meant to be | dramione

04.

F O U R

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hermione laughed at draco's shocked expression as he pulled his hand out of hers. "shut up," he grumbled shooting her a look. this only caused her to laugh harder. "stop," he said pushing her forward a bit, but he couldn't help but crack a small smile.

hermione wiped the tear from her face and proceeded to pull two keys out of the envelope for their flat. she handed draco one of them. "do the honours," she gestured her hand towards the door. draco walked up the steps, hermione following behind him. putting the key into the door he unlocked it. pushing the door open slowly, they walked in.

"wow," hermione breathed as she stepped in behind draco. as soon as you walked in there was a grand staircase. she could see multiple doors upstairs and figured that's where their rooms were. to her right she saw a coffee table and some seating. there was also a piano with a guitar leaning up on it. through the foyer section she could see part of the kitchen and dining table. she tore her gaze away to look to the other side. on the left there was a coat closet. a little bit down there was another door. she assumed this was a bathroom or something. she could see what looked like comfortable couches past the bathroom.

"let's go explore upstairs," draco suggested starting up the stairs. hermione let him get up a few steps before she followed him. draco stopped at the top of the stairs and moved over to make room for hermione. "woah," she said as she reached the top. she looked down upon their living room. "woah is right," draco said in awe joining her at the edge. they both seemed to forget who they were with. after looking down for a bit they turned to open the door at the top of the stairs. it was a simple bedroom. closing the door back they continued down the hall. there was another door close to the bedroom they had just come from. draco pushed it open to reveal a bathroom. it was simple; a normal bathroom with a shower, toilet, and a sink. a good distance from the bathroom they came across another door. "i'm starting to think these doors are never ending," draco grumbled as hermione pushed the door open. she laughed as they took in the bedroom. this one was larger with a king bed in the middle of the room, windows on both sides of the bed. to the left there was a walk in closet. they went to the right where there was another door. "bathroom," hermione muttered shutting the door back. they exited the room continuing to the door at the end of the hall. "last door," she said. draco pushed it open. it mirrored the last bedroom they had just been in.

"which room do you want?" draco asked as they headed back down. "the one at the end of the hall, if that's okay," hermione replied. he nodded. "i'll take the one that's the same layout as yours and the other one can be a guest bedroom."

they sat down on the couches sinking into them. hermione was right, they were comfortable. "let's make some rules granger," draco said shifting to put some distance between them. hermione's eyes snapped up to his and then back down as both of them seemed to realize who they were with.

before either one of them could say something they heard someone banging on their door. they shot each other questioning looks before getting up. hermione pulled the front door open and saw a flash of red before she was pulled into a bone crushing hug.

"ron," she gasped patting his back and shoving his shoulder a bit. "sorry! are you okay?" ron asked releasing her from his death grip. "yeah," she coughed as she tried to regain her breathing. before she could say anything ron burst out his anger about this stupid marriage rule finally coming out. "they can't be doing this mione!" he shouted. "they just can't be," he sighed grabbing her hand as he continued to rant.

draco watched the scene unfold before him, one eyebrow raised in amusement as weasley fumed, granger trying frantically to calm him down. "YOU!" ron yelled turing his red, fuming face towards draco. draco merely kept a bored look on his face. he raised his eyebrows in response for ron to continue. "you better stay away from her. i don't want you doing anything to her," ron spit getting up in draco's face.

before he could answer he heard a familiar voice answer, "he wouldn't think about it weasley. now i'd appreciate if you got out of my boyfriends face." astoria appeared next to his side squeezing his hand. as ron back away he put an arm around astoria giving her a quick peck on the lips. she smiled up at him.

"how did you guys even get here?" hermione asked looking between her raging boyfriend and the couple. "we didn't tell you our address."

"his sister," astoria answered calmly nodding her head at the redhead. hermione nodded in response. a tense silence settled between the four. "well," astoria said finally breaking the silence. "we should be going. we still have to read the letter." "as do we," draco said. "i'll see you soon yeah?" he asked hugging astoria. she nodded smiling as she kissed her boyfriend goodbye.

"bye mione," ron said wrapping her in a hug. "bye," she said hugging him. he pulled back a bit and smiled before kissing her lightly on the lips. he waved bye at her before grabbing astoria's waiting hand as they disapparated.

as they hear the all to familiar crack hermione and draco stood in silence, draco looking at his feet and hermione picking at her nails. uncomfortably she cleared her throat. this caused draco to look up. "nothing will happen seeing as we both have someone else," draco said, but it sounded more like a question. hermione nodded racking her brain for something to say as an awkward silence fell again.

"erm, shall we open the letter then?" she asked heading back over to the couch. she didn't receive a verbal answer, but she could hear draco follow behind her and took that as a yes.

a/n:
y'all i'm so sorry! it took me so long to updated, but here's a WAY overdue chapter. but heyyyy, it's longer lmao! it's 1,000+ words so ahah :))

anyways, what cool things have done this summer or you're gonna do? any vacations, camps, etc?