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I ran out of the restaurant as fast as I could. Back in that restaurant was a man named Ozzy. He was my date number two. Thankfully he was a wizard, however he wasn't the type of wizard I had been hoping for. Ozzy was a con-wizard; he tried to con everyone out of money and out of other things... I had thought yet again that he might be the one for me. That had all changed when he'd become to much of a flirt; to suggestive. The guy practically moon eyed my boobs! What a perv. Anyway after lots of discomfort one final thing made me snap. The man, no matter how charming he was on his account, was a crook and dirty person. Ozzy had tried to get me to bloody sleep with him.
FLASHBACK
We are getting up to leave and I grab my coat before turning to wish Ozzy a good day. He is looking at me with a look that's mischievous and well... scandalous! I gasp an flush at the same time, not even thinking about what I'm going to do next. SMACK!
"You PERVERT! Keep your self away from me." I scream at him, as he clutches his red cheek, turning to storm off I feel him grab my arm.
"At least pay the bill!" Ozzy cries, fury once again lashes out on him as my knee slams into him where it hurts. The pervert falls on the floor and I storm out of the restaurant horribly angry.
End of FLASHBACK
When I apparated to Gin's house, what I found was a sobbing mess of Luna and Ginny while Blaise and Harry were snoring away as Gin read Romeo and Juliet out loud. The fire crackled, and they were so deep into this book and the guys into sleeping they didn't hear me creep up behind them.
"So how's the book? And why are you guys reading that version, there is a newer version that is much easier to read." I said as I sat down in the chair beside them. Ginny screams, waking up the guys, while Luna jumps up in the air. My laughter rang through the house at the sight of their faces. Ginny flushed bright red, and I couldn't help but smile again.
"Well we thought that the old language made everything so much more romantic." Now she put two and two together. 5 4 3 2 1...
"Your DATE! WHAT HAPPENED!? DID IT WORK OUT, IS HE THE ONE YOU HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR?" She screamed, making Harry put his arm on her to keep her from jumping at me. Luna simply stared me down, her face totally calm and waiting for an answer.
"If you think Ozzy is the man for me, then I don't know who the heck you are." Was my only comment. Ginny frowned but then pressed for details. Dear lord why didn't I just go home? I should of known this was going to happen.
"Well first I figured out he is a wizard con-artist. Then he inappropriately flirted with me, on the first date! Finally he tried to coax me into bed. I'll tell you guys this I don't think he's gonna have a comfortable night, I have inner strength if you must know."
"Mione, tell me about this guy. With Harry as an auror and me as a good wizard lawyer, I am totally prepared to put that guy in jail." My best friend said. During my summary of the date her eyes had gone from excitement and curiosity to pure fury. I shook my head; Ozzy had been smart and not told me anything about himself but his name. He had the heart of a con-wizard.
"Well enough about me, how was your double home date?" Now it was my turn to have a spark of curiosity; Harry and Blaise had never been the best of friends.
"Wonderful, Harry and Blaise love listening to Romeo and Juliet. I have to give credit to muggle writers. This story is one to remember." Luna said, while the two guys looked around guiltily. Mentally I smirked, they had fallen asleep and neither of my friends had really taken notice.
"Harry don't you just love the romance it holds?" He quickly nodded as his soon as he saw his wife's wonderfully happy face. Harry wasn't one to intrude when she was like this. I looked over at the window; the outside world was very dark.
"Guys I think I'm gonna go home now, because you know having just met a perverted wizard took a lot out of me." Without even waiting for acknowledgement I popped out. I do think I heard two other pops too as I left.
"I don't think dates are really my thing. Maybe we should just cancel this account..." I trailed off as I threw myself onto the couch. Ginny and Luna followed in after me. My dearest friends had decided to follow me home after my latest date. They too were frowning, and I knew had they been there (my date place) they would have been murderous.
"Now Hermione, lets just give this one more try. I mean I activated the wizards only button. You will find someone you love." Ginny said, her protest coming almost immediately.
"Yea, but this one is my last chance. The rules are that the third date, I'll have to see on a date more then once." I fretted, letting loose a new fear. This battle with love needed more then I could give. It needed my true self, which had sealed it self deep inside me after Ron had left.
"Hermione, I'm a lawyer. I think that if I tried hard enough I could get you out of this. But I want you to give it one more shot out there." Her words soothed me. I relaxed my posture, letting the coziness of the couch soothe me. Seeing me relax she continued, " Accicio laptop." The next thing I knew the laptop was flying toward Gin, like it was magnetically attracted. She opened it up, the screen becoming bright once more.
"See Hermione, you already have a match. Looks like he's on his final try too! Lets see his name... Ferret King!" The screen clearly read. I had to grin at that, he probably has a very interesting sense of humor. Then as if called, curiosity came at me like a humongous wave. I needed to find out who this person was and this strange feeling I felt. It wasn't warm, or anything I had ever felt. It was something new and it felt, good? Was it possible that this felt good? "Look Hermione, he loves a lot of the things you love. He has a cute picture of a ferret, I promise you that this guy seems good. I mean look at his reasons... they basically resemble yours! You just have to accept this match!" Ginny pleaded, while Luna nodded her head in agreement. Before I could even say a word Ginny clicked the yes button to accept the date!
"Ginny you didn't just click... You did, didn't you? I'm going on a date with some random guy who calls himself Ferret King!?" My heart began to beat faster and I felt panic overtake me. Luna suddenly pointed her wand at me, and BAM! I was all calm, and I also couldn't speak or move. It was like knock out gas.
"I use this on the pets at my store all the time, she needs a calm time. Also Ginny I don't think that was very nice. The Nurglebluffs these days love playing with our actions..." Luna commented, looking at her dissaprovinly. Her words faded off as I gently fell asleep.
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"Draco, so hows it going? You know ?" Inquired my nutty friend Blaise Zabini, who had changed my name from Coolguy101 to Ferret King! That happened years ago, but yet he still loved to tease me about it.
"Considering what you did to 'help' it. Or must I say sabotage! I think it's going pretty well, so far all the wizard girls have been spoiled and slutty. I mean that one girl basically threw herself at me, which was exactly what I was afraid of while the other screamed at me when I refused to buy her a diamond ring!" I said, throwing my hands up into the air. If love was a person, then it hated Draco Malfoy because no girl seemed to meet my standards.
"Don't worry mate your the King of Ferrets, what could possibly go wrong on this last one? Luna and I met that way, trust me the stupid must meet rules that they have are totally worth it." His words got a dreamy quality when he began to speak about Luna.
"I still think she's an alien Blaise, so don't be surprised if she turns green and abducts you." My comment made him glare at me; he hated me when I referred to his girl friend as something odd, like an alien or something.
"You see right there, that is the reason you don't have a girl! You are just too damn mean. The ladies are intimidated by you, which they like but then you show the real you which is even worse then the intimidating you!" Thaat comment made me laugh, because I think it's somewhat true. We were yet again sitting in my office, hanging out after the long day. "Man if you don't hurry up, the person you wait for at the alter is either going to be the desperate Pansy or your lovely job." Blaise's comment made me laugh even harder.
"Look Blaise, I'm going out with Queenofbooks (A/N thats Hermione's real screen name. I messed up in the last chp. that of course if fixed!) tomorrow, and I bet you that she's some nerd. If I fall in love with this 'nerd' then I will run around singing praises to Luna. But if I don't you have to pretend that she's an alien right in front of her." His eyes widened and something flashed through his eyes. He took my hand and shook it, a sly smile on his face.
"Oi Blaise," I said, "what do you know? I know you know something." My voice was steady with a slow flow of nervousness flowing into my body.
"Nothing at all, I just think that Queenofbooks is probably a nice person and that you and she will get along together. I also think that Luna would love to meet." The voice was still secretive. Sporting another grin, he walked out of the room while wishing me good luck with the date. What did he know that I didn't, was it that Luna knew Queenofbooks and he had met the girl? Or was it that Luna and the girl had met and hated each other? I shook my head, clearing my head of all confusion. I would just have to find out tomorrow night.
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"Hello welcome to World of Books how may I help you?" I chimed happily as I turned around to face my next customer. My mouth dropped.
"Hi, I would like to buy this book Wonderful Wizard Ways to Charm Witches." Draco Malfoy said as he looked up to see me staring at him my mouth dropped open. His mouth went from a small smile to a horrible frown. "What are you doing here Granger? Couldn't find anyone else to accept your job so you came back to your world and got a small pay job here?" He said nastily. Thankfully he was the last person in line so no one was really listening to him.
"Actually Malfoy, I'm the manager. What about you, living with your mommy and daddy like a little boy should?" I cooed evilly, giving him a innocent smile, though. His scowl darkened and he looked just about ready to pull out his wand and hex me, then the small door bell rang and Ginny and Ophelia walked in.
Ginny gasped, and Ophelia looked rather startled at my expression. She queitly stalked up to him and glared at him,
"What are you doing here Malfoy?" Ginny practically hissed. Her fists were clenched and her teeth gritted. Fury seemed to seep out of her, as I had heard that red-heads always did.
"Why it's the youngest Weasel!" Malfoy crowed in laughter.
Don't get offended Hermione, he's always been messed up. Don't do any harm to him.
"Still reverting to your old catch fraises? That's pathetic! That 'joke' of yours is just to old." Gin snorted and Malfoy flushed. Of embarrassment or anger I couldn't tell.
"I don't think I have to listen to a blood traitor who is friends with a mudblood." He shot back at her. I closed my eyes and began to count to three, just to calm down. 1 2... "At least my family is still together as well, your dear Ronald ran off didn't he. Leaving his mudblood girlfriend!" I gasped, walking slowly over to him. When Malfoy turned to face me, BAM. I had just punched him for the second time in my life.
"Get out of my shop, this instant! You shall not bother me or my friend in my shop! Don't ever think of coming back here again!" I yelled, sending a spell at him that sent him flying backwards and out the door. The spell grabbed the book from his hand and opened the door, slamming it softly after he left.
I quickly felt the anger disappear out of me, leaving me feel an odd regret and sadness behind. Ginny noticed my face and made a snap decision: she told Ophelia to watch the shop. The girl nodded, her face understanding. Then my friend side apparated me home where she made me lay down and relax.
"Hermione your depression just tried to make a comeback. Tonight you are going to meet this guy and for your sake I hope you like him." Ginny whispered, I stood still trying not to take notice of what she had said. Depression would never come back into my life it tortured everyone who loved me.
The afternoon turned to night and she and I just sat there, enjoying each others company. Ginny also told me of her wonderful wedding that was coming up in the next month. Everything seemed to fall into place, her worst worry was that Harry would have to fly off somewhere to defeat evil. She still remembered him leaving her so he could protect her from Voldemort.
"What if Voldemort comes back to haunt Harry? In turn he ruins my marriage to him, I mean if you seriously think of it Voldemort kept us apart for ages. He could easily do it again." Ginny said, a new conflict flying into her head. I shook my head at her rolling my eyes.
"He's dead forever."
"Thats why he's haunting Harry."
"You know what, just stop worrying, it's pointless. My mom watches this T.V. show called Bridezillas where Bride's worry so much that they turn evil!" I grimaced at the thought of that show. That evilness was totally scary like.
"Now that I'm a lawyer everyone hates me, and everyone shall boo me when Harry and I leave the church smiling!" She suddenly moaned forgetting everything else.
"You seem to have a fine line between your work life and personal life, outside of the court room your everyone's best friend including me. Well except for the people you condemn to Azkaban and stuff..." I trailed off at thinking of those criminals being Ginny's best friend once they leave the court room, after she put them in Azkaban.
"If none of those things happen, then Luna's going to turn into a fairy and fly off instead of being a bridesmaid and your going to become all sad and just moan and nobody will enjoy the wedding!" She cried. And that's it.
"GINERVA WEASLEY, get a hold of yourself! We are not going through a midlife crisis woman, you are having a simple case of the 'what ifs'! It's totally normal for brides to have this. But your made of stronger stuff woman, you can do this! YOUR WEDDING WILL BE ONE TO REMEMBER FOREVER, the Daily Prophet already bribed you guys into letting them post wedding pictures for their front cover. Anyone whose anyone will try to see your wedding!" I cried, giving her a stern look. "Luna is not a fairy and no matter how sad I am I will make myself enjoy your wedding."Adding that in to clear everything else up. She smiled at me,
"Thanks Mione, I needed that. It's just that nothing has really gone wrong, I'm just waiting for something to go wrong here." Ginny said sighing, it looked as if having everything go perfect so far had her on edge waiting for the bad things to start. That's my Ginny always ready for the worst. Then I remembered something.
"What if I miss my 'date' because of all of this. I'm supposed to be there in about a half an hour."
Her eyes processed it, then they widened. Suddenly I was being dragged upstairs by Ginny as she seemed to have clicked that I was missing a love life opportunity.
As I was changing, Ginny was running through a check list in the hallway. "You guys are meeting at the website's very own restaurant Final Destination. They are providing the location so you both know where to go. You have your outfit that the lady at the store said would get any guy to love you, we will be waiting for you in the restaurant across the street..." She trailed off as she tried to ensure that everything was perfect. "HERMIONE GRANGER you have to come out now, we have to go! If you don't come out now I will bust this door down!" She warned, for she knew perfectly that I was totally ready to go. Just stalling by playing with my hair, something in my gut was making me nervous. My wooden floor was strewn with books I had just took out of the bookshelves to remember the story. My bed was strewn with clothes. Another something told me I was either going to fall deeply in love tonight or become deeply angry.
We left the house three minutes before seven. I didn't even wish Ginny good-bye because I was running toward the restaurant. As soon as I entered the place, I was aware of faint music playing in the background and wizards and witches simply talking and smiling. Looking around, I noticed how nicely decorated the place was, a small little painting on the side walls. Suddenly a lady apparated in front of me.
"Hello, I need your username please." Her voice was high pitched, and her auburn hair was cut short.
"QueenofBooks here to meet Ferret King!" I smiled, just perfect a queen meeting a king. The lady smiled as well, she seemed to understand what I was thinking.
"His majesty is waiting at table 6, here's your table six card and you'll see a big six on it obviously." Her tag said Ashley, I noticed, as Ashley pointed me to the groups of tables.
"Thank you." Two words and I was off again, trying to find love yet again. That being said, I think my gut feelings were definetely right. Sitting at table six looking bored was Draco Malfoy, wearing a sticker that said Ferret King.
I gasped and he turned his head torward me. His eyes narrowed on my name-tag, which read Queenofbooks. Suddenly different emotions hit me, anger, then annoyance. The one that was the smallest but most shocking was happiness. No, that wasn't happiness, it was just confusion, right?
That's when I learned, gut feelings never lie. When you have a gut wrenching nervousness, prepare to enter Hell and come back. I should know because well, I think I that I just entered it.
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There I was thinking, Oh Malfoy it's good to be on time! What an complete idiot I am, my 'date' for the evening wasn't an idiot to come ten minutes early. I looked completely foolish sitting at a candle lit dinner alone while other couples chatted and laughed. Every time someone began walking in my table's direction I would turn to look. Of course none of them was her.
They were people called: Prettygirl101, Gryffindor- stands- for- hotty's -like- me, and Got milk or got me? All these stupid names that tried to catch attention. The people all saw my name and frowned. I could only put on my tough face and look very very bored.
My wine glass was almost empty now. I looked at the time. It was seven now, so the 'girl of my dreams' would walk in any moment. Then I noticed some movement in my direction. I turned around to see Hermione Granger in a pretty dark blue dress, staring open mouthed at me. I looked at her card and it said table six and QueenofBooks. Instictively my eyes narrowed. This was Queenofbooks! I should of known. Anger coursed my body and I guess some astonishment. Online this Queenofbooks sounded like she could be the 'one', now in person it looks like she's the person who just can't leave my life alone. Just then I noticed something deep within my heart, in a very small corner of it, I was happy!? I couldn't be happy, I must be so angry that I think I'm happy...
Then I remembered Blaise, his actions seemed to make sense now. It all fit into place! Luna was friends with Hermione and he thought it was funny that she and I were going on a date. To make it even more funny, he said we were going to get along! Sadly for him my sensitive eye, which had been punched today by someone who was a queen of books said differently.
That of course was covered up by magic so no one saw the horribly ugly bruise Granger had given me. Snap out of it Malfoy, she's coming over now! I did snap out of it just in time to see Granger making her way toward me with a disgusted face, set to argue with me. I'm going to go ahead and assume the Weasley taught her a few tricks. Well just wait till she see's how good I am at arguing.
YAY I'm done! Guess what! MY SCHOOL GOT A SNOW DAY! SO HAPPY! Is there any OOC-ness with Ginny. If so is it the type of OOCNESS that you guys hate or is it a good oocness? Hermione as well...
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