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Chapter One: FOLLOW ME
"Could this be any more boring?"
The young, raven haired boy heaved a sigh as he pushed away the many books surrounding him on the table. He placed his folded arms on the spot where his books previously resided and dropped his head down.
"I know what you mean mate," said the vibrantly redheaded boy sitting next to the first. He closed the book in front of him and slammed his head on it.
"Honestly, you two are pathetic. If you wouldn't have waited until the last minute, like always, to start everything, then you wouldn't be…"
"Hermione, we don't want to hear it, okay?"
The bushy haired, amber eyed girl sitting across from the two boys tilted her head in annoyance then continued reading.
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These three had been sitting in the common room all morning working on finishing up their final projects for their classes. As usual, Hermione had already finished and was just there to make sure her friends kept at it.
Ron and Harry, on the other hand, had barely started a thing and were completely exhausted from working nonstop.
Hermione looked up at the collapsed heap of bodies that were her best friends. She thought they would have learned by now. They do this every time!
Suddenly, Ron's stomach growled and both his and Harry's heads popped up.
"Lunchtime!"
And before you could say Godric Gryffindor, they were out the common room door and heading towards the Great Hall.
Hermione shook her head as she neatly set aside her possessions on the table and left. When she arrived, Harry and Ron were already stuffing their faces.
She wrinkled her nose at their behavior and fixed herself a plate full of food.
"You know, just because it's lunch doesn't mean you can forget about your projects."
"And you know, just because you're a homework-loving, teacher's pet doesn't mean you have to ruin lunch for the rest of us by talking about school work!"
"What! I am not a teacher's pet! You take that back Ronald Weasley!"
'Oh Merlin' Harry thought 'here we go again…'
"Why should I? You're always pestering us about our 'bad habits'!"
"I'm just trying to help!"
"Well…..stop it!"
"Fine, I will."
"Good."
"No more taking notes for you."
"Fine."
"No more helping you with homework."
"Great."
"No more studying with you the night before a test and telling exactly what you need to know to pass."
"Err…well…"
"No more anything! You two are on your own!"
"You TWO?" Harry asked in a panic.
"Yes, thanks to Ron, you BOTH can just do all your work without me…and FAIL MISERABLY!"
"Oh great, thanks Ron," Harry muttered as he shot a glare at his friend. Ron reddened and shrunk back in his seat.
Hermione pulled out a book and buried her nose in it. No one really said anything for the rest of the meal. The awkward silence was just starting to become unbearable when Hermione suddenly stood up to leave.
Ron and Harry silently followed her back to their common room. They resumed their usual seats but Hermione just picked up her stuff and retreated up to her dormitory.
The boys watched as she huffed up the stairs and disappeared inside the door.
"Why do you two always have to fight?" Harry asked Ron.
"It's not my fault. She just…gets on my nerves. Besides, I don't always start it!"
"You two fight like an old married couple."
Ron made a face at Harry and flopped open his book. Harry let an aggrevated sigh escape as he turned to look in his bag for his Transfiguration book.
Ron, looking perturbed, quickly picked up his quill and began writing.
A minute or two later, Hermione was just about to head back downstairs to yell at the boys for not working when she stopped. Peeking around the doorframe, she smiled. Ron was writing furiously while Harry was trying to finish his reading. With his head propped up on his hand, he kept nodding off.
'Well, at least they're trying…' she thought as she walked back into her room.
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After another few hours of hard work, Harry had finished and was putting everything back into his bag. Ron was finishing up an essay and scribbling mindlessly on the parchment. Finally, he threw his quill down and yelled, "DONE!" He leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes.
"We've wasted the whole day in here," came a voice from behind Ron. He opened his eyes to see Harry standing by the window peering outside. The sun was setting on this beautiful Spring day, causing an orange glow to taint everything.
"Not the whole day. Besides, I'm too tired to do anything really"
"Well, I'm going on a walk. Wanna come?"
"Bloody hell Harry, I just said I was tired."
"Fine, don't come." He started towards the door.
"Wait!" Ron said as he jumped out of his chair. "I guess a walk would do me some good."
The two of them walked mindlessly around the castle, exploring new corriders and visiting some they knew all too well. When they stumbled upon the hall where the Room of Requirement was located, Ron insisted on going in. And much to Harry's displeasure, he agreed.
"I knew you two would come here eventually."
Both boys jumped at the sound of her voice.
"Blimey Hermione! You scared us half to death! What are you doing here?"
"Well," she started as the others came to sit on the chairs by her, "I was bored, and I felt kind of bad about earlier. Plus, I figured you guys would end up here at some point in time."
"But I thought you were mad at us?" Harry asked with a mischevious glint in his eyes.
"Oh please!" she smiled. "Besides, it's usually HIM I'm mad at," she nodded towards Ron.
"Hey!"
Harry and Hermione laughed as Ron just sat staring at the pair and adding a few sarcastic remarks between their giggles.
"Oh yeah…….funny…..HA HA HA…..Okay guys, it really wasn't that funny…." But soon even Ron, the butt of the joke, was laughing.
Finally, after everyone calmed down, Ron suggested a game of Exploding Snaps. Hermione passed and decided to curl up in on of the chairsto watch Harry and Ron play on the floor. And somehow, between games three and seven, the threesome feel asleep, probably due to all the work they had done today.
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Around 10:30, Hermione stirred. She yawned sleepily and rubbed her eyes. Noticing her location, her eyes shot open and she quickly checked her watch.
"Harry! Ron!"
"Huh?" "What?" They mumbled as they sat up to face each other.
"We fell asleep….it's after ten! It's past curfew!"
"Ah, we missed dinner," groaned Ron, clutching his stomach in agony. Hermione and Harry shot glances at the carrot topped boy.
"Don't you ever think about anything besides food?"
"What? I'm hungry."
Hermione shook her head and turned to look at Harry. "Uh, you two always get us into these sort of messes. What are we going to do THIS time?"
"I say we go back to the common room, get the invisibility cloak, and head to the kitchen for a late supper."
"How are we going to get TO the common room without getting caught?" interjected Ron, now leaning on the arm of Hermione's chair and looking anxious for an adventure.
Harry smiled. "Follow me."
:-: FINIS CHAPTER ONE:-:
hands tied forced to post this dumb story…so yeah, it sucks…. shrugs shoulders