A/N: So here's the next chapter. I really hope you all like it.

Before you start reading I'm going to explain to you what an IST is. IST stands for international service team (that's what I think at least) and they were the crew kind of. Hope I explained it well enough :)

Chapter 2

The sun goes down,

The stars come out,

And all that counts is here and now,

My universe will never be the same,

I'm glad you came.

Glad you came – The Wanted

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The third day was when everything was turned upside down.

As they exited their tents in the morning, they came out to the sun shining. It immediately put a smile onto everyone's faces.

They made breakfast and sat down to eat.

"Slept well?"

Hermione turned around to see the bright smiling face of Amber.

"Hi, yeah I did, you?" she smiled at the other girl.

Hermione wasn't really sure whether to look at herself as lucky or unlucky to get Amber as a leader.

Amber was her brother Jack's wife. In the start Hermione didn't like her much, but now the two of them got along rather well. It had taken some time, some movie nights and some talks, but now she knew that Amber was there for her.

At the minute Amber was three months pregnant with her and Jack's first child and Hermione couldn't wait to become an aunt.

"It was okay, it's getting worse though," Amber stated.

"Hey, you know what we're doing today?" Hermione asked the older girl.

"Not really, just that the activity is named human," Amber said and shrugged. "Well, you all better finish breakfast now and get going. Don't want to be late," she winked at Hermione.

"You heard her," Hermione told the rest of her patrol and they quickly finished breakfast and clean up after themselves.

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"I can't believe this rubbish!" Ginny announced loudly.

They had spent the last 30 minutes watching the most stupid play they had ever seen. It was supposed to make them laugh, but it mostly just made them all annoyed.

It had lead to Ginny and Lavender talking about the boys around them in codes. Blue was hot, yellow was cute and red was both cute and hot.

It mostly made Hermione laugh, so she spent most of the time talking to Luna about various stuff.

When it was finished, they just had to do three more activities to get the day approved and they could go on to do whatever they wanted.

"C'mon Gin, we'll finish soon, and then you and Lavender can go do whatever," Hermione told her with a smile.

"I can't wait!" Ginny said with a large smile.

The whole patrol smiled and they made their way to one of the shortest lines to do another activity.

"This way!" One of the IST's shouted and led them out to the open field.

"Okay, so sit down and I'll explain what you're supposed to do," the IST told them.

They all sat down in a circle and the IST gave Hermione about five pictures.

"Look at the pictures, all of you are going to choose one and tell the rest of the patrol what the picture means to them, and what they think about when they see it." The IST left and Hermione put the pictures down in the middle of the circle so everyone could see them.

After a short while Hermione picked up one of the pictures and started talking about it.

"When I see this picture I think about..."

There she was cut off by another voice.

"Can we join you guys?"

Hermione turned around and looked up at the gang of boys.

More like men. They all looked like they were supposed to be IST's or leaders, only a few of them looked like they could be under 18, in her opinion at least.

She shared a look with Ginny. Ginny gave her a short nod.

"Sure, sit down," she said with a smile to the boys.

They widened out the ring they sat in and they made room for everyone.

"Maybe we should go around the ring, say our names and stuff?" one of the boys suggested.

"Good idea," Ginny agreed.

"Okay, I'll start," one of the boys announced to the rest of them. "I'm Oliver, and I'm the patrol leader for these idiots," he said and gestured towards the rest of the boys.

They went around the circle and they all said a little about themselves.

"I'm Harry," another of the boys said. He wore a pair of glasses and had uncontrollable black hair.

"I'm Ginny," Ginny told them and looked to her right, to the next boy.

"I'm Neville," he said while looking at the ground in front of him. He seemed a bit shy.

"I'm Ron," the last of the boys declared.

Hermione turned and looked at him. He was seated right beside her. He looked tall and had what couldn't be described as anything else than ginger hair.

"I'm Hermione, and I'm the patrol leader of this bunch," she told the gang.

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"Y'know, no one would notice it if we had lunch now," Oliver suggested.

Hermione shook her head.

"And you should know that they have scheduled everything, so we can't just go wandering around as we want," she said strictly. She hated doing things against the rules.

"Hey Ron? You hungry?" Oliver asked the other boy. They were all cramped together under a tarpaulin because it had started raining again.

"Yeah, sure am dude," Ron answered.

Oliver smiled smugly at Hermione. He knew that Ron was always hungry, but there was no way that Hermione knew that.

"You can't you go because one of your scouts are hungry!" Hermione exclaimed.

Ron looked at Hermione. "Hey! He can't have me starving, can he?"

Hermione shook her head. "I doubt you'll starve, eh, Ron?" She hadn't totally managed to learn the names of all the boys.

It was clear that the boys were American. The way they talked was a huge give-away.

"Yes, Ron probably won't starve," the boy named Harry said, interrupting their discussion.

"C'mon Hermy, no one will notice it, and we'll go back and finish after," Oliver tried.

"Number one, never, ever call me Hermy, or any other ridicules pet names! Number two, we should wait, it's not long until lunch anyway," Hermione stated. She hated pet names and refused to answer to any.

"Exactly," Ginny answered Hermione. "It's not long, so why not go now?"

Hermione glared at Ginny. Wasn't they supposed to be a team?

"C'mon Hermione, let loose a bit," Ron dared her. He was looking at her with those deep blue eyes. They were the kind that made her feel like she was going to drown in an ocean. And then there was that lopsided grin.

"Um, ah, I give up!" she exclaimed loud enough to let her own patrol and the American boys hear it.

"Then let's go have lunch!" Ron said loudly.

They all packed up their stuff and got up.

"So, Dutch place?" Oliver asked and most of the boys nodded. "You coming too?" he asked Hermione.

She looked at the other teens in her patrol. Most of them nodded.

"Sure," she said and they all started making their way towards the restaurants.

It doesn't take more than ten minutes to get to the place, but as they get there, they see the incredible long line.

Hermione smirked a bit, glad she packed with her something for lunch. Ginny and some of her other patrol members' sat down with her by a table right outside the restaurant.

They talked for a while before the rest of their patrol and the American boys came to sit down with them.

It was getting really cramped around the table, but they managed in the end.

Lunch went with them joking around, getting to know each other. Everyone seemed to have a good time.

Hermione had to smile to herself, it hadn't been a bad idea to let the boys join them.

"So, there's no American girls here?" Ginny asked Harry interested.

"Nope, none of them. They just don't do this kind of things," he explained.

Ginny actually seemed interested for once. "Wow, that's just weird," she exclaimed.

Harry just shrugged, not really sure what to answer.

"Guys, maybe we should head back now?" Hermione asked the others.

"Sure, let's listen to Hermione for once," Oliver said with a smile.

They all packed up their things and moved back to the area where the activities were in full swing again.

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They finished about the same time, and when it was time to head back to their campsite, the American boys decided to walk them back.

"See, it's not that hard to find it!" Ginny exclaimed as she pointed it out to Harry and Ron when they were about 50 yards away. "You have the large food tent over there," she pointed to her right. "And then we almost have the tallest flagpole in the camp, it's not hard to see," she told them with a grin.

"Well, I'm sure I'll find it," Harry told her. "But Ron's the worst guy I know when it comes to directions."

Oliver laughed a bit as Harry said this. "You know at the opening show? Did any of you guys see the green laser pen?"

Hermione and Ginny nodded, they had noticed it.

"That's mine," Oliver told them. "We use it to help Ron back to our campsite."

Ron blushed as Oliver informed the girls of how useless he was when it came to finding the right way.

"I'll just point it up in the sky and Ron'll see it. Then he can just come that way, if I didn't have it Ron wouldn't ever find his way back," Oliver finished.

Then they were standing outside the big portal the British troop had made.

"Wow!" Most of the American boys said out loud.

"You guys built this?" Neville asked, amazed.

Luna nodded.

"Well, Draco, over there," she pointed out the unnatural platinum blonde boy standing inside their campsite. "He was the one to design the thing," she explained. "Thought the rest of us helped build it."

"It's so large!" Ron exclaimed.

"Mhm, sure is," Harry agreed.

"Guys! Meeting now!" Amber called at them from inside their camp area.

"Promise you'll stop by one of the days?" Ginny asked, looking at Harry.

"Sure," Ron answered, not noticing the glances Ginny were sending Harry.

"Later guys," Harry said and they were off again.

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"Isn't that Ron?" Luna asked Hermione sometime after dinner.

Hermione turned to see, and there was none other than Ron, Harry, Neville and Dean. They were all waving and Hermione made a hand gesture, making them come inside their campsite and towards them.

"You guys came!" Ginny exclaimed as she came jogging up to them from the other edge of their campsite.

"Yeah, didn't really have anything else to do," Harry answered her.

"Well, anyways, what do you want to do?" Ron asked them. "Or, if you can leave your campsite that is..." he trailed of, not really sure if they were permitted to leave by their leaders.

"So, who's this?" Draco asked. He walked up to the group and looked questioningly first at the boys, then over at Hermione.

"This is Harry, Neville, Ron and Dean," Hermione said, pointing at each of the boys. She had finally managed to get their names right after lunch.

"Hiya," Harry greeted Draco.

Draco answered with a courteous nod before he headed off again.

"So, should we head out somewhere?" Ron tried again.

"Sure, let me just get my shirt," Ginny said. She ran to her tent and was quickly back.

"Let's go, yeah?"

"Hermione, Luna, guys wait up!" Seamus came running after them.

"Hey, what's up?" Hermione asked Seamus as he came up to them.

"Just going to the kiosk, what are you guys up t'?" he answered her.

"Dunno yet," Ron answered for them.

"Oh, well," Seamus shrugged.

Seamus fell into conversation with Dean, walking a couple of steps behind the others. Dean ended up going to the kiosk with Seamus, leaving Ron, Harry and Neville with Ginny, Luna, Hermione and Lavender.

"C'mon, wanna check out the dance party?" Harry asked the girls.

"Dance party?" Ginny asked surprised.

"Mhm, it's by the sun I think," Harry answered with a nod.

"Let's go then!" Lavender squealed a bit loud.

They ran the last of the way to the sun, and they could clearly hear the music blasting out.

Together they all made their way into the large crowd.

Neither of the boys seemed interested in dancing.

"Join in!" Ginny shouted at them.

They still didn't do anything, making Ginny take to extreme measures.

Getting close to Neville, she stood with her back to him, placing both his hands on her hips, trying to make him movie to the beat with her.

The music was blasting out loud, but the sign on the stage said Colombian night!

Shakira's 'Waka Waka' was now being played loudly, and Neville had just started trying to dance.

Lavender dragged Harry closer, getting him to try and dance.

Luna was in her own world, dancing and humming to herself.

This left Ron and Hermione, and Ron was blushing like mad. Hermione looked at him, wondering if she should make him dance with her.

While she was debating this with herself Ron tried moving in beat with the music.

It made Hermione want to laugh, but she couldn't laugh. He was trying at least, which was more than what could be said about the number of boys standing outside the crowd, not dancing, just watching.

They danced for a rather long time. When the music stopped, they just had to laugh for a while, all of them.

Then a guy came walking around with a large basket, handing out something to everyone. They were all handed a bracelet.

"All handmade, from Colombia," the guy told them with a smile.

Hermione thanked the guy before she put on hers. The rest of the teens followed her example and put the bracelet on.

"Wanna see our Campsite?" Ron asked them, and the girls nodded enthusiastically.

Ron and Harry lead the way, walking the short distance from the sun to their campsite.

When they got there, they were greeted by a group of guys in the age of 14-18. On one end of the table the boys were sat at, sat a man that had to be their leader.

"Hermione, Ginny, Luna, Lavender, this is Remus Lupin," Harry introduced them.

Lupin nodded to the girls with a smile. It was nice to see that his boys were making friends outside of their troop.

"Just call me Lupin," he told the girls.

Some of the younger boys by the table stared a bit at the girls. Most of them were covered by pimples and had greasy hair. Surely they hadn't found the showers yet.

"Well, we better be off now, we have to be back by eleven," Hermione told the boys.

"Want us to walk you back?" Ron offered them.

"Sure," Lavender was quick to say.

They bid goodbye to Lupin and started making their way back to the British campsite.

Harry, Ginny and Lavender was walking in the front, discussing something or other. Behind them came Luna and Neville, Luna telling about her father's magazine. Hermione and Ron were walking in the back, a couple of steps behind Luna and Neville.

They were walking in silence, neither of them sure what to say.

In the end it was Hermione who broke the silence.

"I had fun today," she told with a soft smile.

"Me too," Ron nodded, grinning lopsided at Hermione. He ran a hand through his hair and rubbed his neck. "So..."

"Um, you know what you're doing tomorrow?" Hermione asked him.

If they were lucky, maybe they'd have the same activity tomorrow too. It could be more fun if they did it together.

"Uh, dunno really. Oliver takes care of that stuff, I don't really care much," he told her, sounding a bit embarrassed.

"I guess it doesn't matter much," Hermione answered him quietly.

They were closing in on the British campsite now, and they all stopped outside the portal.

"This was fun!" Luna declared to them all.

The rest of them nodded.

"We should repeat this one day," Harry suggested.

"Mhm," Ginny said.

"We'll see then, we have hiking in not so many days, so I guess we could do it the day after or something," Hermione suggested to the rest of them.

"You guys! Hurry up!" Amber called at them from the campsite.

"Night!" They all said to each other.

The boys left their campsite, walking back to their own and the girls went into theirs.

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"So, you and Ron? "Ginny asked Hermione with a raised eyebrow.

Hermione blushed a bit.

"I guess he's not bad looking," she stated. "You and Harry?" she asked Ginny in return.

"I don't know, I think I like him, but Dean's rather handsome too," she told Hermione with a sigh. "I really hope we get to spend some more time together," Ginny said, biting her lip a bit.

"Girls, off to bed. You can talk about boys tomorrow," Amber told them with a wink.

She chased Hermione and Ginny into their tents, smiling to herself. It was nice to see Hermione making some friends. Usually people thought her a big know-it-all, and most people therefore tended to avoid her if they could.

A/N: Hope you guys like this (: I've worked hard on it, and I had originally decided that I should update ever Tuesday, but you get this early since I have my oral exam on Tuesday. So R&R, tell me what you think, you'll get a cookie if you do! :D