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Chapter 15: Night Air - Teddy Geiger


"Hermione, Malfoy's been staring over here all morning. Is anything going on with him in your Dorm?" Harry asked me. I was pretty preoccupied with the Daily Prophet, so I didn't even notice. But when I looked up, I saw what Harry was talking about. Draco was staring at me from across the Hall. He smiled when he saw me look back. It was a real smile that I thought I would never see from him. I happily returned it.

"Hermione?" Harry waved a hand in front of my face.

"No. Nothing important," I said quickly.

"Because if there is, I'll be sure to have his face show the results of it," Ron growled while cracking his knuckles.

"No need for that....really..." I reassured. Love them to death, I really do, but I swear they are more like my brother then anything. It's their overprotective qualitites that make Harry and Ron very unbearable.

Herbology with the Slytherins..Yes! So here I am, at one end of the greenhouse while Draco's at the other. And yet, I couldn't help but sneak glances. Professor Sprout was squaking something about parnters. I just love his blonde hair and his -

"Miss Granger with Mr. Malfoy!" she loudly. I jumped and fell out of my stool. People snickered, but I immediatley stood up and straightened myself. I looked over at him and he smirked.

"Okay. Move, NOW!" she clapped her hands together.

While I gathered my things, Harry whispered in my ear, "Good luck."

I sat down next to Draco. "Fate, I tell you," he said to me softly.

"You really think so?" I asked. Our hands both reached out at the same time for the pot, and brushed against each other.

"Draco Malfoy is never wrong," he said.

I rolled my eyes with a smile. "Yes, but that's called being cocky."

Draco laughed softly.

"Thinking you can get whatever you desire with a smirk or your charm." I was trying to focus on the plant we were working on.

"My charm," he repeated with a smirk. "Did it work on you?"

I noticed Ron trying to listen in on our conversation. I reached down and squeezed his hand.

When I tried to release my hand, he squeezed on it harder and didn't let it go. Then he spoke so only I could hear. "I told you. Draco Malfoy is never wrong."

After class, Harry and Ron caught up with me. "So," Ron asked, "how was Malfoy for a partner?"

I rolled my eyes. Honestly, Ron is the nosiest. "The usual. Trying to prove his point in a proud way." But they would never know what exactly he was trying to prove.

"Sounds like him. But I find it odd that he seems rather out of our way lately," Harry wondered aloud. But then Draco was walking toward us. "Or maybe I spoke too soon."

"Oi, it's Potter and Weasel. You two are together so mucch, I wouldn't be surprised if you were engaged," he sneered. I could've sworn I saw him look be over before focusing on Ron and Harry.

"What do you want, Malfoy?" Ron spoke through clenched teeth.

"Actually I came for Hermi - Granger. Granger. I came for Granger. Professor McGonnagall wants to see us about our Head and Boy duties."

"Alright..."And I followed Draco.

"Did she really need to see us?" I asked him as he hurried up the stairs once we were back in the castle.

"No," he finally answered when he pushed in a empty classroom and locked the door. "I just really needed to do this." And he whisked me up into a kiss.

And I feel like I do, even more now that I'm leavin and well I feel just like I do. Even more when I'm with you...