OK, are you INSANE????? I wud die before doing something as crazy as that!! i cant believe u. y didnt u just give up chocolate or something??? jeezes, well good luck with that, Crazy.
Lilah

Ok... so more in depth of the reason why i gave up harry potter...

my best friend has let her grades seriously drop and i made the deal with her that if she would give up reading fanfiction for lent to get her grades up I would give up everything harry potter except writing. (just for y'all) however... my parents are gripping about my physics grade (i don't understand physics) and my writing time has been seriously cut down to a minimum. (plus writers block doesn't help either) so... don't worry. I'll be posting... but... it has been difficult...

ah but it's just till easter. excluding sundays.

lots of love
Sarah
who is now going to try to stop her writers block and write something!!!

HEY! Guess what! My writer's block is broken. I guess it was just a matter of actually sitting down and cranking it out! ENJOY!

Chapter 23

Draco turned down a hall that lead down towards the dungeons and more specifically the potions class room. The same place that he figured he could meet up with Hermione, and possibly discuss her encounter with the Weasley face this morning. Draco ran a tired hand through his hair. Hermione had been right. It had been a crazy weekend. In fact he was actually looking forward to his lessons today, they would be something that would be able to get his mind off of everything that had happened recently.

Draco was about to round the next corner when he heard someone call out to him from the other end of the hall. Draco stopped walking and spared a glace down the corridor. He sighed as he saw Weasley coming down the hallway toward him.

“What the hell do you want?” Draco called down the hallway, half wondering why he was giving him the time of day.

“I want you to stay away from Hermione ferret.”

“Kind of hard when I share a dorm with her.”

“That could be easily fixed. That fight this morning could easily get you kicked out or your high and mighty position.”

“What you going to tattle on me?” Draco sneered.

“Maybe, unless you keep the hell away from her.” Ron spat with venom.

“Good luck with that.” With that, Draco turned around and began to walk away from Ron. However, he at once felt a hand on his shoulder turn him around and then a fist connect with his jaw.

“What the bloody hell is the matter with you!”

“I don’t want you around Hermione!”

“Why the hell do you care?”

“Cause she’s mine, and there is no way in hell that I’m letting you get her.”

“Last time I checked you where the one that was dating her.”

“And when has that stopped you. Some bloke is dating the girl you want, yet you go off and get in her pants or snog her.”

“First, I have certain rules and morals, and despite certain rumors, I do not shag or snog every girl I see. Second, I have only shagged one girl, not the entire bloody school, and that one girl was a bloody mistake. Now bugger off before I report you for hitting a student, no less the Head Boy.” Draco pointed down the direction of the hall with one hand and lightly massaged his jaw with the other.

“Fine, but just remember, I’m the one that gets to snog Hermione whenever I want.”

“Like I would care.” Draco spat as Ron turned around and began to walk down the hall and Draco watched him making sure that he didn’t come running back and attack him blindly. Ron rounded the corner and disappeared from his sight. Draco immediately turned around and punched the wall, relishing the searing pain as his knuckles split. Like hell he didn’t care.

*Gasp*
Ok I completely understand now! good 4 you helping a friend!
Ron I'm gonna go and beat you up if you don't knock it off and leave Draco alone.
I think he is also jealous cause Draco is hotter than a hot tamale!
I totally got that from one of my friends! she is hilarious!
Oh well! OK I gtg!
~Abby~

P.S.- I love your chapters so much! But are you still doing your other story "secret"?

New Reader.... That was really good!

OK ur still a nutjob, but that was awesome, but short, but great, but small, but thats ok. paaaaaaaaaammmmmms!
Lilah

ok guys dad took away computer so i have to use my wii now. anyways thanks for the reviews!!! and i agree abby, draco is hotter than a hot tamale!!!

much love
Sarah

2/19/08 (addition)

Now that i'm not on my wii and it's much easier to type, it's much eaiser and faster to adress certain questions that have been asked!!! YAY!

I hope that you all understand that I would never EVER do someting as crazy as give up harry potter completely. GAH! I could never do that... and as long as my two BFFs don't know no harm no fould right? that's probably really bad, but what can i say? i'm an obsessed fangirl!

So my other story secret, I think I might start over with it. I'm having alot of difficulty with it and between this story, oneshots, school, work, church responsiblities, and life in general, I don't have time to work on two chapter stories. So I'll probably restart that one once I finish this one. Sorry, but I bit off a bit more than I could chew when I started that one.

The next chapter should be up soon, however! Which is great! I never imagined when I started writing this fic that I could make it into the twenties and it would fade out like all of my other chapter fics I've written. However, thanks to all of you guys who have stayed with this, I thank you very, very much. Without you I would have dropped this story a long, long time ago. So I appreciate every thing you've done!!!

Also if you could keep an eye out for bad words that have worked there way into the story, (i try to find them all but i miss them sometimes) so the post doesn't get deleted that would be great. Since I post an unedited version on fanfiction.net I sometimes miss certain words. THANKS!
Much love! (again )
Sarah

am I ending the fic soon....i'm not sure... i'd like this story to go to at least fifty chapters... but we'll have to see how it goes.

Well I already know that you all are going to absolutely hate me for this chapter. You're going to say OMG I can't believe it! yadda yadda ya. Unfortunately it had to happen! Suckish i know but what is done is done! sorry. hope you don't hate me for it in the end!

Chapter 24

Draco continued to walk down the halls that lead toward the Potions class room while wrapping his hand in a piece of cloth that he had transfigured from a sheet of paper. He was fuming, furious that Ronald Weasley thought that he could get away with something like punching him across the face. The worst part was that he was going to let him. He hated having to be the bigger man. To him, it rather sucked.

Draco leaned against a stray wall, almost wishing he could disappear from all the craziness that had ensued after him, from crazed girls chasing after him, from Voldemort and his Death Eaters trying to get him to join them, from school, and all the way to Hermione. However, stinking Hermione Granger that seemed to be the brute of his current problems.

“Hey Draco.” A voice called from behind him and he turned around quickly. Draco gave a weak smile and tried to hide his hand behind his back. “What did you do to your hand?”

“Punched a wall.” Draco confessed, knowing that there would be no way that he would have been able to hide it from Hermione when she insisted that he either go to Madam Pomfrey or heal it herself.

“Why would you do a crazy thing like that.” Hermione asked, slightly bewildered why Draco would hurt himself.

“It was either the wall or your boyfriend’s face.” Draco mumbled hoping that Hermione didn’t catch it.

“What?”

“I was just being stupid. Hit the wall by accident.” Draco said instead.

“No I heard what you said the first time. Why would you have had to hit Ron? Is that why your face is bruised? Did he hit you?”

“Your assumptions are astounding.”

“I can’t believe it! After I told you two not to get into it, you get into a fight with each other again! And in the same day!”

“He hit me. I hit the wall.” Draco said quietly through gritted teeth. Hermione looked at him questionably. “Look I don’t want to talk about it. What happened between him and me is a personal matter.”

“Would it have anything to do with me?” Hermione asked so quietly that Draco had barely heard her.

“You know, I don’t like Weasley. Let me finish.” Draco interrupted Hermione knowing what she was going to say as she opened her mouth. “I don’t like Weasley, not because I’ve expressed my dislike for him over the years, but because something really irks me about the guy. He doesn’t seem like the kind of guy that you would associate yourself romantically with. He has a big head, I’m not saying that I don’t either, I was raised that way, to believe I was better than everyone else around me. Weasley, he acts as everything should be his, weather he’s worked for it or not. The way he talks about you I would think he owns you and you’ve only been dating for a few days!” Draco’s face was slightly flushed as he finished his speech, hoping that it had made some impact on Hermione. “What happened at breakfast in the Great Hall?”

“Nothing, nothing more than what would happen every other morning had this past weekend not been so full of drama.” Hermione tried to pass off that morning’s incident as if it was nothing. Unfortunately for her, Draco knew better, probably better than anyone else, better than her supposed two best friends.

“No it was something, you don’t look upset for no reason.”

“Look I don’t want to talk about it. What happened between me and him is a personal matter.” Hermione said, pushing his own words back on him.

“Would it have anything to do with me?” Draco already knew the answer as he figured Hermione had already known the answer when she asked if his recent fight had anything to do with her.

Hermione looked up into Draco’s eyes and gave him a bit of a sad smile.

“You know Ron doesn’t want me to sit by you during class today.” Hermione spoke softly.

“Well I say he can go stuff his face.” Hermione laughed lightly at Draco’s comment and Draco smiled at Hermione’s laughter. Besides his mother, she was the only one that was able to make him smile.

“Unfortunately for me, I told him we talk about it later.” Hermione sighed.

“You know, you seemed more upset than ever now that you’ve started going out with him.”

“Really I hadn’t noticed.” Hermione responded sarcastically.

“If you’re so unhappy then why did you start dating him?”

“Because I thought it would make me happy. Now I’m just scared that I might have messed up my friendship with him in a big way.” Hermione sniffed, trying not to cry, she wanted to be a big girl that could take care of herself. However, whenever she was around Draco all she wanted was for him to support her. She let his arms pull her closer to him and allowed herself to sob on his chest quietly. Draco ran a hand through her hair trying to calm her down. He knew that if anyone saw her in this state that she would have some explaining to do, at least to Harry and Ron she would.

Hermione’s sobs and tears stopped however after a few minutes. She pulled back and looked at the state that she had left Draco’s shirt in, stained with her tears and slightly wrinkled.

“Draco I’m sorry, I messed up your shirt.” Hermione stumbled over her words as she tried to rub the evidence that she had been crying from her eyes. Draco looked down at his shirt and almost laughed.

“It’s nothing really. It’s only made from the most expensive fibers money can buy.” Draco laughed at sudden guilt that he could evidently see on her face. “I’m kidding, it’s only cotton.” Hermione looked at him in brief confusion and then hit him on the arm playfully.

“Thanks.” Hermione hugged Draco hoping to express as much of her emotion as she could into a single hug. Draco responded back with an equal amount of force.

“You know if you ever need anything you can come to me.” Draco muttered into her hair.

“I think you proved that just now.” Hermione pulled back, her arms still resting up around his neck.

Draco looked down at the girl that he was holding in his arms and she looked perfect. Staring into her eyes he could see her emotions, the want that she had hidden from him for all these years, the secrets she had kept hidden from him for so long, the emotions that yearning to spill out of her and claim what they had seeked for so long. Him. The only odd thing was, that Hermione saw the exact same thing when she looked into his.

Draco moved his hand and massaged her cheek ever so gently, loving the way it felt under his fingertips. Draco slowly brought his lips down to hers, and with careful grace and great gentleness, their lips touched.

Y IN THE WORLD WOULD I HATE YOU AFTER THAT!?!?!?!!?!?!
OMG it was amazing!!!
*starts doing a happy dance*
They kissed! they kissed!
YAY!!!
Ok now all we have to do is figure out what to do with Ron
*gets out the handy dandy thing we call a wand and begins stalking off to find ron*
Ron!! Come out come out where ever you are!!!!
OK I have to go find him!
BYE 4 NOW
~Abby~

Hello! here's the next chapter!!! Enjoy and review!!

Chapter 25

Hermione pulled back, her eyes still closed as if she could still feel his lips on hers.

“Draco, I can’t do this. Ron, he—“

“I know, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have.” Draco looked ashamed of himself, he had told Weasley that he didn’t snog other people’s girlfriends, and here he was practically snogging Hermione Granger, the Weasel’s girlfriend herself.

“It’s not that I don’t want to, cause you’re a way better kisser than Ron, but he’s my boyfriend. I couldn’t cheat on him.” Hermione spoke softly as if she hated the words herself, as if they where acid on her tongue.

“I understand Hermione, I really do.”

“Thank you.” Hermione sighed and looked over her shoulder she saw people coming around the corner.

“Looks like our alone time for the day is over.” Draco stated as he looked over her head at the Gryffindors and Slytherins coming around the bend.

“Pity.” Hermione sighed, as someone from the crowd called her name, she turned around and gave a smile and a wave toward Harry and turned back around to Draco. “I’m still would like to sit by you today if you don’t mind.” Draco smiled and nodded his head.

“Of course, class is always easier when I have the smartest girl in school to do all the work for me.” Draco said playfully, earning him another punch to his arm.

“Glad to see our heads beating each other up now.” Harry spoke as he approached the two. “Malfoy.” Harry acknowledged and gave him a slight nod of his head.

“Potter.” Draco returned the gesture and kept an eye out for Ron, slightly glad that there were now people around them; he really didn’t want to get into another fight.

“Hermione, how have you been lately, you know with everything.” Potter’s attention was once more directed at Hermione, his tone was friendly and light, nothing necessarily odd in his tone, Draco noted.

“Great! Everything is just perfect.” Hermione flashed Harry a brilliant smile, Draco’s mouth almost dropped open as Harry believed Hermione’s lie. Couldn’t he see that she really was fine, let alone great? Here he was, her best friend and he could see the sadness she hid behind her mask. “How’s everything with you?”

“Better now, I had some trouble this morning. Bulstrode kissed me and Ginny saw it. Let’s say having vases thrown at my head wasn’t exactly what I planned this morning.” Harry smiled weakly, and Draco’s mouth dropped open completely. Bulstrode kissed Potter. That must have been utterly disgusting for him. Poor bloke, even if it is Potter.

“Oh my god. Is everything alright, you know between you and Ginny?”

“Thankfully, yes. I was so worried that she wouldn’t understand while she was, you know, throwing vases at my head. Luckily Ron got her to calm down so we could talk it out.”

“Thank goodness! You two are made for each other you know.”

“I know Hermione. You tell me that all the time, along with all the other girls.”

“Including Romilda Vane?”

“Well, except her, she still bitter about the fact that I’m not dating her, but she’s loony anyways.” Harry laughed, “You’re sitting next to Ron today right?”

“No, I’m sitting next to Malfoy.” Hermione said, “We have some important head business to discuss, and we figured we could do so when brewing our potion today.” Harry nodded but looked at her suspiciously.

“Ron’s not going to like it.”

“I know.” Hermione sighed as Ron came billowing down the hall.

“I need to talk to you.” Ron said, slightly huffing from what it looked like, running all the way here.

“Ron class is about to start.”

“I need to talk to you, now.”

“Ron I’m not going to ditch just because you need to talk to me. I’m sure this can wait until after class.”

“Fine. I’ll tell you during class.”

“I’m sitting next to Malfoy today, remember.”

“Are you still going on about that? Listen you’re my girlfriend you’ll be sitting next to me.”
“Ron.” Harry said softly, shocked by his best mate’s attitude toward his ‘girlfriend.’

“Ron.” Hermione said sternly, “I will sit by whom I like, during potions or any other class.”

“Look, Granger, just sit by him we can talk later.” Draco said softly, noticing that the people around them where starting to stare. Hermione looked at Draco questionably. “I don’t want to be the cause of anymore trouble than you already have.” He whispered softly so only she could hear. Hermione’s eyes softened and she nodded slowly understanding where he was coming from.

“Oh alright, Fine. I’ll sit by you Ron, but we need to have a very long discussion about this.” Hermione glared at Ron, furious that she had to give up sitting next to Draco because Ron was being such a pain in the butt about, well, everything.

“Good. I’m glad you’re finally seeing reason Hermione.” Ron emphasized, while both Draco’s and Harry’s mouths fell open at Ron’s rudeness toward Hermione. Draco moved to punch Ron in the face but Hermione stuck her arm out and stopped him, she gave him a look that said I’ll take care of this. Draco straightened up and gave Ron a look of downright hatred. If Hermione would have let him Ron would have been pounded severally into the ground.

Their classmates around them started to talk animatedly about what had just happened in front of their eyes, evidentially surprised at both Ron’s and Draco’s reactions.

Maybe today’s Potions lesson wouldn’t be as boring as the other ones.

Urg!!!!
Ron you just need to go and get a life!!!!
Hermy is Draco's through and through!!!
That is that now get over it!!!
I loved that chappy!!
Draco is such a gentleman!!!
But soon he shall be mine
*evil laugh*
*giggle*
ok! Bye 4 now!!
~Abby~

okay so i'm only on chapter twelve right now but this is good. .and it's getting hard for me to read cause my eyes are burning through to the back of my head but i promise i will continue to read this and finish it!
good job keep it up.
sarah

Its Amazing,ive just read all of your FF,

and i love it!!

ITS AMAZING

Please post soon

Lots of Love

Tash xx

okay.
just finished up to the newest chapter. great. loved it.
so Draco def. needs to get his rear in gear and take hermione away.
Ron needs to chill and lose the old Malfoy disposition.
and I think harry get's the whole thing and won't hate hermione for being with Draco in the end.

those are my thoughts on the ff.

now to you. your crazy giving up hp. but i do understand to an extint cause once i started school i got on once a week if that. so it's hard understandable. and my friends say the same about me and my hp adiction.they tell me to shut up about it. so i finaly got one frriend on here and now we talk on here all the time. lol.

so great chapter.
<3 Sarah/Joe