When Draco Met Hermione

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Chapter three: Never Be Friends

Hermione and Draco ate in silence. Occasionally one of them would grunt (Draco) or clear their throat (Hermione) while pointing to either the salt and pepper shakers, or the napkins.

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After their plates were cleared away, Hermione took the check as soon as it was left on the table and began to calculate their share.

"Ok, well, fifteen percent of my share is........six dollars and ninety cents. I am going to put down seven." Hermione began to count out her money when she realized that Draco was staring at her. "What? You DO did convert some wizard money to muggle dollars didn't you?" Draco nodded, but he continued to stare. Hermione was getting visibly annoyed, "What is it? Do I have something on my face?"

"You're a very attractive person."

"Oh," said Hermione, a bit taken aback by the comment, "thank you."

But Draco wasn't done, "Amanda never said how attractive you were."

Hermione was pretending to busy herself by folding and unfolding her dollar bills. She wasn't quite used to getting compliments, especially long drawn out ones, nor was she accustomed to getting them from men who looked like Draco. 'Damn!' Hermione silently cursed herself for ever THINKING that Draco was somewhat attractive. 'Just fold the bills Hermione,' she thought. She looked at Draco with a frown; she knew she had to respond to him because he would just egg her on.

"Well, maybe she doesn't think I'm attractive."

Draco smirked. 'Damn him,' thought Hermione,' him and that damn smirk!'

"I don't think it's a matter of opinion, empirically, you are attractive."

Hermione was still astonished that Draco would even have the nerve to compliment her in such a way. Her pursed her lips and stared at him with cold eyes.

"Amanda is my friend."

"So?"

"So?! You're coming onto me!" Hermione's voice was sharp and Draco didn't realize until then how easy it was to get under Hermione's skin.

"No I wasn't..." Draco sounded like a child defending himself after being accused of something by his mother. He looked at Hermione whose jaw had dropped at his comment.

"What? Can't a man say a woman is attractive without it being a come-on?" The look on Hermione's face told Draco exactly what she thought about being called attractive.........by a man.

Not willing to concede to Hermione's accusations, Draco continued his defense.

"Alright, alright, let's just say for the sake of argument that it was a come-on. What do you want me to do about it? I take it back, ok? I take it back.

Hermione was not buying it. "You can't take it back."

"Why the hell not?"

"Because," said Hermione in a very matter-of-fact way, "it's already OUT THERE."

Draco was annoyed at Hermione's reaction. At first he thought it was cute, now he just wanted to be as far away from the brunette.

"Oh Merlin, what are we suppose to do, call the Ministry of Magic? Perhaps the muggle police force?" Draco shook his head, "It's already out there," he muttered in a mocking tone.

Hermione was embarrassed and peeved at the same time. She took a sip of her water and sighed, "Just let it lie, ok?"

Draco threw his hands up in the air, "Great! Let it lie! That's my policy." Draco slumped down in his seat, scowling in Hermione's direction. "That's what I always say," continued Draco, "let it lie! Hey," he looked at her intently across the table with a softened expression, "Wanna spend the night at a motel?" The expression on Hermione's face was priceless, shock and anger written all over her face. Draco smirked. 'Damn him!' thought Hermione.

Draco let out a laugh, "Ha! See what I did? I didn't let it lie."

"Draco...."

"I said I wouldn't let it lie, and a Malfoy always keeps his word."

'Insolent bastard!' thought Hermione. "Draco, look, we're just going to be friends, ok?"

'What the hell is this broad babbling about?' Draco was getting very agitated at this woman, with her over analyze every goddamn thing he said attitude. Fine, she thinks I'm coming on to her, she thinks I'm falling all over her, FINE!

"Great," sniffed Draco, sarcasm dripping from his mouth like venom, "Friends. It's the best thing really." With that, he stood up and walked out of the diner towards the car.

Hermione shook her head and paid for the meal herself.

'This is going to be a very long trip,' she thought.

~*~

Draco and Hermione continued to drive for almost an hour before anyone spoke. Draco was the first to break the silence.

"You realize of course that we can never be friends."

Hermione took a moment to look at the blond man driving her car. Anger was seeping through her veins at this comment.

"Is this about being a pureblood? Don't you realize that YOUR family might be the only one in the wizarding world holding on to that? Afraid to 'taint' your precious blood with mixing with the likes of me?" Hermione huffed and slammed back into her seat.

Draco shook his head and looked at Hermione with grin. "Merlin's beard Granger; YOU of all people should realize that I don't give a damn about that shit. Did I NOT attend a muggle university? Did I not decide to live in the muggle world and make a living for myself AS A MUGGLE? Am I not DATING a muggle? Did I not AGREE TO GET A RIDE with YOU who I thought would be a muggle in lieu of apparating in order to get used to being a damn muggle?! "

"My apologies," whispered Hermione, who knew she once again jumped to conclusions.

"Anyways," said Draco, obviously dismissing the previous part of their conversation, "What I was trying to say was.......and this is not a 'come-on' in any way, shape, or form, is that men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way."

Draco shut his mouth and waited patiently for Hermione to snap back at him about how she had male friends who she had never even thought of sleeping with and vice versa.

Sure enough, after a moment of silence, Hermione found something to say back to him, and it was exactly what he had predicted.

"That's not true." Draco just smirked and Hermione saw it. It was grating on her nerves that he was so........so.....UGH! "I have a number of men friends and there is no sex."

"No you don't," said Draco in a very matter-of-fact way.

"Yes I do!"

"No.......You.........Don't."

"YES I DO!"

Draco took a turn in the road rather sharply which caused Hermione to slam against the door. A small laugh escaped Draco's mouth and Hermione had to round up every bit of self-control to not smack him.

"Hermione, you only think you do. And now you're going to get all offended."

"Well, I should be! Are you trying to say that I'm shagging all these blokes without my knowledge?"

"No, what I'm saying is that they all want to shag you."

"They do not."

"Do too."

"They do not."

"Do too."

"Well, almighty and all knowing Draco, how do YOU know? Are you some kind of bloody seer? I'll have you know I don't believe it and if you were a seer you would have seen this whole trip and seen what an ASS you are. Knowing you, you probably are one and you're only on this trip because you think it's brilliantly funny to irritate the hell out of me!"

"Sorry to burst your bubble Miss Priss, but I am no seer. And if I was, you're right, I would have gone on this trip just to irritate the hell out of you." Draco laughed at the thought, and took another turn too sharply.

Hermione gripped the handle on the side of the door. "This is not some speedway MALFOY, don't wreck my car. And my friends do NOT want to sleep with me."

She obviously wasn't going to drop the subject unless she got the last word in, and Draco always got the last word.

"They do." Draco pulled into a gas station and hopped out. Hermione got out herself and walked to the driver's side to begin driving again.

"How do you know? Hmmm?"

"Because, GRANGER, no man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her."

"So you're saying that a man can be friends with a woman if he finds her unattractive?" Hermione looked at Draco who was fixing his hair in the mirror. 'Damn him.......sitting there so bloody sure of himself! I was the smartest witch at Salem and the smartest girl at University; he is not going to get the best of me!"

"Nah," Draco continued to fix his hair, "you pretty much want to shag'em too." He turned towards Hermione with a look of triumph over the fact that he was so sure of his 'theory.'

Hermione put the car in gear and began to drive the last leg of the trip. 'We're almost there,' she thought, carefully concentrating on the road. 'I'm going to drop him off and it will be good riddance to bad attitudes and ridiculous conversations.'

"Draco?" Draco was half asleep in the front seat. He opened one eye, "Yeah?"

"What if they don't want to have sex with you?"

"Who?"

"The friend. You say that a bloke will want to bag a lady regardless of whether or not he finds her attractive, but what if he just really doesn't want to?"

"It doesn't matter, because the sex thing is already out there so the 'friendship' is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story."

"Well, that's a crappy ending." Hermione adjusted her mirrors and tapped her fingers along to the music. "I guess we're not going to be friends then."

"Guess not."

"That's too bad you know. You are the only person I would have known in New York."

Thanks for reading! Here are a couple of "Thanks" and answers to some questions:

Violet- Thanks for reading*Rizka-I know it's weird that she didn't attend Hogwart's, but I have my reasons. I promise it will make sense!*Arycka Malfoy-Go see the movie, it's a pretty cute/sarcastic love story.*Dragonwitch27-I liked the whole "Days of the Week Knickers" thing too.*Macabre-thanks for the feedback....promise to work on dialogue.......i would love to hear your suggestions*Sally-Anne Perks-I'm glad you're liking it even though you mentioned that AU's are not your thing.*Harry Potter Wiccan-thanks for reading!*Mari-Yup. It's the movie with the fake orgasm scene, and that scene is DEFINITELY going to be in this story.*Lily-Hermione honked the horn at Draco and Amanda not because she was jealous, but because she planned out the whole trip on a schedule and she didn't want to start out late because Draco wanted to snog for fifteen minutes *Alexa Donaghy-Thanks for loving the story!*Headmaster Cromwell-thanks for reading and your feedback!