A Makeover Story

Hermione gasped. This was from Draco?

She fastened the bracelet around her wrist. She loved the way it jingled and shined.

After cleaning up her presents she walked down to the common room to meet up with Harry and Ron.

"Wow Hermione where did you find these? I´ve never seen them before!" Ron was looking through his new chocolate frog cards. "I don´t have any of these!"

"Yeah, they´re new. They´re selling them at Honeydukes."

"Hey what´s that on your wrist Hermione?" Harry spoke up.

"Oh...uh...this?" she said, pointing to her new charm bracelet. "Er...just a gift..."

"Who´s it from?"

"Um...my...aunt...uh...D! Yes! My Aunt Dee. See, she even had the charm engraved."

Both Harry and Ron came over to look when Errol, the Weasley family owl, flew in through an open window straight into the wall.

Several Gryffindors laughed as Ginny rushed over.

She picked Errol up, brushed him off, took the letter, and sent him to the owlery to get some water.

"Stupid owl..."

Ginny read the letter and then let out a laugh.

"You know that girl Charlie was dating?" she said.

"Yeah...Rosemary isn´t it? Wait-was dating?" Ron asked.

"Well, according to Bill, it was a huge thing. Turns out she was with another man while she was dating Charlie. When he found out there was this flaming row and then they ended up breaking things off. Shame really. She was the first person Charlie was serious about."

Ron chuckled but Hermione felt her hands get sweaty.

"And that´s not all of it! Mum was in a huge rage and sent her howlers and letters full of bubotuber pus every other day! Then, to make matters worse, Mum saw her at the deli with the other man and hexed her! It was awful; they had to get rid of these terrible green boils all over her body. But if there´s anything learned from this, it´s never cheat on a Weasley."

Oh perfect.

Hermione decided to do something about the Draco/Ron situation before things got nasty (as in green boil nasty). She figured the easiest solution was to talk it out.

She decided to talk to Ron first.

"Hey Ron?"

"Yeah?"

"Um, I have a question. Say, hypothetically of course, that I was to kiss another person while still dating you. This is all hypothetical remember."

"Well, I dunno what I would do. But I know you´d send Mum into a flying fit."

"Heh heh...well, what if I were, you know, to end things because I kissed another person?"

"Well I´d be really hurt. I´d probably never be able to look at you again. But what are you so worried about Hermione? You´d never do anything like that. You´re too sensible."

Well, that solved nothing. She wasn´t even going to bother talking to Draco. It was time to go to plan B.

Which was, obviously, to flip a coin.

"All right Hermione. This is easy. Heads is Draco, Tails is Ron. Tails never fails, tails never fails..." she told herself.

She flipped the coin. It was heads. Damn tails.

"All right, two out of three..."

She flipped the coin twice more, and it was heads both times.

This was not going to work. On to plan C.

She had her parchment, she had her quill. She was ready.

"Now then. Pros and Cons. First Ron. Let´s start with Pros...hmm...er...nice looking...er...nice to talk to...sweet...at times...good at chess...uh...er...well I´m sure I´ll think of more when I have to do the cons.

All right, cons. Loud, rude, loves to argue with me, tells dirty jokes, liked Bethany from Ravenclaw..."

She could´ve gone on for hours, but stopped when she got to 15.

"Well I´m sure Draco will have more than that. Now then, pros. Hmm...GORGEOUS, funny, nice to me, good kisser (A/N- hehe), good sense of style, knows how to treat someone well...ugh lets just skip to the cons. All right then...hmm...mean to me, no scratch that. He´s not mean to me anymore. Um...mean to Harry and Ron...but then again, they´re mean to him too...he is a Slytherin...well, Slytherin does have kind of a sexy sound to it...ugh! I can´t believe I just thought that! This isn´t working at all."

She packed up her stuff and went up to bed. She didn´t know what to do.

Hermione sat lazily in the Gryffindor common room, reading the book Harry gave her for Christmas. Then Harry and Ron walked in, soaked from the snowball fight.

Hermione didn´t know what it was, maybe just her hormones going crazy or maybe just sheer stupidity, but she threw her book down, ran over to Ron, and kissed him with all the passion she could muster. Like all the plants of the world had just died and Ron was their new supply of oxygen.

Or, as the cowboys would say, she kissed him `till the cows came home.

But when she came to the realization of what she doing, she let out a tiny yelp and stumbled back.

"Um...wow...uh...what was that for?"

"I...uh...er...heh heh..." Then she bolted out of the common room and retreated to the library.

But what was scaring her was that she had felt nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

In fact, it made her feel kind of nautious, like she was kissing a brother or something.

While pondering on the way to the library, she felt a hand clasp over her mouth and she was pulled into a nearby broom closet.

Her green eyes met gray ones and she realized at once who it was.

"Draco! I-"

"Shh..."

He leaned in and kissed her softly and she returned the kiss.

And it was amazing. There were fireworks and flashing lights and blaring horns and everything incredible. It was like...magic.

How cliché.

Then, without saying so much as a word, Draco pulled away and left a speechless Hermione in the broom closet.

Hermione looked like a heavy weight had just hit her face. She finally understood.

She was in love with Draco Malfoy.