Marriage by Law

Chapter 2 : The Talk

(Draco's POV)

I watched Hermione storm away and I knew I had upset her. I honestly don't even understand why I was so harsh with, I mean the girl just learned who she really was. It bothered me that I had, but I could not understand why it bothered me. I was a Malfoy and the Malfoy's did not express emotions of any kind, it was just the way that my family had always been and that would never change. Could it be possible that this girl was making me fall in love with her already. No that couldn't be possible, I don't love anyone. I looked at Headmistresses McGonagall and she looked slightly angry. Now I had to deal with her being angry at me and that never ended well. 

"You will go apologize to Ms. Max at once." She said.

"I don't apologize to anyone. You forget I am a Malfoy." I grunted, knowing that in the end I would be apologizing. 

"Well fine let me make this simple for you. Either you go apologize or you get detention for a whole month, Slytherin will lose 50 points, and I will call you father. If I am correct your dad would be furious with the way that you just treated her." Headmistress said.

"Fine." I grumbled. I hated when she knew just how to push my buttons. 

"And I trust that you can find your quarters without my assistance?" Headmistress asked.

I nodded my head, and walked out to find Hermione. I can almost guarantee that it won't be easy to fin her. I wish McGonagall didn't see fit to make me apologize, because I am terrible at saying sorry to anyone. I have never said sorry and didn't really see the point in starting now, but she did threaten me so I didn't have choice. I hate when teachers interfere with everything that I do. If my father found out that I had already upset her, there would be hell to pay and my mother would probably beat me for upsetting a lady. She was funny that way. I didn't even know where to begin to find Hermione, but I knew that I needed to so that we could talk. The first place that I checked was the library because I assumed that would be the one place that she would go, but she wasn't there to my surprise. I decided that I would check the study hall next and she wasn't there either, that was a bigger shock since she was a bock worm. I checked all the classrooms too and she was nowhere to be found. I wandered the school for nearly an hour or more before I found Hermione in the Gardens while I was on my way to Haggards hut to see if she had gone there to talk to him. Odd place to find her.

"Hermione can we talk for just a minute?" I asked walking up to her, only to find that she was crying.

"I would rather not be anywhere near you at the moment." She said and went to get up, but I sat down next to her and to her hand in mine. 

"I am sorry. I should not have been so rude to you. I was way out of line and honestly my mother would beat me for it." I said with a sincere smile on my face, hoping that we could move past this. 

"Did Headmistress make you come here and apologize?" She asked with a sad smile gracing her face.

"Well she did tell me to come apologize, but I was out of line. You were just dumped with this news, and I am being a rude asshole." I said with a grin and I could almost see a hint of a smile. 

"That doesn't make it okay." She said, more tears falling out of her eyes.

"Nothing I say could ever make how I just treated you okay by any means, but please don't cry.." I said with a grin.

"You hurt me Draco, you always do and you didn't apologize before. You always said things and did things that you knew would hurt me and you got a laugh out of it. I doesn't make it okay just because you come and say sorry." I said, remembering all the bad things that he ever did to me.