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Detention was awful! We had to clean 10 cauldrons each without magic! Well everyone apart from Harry who, being Slughorn's favourite student, got away with only having to clean 3. But being the nice Harry that he is, he cleaned one of mine, one of Ginny's and one of Theo's. After detention we all went back to our own common rooms not wanting to cause any more trouble. I went to my room and had a nice long shower. Afterwards I went downstairs and decided to finish my ancient runes essay.

After about 10 minutes Draco comes down the stairs and takes a seat nearly opposite me. His hair was still wet from his shower; he was wearing a pair of jeans and a white thin t-shirt. His t-shirt hugged he's sides to emphasise his well toned body. I don't know how long I was staring, and I didn't know I was staring till his voice broke the silence.

"Like what you see?" I look up and see a smirk on his face. I blush, but don't know what to say so I go back to my essay. After a minute of silence he gets up and takes a seat next to me. But I don't say a word. Not liking my response he moves closer to me. Eventually he was close enough for me to smell his scent, which was a mixture of apples, vanilla and some sort of male deodorant. It smelt like a muggle one called lynx, but I doubt he even knows about lynx.

I couldn't take it no more, so I edge closer and lean against him. He chuckles but I don't look at him, because I don't trust myself to act calm and cool around him. What can I say, it's not every day you meet someone as nice, good looking and nice smelling.

"Uh, Hermione do you want to come watch quidditch practise tomorrow?" I remember what happened last time I got invited, but I didn't think it was a subject he would want to talk about.

"Yeah, sure," I turn to him, smile and turn back to my essay.

"When the first match?" I ask, it's nearly November and there's been no matches.

"This Saturday, the first match of the season."

"Who's playing?"

"You and Hufflepuff."

"Awesome."

"Come on Hermione, leave the essay. Stop being boring," I turn to him ready to give him my death glare, but it melted away when I saw him cutely pouting. I sighed and pushed away my work. And for this action I earned a dazzling Draco Malfoy smile.

We spent the next hour talking, and then we went to bed. The next day after double History of magic, Potions, Herbology and Charms, I make my way over to the quidditch pitch. The weather was clear, dry but cold. So I sat down in the stands and waited for my red-headed best friend to come too. I convinced her to come, so I wouldn't be alone during practise.

I was still sitting alone when the Slytherin team made their way out of the changing rooms, and to my surprise Pansy was there. Seeing me all by myself Pansy flew over.

"Hey Pansy. I didn't know you played quidditch!"

"I didn't till this year, I thought I'd try out and guess what! I made it!" she beamed obviously proud of her achievement! We talked for a bit before Draco called her over so they can start. After about 10 minutes Ginny arrives and takes a seat next to me.

"Hey Hermione," Ginny smiling as always. I wonder how she's always so happy.

"Hey, Ginny." We carried on talking, but my attention turned to Draco who started following the snitch. All of a sudden he started flying towards the ground, he was obviously chasing the snitch, but he was heading for a crash landing! He was get closer and closer to the ground yet he didn't stop. Everyone had stopped playing and turned around to look at what he was doing. Just before he hit the ground he jumped of his broom, caught the snitch with his left hand and landed on the ground graciously. I don't know how he did it, but he did it. He bowed and announced training to be over.

He jumped onto his broom again and flew over to me.

"Liked my little performance," he winked. I playfully punched his arm.

"Na, I've seen Harry do better," knowing (and hoping) it might annoy him. But it didn't, he just chuckled.

"Of course I can't beat him; he's the boy who lived." With that he flew over to the changing rooms. He's probably going to take a long time, so I start to head over to the great hall for dinner. When I turned the corner to head over to dinner I bumped into someone.

"I'm so sorry... Darren!" He's the person I asked out on a date for a dare.

"Wait, why do you have a black eye?" I lift my hand and trace the circle around his eye.

"Oh, don't worry about it," he smiled and started to walk away from me. I reached out and grabbed his wrist.

"Tell me!"

"It's nothing, just got into a fight."

"With who?"

"Leave it Hermione!"

"No! Tell me!"

"Malfoy! That's who! He punched me and told me to stay away from you. To never talk to you, or even look at you! Can we leave it now!?" I nod and he walks away from me. I don't stop him this time. A certain Malfoy is about to feel my wrath! I walked into the hall and took a seat between Neville and Ginny who left practise early. For dinner there were my favourite pies that taste just like the ones my mum made for me. I spotted the Slytherins come in for dinner, but I decided I didn't want to leave my pie, so I'll talk to Draco after dinner.

I take a seat on the sofa by the fire and wait the door to open, which I didn't have to wait long for.

"Hey, Hermione," he seemed so happy, do I want to ruin his mood?

"Do you know someone called Darren?"

"No, why?"

"Really! Darren, short brown hair, brown eyes and just a little taller than me? It's funny because I saw him today, and he had a black eye. After a lot of persistence he told me his got into a fight with someone. He also told me the guy's name, I think it was Draco Malfoy. Also apparently he's not allowed to talk to me or even look at me!" I hadn't realised that my voice had been getting louder and louder so eventually I was shouting at him.

"Well, I'm sorry! He was getting just a little too close to you," this really set me off!

"It turns out I asked him out, also it was a dare. And I think I recall you NOT objecting when I received the dare!"

"Look, I'm sorry Hermione. I just got really angry! I didn't mean for it to upset you."

"Well it did," I turned around and walked off to my room. I crashed onto my bed, and unravelled all my thoughts. I tried to calm down and slowly I succeeded. Maybe I was too harsh on him. Maybe I overreacted. But he shouldn't have acted the way he did. I went over all my tangled thoughts, one by one. I was so deep in thought that I nearly didn't hear the loud knocking on the door.

I jumped out of bed and made my way to the door. I opened it and got nearly whacked in the face by a nervous looking Ginny.

"Oh sorry Hermione, but you really need to come!"

"What's-" that's all I managed before Ginny grabbed my hand and pulled me along several flights of stairs and corridors. We stop on a corridor that was crowded with people. Slowly we shoved, weaved and barged our way through the crowd. We couldn't see what's in the middle, but we could hear.

"It wasn't even me!"

"Yeah right, don't even have the guts to own up to something you did!"

"As much as I would have loved to scare you with a spider-" everyone starts to laugh.

"-I didn't!"

"So who did!?"

"Ask your sister!"

"She wouldn't do that!"

"Really! Well why don't we ask her!" I pushed forward and in the middle were Ron and Draco. Ron whipped his wand out.

"Sectumsempra!" Draco knowing how this spell works turned his body in time to leave a deep gash in his arm and not his chest.

I ran over to Draco, while Ginny went and stood in front of Ron. The wound wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I turn around and went over to Ron and stared into his eyes. If looks could kill, then Ron should be dead! With all the emotions surging through me right now, I slapped Ron on the cheek. His cheek instantly turned as red as his hair, if not even redder. I didn't move, I was rooted to the ground. I wasn't going to let Ron get away with this.

Someone was pulling at me now.

"Come on Hermione, we've got to get Draco to madam Promfrey, now!" Ginny was right, but Ron better watch his back. I turned around, just in time to Draco fall in unconsciousness.

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sectumsempra- is a spell created by snape, and it leaves a deep cut in the victim...

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