My Best Mates Chick
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Chapter 2: I'm not easy
If there was one thing Hermione Granger hated the most it was Monday morning. It was the one day of the week that she, probably the most organised student in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, was caught off guard. Nothing ever went right! She always over slept slightly meaning that she awoke with that uncomfortable feeling of being unprepared, then there was the mad rush of showering, changing and sorting out the small problem of her hair and make up.
It was on a typical Monday morning like this one that Hermione Granger was reminded of the reason why she never used to bother with her appearance; it was too time consuming. Even if she did use magic. But, not one to ever fail at anything, Hermione Granger bit her tongue and got on with making herself even more beautiful, after all she wasn't one to complain.
Once she was satisfied she reached for her school bag and made her way down to the Great Hall for Breakfast. She checked her watch and knew that Ginny would be there already as they had previously agreed to go down early and have some time to talk.
As soon as she stepped into the Great Hall she was greeted with the vast male population staring at her, their eyes wide and sliding down her body, silently undressing her. She fought the urge to give them something to stare at and made her way over to where Ginny was sitting.
"Hey Ginny," she said reaching for the jug of coffee.
"Mione!" Ginny greeted with a smile. "How are you this morning?"
"Um, I'm ok I guess. You?"
"Oh I'm fine. I just spoke to Parvati Patil and I wanted to be the first to congratulate you!"
"Congratulate me? On what?" asked Hermione, confusion evident in her facial expression.
"You have been voted Hogwarts' Most Desirable Female! And you completely smashed the records by being the first person to ever be voted anything in the space of a few hours!"
Hermione stared in shock at her beaming friend.
"Are you being serious? Who voted for me?"
"Pretty much every guy in our year! I am so proud of you!" exclaimed Ginny.
"Hang on a minuet, there never used to be a 'Hogwarts' Most Desirable Female' contest!"
"Um actually there was, you just never noticed what with studying and everything."
"Oh."
Hermione was realising just how obsessive her studying had been. How could she have not known about a contest like that? Surely she would have heard a slither of gossip from Lavender Brown or Pansy Parkinson about it? The gravity hit her; a year ago such things went unnoticed by her and now she was number one.
x-x-x
"...You have half and hour. I do not want to be disappointed."
Snape's words echoed throughout the cold dungeons before being replaced by the sound of scraping chairs and chattering. They had been told to make the 'Asophergus Potion'; the potion of weather control. It didn't exist but, with the given ingredients, they had to create something that achieved the same purpose.
True to form Hermione got stuck in with the task, ignoring the looks she was getting from some of the males in the room. A certain Blaize Zabini was one of them.
"Dude what are you doing?" Draco asked his friend who had his knife frozen in mid air instead of on the table where it should've been.
"Huh?"
Draco glared at him and began measuring out the liquid ingredients. He had given up any hope of Blaize coming to his senses after a goodnights sleep. If anything, he was now more determined to get his girl. It was up to him to discover the truth behind the situation, but how?
"D'you think I should just go and ask her out?" Blaize asked as he watched Hermione work frantically.
"Do you want to go out with her?" Draco asked tiredly.
"Obviously!"
"Then yeah, I think asking her to go out with you might work."
Blaize turned away from Hermione and glared at Draco.
"You know, you're really not funny."
"Blaize what d'you want me to say? I don't think that you should go out with her! There's something weird and..."
"And you are a psychotic twat!" interrputed Blaize. "Look dude I know you don't like her, but I do and I really want to get to know her better! I don't really care whether you like it or not but it would be a hell of a lot easier if you got over this weird paranoia and stopped being such a pain in the arse!"
Draco sighed and thought for a moment. The saying 'keep your friends close...' was stuck in his head. Maybe if Blaize and Granger started going out it would be easier to find out information? At least it wouldn't look weird talking to her in public. He'd have an excuse seeing as she'd be dating his best friend. Not that Granger was his enemy. More like an annoying person who was always right when he was wrong. A bit like his mother.
"Ok, I'll stop."
"Good now, how d'you think I should make my move?"
x-x-x
The end of the day couldn't come soon enough for Lavender Brown. She was exhausted and couldn't wait to collapse onto one of the comfy sofas in the Griffindor Common Room and cuddle up with her boyfriend Ronald Weasley. She hadn't had a chance to talk to him all day and had missed him a lot.
As she sat down Seamus Finnigan plonked down beside her.
"Hey Lav," he said smiling lopsidedly at her.
"Hey," she said smiling back.
Seamus was her ex boyfriend. They had broken up last year when he had had a drunken one night stand with another girl. Somehow they had managed to maintain their friendship and now the two were closer than ever. Before there was no understanding whereas now there was bucket loads of it. However, nothing romantic was on the cards; Lavender loved Ron and Seamus had moved on.
"Waiting for Ron?" he asked.
"Yeah I thought he'd be here already but he must've been held up..."
The portrait door sung open and Harry, Ginny and Ron walked in. Ron was laughing at something that Harry had said and Ginny was holding Harry's hand.
As soon as Ron's eyes met the sight of his girlfriend sitting in close proximity with her ex his face turned red.
"What are you doing?" he asked, his voice surprisingly calm.
"We were just talking, I was waiting for you but you're back now!" babbled Lavender as she jumped up and went to hug Ron, all the while praying that he didn't start anything.
Seamus nodded and went to join Dean Thomas who was setting up a game of Wizards Chess.
No more was said on the matter.
x-x-x
Hermione walked out of the library, a smile on her face. She never felt quite at home at Hogwarts until she'd visited the library. It was where she'd always spent most of her time although the way things were going, it wouldn't stay like that for long.
She happily walked along the deserted corridor deep in thought when suddenly she felt a yank on her left arm. A hand closed around her mouth and she was dragged into darkness.
She was released and a door slammed shut.
"WHAT THE FUCK... ZABINI?"
Hermione's eyes widened as she stood face to face with a triumphant looking Blaize.
"Hello beautiful, sorry about that. I thought I'd be original!"
"What are you talking about?"
Blaize sat on a desk and Hermione sat opposite. He smiled.
"Well I've been wanting to talk to you and I couldn't think of a way to make you talk to me so I though I'd... you know!"
"Drag me into an empty classroom?"
"Well, yeah."
They sat in silence for a moment. Surprisingly, Hermione felt quite comfortable considering she was in a room with a man whom she had despised for the past six years.
"Well what did you want to talk to me about?"
"Oh yeah! Well here's the thing; I like you. A lot. And I was wondering if... if you wanted to go out sometime?"
Hermione stared at him.
"Well say yes then!"
"What?"
"You might as well hurry up and say yes! I've been dying to kiss you since yesterday and..."
Hermione got up from the desk and walked towards him. Jheez how arrogant could this boy get?
"Did you really think I would say yes straight away?" she asked him, walking closer so that she was almost touching him.
Blaize nodded, his throat had become dry all of a sudden.
"Well I'm sorry to disappoint you." She said, leaning in so that she was whispering in his ear. "But you should know by now that I am not easy. It aint easy to get me. If you want me Blaize, you have to work to get me.''
Blaize could feel shivers flowing through him at the sound of her voice.
She gave him a quick kiss on the cheek and walked away, leaving him to stare at her retreating figure.
Blaize slapped himself; Daaaaam!!!!