Chapter 14
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"No." Hermione groaned. Ginny held up another dress in front of Hermione.
"No. Gin this hopeless. We're never going to find a dress for me to wear." Ginny just rolled her eyes in response.
Ginny had bought basically her whole wardrobe into Hermione's room to get ready for tonight's outing.
All the dresses Ginny was holding up for Hermione to wear tonight were either too tight, too short, too low cut or the wrong colour.
"Hermione, you need to live a little. How about this one?" Ginny held up another dress.
"I think you've already shown me that dress... And my answer hasn't changed." Hermione was over this. She couldn't understand why she couldn't just wear one of her dresses. There was nothing wrong with them, except for the fact they weren't sexy.
They didn't show anything. They were all too plain. The only sexy dress Hermione owns is the black one she wore to the victory party.
"You know what Hermione? I give up. You are bloody hopeless!" Ginny laughed.
"Okay, I'll tell you what... The next dress you hold up is the one I'm going to wear. Just nothing too over the top, okay?" Hermione said firmly.
"Okay!" Ginny shrieked with excitement. She dug through the pile of clothes on the floor trying to find something perfect for Hermione. And then she found it.
Ginny held up the dress. "Okay this is the one you're going to wear." Hermione's eyes popped out of her head and her jaw fell to the floor.
The item of clothing Ginny was holding up was a slutty nurse costume Ginny wore last Halloween.
Ginny burst into laughter at the sight of her best friend. Hermione stared at Ginny before bursting into laughter herself.
"Hermione I'm only kidding, there's no way I'd let you wear that! Let alone be seen with you!" Ginny joked. She then rummaged through the pile of clothes once more.
"Ah ha! I've found it! This is the dress you're going to wear!" Ginny examined, holding the dress up before Hermione's eyes.
Hermione was almost speechless. Almost. "Oh my god Gin! That is such a beautiful dress!"
The dress was a beautiful shade of red. It was tight fitting, and Hermione knew it would show off her curves in a good way. Right above her breasts the solid part of the dress came to a stop in a slight 'v', going into lace until the top of Hermione's neckline, cutting in right before her shoulder blades.
The dress was absolutely beautiful.
"Gin it's perfect! You're amazing!" Hermione exclaimed, taking the dress out of Ginny's hands and into her own so she could feel the softness of the material.
Ginny smiled. "I know."
"I really hope Malfoy likes me in this dress." Hermione said softly. Part of their plan was to tell Ginny that she thinks she likes Malfoy.
Yesterday Malfoy told Blaise the same thing.
Hermione was really excited to put their plan into action. During their 'date' they are going to act lovey-dovey so Ginny and Blaise think they actually like each other. Then at the end of the night they would tell them the truth and say that they would never like each other. That way Ginny and Blaise would hopefully stop trying to get them together.
"What?" Ginny asked, shocked Hermione would say that.
"Merlin did I say out that out loud?" Hermione groaned. But this was all part of the plan...
"Hermione! You have some explaining to do!" Ginny exclaimed, quickly sitting down on the bed and motioning for Hermione to do the same.
"I really don't know how to tell you this. I mean I'm not even sure if what I'm feeling is real. But I think I like Malfoy." Hermione said quietly.
Ginny was jumping with joy inside."What!"
"I know it's crazy right! I mean he's my enemy and I'm supposed to hate him. He drives me insane all the time, but I think that's half the reason I like him." Hermione lied.
"You really like him?" Ginny squealed.
"I don't know. But I think so. But I don't want to like him, I want to hate him! I just can't. Please don't tell anyone! Not even Blaise." Hermione begged.
"Don't worry I won't." Ginny assured.
"You know I am kind of glad you made us go out tonight, that way I can get to know Malfoy more."
"Yeah I think you'll both have a great time tonight." Ginny winked.
"Ginny! I'm not going to do that!" Hermione exclaimed.
"You never know what might happen." Ginny smirked.
"Gin what's the time?" Hermione asked.
"Umm... I'm not sure. Why?"
Hermione looked at the clock. "Merlin! You said you wanted to leave at 8 o'clock right? Well we only have an hour to get ready!" Hermione exclaimed.
"Merlin! Okay we need to move fast. We have a lot of work to do!" Ginny said, standing up and going into the bathroom.
"Hey! Are you calling me ugly?" Hermione teased.
"No I'm just saying there's a lot of work to be done for you to be sexy." Ginny smirked.
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"Ginny? Is that you?" Hermione called out from the bathroom. Ginny had left about ten minutes ago to 'put on her finishing touches' which was really code for 'I need to talk to Blaise about tonight's plan'.
Hermione was looking sexy. Her dress complimented her perfectly, just like she thought it would. She wore four inch black heels, much to her disappointment. Hermione and Ginny argued about the shoes, but Hermione lost the battle.
Ginny left Hermione's hair natural, only using product to create more defined curls. Hermione's make up was done to perfection. Her eyes had the smokey effect while lipstick was a light shade of red.
Hermione looked sexy. And she knew it too.
"No it's me." Malfoy called out from his bedroom.
"How was training?" Hermione called. Malfoy had been training for the last few hours.
"Granger can I use the bathroom?" Malfoy asked, knocking on his connecting door. Hermione opened the door letting him in.
The minute he saw Hermione, his eyes popped out of his head. He was in shock. She always looked good, but this was a whole new level of hotness.
"Malfoy stop staring at me." Hermione quietly said, blushing with embarrassment.
Malfoy nodded. He couldn't stop staring at her. She looked fucking sexy. And he loved it. But he had to tear his eyes away from her when he started feeling his pants tightening.
"You look good, for once Malfoy." Hermione stated. She couldn't deny it. He looked hot. He was dressed in muggle attire, black pants and an extremely pale blue shirt, rolled up at the sleeves with the top few buttons undone.
"And for once Granger you look... sexy." Malfoy smirked but Hermione only blushed.
Hermione sat down on the edge of the bath while Malfoy did his hair and got ready for the night.
"So Granger did you tell Ginny?" Malfoy asked.
"Yep. She believed every word." Hermione smirked.
"Good. Okay so tonight we'll act awkward at first, getting to know each other. But then by the end of the night we'll be-" Hermione cut Malfoy off.
"Kissing and acting like we really like each other. We'll just go where the night takes us. Then at the end of the night we'll tell them the truth and then they will stop going on about us. Malfoy I know all this. We've talks about it a hundred times." Hermione rolled her eyes.
"Right Granger. Oh shit that's them." Blaise and Ginny walked through the common room calling out their names.
"Good luck tonight," Hermione quickly said before calling out to them, "we're in here!"
Blaise and Ginny walked in, looking like the hottest couple.
"Are you guys ready to go?" Ginny asked, smirking.
"Yeah let's go." Malfoy said, walking out of the bathroom, everyone else following behind them.
"Malfoy you take Hermione." Ginny said, gripping onto Blaise's arm. They were apprating to muggle London. This was just one of the perks of being over 17. Even if it was illegal to leave Hogwarts.
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They arrived outside a small restaurant called 'Wickedly Divine'. It was an older restaurant, but it looked like it had a lot of charm.
"I didn't know we were going to have dinner." Hermione said.
"We're only having dessert." Ginny said as they made their way inside the building. They stopped and waited in front of a sign saying 'wait here'.
"Hello. Do you have reservations?" An elegantly dressed male waiter asked them.
"Reservations under Zambini." Blaise said.
"Yes. Please come this way." He waiter escorted them to their table.
The table was rectangle shaped, with Blaise and Ginny sitting on one side and Malfoy and Hermione on the other.
"Thanks for brining us here. It's really nice." Hermione said to Blaise and Ginny.
"Your welcome. I hope you enjoy tonight." Ginny said, winking at Hermione. Hermione's eyes widened with shock.
"Well the thing is I don't have enough money to get four individual desserts, so we are going to have to share." Blaise said, smirking at Malfoy.
"Yeah man that's okay, you and I will share." Malfoy said to Blaise.
Blaise shook his head. "No. You and Granger will share, as I want to share my dessert with Ginny."
Hermione blushed. "Umm... It's okay, I'm not really hungry, you have the dessert Malfoy."
"Hermione don't be silly! They have great desserts at this place. It's okay Malfoy doesn't have boy germs." Ginny smirked.
"Boy germs?" Malfoy asked confused.
"It's a muggle thing." Hermione said.
"Oh. Well then Granger which dessert would you like?" Malfoy asked, looking at the menu.
"I don't know." Hermione said, scanning the desserts.
"How about the raspberry and chocolate panna cotta?" Malfoy suggested.
Hermione's eyes lit up. This was one of her favourites. "Yeah that sounds good."
"What are you guys having?" Malfoy asked Blaise and Ginny.
"The lemon cheesecake." Ginny said while Blaise signalled for the waiter.
"What can I get you?" The waiter asked. He took down their orders and left.
"So babe how was training?" Ginny asked Blaise.
"Yeah it was good. Our captain over here pushed us hard." Blaise glared.
"Hey it's not my fault you guys suck." Malfoy smirked.
"We don't suck, we just don't live up to your fucking high expectations."
"Whatever man. I just want to win this year."
"Well Malfoy I think Gryffindoor is going to win this year." Hermione smirked.
"No Granger that's not going to happen." Malfoy said.
"Yes it is. Gryffindoor deserves to win."
"Yeah I agree with Hermione. We always work hard for it. And now that Harry's captain their team will be even better." Ginny agreed.
"Babe I thought you wanted Slytherin to win!" Blaise teased.
"Oh course I do baby but I have to support Gryffindoor as well." Ginny patted Blaise on the cheek.
"Yeah sure." Blaise said sadly.
"What can I do to make it better?" Ginny teased.
"Oh I think you know." Blaise winked.
Hermione groaned. She turned away, disgusted.
"Granger people who are in love are allowed to be romantic in public." Malfoy smirked.
"Well I think that kind of stuff is meant for the bedroom or when they're alone." Hermione said.
"Granger you're so old fashioned." Malfoy rolled his eyes.
Hermione looked at Blaise and Ginny to see them making out. "Yuck!"
Malfoy laughed. "Oh Granger live a little."
Hermione shot Malfoy a death glare.
"So you're saying if I was to kiss you, you would pull away?" Malfoy asked quietly.
"Yes I would because we're in public."
Malfoy shook his head and rolled his eyes. The waiter came back with their desserts, disgusted to find Blaise and Ginny making out.
"Blaise." Malfoy shouted. But he got no response.
"Ginny!" Hermione yelled. No response. So Malfoy picked up his fork and poked Blaise in the cheek.
"What the fuck was that for?" Blaise yelled. Malfoy looked up at the waiter.
"Sorry about that. These two just can't keep their hands off each other." Malfoy explained to the waiter.
"It's okay. Here's your desserts and drinks." The waiter said, placing the food down on the table and leaving.
"Yum! This looks delicious!" Hermione said, practically drooling on their dessert.
"Granger! No drooling on my food!" Malfoy teased.
"It's not yours. It's ours." Hermione glared at him, picking up her fork and waving it in his face.
"Whatever you say Granger." Malfoy rolled his eyes.
Blaise and Ginny watched the two intensely. They knew something would happen tonight. But in the mean time, Blaise and Ginny put on a romantic act, feeding each other their desserts.
Once again Hermione was disgusted. And so was Malfoy. Hermione glanced up at Malfoy and they burst out laughing.
Malfoy put some of the panna cotta on his fork. "Granger open up."
Hermione's eyes widened. "No way!"
Malfoy leaned into Hermione's ear, checking to make sure Blaise and Ginny weren't watching. And they weren't.
"Granger, we have to take our relationship to the next level. Let me feed you." He whispered and pressed a tender kiss to the back of Hermione's ear.
"Fine Malfoy." Hermione groaned. But she was actually excited about it. Blaise and Ginny finally broke away from their romantic trance.
"Granger, you have to taste this." He smirked, holding the fork up near her mouth.
"Malfoy what are you doing! I can feed myself!" Hermione hissed.
"Please, just taste it." Malfoy insisted.
"No Malfoy!" Hermione grabbed her fork and put some of the panna cotta onto it. She opened her mouth to put it in but Malfoy bet her to it.
He pushed Hermione's fork out the way and put his fork into Hermione's mouth. She was shocked at first but once the dessert touched her mouth she relaxed and licked the fork clean.
"Mmm! That tastes so good!" Hermione exclaimed. Malfoy smirked.
"Malfoy you have to try this." She put some of the panna cotta on her fork and fed it to Malfoy.
"Shit! This is good." He picked up another fork full and went to put it in Hermione's mouth but she stopped him.
"I can do it myself." Hermione said firmly, picking up her fork and putting some panna cotta on it and placing it in her mouth.
Malfoy was slightly hurt. He actually enjoyed feeding her. He looked at Blaise and shrugged. Blaise looked at him sympathetically.
"Malfoy, did you know that Hermione once put her underwear on over her clothes and actually came to class." Ginny smirked, breaking the silence.
Hermione and Malfoy both choked on their dessert.
"Ginny! Why would you say that!" Hermione exclaimed, once she recovered from the shock. Malfoy burst out laughing.
"Well I thought Malfoy might like to know." Ginny said innocently.
"Granger, did you really do that?" Malfoy laughed.
Hermione blushed.
"I'll take that as a yes then." Malfoy smirked.
"What! No Malfoy that didn't happen!" Hermione tried to cover up what Ginny said.
"Granger it's okay. We all do stupid things sometimes. Once Blaise put toothpaste on instead of shaving cream." Malfoy teased.
Everyone burst out laughing except for Blaise. "I never did that!"
"Yeah mate you did!" Malfoy smirked.
"Well if we're telling embarrassing stories then Ginny once came to class with permanent marker drawn all over her face." Hermione teased.
"Who drew it on you?" Blaise asked. Hermione burst out laughing.
"What?" Blaise asked, not understanding what Hermione found funny.
"Ginny tell him." Hermione laughed.
"No one drew it on me. I did it myself when I was asleep." Ginny said so softly everyone hardly heard her.
They all cracked up laughing.
"Well Malfoy what stupid things have you done?" Ginny asked.
Malfoy smirked. "I don't do stupid things like that. I'm a Malfoy."
Hermione laughed. "You wish Malfoy. Just because you're hot doesn't mean you don't do stupid things."
"Granger you think I'm hot?" Malfoy quirked an eyebrow.
Ginny's eyes widened as she realise what's going on. "Blaise, baby, can you come help me with something for a sec?"
Blaise looked at her confused. "Why?"
"Because I need you to... Help me with something." Ginny said softly. Blaise smirked as he realised what she meant.
"Sure thing babe. We'll be right back." Blaise winked at Hermione and Malfoy.
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"They fucking know!" Ginny yelled to Blaise as soon as they went into the ladies restroom, making sure it was empty before they went in.
Blaise pouted as he realised he wasn't going to get shagged. "What do you mean?"
"Malfoy and Hermione know that we want them to get together. They know why we bought them here tonight."
"How do you know?" Blaise asked.
"Because Hermione would never admit Malfoy is hot."
"Oh. Shit how did they find out?"
"I don't know but we could have some fun with this." Ginny smirked.
"How?"
"Well we can make them do things thy wouldn't normally do. Like kiss and stuff and embarrass them. Oh I have a great idea! We should go to a club!" Ginny excitedly squealed.
"Yes! Gin that's a great idea!" Blaise agreed.
"I know, that's why you love me." Ginny smirked.
"Come on we should get back out there."
"Don't I get a kiss first?" Ginny teased.
"Anything for you babe."
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"Sorry we took so long." Ginny apologised once they returned to the table. She noticed they had finished their panna cotta.
"It's okay. So long as Blaise satisfied your needs." Malfoy teased.
Ginny looked at Blaise. "Oh he sure did."
Malfoy laughed, while Hermione remained silent. She was still on fire from the passionate kiss Malfoy have her while they were alone at the table.
"Hermione are you okay?" Ginny asked.
"Yeah Gin I'm fine, just really full." Hermione blushed. Malfoy smirked, knowing he was the cause of her silence.
"Well how about we go to a club soon. To work off the dessert." Ginny suggested.
"Yeah that would be great!" Malfoy said.
"What do you think Hermione?" Ginny asked.
"Um... Well I don't know if I want to go to a club. I'm not sure if I want to do that kind of thing." Hermione said softly. She knew it would be a good idea to go clubbing but she didn't feel she was really comfortable with it.
"Hermione, it will be okay." Ginny patted Hermione's hand.
Malfoy leaned in and whispered in Hermione's ear. "I think it will be good, then we can make out and stuff."
Hermione looked at him questionably. "I don't know."
"Please, do it for me! It will be fun." Malfoy smirked.
"Malfoy..." Hermione groaned.
"Please!" He persisted.
"Okay Malfoy I'll go." Hermione reluctantly agreed.
"Great. We'll go soon. But not yet. We can talk some more first." Ginny smirked.
"Sure." Hermione agreed. Anything to put off going clubbing.
Ginny leaned over to Blaise. "Is it okay if I bring up Malfoy's parents?" She whispered.
"Yeah that's a good idea it might make Granger see the soft side of him." He whispered back.
"So Malfoy, what's your mum up to these days?" Ginny asked, making Malfoy choke on his drink.
"Oh um she's living at the Mannor." Malfoy said softly. He loved his mother very much but he didn't like talking about her, as it brought up too many things.
"That's good. And how is she coping with your dads death?" Ginny asked. This time it was Hermione who choked on her drink.
"Ginny! Why are you asking these questions?" Hermione exclaimed.
"Granger it's okay. I can handle it." Malfoy said.
"Malfoy I didn't know your father died." Hermione said softly.
"Yeah well I didn't want to tell many people."
"I'm sorry." Hermione almost whispered. Hermione looked up to meet his eyes. They stared intensely into each others eyes.
"Don't be Granger. He was a bastard who deserved to rot in jail." Malfoy said without breaking their eye contact.
"Are you and your mother close?" Hermione asked softly.
Malfoy nodded. "Yeah we are. When I was younger she was always the one who supported my decisions. She was the one who acted like my mother. A normal loving mother. She was the one who calmed me after my father bashed me."
Hermione gasped. She put her hand on his which was resting on the table. "Oh Malfoy I'm so sorry. No one should have to go through that. But I'm glad your mother was always there for you."
"I know. But my father grew up that way so he didn't know any better. My mother and I were there for each other. He did the same to mother too." Malfoy said softly, blinking back the tears as he remembered his past.
"That's awful. Oh Malfoy I am so sorry." Hermione rubbed his hand as a few tears ran down her face.
"Don't be sorry Granger, it wasn't your fault." Malfoy instantly wiped Hermione's eyes with his thumbs. He moved his face close to Hermione's. They were so they could feel each others breath on their faces.
"No one should be treated like that. It's really sad." Hermione whispered.
"I know. But it's all in the past now so you don't need to worry about it okay?"
Hermione nodded. They stared into each others eyes for a moment before Malfoy lightly pressed his lips to hers.
The kiss was feather light, but tender and meaningful. Hermione poured her emotions into the kiss, showing Malfoy just how sorry she was.
Ginny and Blaise sat there in shock. They couldn't believe Malfoy and Hermione were kissing.
They slowly broke away, savouring the moment for as long as they could. They rested their foreheads together, as they breathed softly.
"Thank you." Malfoy murmured against Hermione's lips. Hermione kissed his lips softly once more in response.
At the same time they suddenly realised Blaise and Ginny were watching them. They pulled away, looking guilty.
"Sorry." Hermione murmured to Blaise and Ginny.
"No hun don't be sorry, that was a beautiful kiss. And it's about time you both did it." Ginny smirked.
"So do you want to go clubbing now? To brighten up the mood?" Hermione suggested.
"Sounds like a good idea." Blaise smirked.
A/N: I hope you all enjoyed this chapter!
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