Where I Belong
Chapter 1
Sunlight shone through the window of Hermione's bedroom, waking her up from another peaceful dream. In this one, she was living in magnificent castle and that wasn't the best part. She had friends. Living, breathing true friends. Hermione smiled. She glanced over at the little digital clock. 7:35. Ten minutes until the bus came.
" Oh gosh! I overslept again! I'm going to be late for school!", she yelped, jumping out of bed. She hurried downstairs, finding that the cereal she had been planning to eat was out and sitting on the counter with a stack of bowls next to it. This always seemed to happen when she oversleupt. Hermione sighed in relief. Her parents were highly recommended dentists, and even though she was eleven now, her parents had never had time to unchildproof the house in the last eight years, Hermione, who was so far taking after her mom in height and couldn't reach much in her house without standing on a chair.
Hermione ate her cereal faster than what seemed humanly possible. She went back upstairs to finish getting ready, this time being more quiet. Her parents had gotten home late the night before. Hermione went into her room to change, seeing it was only 7:38. Only three minutes since she had gotten up! Hermione pulled on a plain purple tee and a pair of jean Capris. Now it was 7:39.
"Thank goodness! Now I have time to tame the beast" she sighed thankfully. Hermione walked into the bathroom and grabbed a brush and a bottle of detangler. She always had a serious bed head case in the morning. In fact, her bushy hair was bed head to most of the people in her grade.
By the time the clock said 7:44, Hermione's hair was done and she was waiting for the bus. As the bright cheery bus pulled in, all of Hermione's joy in the speed she had pulled off getting ready seemed to pull itself out of her and go towards home. Hermione climbed onto the bus and sat in usual seat behind the bus driver, alone. Almost everyone else was in the back, so, she pulled out the book she was reading, A Little Princess. It was by her favorite classic author, Frances Hodgson Burnett. As the bus lumbered around through the streets, Hermione left the world and was pulled into Sara Crewe's life at Miss Minchens. She only noticed noticed that the bus was at the school when a boy on her bus named Matthew taunted her.
" Hey, Nesthead! You going stop reading that stupid little book of yours?!", he called out. Hermione stood off and walked off the bus heading towards the big blue doors she had been walking through for the last five years.