A/N: I would like to thank all the people who actually did review and I am sorry for the holdup but I had quite a big writer's block. And please, if you find any flaws in my story, I would gratefully accept positive critiscm. (Did I spell that right?) Remember to give your opinion on what you think, please & thank you.

Chapter Three

(From the last chapter….)

"Miss Granger! Please do not run in thumping on the floors like that!" said a very irritated Madame Pince.

"Sorry but--", Hermione was cut off mid-sentence.

"No buts! If you expect to be able to come into the library this early, you will act like a young lady and be graceful! Not all this walking in like a giant!"

"Sorry!" Hermione said flustered.

"Hmmph..", Madame Pince pursed her lips and walked away.

Panting slightly from running, Hermione made her way to the back of the library, and slumped into her favorite beanbag, shaking her head mentally. This wonderful new day had been ruined because people were getting pissed at her for no reason!

"Granger?", a deep voice said.

Hermione looked around but couldn't find the person from where the voice came from.

"Over here."

Hermione turned her head and saw none other than Draco Malfoy himself leaning on one of the bookshelves, smirking.

"Whatever happened to Scarhead and Weasel? They finally decided not to like you because you missed their pathetic practice? It was a good thing you did too, they were terrible. Even you would have been laughing."

Hermione narrowed her eyes at him.

"That's none of your business!"

"Oh, it is it?", Malfoy grinned slyly.

"Shut it Ferret Face! I am in no mood to argue but I will gladly hex you!"

Malfoy smirked and said, "I'd like to see you try!"

Hermione gritted her teeth, holding her retort back. She pursed her lips in exactly the same way the librarian and stormed off leaiving Malfoy with a smug look on his face.

Hermione actually had nowhere to go, so she went to get some breakfast. As she neared the Gryffindor table, she avoided Harry and Ron's eyes and sat next to Ginny who was at the other end of the table.

"Hey Gin!", Hermione said brightly.

"Hi.", Ginny said flatly.

"What's up with you?"

"Oh nothing! It's just that maybe you just completely missed my first Quiddich practice?" Ginny said sarcastically with a fake smile on her face.

Hermione mentally kicked herself for forgetting that Ginny was also on the Gryffindor team.

"Oh.", Hermione said quietly, "Sorry about that but I accidently overslept! Jeez, why can't anyone cut me some slack, dear God!"

Ginny giggled.

"That's quite alright, but Ron and Harry are not taking it so nicely. They are like bombs ticking off and about to explode any minute!", Ginny giggled again and gestured to Ron and Harry.

Both males seemed to be pcking at their food harshly and Seamus was making a very forced conversation between them.

"Oh." ,Hermione said and her face fell at the sight of her two best friends, "Well I'll make it up to them later on so they won't make a really big scene in front of everybody."

"Yeah OK, listen Hermione, I gotta go. I forgot my bag in the dorm, so I'll see you."

"Ok. Bye.", Hermione said glumly. Now she was all alone.

Hermione sighed as Ginny turned around and ran to the Gryffindor tower with her red air flowing around her. She sighed again, and got up to go to the library for a book she had to get.

-At the library-

Hremione made her way to the Muggle section and retrieved a book she had hid the other day and stuffed it into her bag. The book was called "Dating for Dummies" and Hermione felt guilty about reading such a book, but lately since her relationship with Viktor Krum, she really was trying to get in a relationship because even though they didn't say, she knew her parents were worried about her. She was a grown girl-- no woman of seventeen and she wasn't ugly at all, no matter how many times Malfoy said she was. She just was too into studying to really care about these things but she wanted her parents to be happy all the same.

Hermione rushed off and bumped into someone.

"Whoa, I'm sorry.", said a deep voice.

Hermione looked up and saw a guy standing there, the most beautiful human she ever saw. He was tall, had a toned muscular body, dark wavy hair, and a face with a sophiscated expression.

"I--I"

"That's alright. I'm Blaise Zabini.", he said.

Blaise? As in, one of Malfoy's cronies? No way he was this hot.

Hermione blushed and nodded her head.

"Erm, sorry again. I--I've got to go now, uhm, see you around?" Lame, Lame, Lame, with capital L's.