Author's Note: Hope you like this story! I love the whole forbidden crap. Don't know why, and don't care. :) If you have any comments about "Oh the title's just like Justin Bieber's song!" I would like to say that I thought of that after writing this and I HATE justin beiber so plz don't comment about the title. Thnx!
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Harry Potter. . . . . . . (Damn it...)
One Less Lonely Girl
Chapter 1 - The Bump In
Hermione was always left out. She had had enough lately. I need a boyfriend, she thought to herself, and a good one too. Harry always had Ginny at his side, Ron has Lavender, Neville had Luna. Even Crookshanks had a girlfriend! Luna had gotten a cat, she was pure white, and her name was Clair. Her full name was Clair de lune, after the song. Luna had liked the song and loved that the name meant moonlight in french when she found out. Hermione sighed. For christ sake! Even Pansy, desperate clingy Pansy, had someone. Blaise Zabini and her have been close lately. Why does it seem everyone had someone but her! I need to get a love interest and fast, she thought, but who? There weren't any boys who were nice to her or even like to acknowledge her purely on the fact that she was smarter than most of them. Damn her brain! Before she knew it she had wasted an entire hour thinking about couples. It was past her usual time to sleep. So, thinking of a plan and hoping her dreams would tell her a solution, she climbed into her bed and went to sleep.
The next morning she was surrounded by the usual couples. First, it was Harry and Ginny. Something she could handle since they tended to be less of the make out in front of whoever the hell you want type. Hermione grinned at them.
"Going down to get breakfast." she said.
Ginny grinned back, "Yup! You know someone told me some interesting news the other day," Ginny turned to Harry "You wait for Ron," she said,"I need to tell Hermione something in private."
Harry nodded. Ginny took Hermione by the arm and they were headed for breakfast. "You will never believe what happened last night!" Ginny exclaimed.
Hermione's face fell a little. "Look, Ginny, if it's about you and Harry's intimate moments," she said hesitantly,"I really would rather you not tell me."
Ginny looked at her incredulously. "Do I look like Fred and George to you," she said rhetorically. When Hermione opened her mouth to answer when Ginny beat her to the punch line. "Don't answer that," she said, sighing.
Hermione closed her mouth and shrugged. "Okay, so what was the news?" said Hermione quietly. Ginny grinned,"I found out about someone who has a crush on you. . ." Hermione snapped her head up quickly. "Who?" she asked hesitantly, almost not wanting to know. Ginny giggled, "It's, it's," she stopped giggling herself nearly to death,"It's . . . Seamus Finnigan!"
And then Ginny started giggling so hard she fell flat on her butt and was crying. Her face was pink, tears running down her cheeks, and she was STILL laughing. Hermione sighed, it wasn't that bad, she thought. Ginny finally stopped and looked at Hermione, trying to be serious.
"So . . . What do you think?"She asked. Hermione shrugged, "I don't know yet." Ginny rolled her eyes, "C'mon 'Mione! You seriously need to get a love interest of some type," Ginny said,"you're always the third wheel around us and I always feel so bad about it."
Hermione smiled a small smile at one of her best friends. "Don't worry," she said, "I'm use to it by now anyways."
Ginny stopped Hermione, and got in front of her, gripping both of Hermione's shoulders saying,"Exactly! You need to have some fun. So, I think I'm going to tell Seamus he should ask you out and when he does you're going to yes."
Hermione chuckled at her red headed friend. "No, I shouldn't. I mean, I barely know him," Hermione said,"and let's face it. I'm not exactly a knock out for guys anyways."
Ginny shook Hermione, her ears getting red. "YOU. ARE. GOING. ON A DATE. WITH SEAMUS FINNIGAN. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?" Ginny said, her stubborn side coming out. Hermione nodded her head quickly, knowing well not to argue with Ginny at her current state at the moment.
Soon after a couple filled breakfast, Hermione decided to go ahead and arrive early to her Ancient Runes class. Unknown to her at the time, Hermione had passed a certain blonde slytherin who had overheard (aka eavesdropped) on her recent love life conversation. Malfoy smirked as he saw the perfect oppurtunity to humiliate the witch on his own terms. He bid the slytherins a swift goodbye and went on to do just that.
On her way to class, Hermione watched the sun beam through the corridors and she smiled. It was nice days like these that made her, for once, not want to go to a classroom. She smiled and breathed deeply, appreciating what little sun she was able to get at the moment. Suddenly there were heavy footsteps echoing throughout the halls. Hermione turned to see who's footsteps they were and was suprised to see a Mr. Malfoy following close behind her. She went slightly pale as she realized she was alone in the hall. Which meant there was only one person Malfoy could pick on to make his day a little better.
Hermione. Or as Malfoy liked to call her, Mudblood. And if he was being civilized, Granger. Which almost rarely ever happened. Hermione huffed and started to walk faster. Malfoy smirked widely as he saw Hermione's pace speed up at his newly noticed presence. He jogged swiftly over to her side.
"Well, Granger, seems like you've got yourself a date for the night," Draco said smiling and loving every second. "Poor fellow."
Hermione blushed and quickly looked down. "And how is this relevant to anything that involves you Malfoy? It's none of your business."
Draco chuckled before replying. "Well, I feel so sorry for the poor man! I just have to buy him a bottle of the finest firewhiskey I can get." He stopped walking beside her and laughed. "I mean, who in their right mind would ever date the likes of you! Unless of course, he either needed his homework done or lost a bet."
Draco started to laugh louder as Hermione's cheek blushed a dark crimson. Hermione didn't know what overcome herself but suddenly she started to silently cry. She then turned to Draco and screamed. "It's none of your damn business you arrogant, pompous, brain dead little prat!"
Hermione turned on her heels and ran to the closest girl's bathroom. Draco stood in the empty corridor stunned. He was only poking fun. He hadn't really meant to make the gryffindor girl cry. And really didn't know it was that easy! Otherwise, he'd have done that ages ago! Draco sighed and scratched the top of his head unable to figure out what to do. Suddenly he remembered he needed to get to class and he was far from where his first class was. Draco then started towards his class, still somewhat boggled over what to do about hurting the girl's feelings. He shouldn't feel guilty about hurting a mudblood's feeling. He's a Malfoy, after all!
After cleaning up a bit, Hermione felt a bit humiliated. She wasn't humiliated about crying over Malfoy's words. She was, however, humiliated that she had cried in front of Malfoy. That had made her look weak in front of an enemy. And a cruel one at that. Hermione sighed and bit her lip before heading to class. For the first time, Hermione Jean Granger was late. She entered the class room and apologized meekly to her professor. She quickly took her seat as the entire class stared at her in shock. The professor continued with the lesson to Hermione's relief. As she took notes, she decided she needed to talk to Malfoy. She needed to explain. She didn't know why she felt that she should explain, she just felt it.