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Chapter 22: Chemicals React - Aly & Aj

I couldn't sleep. Did she mean what she said? She sounded like she did, but knowing Hermione she can be hard to read. It was so random though, there was a possibility she could be kidding. Oh whom am I trying to fool? She meant it. Maybe I should try to forget about it.

When I woke up the next morning, I was feeling rather different. Or more of the same, actually. I soon felt myself wanting some of my old habis.

I didn't talk to her all day. I felt it was best to keep distance even though I KNEW she was probably freaking out. After classes, I wanted a bath. When I went into the bathroom in our Head tower thinking it would be empty, I found Hermione in the huge bathtub. There were bubbles drifting toward the ceiling and she watched me. Her eyes were daring me to leave.

But, like I'd ever walk out on a situation like this. I pulled my shirt over my head and kicked my shoes off and my socks and climbed in the water.

"You're not...completley bare, are you?" I ask, slowly drifting to her.

"Wouldn't you like to know?" She teased and pulled out the elastic holding up her hair. Her hair fell onto her shoulders.

"You're right. I would."

"Well I'm not if you were hoping so. I felt for a bath and so I got in. But evidently I was smart enough not to strip down totally," she said with a sly grin. I was right next to her now.

"I wouldn't say that's smart..But hey, that's just me."

She bit her lip. "How do you know how to tempt me so well?" I whisperedand bent down to kiss her. She kissed me better then she ever has before - I loved it. We really got into it, my fingers traced the outline and curves of her body.

Things were getting really heated. I was actually surprised she was letting me do all this to her. But of course, right when I thought I almost had grasp on her, she slipped through my fingers.

"Draco...This is getting...way too...yeah. Can we just talk?" she asked, running her fingers through her hair.

My eyes greedily darted all over her body. Almost! She was almost completley mine..."Talk..? Talk, yeah. Yeah. Sure."

"I actually wanted to speak to you about what I said the other night." She sounded nervous.

My mind froze. "Wait, what?"

"What I "accidentally" said to you the other night? See I kinda meant it. And, I was wondering what you thought, or rather felt?"

My feelings? My feelings. My feelings....My feelings? "Um, well see.."

"I know that's a lot to ask, especially to you. But it's been on my mind, and I had to get it out in the open," she said.

"Okay, yeah, see.."

"And you mean so much to me so I want to know if this isn't just one-sided.." She looked up at me.

I didn't say anything. My eyes dropped down. "Oh...I see...Well, I'm getting tired so.." Hermione climbed out of the huge bath.

I sank down underneath the water. I screwed everything.

Were you right, was I wrong? Were you weak, was I strong? Yeah both of us broken - caught in the moment. And we loved and we joked, yeah yeah. With the planets all aligned when you lookinto my eyes - and just like that, watch the chemicals react..