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The Forbidden Crush

Chapter 6

I hate Mondays Severus thought to himself as he groggily sat up in his bed. It was 2 hours before breakfast. He pushed himself up off the bed and walked into the bathroom and relieved himself before his bladder burst. He decided it was best to take a shower since the dungeons were unusually warm last night and he sweat alot last night. They may have thought him to be a greasy git but it didn't mean he had to feel greasy. He was in and out of the shower in 10 minutes and walked over to the mirror and brush any and all tangles out of his hair. He hated the care it required but his mother always loved how smooth and silky his hair was so he didn't have the heart to cut it even after she died. Funny how he had the hair type most girls dreamed of having and here he had it and most the males called it greasy. He laughed to himself at their stupidity. This was the side of him he would never show to the students. He had a sense of humor even with the names they came up with but he needed to keep them in line so kept the forced persona that he aquired during the looked at his neck which was now down to a small barely there scar. You would think he was bitten by a vampire although it was actually a snake. He had aquired some of Nagini's venom and created an antidote to it. He drank the antidote daily to keep it in his system so when the day came he was bit he only suffered from blood loss but was otherwise okay. He dried himself off with a spell and with that left the bathroom.

He got himself dressed in some black slacks and a white tshirt. He always wore his teaching robes over his clothes and his jacket under the robes so nobody but him would know whether he was dressed for comfort or wearing his signature white button up. Today he was too lazy to fight with the buttons so tshirt it was and he used his usual speell to fasten all the clips for his jacket and robes together. He went into his sitting rooms and looked at the schedule he had 7th year right before lunch. Which meant today was the day to face Granger. He shook his head in his hands and sighed. He was not looking foward to this but it had to be done.

I guess I should check if the rest of the students have submitted their work for today this weekend. With that he walked through the door into his office and checked the basket and surely there was a pile there. He went through them marking them one by one. Some of the papers turned in were a joke. He asked them to write essays and half of them were merely a long paragraph. How did half of you make it through elementary? I know both wizarding and Muggle Elementary schools teach how to write a basic essay and you still feel a paragraph is sufficient. And people wonder why Professors get gray hair so young! He finished marking the papers after an hour and noted 2 people were left to submit their papers as usual. Potter and Weasley. They were probably going to get Granger to help them with it as usual and hand it in at the beginning of class. They think he doesn't realize that he knows and expect to get good grades for having someone else do the work for them. He knows and that's why they get no more than C's since he can't prove it. It was time for breakfast so he got up and walked out his office door and headed to the Great Hall for the beginning of what was going to be a very long day.

Hermione was woken up by the sun in her eyes. The sun somehow was positioned just right so it could get through the only crack in the curtains to shine right into her eyes. She stretched out then with a sigh sat was going to be a long day. The weekend was fun as Ginny, Harry, Ron, Draco, and her all went to Hogsmeade for some butterbeer and shopping. But today she had potions. She was not looking foward to facing Professor Snape after handing in her paper on the Amortentia Potion but she had to. She got up and showered then threw her hair up into a bun. She had no desire today to tangle with her mop of hair. She threw on her student robes and met with Ginny to make their way to the Great Hall for Breakfast.

"Morning Mione" Ginny said still half out of it.

"Morning, You look about as enthusiastic about having to get up this morning as I do" Hemione said then laughed.

"I wish it was Sunday for just one more day I'm super tired after the weekend we've had. If it was Sunday again I'd probably just waste the whole day sleeping" Ginny said laughing as she thought about it. "Look what Harry somehow managed to get this weekend without us seeing." She pulled and locked out from under her shirt and held it up for Hermione to look at.

Hermione to the locket into her hand and it was a gold heart that read 'You stole my heart, Harry'. She smiled at Ginny "Awe that's really sweet. He is definitely sneaky".

They walked out of the Gryffindor common room and found Harry and Ron outside and spotted Draco walking over.

"Hello boys, I'm surprised you waited for us!" Ginny said "You're usually already in the Great Hall by now."

Hermione giggled and agreed saying "Yeah usually ron has his mouth stuffed by this time."

Ron said "Hey I do not stuff my mouth thank you" sounding a little aggitated.

"Like hell you don't." Said Draco who finally reached them and Harry nodded in agreement with Draco at Ron "Yeah you do stuff your mouth Ron, It's true."

Ron just huffed and waved them off and they headed down the stairs and off to eat.

A short time later they entered the Great Hall and as they went to their table Hermione felt as if she was being watched and looked up to see McGonagall and Snape staring at her and she blushed and suddenly lost her appetite. Draco decided to sit at their table today and Crabbe and Goyle ended up joining them also. All Hermione could think about was that she thought he knew about her crush.

She flew through all her classes fairly quick that was unfortunately time for Potions and her and the boys all sat in their usual spots. Snape came billowing in as usual he gave them an assign text to read and she got to work reading the text and jotting notes. Suddenly her paper was plopped in front of her and she saw in read ink an A- then she noticed at the bottom of her paper a sticky note reading 'WE NEED TO MEET AFTER CLASS!' Her heart began pounding so she continued her work to distract her mind. All too soon classs was over and she packed up her books into her told her friends she'd catch up with them and she waited at her desk til the last student left. She then walked slowly over to Professor Snape's Desk. Time to face your fate she thought as she stopped in front of his desk and sat in the seat next to the desk.