Chapter 8

Hermione walked into the library after getting advice from Hagrid. What a weird place to go to for advice, Hermione suddenly realized. She looked around and saw Ron and Lacey looking for a book together. 'Aww, how sweet. Maybe I should go bump into Ron and Lacey for a little chat.' Hermione thought to herself.

She walked over to the potions section, the section behind the divination section which Ron and Lacey were standing in, and looked through the shelves.

"What book was it again?" Ron asked Lacey.

"The Secret of Perfect Divination." Lacey looked at Ron and then smiled. Ron did the same. "You know, it's made me so happy that we're together now." Lacey said pressing herself against him. Hermione was disgusted. "I'm so happy that you're over Hermione. She didn't deserve such a good guy like you, Ronald." Hermione's eyes widened as her jaw dropped. "My friends are jealous that we did-" Hermione had had enough of this. Now they were making out.

Hermione walked around the corner of the book shelf and gasped. "Ron!" Lacey took her tongue out of Ron's throat and looked. "How could you do this to me? I thought we had a thing going."

"Hermione, I . . ." Hermione stuck out her lower lip.

"I was in love with you." Hermione said shrugging. "But I guess you love Lacey now." Hermione said looking disappointed and turning around. She walked away with a smile on her face and Ron following her.

"Hermione! Wait, let's sort this out."

"Ron!" Lacey whispered. "She's jealous. Everyone's jealous that were together." Hermione laughed under her breath as she turned the corner into the reading room. She saw Justin Finch-Fletchy, Lacey's ex-boyfriend from 2 days ago. He looked depressed.

"Lacey and Ron were talking about how stupid you were, Justin." Hermione whispered passing Justin's table. Justin was bewildered but at the same time fumed. He got up and walked past all the rows of shelves. Hermione laughed as she exited the library. But her laughter soon ended as she bumped into someone.

"Granger!" The voice was very familiar. Draco Malfoy. Hermione looked down at the floor. There he was on the floor with all his books. He was alone too.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Bastard." She said helping him up. He glared down at her and then started picking up his books.

"What were you laughing about?"

"Lacey what's-her-face. The bitch is using your best friend."

"She's going out with Crabbe? I thought she was going out with Weasel."

"I was being sarcastic."

"Shut up you slut, I knew that." Hermione rolled her eyes and laughed. Draco stood up straight once more. He looked at her and then pushed her into a dark corner behind a plant. He kissed her but she pulled away laughing.

"Why the hell are you laughing so much?" Draco asked grinning. Hermione put her arms around Draco's neck and then flung her own neck back, hitting her head on the wall.

"Oh, Jesus. That hurt." Hermione said. Draco smiled as she rubbed her head. "Hey isn't it kinda bad that were in a corner of the school snogging?" Hermione asked.

"No, they can't see you behind me."

"Can't see who?" A voice from behind Draco said. Draco instantly turned around, hiding Hermione behind him.

"Pansy of course."

"Really, that didn't sound like her."

"Blaise, look, I'm telling you the truth, now shove off so we can kiss."

"You guys should go make love somewhere else." Blaise said laughing as he went into the library.

"Don't worry, we will." Hermione had calmed down a bit, getting herself to breathe without having to laugh a little. She put her small hands in Draco's and then ran them up to his shoulders. She pushed herself up on her toes so that she could whisper into his ear.

"Really?"

"No love making yet. I can't settle down with a Gryffindor just yet." Draco said tightly entwining his fingers with hers.

"Then what was last night? I was a virgin until then, remember, Malfoy?" Hermione said, slipping out from behind him.

"Hey, you weren't forced into it. You wanted to do it, mudblood!" Malfoy yelled as she started off towards her dormitory. "I never said it was that!" Hermione was raged by what he was saying.

Draco shook his head as he backed into the corner with fury in his gray eyes. He kicked the plant in the pot, making it crack a little.

"Stupid little bitch. I knew I shouldn't have done that little, stupid, fucking, gay slut."

"And which slut is it this time?" A voice asked. Pansy Parkinson had been eavesdropping on him. "Mudblood Granger, perhaps." Draco snarled at Pansy's ugly face.

"Get out of here, you dildo head."

"Ooo, is Draco sad that his sex days with Granger is over because Patil told everybody?" Draco looked at her out of the corner of his eyes. "Yes he is. Don't lie, Dracie, it's not good for your health."

"Parkinson, I told you to get out of here."

"Oh, now he's calling his ex-girlfriend by her last name? Wow, somebody must be mad. You should go back with the bitch and prove some people that you aren't a player."

Draco stood up straight and walked over to Pansy, intimidating her. "Shut up, Parkinson! The only bitch around here is you, slut! We were and never will be together!"

"You were the first one to touch me, Draco. The first one to have sex with me. You only wished you didn't remember fucking all of those virgins so you won't get killed one of these days. The only virgin you remember fucking is Granger."

"Shut up you fucking gay ass slut!" Draco yelled pushing her away from him.

"You naughty, naughty boy." Pansy said, turning around and walking to the Slytherin tower.

~Forbidden Forest, 9:36~

Hermione sat on a stump looking into the bonfire her fellow students had created. Ginny was sitting next to her.

"You can't expect him to give you love. It's the sex god of the school. He hooks up with most of the older girls. He's still looking for the one of his dreams." Ginny said.

Hermione looked at Parvati and Lavender grinding on each other to get attention from the older boys. She simply hated Parvati now. She told everyone.

"Fuck that, slut." Hermione said grabbing a real beer.

"Hermione, no, that's your 4th beer. We don't wanna get too drunk." Ginny said taking the beer from Hermione's hand.

"Ginny, give me the beer. I've had six before and stayed sober."

"Whatever," Ginny said handing Hermione her beer back. Hermione opened it up glaring at Ginny. She took a sip and then got up to go talk to Parvati.

"Parvati!" Parvati slowed her dancing down and looked at Hermione. She smiled and gestured for her to go join them. "No, we need to talk." Parvati stopped dancing as Hermione walked up to her with Ginny behind her, Lavender behind Parvati.

"I told you not to tell." Hermione said.

"Tell what? You didn't tell me anything." Parvati said with a little rudeness in her voice.

"Everybody already knows, Parvati, don't play fucking stupid with me. You told everyone about the Malfoy thing." Parvati sniggered a little.

"Oh yeah, that thing. Malfoy raped you."

"It wasn't rape. I wasn't forced, Patil." Parvati smiled, crossing her arms and looking back at Lavender.

"So you like him, Granger?"

"At least I didn't fuck with Dean Thomas and Lisa Turpin at the same time." Parvati's face became very stern now.

"What are you trying to say, Granger?"

"You told everyone after I told you not to."

"So what, you had sex with a sex god."

"That isn't the point! I told you not to tell!" Hermione yelled.

"Oh yeah, you were a virgin before then. Tell me, did you cry when it happened?" Hermione struck at Parvati's face with anger. The other Gryffindors gathered around the fighting 6th year girls.

Parvati punched Hermione in the stomach only to have Hermione push her straight to the ground. Luckily Harry cam over just in time to hold Hermione back.

"Tell me, bitch, how's it feel to get your ass kicked by a mudblood! Oh and by the way, your nose is bleeding. Not a very good sight."

~Gryffindor Dormitories, 5:40 A.M. ~

Hermione pulled her wavy hair back as a spell started doing her make up. For some reason, calling herself a mudblood last night made her feel a lot more courageous to try new stuff.

Parvati had stayed in the Common room all night because she was afraid of Hermione. Lavender hadn't looked at Hermione all morning even though she had passed her many times.

Hermione took the cherry lip gloss from mid-air and started to apply it herself. She rubbed her lips together as the spell started to apply tan eye shadow brining out the color in her eyes. After these two things were done, blonde streaks ran down her hair.

Amy Brooker and Maura Farrell -two other 6th year girls in the dormitory who didn't socialize much but were still quite popular in the other houses- passed by, but stopped to go take a look at Hermione.

"Sexy, Hermione. You could easily pass for a Slytherin if you made that eye shadow black." Amy said.

"Looks like Malfoy picked a good girl this time." Maura commented. "Maybe not too good, but definitely strong and smart."

"You forgot sexy, Maura." Amy said laughing.

"Thanks you guys." Hermione said turning on her stool. "Hey, do you wanna walk to class with me today." Maura flipped her short, wavy brown hair to the other side of her shoulders. Her blue eyes were simply beautiful as well as her smile. Amy tightened her long brown ponytail. Her brown eyes and tan skin fit beautifully together.

"Totally, you have to be the coolest Gryffindor around now that you banged Malfoy and beat up Patil." Amy said smiling.

"Everybody wants to kill Patil and wants to do it with Malfoy." Maura added.

"Just let us get ready and then we'll go hang around until classes." Amy said walking off with Maura to go get ready.

Half an hour later, Amy, Maura and Hermione were leaning on the wall of the court yard wall. It was warm and the sun was bright. But classes didn't start 'til another half an hour. Maura and Amy were showing Hermione all the Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff 7th years. Amy and Maura never seemed to stay with their year or house when it came to dating. Hermione had never really scouted out boys here, especially in the morning.

"Oh and that's Kyan Dunlap and Brad Harrison. They're from Ravenclaw, both single and hot. Draco knows them and is good friends with them. If you get with one of them, he'll totally be jealous and wanna be with you." Amy said pointing to Kyan who had blonde, white hair, but it was much shorter than Malfoy's. His face was adorable; blue eyes and the cutest smile. Brad had a buzz haircut, but it was easy to tell that he had blonde hair as well. His eyes were also blue, but he had braces and tan skin. Both of these boys were boyfriend material for Hermione.

"Let's go talk to them." Maura said grabbing Hermione's hand. Hermione locked her legs

"No, no. I don't want to. Please, Maura."

"Come on, they're sweet guys. They'll like you." Amy pushed Hermione from behind and made her start walking again.

They approached Kyan and Brad with delight. Hermione grinned. "Hey, this is Hermione Granger."

"Hey, 'Mione." Brad said. "It's alright if I call you that right?"

"Yeah." Hermione replied.

"Hey, I'm Kyan."

"Hey," Hermione said smiling. Her attention was more focused on Kyan. He was about 6 foot and Hermione definitely liked tall guys. Maura and Amy could tell by the way Hermione was looking at him.

"Hey, it's Becca. Let's go talk to her. She just broke up with Brandon, Brad." Amy said as the three of them walked over without Kyan and Hermione.

"Your Potter's friend right?"

"I guess." Hermione answered.

"Cool. You looked really good when you walked into the courtyard. I remember seeing you before, but you looked ever better today. You changed a little." Hermione smiled.

"You looked good too." Hermione mentioned.

"Can I walk you to class this morning?"

"Sure." Hermione answered. Kyan was a total sweetie.

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XoXo ~Steph