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Chapter 4

Hermione stepped out of the bath and prepared to dress into her clothes. She slipped on a pair of dark blue, muggle jeans and a maroon t-shirt. While pulling her robes over her clothes, she looked around the bathroom looking for her wand. She spotted over on the shelves near the sink. She walked over and picked up her wand. "Now, where are my socks?" she asked herself. "Accio socks." Her socks flew out from under her pile of clothes she discarded from earlier this morning. She pulled her socks on then grabbed her shoes next to the door.  She gathered the rest of her stuff including the bath items and packed them neatly into a bag that she had conjured up from the tip of her wand.

"There, I think I have everything," she convinced herself. Hermione left the room and headed toward her dormitory to drop off her bag, hopefully not running into Malfoy. As she neared her commons room, she walked more slowing and quietly, so to not alert Malfoy that she was coming.

She gave the password to the elegant, looking lady standing in the portrait, dressed in a red and green, silky gown. Hermione glanced cautiously both ways before stepping through the door as it swung open and let her in.

She walked across the dormitory and sneaked into her room. "Whew! Glad that's finally over!" She knew she had to hurry since classes started in 30 min. and she wanted to eat breakfast. She brushed her hair to shine, her hair was no longer bushy, but smooth and had soft curls running down her back, and added a light touch of lip gloss to her lips. Hermione double checked herself in her door length mirror that the room came with when she moved in here. She saw that nothing seemed to be missing and she readied herself to leave.

"Oh, my book bag! How could I forget?" She turned back to pick up her book bag and discovered it near the foot of her bed. She grabbed it and looked around to make sure that she didn't leave anything else. When she saw that she hadn't forgotten anything, she again turned to leave and opened the door and ran straight into Malfoy.

"Oh shit," she whispered to herself, "now what?" She tried to get around him but he wouldn't let her past. "What do you want?" she demanded, with a hint of fear in her voice.

"What? Can't have a good-bye kiss?" Malfoy sneered.

"No, you can't."

"Well, too bad, you're getting one anyways." With that, he pulled her towards him and kissed her roughly on the mouth. "Mmm, now that's a kiss," he said. Hermione found herself finally giving in just as he pulled away.

'I didn't just give myself to him did I? No, I just can't deal with him anymore.' Hermione thought to herself, with reasoning.

She pushed herself away from his and ran toward the door. Hermione looked back and saw that he wasn't even chasing after her. But she continued anyways, just in case he changed his mind.

"See you later..Granger!" Malfoy called after her, laughing.

Hermione didn't stop running till she reached the Great Hall. She slowed down as she reached the double doors. Panting, she waited till she got her breath back then walked in and headed toward Gryffindor Table.  Hermione glanced over at the Ravenclaw Table to see if Jonathon was there and sure enough, he was talking heartily to Terry Boot, who was in the same year as he. Jonathon suddenly turned to look at her and she was caught staring. Hermione immediately turned away, embarrassed.

Hermione glanced quickly over the long tables of Gryffindor and spotted Ron and Harry near the middle of the table.  It seemed to take her forever to get there since she sensed Jonathon still staring over at her.

She sat down between the two and tried to ignore his brown eyes looking her way. 

"Hi! Haven't seen you for a while!" Harry exclaimed, "How have you been doing?"

"Err..great!" Hermione couldn't bring herself to tell him the truth. She knew he would throw a fit over it. And Ron especially, she didn't want him expelled for fighting because of her. And she knew she couldn't really stop Ron from hurting Malfoy if his mind was set to it.

"Good! We have a match against Slytherin this Saturday. We want you to come. Well, me and Ron that is."

Hermione's heart sank. She didn't really want to go to the match cause she knew Malfoy would be there.  She didn't want to see him. It was hard enough from the incidents in their dormitory. 'But then again, I might see Jonathon. That would be a bonus.'

"Oh, alright, I'll go," answered Hermione.

"Yes!!" Both Harry and Ron said together, giving each other a high five.

"Oh, brother," Hermione sighed, rolling her eyes.  She looked down at her plate and willed food to come.  An omelet appeared as well as biscuits and a glass of milk on the side. "Mmm, I'm starved!" She picked up her fork and dug in.

"What's with you?" Harry asked, "you usually just have some grapes and a glass of milk."

"I don't know. I guess I'm just hungry."

"Well, if it suits you. Just don't forget about the game Saturday."

"I won't, don't worry." Hermione replied, thinking, 'I wouldn't miss it in the world now that I might see Jonathon there!' Hermione giggled, looking up at the Ravenclaw Table again. At that moment, Jonathon glanced up as well; their eyes locked. Neither wanted to be the first to look away, so they continued on like that for a good 5 minutes until Harry noticed her staring into space.

"Hermione? What are you looking at?"

"Huh? Oh nothing," she said, the first to break their gaze.  

Harry still seemed a little suspicious so he tried to find the general direction that he was sure where Hermione was looking. But no one seemed to be looking over at her table and nothing was going on.

'Oh well, it probably wasn't really that important. She was most likely staring off into space, wondering what she made on a test in one of her classes,' Harry said, making a mental note not to worry so much. 'She can take care of herself. She doesn't need my help for everything. Look at her grades! I'll ask her later how she is then. Maybe it really is just a little test problem or something. But I need to be sure.'

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