(TFG: J.K. Rowling owns the characters! Oh, and could somebody please tell me how to make words bold and italicized, etc.? Please? *gets down on hands and knees and begs* PLEASE?! *gets up* It's okay if you don't *glares* but I'd really like you to *smiles*. I've been trying to find out forever, and I was planning on re-doing all my stories so they're a little more neater, but I don't know how... anyways...)

Discoveries-14-Back To School

Hermione and Draco walked through the crowded Kings Cross Station, til they reached the barrier between Platforms 9 and 10. Then they casually slipped through the brick and onto Platform 9 3/4 which was not visible to muggles. It had been a horrible summer... up until the last day, and now they were back to school and friends and teachers. Just like normal...

Others saw them together, and even worse, was that people noticed them holding hands while strolling through the groups of people. Some got jealous. Some just got plain upset. Either way, nobody was happy about this at all. And it needed to end.

When they got on the train, they separated and went to sit with their friends, like usual. Hermione soon found hers, and knocked on the open door, "Hey, guys!"

Ron and Harry, who had been looked out the window, now faced her and smiled. Well, Harry did at least. Hermione didn't pay much attention, though, and didn't notice Ron's sad expression.

"Hey, Herm!" Harry said.

Ron still said nothing. Hermione sat beside Harry and he got even angrier, you could tell by his face, but they seemed to not pay any attention. Until Hermione asked, "What about you, Ron?" He didn't know what she said before that. Uh-oh!

"S-Sorry, what did you say?" Ron asked.

"Why are you stuttering?" Hermione asked, curiously. "I was just telling Harry-" Ron's eyes went dark "-about my summer with Draco-" Ron's eyes went even darker at that "and how things went. Then I asked how your summer was."

"Just fine," he said, forcing the words out, not sounding at all natural.

"What about your summer, Harry?" Hermione asked, politely.

"It was okay, I guess. Nothing's ever too great with the Dursley's though, so it's no big deal," Harry responded.

"Yeah, sorry about that." Nobody noticed the sarcasm in Ron's voice.

Later on, Draco, Crabbe and Goyle came in, like they did every year on the train, just to annoy them.

"Hey, Potty! Hey, Weasel! How's it going?" Draco asked. Then he noticed Ron's red face, and decided to bug him some more. "Oh. Did your girlfriend dump you? Poor little Ronnie, can't find anyone who'll love him."

"Oh, and you can?" Harry asked. "I see you've made a little impression on our friend Herm here, though. What's that about? Never returned that book to the restricted section, eh?"

"Yes, as a matter of fact, I can. I'm surprised how little you know about your... er... BEST friend. Don't you know she hates the name Herm? Or do you even listen? And it's none of your business what that's about. It's mine and 'Mione's business."

"Oh, Mione now, is it?" Ron asked, turned to Hermione. "You'll let HIM call you a stupid nickname, but we can't even call you the name you want to be called?"

"Actually, he's right," Hermione said, getting a bit angry now. "I DO hate the name Herm. I absolutely despise it. Furthermore, I don't think it IS any of your business, like he said. And it's NOT a stupid nickname!"

"Herm," Harry said. "I-I mean... Mione."

"Don't call me that. You can call me Hermione just like all my other friends."

"Er, okay then... Hermione... you could've just told us before. We would've listened."

"Well, sorry! But I HAVE told you that before, and you never remembered. Finally, I just gave up. I got sick of reminding you!"

Ron was standing up now. "Did you ever care how we felt about you?"

"Of course I did!"

"Well then why would you go around with THAT?!"

"I've had enough of this!" Hermione got up and stormed out, Draco following closely behind.

(TFG: Didn't know what to write. I KNOW! I KNOW! No excuses! Sorry! But REVIEW anyway!)