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A/N: Hey, I just wanted to say I am sorry this chapter is so short, I am new at this so I was just trying to figure out how to get the thing on the site in the first place. Next chapter will be much longer. R&R thanxs!!! Speedstergal
Caught and Lonely
"Hermione!!!" Came a familiar voice. Hermione whipped around to see her best friend Harry Potter running her way.
"Hey Harry!" she said as her friend came to a stop. "Wow, he's changed." She thought looking him over. He really had. He wasn't the scrawny little thing she had seen last year. He had grown a good 4 inches and she could see his muscled biceps (He was wearing a short sleeved black t-shirt) and she could feel his six-pack when he hugged her.
"How was your summer?" He asked looking her over. Hermione could tell he liked what he saw. She changed over the summer to, but nothing to drastic. She was able to tame her bushy hair with a new shampoo. It now was straight and hung just past her shoulders. She was skinnier, (She had began working out at the YMCA and shed a few pounds) and a little curvier. She decided she would start wearing lip-gloss, but just lip-gloss; she didn't like the way makeup felt on her face. She had also started wearing a little more revealing clothing. She had fallen in love with Abercrombie and Fitch and The Gap. Today she was wearing a pink T with Abercrombie across the front and a jean skirt that ended just above her knees.
"It was great my Mom took me to Paris and we spent a couple of weeks over there." She recounted " How about you?" she asked.
"The usual." He replied. "But Uncle Vernon got Dudley a whole workout station. Complete with weights, a tread- mill, a bench press, preacher curl bench and an AB crunch board. He figured Dudley needed to bulk up a bit, he also thought Dudley was going to actually use the equipment. Yeah right! I ended up using it while they were asleep. There was no way in the world they were going to let me touch something so expensive. It's sad that a wonderful workout system like that is going to be at the Dursley's collecting dust."
"Ah, so that's how he got that body, gees." She mused. "That's awesome Harry. Have you been on the train yet?"
"Yeah, here let me grab your luggage and we'll get on and find Ron."
"Umm, uh Harry I will get the luggage and you can go find Ron, I'll find you."
"Uh, ok." Harry replied looking a tad bit confused.
Actually Hermione was hoping that she didn't find Ron. You see she and Ron went out last year and things didn't work out to well. He was really overprotective and got jealous really easily. She could be talking to any guy even Neville and Ron would become furious. Even if a guy merely glanced her way Ron would accuse her of flirting and being too provocative. But the funny thing was Ron would flirt with any girl that passed him. Hermione wasn't the jealous type, and she wasn't going to approach him. She just figured he was helping their relationship out….in some weird twisted way. But it soon came to the point were he was becoming touchy feely with some of the girls. And she knew right away that that wasn't helping their relationship even in a weird twisted way. She honestly tried to break it off with him, but when Ron got the vibe that she was thinking about it, he would immediately become unbearably sweet and caring. He would start to apologize for everything he had done and give her gifts. He would stop being aggressive and cruel and would become easygoing, compassionate and gentle. She would melt right into him again. Then after a week or two he would start it all up again. She had heard about this kind of relationship, "abusive" as they call it, but she had no idea how to get out of it. So, she just went along with it. She became so depressed that the girls she had once been best friends with drifted away. She didn't take the time to talk to anyone. Soon girls found her snotty, they said she thought she was to good for them. Hermione just let it happen, she didn't care anymore. She became engulfed in her own little world she was safe there. Her schoolwork and reading was her only way out of the real world there she could be what she wanted to be and she could be free, it was her gateway to freedom. But she soon would be pulled back into reality when Ron intruded into her thoughts. She soon figured out that the only way she could keep her sanity and find happiness was to break up with Ron. So she did. Ron pleaded and begged, but she still stood her ground. He stopped trying after a couple of days, realizing that she wouldn't come back to him. Sadly enough she began to start to miss him. A week after they broke up Ron started going out with Lavender, she didn't really notice until she saw them making out on the Gryffindor common room floor. Then it hit her, she had to get over Ron, he obviously had already gotten over her. So, she tried to find another boyfriend. But when things started getting cozy with one, Ron would some how find a way to barge in and ruin it. He would either talk to the guy and tell him how terrible she was, or he would threaten him. He had even punched an unusually stubborn guy and scared him away, he even got a months worth of detention and it didn't even faze him. Now, no boy except Harry would even dare looking at her let alone talk to her. He was scary and she didn't and still doesn't no how to handle him.