer...

Chapter 5

Right when Hermione was inches away from his lips, she raised her hand and punched his mouth.

"Ah fuck!" He yelled, clutching his mouth.

Hermione smirked and walked into her room and slammed the door.

How dare that little bitch! Malfoy thought.

He walked over to the kitchen and put some ice on his mouth.

He was furious with her! He did nothing to her! Why would she do that when he helped her yesterday?

She was going to kiss me! And I did nothing to stop her! What is wrong with me? Malfoy couldn't help but think.

He punched the bench to try to relieve some of his anger, but didn't work.

I will never understand girls. He thought.

Hermione sat in her room in complete shock! She couldn't believe she did that! Sure, she was angry, but she didn't have to punch him!

But when I leaned into kiss him, he didn't even pull away! Why? She wondered out loud.

xoxoxox

They hadn't spoken to each other for two days. They had hardly seen each other in two days.

Hermione was stressed out. And she wasn't sleeping either. Her parents, Harry and Malfoy were to blame.

To get her mind off these problems, she knuckled down on her schoolwork. If she wasn't in class, she was in the library.

She lied to her friends, saying that she was busy with homework and had to get it done, which was partly true, and that she was eating meals at the kitchen.

But she wasn't.

She hadn't eaten in two days. She hadn't sleep in two days.

Malfoy noticed this. She was avoiding him, as was he.

But even though he was avoiding her, he still noticed.

He left her to herself as much as he could. He left meals out for her on the table in the common room, but she didn't eat them.

He was getting worried.

The next day Malfoy woke up at 6am. He did his morning routine and then sat on the couch to do some last minute homework.

He didn't go down for breakfast.

There was ten minutes until class started, and Malfoy was getting worried. He hadn't seen or heard her.

She is always up by now.

He went to her bedroom door and softly knocked.

There was no response.

So he went in.

The room was dark. There was no sound coming from inside.

You would think no one lived in this room if you didn't see the little lump in the bed.

He walked over to the tiny figure sleeping in the huge double bed. She was lying on her side, facing him.

"Hermione." Malfoy whispered softly.

She didn't stir.

He sat down on the bed next to her and stroked her long tangled hair.

"Hermione." He whispered again.

Her eyes fluttered open.

"Malfoy." She murmured.

"Hermione, wake up."

She opened her eyes fully and took in her surroundings.

"Malfoy. What are you doing here?"

"Your late for class."

"I don't care." She responded softly, closing her eyes again.

"Hermione, you can't go back to sleep yet."

"Why not?"

"I'll cover for you today. Don't worry about anything. Just get some rest, okay?"

"Thanks Malfoy." She fell back asleep instantly.

Malfoy quietly tiptoed out of her room and sighed.

Why did I make sure she was okay? Why do I care? He asked himself.

He shook his head to get rid of those thoughts and made his way down to his first class, potions.

Throughout the day he covered for Hermione, saying she was sick.

All her friends were worried. But he convinced them there was nothing wrong.

After a long session of quidditch training, he went back into his room and took a shower before checking on Hermione.

He slightly opened the door and peeked through the crack.

The room was still dark and there was still a small lump in the bed.

He sighed before closing the door.

The next morning just before classes started Malfoy went and checked on her again.

But this time when he opened the door, he saw something different.

The window was open, letting light stream into the room. And Hermione was sitting up in the bed, propped up on some pillows.

She looked confused when he walked in the room.

"Hermione. Your awake." He stated and sat down next to her.

"What are you doing here?" She asked softly.

"I'm making sure your okay."

"Why do you care?" It was a hurtful question, but there was no hate in her voice. Her voice was small and soft.

"I don't. I just didn't want you missing class again."

"Again?" She questioned.

"You missed class yesterday."

"What day is it?" She asked.

"Friday."

"Oh."

"I think you should get up and eat something. Don't go to class today."

"What happened to me?" She asked.

"I don't know. You didn't sleep or eat for two days. Then you slept all yesterday." He answered.

"Oh. Oh yeah, I remember now."

"Is everything okay?"

She nodded. But her eyes told him something different, but he ignored it.

"I've left food out for you. Rest and eat but don't sleep, okay?"

"Okay."

He got up and walked to the door.

"Thank you for caring." She whispered.

He looked at her and weakly smiled before heading out the door.

Malfoy came back after classes to see Hermione lying on the couch with a book on her hand.

He sat down on the small table next to her.

"You must feel fine if your reading." Malfoy smirked.

"I'm feeling much better, thanks." She smiled.

"That's good."

He got up to walk away but Hermione put out a hand to stop him.

"Thank you for taking care of me. You didn't have to do it, but you did. Thank you Malfoy."

"I know Granger. But just for the record, I don't care, I just had to know what was wrong with you so when everyone asked where you were I had an answer so everyone wouldn't think I did something to you." Malfoy joked.

"I hate you Malfoy." She said jokingly.

"As I loathe you Granger." He joked back.

xoxoxox

A week had past since Hermione was ill.

She told everyone she had really bad period pain.

Only Malfoy knew the truth, but he didn't know why it happened. She didn't tell him and he didn't ask.

Hermione was back to normal again. She was eating and sleeping fine, she caught up on all her missed classes and is now much happier than before.

Although she was still angry with her parents and was still sad for Harry. And as her relationship with Malfoy was back to normal, she was doing her best to move on.

She still fought with Malfoy all the time. He riled her up so easily. But there were no more punches, it was all verbal.

She made her way down to the grand hall for breakfast.

When she arrived, no one was sitting down at their tables except for the Slytherins. Everyone was crowded in a circle in the door way.

Everyone looked really happy. She made her way over to the crowd and pushed through.

She bust into happy tears when she saw what everyone was fussing about.

It was Harry.

She shoved Ron out the way, who was talking to Harry, and embraced Harry in a tight hug. A few tears happy escaped her eyes, knowing her best friend was safe.

He hugged her back just as tightly. They didn't say anything until they pulled away.

"Harry your okay!" She said, as a few more tears spilled out her eyes.

"Mione, I've missed you so much, it's so good to see you." He said and pulled her into another tight hug.

"I've missed you so much too. Oh Harry, I'm so glad your okay." She said into his chest.

"Hey! Stop hogging Harry. We want to talk to him too!" Ron joked.

A while later Harry, Hermione, Ron and Ginny made their to the table.

"I can't believe your here! Why are you back so soon?" Hermione asked Harry.

"They said I'd be better in a month after school started but it only took two weeks. I had a speedy recovery!"

Everyone laughed and told Harry about all the things he missed.

Hermione spend the next two days catching up with Harry. The four of them were inseparable.

With Hermione gone all the time, Malfoy started to get a bit lonely. He had no one to fight with. He couldn't see how beautiful she was when she was angry.

He missed her.

Even though they were enemies, he enjoyed the time they spent together, even though they were fighting.

Something had shifted inside both of them. They still hated each other bit it wasn't to the same extent as before.

Malfoy was sitting in the common room when Blaise walked in.

"Hey mate." Blaise said, and took a seat on one of the love seats.

"Hey man. How's it going?" Malfoy asked him.

"Man, I'm great." Blaise said, beaming.

"What the hell happened to you?"

"Women to wonderful things to men." Blaise smirked.

"Yeah man I know." Malfoy winked.

"You know how a few weeks ago I met with Ginny in the room of requirement?"

"Yeah you told me about that."

"Well then we agreed to be friends. But last night, we were walking around together she kissed me on the cheek." Blaise was beaming.

"Is that all? She just kissed you on the cheek?"

"Yeah. But now I know she still likes me, even though we can't be together. But now I'm taking things to the next level."

"Your going to fuck her?"

"No! I'm going to flirt with her and occasionally kiss."

"Is that all?"

"Yep. We can't be together but that doesn't mean we can't have fun!"

"Mate, you are in deep. Your getting excited about flirting with her, thinking its the best thing in the world!"

"Yeah I know it seems crazy, but I really love her and hate what my dad did to us."

"I know man. I know."

"So how about you and Granger?"

"What about us?" Malfoy asked.

"Have you taken my advice yet?"

"What? No! I didn't fuck her and I'm not going to."

"You will one day soon."

"No way mate, I will never do that."

"I know you want to."

"No way mate. Never. She's Granger, the bookworm, remember?"

"I know. Whatever man, I gotta go meet Ginny. Wish me luck!"

"I would but you don't need it!" Malfoy smirked.

"Your the best, man!"

"I know." Malfoy said and Blaise rolled his eyes.

A/N: wow the 5th chapter done!

I seriously didn't know all this was going to happen, I just started writing and this happened!

Mwhahaha they didn't kiss! I couldn't let them do that yet, it's way too soon!

Harry's back! Yay!

And Hermione's all better! Well almost... Hehe

Thanks for reading and please review!

Love em xox