Hermione woke up the next day and smiled, she could feel her legs a bit but she knew she couldn't stand. Not yet at least.

"Granger, do you want to go down to eat with everyone or do you want me to bring you the food here?" Draco asked scaring her and making her jump.

"Let me just get dressed, Can you pass me some clothes? I know that I will be excused from my classes." Hermione pointed at her closet so Draco would know where to go.

Draco walked to her closet and went through every shirt she had and jeans, finally he chose a green top with black pants. He patiently waited outside for her to be done before walking in and giving her a piggy back ride to the Great Hall. Several students and portraits stared at them as they made their way to the Great Hall. Once they walked in, everyone but their table became quiet.  Hermione was glad that Draco had carried her so she could eat with her friends.

"Practice tomorrow Draco" Theo reminded him as he read the Quibbler whilst munching on a piece of toast.

"Slytherins are going down" Ginny said confidently.

"What makes you so sure about that Weaslette?" Blaise raised his eyebrow at her.

"I'm the captain" Ginny winked playfully.

"Yeah but you don't have saint Potter as your seeker to win last minute. I'm the best seeker this time." Draco happily gloated.

Hermione slapped his arm, "we don't need Harry to win. We have a great captain who will ensure our win."

"What side are you on Luna?" Theo asked curiously.

Everyone stared at her waiting for an answer. "On both side of course. I don't get why I have to chose one if I'm friends with both sides." Luna smiled at her friends kindly before taking a bite of her own toast.

"I would say the same but I have too much Slytherin pride and a boyfriend." Pansy spoke up then gave Blaise a kiss on his cheek.

They continued chatting about Quidditch and which team was better until it was time to go. Draco quickly carried Hermione to their dorm and then he made his way to his classes.

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After classes Draco took him and Hermione some lunch and went to see her. After eating he smiled at her and grabbed her hands. "Do you trust me?" He asked and she nodded carefully. He put an arm around her waist and pulled her up to her feet. He held her tightly enough so she wouldn't fall. "Try to take a few steps" he calmly looked into her eyes.

Hermione tried her best to move her legs little by little as she felt safe in Draco's arms. She kept looking st her feet trying to not slip and fall but Draco made her look at him. She lost her balance but didn't fall instead, she was wrapped up in Draco's arms securely.

He leaned in so their foreheads touched and sighed. "You, the answer is you."

Hermione looked up confused but didn't have time to ask because Draco brought his lips to hers. At first she was shocked but soon she kissed back bringing her arms to wrapped around his neck. They pulled apart breathlessly.

Hermione stared at him in shock as he smiled. "Do you er, want to be my girlfriend?" Hermione put her head down to avoid his eyes. "Hermione?" She felt like falling down but Draco had his arms securely around her. "Listen," he carried her to the bed and sat next to her "you don't have to answer right now."

There was a knock on the door. He got up and opened the door to Hermione' s room and Proffesor McGonangal walked in.

"I would have called you two up to my office but due to the state Ms.Granger is in, I saw more fitting coming here for myself." Proffesor McGonagal spoke with a calm voice. "I assume that Mr.Potter has informed you two about the dance that will be happening next Friday. Your job is to assign the Prefects tasks to prepare for this event."

"Should we meet with them today Proffesor?" Hermione spoke up.

"I will allow you two to figure that out but plan it out before you meet with them so it won't be chaotic. Now, I should leave you two alone so you can...plan." Proffesor McGonagal excited shutting the door behind her.

"Theo and Luna should be in charge of the drinks. Susan should work with Dean and Shawn, the Ravenclaw, with decorations. Gin, Alex and Anne should get the snacks. We should pick out the music or something like that." Hermione explained.

"Sounds good. Do you want me to prepare a bath for you?" He asked.

"Yes please."

Draco stood up and walked to the bathroom making sure the water was warm and there was enough bubbles. He went back into her room and saw her using the bathrobe. "Miss Granger, I will not be carrying you but helping you walk from now on."

Hermione smiled as he wrapped his arm around her waist and grabbing her hand to help her support her as she walked. It took a while to reach the bathroom but she didn't give up. She couldn't, she had to do it.

"I'm going to write letters to the prefects to meet up here in an hour." He helped her to the edge of the tub.

Hermione waited until he closed the door to get inside the tub. She thought about his question over and over again.

The bubbles began to vanish little by little and she had finished washing up. She covered herself with the bathrobe before calling Draco to help her to her bed.

This time he carried her so she wouldn't slip. He went over to her closet and grabbed her pyjama bottoms and Gryffindor sweatshirt. He left quickly messing up his hair with his hands as he walked away.

Hermione bit her lip knowing it was her fault that he had been acting like that.

"'Mione are you there?" Ginny asked behind the close door.

"Yeah" Hermione mumbled.

Ginny opened the door, "There's something wrong with Malfoy. He didn't return a comeback or anything when I called him ferret."

"Hermione what's wrong with Draco. Something seems to be clouding his mind." A dreamy voice said from the door.

"I don't know but let's have a sleep over. Tonight. Just send an owl to Pansy." Hermione looked at her friends and smiled. She needed them.

"Luna, Gryffindorks the meeting is starting." Theo went over to Hermione picking her up and setting her on the couch. Draco gave everyone their tasks and everyone nodded as if they were afraid to disagree with him. Everyone but their friends left the common room. "Mate hurry gather your things before they pull us into their sleepover." Theo joked.

"Whatever mate, but I do want to be away before they start having pilow fights and start talking about how hot they think I am." Draco stood up and went to his bedroom with a smirk plastered on his face. The girls rolled their eyes as he came out with a bag containing clothes for a night. "I'll get Pansy up here." Draco approached Hermione and picked her up taking her to her bed. He avoided eye contact with her trying to not make it obvious that he was affected by the way she reacted to his question.

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"What's wrong with Draco? I saw him on my way up here and he looked as if he got chewed up my a giant but got spitted out because he taste so bad." Pansy walked into Hermione's bedroom finding her friends already wearing pyjamas.

"Right? I called him a ferret and he didn't say anything back." GInny looked at Hermione suspeciously, "Mione do you know what happened to him?"

Hermione looked down at her legs, "I do. It's kind of my fault." She looked up biting her lip , she turned to look at Pansy who was looking at her as if she was going to do something if she didn't explain what had happened. "We were there," She pointed at the spot where they wereher and Draco standing in earlier, "Draco was helping me walk because I have to practice. I kind of almost fell but he held onto my waist tightly and a thing let to another and we kissed. It felt right at the moment but when he asked me to be his girlfriend, I don't know. I kind of froze there. He told me that I could think about it but I don't know." She turned to Pansy again, "you know his past. It scares me. Plus I just got out of a relationship with Ronald."

Ginny looked at Hermione, "Mione don't let my stupid brother be a factor on your decision."

"Hermione, I also told you that he is not like that anymore. I can see he actually cares about you. He wouldn't do anything to you unless you both were okay with it." Pansy took out some nail polish for everyone and started doinog Ginny's nails.

"The important thing here is, how do you feel about him Hermione? Don't think, just feel." Luna spoke up and grabbed some nail polish to do Hermione's nails.

"I don't know what I feel for him. I want to know but i don't understand it." Hermione complained but tried not to move so Luna could finish doing her nails.

"I'm just going to say, he's probably down there in the Slytherin common room with his friends planning something to win you over. He's never been like this, never. Plus He's a Malfoy, he's not giving up easily." Pansy made a cute little flower on Ginny's nails.

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"So let me get this straight," Blaise sat up on his bed, "you, Draco Malfoy, the Bloody Slytherin Prince, the Charming Smartarse, the Goodlooking Ferret, got rejected. To top it all off, by the Gryffindork princess, beautiful but nerdy Granger. The same Granger that you tormented. The same Granger that said yes to the meathead Krum. She dumped you. She is the first girl ever known to reject you. She-"

"I GET IT!" Draco snapped. He shot a glare at Theo who was busy laughing. "But I am not giving up. I sure do like her, laught it all you want Nott, but I like her. I am not giving up, I am a bloody Malfoy for Melrin's sake"

Theo tried calming down, "you have a plan don't you?"

"Yeah but I need help for this."

"I'm in, Theo you're in, no complainig. What's the plan?"

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The week flew by quickly and Hermione was able to walk once again thanks to the help of Draco. She still hadn't answered his question as she was conflicted with her own emotions but Draco seemed to understand. Now it was Monday and she had to return to classes which it was no problem as Draco had caught her up with school work and such. In the morning, Draco, Blaise, and Theo were nowhere to be found. The plan was starting and it had to work.

At breakfast, the girls chatted about the upcoming Quidditch match at the end of the week and about the dance the day after. Everyone had a date except for Hermione but she wasn't worried about that. She knew that her old friends who had accepted job offers were going to come and she could mingle with them.

The four girls walked to their first class together and a first year approached them. He handed a flower to Hermione and left with a smile on his face. This kept on happening until they reached their potions classroom but by then Hermione had a small bouquet of flowers. "Ms.Granger, please leave the flowers in the front of the classroom so they won't get damaged." Proffessor Slughorn advised.

By the end of the class she picked up the flowers finding a small note folded like a dragon on top of them.

Hello Beautiful

Glad to see you got the flowers I am sorry that they are not as beautiful as you.

yours truly

"Wow, he sure isn't giving up on you" Ginny teased reading the note again.

They continued walking when a second year gave her a package with a Dragon-Shaped note on it. She didn't open it up until Charms was over. She now had her free period with Pansy, both girls went up to Hermione's dorm.

"What are you waiting for, open it!" Pansy got a vase and put the flowers in it.

Hermione carefully opened the packet fining a book about the most difficult charms. She opened the note,

My beautiful bookworm

I know how much you love reading so I bought you this book knowing that you can master these charms.

Your Ferret

"Told you, he's a Malfoy. He's stubborn as hell." Pansy noted. "Oh look there's an owl on your window. I wonder who might be sending you things."

Hermione opened the window so the owl could fly in. She payed him and took the note out of its beak.

Just wanted to tell you that you are beautiful.

"Sooooooo, how are you going to do Hermione?" Pansy grinned at her friend.

"I don't know."

3 days passed by and Hermione got more gifts and notes. She finally decided to answer him. Her friends were all happy that she was going to tell him something.

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"Draco" a voice cooed from the corner of a bookshelf

Draco looked up from his homework and stared at the bookshelf with his grey eyes.

"Draco" the voice cooed again, this time louder. A body of a girl appeared.

He was dissapointed of what he saw. It was a girl with blonde hair like his but forest green eyes she had a smirk plastered on her face. He ignored her and went back to his homework with Hermione invading his thoughts. He felt her grabbing his arm and running her nails on the fabric of his shirt. He gently swatted her hand away but she continued doing it. "Look, Go Away." He looked up at her and repeated it but it just allowed her to finally pant a kiss on his lips. He pushed her off and gathered his things but she came onto him again. It took him a moment to regain his strength to push her off but by that time he saw Hermione staring at him behind the girl. Tears dripped down her eyes and she turned away walking out quickly. Drago grabbed his things and chased after her but he lost her.