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"WHAT? Why the fuck would I be jealous… and for you of all the people in the world? You… bigoted ferret… you're such a pain in the ass… you know what Malfoy, I don't care where you go and with who? Just get out of my sight… you… MAN-FERRET"

I heard a pop from outside and then I heard a shout coming from nearby. Our shouting and door slamming must've woken them up. Now they would scowl and make angry faces when I crossed them in the hallway. They whipped up quite the glare fest when we made too much noise for Ron's birthday last year. This was all his fault.

I spent a few more minutes glaring at the door before my stomach reminded me of the uncooked tuna on the kitchen counter. The tuna cut up by him. I walked over to the counter and picked it up the slices of evenly chopped tuna. No point in wasting my good tuna. I picked up the knife and started cutting the meat into thin slices. The first slice fell next to his slices and immediately I noticed the difference between our slices. On one side there was this perfectly thin and evenly spread out slice of tuna that looked like it could have been cut by precision tools and on the other side we have a mountain range, and it's pretty obvious which one is mine.

I slashed at those perfect slices mocking me and then gave them a happy smirk. What has he done to me? In less than a day, I've gone from the calm and collected bookstore owner to the tuna murderer. I sighed and then placed the tuna aside and brought out the bread from the overhead cupboard and made myself a sandwich.

Breakfast would be a peaceful meal or so Hermione wanted it to be. Just as she placed the first bite in her mouth, someone burst in through the fireplace.

"I came here as fast as I could." Ginny panted out from the smoke.

I stared at her, confused with her statement. "Okay… Why?"

"Harry told me you got a new male roommate, I just came over to check if he's good enough for you." The redhead walked over and grabbed half a sandwich from my plate.

"Ginny, I'm strong enough to kick the guy out if I want to. You don't have to play the Mama Bear."

"Oh I know you can take care of yourself Hermione, I'm only here to find out if you want to have sex with him." Immediately images of Malfoy's tight arse flashed across the theatre of my mind. I hoped I wouldn't blush but the look of awe on Ginny's face told me I probably was. I desperately tried to dissolve my blush, but I'm pretty sure that just aggravated the situation.

"Wow Hermione, you're actually blushing. I don't think I've seen you do that since we left Hogwarts. I came here expecting us to dissect the guy based on abs and chin, but this is completely unexpected, you actually like the guy. Now you absolutely have to tell me about him." Ginny got off her seat, placed the sandwich aside and moved closer to me, focusing all of her attention on me and my new roommate.

"Ginny, I do NOT like him." Seems like she doesn't know it's Malfoy. Harry did say he was busy. He must have let out a few fleeting words on the subject before apparating off to work.

"Yeah Hermione, tell that to your blushing face."

I looked down at my lap in an attempt to hide my blush. Do I really like Malfoy? But that can't be true, I hate him. Maybe that's why I'm so affected by him. Yeah, I'm sure that's the reason. He's an ungrateful little shit of a death eater who gets around with his daddy's money. But the truth is, he isn't all that. The description doesn't fit the current Malfoy at all. Then am I the one living in the past?

I shifted my gaze back to the smirking redhead in front of me.

"I'm right aren't I? You do like him."

I fidgeted in my seat as I tried to find a reason to deny her statement, but instead I just ended up confirming it. I liked Malfoy. A lot. I like his new attitude and I find him attractive. Given the chance, I would want to sleep with him. And the faster I accept all of these statements, the faster I get to do that. I took a deep breath and answered her.

"Yeah. I do."

"Good, now that we got that out of the way, on to the important stuff. What's his name?"

"Ginny, I'm not telling you his name." It is too soon for me to admit it out loud that the guy I like is Malfoy.

"Come on Hermione, you promised that you would tell me all your gossip."

"Ginny, I promised that you would be the first to know. I never said anything about the stuff I don't intend to tell anyone."

"Come on… Please…"

"No."

"Alright fine. We can circle back to that one later. Now tell me what you like about him."

"Ginny, no." I have to divert her away from this topic.

"Hermione you've got to give me something. I came all the way over here so early in the morning. You know I never get up this early."

"You have a job. You should be waking up this early." Good, the seed has been planted.

"I own a third of the bloody company. If any of the employees have got a problem with my sleeping schedule, I'll have their resignation papers ready." Almost there.

"Ginny, you shouldn't say stuff like that out-"

"I know what you are doing Miss I'm-the-smartest-witch-of-my-time. You aren't getting away from me." Fuck! So close.

Sighing out of exasperation, I nuzzled back into my seat. "He's very tall. When Harry brought him back from the bar last night, he had to slouch down a lot to rest his head on Harry's shoulder. And he has the best arse I've ever seen. That's the first thing I noticed when he entered the building. I was staring at him so much that even your boyfriend noticed."

"The great Hermione Granger was drooling on someone's arse. You even called that Irish guy's arse normal, when that was his best quality."

I had to be careful not to explain something that would give it away that it was Malfoy. I'm pretty sure I'm safe as long as I avoid his hair, eyes and his past. There's no way Ginny would know about the new Malfoy. "You're just overstating stuff."

"No, I'm not. Even Luna agreed with me. Alright so back to your mysterious roommate, what could he have done to make you like him. You wouldn't have just fallen for his arse. You aren't that type of girl. So tell me what happened. What made you fall for him?"

"Last night… In his drunken stupor… He cornered me in the kitchen… and we… we kissed." I could feel myself blushing once again as I remembered the drunken kiss. Oddly enough, his lips tasted like a pleasant mix of strawberries and grapes.

"And?" Ginny crossed her arms and stared at me expectantly.

"And nothing."

"You mean you guys didn't have sex?"

"No…" I felt my brain go into overdrive at the thought of Draco Malfoy and sex.

"This is the first time you meet the guy, he's drunk and defenceless, with the best arse you've seen. He corners you in the kitchen and you guys share a kiss, and The End. You're in love with the guy." Not completely the truth, but she doesn't need to know that.

"I'm not in love with him… I just like him a smidgen."

"Whatever helps you sleep at night."

"And I didn't fall in… in like with the guy just like that."

"Really, then did something happen in the morning?"

"Nothing. We just woke up, I handed him a hangover potion, he helped make breakfast and then his girlf... his friend showed up and they apparated away somewhere. Then I finished the half made sandwiches and you showed up, uninvited to disturb the peaceful morning between me and my tuna sandwiches."

"So he has a female friend who's overly close with him and he can cook."

"Yeah, he's the owner and the head chef at a café in some muggle neighbourhood." Ginny raised an eyebrow when I mentioned the café. Was it possible?

"Hmm… Hermione, was his mother recently…" Realization dawned on both of our faces simultaneously as one of them was followed by horror and other, surprisingly, by excitement.

"I can't believe your new roommate is Draco Malfoy. Why didn't Harry tell me? The two of you are living together and it all makes perfect sense now. The two of you even kissed." Fuck! How could I let this happen? She wasn't supposed to know, at least not yet. "And the best thing of it all, you like him."

By this point I was fully convinced that the past twenty-four hours had been a complete nightmare, but in reality, this was just a bad dream. It turned into a nightmare when at the precise moment Ginny had finished her sentence, the door opened to reveal a smirking blonde Adonis who goes by the name of Draco fucking Malfoy.

I must be the Queen of Bad Luck.


I'm really really really really REALLY SORRY.

Please forgive me.

I was swamped by Internships, College, and most importantly THE ANNOYING WRITER'S BLOCK, and couldn't write this story even though I have been able to write the other stuff. I've finally updated this and I plan to end this within a few more chaps, I don't know. If I get any good ideas, I would probably invest them in Dramione chemistry lessons for you guys, maybe even throw in a lemony goodness.

This story was also written in bits and pieces over a period of 3 weeks, so forgive me if some grammar doesn't match up somewhere. Once the story is complete, I'm going to have a complete grammar check and correction session with this story. I'm really sorry it has to be this way.

I have almost the entire next chapter planned so no writer's block issues. I'll just find some time and update it asap.

Once again and most importantly, thanks for reading. Reviews, both flames or otherwise are always, ALWAYS welcome.