Chapter 3~
I followed her during her stroll along the hallway, but stood to a halt when she started to grind her way towards the Astronomy Tower. Yea yea yea, I get it? Why the hell is she going to the astronomy tower? Don't ask me. I'm not answer man here.
Anyways, she went through the door leading to the tower, and it looked like she was...crying? Nah, why would she be crying? She would've excused herself before, wouldn't she?
I watched behind a pillar as the tears fell down her now damp cheeks as she walked through the large entrance that was the Astronomy Tower. I followed her like a shadow lurking about as she went to the ledge, lifting her feet off the ground by using all of her weight on her forearms. Was she going to jump? Hell no. Not on my watch.
"Going somewhere Granger?" I asked, frolicking from the shadows to reveal myself. She jumped off the ledge, and spun around, wand already in hand. Her voice came out as her wand tightened in her hand from my silhouette.
"What do you want Malfoy? Come to hurt me?" she asked, her voice shaking.
What the hell was I to do? Sit around and do nothing? Then I remembered why I was to follow her.
Step 2: Talk to her.
I opened my mouth slightly, and started to speak.
"I was just waltzing my usual rounds, a little bit earlier, when I saw an inexplicable mound of hair round past me. I wondered, 'Who in the world would be here tonight in the halls when everyone else is was in the Great Hall?' so I followed her. It was kind of easy to by the way." I finished with a smirk, watching as her ice cold glare turned to something of sincerity.
"Why bother following? You already made me embarrased as it is." she mumbled, lowering her wand to waistlength. I gave her another confused look. What the h-
"My friends decided it was funny to make fun of me because I blushed at you." she answered before I got my word out.
"What things did they say?" I asked, walking towards her.
She looked up at me with the saddest eyes I ever saw a brunette have. She sniffled a few times, and I could tell that she was about to cry. She weeped out all at the same time,
"They called me a bitch. They called me so many things. Especially Ron!"
I froze in my place, and looked at her. Then I knew that there was no time for step 2 right now. Step 3's a go.
Step 3: Enclose her.
We WERE alone after all, so why not?
I pushed her into the railing from walking closer, and she gasped when the cold metal hit her backside. "What did he say?" I asked with gritted teeth. She said nothing; only looking up to my eyes. What was going through that girl's mind?
Hermione's POV:
I knew it! I knew there was something about him! What the hell did he want from me? I wanted to be alone, and he just had to follow me! God damnit!
Why did he follow me in the first place? Was it because he needed an assignment done, or what? It confused me when he cornered me, and I fell into the bar behind me. After I had told him the big secret of their little nicknames for me,he asked me another question,
"What did he say?"
Why did he care? It wasn't any of his business, and what am I again?
Oh yea. A fudging mudblood.
"That's none of your business Malfoy." I spat, watching his face carefully. He backed away scoffing curse words under his breath. What was with him?
Then he left.
Without another word in.
What the...
Draco's POV:
That's it. I need to go.
I walked away, hoping that she wouldn't follow me or at least grab my wrist like in all of those movies. Of course, she didn't.
I went through halls, not noticing that it was past curfew for all of the students to be in their dormitories, so I kept strolling through. Just then, I bumped into someone, and they made a loud, "Oof!" I got up, and saw green and silver robes in the light. "Good Merlin mate, can't you look before you bump into someone?"
Blaise Zabini.
"What brings you here on this fine night?" he asked casually. I glared at him, and I looked around. I hummed to myself, and looked back at my confused friend. "I just came from talking with a girl." I responded, watching his face curl to a half smirk. "Slytherin?" Really? Was he really that thick? No you dimwit! Maybe he needs hints. Yea, that's it.
"Well she has curly brown hair, and she is definetely not in Slytherin! She passes us in every class, and she is an 'insufferable know-it-all.'" I knew that that would be enough information to make him think for once.
"You mean mudblood Granger?"
I saw red, and I pushed him against the closest wall I could find. "No one...and I will repeat...no one...calls her that. If you saw her for who she really is, then you wouldn't call her that, now would you? I advise that you don't speak of this again." I spoke woth gritted teeth. I let him go, and walked away, hoping that tomorrow we would not meet again.
Ok then. I hope this was a good chapter since I have 15 other stories i need to update. THX FOR READING!
-Kyra