the greatest thing you'll ever learn

Authors note: sorry that I haven’t updated sooner, but I have been so busy with school and I recently started a new job. I have tons of homework but I still try to find the time to write my story that you all wait for.

Chapter 3

They sat in the great hall, the first years had already been sorted into their houses, and Dumbledore was about to inform everyone who the head girl and boy were. He stood up and cleared his throat and began “ I’d like to inform you all who have been selected head girl and head boy, before the feast begins” he looked at Hermione and said “ give a big cheer for our very own head girl Miss Hermione Granger”

The whole Gryffindor table stood up and cheered and some yelled ,,go granger, go,,

Then Dumbledore looked over to the Slytherin table and looked at Draco “And give just as warming cheer for our head boy, Mr. Draco Malfoy”.

All the slytherins cheered for Draco, and secretly in her mind, Hermione cheered for him to.

And so the feast began. Food from every corners of the worlds began to pop onto the table, and everyone tried to be the first to get their piece before it ran out.

Hermione watched as Ron and Harry begun to fill their mouths, like they hadn’t had anything to eat all summer. But she knew better, because they had been at the Burrow all summer, and knowing Molly she always had something to eat, so they would never be hungry while they were there.

Then her eyes looked over at the slytherin table and saw Draco eat with much more grace and manners than her best friends and blushed slightly when her eyes met Draco’s.

When the feast ended, the prefects took their houses and followed them to their common rooms.

Dumbledore pointed Draco and Hermione to come to him, so he could show them their common room. They would be sharing common room this year, Dumbledore said, and they had separate bedrooms, but had to share a bathroom.

Smirks showed up on Hermione’s and Draco’s faces, but they were fast to wipe them off before the headmaster saw them. But Dumbledore had seen them and the twinkle in his eyes grew.

He knew that something had happened between the summer from their appearances from today towards each other. *that will bring the houses together, once they would admit they’re feelings towards each others, and when they decided to tell everyone about it, and show it*

He told them to chose the password for their common room, and then he left. He knew that they had a lot to talk about, and maybe something others as well.

When Dumbledore left, they rushed up to their rooms to take a look around their rooms. Their rooms were just like they imagined (it rearranged itself to their desires as soon as they stepped into their rooms).

Hermione stepped into the bathroom from her room and looked around, there was a big tub, a shower, a big mirror which reached from the ceiling to the floor, then she saw the door to Draco’s room and decided to knock and see if she could come in to see his room.

“come in Hermione” he yelled through the closed door. Hermione entered the room and gasped. It was beautiful. It was dragons all over the room, posters, his bed was with dragons carved into it, and a royal blue drapes and above his bed. It also had silver and green, the slytherin colors, all over the room, but he also had a little bookshelf with books from home.

“so how do you like it” he said with a smirk.

“I love it” Hermione said, and looked around, then set her eyes on him.

She took his hand and pulled him through the bathroom to see her room. She knew he wanted to see her room, but didn’t want to intrude on her privacy.

Her room was the opposite of her room, he room was more lively, with bright colors and little bookshelf with all her books from home, and the color of her drapes were like a pink rose, and so it was over her bed. The sun shined in and it looked more lively than his. Her room was filled with pink, red and white roses, so he guessed that roses were her favorite flowers.

“Wow, looks very nice and inviting” Draco said, looking around admiring the view. He put his eyes on Hermione and admired her too, she was so beautiful and didn’t even try, he also thought that she didn’t even know how beautiful she was.

Then he felt ashamed, because he had been one of the reasons she didn’t know how beautiful she was.

He had called her names and told her that no boy would ever like her, because of her looks, and her “know-it-all” attitude. But he had always meant the opposite.

When Hermione looked at him she saw that he was lost in his thoughts and had a sad look upon his face.

She walked up to him, put her hands around his neck, and when he looked at her with the startled expression, she put her lips on his for a quick kiss.

“what were you thinking of” she asked him

“You” he said. “what I was always mean to you, and you didn’t deserve it”

Hermione looked into his eyes and said “I’ve put that behind me, and so should you”

“I want to enjoy the NOW instead of reliving the past, I want you to do the same. I want to enjoy my time with you, because we never know when it might end” she said.

“You’re right” Draco said “we should live in the now and not the past”

Then he bent his head down and kissed her softly, but once their lips touched it got more passionate, and his hands went up her back and down again. Hermione’s hand went in his hair, and then she drew them out of his hair and down on his chest. She began to loosen his tie and tossed it away, then her hands went to unbutton his shirt. The next thing she did was draw her fingers up and down his chest just to feel him. He began to loosen her tie, and did like she had done, tossed it away. His hands unbuttoned her shirt and then caressing her breasts, it made her nipples stand out in her bra. He looked at her and asked if she was ready, if she really wanted to do this, and when she said yes, they began to kiss passionately again, and touching each others body’s.

There was a knock on the door, and called “Hermione, are you there” and then “we know you’re in there so open up”

They broke the kiss and putted their foreheads together to steady their breaths. Then helped each other to button up their shirts and put on the ties.

“you better go and answer them, because if you don’t they might try to break down the door to see if I’m not killing you” Draco said.

“right now you don’t have to worry about that. I’m ready to kill them for interrupting us” Hermione said.

“there will come another chances, just wait and see” Draco said, then went from her room and through the bathroom to his room.

“coming” she said, and walked to the door. Outside the door stood Harry, Ron and Ginny, just waiting for some gossip about the boy she had seen in France, the city of love.

“Hermione, you look like you’ve just been kissed” Ginny started saying, the time she walked through the portrait.

Hermione blushed and said “can’t girl kiss a guy without being questioned about it, or should I ask about your summer”

Draco had just walked by his door at that moment and heard what was said, and smirked. When he heard Hermione’s answer, his smirk got wider.

Ginny blushed a little and looked at Hermione with a glare that said *keep this for girl talk later*

Hermione nodded knowingly and changed the subject, and since the guys were not paying attention to the girls, they didn’t notice the sudden change of subject, from boys to why they were here.

“we just came to see you, isn’t that all right” Harry asked Hermione

“yes, perfectly, but I’m just a little tiered and wanted to go to bed, but I don’t want you to go” she answered

“ if you are tiered we should go” Ginny said, wanting to have that girl talk later.

The gang stood up and walked towards the door and said “goodnight Hermione” and Ginny said “ see you tomorrow” and they disappeared from the door.

The painting shut back and Hermione sighted, and walked to the fireplace and looked into the fire, Draco walked up behind her and put his hands around her waist and kissed her on the back of her neck.

Hermione smiled and turned around towards him, putted her hands behind his neck and said “ they left and I was just thinking of you. They know that I have met a guy and that I’m still seeing him, but they don’t know that its you. They’ll be in for a big surprise” smirk was on her face.

She reached up and kissed him lightly on the lips. “I want you to sleep in my room tonight to hold me. I don’t think that I’m ready for the other yet” Hermione looked in his eyes hopefully that he would answer that he would.

“ok” he said “ I can wait as long as you like”

Hermione took his hand and pulled him to her room. When they got there she walked to her bed and took her silk nightgown and walked to the bathroom to brush her teeth and get ready for bed. Draco folded his clothes together and put them on a chair next to her bed.

When Hermione got back to the room Draco went to the bathroom to brush his teeth. Hermione lied down in the bed to wait for Draco to return to her, and when he did he walked to the bed and slipped under the covers and reached out for her to his embrace. He hugged her tight and placed a kiss on the back of her neck. He could feel her shiver and smiled, he also found that she entwined their fingers together. As he could feel that he was almost falling asleep, he heard her whisper in her sleep that one word. “Draco”

Authors note… thanks all for reading my story, I really like that anyone is reading what I write. I’ll try to update as soon as I can.

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