The entire month of June flew by quickly. There was only a week before July and Hermione began to stay up late more often. She felt like every day that she did nothing useful was a wasted drop of freedom before the unknown. Malfoy stayed as cold as he was on their first date and Hermione began to worry about how realistic their relationship looked to the public. But when she opened the Prophet for the first time in days, she found out that Skeeter ate it up. The article was blooming with gossip about the newest pair in London.