Better With Chocolate

"Hermione?" Draco asked, coming up behind the girl as she was slapping chocolate frosting on a ruined cake. "Hermione? It's just a cake!"

"Yeah, but its pissing me off!" she complained, slapping on another knife full of frosting on the demolished cake. "Ron didn't coat the pan right, and now the cake's ruined! He does shit like this, when he doesn't want to do something." Hermione had a scowl on my face.

"Hermione, please!" Draco pleaded, but she just gave him an irritated, if not angry glance. "Hey, I thought you said I wasn't the one that you were mad at!"

"Yes, well, you just happen to be here right now, don't you?" Hermione shot back. She was fuming, throwing the knife down on the kitchen counter. "It's not perfect." She pouted

"Hermione, come on! It'll taste fine if it's ruined of if it's perfect," Draco said, and Hermione pouted angrily. "Hon, calm down."

"But..." she said, and Draco rolled his eyes at her. She pouted slightly, which she was very good at, and Draco became flustered with her, turning on his heel, shaking his head at her.

"Fine," he said, walking out of the kitchen. He sighed. "Women, I swear," he muttered. "But if I didn't love them, I'd be gay." He shook his head. "I find myself in a quandary there. Aye."

"Fuck it," she said, throwing down the frosting container into the kitchen sink, watching Malfoy's retreating back. She sighed.

Hermione groaned and grumbled to herself, following him out of the room. He had flopped down into an armchair in the study, his hand over his face, looking down. That was his trademark "irritated" pose. Hermione frowned, walking over beside the armchair, crouching beside it.

"Draco?" she asked tentatively. He looked up at her and sighed, shaking his head at her. "Draco, I'm sorry. You're right; I was being stupid. It's just a cake." He chuckled dismissively and shook his head again.

"Finally," he said, somewhat serious, somewhat playfully. Hermione sighed and looked at him with a penetrating, irritated glance. Upon looking in Draco's eyes, which were dancing playfully, her irritation melted and she became playful like a kitten.

"Shut up, you left the kitchen two seconds ago!" Hermione playfully shot back at him, placing her hand on her hip. She pulled a "you should be glad I'm even standing her, mister" glare at him. Draco playfully shivered in his chair, standing up, and towered over her at least six inches.

"Oh, I quiver with fear!" he shot back at her with a grin on his face. She groaned and walked closer to him, smacking him on the side of the arm.

"You are such a brat, Malfoy!" she exclaimed with a sigh, her honey eyes gleaming as she looked up into his silvery ones.

"Yeah, I know." He replied with a grin, slipping his slender hand into hers. "Come on, let's finish salvaging Ron's ruined cake. Remember, it'll still taste good!"

"Oi, man," she grumbled, squeezing his hand nonetheless.

Hermione pouted but followed Draco as he walked out of the study and into the kitchen, where half the cake had already disappeared. They looked at each other.

"Ron," they said in unison. Draco walked over to the cake, his back to Hermione, a grin on his face.

"Hermione, could you come here for a sec? Looks like you missed a spot," Draco said, his back still to her.

"Oh, damn," she said, completely oblivious to his evil plan. She walked closer and Draco hit her full in the face with a big handful of cake and frosting. "Draco!" she shrieked as she felt the stickiness contact with her face. "That was cruel!" She walked past him, grabbed a handful herself and slapped it in his face. Draco, unlike Hermione, busted up laughing.

"See, it's not a complete waste!" he exclaimed, licking a piece from his upper lip. "It still tastes good! Try it." Hermione stuck her chin out at him. "Trust me."

"How can I trust you when you just smacked a big piece of cake in my face?" she stated, but licked a piece off anyway. "Mmm, it is good!"

"Told you so!" Draco said, sticking his tongue out through the frosting, and a big piece fell on his tongue. He ate it, smacking his lips as he did so. He walked up to Hermione and licked a big piece off the full length of her cheek.

"Eeeeew!" she shrieked. "Draco, that's gross!" Draco just gave a big grin and took another lick off her nose, which made her wrinkle her nose in response.

"Hey, you taste better than I do!" he said, with a smirk. "I guess that means I'm going to have to lick your face clean, huh?"

"Draco, no!" Hermione said with a big grin herself.

"I'll let you lick mine off," he said devilishly. Hermione blushed a bit under the chocolate and hit him lightly on the arm.

"Pervert," she said under her breath. His grin grew wider.

"You know it better than anyone," he said with a wink. He had just noticed some of the frosting coated his silky, blonde hair and he sighed. "Damn."

"Hey, this was your idea, buddy!" she retorted. "Look at mine!" She had chunks of yellow cake hanging from her curls, and chocolate frosting coating the strands around her face, Draco laughed. "Meanie."

"Look who's talking!" he exclaimed. Hermione stuck her tongue out at Draco, and he stepped forward, capturing it with his mouth, turning it into a deep, passionate, chocolate-filled kiss. Hermione's knees buckled under her, and Draco slid his arms around her.

When they broke apart, Draco licked her nose playfully, and Hermione couldn't help but smile.

"Damn you, Draco Malfoy," she said softly. He grinned at her, kissing her cheek and sucking off more the frosting from her skin. She sighed and gave a resolved glance, licking his face from chin to ear.

"Ack!" Draco exclaimed.

"Payback's a bitch," Hermione said with a sweet grin, still rolling the chocolate around on her tongue. "Nah, I think you taste better," she said with a smile. There was chocolate in her grin. Draco laughed.

"You have chocolate in your teeth, my dear," he remarked, and she became a brighter shade of pink, more visible than before because of the bare spots where Draco had licked the chocolate and cake off.

"Oh," was all she said, but before she could say anything else, Draco kissed her again.

"You taste better with chocolate," he remarked, kissing her once again. She melted to him, into his embrace.