***Told you it wouldn't take me long to update didn't I? Hope you all liked the last chapter, anyway, enough said, on with the story!***
Chapter Three: The Girlfriend
It took me a while but I soon got used to the layout of the apartment, and I now knew were everything was. Dinner was almost done and all I had to do was wake Harry, I had already set the table. I had made tomato pasta and a chocolate mousse for desert, my favourite. I had also zapped in two bottle's of butterbeer, which were Harry's favourite. Dinner was done. I took the tomato pasta off the cooker and emptied it onto our plates. I put the pan in the dishwasher Harry had, and went to wake him up. I slowly opened his bedroom door, and sure enough he was still asleep. I walked over to him and sat down on the side of the bed. He looked so peaceful when he slept, I had to tell him how I felt soon or I was sure I would explode. As if Harry could read my thoughts, at that exact moment, his eyes fluttered open and he smiled when he saw me.
"Hello sleepy head!" I teased.
He just laughed.
"My room is all done and I'm going to show it to you as soon as we've eaten!" I said cheerfully.
"You made dinner?" he asked.
"Of course, I used to do a lot of cooking at my parents house" I said as I smiled.
"Well lets go eat then before it goes cold, shall we?" he replied getting up of the bed, still carrying the sleeping Jasper.
"Here, let me put him in his dog bed while you go and sit down o.k.?" I offered taking Jasper of him.
"Sure, see you in a mo" he said walking of to the kitchen.
I walked back to my room and placed Jasper in his bed, and moved his food dish and water dish, that I had zapped in earlier, next to it and as I walked out I left the door slightly open so that he could come out when he was awake, then I made my way back to the kitchen. Just as I sat down there was a knock on the door. I looked up.
"You sit down I'll get it" offered Harry.
I smiled as he got up and opened the door. On the other side there was a girl, she looked about mine and Harry's age. She was wearing a pair of studded jeans, accompanied with a pair of snakeskin boots, a red top and a beige coloured jacket over the top. She was carrying a small black bag in one hand and in the other she had what looked like two cinema tickets. She had blonde hair twisted up in some fancy knot and really bright blue eyes. She had a slight smirk on her face which reminded me of Malfoy back when we were at school. I don't know what it was but there was something about her that I knew I wouldn't like, that made me hate her as soon as I saw her.
She stepped in to the apartment and Harry closed the door behind her.
"Allyssa, what are you doing here?" Harry asked, apparently he knew her.
I wanted to know who she was so I stood up and walked over to the pair.
"Don't you remember? We were supposed to go to the cinema tonight, but I realised you must have forgot when you didn't phone me this morning so I thought I'd surprise you, so I got the tickets and here I am, are you coming?" Allyssa asked Harry.
At that point she realised that I was standing next to Harry. Harry also realised and introduced me.
"Oh Allyssa, this is Hermione Granger, my best friend from back when we went to school together, she just moved in, since Ron moved out" said Harry.
"Hi, nice to meet you" I said outstretching my hand to shake hers.
She looked at me as if I were a piece of dirt but shook my hand anyway, just too look good in front of Harry.
"Hi" she said very flatly.
"Mione, this is Allyssa Williams, she's been my girlfriend for three weeks now" replied Harry.
Girlfriend. His girlfriend. Harry Potter has a girlfriend, in school he never had a girlfriend for more than a week let alone three. My heart dropped like a bomb in my chest and shattered into a thousand pieces in my stomach. I could feel the tears starting but I kept them in. If Harry was happy with this Allyssa Williams, then I could be happy for him, even if it meant me sacrificing my own happiness.
"So are you coming?" asked Allyssa again, she was becoming inpatient, I could hear it in her voice, unfortunately Harry couldn't.
"Sure" replied Harry grabbing his coat off the chair.
"But Harry, what about dinner?" I asked, looking him directly in the eyes.
"I'm sorry Hermione, but I promised to take Allyssa out to see this film she really wants to watch" said Harry, his voice in an apologetic tone.
"It's o.k., go and have fun" I said.
"See you later Mione!" he shouted as he walked down the stairs with his arm around Alyssa's shoulders and hers around his waist.
"Bye, nice meeting you Allyssa!" I shouted, but she didn't hear me.
I closed the door and rushed over to the window. Looked out and saw Harry opening the door of his car for Allyssa to climb in. She saw me looking at them, and smirked at me before she pulled Harry into a kiss, which I was sure lasted more than five minutes. When they pulled away Allyssa looked at me once more before climbing into the car and shutting the door. Harry on the other hand, only just saw me at the window and waved at me, before he got a reply of me, he had climbed into the car and it was driving off down the road. As soon as it had turned the corner I let my tears out. They flowed freely down my face as I sank onto the floor, with the sobs racking my body. He had a girlfriend and he never told me. I wonder if Ron knew about her, well he must have because Ron only moved out the other day and Harry had said he had been going out with her for three weeks now.
The phrase girlfriend played over and over in my mind and I couldn't seem to get the image of them kissing out of my head. By now my face was clammy and my eyes were starting to get red because of the tears. The smell of the pasta I had cooked not even an hour before wafted over to me. I managed to pull myself up of the floor, and still crying I walked over to the dinner I had cooked. I ate a piece of pasta of my plate and it was stone cold. I tried a piece of Harry's and it was the same. I managed to stop the crying long enough to clear away the plates and throw away the chocolate mousse that I had made. As I walked back to my bedroom, I walked in and closed the door quietly behind me as Jasper was still asleep. I walked slowly over to my bed and took my mobile phone out of my bag. I pulled myself together as I dialled a number. It began to ring and then I heard somebody pick up.
"Hello?" the female voice on the other end asked.
"Ginny is that you? Its me Hermione"
"Hermione, oh its great to hear from you! How are things?"
"Fine, listen can I come over to yours tomorrow at about 10, in the morning, I really need to talk to you"
My voice began to break but I held back the tears.
"Sure, it'll be great to see you again"
"Thanks and can you do me another favour?" I asked.
"Anything, what?"
"Can you get Draco out of the house while I'm there, so its just me and you?"
"Oh that's no problem, he's out on business with the ministry anyway, and no-one is coming over tomorrow so it'll be just me an you!"
"Thanks, I'll see you then o.k.?"
"O.k. Hermione, bye!"
"Bye"
I put the phone down on the dressing table next to my bed and moved my bag onto the floor. I climbed on my bed and drew the curtains around it. I lay down and put my head onto the pillow. I didn't bother to get changed, instead the tears started again as I fell into an uneasy sleep.
A/N: Well? I hope you all liked it! Please, please review and no flames! Thanks!
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