Dare to Love (a Dramione story)

6.

The story is for the biggest part written in Draco's pov but this chapter is written in Hermione's pov otherwise things would become unclear.
Thanks for reading so far and enjoy!

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Hermione sat in her appartment and looked around. Everything was too big. The couch, the table and the living room were too big. Even the bathroom, the bedroom and the bed seemed way too large. There was just too much space for her on her own.

She sighs as she looks at a framed muggle picture next to the television. It is mostly covered in dust but the two figures on the photo were still visable. Hermione's mind goes back in time.

"You give him so much attention! It's like I don't even exist anymore!" Ron screamed, he looked furious. "Why is he so important to you! He is just an arrogant ferret and he always used to insult you! He called you a mudblood for goodness sake! Why can't you just focus on me for a moment!?"

"Ronald, we are living in this appartment for six days now. I littualy finished my last schoolyear six days ago. I haven't seen you or heard from you the entire year. I missed you so much, I needed you, but you never wrote me. Not even once! And now you just expect me to come home and give you all my attention and love?! I have to focus on you?! Honestly, that doesn't make sense. Just give me some time, I have to get used to living together and not having to study every single hour of the day. I have to get used to this house, the bed and even to being together again. And just for your information, having a relationship doesn't mean that I can't have any friends. It doesn't mean that I have to do everything you want.
HE was there for me when you weren't. HE was nice and friendly. It is more than logical for us to keep contact, because he is my FRIEND!"

Ron stood in front of her, he looked speechless. After a minute or so he found his voice back. "I can't believe that you are this dumb Hermione.." and with that, he grabbed his stuff and left. Leaving her heartbroken.

Hermione had stopped writing Draco since that day. She didn't know why she thought that that would bring Ron and her back together, she just did.
She also sent Ron almost two letters a day with apologies and she asked him in every single letter to return but he never did.

No matter what she tried, Ron never came back and the pain in her chest remained. Hermione had never felt so defeated before.

Suddenly, a ferm ticking noise woke her from her thoughts. She looked in the direction of the sound and found an owl in front of the kitchen window.
For a short moment she felt happy as she thought the owl was Ron's, but then she realised that she had never seen this owl before.

She stood up and walked towards the window. After a minute or two she was sitting at the kitchentable reading the short clear message.

Granger,

You can call yourself lucky because tonight you will have a date with me. Do not look ugly. I'll be at yours at 6:30 pm.

Draco Malfoy

Ps. What do you think of the new owl? I was getting bored of the old one.

Hermione reread it a few times, his use of language was different. But she desided that she hadn't had anything better to do.

She looked down at her clothes. She looked horrible, but she didn't care. Then she checked her hair, it had been unbrushed for almost a month now, but she didn't care. Her face looked tired and she had blue -ish circles under her eyes, but she didn't care. Nothing seemed to care her anymore.

Hermione looked at the clock, two hours before Draco would arrive. Still time to read a bit.