Flying Free

Chapter 1: Tutors and Boyfriends

Disclaimer: Don't own any of this, not my characters and all the good stuff

Cho Chang looked at the poor score on her test paper and placed her forehead on her desk, she didn't understand she was sure she had studied for the test. Why had she bothered to even take Arithmancy in the first place? "Miss Chang a word after class."

As Cho gathered her things and went up to her professor, "Miss Chang you are one of my best students, what's going on." Cho shrugged her shoulders, "I think last year is still affecting me?" The teacher nodded, the school knew that last year was Cedric Diggory's unfortunate death.

"Well Miss Chang, I'm going to set you up with a private tutor, just to help you." Cho nodded and headed out the door. Cho slowed her pace and just felt like shit, nothing seemed to be going right anymore, ever since Cedric died.

Nothing seemed to be going right, her grades, quidditch even her friends said she looked depressed. It was true that Cedric's death had hit her hard and it was hard to get over when everyone keeps remind her and trying to comfort her. It got very frustrating, she just wanted to tell them to fuck off and leave her alone.

She missed the golden ball by an entire foot, she flew to the ground and saw her coach approaching, "How did you miss that, you're not even focused today, don't waste my time." Cho watched him walk away; she didn't care, and today was just a bad day with no chance of stopping anytime soon.

The next morning at the Ravenclaw table her Arithmancy professor approached her, "Miss Chang, I have conveniently found you a brilliant tutor." Cho looked at her professor in disbelief she didn't think he was serious about the tutor thing. "Today, Library, at 7."

After practice Cho reluctantly changed and headed toward her new tutoring session with probably some brainy guy who was going to do nothing but hit on her for an hour, it has happened too many time, but her professor would know if she showed up or not.

Cho look around and only saw three people there, he must be late or something, Cho went up to the librarian and asked about the tutor, she pointed at a large stack of books lying on a table, Cho placed her things on the table and began to wonder through the aisles of books.

There was so much to hate about those top shelves, never could she reach any of them, suddenly a hand grabbed the book she was reaching for; Hermione turned around and greeted her helper. "Thanks Cho." Cho smiled at her "No problem, no surprise to find you in here Hermione." Hermione put the book under her arm, "I know, but it is a surprise to see you here," Cho walked beside her, "I need tutoring."

Looming around, Hermione slowly asked, "I don't suppose it's tutoring for Arithmancy is it?" Cho nodded, "Yeah how did you know." The walked up to the table were Cho left her stuff. "I think I'm your Tutor."

Taking a second to digest the information Cho had just received, she felt slightly betrayed by her professor who chooses an underclassman to tutor her, but then again in was Hermione, one of the brightest, she looked over at Hermione who had already sat down and was looking up at her to see if she would take a seat.

Reluctantly she took a seat next to the girl, Hermione started by pulling out the test she had failed the day before, Cho crossed her arms and leaned against her chair, Hermione was taking a critical look over the test.

Cho discovered that Hermione was nothing like she expected, Cho had always heard her friends make fun of the book worm and her quite nature. But Cho was enchanted by the underclassman.

The formulas she had difficulties with on her test were broken down to the point were she understood were she had lost track of what was going on. "Well that looks like everything." Hermione stretched her back as Cho began to pack all of her stuff. "Thanks, you helped me a lot."

Feeling refreshed and ready to go the next morning Cho walked out of her room, her friends had yet to discover that Hermione was her tutor, "Cho were did you go after practice." Cho shrugged her shoulders, "I was looking over my test." That was a good enough answer for them, as they began to chatter away. It really wasn't a lie but she felt guilty and ashamed.

Hermione understood that her and Cho were in different social groups as she looked over at the Ravenclaw table were Cho sat with her friends. She felt sympathy after what had happened to her boyfriend, she looked better than she had recently been.

The books always seem to stack up when Hermione began to look through stories and tales of magic. "Reading too much is bad for your eyes." She looked up to find Cho watching her over the large stack of books. "I can't help it; I just get caught up sometimes."

Cho took a seat right next to her and looked over the books she had been reading, there were over 20 advanced books in al sorts of different languages. It was amazing how much she could understand." "You just take it all in." Hermione shook her head, "not really some of it I'm still trying to figure out." Cho looked through some of the books.

"I'm not the best when it comes to the dark arts," Cho smiled as she looked through the books, "And I though you were perfect." Hermione blushed, Cho and Hermione talked until it was close to closing time.

Hermione was interrupted by a pair of strong arms wrapping around her waist. "Ron," she already knew that it was him; he tended to be a little possessive of her. He sloppily kissed her cheek, "Ready to get out of this dump." Cho was surprised when Hermione pushed past him and left him standing alone. He shrugged his shoulders, "what did I do."

The thought of Ron going out with Hermione was strange to Cho, not that there was anything wrong with her, she was smart, witty and fun. She just didn't seem like his type. Hermione didn't seem that interested either by the way she reacted to his show of affection.

Watching her 2 month boyfriend as he stuffed his face, with scrambled eggs completely ignoring her presence, Hermione was tired of Ron it was obvious to everyone but Ron. Hermione just didn't have the guts to break his heart. She just got tired of his possessiveness and arrogance.

Ron glanced up at Hermione and only one thing went through his head "Mine." Just like the other those were the perks of being best friends with the school hero. He had been cheating on her before they even started going out. She was just another girl, but he kept it up so that they seemed like the perfect couple.