To Die For

To Die For

Chapter One-The Uncalled For

Hermione dashed around the corner, her sleek shiny hair streaked with red streaming out behind her. Pearl eye shadow was swirled lightly over her eyelids and lip-gloss was shining on her lips. It looked as if there was a slight bit of blush on her cheeks, but that could've been from her running. It definitely was a change from the girl that had first entered Hogwarts 7 years ago. Boys had even started looking at her and realizing how pretty she really was, especially without the puffy hair. Last year Harry and her had gone out for a little, and when that hadn't worked they had broken up and Dean had eventually asked her out. They hadn't communicated much over the summer and he was now with Lavender.

She made a mad run to get to her next, and last, class that day, DADA, at the end of the corridor, so not to be late. Since she was now head girl she needed to make a good impression by getting to every single class on time. She had been here just 5 minutes ago, but then had remembered about the skinny book that they had received yesterday, the first day of school. Before anyone could say anything she had hurried back up to the head girl and head boy dormitories and grabbed the book that she had read thoroughly last night on the comfortable couch in the head boy and girl common room. Now, on her way back, she hoped she would make it on time.

Her efforts were wasted though. She heard the sound of the bell ring one second, and the next ran head first into the person she dreaded; the blonde haired-pure blooded jerk that she had to partner with as head girl. She could still remember the day Ron had found out. "HE'S HEAD BOY!? I'll bet anything his blasted father bought his way in for him. That little…" It was absurd how furious he had been. Hermione could still picture Ron's bright red face; fire shooting out of his ears, and almost laughed.

"Hermione?"

She gazed up into the shadowy gray eyes of the head boy who was strangely being considerate toward her. She would have thought that he would have at least called her Mudblood once by now for running into him, or for even just being there. She was surprised to see that he actually looked worried, worried about her. There were a few wrinkle lines creasing his forehead and his mouth was turned down slightly at the edges. He unconsciously kept running his hand through his silky blonde hair messing it up in a way that was cute. Wait, this was Malfoy she was talking about, she couldn't be thinking these thoughts about him. He was the one who had been "bullying" her since the day she first arrived at Hogwarts. How the heck had she even begun thinking these thoughts-she must be out of her mind, or maybe she was, she had just been practically knocked out. But anyway, why had she been thinking them in the first place?

"Hermione?" he repeated, bringing her out of her thoughts, "Are you all right?"

She abruptly realized that there was a stream of blood flowing rapidly down her face from somewhere above her right eye. It must've been from the fall. She reached up and flinched as the cut stung sharply when her fingers brushed slightly against it. She remembered that she had been asked a question and hastily started to shake her head yes. Her head throbbed violently and she had to lay it back down on the ground, the way she was because of her fall.

"No, you are most definitely not! You really need to go to the hospital wing." At this, Draco swung her gracefully up into his arms and proceeded down the hallway in the opposite way that Hermione had just been running. Something weird was definitely going on. Draco would never in his pureblooded life touch a Mudblood. She knew that if someone saw him carrying her that the whole school would think that she and Draco were together in about two seconds flat. Or worse, if one of the Slytherins saw her, she could even be attacked. The world swirled before her eyes. She still wondered why Draco was being so nice to her, but she didn’t get any more time to ponder the question of why. Dizziness overcame her, and she fell into a deep sleep.