How To Deal

Getting to know Blaise

I had always been a pessimist when it came to love, I never thought anything good could come from it…Then the worst thing of all happened, I met him.

The summer before my seventh year of Hogwarts had not gotten off to the right start, and only went downhill from there. My parents had gotten divorced, my father was getting remarried, and my best friend had lost her mind…among other things; she fell in love.

"Hermione!" "Hermione, get down here and eat your breakfast before it gets cold," my mum shouted. Usually my mum and I got along, we had this special bond, but ever since the divorce things changed; we changed. It was like I could feel the imaginable gap between us growing, pulling us further and further apart. I was no longer the naïve girl I once was.

I was going to go with Ginny, my best friend, in the wizarding world for the rest of the summer. I couldn't handle my house anymore; at the time even life seemed too much to handle. I said goodbye to my mum and flooed to her house.

"Gin, Gin I'm here!" I shouted from the bottom of her steps. Outside her room I heard giggling, but I didn't expect to see 'that' when I opened the door.

Blaise Zambini, a boy we didn't know really well, a boy Ginny had been dating ALL summer, on top of her; naked. I had obviously interrupted something. Quickly I covered my eyes. "Sor…Sorry, I…I'll just wait outside."

For most of Hogwarts, we hadn't known Blaise that well, even though we'd grown up in the same school for six years. He'd gone away the summer after fifth year to France and returned transformed: tan, taller, and suddenly gorgeous. He was a Slytherin. He was immediately the boy to date.

I waited outside her room. "Herms, I'm sorry, I didn't realize the time," she apologized blushing slightly, "you remember Blaise right?"

"Yea, nice to see you again."

"You too, I better get going love, I'll see you later," he said kissing her forehead lightly. "Bye Hermione, see you around."

"Bye."

Once he was gone and we had my stuff inside we went to sit on the Weasley's front porch. "So, you and Blaise? I didn't realize you guys were so serious."

"I'm in love, Hermione."

"Oh, come on Gin, are you really going to let yourself turn to mush over something like…sex?"

"I love him Hermione, people aren't as bad as you make them out to be."