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Alright you guys! Here is Chapter 2 for you a lot earlier than planned. Thanks for the reviews so far!
Ginny sat there staring at her friend in silence. She leaned back slightly forgetting she was sitting on the end of the bed and landed flat on her back on the floor. She was laying there wheezing for a few moments before Hermione's face appeared over the edge of the bed.
"Oh gosh Ginny, are you ok?" She reached out her hand to pull her friend up off the floor. Once Ginny had gained her footing again she made her way to the side of the bed and climbed into the center to prevent falling again. She shook her head to clear her thoughts as Hermione got herself situated back onto the bed.
"I'm fine," she coughed a little, "please tell me you did not just say who I thought you just said." Hermione blushed and nodded her head. "I…I don't know what to say. Snape? Professor Snape? The greasy-haired, bat of the dungeons git who…"
"GINNY!" Ginny started at the sudden outburst from her friend. "Please, I thought you would be a little understanding about this." Ginny raised an eyebrow at her. "Ok maybe not a little, let's say a whole lot…" When there was no reply she sighed. "Look, this isn't easy for me. I don't even understand how I could have feelings for the one person who treated me like I was nothing but scum for the past six years, but the feelings are there. Now, I hope you will be somewhat supportive in this because I can guarantee your brother and Harry will not. Well Ron definitely won't because that means I don't have feelings for him like he would like me to have." Ginny nodded in agreement and chuckled a little.
"I agree with you about Ron. Harry I think will be supportive eventually and if not I will hex him for you." Hermione smiled and hugged her friend. She stood up dragging Ginny with her.
"Thank you so much Gin! I don't know what I would do without you!" She hugged her and made her way to the door. "Come on, its time for dinner and we don't want to be late or we will feel the wrath of your brother because we starved him." The two girls laughed as they made their way down to the common room where the boys were waiting for them.
"Bout time you showed up!" Ron exclaimed, making his way to the portrait hole to head down to dinner. Harry, Hermione and Ginny looked at each other and laughed, following Ron out the common room and down to the Great Hall. Entering the Great Hall, the four made their way to the Gryffindor table. Hermione and Ron sat beside each other on one side of the table, Harry and Ginny sitting together across from them. The four started helping themselves to the food in front of them. As they continued to eat, Hermione started thinking about her situation.
'Well, at least Ginny took the news fairly good. Should I tell the boys? If I don't and they find out somehow then I will never hear the end of it.' She looked over at Harry and Ginny who were talking intensely about something. 'Probably Qudditch again, though maybe not because Ron isn't joining into the conversation.' Ginny looked up and smiled at Hermione who returned her smile. She looked back down at her plate and pushed some of her mashed potatoes around with her fork. 'Oh no! What if Professor Snape finds out!' She gazed up at the head table where the teachers were either to busy eating or chatting amongst themselves. Looking towards the end of the table, she found who she was looking for. He was sitting there leaning slightly over his plate of food eating, his hair falling around his face, framing it. 'I just want to reach up and tuck his hair behind his ears…' Hermione shook her head. 'Get a grip girl! This is your professor for crying out loud.' She continued sitting there staring at her Potions Professor.
Professor Snape was just bringing his fork up to his mouth to eat his last bit of potato when he felt eyes on him. After devouring his potato, he glanced around the hall. Everyone that he looked at was not paying any attention to the head table until he settled his gaze down onto the Gryffindor table. Glancing to where the "Golden Trio" was sitting, he found Miss. Granger staring up at him. 'What is wrong with that girl? First, she interrupts my classroom three times this week and now she has taken it upon herself to sit there and stare at me.' He glared at her until he saw her shake her head and look back at her friends. 'Hogwarts Little-Miss-Know-It-All will find out that it's rude to interrupt ones' teaching and having the nerve to sit and stare at people.' With that thought, Severus stood up and made his way down to the Gryffindor table.
Hermione was in the middle of deep conversation with Harry when all of a sudden Ginny dropped her spoon onto her plate. Harry and Hermione looked over to Ginny to see what was wrong. Ginny shifted her eyes to Hermione then to the space behind Hermione. Before Hermione had the chance to turn her head to see what Ginny was on about she felt warm breath on her cheek and a low, silky voice in her ear.
"Don't forget Miss. Granger that you have an eight o'clock detention with me this evening." Hermione closed her eyes and nodded not trusting her voice at the moment from being in such close proximity with her crush. Severus straightened up and got ready to walk away when he leaned down once more. "Oh, and do be on time, else you end up with even worse detentions in the future." He stood up again, and swiftly made his way out of the hall.
Hermione let out the breath that she had been holding. 'Why me? Why him? Of all people to fall for it had to be him.' Harry, Ron and Ginny sat there staring at their friend.
"You ok Mione? You're looking a little pale." Ron stared down at Hermione before reaching around and placing his arm across her back.
"Yeah Ron, I'm ok." She shrugged Ron's arm off her back and stood up. "I guess I should head on back to the common room and get ready for detention."
"Alright, guess we shall see you later then. Do you want us to wait up for you?" Harry asked.
"No. Who knows when I shall get out of there. I'll talk to you in the morning." After everyone said their goodbyes, Hermione made her way to the common room to prepare for her detention.
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