Forever Chapter 14 - Megan

-Meanwhile at the ball-

Hermione walked down the steps, everyone was staring at her.

"You look gorgeous, I- I mean good." Ron stammers.

"Really? I think it's a bit much." Hermione replies.

She shrugs and says "C'mon, let's dance!"

Hermione and Ron start dancing to the music. They watch Harry and Ginny have the time of their life.

"They look cute together, don't they." Hermione says wistfully.

"Over my dead body." Ron mutters.

Hermione rolls her eyes. "Where's your date?"

Ron turns red. "I- I was hoping..maybe you could be-?..For now of course." He quickly adds.

Hermione scowls at him. "If you really wanted to ask me to the ball, next time pluck up the courage before somebody else does!" She storms off in a huff.

Ron sighs and goes back to eating.

Hermione goes to a corner of the room and stands there with her arms crossed. She checks the clock. "It's been way more than 10 minutes..."

All of a sudden, a paper airplane hits her right in the face. "Ow-" she muttered.

Hermione opens it up to go throw it away, when something stops her. There's handwriting on the paper. It looks scribbled, like it was done in a hurry. "What in the world.." she thinks.

Hermione tries to make it out, but all she can read is Malfoy, package, don't open, and urgent.

Her first thought is "What kind of fool pranked me?" followed by "Wait- this seems like a warning." "A warning-"

Hermione suddenly realizes what she has to do. She turns around and starts sprinting for the door, knocking down people in the process.

She keeps running, all the way to her dorm.

She yells "Dramione!" at the portrait and stumbles in. "DRACO!" she screams. She runs into his bedroom. "Draco, don't open a package if you got one-" She stops when she sees Draco's shocked face.

Hermione looks down at what's in the package and realizes it's too late...