disclaimer: J.K. Rowling alone owns Harry Potter and the characters

A/N: I'm redoing this story just to put it into chapter form. It was too long as a one-shot. If you read it before, enjoy again! If not, I hope you like it! Now, onto the story!

Truth or dare had become Hermione Granger's least favourite game. It was all they played on their monthly get-togethers, she and her friends, and she had, several times, pointed out to them that adults at their age of twenty-four and older shouldn't play such childish games. But of course, they didn't listen to her.

So here she was, playing truth or dare for the twenty-seven millionth time at the Hog's Head, drinking butterbeer because she wanted to go home sober as always.

"Truth or dare, Hermione?" Harry asked.

"Truth," she answered with a sigh.

"Why don't you live with your boyfriend? You've been going out for five years."

Hermione sighed again. "You ask this question a lot."

Harry grinned. "I know, but it's nice to know why again and again." Yes, he was drunk.

Ron glared at him.

"Ron and I just decided it was better this way. We all roomed together after the war and it's just nice to leave it this way. It was just too much of a hassle to move about."

"Thanks for asking that question again, Harry," Ron snapped. It was obviously a touchy subject for her on and off boyfriend of three years and eleven months, to be exact. "Malfoy, truth or dare?"

Draco Malfoy, their former nemesis, just shook his head. "I'm in no mood for this game," he replied, sulking with his Firewhiskey near the hearth. His light hair covered his eyes as he sipped from his mug, brooding.

"He's no fun," Ginny said.

"Truth or dare, Gin?" Ron asked, and she blinked.

"I'm not feeling up for this game," his sister sighed.

Ron frowned at her. "Nobody wants to play when it's my turn," he grumbled, and leant back into his chair with his drink.

"Merlin, I'm tired. I'm going home, guys," Hermione said, yawning. "I've got work tomorrow. You coming Malfoy?"

Draco looked up and stood. "Sure. Goodnight guys."

Hermione smiled. "Bye Ginny! Bye everyone." She went to Ron and gave him a kiss. "Bye Ron."

Seamus chuckled. "He sure gets a special goodbye," Seamus noted.

"Of course," Harry spoke for Ron, "he's her boyfriend."

"God forbid we forget that," Dean replied with a smirk.

"Well anyway, goodnight," Hermione said, rolling her eyes, and grabbed Draco's arm as they went outside. "Gods, why do we always have to play that stupid game? Harry always asks the same questions and it's gotten boring."

"I agree," Draco said with a sigh. "Personally, I think these get-togethers are unnecessary. I mean, we see each other all the time anyway, and we're all roommates with each other too."

Hermione just sighed. "Poor Ron. I should've roomed with him at the end of the war."

"Why?"

"I mean, he's hurt that I didn't want to trade roommates when we started dating."

"You just wanted me," Draco said cheekily, and she chuckled.

"Right. I'm like every other girl who wants Draco Malfoy."

Draco smiled. "I'm glad you're not."

"But anyway, we had become such good friends already, it seemed more of a hassle to switch roommates already. And…I don't want to live with him anyway."

"I knew it. You love me," Draco teased, and Hermione rolled her eyes.

"Of course I do."

Draco grinned and put an arm around her. "Now that that's settled, why aren't we Apparating?"

"Don't ask me."

Draco rolled his eyes and Apparated them to their two-bedroom flat. Once inside, Hermione dropped her purse on the kitchen counter and set the kettle for tea. "You want some?" she called out, and Draco, lounging on the couch in the living room, responded in the affirmative.

Their lives were comfortable. They had lived like this since the war had ended seven years ago. Hermione had had her own flat after Ginny had married and moved in with Harry, and when Draco Malfoy, former nemesis of all of them, had come crawling for forgiveness and a place to stay, Hermione had been the only one willing to take him in. In a short time, they had become good friends, best friends even, and she'd been unwilling to part with him when Ron asked her to move in with him after a year or so of dating. "I know Ron and I are going to get into lots of rows if we live together too soon," she had told Draco later that evening. "I want us to mature and grow together before we move in together."

That ended that, and now they had lived nearly six years together, though it seemed as though they had always lived this way.

"Tea ready?" Draco called out.

"Yes, come get it," she replied.

"I'm comfortable here. Bring it here."

"Draco, you know I don't want drinks in the living room. Come here."

"We can have snacks and water here, but no food and drinks?" Draco complained, but complied to her request anyway.

He sat at the counter, sipping his tea, and Hermione took a long sip of hers, letting out a sigh as she put the cup down.

"I don't understand why Harry always has to bring up the fact that Ron and I don't live together. He knows Ron's a bit touchy about it."

"I think he wants Weasley to bash my face in one of these days out of jealousy."

"Draco!"

He chuckled. "You know he will. He's probably the most jealous person on this planet." Draco raised his eyebrows. "Lucky you."

Hermione rolled her eyes. "He's not that jealous. He knows you and I are just friends."

"Come on. You know he's at least asked you several times if we're more than that."

Hermione shrugged, looking into the liquid contents of her cup. "Maybe a few times," she murmured, and Draco smirked triumphantly.

"My point exactly."

"He wouldn't bash your face in, though. You two are friends enough as well."

"Better tell him that."

"Malfoy, sometimes you are absolutely impossible to."

Draco just smiled at her as she drank her tea.

"Well anyway, I should be going to bed. I do have work tomorrow."

"I know."

"So do you! Get some sleep, Malfoy."

Draco grinned. "I will, Granger. Goodnight."

"Goodnight."

Hermione grinned at him before disappearing behind her bedroom door. Draco sat at the counter, looking at her door for a while, thinking about the girl behind it.

A/N: Thank you for reading! I'll try to update weekly. Please review! And don't worry, there'll be some drama in the next chapter!