(My Cat sweetheart) Boku no neko koi.
Chapter one- Blatant stupidity
Hermione had put up with it all year. She pretended that she wasn't bothered by it. She found a way to look like she wasn't lying about her feelings when she saw Lavender and Ron together, by acting and looking disgusted. This wasn't her hiding her feelings because she actually was disgusted. It was just that she had helped Ron to get on to the quiddich team and now that he had won the first game of the summer, he thought he was all that, and didn't even acknowledge her any more.
Granted, he didn't know that she had given him liquid luck, but then he didn't have to know. He could at least say 'hello' to her instead of going off to Lavender all the time. Lavender hadn't even liked him until he got on the team and Gryffindor won.
Any way, it didn't matter because Hermione was disgusted at their public affections and didn't want to be any part of it. That's what she told herself anyway.
To Harry, it seemed like a bomb waiting to go off.
He tiptoed around his friends, trying to be supportive of Ron's success and giving (hidden-ish) sympathy to Hermione because he knew no matter how much she tried to deny it, she was bothered that her advances had been rejected (unconsciously by Ron) and that she was putting on a brave face, and that she would viciously deny her feelings for;
"That blithering, disgusting, bigot that has no manners with the emotional range of a teaspoon? Merlin, Harry what do you take me for? He's a good friend of mine, just like you, I have no interest in him in that way."
Harry didn't like the obvious tension between his two best friends. So he decided to stay out of it. They would make up and see that they were meant for each other soon enough. And if they didn't, he was slipping them both a love potion. He had been through enough of their 'old married couple' arguments and wouldn't put up with blatant stupidity.
Hermione entered the common room to find Harry hidden behind his potions text book. That was an obvious sign. Harry would never have studied voluntarily for a potions test that was a month away. Hermione shut her eyes and took a deep breath through her nose, then released it. She kept her head down and proceeded up the stairs keeping her gaze fixed right in front of her as she breezed through the common room and up the stairs. She could hear the squeal of lavender as she went through. She heard the deathly silence that went through the room as she entered and jogged up the stairs.
Well, most of the common room went quiet, and it made Ron look up to see why everyone went quiet for from their previous celebrations.
He saw her. She didn't look at him, but he watched her as she sped up the stairs and across the hall to the left corridor and then disappeared. He turned to Lavender again and the conversations started up more loudly.
The moment had passed.
From the couch, Harry released a sigh that he had been holding. They really needed to sort this out.
HE really needed to sort this out.
