Worlds Apart

Chapter 4

"Granger get down here. Dinner's in five minutes," Blaise yelled from the couch.

"I'm not hungry," was Hermione's muffled reply.

"Fine, well I'm going. But don't forget we have rounds at nine."

With that, Blaise walked over to the portrait and slammed the door. He quietly walked back to the couch and laid down. If Hermione was like the other girls he knew, she would come down after she was sure that he had left. Blaise was starting to fall asleep when he heard the faint sound of a door closing and footsteps on the stairs. Slowly, rising up so that he could see her, Blaise never expected to see that she had been crying. Laying back down before she could see him, he pretended to be asleep.

Walking over to their mini kitchen, Hermione put on water to make tea. Slowly, she made her way over the the couch that Blaise occupied. When she saw him, she knew that he wasn't sleeping and that he had seen her. But being the person that she was, she quietly walked over to him and sat down on the couch. Leaning over him, she gently shook him.

"What?" He muttered groggily.

"Oh, come of it, you weren't really sleeping."

"Damn Granger, you're good." He replied.

"So, why did you stay?"Hermione asked.

"I didn't fell like dealing with everyone. Besides, if I went and you didn't, then your 'Golden Trio' boys will think that I have you locked up."

Slowly, Hermione went to sit on the couch opposite Blaise. Gazing into the fire, she began to think about the day's events.

"Hermione," Blaise's quiet voice interrupted her thoughts, "we'd better head out for rounds."

Hermione silently got up from her place on the couch and walked to her dorm room to grab her cloak and shoes. A few minutes later, she walked back out to find Blaise actually asleep on the couch. After mentally arguing with her self for a while, she decided that she could do rounds alone. He looked so peaceful, she didn't want to wake him. She knew what guys were like when they were awoken.

Tip-toeing out of the portrait hole, Hermione headed up to the fifth floor corridor where she and Blaise were supposed to patrol. About halfway up the stairs, she realized that she had forgotten her wand. Turning around to go back to the common room, she bumped into something hard. Before she could scream from suprise, a hand covered her mouth.

A/N: Written by Lella.