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Beneath Your Window by Crookshanks.x
 Books » Harry Potter Rated: T, English, Romance & Humor, Draco M., Hermione G., Words: 89k+, Favs: 1k+, Follows: 432, Published: Jun 10, 2007 Updated: Jun 6, 2008
 1,044 Chapter 23: The Newbie
Disclaimer: I'm just borrowing, JK. Please don't sue me! -covers-
Chapter 23 / The Newbie
The ceiling in her borrowed bedroom was very white. It was almost blinding. She found a crack in it and tilted her head to the side. Her arms lay motionless by her side on top of the blanket, her deep red dress robe now wrinkled and dishevelled from the run and her restless turning under the covers. She had long since stopped being annoyed at the fact that her pillow was wet. It was no one's fault but her own, after all.
A commotion outside her room made her blink, but she remained perfectly still, her head tilted to the side and her eyes locked on the crack in the ceiling. Her door then flung open and she finally rose her head slightly from her pillow finding Ron standing in the opening, his cheeks flushed and his sister hanging onto his arm with her nails digging into his flesh.
"Leave her alone, you great big oaf!" Ginny shrieked, and Hermione realised she was clinging to his arm because she was trying to keep him back. "You've already ruined about 75 percent of her life so far, I won't let you any more. Get the fuck out of my flat and stay away!"
He ignored her completely and it was as if he didn't have a human being attached to his arm at all.
"Hermione, what the bloody hell was that display back there?" he asked, his voice frighteningly calm.
She didn't answer, she just let her head fall back against the pillow without a word.
"You ran over to Malfoy like some love-sick puppy, and when he turns around to leave you run after him as if your life depended on it. What's going on?" he demanded, still ignoring Ginny's desperate tugs of his arm. "Answer me!"
"It's not your sodding business!" Ginny cried, and Hermione wondered why she wasn't pulling her wand and just hexing him to bits.
"Did you run straight into his arms when we ended? Right into the arms of the man I've hated my entire life?"
He didn't need a verbal answer. Her motionless body just laying there as she stared vacantly into the ceiling was answer enough.
"I can't believe you," he spat, nearly shaking with fury now.
The words rang in her head, reverberating through her to hit that painful nerve. She heard the words over and over in Draco's voice with the same pained tone it had held earlier. When Ron was about to open his mouth again, she threw the covers aside with force and leaped from the bed immediately.
"Will you shut up before you get us right back to square one after all the progress we made today?" she remarked in a stony cold voice.
He snapped his mouth shut and Ginny put up a smug expression at Hermione's interruption of his tirade.
"You have nothing to say on my personal life any more and it makes me downright pissed off that you have the nerve to come barging in here like you do," she continued, the volume of her voice growing louder. "You cheated on me! Stop pretending you have any say on who I love."
"Oh come off it, Hermione. I'm just trying to spare you the pain, there's no way it could work between you and Malfoy. You're much too different and he's a self-righteous arse."
"When is it going to sink in that you have nothing to say on the matter? It's my life. I've been seeing Draco for over 2 months and I think I know better than you if our relationship will work or not."
