Chapter 10- Macmillan

Rayne

Suddenly… the taste of Draco's blood was no longer filling my mouth. I opened my eyes to see myself still in bed. No Draco. It was a dream. A stupid, stupid, dream. Who was I kidding? I could never feed off Draco no matter how much I wanted to… I don't even know if he would let me.

I threw off my covers in frustration just as Hermione came running into the room. "Guess what?" She practically screamed, jumping on my bed.

"What? What?" I asked, looking at her.

"I have a date to the ball!" She squealed. "I really like him too!"

I was slightly confused until I understood what she was saying. "Who is it?" I smiled.

"Ernie Macmillan!" She squealed.

Ernie. Ernie Macmillan. Really? That is just… wow. "That's great!" I kept a fake smile plastered on my face. Now I don't like Ernie, not because he's ugly or something like that, but because he's the biggest cheater in the school. He was going to hurt Hermione; he was going to hurt her bad.

"Hermione…" I sighed. She stopped bouncing and looked at me. "You know that Ernie is about the biggest cheat in the school right?" I asked her timidly.

"Cheat?" She questioned. "No he's not!"

"He is Hermione! I just don't want you to get hurt!" I tried to tell her.

She looked conflicted, trying to decide what to say before turning angry. "You-you're jealous! I never though you were that type of person Rayne!" She glared at me before speed walking back out of the room.

"Hermione! Wait!" I called to her, but she was already gone.

Crap.

I got up and ready for the Saturday before heading down to the great hall to find Hermione. Hermione was nowhere in sight along with the rest of my friends it seems. I sighed and sat down, not bothering to even attempt eating again.

Suddenly someone cover my eyes and I heard a voice whisper in my ear. "Guess who?"

I pried their fingers off to see Seamus standing there. Ugh, I hate when couples do little baby stuff like that. "Hi Seamus." I smiled politely at him as he sat down. Just then the rest of my friends walked in, Hermione trailing at the back. She glared at me as she began to eat.

"Uh, what's the problem here girls?" Ron asked us cautiously.

"Rayne doesn't approve of my date." Hermione said stiffly.

"Who's that?" Harry said through the bite he was taking.

"Ernie Macmillan." She smiled slightly.

The effects of her words were instantaneous. Ron choked on his juice, Harry spit out his food, the twins dropped their forks, and Seamus just stared wide-eyed at her. "Er-ernie?" Ron gasped once he caught his breath.

"Yes Ernie." She turned her nose up at us all.

"But he's a known cheater!" Seamus spoke up from where he sat beside me.

She glared at us all now. "I thought all of you were better than that! I really like him, why can't you all just accept it!" With that she stormed out of the hall.

Everyone just watched her retreating back until she was completely out of sight. "She's going to get hurt." Harry sighed.

"I know, I tried telling her that but she doesn't understand, she thinks I'm jealous." I sighed.

Ron was a bright red looking more furious than ever. We all looked over at the Hufflepuff table where Ernie was laughing with his friends. "That's it, I'm going to kill him." He growled, about to walk over to him.

"Mate don't be stupid." Harry pulled him down.

"Hold on and shut up." I listened as hard as I could, trying to weave through all the different conversations to Ernie's.

I only caught little parts with all the other chatter. "Granger eh?" One of his friends said.

"That's a new one, a bookworm!" Another said as they all went into fits of laughter.

"Well who are you going with?" Ernie asked the second friend.

"I'm deciding on two." He said, I could hear the smugness in his voice.

"Just do it like me! Take both!" Ernie said while they all roared with laughter.

I tuned the rest out and looking at my friends. "Yea, he's cheating on her." I told them, repeating all I heard.

"That little…" Ron began before we all tugged him out again.

I caught Draco's eye and motioned for him to follow. He turned to his friends and told them something before standing up to come meet me. "Catch you guys later." I told my friends who were all still fuming.

Draco caught up with me and this time we went to one of the large trees by the lake. "What's wrong?" He noticed my discomfort. Part of that was from the dream I had, the other part was just my frustration at Hermione and her date.

I decided on just telling him about Hermione. "Hermione is going with Ernie to the ball." I sighed.

"Ernie?" He raised his eyebrows. "Macmillan? That's low even for Granger." He smirked.

I rolled my eyes and smacked him on the arm. "I tried telling her that he was a cheat and she didn't believe me, she thought I was jealous."

"Figures." He said.

We sat on the edge of the water, dipping our feet in silence for a while. "So how's it with Parkinson?" I asked him casually.

He smirked slightly. "All right I suppose, she's very clingy." He said after a thought. "How's it with Finnigan?" He asked.

I thought. Good? I don't really know, I don't know him very well actually. "Good I guess… he's kind." I told him, my brow furrowed.

He sighed, and we both turned our heads back to the still lake, lost in our own thoughts.

And with that… I suddenly felt the icy water of the lake surround me as I was pulled in with a scream.

Author's Note- There you go! Sorry it's kind of short and taken so long but I've been out of Internet for a bit.

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