Love Sick

Chapter Five

Hermione came to the Great Hall for breakfast to find a few Gryfindors sitting at the table. Harry was one of the early birds and she sat next to him. Hermione glanced around to see if Ginny was around or even Ron but they were both missing. Harry gave her a hug as soon as she sat down.

"Hey! Are you okay?" Harry asked. His green eyes had a glint of worry and Hermione nodded.

"Of course. But I sure am hungry." She said. Hermione grabbed a toast and spread some marmalade on it. Harry was already munching on some pancakes. Harry looked at her once in a while as he ate and then turned over to talk to Padma who included him in a conversation with Neville and Lavender. Hermione thought it was for the best before Harry would start asking questions that she knew she couldn't answer right now. She made up her mind and nothing or no one will change it. What she and Draco had was a fling, nothing more.

"Hey Hermione!" Dean said as he sat down next to her. Hermione gave him a smile and continued eating. He picked out some waffles and poured maple syrup on it. "Why you so down girl?" He asked watching her as he began eating.

"I'm not down." Hermione said calmly and took the last bite of what remained of her toast. Dean didn't say anything else as he continued to eat his waffles.

"Hey Harry, have you seen Ginny?" Hermione asked. Harry turned away from Padma and looked at her then shook his head.

"I haven't had the chance to talk to her. She was in the girls dorm. But Ron and Zabini are going to come out today." Harry said. Hermione nodded and got up to leave when Dean grabbed her wrist.

"You're not leaving so soon I hope." Dean said.

"There's somewhere I have to go, Dean." Hermione said nicely as she tugged her wrist from his grip. Dean let her go and nodded.

"Okay." Dean said.

"Hermione I'll come with you." Harry said calmly as he got up to leave as well. Hermione smiled and walked along side Harry until they reached outside the Great Hall. "He likes you." Harry said. Hermione looked at him confused.

"Who?" Hermione asked.

"Dean." Harry said. Hermione began to laugh.

"That's really funny Harry." She said.

"I didn't make a joke." Harry said arching his eye brow.

"Whatever." Hermione said. Harry and Hermione had finally made it to the Gryfindor tower and found Ginny sitting on one of the couches. Hermione ran over to her and grabbed Ginny in her arms.

"Ginny! Oh am I glad to see you." Hermione said. Ginny hugged her back and smiled.

"It's okay, I'm fine." Ginny said.

"I should let you two talk. Girl stuff gets me sick, you know." Harry said as he ran up the stairs to the boy dormitory. Hermione laughed and stared at Ginny for a while.

"What are you going to do about Ron?" Hermione asked.

"I'm going to see Blaise. I don't care what he says." Ginny said bravely. Hermione took her in another embrace.

"What if he gets in another fight with Blaise?" Hermione asked.

"I'll make sure he doesn't know." Ginny said.

"I wish you good luck." Hermione said.

"Thanks 'Mione. Classes start soon so I should go now." Ginny said picking up her school bag beside her. Hermione nodded and let her walk off. She sat on the couch and waited for Harry to return. After five minutes she got annoyed and told a fourth year Gryfindor boy to call Harry down from his room. The boy nodded and walked off. Finally Harry came downstairs and rubbed his eyes.

"What the hell? You took a nap, didn't you?!" Hermione said irritated. Harry stretched his arms and gave a weak smile.

"Sorry, the bed was so tempting. Next thing I knew I fell asleep." Harry said. Hermione rolled her eyes and started walking out of the common room, Harry right behind her. Finally when they had made it to their first class, potions, Hermione realized Ron was already sitting at his desk. The one right next to her, but she quickly eyed around the classroom and found a empty seat next to Dean. She walked over to him and sat down, when she turned back to look at Harry, he already was in a deep conversation with Seamus about the next Quidditch practice. Hermione took out her books quietly and stared into space waiting for Professor Snapes to walk in.

"Can I ask you a question?" Dean said looking at her.

"Yeah what?" Hermione asked.

"How come I never seen you at the ball?" He asked.

"I wasn't feeling good." Hermione lied.

"Oh. I was going to ask you to dance, you know." Dean said.

"Thanks." Hermione said. God! He likes me...Weird! Well he's not really bad looking...

"I was wondering if you wanted to go to the next Hogsmeade trip with me?" He asked.

"Ah..umm.." Come on think of something, Oh the one time you need your brain to work... "Sure." Good going!

"Great!" Dean said smiling at her. Professor Snape then walked in angrily as he gazed at the students. He spoke quickly about their assignments as the students handed them into him and then turned over to the board. Magically the instructions appeared for their next assignment and Hermione busily wrote it down. That's when she felt eyes watching her back, intensely. Hermione turned around to look at the students and met Draco's grey eyes. Hermione quickly looked away and saw Ron watching her with great interest. Just when their eyes met, Ron magically flew her a folded letter and Hermione grabbed it.

"What's that?" Harry asked leaning in. Hermione gave him a glance and he nodded sitting back down. Hermione opened the parchment and read the scribbled writing.

Can I talk to you? If you don't want to I just want to tell you how sorry I am for jumping down your throat like that. It was wrong for me to call you that word and I swear it was just out of anger.

Hermione folded back the letter and stared at Ron, who put his hands in front of his face like he was praying. He mouthed 'please' and Hermione just shrugged. She knew that a shrug wasn't an answer but she needed to think about it. On the back of the paper she wrote a message to Harry.

Do you think I should accept his apology?

Hermione turned around quickly and dashed it at him then turned back around to continue listening to the professor's lecture. After five seconds passed by Harry whispered, "Yes." Hermione felt a bit angry and relieved at the same time. Angry that he said yes quickly and relieved that she didn't have to give Ron the silent treatment. I should make him grovel. Hermione giggled at the though of Ron on his knees.

"Is there something funny about Faerie dusts?" Professor Snape asked. Hermione quickly stopped and shook her head. "10 points from Gryfindors for interruption." He hissed. Hermione and the rest of class who were Gryfindors groaned. Merlin! He can be such a prune!

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When class ended Hermione and Harry walked over to Ron and all three of them were awkwardly silent. It seemed like they didn't have the right words to say.

"Sorry." Ron said quietly at her. Harry jabbed his elbow on Hermione's side to get her to talk. Hermione couldn't help but just stare at him. What should I say?

"Ah..Ron I known you for six and a half years and I know you can get really angry sometimes but never have I heard you lash out the way you did." Hermione said calmly.

"I just never meant to be like that. I am truly sorry, Hermione. Your my best friend I don't want to loose you over something like this." Ron said. Harry gave her another jab and Hermione felt like scratching Harry's face for that.

"Its okay. If I ever hear something like that--"

"Don't worry you won't." Ron said smiling. He gave her a gigantic hug and she gently shoved him off.

"Okay, but I still need to breathe!" Hermione said returning the smile.

"So umm..It's okay if I talk now?" Harry said.

"Yeah." Hermione said. Harry put his arm around her shoulder.

"Great! Now we can discuss your date with Dean." Harry said. Hermione became pale.

"Just a friendly date. Nothing serious." Hermione said.

"Liar." Harry said.

"Can someone fill me in on what's going on?" Ron asked.

"Dean has a crush on Hermione. Remember when he kept asking questions about her at the ball?" Harry said.

"Oh, right. I remember." Ron said.

"Anyways I have to go to Herbology in five minutes!" Hermione said. She walked away from her friends and just when she rounded the corner Hermione bumped into Draco. Hermione's bag fell and she bent over to pick it up.

"Watch it Malfoy." Hermione said coldly as she walked off. Since Hermione told Draco she hated him, she went back to her old ways. Draco just looked at her in surprise as he walked off quietly without saying a word to her. Hermione wished he would say something mean to her so she can get her mind off of him. But the way he stared at her with no hate in his eyes made her want to run back to him.

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"Okay buddy. You and I need to talk!" Harry said plopping down next to Hermione at lunch. She gave him a side ward glance.

"Talk about what?" She asked. If it's Dean again I'm not answering any questions.

"You and." Harry said. He then glanced straight ahead were the Slytherin table was. Hermione followed his gaze and next thing she knew her eyes met Draco's. Draco stopped chewing his food and stared back at her. Hermione wanted to look away but her eyes didn't move, she just kept looking right back at him.

"That's what I want to talk about." Harry said getting Hermione to stop watching Draco. In those few moments of staring into one another's eyes, Hermione's stomach came into knots. Harry waved his hand over her face. "Hello!" Harry said.

"Yea. Okay, well we can't talk about it here." Hermione said remembering where she was sitting. Ron just then looked up at them with a confused look.

"What are you two talking about?" Ron asked.

"Nothing." Harry and Hermione said at the same time.

"It doesn't sound like nothing." Ron said.

"Hey Ron, I was wondering if you want to group study with us later on?" Lavender asked. Ron's face became a bit red and Hermione knew that he had a feelings for Lavender.

"Meet me at the lake after your last class." Harry said quickly. Hermione nodded and continued to eat her chicken and fries. Hermione wasn't so sure about telling Harry anything but she remembered he can read her body language better then anyone. What a great friend I have. Hermione thought sarcastically.

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Hermione walked quickly to the lake to find Harry already standing by the rocks. She deliberately made some crunching noise so he would turn around and see her.

"Okay I got the point." Harry said half smiling at her.

"So what's so important about me you want to talk about?" Hermione asked.

"You and Malfoy. Okay. Maybe I seem weird for keep poking my nose in where it doesn't belong but I was meaning to ask you about him for a while. Hermione I am really worried about you. One minute you're happy the next you're sad." Harry said. Hermione gave a sigh as she looked out at the lake.

"Harry, where do I begin? The part of forgiving him? The part where I realize I can never get a chance with him in a real relationship? Or the part where he's going to get married to Pansy?" Hermione said. Harry gave a cough.

"What?! He's getting married to her?" Harry asked.

"Yes! He is and she's having his baby in no time." Hermione said.

"A baby?!" Harry said with eyes wide open. "What? How? When? Huh?"

"He had sex with her in the beginning of the school year. I caught them that's way before he started dating me." Hermione said.

"Eww.. You saw them...eww." Harry said a bit disturbed.

"Shut up! I know, does it look like I'm happy about that." Hermione said slapping Harry's arm.

"Anyways...he umm..well she's pregnant and she had some problems. That's why you never see her in school. She's in St.Mungos." She said.

"Woah." He said.

"Yea, well it was kind of my fault for her sickness. She asked me to give her a potion a long time ago for weight loss. And I never knew she was pregnant. So anyways I went to see if she was okay yesterday and when I noticed how attached Draco was with her. I knew I had no chance what's so ever with him." Hermione said.

"Damn. That's a lot of shit to go through you know." Harry said.

"Me, her or him?" Hermione asked.

"All three of you guys. I mean I can't imagine the physical pain Pansy's going through. And you have to suffer the loss of not being able to love and have someone while Malfoy has two of you to deal with." Harry said.

"Well anyways I told him I hate him. So I'm just acting like he's the evil Slytherin guy I hated but its hard." Hermione said honestly.

"Trying to stay away from some one you love is really hard." Harry said. "So that's how you're going to treat him? Ignore him?" Harry asked.

"What can I do? I don't want him to be with me when he has responsibilities." Hermione said.

"Well, honestly this time I can't give you advice." Harry said.

"And this time I made up my mind." Hermione said. Harry stared at her for a while before giving her a hug.

"Promise me you won't make a choice you will regret." Harry said. Hermione looked up at him.

"I promise. Can we go back inside now. It's chilly." Hermione said. Harry laughed and walked with her back into the school. Hermione couldn't believe how much trust she had with Harry. He wasn't like Ron who would jump at the moment he heard Draco's name. Harry wasn't like Ginny who would just say unnecessary things like 'awww' or 'I think you look cute with him'. Harry was the type of guy you can tell anything and he would understand.

Authors Notez: So Hermione's doing this for him? Hmm...interesting. But will this last? Harry's kindness and understanding attitude reminds me of my dear friend. I made Harry be the way he is because what better way then to have a friend you can count on no matter what? Anywho. I said too much. Bye!