DREAMS AND REALITY
CHAPTER 1:
A/N: Hey everyone! Please review and tell me what you think. I don't really know where I am going with this story. I am making it up as I go along. So yeah please review and I hope you enjoy!
It was a dark and chilly night as Hermione walked deeper and deeper into the forest. She brushed each bush as she passed it feeling its leaves with her fingertips. She didn't know where she was going; it just felt right to keep on walking to reach her final destination.
There was a slight wind in the air and every now and then it would hit her in the face making her eyes close as a result. The trees whispered to her, though she was unable to translate what they were saying. The world was quiet here unlike the loud and busy city life she was used to.
The soil beneath her bare feet was soft and easy to walk on. It almost felt as if she wasn't on earth anymore. It seemed as though she had been lifted from Earth and had landed on a peaceful planet uninhabited by life of any kind. The air was cool and clean, unpolluted like the air at home. Hermione took deep breathes trying to get as much of the luxurious air as she could into her lungs.
She felt suddenly a little tired and decided to take a slight rest. Hermione lay herself down beneath a giant oak tree. She made herself comfortable and before she knew it she was asleep.
Hermione woke up to find herself in the familiar surroundings of her apartment in the middle of the city, New York. Hermione sighed and stretched her arms. She turned and looked at the clock on her bedside table. Nine o'clock.
"Shit!" she cried.
Hermione hurriedly got out of bed and pulled on her work uniform and grabbed her handbag. Though she hungry, she would have to skip breakfast.
"I'll have breakfast at the shop. I was suppose to be at work an hour ago," she said herself grabbing the keys and walking out the door.
Hermione half walked, half ran to the cafe where she worked. She was lucky that it was only a ten-minute walk from her apartment to the café. Once she arrived she opened the door with the usual sound of the bell on the back of door, which rang when the door moved.
"Granger your late, again" a big man with a blue apron yelled from behind the counter.
"Sorry boss. Won't happen again." Hermione apologized. She had been saying this for the last two weeks.
"Last time. I won't put up with it again." Her boss had been saying this also for the last two weeks. Hermione grabbed her usual apron and put it on herself while walking towards the counter.
"We have a full house this morning, as usual. Give these to table five." Jeffrey said piling the plates of toast and bacon and eggs into her arms.
"Well hurry up!" He snapped.
"Yes boss" Hermione replied, walking hurriedly over to table five.
Jeffrey was usually very stressed in the morning as it the café's busiest time of day. People were lucky to get a table after eight thirty.
"Good morning! Who ordered the toast?" Hermione asked politely. After she had given the customer's their orders, she left and went behind the counter and started making countless cups of coffee. It was as if it was a tradition for the customers to purchase a cup of coffee with there meal. Then there are the people who purchase a coffee to go. So there are usually two people making countless cups of coffee all morning.
"Hey Lita" Hermione greeted walking up to the two big coffee machines.
"Oh, hey Granger. How are you?" Her friend asked pouring a cup of coffee from one of the machines. Hermione started making coffee from the machine not in use. Hermione grunted and replied, "You know, the usual."
"You had that dream again?" Questioned Lita putting a cup of coffee on the counter and yelled 'waitress!'
"Yeah" answered Hermione pouring some coffee beans into the machine.
"What! Again? What is that now two weeks in a row?" Lita exclaimed adding milk to another cup of coffee.
"Yeah and it really sucks cause it always makes me late to work. I can't wake out of it!"
"Have you tired an alarm clock?"
"Yeah I have tried everything. Nothing wakes me from me in that forest. I just wake by myself. I don't know what to do." Hermione said with a sigh.
"Maybe you should see a dream interpreter. I heard they actually know what they are talking about" Lita suggested refilling the machine with coffee beans.
"Maybe" Hermione said leaving it at that.
"So how is Randy?" Lita asked getting the hint Hermione didn't want to talk about her recurring dream anymore.
"He's good. He was gone this morning, before I woke up"
"I swear your boyfriend is a real sweetie," commented Lita.
"Yeah I love my Randy"
"Hey why doesn't he wake you up in the mornings?" Lita asked.
"We have tried that. Sometimes I fall back to sleep again, or I am really pissed when get up. Or it takes to long for me to wake up and Randy has to get to training in a hurry, and it would make him late" Hermione sighed and continued "I wish I wasn't such a heavy sleeper."
"Don't worry you'll work something out." Lita said giving her a sympathetic smile.
It was around eleven and the café was practically empty. Hermione sat herself at one of the tables eating a muffin. Jeffrey came and sat on the chair opposite her.
"Skipped breakfast again?"
"Yeah"
"Should make a habit of that. Its not healthy." Just then the bell on the back on the door rang and Hermione turned to see who it was.
"Randy!" She cried running over to him.
"Hey babe" He said greeting her with a hug.
"What you doing? I thought you were training today?"
"Yeah, coach let me out early. I was thinking maybe you could knock off work now and we could do something fun. We haven't done something fun for a long time." Randy said looking into Hermione's eyes.
"Boss!" Hermione called.
"Don't even think about asking me. You came into work late and you are defiantly not leaving early" Jeffrey called back.
"Well you heard him. I can't argue with that." Hermione sighed. Only if she would have gotten to work on time, and its all because of the stupid dream.
"That's too bad" Randy said looking really disappointed.
"I am so sorry. I really want to but"
"I think I'll go back to the apartment" Randy said then gave Hermione a kiss on the cheek.
"No don't waste the rest of the day. Go out and have fun." Hermione said, feeling bad she couldn't leave work.
"Its not fun with you. I better not keep you any longer."
Hermione smiled and kissed him then watched him leave, the now empty, café.
"See you tonight" Randy said walking out the door. Hermione sighed and went to seat but down at the table. Jeffrey came walking over.
"Go" he simply said.
"What?" Hermione muttered.
"I'll probably regret this later but go have fun. You and Randy have had hardly any time together. Now go before I change my mind."
"Oh my God! Boss you're the greatest!" Hermione practically squealed. She got up and gave him a big hug.
"Yeah, yeah now go."
Hermione took off her apron and ran to the door.
"Hey Granger, part of the deal is that you have to promise to be on time tomorrow." Jeffrey yelled. Hermione stopped abruptly. She knew she couldn't promise that. She vowed that she make her largest effort. She owed it to Jeffrey because he was being so nice.
"Ok. Thanks again, I owe you one." And with that Hermione was out the door.
"You owe me twelve" Jeffrey called back.
Hermione ran after Randy until she finally caught up to him.
"Hey my cool, hot, sexy boyfriend!" Randy turned around.
"Hey! You made it!"
"Yep. Jeffrey let me go. Don't know why though." Hermione said taking a hold of his hand.
"Your boss is a champ"
"He sure is!" Hermione agreed, and then added, "So where should we go to celebrate the fact we both have free time?"
"Don't know. Want to go to Central Park? We could just hang out there."
"Sounds great. I'd prefer to go somewhere quiet. Get away from people."
"I bet you do." Randy said with a bit of a chuckle.
Hermione didn't hear what he said though, because she was too busy starring at someone she hadn't seen for a very long time. For the person she was starring at was an old school friend of hers. Harry Potter.
A/N: As I said before I am basically making this whole story up as I go along. Reviews would be great to see if people like what I am writing. Hopefully I'll have a second chapter to post.
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