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She sat in those hills, which she loved so much and knew so well. She stared at the stars which lay above her peacefully. The wind brushed through her hair and she took one deep breath. And then another and another, she lay silently. Tears, the one thing she had none left of. Oh how she hated him for what he had done. Hatred the word stuck to her mind as super glue to your fingers when you put it on a teacher's chair in a practical joke. Hermione Granger took another deep breath. Ronald Weasley the name that had caused so much pain and so much hatred. She sighted once more and the tears she had cried came back to her. As they spilled from her eyes she looked up to the sky. It was late it had to be. Around 2, 3 o'clock in the morning, she had been here since 7 in the evening.

She didn't want to remember that moment in the day where her world turned and the walls tumbled. The moment hatred for her best friend filled her body and soul. The moment where nothing made sense and she had no answers. The moment she wanted to forget so badly and yet it pained her too much causing her to remember the images. She needed her cousin Helen and that scared her. Remembering her cousin made the pain worse. This summer had been the worst in the world.

A few years ago Hermione found out that her favorite cousin, one she had shared her secrets with for years had leukemia. Last summer her cousin started getting worse and worse until…. Everything went blank as Hermione finally fell asleep in the Hills. Darkness spread deep into her mind from which she arouse very, very slowly.

Hermione Granger woke up with a start someone was standing over her. But her vision wasn't clear enough to see who it was. She blinked a few times and rubbed her eyes as she sat up, her vision became clearer and the person came to focus.

"AHH" Hermione screamed as she realized who was standing over her.

"Took you long enough to wake up" Draco Malfoy said looking down at her. And strangely enough he sat next to her.

"Professor Dumbledor wants to see you," He said looking straight ahead.

"So…" Hermione said finding this to be very disturbing.

"So..." He repeated her.

"Anything else" she asked.

"Um… Do you want to talk about it" Draco asked out of anywhere, he could see her blood shot, tear stained eyes and somehow he now found this girl beautiful…in a dark way. And reluctantly Hermione said yes to Draco's question. For hours they talked about how Ron had cheated on Hermione with Lavender and how Draco called Ron names. Hermione cried and laughed and in the end something accured to Hermione.

"Don't you have classes Draco"?

"No, it's Saturday, Hermione" Draco said. Then the though came to him

When did I start calling her Hermione? And Hermione was thinking the exact same thing.

"Oh I have to go see Professor Dumbledor" she said and got up. Draco got up too. And they walked up towards the castle together. Behind a window of the castle a spying eye saw them. And he chuckled grandly.

Hermione walked down the empty corridors it had to be lunchtime by now. She reached the stone gargoyle and a thought hit her mind. She didn't know the password. Okay now professor Dumbledor always uses candies so all I have to do is name candies. Hermione took a deep breath.

"Berty Botts every flavor jellybeans" she said slowly. The gargoyle stood still.

"Um…chocolate frogs, acid pops, bubblegum" The Gargoyle slowly moved aside as the last word was said. Hermione's mouth dropped. "Bubblegum that's the password" She said unbelievingly to gargoyle.

"Look kid, I don't make the passwords I just stand here to see if you know them" The gargoyle whispered to any other person this would have come as a shock but Hermione had read about this is Hogwarts a History.

"Are you going or not" The gargoyle asked and Hermione shook her head and passed by. She climbed the curved stairs and made her way to Professor Dumbledor's office. She knocked on it three times fast wondering what the Professor wanted. The door slowly opened revealing Professor Dumbledor sitting by his desk petting Fawkes. Hermione walked in and went to Dumbledor's desk there she stood watching him for a moment before saying,

"You wanted to see me Professor". Dumbledor looked at her

"Um…yes Miss Granger please take a seat" he muttered and motioned for her to sit down when Hermione did he continued. "As you know you are head girl so you will be sharing a Common room with Mr. Malfoy." The professor told his pupil. Hermione had a confused look on her face. Professor Dumbledor had already told her this and she was sharing a Common room with Malfoy. He had told them together at the beginning of the year a week ago. Dumbledor put a finger up to show he was not finished.

"In the light of Lord Voldemort's death the ministry of Magic had engaged that we create House unity so that this war will not repeat itself. So we, the staff of Hogwarts decided that this year each student will have to be with a partner of a different house all year long, no classes nothing and in the end of the year will perform a spell to give you all the knowledge you needed to learn this year" Dumbledor finished.

"Um…I'm sorry Professor but why are you telling me this" Hermione asked. Dumbledor smiled at the question.

"Well we though it would be a good idea if the Head Girl and Boy would be partners to show an example" Dumbledor smiled as Hermione frowned at the idea.

"Lemon drop" he asked taking one and putting it in his mouth to suck.

"No thank you…um Professor does Malfoy know about this" Hermione asked. Dumbledor nodded slowly…so that's why he was acting so nice to me. Too bad he looked kinda cute. Wait what am I saying he's a Malfoy…no; he's a rude creature. Hermione though to herself. She sighted.

"I have already told the other students during breakfast this announcement and they all already know who they are pared with" Dumbledor said. Hermione smiled a very fake smile. She wondered whom Harry and Ron got. Then it hit her she and Ron didn't talk anymore sure she still talked to Harry but it wasn't as if he could help her with every one of her problems.

A few minutes later Hermione walked out of Professor Dumbledor's office with a Lemon drop in her mouth, that old man had a way to get you to eat those things. She walked off to her common room. She took a short cut through the 2nd floor corridor. She reached a painting of a Lion and Snake that seemed to be playing cards at the moment. She whispered the password and they let her through. As the painting slid open she was blinded by the colors of Red, Gold, Green and Silver. The common Room was huge and there was a huge red sofa right in front of the fire and two green ones beside it. The curtains were gold and the walls were silver giving the common room a nice affect. There were two stairways one was silver and the other gold and I can bet you can guess which one led to which dormitory. Hermione sighted she looked over to the long red couch Malfoy was sitting in it. She walked over to him.

"Um…I guess you know about the project" She said, Malfoy nodded.

"Thanks for the talk today" she added.

"What ever" Draco said, he didn't want to be mean to her but he was going to have to hide his feelings from her his father may be in jail but his reputation wasn't and he couldn't ruin that now could he. Hermione frowned what had happened to the boy she was with this morning it was if he had vanished into thin air the nice Malfoy was gone. Just like that. Hermione thought. One thing was for sure this was going to be one interesting year. Hermione sighted seeing as Malfoy wasn't going to do anything she got up. She walked over to the gold stairs and up to her dormitory.

She sighted as she walked over to her bed, she was tired her face showed that. Hermione lay in her bed on her stomach. She grabbed a soft red pillow and placed her face on it. There she lay and soon sobs were heard. She felt so bad her world had changed in a matter of moments. Her cousin died, her love cheated, her partner was a git and she was confused lost and alone in a harsh and cruel world. She had a pain in her heart that she whished she could rip out, she felt as if she wasn't needed in the world. And her only savior was the crying fits she had, had lately.

Down in the common room Draco sat still. After Hermione had left he had just sat like an idiot gazing into the fire. It's red and gold flames shone brightly in his gray eyes. After a few minutes of her being gone Draco could here loud sobs coming from her dormitory. He tried to block the sounds out, but couldn't. He sighted and got up. He walked u the gold staircase and knocked on the dormitory door.

"Hermione, it's me Draco please let me in"

"Go away" a voice came from the other side of the door.

"Hermione if you don't let me in I will blow the door open," Draco threatened. He stood still with his hand around his wand ready to blast the door open. He heard a clicking noise and Hermione appeared teary faced. He frowned.

"You okay" he asked. Hermione glared at him.

"Does it look like I'm okay?" she asked.

"Don't you know it's rude to answer a question with a question?" Draco said.

"You just did it right now" she said unbelievingly thinking they were acutely having this conversation.

"I did" Draco asked.

"Yes"

"Wait… what" Draco asked confused.

"You know what I don't have time for this" Hermione said and she proceeded to slam the door. Draco stopped the door on time. Hermione turned around. She raised her eyebrows at him as if to say, "yes what do you want". Draco grabbed her arm and pulled her to him. They were close, really, really close. Hermione could feel his warm breath, she gulped, his breath made her stomach to back flips. Draco smiled a pure smile at the fact that she was nervous her eyes said so. He leaned in and his lips touched hers. It was a sweet kiss. Hermione had a feeling in her body that made her knees go weak. His kiss was a good one. She couldn't stop herself from kissing back. And then it was over; Malfoy pulled away a sneer on his face. Hermione who was smiling suddenly turned her smile into a frown. His eyes said it plainly "I got you, now I can tell everyone I made a mud blood fall for me" Hermione glared at him she turned back into her room slamming the door. Leaving Malfoy with a sneer on his face.

This is just beginning I already have a plot for this and I want to tell you that later on in this story I will have a song up here that I guess you can say a friend made for me she is very talented at making songs and if you ever need one I would be happy to tell her she does them for fun and she started a whole thing just to write songs for people. I hope this was a good beginning.