Lies Come To Life

A/N: Haha. Silvana, yes! I'm back and I will hopefully be able to finish this story! (: Now… Here's another chapter for all of you lovely readers and if you do read my story… Leave a review please! (:

Days had passed since the potions incident and she had gone to great lengths to try and avoid Malfoy. She didn't want to see him and she didn't want to see that look in his eyes.

She avoided Harry and Ron and she didn't want to even look at Blaise for fear that Malfoy had told him. With a sigh she got out of bed, her hair still slightly damp from her shower the night before, and she cast another straightening charm on it. She pulled on a black long sleeve shirt and pulled a purple short sleeve shirt over it.

She then pulled on dark blue jeans with her black converse and looked at herself in the mirror before she was slightly satisfied with the outcome. Seeing that it was a Saturday she didn't have to worry about going to classes today. She looked over at her alarm clock and noticed that it was already nine forty-five and everyone would already be at breakfast.

Walking out of her common room she made her way slowly down to the great hall. She was so consumed in her thoughts that she didn't see the papers that were taped to the wall. She was so distracted, that she didn't notice that every time she would pass people they would look at her and the girls would giggle and the guys would look at her with a different expression in their eyes.

Walking into the great hall all of the talking stopped and every pair of eyes were trained on her. She finally noticed looking up and looking around the great hall.

She felt someone bump into her, sending her flying to the floor with a thud, and she heard them laugh.

"I always knew you were a slut Granger, that little innocent act couldn't last for long." Pansy sneered down at the Gryffindor on the ground and let out another laugh.

"What are you talking about Parkinson?" Hermione was getting this weird feeling in the pit of her stomach and she didn't like it. She felt her insides churning with distaste at the girl in front of her, having finally picked herself up off of the floor.

Pansy threw a piece of paper at her, and she felt her brown eyes go wide in horror. No… No no no. This cannot be happening to me.

She turned her horrified eyes towards Parkinson before turning them back to the page. It read:

Miss Perfect Not as Perfect As We All Think.

Hermione Granger, the Gryffindor golden girl is anything but

Perfect. She has a secret. And it's time that our school finds out what

It is.

The page had a picture of Hermione sitting down in one of the stall in the girls bathroom, a knife and alcohol swab in her hands. She shook her head back and forth before looking up noticing all of the stares that she was getting. It then had another headline on the bottom of the page saying that she was desperate for attention and that she slept with guys for money.

She knew that that wasn't true since everything that happened to her this summer… But how would anyone believe that if they had a picture of her cutting herself.

"She's just an attention seeking whore!" Someone screamed out from one of the tables and her head snapped up looking straight at the person who screamed that. Lavender Brown was pointing a finger straight at her and accusing looking on her face, along with a sneer.

"I-I'm not…" She didn't know what to say and she looked around the great hall again. Her eyes finally landed on Harry and Ron, and the look in their eyes made her cringe. She then noticed Ginny clinging to his arm with a hateful scowl on her face.

Hermione backed up accidently hitting Pansy before turning around and running straight out of the great hall, putting as much distance between herself and everybody else in the room. She ran straight out of the castle and towards the black lake, stumbling when she got to the tree. She threw herself down on the grass, bringing her knees up to her chest and letting out a muffled sob.

DMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDM

Draco looked up with horrified eyes when he saw Granger walk in. He didn't know how Pansy had captured this picture but he knew that the second part wasn't true. Granger wasn't a whore like the rest of this student population.

He saw her run out of the great hall when he decided that this time he was going to follow her. He got up when he felt someone move besides him. Her turned his head to look at his best friend and raising his eyebrows.

"Oh don't look at me like that Draco. I know you're going after her and I'm going with you." Blaise looked at him, his calm façade not fooling Draco for a second before he nodded his head, the two running out after the hysterical Gryffindor.

They stopped outside of the hall looking around. "Where do you think she could have gone?" Draco asked with an inquiring look.

"I don't know… Let's check everywhere for her, and not leave one spot untouched." The started looking for the sad Gryffindor, checking everywhere inside of the castle, but not finding her anywhere. When they had already been looking for an hour, they were about to give up on their search stopping just before the doors that led outside.

"Well… the only place that we haven't looked is outside. Let's go." Draco pushed open the doors that led outside and him and Blaise stopped just staring out towards the black lake.

"There she is." Blaise pointed out and Draco saw a lone figure sitting up against the tree, her knees up to her chest. "Well… Let's go." They started walking towards the tree, stopping just before they reached her.

Draco looked over at the girl with sad eyes, not knowing what to make of her. He didn't tell Blaise about her secrets because he thought that she would tell him when she was ready too. They walked slowly over to her before sitting on either side of her, not talking, just simply sitting there and letting the silence consume them.

The felt her move and the both looked at her noticing her tear stained face. She did look very skinny, her clothes practically falling off of her back. Draco continued to watch her before she bit her lip and looked out towards the black lake.

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Hermione felt the two sitting next to her so she didn't bother to look up for quite some time. She bit down on her lip before finally looking up and staring out towards the black lake.

She didn't know what to say, so she just sat in silence with them for a little bit longer.

"Now everyone thinks I'm a whore." She said, her voice coming out hollow. She didn't know how to keep her emotions in check, so she decided to just get them out of her system for now.

She looked back and forth between the two, more tears shining in her eyes. '

"Why are you two even out here?" She looked towards the black lake again, her eyes showing no more emotion in them.

"Because Hermione… We care about you… I care about you." Blaise looked down at his hands and then looked back at the fragile Gryffindor. "When I saw you in the hospital wing that day… I was scared half to death, I was hoping that you weren't going to leave this place… I want you here Hermione." Blaise looked at her with worried eyes and she looked up at him, her eyes once again shining with tears.

"Really?" She looked up at the Slytherin and threw her arms around him, letting out a muffled sob, tears sliding down her cheeks and onto his shirt.

She then sat up rubbing her eyes clean of her tears before remembering the other boy that was sitting there as well. She turned her eyes on him, looking at him and biting her lip.

"And you? Why are you here?" She tilted her head slightly to the side, scrutinizing the blonde sitting in front of her. She didn't know what to make of him, but she knew that she at least wanted to be his friend.

He turned his eyes towards the small Gryffindor girl before opening his mouth to speak. "Because Granger… Blaise is my best friend, and I figured, if he could like you then I guess I could learn to like you as well." He turned his uncomfortable gaze towards the ground before looking back up at her.

"And I was worried about you…" He bit down on the bottom of his lip before looking away towards the black lake. "I would… Also like us to try and be friends Granger… Maybe not best friends, but for now, friends… If you would like." He felt uncomfortable saying this, and he was about to open his mouth before she attacked him in a big hug, getting tears on his shirt as well.

"Thank you… Thank you so much…" She whispered against his shirt before she felt him put his arms awkwardly around her and pat her back… "Uh Granger… You're getting tears on my shirt."

She pulled back with wide eyes, "I'm sorry Malfoy!" She looked up at him, noticing the smile in his eyes and his lips curved up in a small smile. She heard Blaise laugh behind her before she too let out a little laugh.

She looked towards the black lake, her heart feeling lighter than it had since the beginning of the semester.

She had two new friends, who she could talk to when something was bothering her. She may not be able to open up to them now, but she knew that maybe someday soon, she would be able to tell them all of her secrets.

She let out a contented sigh, and felt one arm wrap around her waist and another arm wrap around her shoulders.

With her new found friendship on her mind she gave another contented sigh, smiling genuinely for the first time since she arrived.