All right, second chapter of Nightmares!!! Haha...well I only got one review, but I know more will come of it!!! Okay, I am going to add more chapters(of course). I have a very excellent plan...I'm not telling you! You have to wait and see. All right, chapter 2!!!!!

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'Hermione...Hermione, wake up.'

Hermione's eyes fluttered, but didn't open. She wanted to stay hidden in her arms forever. She had betrayed her friends. She had told their secret to Dumbledore, and she would never be forgiven for it. She was a no-good friend and a very bad secret keeper, so she waned to stay hidden in her arms forever.

'Hermione, people are staring. Get up now. People want to eat.'

Hermione opened her eyes in shock. 'Eat?' she said through her arms.

'Yes, eat. Your in the Great Hall, you know!' Hermione's head shot up. She saw half the student body looking right at her. Hermione felt her face go red. She looked up to see Harry, Ron crouched down beside her.

'Oh my god...was I here all night?' Hermione breathed, standing up quickly.

'I suppose. You weren't in the common room, that's for sure.' Ron smiled at her.

'Oh dear. How embarrasing.' Hermione mumbled as she walked out of the Great Hall, rubbing her hair out of her face.

Harry and Ron followed her out. She gave them a frightened look, and turned away from them. She paced the corridor, wringing her hands, shooting scared looks at Ron and Harry, and then back to looking at her feet.

'Hermione...is something wrong? You're acting very odd.' Harry asked stepping forward. Hermione backed up into the wall, as though being close to Harry was complete and udder madness. Harry looked taken back.

'Oh, I'm sorry Harry. It's just that...well, it's very hard to say...' Hermione looked back at her feet. Ron walked up to her, put an arm around her shoulder and lifted her chin to look at him.

'Com'n Hermione. You know you can tell us anything! What's wrong?'

Hermione felt like crying. Ron looked so happy, like nothing could ever go wrong. Hermione knew he wanted to help, he wanted to help with all his heart. He and Harry trusted her with all their hearts and she had betrayed them. She had betrayed their trust in her. They felt safe with her keeping their secret and she was to prove them wrong.

'I told okay! I told Dumbledore everything! Everything that made me scared!' Hermione cried, pulling herself away from Ron.

'You told?' Ron gasped. Harry and Ron didn't need a second explaining. They knew exactly what Hermione meant. 'Why would you tell! You know how important this! And now Dumbledore is going to make us stay in the school forever! Your just being stupid! I can't believe you would ever do that!'

Hermione cried even harder, falling to her knees on the floor shaking uncontrollably. Her shoulders shook as she sobbed and choked as her tears fell down her cheeks.

'I'm sorry... I'm sorry...' Hermione cried.

'Why? You promised not to tell! A promise is a promise Hermione, you know that!' Harry yelled at her. He rubbed his head. 'Com'n Ron. We don't need to be with Hermione anymore. She just proved a very unworthy friend.'

Ron and Harry began walking away. Hermione felt torn, not wanting to loose them forever. What she had told Dumbledore seemed to be coming true. She didn't want them to die...them not knowing how much she cared...Ron not knowing how much she loved him...

'The only reason I told because I didn't want to loose you... I wouldn't be able to handle it.' Hermione cried after them. They stopped in their tracks, but didn't turn to her. 'I'm sorry, really...but please listen. I cry every night, watching you go into the Forbidden Forest, wondering if you two would come out again. I cry every night, hoping maybe you will stop. I know you are very talented wizards and have worked hard in your studies...but what if you get caught in a situation where no one can help you and you can't help yourselves? I'm scared of never seeing you again. I'm scared I'll never get to say good-bye.'

Harry sighed and turned around. His face was blank, but Hermione knew he was mad. 'It's our lives, Hermione...stop interfering.'

'I care for you, Harry. Please stop before something horrible happens. Life doesn't only go the way you want, you of all people should know. Please...' Hermione was on her knees, looking up at Harry with tear-filled eyes, her hands in a praying position.

Harry seemed to be thinking of what to say...Hermione could see his emtions run wild on his face. 'Just leave us alone.' Harry turned away again, walked up to Ron, said something to him, Ron nodded and they began to walk away.

Hermione stood up, well stumbled, and began to walk after them, breaking into a run as she turned the corner when she found they were not there.

She ran down the hall, running wherever she could. She had lost them. It was like all her horrible nightmares where she could never reach them. She felt like screaming, but no sound came. Just like in her nightmares. Was this really a dream? Maybe she was still in her bed. Maybe she never even talked to Dumbledore. Or maybe even Ron and Harry never gone to the Foribdden Forest. Maybe this was all a bad dream....

*THWAP*

Hermione fell to the floor, landing hard on her bottom. A wave of tears came to her suddenly, sending down the tears again.

'Oh, not the water-works Granger...please.' said a drawling voice.

Hermione looked through the blur of tears, up to Draco Malfoy, who stood sulking, arms crossed across his chest. Hermione stood, wiping her eyes.

'If you hate so much, why are you still here? Aren't you scared that you might be seen talking to me? Shouldn't you go wash your clothes or even burn them, since I touched you? I won't mind!' Hermione spat. Draco looked taken back by her comment.

'Well, well Mud-blood...you have a good mouth on you.' Draco smirked at her.

'Oh go ahead and call me Mud-blood! I don't care! Why don't you just hang me from my feet and shove food in my face? It would be exactly the same thing!' Hermione yelled, shoving Malfoy into the wall.

Draco seemed stunned, shook his head and regained himself. He looked at Hermione with narrowed eyes. 'What is your problem Granger?'

'Like you'd even care! I'm just the Gryffindor, know-it-all Mud-blood!' Hermione screamed.

People had now surronded them, watching in confusion and wonder. The sight was spectacular. Draco Malfoy, the famous, never-beaten Slytherin getting pushed around by Hermione Granger, the Muggle-born, know-it-all Gryffindor. Something you would see once in a blue moon.

'Just leave me alone!' Hermione screamed and pushed through the crowd.

Hermione stalked down the halls thinking of a hundred ways she could have hexed Draco Malfoy out of her life forever. Hermione didn't know where she was going but she knew that she had Transfiguration right now and should be at class, but Hermione didn't seem to care. Nothing mattered. She needed Ron and Harry... all here anger was because of them.

Hermione stopped walking, landing somewhere around the prefects bathroom. She leaned against the wall, suddenly coming to realization... Maybe she didn't need them... What if she could fend on her own? She was seventeen... She was a big girl... She didn't need them...

Hermione smiled to herself as she walked to Transfiguration. She didn't need them. She was fine on her own.

Just the way she was.

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