A/N: So now I am home from my Ski vacations for a while. At least to week 9! Then I'm off again. This is the 8th chapter, not so many dialogs in this chapter, and may not be the best chapter I've written, but I hope you will enjoy it anyways. Thanks to my beta Freakyella. Don't forget to review!
15th November
When Hermione woke up that morning, there was a nervous feeling in her tummy. She got up, dressed and waited in the common room for Blaise as usual before they walked together to the Great Hall. "You were quiet today Hermione, are you alright? Blaise asked her. She looked up, and saw that he looked concerned. She smiled and answered the question:
"Yes, I'm fine, I'm just very nervous". Apparently Blaise accepted that answer and they walked to the Great Hall in a comfortable silence. They quickly said "Good bye" before walking to their different House tables. When she walked closer, she was how Ginny, Ron and Harry already sat at the table. Normally it was always Hermione who came to the Great Hall first in the mornings. Ginny looked up and saw her approaching.
"Good morning 'Mione!" The boys quickly said the same greeting as she sat down next to Ron.
"You were all up early" she said, simply stating the obvious.
"Well" Rom said simultaneously as a blush colored his cheeks light pink, "we wanted to spend a lot of time with you today, since you're going today." When he had finished the sentence, his cheeks were bright pink. Obviously, he still thought it was hard to say that he liked her (as a friend, nothing more!)
"You guys are too cute!" She said as she put two fried eggs on her plate. This was a day that she had dreaded, but maybe it could be a good day anyway. With that thought, she walked lightly with Ron and Harry to the dungeons' to have Potions class with the Slytherins. Not even the thought that she would have class together with Malfoy could destroy her mood right now. And as usual with Malfoy, she was awfully wrong.
When Draco saw Hermione she totally shined with happiness. That glow slowly decreased during the class. The first time when her mood decreased a little was when professor Snape took 10 points from Gryffindor because she looked too happy. Then her mood got totally ruined when professor Snape said that for today's class, they would work in pairs, and she got paired up with him. When she slowly walked over to him, walking as slow as she could, he was happy that looks couldn't kill. Because if that were the case, he would have dropped dead several times that morning. She was kind of cute when she was angry. He smiled a little and continued to cut the snakeskin in small pieces. He decided to start to talk to her before they ruined their potion and get a T on this class.
"Do you want to, or should I, mash the unicorn horn?" To show that he only meant well, he did gave her a little smile. He normally didn't smile to anyone, so she should be lucky that he had given her a smile. Normally the people he gave smiles to where his mother, Blaise and Pansy sometimes. If they had deserved it. When Hermione stared at him as he had given a lollipop to a kid, he stopped smiling and repeated the question again without the smile.
"Were you smiling?" was her answer. "And you can mash it" She didn't expect an answer on her first question, and he didn't gave her one either. But she seemed a little bit less angry after that. That was of course after we had finished and she'd dropped the cauldron on his toes.
FUCK that hurt. He gave her a murderous glance who she happily returned with an, as she thought, innocent grin. The grin grew into a smirk when he cursed loud and professor Snape took 5 points from Slytherin.
The rest of the day went faster than he had expected. When all the students who were going finally stood on the grass near the Quiditchfield they all locked a bit nervous. He was also a bit nervous, but he made sure that he had his mask up, so that no one could see it. He stood next to Blaise and locked at Hermione who stood with Dean Thomas, Patvati Patil and the other Gryffinords. She suddenly turned and locked him quickly in the eyes before she locked away again. He himself stood with the Slytherins.
"What are you looking at Draco" Olympia Watson, a very annoying Slytherin girl, asked him. According to Pansy, Olympia had decided to go to The Aradia Institute just because that he would, and she hoped that they would become great friends there. For some reason, he didn't really think that giver her way, she wouldn't want to stop at 'just friends'.
"Why do you care, Watson?" He asked, making sure she understood that she that he was not interested in being her friend when he called her by her last name. Just when the annoying little girl was about to answer him Parvati and her friend shrieked and pointed to the sky, he locked up and saw what they where pointing at. Up in the air, their transport slowly made its way down to them. It really was an amazing sight. The Flightbus was as big as the Knightbus. But there the similarities stopped. The Flightbus was light-blue with big white wings. They looked like a mix between dragon-wings and Pegasus-wings. They were about the size as dragon-wings, pearl white and graceful.
As it landed next to them, all students gasped, or at least all girls did. It was even more impressive when you looked close. The wings shook itself and then to every one's surprise neatly folded them to the sides of the bus. It looked like they were alive. He wouldn't be surprised if they were though! Mr. Makepeace, the chauffeur, opened the door and walked out. He walked out, greeting Dumbledore. Then he said
"You know, you can go in" with an amused tone. All students were still as hypnotized by the bus. Draco shot a glance at Blaise, and started to walk up the stairs into the bus. The inside of the bus was like the Knightbus, three floors and a bunch of odd armchairs and sofas. He followed Blaise up to the third floor and took a seat in the front of the bus. Much to his annoyance Olympia Watson, took the seat next to him. Could one never be alone with some guy friends? But when he looked around he saw the rest of the Slytherins sat near him and Blaise too.
"If everyone has a chair" The chauffeur said, he must have had some spell that made his voice heard in the whole bus, because they would never have heard him otherwise. "We will take off in about 3 minutes" He sat down in his chair and locked out his window and wondered if they played Quidditch at Aradia. Then he felt the bus started driving at the ground, like it collected speed before taking off. Then he saw the white wings unfold and they were on their way.