"Oh, George!" Hermione cried, smacking his arm. She picked up her books in a hurry and scurried out of the library, cheeks fire red. She knew that the twins had to have an inkling that she liked one of them...she'd been going easier on them with punishments for pranking lately. They'd even approached her about it, but she brushed it off to them. But now she'd just confirmed it for them for sure. She had reacted when Fred kissed her and not George. It was a stupid mistake. How could she, Hermione Granger, be so...so...dumb!
After she stepped through the portrait hole into Gryffindor Tower, Hermione practically ran to her bed. She was not about to sit there and be interrogated by Harry and Ron as well as risk seeing Fred. There was no avoiding Ginny though. Hermione caught the subtle glance Ginny threw at her, even through the tears blurring her vision. "I'll be right back..." she faintly heard Ginny tell Dean.
"Mione?" Ginny asked quietly, carefully pushing the curtains back on Hermione's bed. "Oh, Mione," she murmured at the sight of the crying girl. "What's wrong, what happened?" She sat up on the bed next to Mione, rubbing her back to comfort her.
Hermione sniffed, wiping tears off of her cheeks trying to speak. She laughed, the self-pitying kind of laugh that people do when they've been crying. "It's...It really wasn't that big of a deal, just...oh Ginny, I don't want to sound terrible, but your horrible, horrible brothers!" Ginny rolled her eyes, out of Hermione's sight. Of course, she thought. Fred and George knew exactly how to push people over the edge. "They tricked me."
Ginny sighed. "Honey, it's Fred and George..." she said, confused that Hermione was offended by whatever they'd done. "They always prank people, you know they never mean anything by it." She tried to keep her tone soft and soothing, but it was a feat when talking about Fred and George.
"No, no it wasn't just a prank like they normally do. That would have been...nice. And no, this wasn't as bad as I guess I'm making it out to be. They just tricked me into confirming that I have a...oh gosh," she paused, more tears falling. "I have a crush on Fred, okay!" Hermione covered her face with her hands and mumbled into them, "Why me, oh why couldn't I just have a crush on someone...safe."
Ginny found this to be hilarious, for some reason. "Safe? Hermione Jean Granger, please tell me the last time that you did something you'd qualify as 'safe'. Breaking into the Ministry, making polyjuice potion in an abandoned bathroom...you're the farthest thing from safe. And if you had a crush on someone you deem safe, you'd be bored out of your mind." Hermione had stopped crying at this.
"You think so?" Now that she thought about it, Ginny was probably right. Why hadn't she wanted to date Cormac? Too boring. And Krum? Same story. She sighed. "But still, there's no way Fred would ever like a girl like me Ginny, and you know it."
"I wouldn't be so sure about that," a familiar male voice answered.
Shit. Hermione thought.
A/N: Okay so I really wanted to get this up but I didn't have time to go through and look for spelling/grammar errors or edit at all (so basically what I'm saying is that I wrote this in about half an hour and now it's being uploaded 31 minutes later.) I probably won't update again until Monday or Tuesday at the earliest. Please review! Even if they're negative it will help me make it better! Love you all!
