I know it's a bit shorter then the last one and I'm very sorry. I think it's a bit rubbish but it's necessary rubbish. Can you believe I work for 5 hours on this chapter and it's only 1190 words long? yea I can't either, not to mention it feels like a lot of filler but I do have some exciting things planed and good news! I'm bringing in the twins! Because this chapter is a bit blah (at least I think it is) I'll give you a little present type thing! MUSIC! everybody loves music... right? anyway here are two good songs that I've stumbled upon (one of them is even Potter related) 'A Phoenix Lament' by Ministry Of Magic, and the other id from the Chartjackers project it's called "I've Got Nothing" and it is adorable. (by the way I cry every time I hear A Phoenix Lament so beware) SO ON WITH THE STORY!
Me and Draco's little meeting took longer then expected. Turns out we missed dinner, and by the time I had made it back to the common room everyone was in bed (I assumed that everyone went to bed early because we all had classes the next day… and Hermione probably made them). I thanked the stars that Harry wasn't waiting up for me, who knows what unbelievable lie I would have told about missing the lower half of my outfit.
My shoes clicked every time they made contact with the hard steps that led to the girls dormitory. Once up the steps I tried my best to sneak into bed undetected, but Hermione's super sonic hearing caused me to fail.
"You know you're not very sneaky." her voice broke through the chilly air startling me.
"Dam woman! Do you have super spidey hearing or something? If your future children even want to sneak out then they are fucked." I whisper yelled still partly in shock. She sat up in bed to laugh at me but her laughter was cut short as she looked at my moonlit figure.
"Olivia, what are you wearing?" she questioned.
'shit shit shit, Think of something fast before the silence goes on too long and she uses her super brain power to figure everything out.' I thought to myself, as nervous sweat started to form on my palms.
She was out of bed by then, standing in front of me waiting for an answer.
"Olivia what happened to you skirt?" it was obvious that I had let the silence go on for to long and had missed my chance to feed her anything but the truth.
"Um well… you see what happened was I went to go see Dumbledore and talk with him about the whole Malfoy situation and well long story short my skirt caught on fire." I skipped all the in between with me and Draco kissing, him acting wonderfully childlike and fun, and oh also him proposing the we start up a physical relationship.
"I have the feeling that you might have left out a few things." her knowing eyes started to make me feel a bit uneasy (especially since the majority of my lower half was sill exposed, and the Gryffindor tower can get pretty drafty)
"Nothing too important." I squeaked while fidgeting with the sleeve on Draco's jacket.
"Other then the fact you went and saw Draco." a sly smile spread out across her face.
"No! what would make you think that?"
"The jacket you're wearing has Slytherin cufflinks on the sleeve." She pointed to the same sleeve that I was fiddling with to try and calm my nerves.
I couldn't say anything, all I could do was stand there with my mouth open letting a few unnatural noises fall from it.
"What is that appalling sound. Are you two strangling an owl or something?" We looked to see Lavender Brown (who we had realized was a rather light sleeper) nagging about us as she sat up from her bed. "Granger take you and you friend downstairs, and by Merlin give the little freak some trousers."
"Shut it lavender, were in the middle of something." Surprisingly that feisty comment didn't come from me. It came from Hermione, which only caused my mouth to fall open wider in shock as my eyes shot to a very confident looking Hermione. I was so baffled that my mind had become frozen, causing me to shand there and just stare at Hermione.
"Piss off you freaks." she spat before laying back down. Normally I would have stood up for myself (maybe even thrown a good slap or two) but it was late and as I said before I was frozen; partially by Hermione's newfound badassness, but also from the fact that I had just been caught by Hermione and I was standing in front of her and Lavender, legs bare with only a Slytherin coat to cover up my underwear.
"Come on Olivia, let's leave the dragon to her beauty sleep. Merlin knows she needs it." Hermione pushed me by my back down the stairs and gently sat me down on the common room couch. "Now we both know I'm not one to stay up late on a school night…" She started off with a well known fact before my mind defrosted allowing me to comment on her telling Lavender off.
"That was great up there, with that Lavender. You should act like that more often." I smiled widely, she started to smile to; no doubt proud of her actions, but stopped and put a serious face back on.
"Well I am a Gryffindor." she said proudly "Now please don't change the subject. Being Harry's friend has taught me something, you have to be careful who you trust. I have to know that I can trust you Olivia, so you have to be honest with me. About everything." the tone of her voice was serious and I knew that if she sensed that I wasn't being honest with her, then she wouldn't hesitate to cut me out of her life (no doubt taking every other friend I have with her)
"Everything?" I asked, wondering if I should tell her everything about tonight, or everything in general. About my father, about how I got there, and how I wasn't truly a proper witch.
"Everything." was all she needed to say before I started pouring it all out to her.
As I went through my story her facial expressions changed quite a bit, and while speaking, in the back of my mind I kept asking myself "Should I really be doing this?" but I was already in to far, so I continued.
"Wow. I didn't expect any of that." She put bluntly once I had finished telling her my story (I left out a few things though. Like Draco's task, the soter, and above all things the kiss.)
"Neither did I, but I'm kind of relieved to have someone know." I yawned before glancing at the clock "We should really get to sleep Hermione."
"I guess you're right. Thank you for being honest with me, it must have been hard for you to talk about it so much." she sympathized with me.
"It was, which is why we should just drop it and never speak of it again." I laughed before we made our way up the steps, but before we got too close I tugged at her arm, bringing her down to the step that I was on.
"Hermione, you have to know that there are some things that I won't be able to tell you, but I promise to be as honest as I possibly can." This was a moment where I was unsure of what was to come. She could either walk away, telling me that what I had just offered wasn't good enough, or she could accept it for what it was; the best that I could possibly do.
"Alright." she said after many agonizing seconds of silence. "Now come on, I refuse to be late tomorrow or to be sleepy in any of my classes."
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