Okay so I hate author notes when I'm trying to read a story so I'll attempt to keep these to a min. This story is going to be as short as I can make it without it seeming too rushed and I don't know if I'll finish it. I started it out of boredom just to entertain myself but I have a very short attention span. Sorry. Thank you so much to Angelndevil1 for correcting my Korean! And "Mir" is pronounced "meer" like in meerkat. That's about it. Hope you like it :]

Disclaimer: I do not own the Harry Potter series or any of its characters. I wish I was that cool.

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Chapter 1

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Hermione sighed as she took another neatly folded stack of uniforms and placed them in her Hogwarts trunk. Looking back at the gi that was flopped on her bed next to her belt, she couldn't help but sigh again.

She was going back to Hogwarts for the last time. All students who had missed their final year due to the war were allowed to return so as to complete their education. Of course Hermione was going back. Honestly though, it was a little bittersweet. Yes, she was glad to be going back but on the flip side she treasured the months she had gotten to spend with her parents. With Voldemort being defeated early spring, she had been able to find her parents, restore their memories, and spend a fair amount of time with them.

It sucked she had to leave them again.

And not to mention she'd have to give it up again. Hermione looked longingly at her gi and belt. On an impulse, she grabbed both and threw them in her trunk, rumpled and all. She stopped and lifted the end of the belt, fingering the three gold stripes that adorned the end of the black material. She had just made it to third degree and she couldn't have been any more proud of herself. Tae Kwon Do was her passion and she hated that she had to give it up every year.

Not this year.

She shut the trunk, afraid that she would change her mind. Everything was packed and she had a feeling of anxiety. This year was going to be so much different. The war had changed everyone. The school would be different under McGonagall and no doubt a lot more strict. Hermione could handle that. She couldn't handle, however, that she would be going back with only one person to call a friend.

Ginny Weasley was the only person who sided with Hermione during what was dubbed the "Ron Fiasco". He hadn't come out of the war the same Ron that Hermione had fallen in love with all those years ago. No. This man became obsessed with finding the remaining deatheaters to the point where if Hermione wouldn't help with research, one could hear him from down the block screaming profanities at her. When Hermione finally had enough and left to live with her parents again, Ginny was the only one who stood by her side. Harry even told her to tough it out because it was just a phase. From the letters that Hermione had been getting from Ginny lately though, it seemed as if Harry was experiencing it first hand now.

Even Ginny's and Harry's relationship fell apart after the war. It was sad to see the two people that Hermione thought would be together forever drift apart. They had ended on a good note and for that Hermione was thankful. She didn't want any hostility between her "friends".

Standing up from where she was previously sitting on the floor, Hermione walked over to her nightstand, looking at a picture. It was Ron, Harry, and Hermione. Hagrid had taken that picture during their first year. Hermione smiled and picked up the picture before flopping oh so gracefully on her bed.

If only things were still as new and exciting as first year. If only things were as simple and easy as back then.

Hermione stripped off her pants and shucked her bra before crawling into bed. She was going to be hanging out with her four best muggle friends tomorrow. There was only 2 days until she had to be on the Hogwarts Express and she was going to damn well make the most of it.

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It took a moment for Hermione to realize why the animals in her dream had started to sing and sound exactly like Bullet For My Valentine. She groggily looked at the time on her ipod alarm before hitting the snooze a little too hard. It was only 10 am. If she put her hair in a pony tail instead of doing the charm Ginny had taught her, she'd save about 15 minutes. Ten minutes later, she hit the snooze again. If she didn't do her makeup she could save another ten.

By the time the alarm went off again, Hermione was cursing herself for not wanting to do her hair. It was 10:20 and her friends would be at her house at 10:45 to pick her up for their beach sesh. Her hair always frizzed to the max when she went to the beach.

Rolling out of bed and trudging her way to the bathroom, she decided to forego the shower since she'd just be all sandy anyway, and went straight to brushing away her morning breath. She did her morning bathroom routine and spent a little more time than necessary to charm her hair.

Just as she was finishing the last section of hair, the doorbell rang, signaling her friends' arrival. Grabbing her beach tote, she scanned her room in case she forgot anything and made a mad dash down the stairs.

The boys were already in, each eating a muffin that Hermione's mother had made for them all that morning. Hermione ran around the table giving each of the boys a hug from behind before finally stopping to give her mother a hug.

"Thanks for making breakfast, Mum. I can already see that the boys are enjoying your muffins," Hermione smirked.

Hearing this, all the boys swallowed and smiling, said, "Yeah, Thanks Lacy!"

Hermione's mother just smiled back at the boys and then finished packing Hermione's food for the day. When she was done, she handed it to Hermione. "I packed you enough for breakfast and lunch. There's some money in there too if you guys are going to be out passed dinner time."

Hermione took the bag and put it in her tote. She hugged her mother and then ushered the guys back out to the car, calling out a last "Bye Mum! Tell Dad I said bye too! Love you!" as she walked out the door.

"Come on Hermione, can't we take your car? Please, please, please, please, pleaseeeee?" the guy named Shane begged.

"Yeah, Mir. You never let us go anywhere in your car," this time it was Ryan who piped in.

Tristen spoke up next, albeit a little lazily, "You're leaving for school in two days, just indulge us. I don't want to sit here through your guys' bickering."

Jayden walked up behind Hermione and enveloped her in a hug. "I agree with Tristen. And I don't think you have a choice this time. You're going to lose this one, Mir."

Hermione harrumphed in his arms before pulling out her keys and walking over to her new black Audi Q7. "I'll concede this one time. But you guys all have to vacuum it and wash it tomorrow! And no eating in my car dammit!"

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The ride to the beach was a short one. Windows were rolled down and music was blasting. Even with The Comeback Kid blaring from the speakers, one could still hear the laughter emanating from inside the SUV.

"Okay, I am tanning and there is nothing you guys can do about it," Hermione said after she parked. Grabbing her tote, she skipped her way off the sidewalk and into the sand, not even waiting for the boys to get out of the car. She set her tote down taking out her beach blanket and laying it out in the sand.

Just as she finished shucking her shorts and shirt, Jayden grabbed her from behind and picked her up, kicking and screaming. Running as fast as he could with his extra hundred or so pounds, Jayden jumped into the water, taking Hermione down with him.

"You son of a bitch! You are so going to pay for that," Hermione screamed after sputtering the water from her mouth. Spinning around, Hermione grabbed Jayden by the shoulders and dunked him before standing and running towards shore. She was not expecting Shane to meet her halfway, picking her up and giving her a repeat performance. It was as if all her boys were against her.

"So, what was that about not being able to take you away from tanning?" grinned Tristen smugly as he floated up on a surfboard.

"Oh whatever," Hermione pouted. Then grinning like the Cheshire cat, Hermione flipped Tristen off his board and ran into the surf with it.

For the next two hours, Hermione sat in the surf and caught a couple waves. The guys took turns with the other surfboard they brought so Hermione got to spend some one on one time with each of her boys. Not to mention she got to spy on the girls that were checking out her guys. She had to admit though she hung out with some really good looking guys.

When she was finally done surfing she made her way with Ryan back to the shore and collapsed on her blanket.

"I am tanning now and you guys can all screw off," Hermione mumbled into her blanket. One could tell she was smiling though. Her tone was happy and content.

"Oh come on Mir. You know we would have gotten you in the water eventually. It just happened sooner rather than later," Jayden said, smacking her butt playfully.

"Ow jerk! That one made good contact!" Hermione grumbled rolling onto her back. "Now I'm going to have a handprint on my ass," she pouted. The boys all looked at her face and broke into laughter.

"Well if you weren't wearing such revealing bottoms, we would have never known either way. Now we just get to make fun of you as you run around with a handprint on your ass for the world to see Mir," Jayden laughed.

"Believe me when I say, it's surprising that Granger has an ass worthy of displaying at all," an all too familiar voice bit out.

Hermione couldn't believe it. She was just trying to have fun with some of her best friends before she had to go back and deal with this prick again. What was that saying? No good deed goes unpunished? Vanquished an evil being from the wizarding world and the fates hate her. Yeah, it was something like that.

"Who the hell are you?" Tristen asked in a bored tone.

"I guess I shouldn't expect any muggles," Draco spat the word out, "to know who I am. But for the sake of formalities, I am Draco Malfoy. And this is Blaise Zabini."

"You act like we're suppose to recognize your name. What are you? Son of an overnight millionaire or something?" scoffed Shane.

Hermione, who had been silent this whole time, tore her eyes from Malfoy to look at Blaise. "Hello, Zabini. How's your summer been?"

Hermione didn't see any wrong in being cordial with Blaise Zabini. After all he had never even said a word to her in school, good or bad. Not to mention, his entire family had remained neutral in the war even under constant pressure to join the dark side. Hermione saw that as a bit of hope that he might at least have some manners. His counterpart sure didn't.

Blaise look surprised for a moment before cracking a grin. "It's been better now that the family is back from Italy. I've missed it here."

"Yeah, well, you didn't really miss anything important," joked Hermione. His smile was disarming.

Blaise's smile widened a fraction. "Who knew Granger had a sense of humor?"

"It's been known to happen," shrugged Hermione. "Now it was great to see you two again but I think it would be best if you let my friends and I finish our hang out sesh."

"Well looks like we've been dismissed. Come on Draco, let's go." Blaise clapped his friend on the shoulder to get his attention.

Malfoy had been glaring between Hermione and Blaise during their little exchange. He broke from his hate filled trance, and spinning on his heel, he threw over his shoulder, "We shouldn't waste our time on mudbloods anyways."

Hermione bristled at the comment and got to her feet. "Excuse me? You come over into my space, insult me, not once but twice and think that I'm just going to let you walk away as if you own the world? Think again Malfoy."

"Oh yes I am so scared. We're at a muggle beach Granger. To think that you could beat me at a duel under different circumstances is just pathetic. Like I would lose to a mudblood like yourself? And to think that you would be so stupid as to take me on in a muggle fight, well, let's just say you aren't the brightest wi… of our age." Malfoy sneered. He had to catch himself a few times since he was standing in front of a group of muggles. He almost even called Granger a witch. Close call that one was.

Jayden was watching them with recognition dawning in his eyes. This was Draco Malfoy. The prat that had tormented Mir for years. Oh now he knew the name.

As soon as he comprehended what was going on he realized that Hermione was losing her temper. And fast. "Mir. Just walk away."

Hermione completely ignored him. "It's funny. Your under the impression that you can actually do damage the muggle way. I'll let you in on a little secret. I could have knocked you out in third year had I wanted to. I just thought that it would be funnier to see you running away with your tail between your legs. When there are muggles around, it's not me who's at a disadvantage. It's you." Hermione smirked and then added, "Would you like for me to break your nose again?"

"As if I would ever let you come close enough to touch me with your filthy little hands mudblood? I think not."

Hermione made to step closer but was held back by Jayden. When he had gotten up was beyond her. "Gomanheh, Mir. Shhhh."

Hermione took a deep breath, whispered a thanks, and sat down. "Bye Zabini. See you at school," she waved.

"Mudblood not going to fight?" Malfoy tried to get another rise out of her.

"Come on Draco. Let's just go." Blaise looked at Hermione almost apologetic like. "Bye Granger," he said, before grabbing Draco's arm and pulling him away. It was almost funny the way they were bickering as they walked farther down the beach.

"So what the hell is a muggle?" Ryan finally asked, breaking the silence.

Hermione looked at Jayden and both burst into laughter. The only person outside of her family who knew Hermione's secret was Jayden, and she intended to keep it that way. "Don't worry about it. He's just a weird guy. He says weird things."

"Those weird things seemed to get you riled," Tristen added.

"Ugh. Just drop it, okay guys? I just want to finish out my day on a good note, so don't go reminding me of the git, yeah?"

"Fine Mir, but we're going to find out eventually," Shane said before rolling over onto his stomach and digging in her tote for food.

Hopefully eventually meant never.

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The rest of the day went very well. They stayed late and went out to dinner, just enjoying their last day together. Eventually they found themselves back at Hermione's house.

Hermione went around and gave each of her boys a hug and then began walking up the path to her front door.

"Hey guys! Load our crap into my truck, yeah? I'm going to walk Mir up," Jayden called while tossing his keys at Tristen. All three boys rolled their eyes but acquiesced.

When Jayden and Hermione reached her front door, he pulled her into a tight hug. "Promise me you'll be careful. I know there are still rouge deatheaters out there. I don't want anything to happen to you." He whispered it into her hair.

Hermione wrapped her arms around his neck and spoke into his chest, "I know you're worried about me but you don't have to be. I'll be fine. I got through the war and I can get through the aftermath. What I'm going to be doing after I get out of school is the problem."

"You know I'm going to worry anyways."

Hermione looked up at him. "I know, but I'll be okay. My biggest worry is probably going to be dealing with the git," she said trying to lighten the mood. "I'll miss you though."

"I'll miss you too." And before Hermione could think to stop it, Jayden had captured her lips in a kiss filled with longing.

When the kiss ended, Hermione couldn't help but whisper, "Jayden, you know I can't…"

"I know. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done that." Jayden took a deep breath and released her. "Bye Hermione. I just hope that the solution to your after school problem will have me in it." And with that, he walked away leaving Hermione standing on her doorstep staring off into space. As an afterthought he threw over his shoulder, "And don't forget to write to me! I bought you Nyx for a reason!"

Hermione broke out of her trance and waved at her boys before going into her house. She made her way upstairs and grabbed a quick shower before crashing on her bed. Her trunk was packed so she wouldn't have to worry about that in the morning.

Tomorrow was going to be busy. She was going to be shopping in Diagon Alley with Ginny for last minute supplies and then they would be staying at the Leaky Cauldron for the night. She had to get a few extra things since she had been appointed Head Girl. She was required to have an owl this year and luckily Jayden had bought her one a couple months ago. She also had a few other random items she needed to buy before term but nothing a day of shopping couldn't take care of.

Tired out from a full day of fun, Hermione fell asleep making her mental shopping list.

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