Draco's POV

    During our Double Potions, Slughorn announced that we had to work in pairs for some stupid project. That class was horribly stupid and the project made it even worse. Fortunately, at least to me, when I went to look at the list of our partners, I was pleasantly astonished to find out that I was paired with none other than the Brightest Witch of Her Age, Hermione Granger. I went up to inform her about this supposedly 'good news' but when I went up to her, she looked as if she was infuriated and about to murder me, as she called me a nightmare.

   To try to ease the tension between us, I tried joking with her that I was a nightmare but dressed as a daydream but nevertheless, she still pushed me and left me. Did she still hate me? I pondered deeply to myself. I knew I was a bloody idiot when I was younger but maybe, I had been a bit too much of git for her to despise me that much.

For some mystifying reason, my heart sinked and I felt disheartened. That's when it finally dawned on me. I might be attracted to Granger. Actually, screw that, I was attracted to her.

Some time after Double Potions ended, I was tempted to go up to her and apologize like I tried to before but again shook that strange thought off my mind once again.

"What a coward I am" I mumbled softly so that no one could decipher what I just mumbled as I went to the corridors for a long stroll as I was not that hungry and hence decided to skip dinner.

However, not long after, a group of girls, who I instantly recognized to be Pansy and the Greengrass sisters ambled past me, ignoring me, which I was completely alright with. As they did so, I overheard Pansy whispering about the things she had 'supposedly' done with me to make the two other girls be green with envy.

As she did so, I wrinkled my nose in disgust. How could she? They were all lies and she made them up to make others feel envious of her. She had went so low to even think we were together. How stupid.

As I continued strolling through the corridors, I then met the two girls, Weaslette and Granger. I immediately tried looking elsewhere but I glanced at Granger for a moment and as I glanced at her, I could not help but let the heat rise up to my cheeks and felt as if a certain pair of eyes were boring into my scarlet red face, and because of that, I might have flushed a bit more. Sensing this, I began to fight an urge to run back to my bedroom and curl into a ball. I really did not need anyone, especially Granger to look at me.

 Thinking that I had enough for the day after some time of strolling, I went back to the Heads' common room and as soon as I reached there and entered it, I heard a familiar voice chuckle "Malfoy, what a surprise! I have to say, looking at your face was hilarious" 

I turned my head to stare at the short, curly-haired girl that had a smirk plastered on her face. Not just any smirk it was my signature smirk that she was wearing on her face. And I had to say, she really does wear it better and that was something I could not deny. But then I didn't want to say anything either, so I stood rooted to the ground and looked down to avoid her gaze.

 After what seemed like an eternity of awkward silence, the girl broke the silence and questioned while stuttering a bit hopefully " So..umm do you want to start on making the Amortentia...you know..umm for the project?"

 I slowly looked up and nodded to only see her beaming at me. 

"Okay, so what are you waiting for? Let's get started!" She exclaimed with excitement and I grinned at her and nodded my head.

 "Sure why not?" I answered and we went to sit on the coffee table, to complete our project.