you are my secret -a forbidden love story ✔︎

𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲-𝐭𝐰𝗼.

Next day before sunrise/ Hermione's POV:

"I believe that we can be extraordinary together rather than ordinary apart"

Beep. Beep. Beep.

"Ugh, only one minute. Please", I mumbled.

"Hermione Jean Granger, you have to wake up!", Ginny whispered sharply. "It's around 5 o'clock. Sunrise's in 30 minutes."

"In 30 minutes?! I overslept totally!",I realized. It wasn't a good idea to start a new book before sleep, I should have known that.

"Yes, in 30 minutes. So wake up and try to not disturb the others"

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Ginny and I tried to be as quiet as possible when we tiptoed out of the dormitory into the common room. To be honest, I doubt that anyone had heard us anyway since Lavender's snores drowned down our footsteps. Anyway, I dreamed of something horrible. I dreamed that Draco and his friends were only fooling me and that he had only played my feelings. But it was only a nightmare, right? Only a nightmare.

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As we arrived in the common room, we sat down on one of the cozy couches and Ginny dug a bottle out of her bathrobe.

"Uhm, Ginny? What's that?", I asked.

"I thought some butterbeer could calm you down. I also have firewhiskey with me, though butterbeer should do it as well", she shrugged.

"Ginny!"

"Okay, well I'm just kidding. It's only a new product of Weasley's Wizard Wheezes. George made it and he told me to try it out since he can't ask Fred anymore", she sobbed.

"Oh, Ginny. I'm so sorry...", I blurbed.

"No, you don't have too. Anyway, let's try it on your face! It should make your puffy panda eyes disappear and your face shine brighter than it already does!"

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After I allowed her to put the pinkish, glittery liquid on my face, I felt the liquid tickling my face and doing little plops. Although I haven't seen myself in a mirror, my face felt at least more alive.

Ginny smiled happily and gave me a small pocket mirror. I grabbed it immediately, curious about the result.

"Woah, Ginny! Why doesn't George bring out a whole skincare collection?", I wondered.

"Uhm, he wants to! I asked him why he hasn't done that yet a few weeks before school started! And then a package arrived yesterday! He also asked me how to name his creation! Do you have any ideas?", she assented with pride.

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While we tiptoed to my closet again, we discussed a few names for the product. In the end, we decided to call it 'Weasley's puffy face solution for every occasion'. A good name, right? (A/N: I hate to make author's notes in a chapter, but please mind that I invented this name and the potion!)

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After we decided on my outfit, I ran to the bathroom as silent as I could in order to brush my teeth. I was wearing my best clothes, so I had to be careful to not spit toothpaste on my pullover. The butterflies in my stomach became more and more when our 'date' came nearer and nearer as well.

When I checked my watch once again, it was already 5:25 am. In order to be on time, I had to run down the castle to the lake, otherwise, I'd be late.

Ginny smiled at me one more time and wished me fun on my date with Draco.

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5 minutes later, I was standing at the lake alone and disappointed. Didn't Draco say he'd be waiting for me? Whatever I can owe him another 5 minutes, who knows if he is just late? So I sat down on the grass and watched how the sun rose and how the colors of the sky changed from black to purplish pink. By the time I checked my watch, 7 minutes were over and the doubts in my head became stronger and stronger.

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Suddenly, I heard some footsteps coming nearer. In the next moment, a pair of cold hands were making my eyes seeing nothing. Although I didn't think it was Draco, I truly hoped so.

"Guess who's here?", someone asked in a mysterious voice. It took me a moment to realize that is was Draco's because his voice was drowning in all the chirping of the birds around the lake.

"Draco! You scared me! You little ferret!", I screamed, still frightened by his sudden appearance.

"Thank you, I wish you a good morning too, Hermione", he said sarcastically. "Anyway, woah your outfit! Is your purple pullover new?"

"Uhm, yes", I answered. In fact, my beige cord pants were new as well, but okay.

"Well, you didn't say good morning, therefore you could give me a good-morning kiss, right?", he avowed and pointed his finger on his pale cheek.

Without any further instructions, I kissed him softly on his cheek. His smile, maybe even beaming, kicked off all the doubts out of my head. Why did I even think that he was only playing me?

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And then, out of any context, he turned his head around so that he kissed my lips softly. He didn't even say anything, he just kissed me back. Though our kiss was lasting long and passionate, he didn't want to go any further. All he did was kissing me again and again softly, not like Ron. Ron's kiss was always kind of to fast and without any magic, in comparison with Draco's.

Lost in the moment, we almost forgot the sunrise. Unfortunately our kiss came to an end as Draco looked above the horizon.

"Oi, look! The sunrise's colors! They are beautiful! Not as beautiful as you, but still incredible!", he began. "Maybe that's a sign, the sunrises weren't as pretty the last week! What do you think, Mione?"

Even though I don't believe that this was faith, he might be right. I watched the sunrises last week as well whenever I woke up too early and they weren't as pretty as todays.

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The last minutes before we had to return to the castle, we cuddled a lot lying on the plain grass. As I could smell his cologne all the time, I realized it was the one I smelt in Potion's class when we
brewed the Amortentia potion.

"Uhm, Draco?", I broke in the silence.

"Hm?"

"I have to admit something. Remember when we had to brew Amortentia a few weeks ago? I think I could smell your cologne in it", I admitted.

"Hermione? I could always smell your hair in the potion. Always and maybe forever", he smirked weakly as he brushed my hair with his hand.

Woah. That's not what I've expected him to react. However, I responded to his cute statement with one last kiss on his lips before we had to return to the castle.

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Before our time together was ending for today, we walked hand in hand back to the castle. From the entrance I heard how students were already shouting and running, the classes are about to start, I guess.

"You go first", we chorused.

"Draco, you go first. I have some prefect duties to do before class anyway", I nodded in the direction of the castle.

"I have some prefect duties as well, but I already did everyone for the week", he boasted. "We'll meet again, pinky promise?"

Since he's such a keeper, I had to agree with him: "I enjoyed every second with you, Draco. Let's meet at the library once again, remember our project?"

"Really? Well okay, then goodbye for now", he said and took his time to walk back into the castle.

I sighed. Maybe it wasn't even that bad that our relationship isn't like others. It makes us extraordinary and something special.

CHAPTER 22 GUYSSS! This chapter is so long (1300+ words), I'm sorry for that, but I wanted to go more into detail with the date of them. Anyway, did you enjoy reading this chapter? Any feedback or criticism? Let me know in the comments! Btw thank you for 1.3k+ reads, that's amazing! I never thought that!
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