The Start of Being Friends With The Enemy
Later on that day Draco was released from the hospital after having only Harry, Ron and Hermione visiting him for a couple of hours. It was supper time when he was released so he made his way to the great hall right directly from the hospital wing. When Draco entered the great hall and was making his way to the Slytherin table something weird happened. He had just made eye contact with Hermione and he realised something he thought would never happen in a million years. He had very strong feelings for her. So he looked away as fast as he could and sat down with his back to the three of them.
"Did you just see what I saw?", Ron and Harry said to one another so only they could hear each other.
"Ya, it looks like Malfoy Just made eye contact with Hermione", Harry whispered.
"So...", Said Ron.
"Do you think that he has feelings for her?", Ron asked Harry still in an undertone.
"Uhhhhh...", said Harry who was stuck for words. "Ya I think he does", Harry finished when he found his voice again.
"Hey guys what's up?", Ginny asked when she sat down beside Harry.
"We think Malfoy has a crush on Hermione", Harry told her.
"Ya well I think Hermione might feel the same way about him", Ginny told the two boys.
"W-what do you m-mean?", Said Ron stuttering.
"Well look at Her, she has been looking down at her food without talking or noticing that I'm even here", Ginny said.
"True", Harry and Ron said together.
A couple of minutes later when Hermione finally decided to look up from her plate of food she was blushing like crazy.
"Pssssssst...", Ron said.
"What?", Harry and Ginny hissed at him.
"Look how much Hermione is blushing", Ron said trying to hold back a laugh.
"Uhhhh... Hermione do you like Malfoy more than just a friend?", Ginny whispered across the table to her.
"Can we just talk about this later please?", Hermione fussed.
"Ya, fine then", Ginny said.
They finished off their supper without talking. They could hear the smacks of Rons lips over everyone else's talking in the great hall. The supper food finally disappeared after about an hour and the desserts appeared.
Harry, Ron, Ginny and Hermione all had their separate favourite desserts no talking between the four of them. When all the desserts disappeared Professor Dumbledore got out of his seat and told them that it was time to go to there own dormitories and he wished them all a good night and a good sleep. Although curfew wasn't until 10:00 pm.
The four of them got up and left the Great Hall. Soon after they got up to the top of the marble staircase and everyone had gone their separate ways the four of them headed to the hidden Room of Requirement on the seventh floor.
In order to get into this room they had to walk back and forth three times and say why they want in the room in order for the door to turn up.
The four of them did so and the door showed up so they could enter the room. About ten minutes later Draco turned up.
"What took you so long Mal- I mean Draco", Ron said.
"I got caught up in the middle of the Slytherin drift coming out of the great hall so I couldn't get out until most of them had entered the common room.
"So this is sort of fun doing this and all", Draco said trying to make conversation in the awkwardness.
"Doing what", Ron asked him.
"Sneaking around", Draco replied.
"Ya it sort of is", Hermione said trying not to blush while being around her new friend.
"I guess", Harry, Ginny and Ron all said at the same time.
"Uhhhhh... Hermione can I talk to you alone?", Draco asked her trying not to sound embarrassed.
"Ya I suppose", Hermione said to him.
"Can you please come over to the walk in closet over there please?", Draco asked her.
"Ya", she replied.
"Okay, thanks", Draco said to her.
"No problem", she said in a weird voice.
"Ok, I wanted to ask you something", he said trying to get the guts to ask her what he wanted to.
"Well i'm listening, what did you want to ask me Draco?", Hermione said trying to not sound anxious.
"Well.... I wanted to know if you wanted to maybe.... be my girlfriend?", he asked her not trying to sound desperate.
"Ummmm...", Hermione paused for a moment. "Ya, I would really like that", she told him. "But there is one thing", she continued.
"And what's that?", Draco asked her.
"We can't tell the other three until the time is right and I'll know when the time is right, ok?", she asked him.
"Ya fine, but then when can we actually be able to act like boyfriend and girlfriend?" Draco asked her.
"I can use the time that I tell them that I am going to the library because they never come with me anyway".
"Ya ok. When is that?".
"Every night after the supper feast which is about 6:30 pm until curfew, so 10:00 pm".
"Ok that sounds great".
"Okay then", Hermione said.
"We can also send owls to each other if we can't make it", Hermione added.
"Ya perfect, but make sure to use a school owl and don't read it until you're by yourself", Draco told her.
"Of course not", Hermione said. They left the closet.
"What did he want?", Ginny asked her.
"I might tell you later", Hermione said with a little giggle.
"Oh one more thing everyone, in front of anyone else we stick to calling each other by our last names", Harry said before they all left after only ten minutes.
On the way back to there separate Common Rooms, Draco pulled Hermione aside again.
"What is it this time?", she asked him.
"I just wanted to ask you if you were going to tell Ginny about us?", Draco replied.
"Well I was thinking about it, is that ok with you?", she asked him.
"Oh ya. You guys are close so go ahead she'll understand a lot better than the other two", he told her.
"Ok I'll see you tomorrow", Hermione whispered to Draco.
"Yep tomorrow", he whispered back with a little smirk on his face.
Then they all bid Draco good-bye and headed for the Gryffindor common room without much talking.
They got back to the common room about one minute later and Hermione and Ginny bid Harry and Ron goodnight and headed off for the girls' dormitories.
Ginny of course was in a younger grade but she was still aloud in Hermione's bed chamber. They got into their PJs in their separate bed chambers and Ginny then went up a flight of stairs to Hermione's bed chamber which was empty besides Hermione.
"So are you gonna tell me what Draco wanted?", Ginny asked in an excited sort of voice.
"Ya, I guess I will", Hermione told her.
"Ok so what did he want then?"
"Uhhhhh..."
"I'm waiting", Ginny said.
"He wanted to ask me if I would be his girlfriend", Hermione finished.
Ginny just sat on the bed and started to giggle.
"Are you fucking serious?", Ginny asked her.
"Ya I am", Hermione said starting to get frustrated with Ginny.
"Well what did you say then?", Ginny asked not laughing anymore.
"I said 'Yes' because I've liked him ever since I first saw him in third year and he said the same thing that he liked me ever since he first saw me in third year also", Hermione finished out of breath.
"You can't tell Harry and Ron please promise me you won't", Hermione pleaded.
"Fine I won't", Ginny told her.
"Okay thanks so much and i'm serious I don't want them to know until they're more used to this whole new friend thing", Hermione explained to Ginny.
"Ya I promise", Ginny reassured her.
"Okay thanks so much for keeping this a secret between you, me and Draco", Hermione told her.
"No problem", Ginny replied.
"Okay, maybe we should get to bed then it is getting late and I want to be up earlier tomorrow so I can have breakfast and get to Transfiguration early so I can study", Hermione told Ginny.
"Ya maybe you're right but of course the other two are still down in the common room", Ginny said.
"Okay I'll see you tomorrow morning then", Hermione said to Ginny.
"Yep", Ginny answered.
"Goodnight!", they both said to one another at the same time.