Chapter 3 Oh How Lovely
When I appear in our living room with a crack I can see that I scared Lavender half to death. I laugh at the look on her face.
"Where have you been?" She asks taking on a motherly tone.
"Um…the coffee shop with Draco Malfoy." I say casually and start to head towards my room.
"Excuse me! Did I hear you wrong? Because I'm pretty sure you just said Draco Malfoy."
"I did…" I say smiling. I change my mind and head towards the kitchen. I need something to calm my stomach. It's been yelling at me since nine.
"Herms, are you ok? Did you hit your head on the way home?" Lavender says looking at me as if I were an insane woman.
"No. I didn't hit my head but I did find out quite a bit of interesting information." I say looking her straight in the eye a smirk of my own settling on my lips.
I turn to the fridge and begin working on a large sandwich. I pile turkey and cheese onto two slabs of French bread. I grab a cranberry juice and the chips and sit down on the couch next to Lav. This could be a while.
"Well…would you like to share?" Lavender says her face starting getting quite red.
"Sure. He didn't recognize me first of all. Then he told me…" I leave her hanging placing a chip in my mouth.
"OUT WITH IT ALREADY!" She screams.
"That he loved this girl back in school. This girl named Hermione Jane Granger." I say smiling barely able to contain it now. "He said that he never got tell her because she moved to Scotland with her boyfriend…"
"OH. MY. GOD!!!" Lavender screams her face completely formed into shock.
"Yeah!" I breathe. "He didn't even know who I was. Because I am now blonde." I sigh melodramatically.
"Wow." She shifts in her seat. "This is…Wow."
"I know! I know!" I start to pace. "What am I going to do?"
"Um isn't that obvious?" She looks at me as if I had to be the dumbest person alive.
"No!" I yell.
"Go out with him. He's gonna want to see you after he confessed his undying love to you." Lavender looks up at the ceiling. "Tomorrow we have lots of work to do but for now you may go to sleep I dismiss you." She says and I smack her upside the head.
"Ow! I was just saying!" Lavender rubs her head smiling as I laugh.
I lay here in my room thinking about what has happened in the passed twenty-four hours. My eyelids start to droop and eventually I find myself falling to sleep. I wake up and take a look at the clock and just about have a heart attack. It's noon and I have to meet him at the coffee shop at one thirty. This does not leave as much time to get ready as I would have liked. I can tell Lavender's up by the smell of her incense. She always burns that stuff when she meditates. Why? I'll never understand. I quickly jump into the shower and when I'm done pull on my bathrobe and go downstairs to consult with Lavender and have a vanilla steamer.
"What should I wear?" I ask relaxing into the taste of vanilla.
"Good question. Ok, I'll do your hair and make-up because I want to…and you should definitely wear those royal blue jeans you have. They make your butt look big." She smiled looking at me oh so innocently.
"Lav!" I say almost spitting vanilla everywhere.
"Hey! I say accentuate your assets." She said and continued her meditation. I could not talk to her for another twenty minutes because if I messed up her zone she would be mopey and hard to get along with all day.
I go upstairs and search high and low for my royal blues. Finally I find them and slide them on. I put on my burgundy v-neck sweater, a set of pearls, and my black three inch heeled boots over my straight legged jeans. I hear Lav coming up the stairs so I let my hair out of the towel and she begins working on curling my hair. When I got my hair dyed blonde I also got it permanently straightened. I can curl it with curlers but if I didn't decide to do curls, when it dried it would dry straight.
When she was done my hair looked like Reese Witherspoon's when she was blonde except longer. I really liked the flip. Next she did my eyes with a brown and gold shadow and my lips in a burgundy red to match my top. I had to admit, I looked amazing. I slung my black leather purse over my shoulder and apparated a half a block from the coffee shop we went to last night. I took a deep breath and marched in. I was right on time and from the looks of it so was he. He didn't see me until I sat down in front of him.
"Afternoon Malfoy." I smile brightly.
"Granger." He says avoiding looking me in the eyes.
"Were you surprised?" I ask trying to get him to say something. Anything.
"What?" He finally looks me directly in the eyes. I absolutely love his eyes. The swirling steel grey with ice blue. I try to remain focused but I start to lose myself. I snap out of it and then remember he had asked me to repeat myself.
"Were you surprised to figure out that I was actually Hermione?" I say this time with a little more explanation.
"Uh…Just a little. I knew you looked familiar some how but I couldn't place you." For a moment his expression turned hard with anger and then it softened.
"Yeah, Ron asked me to marry him and I said yes…but then I realized that I didn't want to get married to someone I didn't love. More or less someone I didn't love romantically." I say to him looking anywhere but his face. I find a plate nailed to the wall and focus on that.
"Wow. That must have killed him." Draco said looking at me.
"Why do you say that?" I ask looking at him with curiosity and amusement.
"Because when you left it definitely killed me."
