Concust

Hey guys,

This is the first story I actually plan on finishing but I will only put up the other chapters if you guys comment on it. I hope you enjoy this story and if you're curious about the title, you'll see why in later chapters.

- L -

Chapter one: Last Night

I guess I never really gave that much thought about love. It just sort of… happened. Well, at least for other people. Me, no one ever gave so much as a second look, a second glance. I'm just a brain. I have no emotions. Ginny, now there's a girl who has it all set. She has had so many boyfriends that even I couldn't keep up. Lets see, Michael Corner, Dean Thomas and Draco Malfoy; who only a few people know about; those two, Blaise, me and well… someone else. I do hope I'm not forgetting anyone. Right, there was Seamus. But I'm not really sure if that counts, they didn't exactly go out for a long time. Hmm... I still feel like I'm forgetting some people. Like I said, it's hard even for me to keep up with them all. So like I was saying, no guy ever look my way. That's why I was so surprised this morning. Ron and Lavender were snogging, as usual and Ron was taking a breath every so often to through some insult at me. After that, something strange happened. I look back on it now and somehow have no regrets. But I'm jumping ahead of myself again.

Before I forget, my name is Hermione Granger, I'm a muggle born at Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry, and last night, I possibly did the stupidest thing I could have ever done.

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Today I woke up with a sort of hangover. With all the fire-whisky consumed by my peers last night, I'm surprised that with not a drop that went down my throat, still, I woke up with a bulging head ache and a feeling in my gut that only happens when you know you wish you took extra classes so you still had a time turner. The problem was, I could not remember what had happened. I could not remember what made my stomach twist and turn like there was no tomorrow. What could have possibly caused such regret that I could not even remember it? I read once that sometimes you can forget stuff like that by pure shock and the only way to truly remember, is to relive it.

After a couple pure minutes of agony, I stumbled out of bed and went down stairs to the common room. Much to my dismay, the first thing I saw this morning was a redheaded prat sucking the face off his girlfriend. She always manages to hit me where it hurts, but that's a whole other story.

Lavender Brown was probably the person I detested most at Hogwarts and I knew she felt the same way about me. Whenever I grew attached to something she would try to steal it away. My favourite book; she met the author, my favourite song; sang it in front of everyone with her angle like voice, my favourite class; got an even better mark in it then I did! (I don't completely understand how that happened but I believe some serious hexing was involved.) The list continues vigorously but like I said, that's a whole other story. Her latest accusation was currently stuck to her face, my best friend for all further purposes.

We haven't talked in a while for obvious reasons; me thinking his girlfriend is evil and him being a self absorbed prat, but I still consider Ronald Weasley to be my best friend. We always argue and stuff but that's just the way our relationship works. Well, worked. Anyways that's completely away from the point of what happened this morning.

Ron noticed that I walked downstairs to the common room and immediately took action. He started snogging Lavender even more percussively than usual. This would usually annoy me but for some reason, today I simply did not care. He noticed my expression and started snogging her even more until he finally stopped.

"Hello Granger. Might I help you with something or do you plan to look at us all day?"

"Well, I'll just be on my way."

"Don't worry Lav, She's just jealous."

"JELOUS!?" that was it. I couldn't take it anymore. "How on earth could I be jealous of someone who has to snog you?"

"Didn't seam like that last night"

There it was. What the bloody hell happened last night!? Well for sure it had something to do him and Lavender, I could tell that much, but what happened? Did I tell him how much I truly love him? Did he reject me?

"Really, and what might have given you that impression." Way to go Hermione, maybe now he'll just tell you what happened.

"Oh please, like you would forget"… or not.

"Oh common, make my day. Tell me what happened." Ron scowled but then agreed.

"Well, you remember last night was Seamus's birthday, or are you having trouble even remembering that?" Ron giggled while I looked at him with death eyes.

"Well, Lav and I thought that it was too crowded so we decided to go into another room. You noticed our sneaking away however you didn't know where we were so you went looking for us. About a half hour later you found us in a rather… compromising situation. And then you stormed out, I think you said something about going to find Ginny but I'm not too sure. I was a little… preoccupied."

"Oh, well, I guess that settles it." But it didn't "I'm starved." But I wasn't "I'm going to go to the great hall." But I wasn't going too "You two can just continue what you were doing before I interrupted." But you shouldn't.

I walked outside the port whole; I knew I must find Ginny. It was Sunday, that meant that today she would be in the broom closet outside of the Slytherin spending time with her secret boyfriend. Did I explain that yet? Well, she and Draco have a purely physical relationship. Every Sunday morning, they meet in the broom closet, snog for a bit, eat lunch and return to the closet. I knew Ginny would not be too happy about me interrupting her Draco time but I needed to know what happened last night so I proceeded to the dungeons. I started walking through the hall and saw Blaise standing outside of the closet. They must be there.

"Hi Blaise"

"Hey Hermione… so last night, exciting 'hen?"

"Yeah sure, Seamus birthday was a blast."

"I wasn't talking about that." I stared at him, confused. "Wow, you really don't remember anything. Seamus saw it, who told Neville who told dean who told Pansy who told me but, I just didn't believe it. I mean, how could you forget something like that?"

"So wait, you know what happened?" With gleeful eyes, I looked at him.

"Sorry, I'm not going to be the one to ruin the fun."

What was once a happy expression turned to furious. Whatever. I pushed him out of the way and forced my way into the already Closter phobic closet. Immediately, I opened the lights so as not to make a repeat of last time. Even thinking about it gives me shivers. Last time, when I accidently interrupted them snogging in a small close space, I was sort of caught of guard when a hand reached out for me and rubbed from my shoulder to my thigh, only my scream warned Draco it was not Ginny. Ewww. Shivers run through my spine just thinking about it. Well, back to this time. I walked into the closet, screamed it's me, and turned on the lights. Although Ginny looked frantic, Draco still just stared at me with calm cool eyes.

"What do you want." It wasn't a question, it was a demand.

"Oh, Draco, I just… I just… Ginny? …Please?"

"Sorry Hermione, but I'm not going to let you interrupt my Draco time, anything you say to me, you can say in front of him."

"It's about.. last night."

"Privacy. Shall we?" started Ginny,

"No Gin, I would rather like hearing whatever she has to say. After all, I would love to know what potter said to her after they left."

"Harry was there?"

"Well yes. It would be kind of hard for him to get the image of me and Gin out of his head."

"Malfoy. Please!"

"Wow. I thought we were finally past formalities, Weasley."

"Whatever."

"Can someone just tell me what happened?!" and then it hit me. "um… never mind… I just need to go see Harry." I turned out the door but before I could get out of ear shot, I heard Malfoy whisper to Ginny "Just like last night."