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After their episode of running and screaming for mercy, they all calmed down and went back to their daily lives of their daily routines. Ginny and Blaise stayed in their dorm secretly discussing important matters while Ron and Harry decided to play wizard chess in their empty common room. Hermione and Draco, of course, we’re off to go skinny dipping. ;)

Hermione cautiously eyed Draco as she nervously gulped. “We can get expelled for doing this.”

“Don’t be so dramatic, Granger.” Draco said as he rolled his eyes.

“Well, we’re outside of the school after curfew. I mean, this is preposterous. I would never do this.”

“You’re right, we should stop and go back to our dorm and act like two boring, average people.”

“No. I didn’t say we weren’t going to do it.” She snapped at him and furrowed her eyebrows as they made their way down the hill slowly. “It’s really cold out here.” She said as her teeth chattered uncontrollable. It was about ten degrees outside and the sky was dropping little white snowflakes on its surroundings.

“We can always back out, Granger.” Draco told her as he stopped walking, raising an eyebrow at her.

Hermione groaned and glared at him. “No, we’re doing it!” She yelled and immediately shut her mouth. She was supposed to be quiet not to get caught. “Let’s just get this over with.”

“Finally.” He let out an exasperated sigh and so they continued down to the lake quietly. Right when they reached the lake, they exchanged glances.

“No magic.” Hermione said as she set her wand slowly on the ground.

“Okay.” He said coolly as he tossed his wand over towards hers on the ground. “Let’s do this.” He said with a smirk as he immediately threw his shirt over his head.

Hermione looked at his body and found herself staring. She snapped herself out of it and glared at him. “Where’s your bandage?”

“I took it off for tonight.”

“Why?”

“Well, I don’t want a dirty or wet bandage.”

“Oh . . . that’s right.” She said and shook her head. “Wait, skinny dipping in this cold winter night is just too much. Why don’t we keep our undergarments on?” She asked him as she chewed on her bottom lip.

“Okay.” He said and slightly chuckled. “You’re scared, aren’t you?”

“No.” She said and quickly gathered up the courage to start stripping down. “Just hurry up.” She snarled through her teeth as she took off her sweater. She immediately shivered violently as the cold air bit her skin. Her body shivered but she started to take off her shirt when she suddenly felt two eyes staring at her. She stopped and glared at Draco. “What are you doing?” She asked urgently as she pulled her shirt down.

“It’s not like there’s anything to look at . . .” He muttered under his breath as he looked the other way.

“What?” She asked him since she heard what he said.

“Just hurry up, will you?” He said as he started to unbuckled his belt.

Hermione sighed and quickly took her shirt off, throwing it over at Draco. “Oops.”

Draco looked over with a smirk. “You should’ve just told me you wanted me to look at your body. You don’t have to throw your shirt at me to get my attention.” He said as he held up her shirt and tossing it down onto the ground.

Hermione opened her mouth to speak but she got cut off by Draco. “I guess I wrong. You actually do have curves. And you wear silk, who would’ve thought?” He said with a nod as if he was impressed. “Don’t mind me.” He said as he took off his jeans.

Hermione immediately looked over and now, she wasn’t as cold as before. Fortunately but unfortunately, she was hot from blushing. She immediately looked over at the water once Draco started taking off his jeans. She sucked back her screams and unbuttoned her jeans, quickly ripping them away from her legs. Now, she was cold and very insecure. She didn’t like the fact that he was staring. “Stop staring.”

“I can’t help it . . . I have a very nice view.” He told her and she swore she heard a smirk in his voice.

Hermione shot him a glare and shook her head. “You are an idiot.”

He simply shrugged but continued to let his eyes raid her whole body. He was impressed. Truly. He thought she was a prude with no body whatsoever but merlin was he wrong? She had the perfect body. She had curves in all the right places, the flat stomach, full breasts (to his surprise), and just . . . she had a hot body. There, he said it. She was hot. Draco Malfoy just admitted that Hermione Granger was hot. He shook his head, clearing his mind and looked up at her face. “Shall we?”

Hermione let out a deep breath and nodded. “Oh god, I’m going to kill myself after we do this.” She said and then on cue, both of them ran and jumped into the water, making a loud splash.

Hermione immediately let out a small squeal as the cold water pierced her skin. She was going to kill herself for doing this. She popped her head out of the water and heard Draco laughing. She shot him a glare as she frowned. “You think this is funny?” She growled at him.

“Very.” Draco said as he continued to laugh.

“You arse!” She whispered ferociously at him as she splashed water in his face.

He immediately stopped laughing as he stared at her. “D, did you just splash me?”

“No, the giant squid did.” She said sarcastically. “Who else?”

“That’s it.” He said and splashed her back.

She screamed and stared at him. “Oh, it’s on.” She declared and immediately, they broke out into a splash war. Though they were very cold, since they were being active and staying in the water, they slightly got warm. But they were still very cold.