"Astonishing!"
"Amazing"
"Unbelievable..."
Everyone was still in awe of Hermione. The idea of magic and wizards were almost inconceivable at first, but they had no choice but to believe after what had happened with Rose- whom resentfully had decided to come back down.
"oh no." Alice exclaimed.
"we forgot about Jacob. Your dad's going to call in a minute. You should probably go home. We'll tell him your on your way."
He glanced at the clock that read 5 to ten.
Jacob looked as though he'd just come out of a trance. . "Right. Uh, I'll be back In the morning…don't do anything else cool before I get back!"
Jacob got off the couch and ran out the door, only turning back to wave and say "Nice meeting you Hermione!"
"you to." she yelled back.
She sighed and flopped onto the couch next to Emmett. He had put his arm around Hermione, much to Rose's dislike.
"you are so much cooler then I expected." Emmett said.
"er- thanks. I guess. "
"so I assume you'll be keeping our secret?" Carlisle said a bit wearily. He was not prepared if she had decided not to keep their secret. What would they do?
"Of coarse. As long as you keep mine. But it's ok if I tell my friends. My wizard friends. I know some vampires have rules against telling humans, but we already know all about you." Hermione smiled.
"oh. Sure I guess." Carlisle said.
After that Hermione sat up and wanted to go unpack but was stopped by Edward, who told her she'd need to be taken back to Charlie's.
"Charlie's? Why? I thought that-" Hermione was confused, they said they were in control of themselves.
"oh, well. I guess now that you know we should tell you that a normal vampire may be passing through sometime soon. No need to worry. He'll be gone soon enough, but there's no harm in taking precautions."
Hermione caught what he meant by normal vampire and shuddered.
"It's okay Hermione. We'll protect you." Alice comforted.
"I'm not completely defenseless you know." she raised her wand.
"but thanks."
Emmett had been the one to volunteer to bring Hermione back. His whole family had been so pre-occupied all night with the whole "witch" thing that he never gotten a chance to really talk to her.
"Emmett! Don't you think your going just a tad bit over the speed limit?"
"Mione, mione, mione." he said shaking his head in disappointment.
" I don't know what they teach you at Hogwarts but number one thing about vampires. We like speed."
"and blood, but lets save that for lesson number two, shall we?"
Hermione just shook her head in the same disappointing way as he had.
" fine, but if you get any tickets don't be expecting me to get you out of it or anything." she warned.
"yeah, yeah. Wait a minute, you can do that? I mean Rose does it all the time but I don't think you could- not that your not- uh, I didn't' mean-"
"Relax, all I meant was a memory charm. Not that I'd ever do that."
" not that you'd ever do that!"
" Of all the people to get magic powers…" He had said mostly to himself.
"what is that supposed to mean!" she said.
"nothing. Nothing. Hey? Your friends you told me about? Are they magical too?"
"oh, Ron and Harry? Yes. We all went to Hogwarts." Hermione didn't notice that she had sighed deeply and seemed to frown at the mention of her friends.
It seemed almost ironic though. She had stayed behind because she had been tired of their numerous, adventures and escapades. And what does she find instead but one of the largest living clans of vampires.
"cool, maybe they can visit. Or something…"
"oh, well right now their sort of traveling around. Exploring the Muggle world…" she sighed again, and thought of much fun Ron must be having with everyone, roaming around the globe, learning new and fascinating things every day. Poor Harry, only one of them who knew half the things they were doing. Probably being drowned with questions. She could almost hear them now
"muggle?" Emmett had said for the the third time.
"what? Oh. Um, a Muggle is term for a non magical person. A lot of wizards don't know much about anything outside the wizarding world."
"like what?"
"like, electronics. Most everything that a muggle does with electricity, a wizard can do with magic. Or transportation. A muggle takes a car, plane, boat, ect. We can just fly on a broomstick or appear out of thin air! That's called apperating. Quite dangerous actually if you don't know what your doing…"
"hold up! Broom sticks! You actually ride broomsticks! Let me guess you also wear a pointed hat and have a cauldron!" Emmett could hardly contain himself.
He practically ran off the road when she told him that they do wear pointed hats, and she owns her own cauldron.
"you kidding-hahaha- oh my god-hahaha- you've got to be kidding-hahaha"
"it's not funny. Potions are a big part of magic. Your making me feel ridiculous. You know that right? It's not some joke." Hermione had been completely serious. Realizing this Emmett toned down his laughter and tried to give her a playful nudge.
"hey, c'mon. look at me! I'm a sparkling 80 year old vampire that still goes to high school. If that's not the lamest thing you've ever heard…."
"oh don't say that. Neither of us are lame. We just don't fit in. and why would we want to anyway?"
"exactly, more power to us."
Hermione was officially cheered up and even more so when she had gotten to Charlie's and finally could talk to her family.
She greeted Charlie and ran upstairs dialing the number of Ron's new mobile phone.
Ring ring ring.
Hello?! Hermione!
"Yes it's me. How is everybody?"
Oh, were all good. Harry will be back in a second, he went to go get a, uh DVD, were gonna watch a movie! Have you ever seen one?
"I believe I have actually, but Ron you'll never guess-"
He's back- say hello to Hermione, Harry.
Hermione heard a faded hello in the background.
"Ron put me on speaker phone please."
"On what?"
"oh never mind, just have Harry listen in."
She heard him shout to Harry again, and then a muffling sound as tried to fit both their ears by the phone.
"hello Hermione." he greeted her. I had been ages since the three of them had talked to each other. Only a month really ,but It seemed like ages.
"oh Harry! Ron! I miss you both so much. Where are you guys now?"
"were at a hotel right now, in Paris. Were thinking on coming home early though, bought when you get back." Ron answered.
"which reminds me. What's your friend like? Is she mean?" Ron had been a bit bitter toward the whole online thing since the very beginning. So Hermione had decided it might be easier for everyone if he thought Emmett was actually a teenage girl named Emma. He was always the jealous type.
"Emma? She's great. nice family, she lives in a beautiful white house, if you can call it that, and actually there is something about her I wanted to tell you."
"yeah?"
"ok. Please don't overreact though. I'm not with them right now so I'm in any danger, not that I would be if I was…"
"what are you talking about?"
"well, you see her and her family happen to be vampire's, but their-"
She didn't even have time to explain before both Harry and Ron burst into loud fits that she didn't understand.
"Relax! Or I'm going to hang up right now!" Hermione threatened.
They quieted down but that still didn't stop Ron from going berserk
"Hermione are you mad!? They could've-"
"No Ron they couldn't of, you know why? Well I'd love to tell you if you gave me a chance to explain."
She waited a moment in silence before continuing.
"Okay. Well first of all this clan sustains themselves on animal blood. Not human. Animal. Infact Carlisle, the father, has never killed a human in his life!"
"you don't really believe this rubbish do you? It's a trick! Their just luring you in."
"then why haven't they done it yet? There have been numerous times I've been alone with them. I was just at their home for supper."
"I don't know. Some weird vampire ritual or something. Maybe there just tryin to fattin you up."
"oh hush! And second of all, their eyes are golden. Not red. Golden. Vampire's eyes are crimson from human blood, the gold means they eat animal blood. Not human. Animal."
"she's right you know." Harry backed me up.
"see? Are you convinced yet?"
"barely."
"well tuff. I'll be staying here for a while. I have my wand, and I'll make sure to call every night so you know I haven't been eaten."
"Hermione please." He pleaded.
"I can take care of myself. If I had any doubt in my safety I wouldn't be here, okay?"
He sighed deeply, and she could almost feel his breath on her lips.
" your driving me mad woman, I always knew you were mental, but this!"
He said.
He's only worrying because he cares, she thought.
"I love you too. Say goodnight to everyone for me. I'll call in the morning."
"if the blood-sucker hasn't already eaten you." he muttered.
"Relax. Emmett's my friend. He'd never hurt me."
"who's Emmett?"
"um, nobody. Good-night!"
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