Always

Chapter 5

Hermione
I walk back to my house Friday afternoon after dropping the kids off at a friends. I open the door to my house and head to my room, opening the closet I sigh, what do I wear? Do I dress up? Do I look casual? I decide to go casual and throw on a pair of skinny jeans and a black flowy shirt. This is just to act civil, he's still a jerk.
After putting out the tea, milk, and sugar, I turn on the Telly and watch the news. After about half an hour I hear a knock at the door. I take a calling deep breath and open the door. " Malfoy," I greet.
" Granger."
" Come in, the tea is ready," I say standing to the side of the door to allow him to enter. He enters and looks around before looking back to me.
" Oh! Over here," I say as I guide him over to the living room. I take a seat on the sofa and he takes the armchair across from me.
I rack my brain trying to think of something to say.
" So... How are you?" He asks awkwardly, looking down at his feet.
The question took me by surprise so it took me a while to fully understand that Draco Malfoy had just asked me a question. " I'm good. How are you?" Talk about lame. He chuckles and replies with a ' fine thanks'. Can this get anymore awkward? Deciding to once again break the ice that seemed to have settled in 4 seconds I ask," How's Scorpius doing? Apparently him and Hugo are good friends."
His eyes light up at the mention of his sons' name. " He's marvelous, although he doesn't fancy going back to school," he replies with a laugh. After a few moments of silence, Malfoy asks me if I had seen the recent Quidditch game. We immersed our selfs into the conversation and before long it was 5:00. Malfoy stands and says," I have to go. Scorpius is probably anxious for supper."
" Oh. Okay well I'd love to have you guys come over, I'm sure Hugo and Scorpius would enjoy it."
" Maybe, we still have school shopping to do before school begins."
" That's fine," I reply as I head to the door. " Bye Malfoy."
" Granger."
" Okay bye," I say again as he steps out onto the sidewalk. He smirks and walks away. I just had to say bye again didn't I! Well at least it wasn't as bad as I expected it to be, at least we can act civil to one another. I step out onto the sidewalk and start walking to go pick up Rose and Hugo. I bet they're anxious to hear all about this, considering how I described him previously.