The Forbbiden Crush
Chapter 3
She rushed to her favorite spot by the tree. She was panicked. Surely if she was truthful he would figure it out and if she was to lie about was she smelled he would surely realize she was fibbing as she was sure that would reflect in her writing. She was in a pickle. She decided it would just be best to be truthful in her essay and pray he wouldn't realize that what she smells were all scents of him. She wasn't sure what this meant. All the scents she smelled from her love potion were all scents of her forbidden potions professor. She sat down against the tree and grabbed her quill and scroll and began writing her essay praying in her mind it wouldn't be too obvious.
He looked up from his desk where he was reading a book and ended up meeting the eyes of one Hermione Granger. He saw something bewildering in her eyes. Longing and hope then suddenly fear and she turned away saying goodbye to her friends and hurried out of his classroom. Longing and hope. What was she longing and hoping for? He thought back to a little while before when he got up to check the students potions. When he got to hers she was unsurprisingly done and it was perfect though he'd never admit it out loud. He noticed she was staring at his desk and she began to back away from her couldron and backed right up into him. He told her it the potion was Satisfactory. Her cheeks were red with embarrassment. Then something clicked in his head. She has a crush on me, Dear God help me.
The last student finally left the room after 20 minutes and he went from seat to seat checking every cauldron and giving each student a grade. He gave Granger an A although she deserved an A+. He didn't want her to get a bigger head than she had and become even more annoying in his he was done he rushed to his personal chambers. After this revelation he needed a big glass of Firewhiskey.
Students were allowed to hand in papers early before the next class as every office had a magical box outside each office that you dropped the scroll into and it would be magically transferred to a box on their desk for papers that needed grading. Hermione walked up the the potions office and was relieved that the door was not open. She hesitates for a few minutes. But after the minutes long internal fight with herself she relented and put her scroll into the box and watched her paper disappear to his desk. 'This is it' She thought to herself. No turning back now. She headed off to go find Ron, Harry, and Draco before dinner was to be served in the Great Hall.
Severus was sitting in his sitting room sipping on his Firewhiskey. He had no more classes for the day and was relieved about that. He still could not fathom though why the Granger girl would have a crush on him. He wondered if anybody else knew about it. It was time for dinner so he decided he would use this opportunity to speak with McGonagall about this to see if she knew anything. With a flick of his wand the empty glass disappeared to the kitchens where the house elves would wash it and return it to his room clean later then got up and left his chamber and headed towards the Great Hall.