A/N: Insultation in this chapter!

Chapter Nine: Just A Normal Rainy Day

Hermione lay asleep in her bed it was a cold day she could feel the window as open. A hand pressed down on her bed, but she didn't notice. She rolled over pulling the covers further over her. She didn't want to get up today.

"Hermione" she heard Ginny franticly scream next to her. Her eyes wide in horror, "Hermione Ron is gone! Ron is missing" a tear slipped down her cheek falling onto Hermione's pillow.

"What happened?" Hermione asked worried. He was one of her best friends and she feared for him at the moment, and deep down she knew, she loved him. She knew that she needed to tell her secret admirer that she loved someone else.

"H-he went for a walk last night, and told me to Harry to wake him up. H-he never came back to the dorms last night. I-I am scared! I-I mean he and Harry s-saved my l-life in my second year! I-I can't let him die! Please help me find him! I-I'll check in Th-the kitchens" Ginny said letting more tears fall.

Quickly Hermione got out of bed and walked over to Ginny giving her a hug. "I'll go look out on the grounds" Hermione said realizing it was Saturday May Eighth. And she needed to meet Mr. Anonymous and say "I'm sorry I don't love you! I love Ron" she smiled at her and calmly said "Don't worry." When Ginny ran out of the door tears still falling from her eyes Hermione walked into the Girls Dormitory bathrooms talking a quick shower getting dressed and brushing out her hair. She threw on her shoes and ran down to the common room, her cloak slung over her shoulder.

Her feat pounded on the ground as she ran down the stairs. "Granger what are you doing Mrs. Muddy-bloody" Hermione froze in her spot. Malfoy was behind her, the last time she confronted him he had tried to kiss him and smelt like dead rats. She could still smell it in her nose. The putrid pungent smell of that occasion almost made her sick. A feeling of nausea ebbed through her stomach. She felt a knot in her stomach and turned around facing him, holding her head up high.

"Sod off Malfoy" she said firmly keeping eye contact. She saw his expression change. He was astonished.

"Wow never new mud blood could swear" Malfoy laughed walking past her. "Let me guess, you know there's a rumor going around the school….that you have a secret admirer. Is it true?" He asked laughing.

"Yes" she said keeping eye contact; he was now right next to her now at her level. Standing there, she heard laughing above her and saw Pansy, Crabbe, and Goyle standing at the landing above watching with amused expressions.

"I wonder who it would be. I never thought anyone could love someone as ugly as that" Pansy said walking down and standing next to Malfoy. Her 'precious' boyfriend.

"I don't know" said Malfoy enjoying teasing and taunting her. Hermione just kept her head high looking him in the eye, keeping a look of hatred in her eyes. "Could it be a book, or a quill, or a teacher?" he asked laughing Crabbe and Goyle were howling. "Pre-tell her-mud-bloody who is it?" Malfoy asked jeering at her now.

Hermione laughed. "Like any normal secret admirer they prefer to stay anonymous." She smiled in a way that told them to leave her alone.

"Oh you think you are so smart? Well you are not! Even though you know almost every spell in the world, and can cast them all perfectly you aren't that smart" pansy jeered. "You know you had the possibility to be pretty but when you were little you shoved a fork into one of the muggle 'out-let' things! And got shock hair!" She laughed.

Hermione didn't even feel the impact of the insults. She was scared for Ron. She wanted him to be safe. "Okay you know what I need to go" she said in the middle of one of their insults. "Move already! I need to find someone!" she yelled her eyes fierce like a fire.

"Oh socket girl can-" pansy began to insult her. But Hermione cut in and shot it back to her like a curve ball of fire.

"You should speak Pansy! You and Malfoy both look like you peed on your own hair…I mean c-mon cheap dye or what? And Malfoy you look like a porcelain doll! Hair painted on. So make like a tree and leave or I will" she glared. She wasn't in a place for them to taunt her.

When she finally got away from them she ran down the rest of the stairs only missing the fake ones and getting to the entrance hall. She ran into the great hall and grabbed a glass of water and drank it down quickly as she ate a piece of bread and walked to the large oak front doors putting on her cloak running outside. Raindrops like ice were falling down and smashing down from the sky. She saw a dark figure by the oak tree and began to walk over. The rain made it hard for her to see, but she knew she had to get over there. She got to the lake and saw her admirer walking around he seemed to be passing around. She sighed walking over, she felt a rumble under her foot and saw she stepped onto some loose gravel. Pulling herself up onto a grassy area of the side of the lake she began to walk over again. She leaned against a pine watching him for a moment. She knew she had to do this; she had to tell him that she can't do this. That she didn't love him.

She let some tears fall and whipped them away. She might never have a chance with Ron, but she didn't want to pretend. She needed to be in love with someone, or at least a deep like to be able to ever date them. That was why she never had a boyfriend. She looked over and saw that he was watching her watch him. She couldn't see who it was from where she was and walked closed. She couldn't see anything under his cloak or even a stray piece of hair. She couldn't even see his face, which would be a good way to tell who she was dealing with. She gulped and walked over trying not to let herself cry. She walked over to him and saw him walk over to her.

"I'm sorry I like…" she told him that she liked Ron and couldn't do anything with anyone else but him. And she saw him nod, she felt him reach out to her arm and tell her in a quiet way to not go away. She stood there and watched in astonishment as he took off his hood from his cloak revealing his true identity as he said he wanted to do. She blinked and he was still there. She couldn't believe her eyes it was…