A/n:I would've updated this earlier but Fanfiction wasn't working and I was pretty busy on the weekend. So here it is! I might not get to update until the week after the next week because I have tons of projects to do. Well, I hope you enjoy this.

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or any of its characters.

Chapter Thirteen

"Hey Herm!" Ginny smiled as she sat down on the couch beside Hermione. "What are you doing here? Not that it's a bad thing, but you know what I mean."

"I've been waiting for you or Harry to come." Hermione told her. She had been waiting in the Gryffindor common room for about 2 hours now. She had a record of all the passwords for the common rooms so getting in the Gryffindor room wasn't a problem. "I need to ask you something."

"Sure, what d'ya wanna know?" Ginny asked.

"Why didn't any of you tell me that Ron and Lavender were going out?" Hermione asked. She crossed her arms. "I mean, I reckon I was the last person to know about it."

Ginny's face grew hot. "Well uh, you see, well – er – um…" Ginny stared at her and looked uneasy. "Do you like my brother?"

"No! Never in a million years!" Hermione scoffed. "We're best friends for crying out loud!"

Ginny rolled her eyes. "Whatever. I think you do." Hermione opened her mouth to protest but Ginny continued, "I – we – didn't want to tell you because, well, I thought your feelings might get hurt. I didn't want you to get heartbroken."

Hermione laughed. "Oh please Ginny. I'm happy for Ron. It's just that…Lavender…"

"Yeah, I know. I can't believe he saw something in her." Ginny agreed. "But Hermione, my brother really likes – er – liked, you. A lot."

"Sod off Ginny. I know he doesn't." Hermione argued. "What he feels for me is nothing but sisterly love. Nothing more."

"Whatever you say…" Ginny replied.

Then, Hermione suddenly felt nauseous again. She quickly stood up and said, "I best be going now, Gin. See you later."

"Awww! Why so soon?" Ginny asked.

"Business. Take care of. Bye." Hermione said quickly. She covered her mouth with her right hand and clutched her stomach with the other. She ran out of the room and raced to the Head room. She rushed to the girls' lavatory and quickly went in one of the toilets.

Not again! Hermione thought as she vomited a yellow colored liquid. This is disgusting! She kept vomiting until nothing came out anymore. Then she took one last look at the disgusting puddle in the toilet and flushed it. She washed her hands and face thoroughly and gargled. When she was satisfied, she stepped out of the washroom.

* ~ * ~ *

"Ronniekins! Ronniekins! Are you listening to me?" Lavender asked impatiently. Her and Ron were sitting on one of the benches, watching the Quidditch practice.

"Y-yeah, I'm listening." Ron answered absentmindedly.

"Okay good. So Padma was like, 'look at Milicent's ugly nose'!" Lavender blabbed. "And I was like, 'I know! And look at her enormous butt!' Isn't that gross Ronniekins?"

"Yeah. Very." Ron answered. He was deeply involved in the game. Katie had the Quaffle and was passing it to Alicia. A bludger almost hit Alicia but one of the new beaters, Anthony Lemon, blocked it.

"Ron! You're not paying much attention to me are you?" Lavender said in a whiny voice. She stood up and sat on Ron's lap. Then she leaned forward and kissed him. Harry saw it and gave Ron a wink. "Now will you listen?"

"I was listening all along!" Ron replied. "But I think that kiss helped me. I think I need more to help me listen." Lavender giggled and kissed Ron all over his face. After that, Ron was very red.

"Is that better, Ronnie?" Lavender cooed.

"Yeah. Much better." Ron smiled.

* ~ * ~ *

Hermione quickly ran to her Potions class. She knew that if she was late (even though this was her first time), Snape would never let her forget it. Besides that, it would give him an excuse to take at least 50 points from Gryffindor.

Hermione ran as fast as she could. Unfortunately, she was too late. Snape had already begun the lesson. If only I hadn't fallen asleep! She scolded herself. Many students glanced her way as she walked to her usual seat beside Ron. Surprisingly, someone else was sitting there.

"Well good afternoon, Ms. Granger." Snape said icily. "How pleasant of you to join us. Did you think that you could just, barge in here and disrupt my lesson because you felt like it?"

"No sir." Hermione said meekly. "I've just been – er – very tired. It will never happen again."

"Nevertheless, it did happen, Ms. Granger." Snape smiled. "I shall take 20 points from Gryffindor for your lateness."

"I've only been two minutes late sir!" Hermione argued.

"Sit down or else I shall take even more points, Ms. Granger." Snape replied firmly.

Hermione nodded and tapped the black-haired girl sitting in her seat. "Excuse me, will you please get out of my seat?"
The girl turned around. She had a very annoyed look on her face. "No, I wanna sit here, beside my dear Ronniekins." She fluttered her eyes at Ron. "You can sit there, beside Goyle."

"But - " Hermione began to argue.

"Time is running, my dear student. If you don't find a seat in three seconds I will force you to sit on the floor for the rest of the year." Snape told her.

Hermione sighed and reluctantly sat beside Goyle who was busily picking his nose.

"Now, open get a piece of parchment and copy these notes down." Snape was saying.

Hermione felt her stomach and noticed it was getting slightly bigger. Not because she was fat, but because of the baby. She needed to make her decision soon, either to abort the baby or keep it. She sighed again and copied her notes as she saw Lavender giggling and blushing beside Ron.

* ~ * ~ *

"Draco, I need to talk to you." Hermione said softly. She had sent Draco an owl, telling him to meet her at their 'secret classroom'.

"About what? Make it quick." Malfoy snapped.

"Well, about the baby…" Hermione began.

"I want nothing to do with that child." Draco told her firmly. "NOTHING."

"But he or she is OUR child, Draco!" Hermione said angrily. "You can never deny that fact! We did it and it's our responsibility to - "

"No." Malfoy replied. "He or she, I don't care whatever that…creature…will turn out to be, will be YOUR own responsibility."

"I thought you loved me…you said you did." Hermione said as tears formed in her eyes. "Why would you do this to me – to us – if you didn't love me?"

"You wanna know why I did it, mudblood?" Malfoy asked, loooking at her menacingly. He grabbed her shoulders tightly and pulled her closer to him. "I did it for fun."

"What do you mean fun?"

"I have to admit, you certainly looked extremely attractive this year," Draco began to explain. "But I never had any real 'love' feelings for you. None at all. I was attracted to you at first and I thought that maybe it was the mystifying love that dopes always blubber about. Then, I figured out that it's not. I'm sorry, Granger." He slowly let go of Hermione, who was shaking all over.

Tears slowly slid down Hermione's face as she took all of the words that came out of Draco's mouth. "I – I – I don't know what to say! I thought y-you l-l-loved me. I thought y-you a-actually c-cared!"

"I admit, I shouldn't have gotten as far as sex with you, but I couldn't help it." Malfoy said as he stared at the floor. "The opportunity was right there."

"I HATE YOU!" Hermione cried. She began to punch Draco's chest hard. "I hate you! You destroyed me! You wrecked my life! I HATE YOU!" She continued on punching him until she got tired. She broke down and cried even more.

"Listen Granger, you could've stopped me. But you didn't." Malfoy reminded her. "I'm not taking responsibility for this. Kill it, have a miscarriage, I don't care what the fuck you do with it."
"I'll tell professor Dumbledore. Surely you'll be expelled." Hermione threatened.

"My father can take care of it." Malfoy said coolly. "See Granger, it doesn't really matter. If I do get expelled, then I suggest you should watch yourself very closely."

"I can't take care of this child by myself Draco!" Hermione pleaded. "Please…please…"

"NO! Don't you understand english? I thought you were smart." Malfoy snickered. "I love Pansy. She's the right one for me." Hermione continued to cry as Draco began to walk out the door. "Oh and mudblood…" Hermione ignored him and continued to cry. "I promised Pansy we would have a Valentine's day ball. I hope you don't mind. If you do, it doesn't matter. The prefects have agreed on it. They all seem quite ecstatic. Oh and another thing, Pansy is so much better than you in snogging." And with that, Malfoy had a grin on his face and walked out the door leaving Hermione weeping by herself.

* ~ * ~ *

"Oooh Ronniekins, I heard from Padma that we might have a Valentine's ball." Lavender told Ron as they sat in the common room. "And guess what? It's for couples only! I guess that filthy know-it-all Granger won't be going." Lavender laughed.

"Yeah…" Ron replied.

"So did you get me anything for Valentine's day yet?" Lavender asked.

"Of course. I got loads of stuff for you." Ron lied. Truthfully, he had forgotten about Valentine's day. During his previous years in Hogwarts, Valentine's day seemed like an ordinary day for him. Except for the fact that Harry usually got lots of anonymous love notes from his admirers. That ticked him off a little bit.

"Oh goody! I have a lot of stuff waiting just for you!" Lavender giggled. "This is gonna be so much fun! I can hardly wait!"

"Neither can I." Ron muttered. Mental note, ask Ginny what girls like on Valentines Day, he thought to himself.

A/n: Well, this is sort of a cliffy and I'll be writing the Valentines Day dance chap next week or so. I'll try to update earlier if I have the chance so yeah. Thanks to reviewers of course!

Arynnl – I hope you liked this chap too!

RonsInnerVoice – Thanks for wanting to read my fic! I'm glad you're still there.

HermioneG15 – Yeah, Hermione's being stupid but now she has to pay back for all the stuff she did.

Lost Dove – Hahahaha, don't kill Draco yet! Hehehe kill him later.