Chapter 5

"Hermione, not to sound rude or anything but are you done mashing your eggs?" Harry looked kind of scared of Hermione's reaction. She had been rather grumpy all morning and didn't look like she had gotten much sleep. He wanted to ask her what was going on but… maybe later.

Hermione froze and looked down on her plaid, oops. She let out a sigh and pushed her plate away.

"Sorry, Harry" Harry gave her a half-hearted smile and asked her hesitantly.

"Do you, umm, wanna talk about it?" Hermione thought about it but in the end decided against it. She slowly shook her head.

"It's nothing, really." Harry wasn't convinced but he decided to let it go, for now.

Ron was sitting beside of Harry. He hadn't talked much with Hermione since the incident in class. He clenched his fist. Just the thought of the slimy git made him angry. What had he ever done for them since Hermione suddenly was a bit defensive of him. The snake had called her a mudblood and bullied all three of them to no end.

Ron looked at Hermione. She looked pretty much dead and he felt a little bad. He hadn't been a really good friend lately. He opened his mouth to merely converse with her when she turned her head and looked toward… Slytherin table?!

Ron tried to see who she were looking at when he saw it. She had locked eyes with… Malfoy.

Ron felt like he would explode he kept glancing at the two of them when enough was enough. He punched down on the table and got up. He needed some fresh air before class.

Hermione looked at him, the sound had caught her attention and she felt sad. Harry too looked a bit down but tried to cover it up.

"Come on, Hermione. We are going to be late."

- TIME SKIP -

Hermione was beyond stressed, she hadn't been taking notes during classes, or paing attention to the professors. Ughh it was a mess but now was time to meet with Draco in the library.

Hermione went to the library and there he was. Leaning on a bookshelf while reading. She stopped and looked at him. His eyebrows were furrowed and he was in deep thought. He looked better, much better than he had been in days.

Okay here we go.

"Hello, Draco" Hermione silently prayed that he would at least keep the insults to himself or else this was going to end bad.

Draco looked up at her, before starting smirking.. huh?

"Draco, huh?" Hermione looked at him confused… oh right she had called him Draco.

"Well… yeah"

"Hmh, alright Granger" Draco felt weird, so far so good. Snape had forced him to this and he honestly hadn't expected Granger to act like this. Especially after Amortentia (which he still couldn't believe and also the so called incident).

Hermione looked surprised. It was going better than she thought it would. Draco too was surprised and they became even more when they realised they both were smiling.

"Wanna go outside and do this?"

"Sure"