Hi friends. Here is chapter 25. I hope you like it. I enjoyed writing this chapter a lot. Thats probably why I finished it so quickly. :) I wish I owned all of these characters, but I don't. BOOOO!!!
Hermione sat at her window seat in her room reading, "Hogwarts- A History." Her kitten, who she named Melody, laid in the new cat bed Alice and Rosalie had bought for her. Around the kittens neck was a purple collar that had diamonds all the way around. Alice, of course, assured Rebecca they weren't real but Hermione suspected they were. She couldn't imagine Alice buying something 'fake' ever, even if it was for a cat.
The vampire guys had gone hunting shortly after Hermione had gotten Melody. Alice had shooed them out the door and shooed hermione upstairs to get ready for the day. Alice Rosalie, Esme and Rebecca decided that she needed a few more regular clothes for Hogwarts.
"You can't always wear your school robes," Alice had said. While they had been out shopping is when they had gotten the supplies Hermione would need for Melody. Edward had left a book called 'How to Care For Magical Creatures." It had said that most magical cats could eat regular cat food. Which is good because its not like we could have gone to Diagon Alley today, Hermione thought taking a break from her book. Alexander had told them before they left the house not to go to Diagon Alley without him. Alice and Rosalie had kind of rolled their eyes, but they all understood why.
A knock at her door brought Hermione out of her thoughts and woke up Melody.
"Come in," Hermione said standing to put her book on her night stand. Edward walked through the door grinning.
"You guys are already back?" Hermione wondered. Melody meowed and walked over to Edward, walking around his feet, trying to get picked up.
"Yes, we just returned," Edward answered picking up the already spoiled cat. While he had been hiding the kitten, Edward had held her often, trying to keep her quite.
"Did you have a good time?" she asked, wondering if that was the correct question for the outing they had just returned from.
Edward grinned, understanding. "I accomplished what I needed to on this tryp, thank you," he answered. He sat down on the floor with the kitten. "I like the name you picked out for her."
"How did you..." she started, but stopped. I don't know how I forgot that you can hear everything I'm thinking, Hermione thought, not even bothering to speak out loud. "I'm glad you like it," she answered aloud.
"It goes well with your owls name," he complimented Hermione. "How does Harmony like her new roommate?" Edward wondered.
Hermione laughed, looking over at her beautiful bird, who was sleeping in her open cage. "When I brought Melody in here, Harmony was flying around the room, since I really don't have anyone to send letters to yet. So I was hold Melody and Harmony was flying down to greet me and get a treat. She saw this fuzz ball," Hermione said, petting the kitten who had crawled over to where she had taken a seat across from Edward. "And made a flying dash over to her cage and was trying to close the door,"Hermione said laughing. Edward joined in, seeing the mental images that Hermione had of the memory.
"I bet it will be interesting taking both of them to Hogwarts with you," Edward said.
"Well, Harmony has her cage and you gave me that pretty bag to carry Melody in, so I don't think it will be too difficult," she replied, not really worried about it. She looked up at Edward, meeting his eyes for the first time since he had entered the room.
"I want to thank you again for Melody," Hermione said sincerely. "It was such a thoughtful gift. And I couldn't have picked out a better kitten myself," she said, patting Edward's knee.
Edward picked up Hermione's hand and squeezed it softly. "You are very welcome," he replied softly. The way Edward was looking into Hermione's eyes caused her heart to take a double beat.
"How's it going?" came a voice from the doorway, causing Hermione to jump. She hadn't heard anyone come up the stairs, let alone to her door. She turned to see Jasper leaning on her door frame, grinning at Hermione. A bright red blush appeared, as if on cue on her face, at the fact that Jasper and seen Edward holding onto her hand. And just at the fact that Jasper had grinned at her. I've really got to get a handle on that, Hermione thought. Maybe there is a potion or a spell I can do to help fix that.
"Its going well, Jasper," Edward replied cooley, answering for both of them. "How can we help you?"
Jasper's facial expression went from the grinning cowboy, to an angry bull. He glared at Edward for a split second, then remembered that Hermione was looking at him and he didn't want her frightened of him. He grinned down at her, excited to tell Hermione what he had come to tell her. He walked deeper into the room and squated down in front of where she was sitting, completely ignoring Edward.
"What would you say if I told you that your dad found a place for us to try out your Nimbus 2000?" he asked, grinning.
Hermione jumped to her feet, almost knocking Jasper over.
"Sorry," she giggled, grabbing his hand and helping him up. "How did he do that?" she wondered.
"Apparently while you were out shopping and we were," Jasper paused, not sure what to say because he didn't want to scare her.
"Hunting," Hermione supplied, grinning, finding it funny that this bog bad vampire didn't want to scare her.
He grinned realizing that this little girl could handle more then he gave her credit for. "While you were shopping and while we were hunting your father got a hold of one of his old friends. You remember the Weasley's that we met while in Diagon Alley?"
"Yeah, the one with all those read headed kids?" she remembered.
"Yes," Edward chimed in, not wanting to be left out any longer. He looked at Jasper, who looked right back.
"Why don't you go on downstairs and see what your daddy had to say," Jasper suggested, still starring down Edward. "I'll put Melody back in her bed for you and close Harmony's cage door."
"Okay," Hermione said, hurring downstairs, excited to see what her father had to say.
Jasper closed the door behind her, not wanting Hermione to accidentally over hear the conversation that was about to take place.
"I already know what you want to tell me, so you can save your breathe," Edward said, smiling at his own joke. He headed to the door, but Jasper stepped in front of it, blocking the way.
"You may already know what I have to say to you, because you can heard what I'm thinking. But either because of your lack of brain cells or your inablitly to understand what I am saying, you are choosing not to listen to me."
"Jasper, listen,"Edward started.
"No, Edward, you listen," Jasper interrupted. "Because next time, I promise you I will not be using words to tell you exactly what I am thinking. Stay away from Hermione. Be friendly to her, yes, but stop all of this bull. Stop holding her hands and giving her heated glances. She is TWELVE YEARS OLD for God sakes. Her hormones are going crazy at that age and to top it all off she has the whole wizarding thing to deal with. Not to mention that her great great uncle, who should be dead, is visiting and he's a VAMPIRE!" Jasper finished.
"Jasper," Edward started, but was interrupted when Alice opened the door.
"You two can finish this conversation later. I need to speak with you about something that is going to happen while we are at the Weasley's tommorow,"she said grinning. "And I don't want either one of you starting a war between wizards and vampires because Hermione gets her first kiss," she added.
"WHAT?!?!" The angry vampire boys exclaimed together, causing Alice to laugh. This was the first time they had seen eye to eye since meeting Hermione Cullen.
So what did you think? Who do you think Hermione will get her first kiss from? Were you expecting this? Let me know what you think. I love all the feedback I've been getting the last couple of days. You guys make me want to write more. Happy Reading.