"This is ridiculous!" said Annabeth " How am I supposed to pass as a WIZARDING teaching? I don't know the first about wizarding!". "Annabeth you're only posing as a student here not a teacher okay remember that okay, you're just a student." said Percy humorously before he suddenly disappeared. " Boys, always getting the easy stuff." Annabeth rolled her eyes and began roaming the hallways looking for this so called "Chosen One". Suddenly Annabeth came across this beautiful girl that caught Annabeth off guard. Annabeth stared at her with pure interest, the girl noticed her staring and looked at her in a very concerned way. Annabeth broke her stare and looked down at the floor. The girl realized Annabeth was staring at her out of infatuation and smiled at the floor. Without noticing she had stop Annabeth watched the girl walk away. When the girl disappeared into the crowd, as if in a trance, Annabeth blinked several times before finally regaining her focus. She began to roam again and like she was hoping she stumbled on what she was looking for. " Dumbledore's office" said Annabeth looking up at a very large griffin statue. The statue moved relieving a room vastly filled with books. Annabeth looked around in amazement, smiling ear to ear. " You must be Annabeth, our visitor from Camp Half-Blood." said Dumbledore. " Yes sir, I am here here to spot your chosen one. There may be strange things happening if the fallen god Kronos influences him." said Annabeth. " I am aware, but beware , for I fear the you're looking for is not the one seek." Annabeth was confused but she didn't let I show. " Yes sir, I will keep this in mind." said Annabeth before she turned to leave. " Oh my dear, it's okay to be confused sometimes." Annabeth blushed ad nodded. " And another thing my dear, you will be abiding in the Gryffindor dormitories but don't worry most of our Gryffindor students are away on vacation after all it is Christmas time." Annabeth couldn't help but think that Dumbledore was holding back from her. " Yes Sir, it is." said Annabeth with a fake smile. She turned and left " That man is actually like Chiron." Annabeth smile and began to roam again. While roaming the hallways and looking confused Annabeth noticed that girl was looking at her out of concern. The girl began to walk over to her. " You look very confused, which probably means you're new! Awesome, I'm Romilda Vane and you are?" said Romilda. "Annabeth Chase" said Annabeth feeling a little awkward. "Don't feel awkward we can totally be best friends!" said Romilda. Annabeth felt a bit relieved and prepared to open up. As minutes passed the girls became close friends talking about the Gryffindors and such but when a certain someone showed up as a topic the mood certainly darkened. " Well there is one person you should know about." "Which is..?" "Hermione Granger. She is an amazing girl but she is a bit of a temptress. She doesn't mean to hurt you but somehow she just does." said Romilda looking down at the floor in sort of a depressing matter. Over the little time they'd passed with each other Annabeth began to care deeply for the girl so when she saw a tear drop from Romilda's eye she began to have empathy for Romilda. "It's okay you have me now and I won't hurt you unintentionally nor intentionally." Romilda looked up and smiled. "Thanks Annabeth." After a few more minutes they had finally reached the Gryffindor common room. Their laughs came to a stop when Romilda looked upon the girl sitting on one of the beds. Annabeth felt butterflies flutter in her stomach as she realized that the terrible girl that Romilda described was the girl she saw in the hallway. "Hello Romilda." said Hermione looking into Annabeth's eyes. Romilda held her arm and looked down at the floor. "Hi I'm Hermione. What's your name?" said Hermione completely ignoring the fact that Romilda did not respond to her greeting. "I'm Annabeth and I believe we've seen each other before." Romilda looked at Annabeth in surprise. "Excuse us Hermione." said Romilda grabbing Annabeth's arm and pulling her into the hallway. "What the fuck Annabeth you didn't tell me you saw her before!" said Romilda sounding infuriated. "I didn't know that that was her I would've told you if I knew and you know that." said Annabeth a bit concerned. "Oh yeah I forgot sorry."said Romilda feeling terrible." Hey are you okay? I saw your expression in there."said Annabeth. "I'm fine I guess but I can't go back in there, cover for me?" said Romilda with a questionable look on her face. Annabeth nodded. "Yes! You're the best Annabeth!" said Romilda skipping away. Annabeth shook her head and smiled at the ground as she walked back into the common room. When Annabeth looked up she saw Hermione looking straight at her. "You're the one I saw in the hallway." said Hermione in a strangely calm voice. "Yeah you looked at me for a long time out there." said Annabeth trying not to focus on how beautiful Hermione was. " Yeah but it's only because I'd never seen a girl so beautiful, well all except for Romilda." said Hermione. Annabeth began to remember all the terrible things Romilda had said about Hermione. Hermione analyzed Annabeth's look and realized that she'd grown angry toward her. "She told you about us didn't she?" said Hermione closing her book to really engage in the conversation. "Yeah, she did and quite frankly you don't seem very apologetic." said Annabeth crossing her arms. "Oh but I am! I loved Romilda, with all my heart even but she-she couldn't deal with my unwillingness to...ummm-'' "To come out?" said Annabeth remembering herself and Piper. "Are you gay or not? I mean sure it sounds blunt but if you're not blunt you'll lose her Hermione and trust me you don't want that." said Annabeth chocking back tears. "Annabeth tell me this, have you ever been in love with another girl?" said Hermione making room for Annabeth on her bed. "Yup and it went just like you and Romilda. I loved Piper so much but I was too scared to come out to my friends so I lost her to my best friend..Grover." a tear trickled down Annabeth's face as she sat next to Hermione. " I know it seems like she will never love you again and I know it seems like you let her down a great deal but trust me if she really loved you she will always love you." said Hermione reminiscently. " You sound awfully sure of this" said Annabeth trying to make her laugh. "Yeah I am, I mean sure Romilda thinks I'm a douche but I really did love her." said Hermione chuckling a bit. " You said did like you don't love her anymore." said Annabeth with a surprised look. "I still love her but just not as much I did back then." said Hermione nostalgically."How come?" said Annabeth putting her arm around Hermione seeing that she was crying. "Right after she broke up with me she found a boyfriend within seconds which of course leads you to wonder if she'd been talking to the boy for the duration of our relationship." said Hermione now sobbing. Annabeth was appalled at what she'd heard. She of course could see how Romilda got into another relationship but she couldn't picture Romilda doing that to anyone. Romilda had come off so friendly and sweet when she was around her. " I understand how you feel Hermione. Piper did the same thing and I think what you said about how if they really love you then they will never be able to remove that love toward you applies to both sides." said Annabeth looking into Hermione's warm brown eyes. Annabeth looked away quickly realizing that she'd been looking for so long. "It's going to be okay Annabeth I'm almost sure that Piper will realize what an amazing girl you are." said Hermione looking into Annabeth's eyes. "Annabeth I can't pretend to not feel a connection to you and I know I barely know you but I really like you." said Hermione looking at her shoes nervously. "Hermione you and Romilda used to date I'm not going to betray her by fucking around with you." said Annabeth as if trying to convince herself of this. "I understand." said Hermione. "Well I'm sure she wouldn't mind if you gave me a little kiss, right? " said Annabeth feenishly. "Of course not." said Hermione turning herself toward Annabeth. Hermione and Annabeth got face to face. They were so close together that their lips were almost touching. Annabeth desired to have Hermione's full, lush lips on hers. Hermione wanted tension to build between them thus making the romance between them spark rapidly. They both stared into the deep pools of intense intimacy in both their eyes. " Hermione." said Annabeth filled with intimate thoughts of Hermione. "Yes?" said Hermione in the same tone. "Are you going to kiss me?" said Annabeth impatiently. At that moment Hermione leaned in very slowly. Annabeth tried so hard not to rush and let the anticipation build up but she was so anxious to have Hermione's lips on hers. Finally Hermione kissed her. Annabeth's body filled with intimate arousal. She felt so attracted to Hermione in so much more than a sexual way. Annabeth felt Hermione's growing greed, she could tell Hermione felt the same way she did. They both wanted so much than this "small" kiss.