Sunday 30th October (Common room-5:37AM)
Sipping my tea, I looked out across the Hogwarts grounds. From my postition on the window sill, I could see just a little beyond the dark forest and something about it made me feel at home.
I closed my eyes and for a moment, just a few seconds, I could imagine sitting there with Ron and Harry, like nothing had ever happend.
That I hadn't been ripped from my time with no known way of returning.
Opening my eyes again, I wiped the tear that had fallen, wishing that it hadn't. I brought the cup of tea to rest against my lips and leaned further into the wall, oblivious the light thuds coming from the girls staircase.
"Hermione?"
My heart quickend at the sound and I turned with large eyes to see Lily stood at the foot of the stairs.
"Merlin, Lily, you scared me." I breathed.
"Sorry...mind if I join?" She smiled and took a few steps forward. I shook my head and re-adjusted myself so that she could sit beside me. "What are you doing up so early?" She questioned whilst settling down onto the window sill and laying some of the woolen blanket I offered over herself.
"Well, what are you doing up?" I returned, narrowing my eyes at her, mockingly.
"I asked you first."
Sighing, I picked at a loose thread on my jumper. "Just thinking..."
"Ah yes, the mysterious thoughts of Hermione Spencer. Come on, spill." She said, shifting to a more comfortable postition.
I looked at her sideways and bit my lip. "I was just missing people from my old school, that's all."
Lily's face showed sympathy. "Ah, I see...I get what you mean, like when I first came to Hogwarts, I missed my friends from before like crazy, honestly I seriously contemplated faking not being a witch at times so then I could go back to school with them." She joked, causing me to smile. "It gets better, don't worry."
"Thanks, but there is no way that you ever contemplated not being a witch." I pointed out, smirking at her.
"Okay, yeah, you're right." We laughed.
"Your turn. What are you doing up?"
She grimaced. "Couldn't sleep, Alice is the world's loudest snorer, I swear."
Laughing, I glanced at the large hanging clock that read 05:58.
"So, how did your date with James go?" I asked, smirking at her.
"Ugh." She buried her face in her hands as I burst out laughing.
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(Courtyard-4:34PM)
Quickening my pace, I hurried across the courtyard as I was late to meet the guys in the common room.
Suddenly, my vision became black and I felt hands on my face.
"Guess who?" A voice whispered in my ear causing me to smile.
"McGonagall, is that you?" I laughed as I broke free from his hands and swung around to meet Eddie's dashing grin.
"Hm...Hey." He greeted, his eyes running over me.
"Hi." I returned, smiling up at him, noticing that in the chill of the wind, his cheeks and nose were flushed.
"Where were you hurrying off to?" He asked.
"I was on my way to meet the guys, I'm kinda late." I replied, starting to walk in the direction I was originally going.
"Ah and I'm probably making you later, aren't I?" He said, falling into step with me.
"I didn't say it, you did." I smiled and heared him chuckle.
"Well then, if you're already late..." He started and I felt a hard tug on my sleeve as I was pulled into an alcove.
The space was small and didn't leave much room between our bodies as Eddie's chest pressed up against mine.
"I suppose you wouldn't mind being later?" He finished, grinning down at me as his hands came to rest on my hips.
"Eddie!" I hissed. My eyes bulged as I quickly looked to see if anyone was around.
"What?" He laughed. "Are you embarrassed to be seen with me?"
My eyes snapped back to his. "Of course not."
"Well then..." He replied as he dipped his head down to meet my lips.
Before I could get lost in the kiss, I heard Proffesor McGonagall's voice looming voice down the hall, telling first years off, and hastily pulled away from Eddie.
He made a grunt of annoyance as I shuffled out of the alcove.
"Don't go." He pleaded as he took my hand in his.
"I have to, I'm already late to meet the guys."
"Stay? For me, please?" He murmured. stroking his thumb over my hand.
"Eddie..." I sighed, watching his thumb go slowly over the bumps of my knuckles.
"Come on, you know you want to." He smirked.
Turning to see that McGonagall had left the corridor, I slowly moved towards Eddie again.
"Only for a few minutes..." I whispered before his lips were on mine again.
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(Common Room-5:08PM)
After smoothing down my hair, I pushed open the portrait door and spotted them sitting in the corner. Sirius was sat back to front on a chair, James on a red bean bag, Remus and Peter sat in the window seat.
"Oh, look who finally decided to join us." James said as I hurried over and flopped down onto the yellow bean bag beside him. "Where have you been?"
"Sorry, I got caught up in the Library." I replied smoothly. I'm getting awfully good at lying and that's not exactly a good thing.
"Right..." Sirius mumbled, eyeing my red lips suspiciously.
I drew my eyes away from his in embarresment.
"Anyway, what were we meeting for?" I questioned.
"Well maybe if you'd turned up on time..." Sirius mumbled, to which he earned a glare from me.
Remus spoke up. "Sirius wanted to get us to coordinate our costumes for the Halloween party tomorrow."
"Oh, okay, who are we going as?"
"The Famous Five." James answered. "You're Georgina, Remus is going to be Alf, Sirius is Dick-"
"Sounds about right." I interjected and was rewarded a sly smile from Sirius.
"Peter is Anne-"
"Why do I have to be Anne?" Peter complained, clearly not happy with the choice.
"Because you're the girliest out of all of us, Pete." Sirius joked.
"And I'm going as Julian" James finished.
"That seems...cool actaully." I grinned at the image of all five of us dressed in 40's kids clothes.
After discussing the technicalities of our costumes and hearing Peter's never ending complaints of him not wanting to be Anne, we finally decided to call it quits and head to dinner.
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Monday 31st October (Dorm Room-6:37AM)
Tucking a stray curl behins my ear, I continued the mundane cycle of brushing my teeth and thought of the visit that I would be paying Dumbledore later today.
What could he have found? A way to get home? Or just a confirmination of me being stuck?
KNOCK KNOCK
"It's unlocked." I mumbled before spitting out my toothpaste and continuing to brush.
The bathroom door opened and Sirius strolled in. Our eyes connected in the mirror before I quickly broke the contact and focused on the sink.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Sirius had moved towards the large counter and instead of going around me to grab his toothbrush, he leaned over, resulting in his hand grazing along the bare skin of my stomach from where my shirt had ridden up.
I surpressed a gasp at the warmth of his skin and reclined away from the counter.
He smirked at my actions and put a pea size of toothpaste on his brush before popping it into his mouth.
Hastily, I finished my brushing and spit out the last of my toothpaste before rinsing.
I ran my fingers through my hair before making a move to leave.
"Hermione?" Sirius said quietly but loud enough to catch my attention. My eyes found his in the mirror. "I..uh..nevermind."
My brows furrowed before a gave a small laugh. "Okay then."
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(History of Magic Classroom-9:16AM)
"Go to page 518 and you will find all the information needed to answer the questions on the board." Professor Binns instructed before settling down in his chair and opening up his own book. "You have 15 minutes."
I quietly flipped to said page and started skimming the first paragraph.
"So-" James started beside me and I flicked my eyes to him. "What's going on between you and Sirius?"
I rolled my eyes and returned back to my work. "Absolutly nothing is going on between Sirius and I."
"Oh come on, don't think I haven't noticed the glances and smiles." He urged.
"James, nothing is happening between us. Besides I'm with Eddie." I scribbled down the first two answers.
"With Eddie, huh?" James contined pestering, whilst drawing random patterns on his hand, not bothering to answer the questions. "Thought you two had only been on one date?"
"Okay, fine. Maybe not with Eddie but-"
"So, there is a chance of you and Sirius." He inturupted and raised his eyebrows at me as if he had proven some sort of point.
"What-no-tha-that's not what I mean" I sputtered.
James laughed before adding a star to his hand.
"You're so annoying, you know that right?" I huffed before continuing my writing.
He chuckled. "You'd be good for him, you know."
My heart skipped a beat.
Choosing to ignore his statement, I finished the last question.
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