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Hermione Granger was in her first year of university at the Hogwarts University of Witchcraft and Wizardry located in the Scottish Highlands. She had never been more nervous about her education than when her letter arrived months before the first term started. She thought that life would be normal. She would study. She would sleep. Then study again.
But, then Hermione met the Pureblood siblings, Pansy Parkinson, Draco Malfoy, and Theodore Nott. They weren't blood-related siblings but had been best friends since they were younger, so then everyone had practically called them siblings, and the three had welcomed the name. However, Hermione's first year wasn't as peaceful or full of studying as expected as she had fallen for the pointy, posh, blond Pureblood sibling: Draco Malfoy.
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"Granger, please, just be fucking honest with me. Are you dating my brother?" Pansy reached across Hermione's dormitory bed and grabbed a large handful of salt and vinegar crisps from the bowl before washing away the taste with a large gulp of pumpkin juice.
She couldn't help it when she leaned closer to the curly-haired woman and stared at her. The room closed around Hermione as things grew more intense and warmed every part of her. Things that she didn't know could be sweating under the pressure that Pansy was placing on her back.
"So?" Pansy raised her eyebrows, waiting rather impatiently for the answer that she already knew. Draco was rubbish at hiding his thirst for the woman opposite Pansy. But, she wanted to hear the confession fall from Hermione's lips.
Hermione couldn't believe this was the topic that Pansy wanted to focus on for their girly sleepover that the raven-haired young woman had convinced the other to host. She had been secretive about her relationship with the blond and pointy Draco Malfoy but she supposed that every secret had to be revealed at some point, but she hadn't expected tonight to be the night that she was revealing all. She would have preferred to reveal things with Draco by her side but it was too late for that request. This was a girls-only sleepover after all. Hermione snapped back to the girl in front of her and realised that she couldn't deny all of this any longer. She had to admit things. However, did she have to confess to anything? She could keep it hidden for just a few more days. It wouldn't hurt anyone to keep it under wraps for a few more days. Just until she and Draco could tell their friends together. It would be better to tell them all together.
"No, I'm not dating your brother." Hermione lied through the skin of her teeth before gulping down a whole pint of weird-tasting pumpkin juice.
She conjured a small cloth before wiping at her sweating brow. She tried calming herself down but she just seemed to sweat even more. Hermione's body was lying and it wasn't hiding the fact that she was hiding away the truth from one of his closest friends. She shouldn't be lying but she couldn't help it. Once the pumpkin juice settled in her stomach, it dawned on her why it had tasted weird. It had been laced with a potion.
Not just any potion though, Veritaserum was travelling through Hermione's bloodstream and suddenly the truth was bursting out of her body. Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. "Fine. Alright, fine. I am dating your brother. Draco and I have been dating for months already." Hermione couldn't look at Pansy as the truth was ripped from her mouth and settled around them in the bedroom. "Was that what you wanted?" She sighed, exhausted from the relentless drilling that had been happening and was finally concluded with her confession to Pansy. But, Hermione knew that the pressuring and confessions wouldn't stop but Theodore also had organised a little get to together with Hermione, probably to find out whether she and Draco were dating.
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Theodore walked into her dormitory, throwing heaps of blankets and snacks onto her bed before flopping himself down onto the mattress beside Hermione. He was staring at her intently. Gazing into her eyes as he assessed her facial expressions. It was extreme. Almost too much for Hermione. Her breathing grew heavier and heavier as she stared back at Theo, already knowing what was about to happen but instead, the questioning didn't begin as Draco stumbled into Hermione's dormitory bedroom. He was drunk and that's when Hermione realised that he had gone to a late lunch with his mother and father and had revealed their relationship to them. It hadn't gone very well.
"Draco?" Hermione stood up, wrapping her arms around him before lowering the two of them down to the bed. Theo was staring but at that moment, Hermione couldn't give a shit. Draco was upset and he needed her right now. He was sobbing into her shoulder, snotty as he loudly sniffled, cuddling himself closer to Hermione's body. "Shush, love, it's alright." Hermione calmingly whispered the words into his blond locks.
She noticed that Theo was leaving the room before turning to the two of them and had started smirking at them. "I knew it, Pansy owes me 10 Galleons." He finished speaking before closing the door and leaving the couple alone to calm each other down. Hermione couldn't believe that Theodore and Pansy were betting on their relationship but then thinking properly about it, then it did make sense that they had been doing it. She shook her head before cuddling Draco even closer and lightly kissing his forehead, helping to calm him down.
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