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Chapter 3

When Professor Slughorn has done discussing the mechanics of the project Hermione started to write the things that Draco will bring.

"Okay Malfoy, you bring—"Hermione was cut by Draco.

"I'm not going to bring anything, you know. I'm just going to give you my money and you can buy the ingredients and I'll give you extra money for you to make the potion." Draco said.

"I can't do it on my own, Malfoy. That's why the project is done by pairs." She said.

"I don't care. You're still the know-it-all mudblood, right?" Draco spat and he walked out of the room.

XOX

Draco was alone while lying peacefully on his bed in the boys' dormitory, holding the silver clasp of HJ. And when somebody knocked, he hid the clasp under his bed, fast.

"Open." Draco said.

And the hinges squeaked it was Blaise Zabini. "Draco," he said.

"Yes?" Draco responded.

"McGonagall is looking for you."

"Why is she looking for me?"

"I think I heard it's about Granger."

"Oh, the mudblood, she easily runs to her mommy about an easy project, so juvenile." Draco said.

XOX

It's a little bit cold inside Professor McGonagall's office when Draco went there. The thin tall woman was fixing school files when he entered.

"Professor, I heard you were looking for me?"

"Oh, Mister Malfoy, take your sit." She said while sitting on her deep green fur chair. "It's about your potions project with Miss Granger, well, she said a while ago that you didn't want to cooperate with her and your project's deadline is two weeks from now. I understand that you hate muggles but just do it for your grades, if you don't help her 150 points will be deducted from slytherin house and you will surely receive detention, you understand?" McGonagall said.

"Yes, professor" Draco said. He remembered the day he received detention because he followed the golden trio when they went to Hagrid's.

XOX

"She said she will deduct 150 points from our house because of a crappy project?" Blaise said. The three of them laugh loudly it echoed the whole common room.

"So what are you going to do now?" Pansy asked.

"Go on with the flow. There's no other choice." Draco answered, while trying to catch the jelly bean with his mouth.

"I have to go, guys." Pansy declared. "You know girls; we have the thing called Beauty Sleep." She added.

"Good night, sleeping beauty!" Draco teased, as Pansy was walking on the to the girls' dormitory.

"Hey, where have you been last Saturday?" Blaise asked.

"Oh, I was flirting with some girl." Draco said.

"So, what's the girl's name?"

"I don't know,"

"What? You don't know her name?"

And Draco told Blaise about everything that happened last Saturday, and Blaise was teasing Draco that Malfoy was in love with a mystery girl.

"You should've just grabbed her mask off, so you won't go, finding clues of who she is." Blaise said.

"But I got her initials, though. HJ"

"HJ,"

XOX

It was a fine cold midnight in the boys' dormitory, and Draco was still thinking about his mystery girl while looking at the ceiling, blankly. Something burst in the centre of his thought, a sound of an owl. He got up and he opened the window. It was a brown screech owl, he didn't recognize who owns it, and it was holding a rolled parchment with its beak. He grabbed and he unrolled the parchment open.

Draco,

Meet me at the laboratory,

Tomorrow at 5:00 o' clock in the evening

Note: Be Punctual

-Hermione Jean Granger

"Bloody hell, why are you sending letters late at night" Draco whispered, furiously. Then he threw the letter near his books.

XOX

While they were in the Great Hall eating lunch, Draco watched Granger while she was looking at Ron Lavender exchanged food on their silver spoon. Her eyes were full of jealousy and despise for Brown. He likes seeing Granger fill her eyes with anger, like she was on of Weasel-bee's misfit toys.

"Are you going to eat that, Draco?" Crabbe said, pointing at Draco's turkey meal.

Draco moved his plate to Crabbe's place and said, "Have it all and swallow it whole."

XOX

Hermione opened the door to the laboratory room."Colloportus" she whispered and the door sealed itself with a weird noise.

And as she enters the room the candles lit up. She put her bag on the long laboratory table and she knelt on the cold floor and then silently sobbed.

"Are you sure you're doing that kind of thing here? You know what, the comfort room is a nice place." a voice said coming from the dark side of the room.

Hermione almost jumped because of it. She fastly wiped her eyes and cleared her throat while looking at the room. There stood a slender tall form of a man with a platinum hair and his silver eyes looking at her. The features of the man are easily known. It was—

"Malfoy?" her voice cracked. Then Draco walked out of the darkness and looked at her with disgust from head to toe.

"So how's Romeo, Juliet?" Draco said with his right hand holding a thick book.

"You're reading muggle love stories? "Yes. Some girl influenced me to read some. And Granger, stop changing the topic. I know you like Weasel-bee, right?" Draco declared. The statement hit Hermione hard without knowing her cheeks were red as tomatoes.

"No, we're only friends and it will be forever like that." She said, lying.

"Granger, you know you can't love a Pureblood. It's a rule. And you two are incompatible."

"I told you, I don't like him! Can we just start our project?"

"Then why were you crying?"

"I wasn't. I was—"

"You were what?" Draco said, grinning because he knows that she was lying.

"There was dirt in my eye." she said plainly.

"Dirt in your eye? Is there a bloody person going to sob because there was dirt in their eyes? Face the truth, Granger. You mudbloods are terrible liars? I thought wizards and witches who know it all will be good liars. Oh wait, you don't know it all, you're just pretending to." Draco said, smirking.

"Stop it, Malfoy." Hermione said, almost screaming it.

"You'll forever going to be a mudblood. Forever going to be a filth in this world." Draco continued.

"Stop it!" Hermione screamed and her voice bounced through the room.

"Filthy little—" SMACK! Draco was cut off by Hermione, by slapping him. Her palms outline was in Draco's right cheek.

Hermione was now backed to reality and she was still shocked of what she did.

"Sorry." Hermione apologize.

"You know what, Granger. Weasley would've liked you if you're not short-tempered."

"Sorry, again, can we start our project now?"

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