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Chapter sixteen:
Hermipone woke up in her own bed that next morning, still in her clothes from the night before.

Which, were very very very wrinkled. She had fallen asleep the night before on the couch when she

had been talking with Ron... he must have put her back in her bed or something when she fell asleep.

She was instantley glad to have such a great best friend that she could trust so much. Most men may have

taken advantage.
Hermione yawned and rolled out of bed, (quite literally), dragging her feet across the wooden

floor as she made her way to the mirror. She looked up in the mirror on her wall and grimiced at

her reflection. Her hair was hanging out from a bun in a messy disordered look and her eyes were

red and puffy from crying last night.

She hobbled her way slowley to the kitchen, taking her own sweet time ofcourse, it was the morning.

She was still stiff from sitting in the same postion from last night and her limbs were making sure

that she knew about their protest. Eventually, she reached the table and sat down in a chair, taking a

breather. She giggled because she felt like an old lady who was going on 578 the next month...

Her eyes screened the table and she found a note scrawled on a piece of paper quickly.

She picked it up and read.
HERMIONE-

YOU FELL ASLEEP ON THE COUCH LAST NIGHT AND
SO I BROUGHT YOU BACK TO YOUR BED SO THAT
YOU WOULD SLEEP BETTER. I HAVE TO GO TO WORK
BUT HOW ABOUT LUNCH AT THE LEAKY CAULDREN
TOGETHER, JUST LIKE OLD TIMES EH?
OWL ME WITH YOU ANSWER AND I WILL BE THERE AT ONE.

P.S. THERE IS SOME COFFEE IN THE COFFE MACHINE AND I
LEFT IT ON SO IT WOULD STILL BE HOT FOR YOU.
WE ALL KNOW HOW MUCH YOU LOVE YOUR COFFEE.
-RON W.
she looked at the clock on her oven and noted that it said 11:30. She had loads of time.

She lifted herself from the chair and headed over to the coffee shop at a painfully

slow pace. When she arrived at her "destination" she poured herself a

gigantic cup full and glugged the coffee down savoring the sweet taste of cafeine in the morning.

She put some toast in the toaster and then opened the fridge beside her to get some jam.

Reaching inside she scrambled through the bottles till she found it.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!POP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the toaster popped and hermione screamed dropping the jam.

"DAMMIT!" she yelled and then quickly picked it up, she didnt want to be late.
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Hermione crossed th estreet slowley and made sure no muggles were watching as she

entered the leaky cauldron. She couldnt help but smile as soon as she saw the inside.

The familiar childhood stop had not changed a bit. Even Tom was still around.

"Hermione! I heard you was back in town!" he said and came over ot her giving her a friendly

hug. She was grinning like a maniac when he let go.

"Why Tom! This place hasnt changed a bit! You must be taking good care of it!" she said appraisingly.

Tom smiled and blushed a little, happy that she still liked the cauldron.

They chatted and laughed a little before he led her over to a table to wait for Ron at and

went to tend to more of his customers. She looked around, there was no sign of him and she sure

as hell wasnt going to look behind her since there seemed to be a couple snogging quite intamitley.

That really wasnt something she wanted to see after all so she just sat there, deep in thought.
The door to the leaky cauldron opened and Ron walked in galantley. Or atleast it seemed so to Hermione.

He walked over to her and put his cloak on an extra chair beside him. The couple was behind them and Ron must

not of seen them, because hermione would bet that if he had he would have cracked some sad joke about

them getting stuck together or something like that.

"Ron, Rim going to the ladies room for a second ok?" she said smiling.

"Sure Hermione," he answered cheerfully. " I'll just go get us some pumpking juice alright?"

he asked rising from his seat.

Hermione nodded and headed to the washroom to freshen up quickly.
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