A/N: I know this is late, but my computer hasn't been working and I have had state testing the past week and a half… I made a 54/60 on my Biology 1 test *Cheers* the highest score was a 57.… I was so shocked. I am trying to go back and fix errors. And believe it or not I do put this through word, and errors still pop up and the program never tells me. I swear to Merlin that it even changes my words… so if soul shows up as sole… then it was the program… There is something I really like about this chapter and I'm not really sure as to what that is… I hope you enjoy it :P And the accomplishment he was feeling was from figuring out what ever it is he figured out so ha! Lol who knows what plot bunnies are cooped up in my head… and there are quite a few, I think its because Easter is almost here…. Durn bunnies… ENJOY

Chapter 17: Oh the horror.

OoOo Hermione oOoO

Hermione couldn't help but laugh at her father's antics about apologizing. To her, it didn't seem like such a big deal. All he had to do was apologize. But then again, she knew that for him, it would be one of the hardest things he had done in his life.

"Please don't make me apologize to all of those people." He pleaded from where he was on the floor. He had stayed down on his knees, hoping that they would take sympathy on him. "I will do anything you want for a year, just don't make me do that." He pleaded; his chicken shreds had been left to grow cold on the tile.

They all turned to face Harry with curiosity. They all watched as he rolled his eyes at the scene before him. "Never thought Lord Voldemort would be on his knees begging for my mercy…" He said as a side thought before addressing the comment. "Anyways, how do you ever expect for people to see that you have changed, if you won't even apologize to them. Do you want to be on house arrest for the rest of your sad miserable life…?" Harry asked, he nonchalantly took a bite of his Chicken nugget…

"Harry does have a point you know." Hermione spoke up with a small smirk. She was feeling particularly evil that day. "And you know how bored you get…" She teased him. They all laughed, his latest activity had been sewing motivational quotes into couch pillows. Some of which were plain stupid.

"URGH! He groaned miserably as he got up off of the floor, back slouched. "That's just not fair." He said slumping away from the kitchen. They could hear him faintly mumbling in the background. He was saying what sounded like, 'Maybe I should just leave the boundaries and see what they do to me, it can't be as bad as apologizing…'

"I think I would prefer to apologize at a wedding than get attacked by fifteen stinging curses…" Harry laughed when Tom's mumbling disappeared. "And I know for a fact that one stinging curse feels like poison coursing through your body."

"He'll get over it." Ginny said rolling her eyes. "He's just being a big baby." she said waving her wand at the chicken on the floor, it disappeared. "In the end he will have to just suck it up and go with the flow… and if he doesn't go willingly, then I will make him…" everyone laughed. "You think I'm joking, but I'm not. He is not going to ruin my big day. I will use the Cruciatus curse if I have to."

"And then I will be forced to arrest you…" Harry teased her and poked her in the side with his finger, but when he saw Ginny's expression he quickly, "OOOOR I could let it slide…"

"Better…" She said contently as everyone laughed.

(Later that day.)

OoOo Draco oOoO

Draco sat with his arms folded behind his head. To any random person who walked into the room, it would look as if he were just innocently making himself comfortable. However, to anyone who knew him, he was up to something. The plan that he had thought up, was to him, hilarious. He knew that it was a mean plan, but then again he was a Slytherin.

So when Hermione walked into the sitting room to see her husband looking at her with a neutral expression, she narrowed her eyes at him.

"Don't you narrow your eyes at me, Hermione?" He said with no emotion what so ever in his voice. It was almost as if a robot had said it "I'm the one who should have my eyes narrowed."

"Oh is that so?" She asked. Draco watched as she tried to play along with whatever he was up to. When in reality she was just as confused as the next person.

"When were you planning on telling me?" He asked trying his best not to laugh as her eyes grew wide. "He held up a letter angrily, a letter that he had made all by himself on Hermione's computing ma-jig.

"I was planning on telling you," she said trying to calm him down. "It was meant to be a surprise…" She said weakly.

"A surprise!" He said sarcastically, "is that your best excuse." He was really doing this acting thing well. "SURPRISE DRACO! I'm leaving you." He said eccentrically. Hermione's expression turned to one of confusion.

"What in the hell are you talking about!" Hermione asked outraged. "Leaving you? Why would I leave you?" she demanded throwing her book onto the ground.

"Why don't you tell me! I thought you were just in a happy mood! That you were happy with me! Now I know the real reason" He thrust the letter into her hands and her eyes raked over the page. He watched as she looked appalled by what she was reading and then she glanced up at him.

"You spelled Taxi wrong!" she yelled at him. He snatched the paper back from her a and looked over it.

"No I didn't! T-A-X-I!" Then he realized what he had said and he literally smacked himself in the face. "Damn it!" He said in real anger.

"What is wrong with you!" Hermione told him, she was clearly upset. "You go and make a fake letter, which I still don't understand…. Why on Earth would I leave you for a New York Taxi Driver?" She demanded as he looked sheepishly at her. "And what was the purpose of this! Why did you suddenly feel the need to trick me? Why would you possibly want to make me mad at you." she was livid.

"Because," He grinned, "I thought it would be funny to mess with your head, And plus when I figured out why you have been acting so weird, I decided to have a little fun." He laughed as he watched her pick up her book.

"Oh well, if that's your reason." She walked forward. "Then I'm even more upset with you." Then she started hitting him repeatedly with her book, which he now knew to be thick.

"OWWWW! IM SORRY IM SORRY! JUST STOP HITTING WITH THAT THICK ASS BOOK!" He pleaded as he tried to hid behind the couch. She still managed to get him with the book.

"Draco, you are a complete ass! If you figured it out you should have just told me! Then you wouldn't be sleeping on the couch tonight!" And then she stormed away.

"Well Damn…" He said and flopped onto the couch… He had screwed up big time.

OoOo Harry oOoO

"MORNING!" Harry shouted as he and Ginny apparated into Malfoy manor early the next morning. It was probably about six o'clock. Harry stopped in place when he saw Draco spread out on the couch. Harry glanced at his fiancée with amusement.

"I wonder what he did." Harry said after a moment. He was genuinely curious.

"Whatever it was he wound up on the couch…" Ginny said trying not to laugh.

"Thank you Lieutenant Obvious." Harry said sarcastically as he walked over to the sleeping Draco. He was on top of a large blanket which Harry grabbed a hold of. He pulled the blanket as hard as he could from under the sleeping man. Draco let out a muffled yelp as he was flipped off of the couch and onto the floor.

Ginny giggled as Harry started to speak. "First of all, why are you sleeping on the couch? Second, are you aware that there are like fifty bedrooms in this house… and last… What the hell did you do now?" Harry asked with an eyebrow raised.

Draco lifted his head groggily and looked at the raven haired boy. "Hermione isn't too pleased with me…" He yawned. "No the thought didn't occur to me last night… And let's just saw I was incredibly stupid and she didn't find what I did too amusing…" His head fell back to the ground.

"Care to elaborate…" Harry asked as he saw Ginny walking up the stairs. She was probably going to talk to Hermione.

"Not particularly…" Draco mumbled into the floor. "It seemed so much damn funnier in my head… now it just seems plain idiotic…..

OoOo Ginny oOoO

"Okay!" Ginny said loudly as she threw open the door. She watched as her sister quickly sprung up. "What did he do?" She said marching over to the bed and sat down on the foot of the bed. She had moved so that she was fully on the bed with her legs criss-crossed in front of her.

"Merlin Ginny have you never heard of knocking?" Hermione asked rubbing the sleep from her eyes.

"No, now answer my question." She said as she watched her sister move into a sitting position. "What did he do to make you mad?"

"I'm not mad, I'm teaching him a lesson." Hermione said sheepishly. "I mean, at first I was livid, but then I have to remember he's Draco and that I wouldn't love him if he wasn't… more importantly he's a Slytherin." Hermione said after a moment's thought.

"What did he do?" Ginny asked again.

"Well after all of you left yesterday, I found him in the sitting room, and I could tell by the look on his face that he was up to something." She said. "He asked me why I hadn't told him and I was all it was a surprise and then he went on about me leaving and he even went as far as making a fake letter from my fake lover… who is a Taxi driver from New York… She shook her head as she launched into the rest of her story.

"Tell him what?" Ginny asked in confusion. She wasn't really aware of what Hermione was talking about. So Hermione proceeded to tell her.

OoOo Hermione oOoO

Hermione got to listen to Ginny's rambling until the others got there. Draco had apologized at least a hundred times and she had finally confessed to him that she wasn't mad at him. He was a little irritated that she had led him on to believe that she was mad at him.

"Who's going to read today?" Hermione asked as she looked around the room, no one was exactly volunteering.

"I nominate Draco…" Blaise said smirking at his friend.

"Second!" Harry said in agreement. It would be interesting to watch Draco read it… seeing as he couldn't even sit through some parts of it.

"Oh, please don't make me." Draco said miserably. "You know I have issues with some parts."

"I think I have to agree with Harry and Blaise, it's your turn to read." Hermione said handing him the book.

"Oh I get it, this is my punishment…" He said in realization.

"Exactly, now read." Hermione said innocently. Draco began to read… even if it was incredibly agonizing.

OoOo A/N oOoO

'Okay, I know this one is kinda short, but I couldn't make it any longer without making it a lot longer that I would like… I will try to post Thursday ( since that's earlier than it normally would be since its Saturday.) … and then hopefully this will get back on track. I am so sorry this was 2 weeks late. But like I said earlier, my laptop wasn't wanting to cooperate and I had tests and wasn't able to fix it.

Thanks for all of the reviews they were truly amazing : P

Thanks again for all of the reviews :P

OMG! I almost forgot questions... ( which didn't upload GRRRRR!) lol

1. Did you like it.

2. what do you want to see happen.

3. why was hermione acting funny.

4. was Draco too mean?

~Taylor (Slytherin at heart)