AN: Here's chapter 36...
Disclaimer: Not mine…
Today was the last day of the final exams. They were our last 3 classes we had in our schedule. I had no free periods, being that it looked good on my resume'.
I was on my last exam, Potions. I had studied extra hard for Potions so that Snape wouldn't have to count off anything. I knew in my heart that every single question I had answered was right so far.
I was on the last five questions. I looked at my phone to check the time. It was only 10:38 am, and we had started at 8:00. I smiled and continued.
Professor Snape walked past me and stopped at Alex's desk. She handed all her exams and began to gather her stuff. My mouth fell open. No one had ever finished before me!
Alex had finished first. I practically lost by five questions. She winked and smiled in Ron's direction as she exited the Great Hall. I sighed and continued finishing my exam.
Jackie and I were in his room sitting up against his headboard in his bed. We were watching a favorite movie of his on his TV. It was a romance comedy and it was quite entertaining.
We occasionally laughed or I would let out 'aw' when something sweet or sad would happen. I would think this to be a chick flick. Yet, he was still laughing at the same things I did.
After the movie was over he turned on his cable and began searching for something to watch. "What do you want for Christmas baby?" he asked. I shrugged.
I never really thought about it. I don't think I need anything. I had everything that I would usually ask for. Every year, I would always get books, clothes, and shoes. I guess it won't change.
"I guess books, clothes, or shoes, nothing special. You already gave me an expensive broom." He nodded. "Yeah, cuz' I wanted to. This time, it's for Christmas purposes." I laughed.
"Well, those items that I listed are fine." "How bout some jewelry? You ever got some jewelry before?" No one has thought of that before. I did love diamonds…
I shook my head. "No, I haven't." "What type of stone you like? Emeralds? Rubies? Sapphire?" "Diamonds." He grinned. "I do too. Well, we'll see what Santa'll bring ya." I laughed.
"Are you goin' home for Christmas?" he asked while sitting the remote down. He settled for a cartoon movie. I shook my head. My parents were going to Spain for Christmas and I didn't want to feel a hot climate for a winter holiday.
He smiled. "I am." "Oh." I said simply, trying not to sound disappointed. I looked away having nothing else to say. I wasn't mad at him. He wanted to go home and see his family. I just felt sad that I won't be with him for yet another holiday.
I guessed he sensed my mood and brushed a strand of hair off my forehead. "I won't go home if you don't want me to." he said softly. I smiled sadly.
"No, it's fine. You should go home and spend time with your family. I'll be fine, I'm sure." He grunted in response. "Well, how bout you come back to Arizona wit' me?" I gasped.
That's a wonderful idea! Spending a hundred percent of my time with the guy I lo-, I mean liked all day, everyday of the break. But what would his parents think of me? Or any of his family. I am quite shy around people I don't know.
"Well, what do you think Hermione?" he asked with a smile. He had a sly hint of puppy eyes as he stared into my own. I grinned. "I would love to honey." "Yes!" he said while wrapping his arms around me tightly. "My momma'll love you man. She's reads a lot like you do."
"She sounds amazing already." He chuckled. "My brother and his girl is gonna be there too." "I've never seen your brother, what's he look like?" He brought his hand up to pull on his neatly cut beard.
"I guess me, but different colored eyes. His eyes are straight up green, like momma. Me and my sister got our eyes from our dad. I have a picture matter of fact on my computer." he said as he let go of me to get up.
I fell on my back on the cushiony bed. He laughed as I rolled my eyes with a smug smile on my face. We walked over to his desk where his computer was. He wiggled the mouse a bit to wake up the computer.
A picture of us appeared as the desktop. I grinned as he looked up at me. "Remember that picture?" I nodded. It was one day that we were hanging out in my bedroom and we were randomly taking pictures.
I was laying on top of him with a tank top on and pajama pants. He had on no shirt and some jogging pants. I was biting his lip teasingly as we looked up at the camera.
I smiled. He went to his picture file and brought up a picture of his family. It looked to be a fairly new picture. "This is my momma, my dad, my sister Jesse, and my brother John jr."
I gasped. "You and your brother are spitting images of your father." He grinned. "That's what gets the ladies." I smirked. "So you're not all black?" He shook his head.
"My mom's Native American and my dad is mixed himself with black and white." "Wow, so you're just about all the nationalities." He laughed and pulled me down by my wrist to sit on his lap.
"Naw, I haven't conquered European." he said seductively in my ear. I bit my lip as began to nibble on my neck. "Anywho, I have finally seen your sister in the hallway. She was walking with Ginny actually." He nodded. "We don't really talk at school. We see each other at home all the time!" I smiled.
I looked at my phone. It was 7:05. "We should go down to dinner love." I said, not really hearing what I just said. He got up with an eyebrow up. He closed the gap between us and scoot me closer by grabbing my, um, bottom and pulling me.
"What you call me baby?" he asked. His hand caressed my cheek. "Um… It's just a pet name. You know, like baby, or honey, or-" His lips captured mine in a short tender kiss.
"I know, just testin' you baby." he said with grin. I hit him playfully on his firm chest while grinning. "Anyways, let's go. I could eat anything right now." He smirked. "I could too." he said while kissing on my neck. I sighed. I just had to say that…
It was now Sunday, or packing day. I wasn't the only one staying in Arizona. Harry, Ron, and Ginny were joining me too. They were going to stay over their boyfriend or girlfriend's house like I was.
I cleaned all my clothes the previous day and packed them neatly in my trunk. I packed a few dresses just in case. My cell phone gave a ring as it buzzed around on my nightstand.
I walked over to it and looked at Jackie's face on the screen. I smiled and answered. "Good night Jackie." "Dang, I haven't even finished talking yet and you want me off the phone." I laughed.
"I'm just use to answering the phone like this." "Oh well, tomorrow you'll be traveling with me on an airplane." I gasped. The last time I was on an airplane was about ten years ago to go see my relatives in Wales.
"Yeah, wait until Ron and Ginny hear this. They are going to be so excited. Their first plane ride." He laughed. "Well baby it's late. I'll see you bright early tomorrow."
"Ok. I'll see you tomorrow." "Alright baby." We paused. It felt like we had something more to say, but couldn't let it out. "Um bye." I finally said. "Night baby." he said and hung up.
It felt like something was suppose to be in that pause. Like certain words were suppose to be said. I was suppose to hang up the phone feeling a certain way, but I didn't.
I sighed and pushed the thought in the back of my head and closed my trunk. After mentally checking off my list of items in my trunk, I turned off my light and jumped in my bed.
I was so excited about tomorrow that I couldn't even sleep. I turned on the TV until I felt myself dozing off. I turned off the TV as slumber overcame me.
Harry, Ron, Ginny, and I met up with the Americans in the Great Hall as the carriages were being taken away to the train.
"Alright er'one. Take a seat while I call role. If someone isn't here, I need an explanation of their whereabouts. Is that understood." The yelled a 'Yes Sir!!' that rung throughout the Great Hall.
It was dead silent as he called out names. "Alex, Alana, Raymond, and Reshaun Griffin." They yelled 'here'. Dean was joining us as well along with a couple of other Hogwarts students.
Finally he was done calling their names. "Now, I do welcome the Hogwarts students that are joinin' us on this trip back to our home. If you would write your name on piece of paper- or parchment, and give it to me as we're walkin' on the plane."
We nodded. Ron looked to be a little nervous. "Are you ok Ronald?" I asked. He nodded. "Yeah, or I will be…" Alex patted his hand. "You get sit next to me baby. It's flyin' on a long broom." He smiled. I knew if it related to Quidditch then it would be just fine.
10 hours later, we were in Phoenix, Arizona. We flew over many houses and other buildings. Mr. Griffin flew us himself being that he was a pilot.
"Attention students, we are now approaching the school. I would call my parents if I were you if you need a ride. It's about 75 degrees in the shade and a lil' windy. Thank you for riding the Griffin express." he finished with a chuckle.
Ron was quiet the whole ride. He was a bit pale and looked a shade of green. His hand rested on Alex's leg as she stretched from her nap. She whispered something and inhaled and exhaled sharply.
"You ok Ron?" He looked over slowly and nodded. "Just a little shaken is all love. No need t-to worry." he said with a small smile. She kissed his lips and smiled.
The seat belt sign flashed. No one could beat Ron putting it on. Alex giggled as he turned pink. The plane lowered as Jackie grabbed my hand. I smiled. "Are you awake?" I asked. "Naw, I'm still sleep." he said with a grin.
I rolled my eyes playfully and looked away. He started to place small butterfly kisses on my neck which made me shiver. "We don't have any guest rooms baby." he said with a grin. I gasped.
I followed Jackie through the school. They had an airport in the back of school! It was under an illusion spell so muggles couldn't see it. This school must've cost a fortune!
He walked me through the darkly lit halls. He pointed to the classes and explained who the teacher was. There school was built like a normal muggle high school. Lockers lined the hallways and some desks that were placed outside a door.
Finally we walked down the stairs and met everyone in the cafeteria. It had less tables than Hogwarts but there were quite a few. Mr. Griffin called role, this time including non- American students in it.
"Alright. We will meet back here on January 2nd to fly back. If you will not be flyin' back wit' us then get your parents to e-mail me as to why you are not. If you have a question, oh well. See you next year." he said saluted them.
I smiled. "Did you call you parents?" I asked. He shook his head. "I drove here. My car's in the parkin' lot." I nodded. We grabbed our stuff and followed everyone out the exit door.
It led to the parking lot, where loads of cars parked in front of the school and around it. "We'll see you soon you guys." I said to my friends. They waved goodbye as we parted.
Jackie looked back at Jesse. "You comin' back wit' me?" She nodded while tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. "How else will I get there?" He grinned. "Well, you can always walk there." They laughed while I smiled.
Jackie drove down a neighborhood in his Acura. It looked to be quite new, being that it smelled like it. He picked up his phone and pressed a few buttons before placing it up to his ear.
"Dad, I'm pullin' in wit' Hermione and Jesse." he said with a husky voice. I pressed my lips together, trying to keep myself from giggling. "Alright open the garage door. Alright bye." he said and placed his phone down.
"Does your dad know me?" "Practically. I talk about you all time." "It's true. He's like the book of Hermione Granger." Jesse said with a smile. I grinned. "You said good things right?" I said while placing a hand on his leg. He smirked.
"Yeah, except that one time when you got an A on your Ancient Ruins test. He didn't like that much thou-" "Are you serious?!!" I screamed while holding my hand to my mouth.
He and Jesse laughed. "No baby. I'm kiddin'. I've only said good things about you. Even that would be a good thing." I sighed. "Don't scare me like that Jackie." he laughed as we pulled into an alley.
He drove straight until he slowed down and turned left into a big driveway. A Tahoe was sitting on the right side. Jackie parked in front of the opened garage.
A middle aged man opened the door with a grin on his face. I gasped. It was an older Jackie Mitchell. Jackie smiled and put his car in park. "You ready to meet the family?" he asked. I nodded and took in a few breaths. "You'll be alright baby. They're nice people."
Jackie, Jesse, and I got out his car. "Jackie! Jesse! So glad to see you're home safe." his dad said. They hugged as Mr. Mitchell kissed Jackie's cheek and then doing the same with Jesse.
"Dad, this is the legendary Hermione Granger that I've been talkin' about. Hermione, this is John Mitchell sr." He grinned.
I shook his hand and grinned. "It's lovely to meet you Mr. Mitchell." He kissed my hand. "No, it's quite lovely to meet you. Why don't you come on in meet my family." he said in a charming voice. Now I see where Jackie gets it from…
We walked through the laundry room to a long hallway. Lights shined on certain pictures such as family portraits and older pictures. We walked into a foyer that had a living room on the opposite side where were standing.
It was a warm cozy house that smelled of food. Everything was so modern in pastel colors. A crystal chandelier hung in the middle of foyer which really set off the whole room.
We walked around the grand staircase where the kitchen was. John jr. and Mrs. Mitchell were sitting at the table chatting. "They've arrived yall." he announced.
Jackie's mother was truly beautiful. She had flawless tan skin, pearly teeth, and even a nice body figure for her age. "It's nice to finally meet you Hermione." she said and hugged me.
I grinned. "It's nice to meet you Mrs. Mitchell." I said. "Hello, I'm John. Nice to meet you." John said before kissing my hand. I smiled. "It's nice to meet you John." He smiled and winked. "So anywho, why don't I take Hermione on a tour of upstairs while the foods gettin' done…" Jackie said rolling his eyes at John.
"Alright baby. Dinner will be ready in a few minutes." Mrs. Mitchell said with a smile. He nodded and walked us out the kitchen. Our trunks appeared by the staircase.
He grabbed them both with ease and began trudging up the stairs. "Do you need any help?" He shook his head. "I'm good. Juss open the door to my room when we get there." I nodded as we cornered to walk up another flight of stairs.
On our way to his room, which was at the end of the hallway, he pointed to different rooms. There were no guest rooms indeed. John and his girlfriend were taking his old room, Jesse was in hers, and that only left Jackie's room.
"Open the door for me baby." he said. I opened the tall dark wood door to reveal a huge room. It was exactly the size of his room at Hogwarts, which was huge by the way.
His room colors were black and white. It was modern looking like the rest of his house. A huge king sized bed sat against the wall on the left and a flat screen TV hung from the wall parallel to it.
"Wow." I managed to say. He smiled. "This is your room for the next two weeks my dear. Come and see the bathroom." he said and took my hand.
The bathroom could have been the master bathroom. It was black, white and chrome. The shower was see-through like mine, but was wider. The tub was a normal Jacuzzi size. There were two sinks and a half-wall length mirror above them.
"Why do you have two sinks?" I asked. He walked closer to me from behind and pulled me to him by my lower stomach. He moved all the hair that covered my neck to the other side.
"In case I have company." he said deeply as he began to kiss and suck on my neck. I hissed and allowed him to continue. It felt so inviting and I couldn't bring myself to stop him. His hands were caressing my bare stomach as I placed a hand on the back of his head to get closer to my neck.
I let out a small moan as he bit the sensitive skin roughly. I finally snapped out of my stupor and grabbed his hands. "Ok love. We should be heading down for dinner." I said in a weak voice as he continued.
He placed one last chaste kiss on my neck before looking at me in the mirror. "You realized I was staring at you the whole time? Your eyes were closed baby. I saw the want on your face. So that's why I continued." he said softly with a smile.
I sighed to calm my heartbeat. He smirked. "But we should go downstairs. You might want to… 'tidy' up a bit baby." he said while pointing at a number of hickies on neck.
I huffed. A grin on his face could only make me smile.
AN: It just occurred to me that I've done 36 chapters and I'm just getting to Christmas. Oh well, I've always like a descriptive story. Read and review………… JussMee….