Chapter 14:
The rest of the day went by really quickly; it was the end of school. Hermione went to her locker to organize her stuff, only to find Draco leaning against her locker door smiling at her. He went to greet her and helped her take her bag as she went to get her stuff.
"Ready to meet your secret admirer?" Draco teased.
"As a matter of fact yes, and I'm sure that person is not my secret admirer!" Hermione huffed.
Draco smirked at her and walked her to the park nearby, waiting for the supposed "G" who wrote the note. A shadow appeared from their behind and called out Hermione's name. The two of them turned around and gasped. They did not to see expect this person standing in front of them.
"Gordon? You're G? Wh-what? Why did you want me to meet you here?" Hermione stuttered.
"I-I wanted to apologize," Gordon explained.
While Hermione was looking confused, Draco was acting the part as the overprotective "brother". Wait, it should be Harry. Draco was the overprotective soon to be boyfriend.
"If I find out that Dursley has anything to do with this," Draco started, but he was cut off.
"Please, just hear me out first would you," Gordon pleaded.
Turns out that Gordon did not want to be part of Dudley gang for quite a while.
Gordon has known Dudley and Piers since they met at pre-school and has been friends ever since. However, Gordon was always the shy one in the group; he did whatever Dudley told him to do. Dudley Dursley was the leader among the three of them. But one different thing was that Piers could survive without anyone guiding him, but Gordon could not. Soon, he had turned into whatever thing Dudley made him as — a bully. He started to threaten people and ruin their things for fun. At least he thought it was fun. He thought it was fun until he met a new girl last year, Janice Collins.
She was the new girl who moved here and she was in Gordon's year. She had straight A's and was a very nice person, someone Hermione would most likely get along with immediately. Gordon started to develop a small crush on the girl. When he finally plucked up his courage to talk to her, they became fast friends. Then, he started to ask her out. Everything went perfectly until she found him bullying other students. She yelled at him and told him that bullying was wrong, and refused to speak to him ever again. She ignored his calls and text messages, which broke Gordon's heart. He thought of what she told him about bullying, and found out that this was not what he wanted to do or liked to do. But he had no one left. So, he kept following Dudley like a blind person. Janice would sometimes send him a sad look whenever she saw him bullying someone.
When Hermione arrived at Smeltings, Gordon always thought she reminded him of Janice. He started feeling guilty of what he did and was determined to change when he witnessed Dudley mocking her dead parents. He finally knew how people felt when they were bullied. He vowed to himself that he would change to a new person and to win Janice back. The first thing he would do was to apologize to Hermione and her friends. Mainly because he felt bad of what he did to them, but also because he wanted their help to win Janice back.
"I'm really sorry. I truly am. Please forgive me."
As the witch and the wizard listened to his story, they couldn't help but pity the teenager in front of them. They could tell that he really regretted his actions. Surprisingly, even though the two of them wanted to help him, Draco was the one who was more willingly to help him. He understood how he felt. He used to be a Death Eater and a bully, which was similar to Gordon. Draco and Hermione offered Gordon a smile.
"Alright, we'll forgive you. And we'll try to help you win Janice back," Hermione said.