PERFECT

A/N: Hi everyone. I know it's been too long since I posted HP fanfic. I am currently busy writing academic pieces and editing. If you can believe then I'll tell you a little something. I am the editor-in-chief for my department magazine in college. We just finished the magazine. So to speak, last year and so have been hectic. With all the work, my mood swings and lack of imagination, I have not been able to write much really.

This story is a total AU that was just lying on my laptop. It's finished so regular updates. It's not that long but I felt I really owed my readers something and so I decided why not post this. Though it was written long back so the style may seem a bit off maybe. I have improved a lot and hopefully in future, you could see that in form of a newly written fanfic.

Again, thanks for all the constant support and I really hope you like this story; though I know it's not enough to make up for my absence but still. Enjoy!

Chapter 1

Boring... That was how this party was like. I would never have imagined coming to this place but my friend Blaise just had to drag me to his brother's reception. For one I did not know anyone beside Blaise, his brother and his parents; all were busy. So now I did not have anyone to converse to. Second, girls.

Sure there were many girls but all of them looked same. Wearing pink or white with lots of make-up and complex hairdo. They screamed of type who wanted you to be a slave who takes care of their every whim, take them to shopping and spend thousands on their needs. Seriously, none of them were of my type.

Now my type of girl is something I don't even know. But one thing I know, she would not be like any of these heavy maintenance girls.

Blaise waved a hand in front of my face. Wow! I didn't even notice he was in front of me.

'Dude, you look so out of it. I am honestly very sorry I cannot be with you at the moment. My bro needs his best man after all.' Blaise said with a wink and walked away towards his brother.

Goodness. I made my way over to the bar and ordered champagne. I was watching the crowd dance and sighed. Damn Blaise and his request of coming here with him. I should have brought a nice date instead of complying with Blaise and his bloody requests.

'Seriously! People here are totally mental.' I heard a voice beside me. I turned in my seat to look and found a girl sitting on a stool beside me.

She was beautiful. Just one word. She was wearing a deep vine color gown with halter neck showing off her slender neck and back. She was not Barbie like size zero with dreamy hairs. No she was just normal. But there was something so gorgeous about her. Her chocolate-brown hair was wavy and shoulder length and left down. Her face was accentuated by the light makeup. She was beautiful, yup, no doubt.

'Champagne?' I asked her in a cool voice.

She turned towards me and nodded gladly. After us both got our drinks she looked at me.

'Hermione.' She said and extended her hand. I took her hands and placed a kiss on her knuckles.

'I'm Draco. Nice to meet you! You look kinda mad.' I stated.

'Oh don't ask. People here are so much ridiculous. So what if everyone's wearing pinks and I'm not. I don't like pink they are wearing so I wore this dress. What is wrong with that? Why do people have to make an issue over such a trivial thing such as my dress color?' she sighed.

'I don't think they should. As long as you look okay then it's alright. Not that you look okay, I mean you do look okay but you look more than okay and it is fine.' I stuttered. God, why does this happen with me only. She just smirked at me. I sighed and added a few words to salvage my dignity.

'What I mean is you look beautiful, Hermione.' I said frankly.

'Thank you Draco. You look cute when you know, speak so fast. You do that on purpose or what?' She asked while smiling. I didn't have an answer so I decided to play coy. 'Whatever you choose to believe Miss.' and then I flashed an amazing smile at her.

'Care to dance?' I asked her casually as I stood up. She smiled at me and put her hand forward. I smiled and took her by both of her hands and lead her to the dance floor.

And I don't even know who the DJ was but in that moment I could really kiss him/her for the brilliant choice in songs.

The song was a funky and perfect for dancing. It was called 'shut up and dance' and it was one of my favorites.

And so we started to dance. I twirled her round and pulled her close to me doing a routine of zigzag before dipping her down straight. I pulled her back up and lifted her before moving round. She was laughing by now. I brought her back on ground before moving her left to right in a slight dip. I took hold of one of her hand stretching her out and pulled her back effectively trapping her with both my hands. We swayed a little against each other before my final trick. I took her hands above our heads before leaving her hands and giving her a push then caught her by her waist just before her hair ends touched the ground.

She looked horror-stricken for a moment before she smiled. As I brought her back up straight she began hitting me lightly with her hands while laughing and shouting.

'How dare you scare me like this?' she asked.

'C'mon lady, no need for violence. It was my last act you know.' I told her.

'And who made the rule of scaring others with your so called last act?' she demanded. I held my hands up in surrender.

And so we danced, bantered, drank and laughed all the time. When the party came to an end and after I could not find Blaise; well that was good thing, I asked Hermione if I could drop her home. She said yes.

We sat in my black R8 and I started driving.

'Can I ask you a thing?' she said turning towards me.

'Yeah.'

'Can you take me for a long drive? It's like 4 in the morning and I don't fancy going back to my extravagant hotel room after all this. I'm not sure I can handle all this fakeness and all. I want something natural, something raw.' She said wistfully.

I could only nod. And so we went on a long ride. We were already on the outskirts of the city and so I took the opportunity to surprise her. I drove out of the grasslands and into hilly area.

She asked me to stop my car so she could 'get out of the flashy dress.' She unzipped the lower frock of her dress which was attached to her upper bodice and she was left in vine halter top and black shorts.

'I always stay prepared if I storm out of these big parties. Can't walk around in these frilly-follies, can I?' she said with a smile.

'No I don't suppose you can.' With that I started driving again. She opened the window and relaxed back. Said she liked the feel of fresh wind on her face; to which I smiled.

At last we reached the hill top spot. The place overlooked the whole city and you can clearly see the sun rise. It was 4:45 and the sky began lighting up.

We sat on the bonnet of my car staring at the sky and eating chocolates; which I always kept in case of emergency.

'Let's play 20 questions.' She suggested.

'Okay.' I agreed.

'What's your full name?' she shot.

'Draco Abraxas Malfoy.'

'Wow! That's some name!' she exclaimed and I smiled. 'Mine is Hermione Jean Granger, in case you were wondering.' She added.

'What is your favorite color?'

'Well Draco, that's difficult. You know I'm very colorful.'

'I couldn't have guessed.' I said with a smirk.

'I would go with Emerald.' She said after a second.

'I like Scarlet but Emerald's fine choice.'

'So who is your best friend?' she asked after much pondering.

'Blaise Zabini.' I said.

'Blaise! Wow! His brother, Liam, got married to my bestie, Sophia.' She said in an excited tone.

'Really? Great! Are you single?' I asked and mentally smacked myself. What kind of question is that?

'Well, yes and no.' she said. Upon seeing my confused look she continued. 'My boyfriend, Ron, he and I, we didn't work. He is the perfect boyfriend but it's just… you know. I was going to break up with him when he came to this party but figures, he didn't show up. He sent words by our Mutual friend Harry that he won't be able to come. So in my mind it is over but he just doesn't know it yet.'

'Wow… That's complicated.' I said.

'Tell me something I don't know.' She said.

'Sun is up.' I said instantly. She looked at me for a moment; all confused and then turned her head towards where I pointed.

The sun was rising slowly. She smiled as bright as the sunshine. As she was watching the sun I was watching her smile. She looked beautiful. The wind blowing her hairs; which looked golden in sun, her hazel eyes shining and her cherry lips curved in a smile.

And then she turned towards me. She looked like an angel in that exact moment and all my senses went outta window. I kissed her. I didn't care that she was the best friend of Blaise's sister in law or she was in a relationship which was non- existent for her. I didn't consider the cons and pros of it. I just kissed her.

And what wonderful kiss that was which left both of us 'breathless'.

I turned her over so her back hit the front glass and I was on her, pressing, kissing her till oblivion. She tasted of chocolates and herself and it was intoxicating. We deepened the kiss and soon our hands were everywhere.

'Ready for this little rendezvous?' I asked her.

Perfectly!' She exclaimed.

And so we began the wild exploration of each other.

A/N: okay, so that was something. As I mentioned above, this is total au and also no magic. The characters might seem a little off because it's total au story. Still, I am hoping you liked it. Let me know through reviews and feedbacks. I'll try to post other chapters soon.

Constructive criticism is always welcome.