Okay, finally finished NaNoWriMo and had a break, so I'm back! Whew, this story has gone a little differently than planned, but I rarely follow through with my original ideas. Enjoy and REVIEW!
My face was beat red, I could practically feel the heat radiating from it. Wow, I just got kissed by Draco Malfoy. That didn't happen, especially to me. I hurried to the library and sat in my favorite corner. Ginny found me eventually, going over what had happened over and over.
"Hey, Hermione, what happened?" she said, sitting by me eagerly.
"Malfoy just kissed me . . ." I said, hardly believing my own words.
"What? Are you serious?" she squealed and I shushed her. "Oh my gosh, that is so cool! Tell me all about it!"
"Oh, you know, he just kissed me and left like nothing happened . . ." I shrugged, looking at the familiar books surrounding me. "I can't believe it . . ."
"Oh, come on, you had to know he liked you!" She giggled and tugged on my arm. "What are you going to do?"
"I-I don't know! What would you do?"
"I'd go talk to him, at least!"
"You're right, you're right, I'm going to see if he's in the Slytherin Common Room . . ." I walked down to the dungeons silently, and to the dead-end I knew to be the Slytherin common room. I didn't know what the password was, and there were no friendly portraits to find Mal- I mean Draco for me. Luckily for me, two Slytherins came through as I stood there.
"Hey," I said. "Is Draco Malfoy in there?" They nodded, looking at me kind of strange. "Well, can you go get him for me?"
They sighed and turned around, the wall opening for them after uttering a password that I couldn't understand. "Come in," one of them grumbled, gesturing me inside. They ran off after I went in.
The common room was full of Slytherins, and they all stopped what they were doing to look at me briefly before going back to it. Draco was lounging on a couch, watching me. Theo was sitting next to his head, reading something.
"Theo, get out of here," Draco instructed. Theo looked at him briefly and closed his book, getting up. I sat in his place. Draco sat up and looked at me.
"Hi, Draco," I said. He smirked at me.
"Hi, Hermione. What brings you all the way down here?" I looked around nervously at the other Slytherins, who kept sneaking glances at me. "Let's go somewhere else," he suggested helpfully. He led me out into the hall and I stopped him.
"Okay, so, um, I'm kind of confused . . . why did you . . . kiss me?" I asked hesitantly, not wanting to give me the wrong idea.
"I thought you could figure that out," he replied, that famous smirk plastered on his face. "After all, you are the brightest witch of our age."
I smiled shyly. "Who knew we could be friends?" I said quietly, thinking back over the years.
"Oh, I think we're quite a bit more than friends," he said, grinning devilishly and leaning in to kiss me again.
I know it's really short, probably my shortest chapter, and there will probably only be one or two more chapters before I end this, but it's my birthday today and I wanted to upload! Review, or I'll be sad!