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All she could think about was the names she had been called over the years. Every fight she'd ever been in. The way that he looked in her arms. Every bad thing that had ever happened to her. She ran down the corridor and she ran out the giant doors of the Great Hall and down to the lake where she kept running until she had reached the other side. She sat down and looked across the water trying to hold in the tears that she so desperately wanted to go away. She knew that she shouldn't have run from him, rather she should have told him off, but she couldn't take the pain anymore. The tears started to flow as she put her head down and she started to shake softly. She sat by the lake on a perfect day, but to Hermione Granger it was the worst day of her life.

She sat by the lake and cried even when no more tears came out. Instead of the cool moist tears that would have comforted her all that came out was hot dry puffs of air. She was still sobbing when she decided that she was going to go back to the castle and lay in her bed and sleep. She knew that she might run into them if she went back but she was cold, wet and tired from sitting by the lake and she was ready to collapse with the emotional overload that had hit her in the past three months. Her parents had been killed in a car crash by a drunk driver at the end of the of July while they were coming to pick her up from the library and ever since then she had stopped reading. She only read if it pertained to her schoolwork because she knew that if her parents were alive they would want her to keep her grades up. She never went to the library even if it was in the school. If she needed a book for class then she would ask Harry to go and get it for her. He understood what she was going through and he quietly obliged with her requests. By the end of August she was starting to recover from her parent's death and she started to smile more and she realized that her parents would have wanted her to be happy so she started to go places again.

She started her ascent back up to the school where she knew that she would run into someone or another and she didn't really want to deal with anyone so she cast a spell of concealment and quietly walked up to the Griffyndor common room. She muttered the password to the pink lady and made her way through he people in the common room headed towards the girl's dormitories.

She walked up the stairs and took the concealment charm off herself before opening the door. She got halfway into her room before she saw him and her on the bed snogging the hell out of each other. She choked on tears while she turned to run back down the stairs and she ran straight out of the common room.

Harry saw her running and he bounded out of his armchair and he ran out of the common room after her. He ran out of the portrait and looked both ways before running to the left hearing heavy footsteps that way. Hermione was hiding behind a tapestry to the left and she started running as soon as she saw Harry round the corner and run down the hall. She ran to the room of requirement and walked by all the while thinking about what she needed. When a giant oak door appeared she squeezed through it and slammed it behind her. She sunk to the floor and cried while leaning against the door. She cried for a couple of minutes before crawling over to the deep black sofa that had been provided for her use. She sat there for a long while just crying. When she didn't even have enough strength to do that she laid her head down and drifted into a fitful sleep.

About an hour later she woke up from a nightmare that made her break out in sobs all over again. She sat for a minute sobbing quietly until she could regain her composure and go to the box of tissues sitting on an end table shaped like a teardrop. She wiped her face and blew her nose before she sat back down on the couch to think. She thought again of all the names she had been called and all the horrible things that people had done to her.

She knew that she was having a pity party for herself and the fact that she had sunk this low and had been reduced to nothing by him made her mad. Her feelings of sadness and guilt had been replaced with feelings of immense anger towards the boy that had broken her so badly. She stormed out of the room of requirement and ran all the way back to the Griffyndor common room. She stood in the middle of the common and looked to see if he was in there or if he was still up in her room snogging the hell out of her.

When she saw that he wasn't there she stormed up the stairs and blew open the door. He turned to see who had interrupted them again and he was quite surprised to see a pissed off Hermione coming right for him. He knew now that cheating on her was one of the worst things he could have done. She walked straight over to him and slapped him with every once of energy she could muster. She looked at the girl he chose over her and she couldn't hate her more. Instead of standing up for him she was cowering in the corner of her bed. Hermione looked back at the boy who betrayed her and she couldn't be more disgusted. She spoke exactly what was in her head. She cursed at him before turning to walk out of the room. Before she walked out of the door she turned and said,

"I hate you Ronald Weasly."

Then she turned and ran through the common room and right out the door back to the room of requirement to sit and have another good cry.

Slapping Ron had made her fell worse for some reason. She knew that it wasn't her fault but in some way she still thought it was. She knew that he was lower than scum for cheating on her and that she should just forget him but she couldn't. He had given her so many good memories but she should have seen this coming. The tears started to prick at her eyes again before she even made it ten feet from the pink lady's portrait. She started to run towards the Great hall so she could just leave for a while instead of staying inside. She ran through the door and past a very flustered Prof. Sprout and started towards the lake again.

As she ran around the lake to the other side she realized that someone was already sitting there. They were wearing a hat and cloak so she couldn't tell who they were. By the time she got there they hadn't moved an inch and she started to sit down when they looked up. She was staring straight into a pair of gray-blue eyes that were stormy and deep. She was caught in them for a moment before she realized who it was.

"Malfoy", she whispered between tears.

He sneered at her and got up.

"What do you want mudblood", he said as he looked down at her.

'I don't want anything from you, you little ferret. I came down here to think and unfortunately you were here too." She said trying not to let him see she was crying.

She failed miserably and he took advantage of this.

"Granger are.. are you…CRYING!" he exclaimed with much emphasis on crying.

"Malfoy can you just leave me alone for once!" she yelled through tears that refused to stop running down her face.

"What happen? Your precious Weasel cheat on you?" he sneered at her.

When she didn't answer he knew that he had hit the nail on the head. He turned quietly to leave when she asked him a question.

"Malfoy, you're a guy right"

"Last time I checked, yes."

"Then can you tell me why do you guys cheat on your girlfriends?" she said the tears finally slowing.

He didn't answer because for once he didn't know what to say. He thought for a minute before sitting next to her and sprawling out. He ruffled his hair and sighed.

"I don't know Granger. I guess maybe there not pretty enough or they won't give in to the guy, or something like that." He said at last.

She blinked for a minute trying to keep back the few tears she had left. She didn't like the felling of not even having tears left to cry . It failed again and they started rolling.

"Jesus! Granger what did I say wrong?" he asked incredulously.

"Nothing for once Malfoy you've put everything in perspective for me", she said.

He sat for a minute before getting up to go up to the school. It was night by now and it was dark out. He started walking thinking about why did guys cheat on their girlfriends. When he heard something behind him. He turned and whipped out his wand. He saw it was a small figure and he muttered lumos and saw that it was Hermione walking back. He turned and starting walking again and she trudged along behind him. She sped up so that she was walking along side of him. He looked over and snorted at her before speeding up so that she was behind him again. It went on like this and by the time they were approaching the castle they were both running as fast as they could. They were both about to reach the castle when Hermione stopped. Draco didn't notice so when he looked over and she wasn't there he stopped and looked back.

She was pacing back and forth and muttering to herself. He could catch glimpses of what she was saying and she sounded psychotic.

"If I see him"…."Will he hit me back"…."What will Harry say"….."Whose side will Harry take"…"Will he kiss her in front of me"…"Will she tease me for it"…

It went on like this until she took a deep breathe and started towards the school. She was surprised to find that Draco was still standing there looking at her like she was a pink flying elephant.

"Why are you still here" she asked.

"I was just wondering why you stopped our race and started muttering" he said.

She sighed and shook her head at him.

"Malfoy you wouldn't understand because you have never had your heart broken" she said with a deep sorrow sounding throughout her voice and showing in her deep brown eyes.

For an instant Malfoy felt deep regret that he had treated her so badly for the past years but that feeling was promptly squashed by the walls that he had built to keep anything or anyone from seeing what he felt. It was a lesson he had learned the hard way from his father. He could remember the first time he had told his father what he felt when he was five years old and it wasn't his most pleasant memory.

"Malfoy..MALFOY!" Hermione yelled.

"Wha-What do you want Granger?" he snapped at her.

"I was just wondering if something was wrong. You got this troubled look on you face like you were remembering something horrible."

"Well I'm fine. Why don't you just go back to your friends Potty and Weasel. Oh wait you only have Potty left!" he said with a sudden malice in his voice.

Hermione looked at him with a deep disgust and silently made her way up to the school and through the doors before Malfoy even moved. He sat on the grass for five minutes before he could fully recompose his walls and go back to the school.