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Notes: Hmm. First of all, sorry that it took us so long to upload this chapter. But it's all my fault (Latrisha) *sobs* Believe it or not, but I've already written about two thousand and five hundred words (I had almost finished!!!) when I somehow managed it to safe the fifth chapter over the sixth one*argh* *slaps herself once more*. Kaeera shouted at me perhaps half an hour non-stop. I'M SORRY!!! I can do nothing against my own not-existing intelligence! I sold it last year, I guess. There's no other explanation.
But now we've holidays and there's enough time to write everything once more. But still I've so much other things to do: *argh* We have to read Maria Stuart over holidays!!
Well, sorry once more. We have some answers to ur reviews again. U can find them at the bottom. And now, just read and forget how stupid the author is^.^ ~ Latrisha




Confusing Experiences and Hidden Feelings

by Kaeera & Latrisha



Chapter 6: Puddle Fight

"Harry! Ron!", Hermione whispered softly when she entered the room. It was eight o'clock in the morning. She watched the two of them who were not moving the slightest and repeated a little louder:

"HARRY! RON!"

Harry blinked slowly through the sunlight and yawned loudly. He stretched his bones and looked at Hermione confused. "Wassemadder?", he managed to say before yawning once more.

Ron didn't notice anything at all.

"The museum! We wanted to go there today, remember? It opens at nine o'clock, time to get up now!", she said matter-of-factly. With her tooth brush in her left hand she pointed towards the clock.

Harry sat up. "Hermione. It. Is. Eight. O'clock."

"Yup, I know. Hurry up, we might be late.", she said smiling and left. "Try to wake up Ron! I'm so looking forward to this.", she added.
Harry gulped briefly. That should be his end. Waking up Ron at that time. He would have more chances to survive if he fought against a lion. But he did what he had to do.

"RON!", he shouted and pulled down Rons blanket. Ron turned around and made a sweet "mhmmm".
This won't be easy' Harry thought. He grabbed after his glasses and the world around him became clearer. After several minutes of trying to wake up Ron, Harry just took the bottle of water and let the water flow over Rons face.

Downstairs Hermione only heard a loud, loud scream of anger. Irritated she walked into the kitchen and looked up the stairs. "Everything's fine?", she asked carefully when some loud steps came running down the stairs.

Ron. Looking like a rhino having rabies. "WHY THE BLOODY HELL DO YOU WAKE US THIS EARLY?! It's in the middle of the night yet!"
He stared at her breathing angrily. "Butthe museum opens at-"

"I don't care about when this damned museum opens, I just wanna sleep! Who wants to visit the museum?", he shouted and pronounced the word museum like he always pronounces 'Snape'. Then he muttered something like "Just can't believe that!" and walked over to the table. Hermiones smile froze. Her ears turned red and her eyes became watery. Harry, who had come downstairs shortly after Ron, expected her to cry back at Ron. But she did not. Instead, she just looked down at the floor, muttered a short "SorryI didn't want - you can go back to bed of course.", and walked into the bathroom.

RONS POV

"Ooops.", I made. That was really not what I had planned. I looked at Harry. He stared at me madly and I could see the anger in his eyes. I did it again. I hurt Hermione. Badly. Oh yes. What was going on with me, shouting at the girl I like so much. The girl I-well, she's my best friend, so why did I do that? I should have behaved like Harry. He realized how happy Hermione was to visit this museum. He understood her much better than me. I just make her unhappy all the time. Harry didn't say anything. He put his hands onto his hips and just looked at me. I knew that he was disappointed and that he had expected more of me than that. He should really wonder why someone like me was his best friend.

"I'm sorry.", I said. I didn't know anything else to say.

"You don't have to apologize. Not to me. To her!", he grumbled. "See how you can put that right. But do it. And don't you dare do something like that again. I'll kill you."

Then he grinned. "You have strange methods to get a girl.", he said. I wanted to reply something but I decided that I'd better not.
Sighing I went to the bathroom. Put it right!, I thought and took a deep breath.


HERMIONES POV


I closed the door behind me and leaned against it. Damn! Damndamndamn! A tear went down my cheek. Was this the latest fashion? Shouting at me like mad and hating me? Ron always overreacted. I really had thought he would look forward to this, too. I thought I knew him. Better than anyone else, except of Harry. I thought he liked me, at least a little. You know, as a friend. A really good one. But all that was blown away the longer he stayed here. Why couldn't he be more like Harry? Harry was always polite and even this morning when I woke him up he didn't complain. I realized how stupid I was, having a crush on Ron every now and then. With every new quarrel I hated him again, more and more, and I felt that he did the same. It was confusing. Irritating. Idiotic. I should have let it drop long time ago. It was no use hoping Ron and I would ever be real friends like Ron and Harry were. Perhaps it was because of me being a girl. Friendships between boys and girls, that wouldn't work. And it was certainly no use even thinking about me and Ron loving each other, being a couple. It would never happen. Forget it, Hermione!, I told myself and sighed. There are enough other boys. And to see the facts, who needed a boyfriend?
There were more than enough other possibilities to spend my time, why should I waste it on Ron?

"Hermione?"

I jumped up. It was Ron. He was standing right on the other site of the door.

"What?", I asked annoyed. I tried to sound as unfriendly as possible just to make him feel worse.

"Listen, Hermioneuhm, you know, it's"

Typically Ron. Not able to speak in complete sentences. I just wanted to refer to that, but I didn't.

"Sorry.", I heard him say. Stop! Did he say sorry?

"Excuse me?", I asked just to be sure.

"I wanted to apologize!", he said quickly, and I could hear that it was very strenuous for him to say that. "Please, come out now, I want to go to the museum! It's just that I was tired and that I'm such a morning muzzle. I didn't want to be that rude!"

I sat down. "You know, you don't have to pretend that you want to go there with me. It's OK if you don't want to."
It wasn't OK. I wanted Ron to go with me. But I would never confess.

"No, listen. Harry told me a few things about Dinosaurs last night. It sounded interesting. I want to see them."

I somehow was happy again. In fact it didn't happen very often that Ron apologized for something. I started believing that he might like me. At least that he didn't hate me.

How could I have thought of that?! I was confused, didn't know what to believe and what not to, but I left the bathroom. Now again I knew why I always wasted my time on Ron.

"Then let's go.", I said and smiled happily at him. If I had thrown a look at Harry, I would certainly have noticed his happy smile.

HARRYS POV


Ron and I quickly dressed and ate something. Hermiones parents were both at work. Quickly I tripped down the stairs and after waiting several minutes for Ron to be ready we finally set off.

My two friends stayed rather quiet while we walked to the bus stop. But it was a great advance that they weren't fighting. If I had a diary I would have made a big, red note into it.

We waited for the bus to arrive. When it arrived, Hermione pressed a red button and the back door opened. Inside she reminded us where to go in case we lost each other.

"Just take the bus with the number four (A/N: In Germany the public busses have different numbers, but I guess they also have in the USA or in England, haven't they?) and get out after the seventh bus stop, OK? Number four, Ron!"

We arrived and got out. The museum was right on the other side of the street so we would have no difficulty in finding the bus stop again.
Hermione paid for us, her parents had given her the money.

The museum was a huge hall full with nothing but dinosaur skeletons. It looked terrific. Around the skeletons the landscape of the world like it had been thousands of years ago was reproduced.

"Boah!", Ron and I yelled at the same time. Rons mouth stayed open. Bones as big as myself were rebuilt to meter-high dinosaurs. There were small ones and big ones, and in the middle of all of them, there was the most dangerous and most aggressive animal that had ever lived on earth. I hadn't heard much of it before but when I saw it I just knew that it had to be the T-Rex.

"Wow!", Ron made again and again, trying to express how stunned he was. Hermione smiled at me. I guess she thought it was kind of 'sweet' that Ron behaved like a little child. I was only amused.

We refused to take part on a guidance because we wanted to discover everything on our own. And then we already had the very best guide we could have:

"And this skeleton is about twenty million years old. Just imagine that!!", Hermione told us. "By the way, our birds are related with the dinosaurs, did you know that? Their bones are hollow . And over there-"

She went on explaining every little detail to us, and after we had seen everything I could definitely say that I knew more about dinosaurs than Dudley ever will with his idiotic little toy monsters.

We sat down on a bench and ate our sandwiches. I was really relieved that nothing had happened yet. The night before I had had a terrible dream about Ron kicking against a huge bone. The skeleton started to shake dangerously and - well, imagine what had happened next. I woke up wet with sweat and believe me, I really, really was afraid of this day. But Ron behaved very good that day and he tried to be as polite as possible in front of Hermione. Probably he wasn't yet over his mistake that morning. With this fact on my mind I decided that I could leave the two of them alone for a few minutes.

"Folks, I have to go for little Harrys.", I said and walked towards the men toilet.

If I just hadn't

BANG!

I swear that this bang even made the people in Japan jump up. "Uh-oh." I couldn't think of something more creative. "Damn."

I didn't dare leave the toilet. But I had to see what had happened. I opened the door and - the first thing I noticed was that T-Rex was still standing. I sighed in relief. It had been one of the smaller ones that somehow broke apart or whatever. Through the crowd I could get a look to the entrance. A red-haired boy and a girl with brown hair disappeared inconspicuously.

"Argh!", I made, why on earth do I have such intelligent friends?

Seventh bus stop, I reminded myself. Surely Ron and Hermione had already taken the bus home. It was only good for them to disappear as quickly as possible.

I sighed. People tried to repair the dinosaur or at least to find the rest of its bones. I stayed about ten minutes and pretended to be very interested in one of those flying ones. Then I left the museum, too.

Rain beat onto my jacket, I could hardly see anything through my glasses and to fill the barrel (A/N: a German expression) I hadn't got waterproof shoes. Great.
I crossed the street and reached the bus stop.

"OH SHIT! Can anyone tell me why this only happens to me?!"

I turned my head to see from where that angry voice came. I saw a girl. A wet girl, to be precise. She carried a skateboard under her arm and had her short, curled black hair hidden under the hood of her wide pullover. Her trousers were wide, too, and she wore them far under her hips.
She passed me and stepped angrily into a deep puddle. The dirty water splashed up and made me wetter than I already was.

"Hey!", I yelled at her, "Look at what you've done!!"

"Oh, it's raining, can't you see? You are already wet.", she shot back annoyed and wanted to go on.

But I didn't let her go without kind of revenge. I was in a really gloomy state and this came exactly well.
I kicked some water from the aforementioned puddle after her and then she had a really wet back.

"OK, you want war? You can have it!", she shouted and ran back to me. With a huge step she jumped into the water and made me and herself wet, and dirty. Of course I did the same. After five minutes we were both wet and dirty, standing laughing at the bus stop.

I shook my head and the water drops flew in all directions. I felt like a dog.

"What's your name?!", I wanted to know.

"Nat.", she said but didn't ask me after my name. She squeezed the end of her pullover and water rained down. "Oh. I think that's your bus, isn't it?", she asked and pointed to a bus with the number four.

"Yes, it is.", I said and turned around. I heard the bus coming nearer and just wanted to say good-bye when suddenly...-
SPLASH!!!

The bus drove through a puddle right next to the pavement. The brown coloured water splashed against my trousers and flow down into my shoes.

"Uuaargh!", I shouted and jumped away from the bus. "Shit!"

Nat started laughing like mad, it sounded as if someone had started to scream. Angrily I looked at her. "Oh yes, just laugh!", I shouted. I don't know why, but it really made me angry that she had laughed instead of feeling pity for me.

I turned around to the bus again and wanted to press the red button to open the door. Right in this moment the bus drove off. I stood there, finger up in the air and had to look like a fool when 'splash' another wave of brown water went over my shoes.
Nat laughed with tears in her eyes, came over to me and slapped onto my shoulder.

"Thank you,", she said between laughers, "This saved my day!"

Then she set off with her board, skated somehow very cool along the wet pavement without a word of good-bye.
Strange girl, I thought but was still angry that she had made fun of me.

With the next number-four-bus I finally arrived at Hermiones home. They opened the door and looked at me apologizing. "Uhm, you know, we had to leave quickly after-"

"-yeah, after Ron had destroyed this baby dinosaur!", I interrupted her and glanced at Ron.

"Uhm, to be honest, it wasn't Ron who kicked against a bone, it was me", Hermione confessed.

"NO!" I shouted disbelieving.

"Yes.", was the answer. She blushed embarrassed and Ron was very amused. He patted her head and said "Sweet, perfect Hermi destroyed it!" And then, well, he laughed. Full ten minutes he laughed. I completely forgot about my wet clothes. It was so nice to see them happy together.

To be continued

Xoni Newcomer: Don't worry, your German is very good!! Although the word 'Idiom' is hardly used here^^. Oh, and about Hermione being so reluctant...we thought that she might be a little bit annoyed after this soccer game and all this stuff; don't worry, she will lighten up later in the story! Thanks for your criticism, it really helped (nobody of us noticed that she was too...boring.)
Kaeera: "Oh, and I fully understand your opinion of football."*smiles*
Latrisha: *glares*
Kaeera: "Give me the gun...."
*Latrisha hands over the gun and pouts*
Kaeera: "So you want to have a clone of Arwen?*thinks hardly and looks at Latrisha*
Latrisha: "I guess we can do that...*digs in her cupboard* She was here...somewhere...
Kaeera:*slaps her head* "We will give it to you as soon as Latrisha finds it!"
Latrisha: "Als ob dein Zimmer aufgeräumter wäre..."
Thanks for the (loooong and nice)review - and 'Auf Wiederschreiben' (It doesn't exist, but we understand what you mean^_^)


Allison M Potter: Gherkin...I guess we mean a pickle. BUT I looked in my English/German dictionary, and there was gherkin. No sign of a 'pickle'....so it's not us to blame if it's the wrong word...blame the authors of this dictionary *snickers* Thanks for putting us on your list!

Lady Terayne: Thanks for your compliments*blush*
Latrisha: "You've French, too? We suffer through this subject..."
Kaeera: "Yeah, I've French for 5 years now, and can't even hold a simple conversation*groans*
Latrisha: "BUT....NOBODY CLAIMS FRODO!!! HE'S MINE!!!" *hugs her wallpaper of Frodo and kisses it*
Kaeera: *sweatdrops* "Just ignore her..."
Latrisha: *starts singing* "Frère Jacque, frère Jaque...dormez-vous, dormez-vous.... *argh*, don't know the text."
Kaeera: *walks out of the room*

MamaLaz:
Latrisha: *climbs on the car of her father and glares at MamaLaz* "I'm still a fan of the German-team!!! Wuhuuu!" *waves with a scarf*
Kaeera: *passes by and sweatdrops(again)* "Uhm...Latrisha....you know that your father won't be very happy if you scratch his car?"
Latrisha: "Oh." *climbs down*
Kaeera: *turns around and gasps* "Six Years German? I've had English for...one moment...seven years now."
Latrisha: *pouts* "I've only for five years...."


zombie-miho: Wohooo! Thanks for the clones! *Kaeera grabs for Lucas, Latrisha for Ranma*
Kaeera: "It's so cool! Thanks again*sniffles* You're the best!
Latrisha: *looks around in her room where all the clones don't even have the place to turn around* "Cool...."
Kaeera: "WAAAAH!! I have Zorro! From 'One Piece'!!!"
Latrisha: "Hey...I wanna have him, too...*pulls her gun*
Kaeera: "Hey....just to remind you....It's my turn to write the next chapter!!*evil laughter*
Latrisha: -.-


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