Chapter 4: A Beautiful Night With a Stranger

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Hermione wasn't expecting that, to say the least. But, whoever transformed into Draco was a really great kisser, and Draco was stunned at how good at kissing 'Astoria' had gotten. It was actually the nicest kiss Hermione had ever had. No gasping for air, no practically eating each other, just a golden moment in which their lips pushed against each other.

After about twenty seconds, Draco was the first one to pull away.

"Sorry, I should've asked you first, I just didn't -"

"Its fine. I enjoyed it" Hermione said coolly, trying to act like Astoria if she'd just been kissed. Hermione hoped to god that whoever Draco turned out to be, they were at least the same age as her. She didn't want to be known as the girl who made-out with a first year. "What should we do now?" She asked, tracing the tip of her open-toed sandals on the ground.

""Why don't we go to our favourite spot?" Draco offered, lacing his hand with Hermione's.

"Our?" Hermione asked quietly. She just shook the word out of her head, concluding that his vocabulary must've just gotten mixed up. "Okay". So, the two of them walked out of the castle, into the surprisingly humid night. Hermione made sure that Draco was just a step in front of her, since she has no idea where they were headed.

The duo made it to the courtyard, but Draco didn't stop there. He kept going, and climbed over one of the courtyard's stone arches and jumped down. Hermione shrieked and sprinted over to the edge, looking down. All she could see was thick bushes from a tree that had basically just swallowed up whoever she was with.

"Jump down!" Draco's voice yelled from somewhere below the leaves. "Just like you did before" Hermione's curious it's began to spiral out of control. Who was this mysterious man? And what had she done with him before?

"Okay" she yelled back down. Ok, this was it. After battling hundreds of deatheaters, jumping for this ledge would be a piece of cake. But something made Hermione a little nervous. She climbed up on the ledge and looked around cautiously, before jumping, becoming weightless.

She fell and spiralled out of controlled before she hit the canopy of leaves and the velocity of which she was travelling slowed now.

"ARGHHHH!" she screamed, her eyes tightly shut. She slammed down into a pile of leaves, her whole body jolting at the force, still screaming.

"Be quiet, love!" Draco slammed his hand on Hermione's mouth. "They'll hear us!"

Stunned, Hermione stood up and dusted the leaves off her beautiful dress, what had just happened?!

"Sorry" she whispered quietly.

"Follow me" said Draco making a little doorway through the shrubbery. Hermione walked through, ending up at the very top of a very flat rock that was attached to the mountain side. "Here we are" he said and sat down, lounging back. Hermione joined him, sitting on the rock with her legs dangling over the edge. "It's a beautiful starry night tonight"

Hermione looked to the sky and sure enough, it was dotted with zillions of twinkling lights. She copied Draco and lay down on the rock, just looking up and gazing at stars. For that moment, it was just the two of them and the sky. And a few crickets chirping peacefully nearby.

"So how have you been? Sorry to take you out of the main party area, I know you love to party" Draco sighed, tilting his head to look at 'Astoria'. Hermione was taken off guard with the question and she almost didn't hear him due to how intensively she was studying the stars.

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