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Hi everyone! It's been awhile! First of all, thanks for your reviews, the good and the bad ones. Well, here's the 7th chapter, hope you like it and have as much fun reading it as I did writing it. But, before you read it, I must sort out some things. Some of you think my fic is great and some of you think the guys are a little out of character. Well, maybe, but that's what fanfiction's all about right? To manage the characters and your story the way you picture it. About the swear words they are using, well, picture them really really angry, ok? They're not 11 any more, and come on, isn't Ron the I-swear-when-I'm-furious type of guy? And Harry, well, it was just to add some jealous spark in the story. Another thing: I see some of you dear reviewers complain a little about my grammatical mistakes. Well, I've got to tell you I'm not American and not British. I'm Mexican, I'm 17 and I do the best I can with my english. If you see some american tendencies in this story is obviously because Mexico is closer to the US than the UK and the american influence is bigger. And also, this is my first fic, so please, don't be so mean, pretty pretty pretty please??
Everything sorted?
Well, here it is: Chapter 7
Please keep reviewing!
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Hermione Weasley
PS: I may remind you I don't own any of this charaters, they are all JK's. And the names of Josh's team belong to the Pearl Harbour and Cruel Intentions hotties: Josh Hartnett, Ben Affleck and Ryan Phillippe.

TRIP TO PARADISE

Chapter 7:What it's like to have the hots for someone and the Oscar performance.

Some minutes of the game had passed, about 5 or 10, but as the game lasted only half an hour, that was a lot. The game was pretty tight, the Gryffindors were winning 250 to 200 . Harry had caught the snitch once and Ben, the other team's seeker had caught it once too. Dean and Ginny were making a great job too, they had scored 5 times, and Seamus was doing well with the bludgers, though Hallie was a tough beater. Though they pretended to be playing a "friendly" game, it was far from being that.
Ron and Josh had once or twice come pretty close to knock each other off their brooms, "accidentally" ,of course, and well, Harry wasn't being very nice to Ben, the guy who, according to Parvati and in her own words, "had the hots" for Ginny.
"Has the hots, Parvati"- Hermione said laughing - "Where did you learn that?"
"Oh"- she said, with a naughty smile across her face- "I read it in an american book I bought last summer in Flourish and Blotts: "Passion in New York". It means he fancies her, only more sophisticated."
"Oh, so that's the book you always read before sleeping. I wondered why you didn't want anyone to see it"-Lavender said laughing - "Finnigan has to know about this one, he really has"
"No, please no Lav, he'll think I'm reading some porno, and it's not like that, it's just a british witch who goes to New York and falls in love with a muggle, you know, cheap but entertaining romance"

"Good one Ginny!"- Neville shouted, suddenly stopping the girls conversation. "Did you see that one?"- he asked to the girls - "Brilliant"
"You know, Hermione?"- Neville said- "I think Josh likes you. 20 minutes and he hasn't scored at all. The other chaser has done all the job. Look! There he goes again!"- he said, as Josh lost another ball because of looking at Hermione, and Ron, the keeper, caught it nonchalantly.
"See Herm? Parvati and I are right, he likes you."- Lavender said.
"He has the hots for her"- Parvati corrected Lavender, making her laugh once again at her american expression.
"Look girls, he's about to score"- Neville said, pointing upwards. The other chaser had completely blocked Ron's visibility and he wasn't able to keep Josh's quaffle from going through one of the hoops. Josh was delighted, specially because this was one of the few times the girls were watching the match. Ron seemed furious for the same reason. The first ball he didn't catch, the first move Hermione saw. He lost the ball, and to Josh.

But the worst was yet to come. Josh reached the top of a plant that looked like a palm tree and took some pink flowers out of one of its branches, lowered a little to the girls level and fixed the flowers on the little space between Hermione's ear and head. "That one was for you girl"- he said sweetly to her in a quiet voice but, as everyone had lowered their brooms to see what was going on, they could all hear what he said.

They were all surprised, everyone in their own personal way. Josh's friends looked at him with admiration and a way-to-go smile. Well, not all of them, Hallie, the only girl of Josh's team, looked hurt and disappointed. But the Gryffindor's attention wasn't focused on Hermione only. Everyone kept glancing from her to Ron and back again. Ginny was rather afraid of Ron's reaction and Harry moved his hand slowly up and down, as if patting someone's head, gesturing Ron to calm down. Hermione was blushing deeply and looked somehow uncomfortable and embarrassed, and Ron was blushing too. Ginny could see rage in his eyes. To anyone, even to Josh's team-mates this would have appeared as a normal situation, but to Ron's friends, this was catastrophic. Ron hated losing a ball. Ron hated people flirting with Hermione. Ron hated Josh. And everything was mixed up now. Everything happened in one single minute. Ouch.

"Okay everyone, 5 minutes left"- said Ginny, gesturing everyone to go back to the game.
"Come on Ron, let's finish this right now"- said Harry encouragingly
"What's the score Harry?"- Neville shouted
"We're 470, they're 410"- said Harry , coming closer to Neville-" If I catch the snitch once more, this will be over"- he said almost in a whisper to Neville.
Then Ginny came closer to them and said: "Harry, for Ron's sake, catch the snitch before Ben does. Dean and I'll keep the chasers out of the way, and Ron is furious enough to catch the quaffle and break it to pieces. We can win. We must win!"- she said with a worried look on her face, as she and harry headed upwards.
"Hey Ginny, don't worry about Ron. He'll be alright. If he handled Hermione going with that guy Matt to Hogsmeade last year, he can cope with Josh ,don't you think?"
"Handle it? Harry, he broke your chess set when he found out! He kept swearing the whole afternoon! He's not the easy-tempered type of boy, you know"
"I know, I know, but if we don't win, this'll get worse. Don't worry and focus on the game, will you?"
"Ok. You got it"- she said to Harry.

And so the game restarted. Ryan, the other chaser, was making foul moves to keep Dean out of the way, and Ben and Harry were looking around for any glimpse of the snitch, but nothing happened. "Go Ginny!"- Lavender shouted from her spot in the sand. Just then Ginny scored. Then she lowered a little to Lavender's level and whispered: "This one's for you, sexy", obviously making fun of Josh, only that this time only the girls and Neville heard her. "Cheer up, hun!"- she told Hermione. And then she sped towards the field again, leaving them laughing.

That's when Harry saw the snitch, floating on top of Ron's head.
"I've got you"- he said as he sped off towards Ron.
It all happened in matter of seconds. "Hey Harry, watch it! Harry! What do you think you're-"
"Yes!"- shouted Harry. He had the snitch, its tiny little wings moving uneasily.
"Great Harry! We won!"- shouted Ron.
Parvati, Lavender, Hermione and Neville were cheering. Then the team and the girls got together. Parvati hugged Seamus, Lavender and Neville were congratulating Dean, they were all so happy. "Where's Ginny"- Harry asked them. "She's over there, with the other seeker, want me to call her?"- Lavender said.
"No, I'll wait for her ,just wanted to tell her she did very well today. She must be very busy" he finished with a sarcastic tone.
"Why don't we all wait for her here Harry, after all, we all want to tell her how good she was today. Great chaser, she is."- Dean said


"Well yes, I play quidditch at home, see, there's this place where we can practice as long as we don't fly too high, you know, muggles could see us"- Ginny was telling Ben.
"You are pretty good ,you know ?"-Ben said
"Oh, thanks. I don't think I'm very good at this, but I sure love playing it. Actually, it was my brother Ron over there, the keeper , who taught me the basics"
Then Ben started talking about the time he learnt to play quidditch, but Ginny was paying more attention to the conversation Josh and his friend Ryan were having.

"Do you think she'll say yes? I mean, that keeper, Ron, seems to like her too, and well, she's not completely indifferent. What if he's already asked her out?"- Ryan said
"I dunno. But I'll take the risk. She's sure worth it. Now, go over there and distract that guy Ron while I ask her out, k? Ask him something about her, maybe he's his boyfriend who knows.. Now go, and find out whatever you can"- Josh finished, while taking his T-shirt off, revealing his perfectly tanned six-pack.
"That keeps being your secret weapon, uh, Josh?"- Hallie, the beater, whispered to herself, somehow sad.


"Well done Ron"- Hermione said
"Oh thanks. Not as well as Josh did, right?"- he said, a note of disappointment in his voice.
"Don't be silly Ron. If you caught every ball, you'd be on the national team, wouldn't you? Besides, that was the only ball you let through"- she said, earning a half smile from Ron.
"Nice flowers. They match your shirt"- he said a little bit hurt, pointing to the pink flowers Josh gave her.
"Oh, this"- she said, taking them off and keeping them in one of her pockets.
"Hermione, I was thinking, uhm,-"- Ron didn't finish. Josh was calling her from the other side of the field, next to a palm tree.
"Ron, can you wait here a minute?. It won't take long."- and with that words, he left him and his future Blue Bay invitation with Ryan.

"So... the chaser, she's your sister right?, what's her name?"- Ryan asked, not sure of what to say.
"The chaser? Oh yeah, Ginny, yeah, she's my sister"- Ron answered absent-mindedly.
"And what about Hermione?"- Ryan asked
"What about her?"- Ron said suspiciously
"Oh, nothing, I mean, nothing, forget it, when did you first meet?...
And that was a little part of their conversation, which kept zigzagging but wasn't taking them nowhere.

Ginny had heard right. Josh was inviting Hermione to the Blue Bay. This was no joke at all, and what girl, in this world, in their 5 senses, would say no to a half-naked Josh??
"God, I have to do something"- she told herself -"Think Ginny ,think"
And so Hermione was talking with Josh and Ben was still talking nonsense to her. "He's about to pop the question"- she was thinking
"Ginny, are you alright?"- Ben asked her.

In that very moment, Ginny fell down, "fainted", hitting Hermione with her hair and making an incredible performance.
"Ginny! Are you ok? Ginny!"- Hermione shouted. At once Ron, Harry and the others were there, sitting all around Ginny.
She had done what se wanted. Hermione had stopped talking with Josh, no question popped, no harm done. Everything back to normal.
Then she heard Harry's voice: "Ok, I'll take her to the hotel, maybe she needs some fresh air, water, who knows, well, see you there. Neville, Ron, can you take my stuff to the room?"- Harry said worriedly, taking her in her arms, back to the hotel.

* *Well guys, did you like it? I've gotta tell you, the best is yet to come.
Did Josh ask Hermione to go with him? Will Ron finally ask Hermione to the Blue Bay? What will happen when Ginny and Harry are alone in his room? Will Ginny tell Harry what happened? Will Harry tell Ginny his feelings about her?
Okay, tune in next week... nah, just kidding. Anyway, as inspiration came back to me, I hope the next chapter will be here in a week or so. Please keep reviewing, cause you don't know how I like those. Well, write to you later

Hermione Weasley