Working for Malfoy

Chapter 14: Swimming

I knocked on her door gently. "Hermione, can I come in?"

"Yeah." She responds through the door.

I slowly open the door and see that she is sitting by the window again. She doesn't turn around as I approach her.

"Hermione, do you want to go to Blaise's with me?" I ask.

She just looks at me and nods.

"I'll get you some clothes. Come to my room when you are dressed."

"Ok."

After handing her the clothes I walk back to my room and change into a pair of black jeans and a dark green shirt.

Five minutes later, Hermione walks in wearing similar colthes.

"Ready?"

She just shrugs and walks to me.

I put my arm around her waist and she puts hers around my stomach.

I apparate out of my room and into Blaise's. There is no one here.

"Blaise." I call.

When I don't get a reply I walk to his bedroom door and look up and down the hall.

After looking in his bathroom and closet I turn to Hermione who just looks towards the window and starts toward it.

"I think I found him." She says.

I walk over to her and look out the window and down into his pool yard. Sure enough, he is down there with Weaselette in a bathing suit.

I just chuckle. "Fancy going for a swim Granger?"

She just smiles and says, "sounds like fun."

I grab her by the waist and we apparate back to my house.

Once we were changed, we apparate back to the Zabini Manor, this time landing in the pool yard.

Blaise looked over at us in shock. "How did you know we were back here?"

"We seen you through your bedroom window." I replied.

"Oh, I was gonna say, I'm pretty sure I didn't tell you that we were going to be swimming today." The dark haired wizard smiled.

"Well, you aren't very informative when it comes to stuff like this. Most of the time I have to figure it out on my own." I smiled.

"Well, what are we waiting for?" The redhead sitting by the side of the pool asked. "Let's get in the water already."

"We're coming. Chill out." Blaise said.

She stuck her tongue out at him in a childish way before turning back to the pool. Hermione looked at me and slowly started towards her friend.

Me and Blaise walked over to the pool table by the back door so I could discard my shirt, towel, and shoes.

"Is the Weaselette still feisty?" I asked.

"You have no idea. I don't know how the Gryffindors could put up with her day in and day out for seven years." Blaise answered.

"But, I think you would rather deal with her feistiness than know that she is being torchured by my deranged Aunt or her own brother." I pointed out.

"Yeah, I wouldn't switch her out for the world." He said while looking towards the redhead and brunette girls sitting by the pool. "What about Granger?"

"What about her?"

"How has she been since you last healed her?"

"Everytime I make a little progress someone has to go and mess it up again. She knows that she can trust me but she doesn't have the time to actually talk because my father is using her for his dirty work, or she is recovering from a curse he put on her."