Don't blame yourself for anything- Dramione Love Story

Chapter 2: Still confused

[. Authors note: this is dedicated to Sydney Boelter :) hope you like it! ]

I decided not to tell Harry or Ron about this . They wouldn't be able to help me. Probably. I'll just forget It ever happened and focus on my two best friends and school. So why did I end up thinking about him tonight and not being able to fall asleep until 10:00 p.m. ? Finally Lavender Brown woke up and made me go to sleep, I still dreamed about his steely gray eyes though.  

Why was this happening to me? Maybe someone set a spell on me. My mind thought of an annoying comment and made me mouth it silently 'Draco Malfoy is the only one who set a spell on you!' 

Ugh.  

Really? 

Resorting to this now? 

It's only the beginning of the year and I'm going crazy. I should check my schedule and see what time I need to wake up and what classes I have at what time. 

Okay, looks good, Malfoy free! Wait. Ugh. Potions with slytherin. No ... DOUBLE potions. And DADA. Who's the teacher for that this year? Oh yeah. . . Snape. And we've got potions with Slughorn.  

Alright, time to go to the great hall for breakfast, then a Malfoy free Arithmancy!  

I donned my Gryffindor robes and adjusted my tie, then walked down to the Great Hall with no excitement at all. A slow pace until I remembered I hadn't seen Ron and Harry since the train last night, I'd skipped dinner and went straight to bed. Maybe that's why I was so hungry. Anyway I halfway skipped to the Great Hall to find myself in an empty room. I must've missed breakfast. My stomach grumbled. Ugh... I checked a clock and saw that I was almost late for Arithmancy! I hurried off to my class and tripped in the hall. A little scream escaped my lips in front of the door to Arithmancy, I hoped no one heard me. With my frizzy hair and scattered quills and parchment and textbooks, I stumbled into Arithmancy.  

"Uhh sorry I'm late. . ." I squeaked. 

Professor Vector replied in a stern but somewhat Soft voice, "You are excused, Miss Granger, please take your seat."  

Thank god I was only a few minutes late. But my first tardy! Oh no! What's wrong with me! I have to get back on track! 

Arithmancy went by quickly and I knew that if I concentrated on it tonight I could finish my homework a week early. I wasn't sure if I could concentrate though.

I ran to the dungeons for potions with my stomach still grumbling, I wish magic could conjure up food, and made it in time.  

I sat down next to Harry because Ron was next to Lavender, who seemed to be sitting quite close to Ron actually . . . 

"Oh, Hermione you're okay, good. We were worried about you. What happened?"  

I mumbled back to Harry, "Nothing, I'm fine." 

"Alright. Well since you missed breakfast I thought you might be hungry, so I brought you a piece of toast."  

Harry handed me a piece of buttered toast. Thank wizard god for you Harry! I took the toast and thanked Harry.

I spotted Draco looking at me from across the room, his gaze made me kind of uncomfortable. I shook it off and listened to Professor Slughorn,  

"Now class, who can tell me what this potion is?" 

I raised my hand high over my head, eager to answer the question. It was easily recognized as Amortentia. The most powerful love potion in the world. 

Professor Slughorn confirmed that I was correct, and made me smell the potion. "I smell. . . Stinky thestral. . . Ew, and some sort of-  

I stopped myself right there. It smelled like Malfoy.  

"something."  

"Ah, ah, well done Miss Granger, 10 points to Gryffindor." 

I smiled and sat back down. I saw Malfoy grinning widely from across the room and I couldn't help but smirk back. it was kind of funny I guess. 

I survived double potions, but I was kind of depressed when Harry won the Felix Felicis and I didn't. Not because I wanted it, just because I'm usually at the head of the class! He had writing in his textbook. I wonder if that's why he won, because he followed the written directions. That book couldn't be good. I'll talk to him about it later.  

Right now I need to finish my Arithmancy homework. 

"Hermione, seriously go to bed! It's 10:00 again and that paper isn't due for a week!" Lavender bugging me again. It's probably good for me though. 

"Alright, Lav, thanks." 

I crawled up to bed and fell asleep within a blink of the eye. I dreamed of Malfoy again.  

"Hermione ! 'Mione! Wake up!" Lavender yelled in my ear, while shaking me awake. 

I opened my eyes groggily and changed into my robes. Lavender walked with me to breakfast and I sat next to Harry and Ron. "Hey guys." 

They said hey over their full mouths while I dished some eggs and toast onto my plate.

Malfoy pointed at me from the Slytherin table and he and his little group of jerks laughed. He was probably making fun of me for staring at him on the Thestral coach. Fine. Be that way, Malfoy. He was probably just winning a bet that he could make me fall in love with him or something. Jerk.