Hermione felt herself relax around him. The soft way he was speaking to her was nothing like the old Malfoy. No, this was Draco. "You have been on my mind all summer. The way I treated you? Damn it, if I could go back in time and never call you those horrible things. Never make you cry. To go back and end my aunt's life so you were never harmed? I would do it because I have been in love with you for so long. I just never allowed myself to believe it. I've denied it for so long...for too long. And, I...oh!"