Disclaimer: Hm... I believe I forgot to put a disclaimer in chapter 1, so here it comes. I don't own any of the characters. They belong to J. K. Rowling. I only own the plot!
A/N: Thanks for all the lovely review. I hope I will get just as many with chapter 2, as I did with chapter 1. I want to say thanks to: nycegurl, GinHasa, Felony Melanie, Eve Granger, Renee, The Kath, Jessi, Mara, jujujew, Charity, hotaru420, Lady Coia, Hufflepuff Student8, Malfoy-malace AND Angel+Devilme. Your words really make it easier to write chapter 2. So this chapter is to all of you! I hope you will like it : )
A special note to Malfoy-malace: I know there are a lot of wrong commas. But the Danish comma system isn't quiet like the English system. On Danish you have a lot of weird rules, and I must admit that I easily get confused. I hope you understand, that I don't make the flaws on purpose. And actually... My computer are correcting almost every comma mistake or spelling mistake, so blame it on the computer (just joking!) I will try to improve in the commas and spelling. Thanks for telling me, or else I wouldn't have noticed.
Chapter 2 – Saturday
Hermione opened her eyes. It was all blur, and she couldn't focus. 'Where am I?' she thought and looked around. Slowly the room came to focus, and she could now tell that she was in her own bed. 'How have I gotten in here? I don't remember...' Suddenly the whole 'scene' from yesterday came back, and she remembered what had happened.
"Oh, you are up!" Said a voice. Hermione looked to the side where her curtain should have been. They were pulled apart. It was Lavender who had talked to her.
"How did I get here?" She asked.
Lavender looked at her with sad eyes, like if she would've said, 'I pity you.' Hermione didn't need her sympathy. Why now after five years?
"Neville found you out in the corridor. We didn't thought it was necessary to take you to the infirmary, so we put you in bed. By the way... You better hurry up if you want breakfast. It's already nine."
Hermione nodded. She could feel her stomach rumble. She was indeed very hungry. She stood up and made it to the bathroom. She made sure the door was locked and went to look in the mirror. The sight of her, made her jump. She was pale, and her lower lip was all swollen and red. She stepped closer to the mirror. Yes, if you looked closely, you could even see Malfoys teeth marks on her lip.
She undressed and took a warm relaxing bath. She could wait with the food until lunch. After about forty minutes she decided to get out of the bath. She wanted to start with her homework so she didn't have to think about them tomorrow – Sunday. She put on a grey skirt and a white T-shirt, and pulled her robe over.
Before she headed out of the room, she took a last glance in the mirror. She really needed to get some sun, to be in the sun. So it was decided. She was making her homework outside, by the lake or better yet... her special place. She grabbed her books and walked out of the room and down to the common room.
She scanned the room quickly with her eyes, and saw nothing but three first years. After smiling slightly at seeing two of them fight over who made the right move in the chess game, she headed out of the common room. The halls were pretty much empty as she walked down towards the main door out onto the grounds. She opened the big door and walked out in the sunshine. The sun was so bright that she almost was blinded.
She looked around the grounds. Almost everybody was out playing and fooling around. And there they were. The three people she wanted to avoid. Then she realized that she had to meet Malfoy by the lake after dinner. She walked quickly to her private spot. She didn't know if anybody knew about this place, and frankly she didn't care. As long as they didn't annoy her.
She found her Transfiguration book, and started to read chapter three.
Nearly two hours later she stopped reading. It was almost twelve o'clock and lunch would be served in about 30 minutes. So she gathered her books, quills and parchment and walked out of her hiding place, towards the castle. She looked around. How odd. There is nearly nobody here. She looked towards the quidditch field, and saw a great bunch of people gathered over there. It was... Yes it was almost only girls who stood there. She looked up in the skies, and saw that it was the Slytherin team who apparently was practicing.
'Probably because it is the Golden Trio who is practicing,' she thought and kept walking to the door.
She walked to the Gryffindors common room and left her books there. 'No need to carry around those big books,' she thought and smiled. She didn't know why she smiled. Right now she just felt happy. Perhaps because the corridor was quiet and nobody was looking odd at her. It was nice to be able to breath and nobody would say or do something about it. The Golden Trio usually said something about her breathing the same air as them, and how disgusting they thought it was.
Hermione stopped smiling when she remembered that time in fourth year when Weasley had suddenly decided that she shouldn't breath the same air as them in three whole minutes. A tear rolled down her chin when she remembered how she couldn't breath. How she felt like she just wanted to die to stop that misery he had put her through.
She arrived at the great hall and quickly wiped the tear away. The hall was actually empty, which she was grateful for. All that talking and happy people made her feel like she should puke. There were about twenty beside herself. And surprisingly enough, they were all male.
'Hm, they probably didn't wanted to look at the trio, which I definitely understand,' she thought and sat down at her usually place.
"Hey!" Said a voice. Hermione ignored the people around her. Why should she look? They never talked to her. Then somebody sat down beside her and this got her attention. That place was usually empty. She looked up and saw two brown eyes looking at her. It was Seamus Finnigan, a sixth year Gryffindor like herself.
"Hey. It's Hermione, right?" He asked and smiled at her. She couldn't say anything. This was definitely not something she had expected to happen. So she did the only thing she could and nodded. He didn't say anything. He just looked at her and kept smiling.
'Okay. I wonder what's it wrong. Oh my God! Perhaps I have something between my teeth. Okay. No big deal. Just turned your head and check if there is something. You can do this. Why does he keep looking at me like that?' She thought and blushed a bit.
After cooling down a bit she asked, "Can I help you with something?" He was about to answer when the doors opened and the Slytherin team walked in with a lot of girls at their heels. She looked angrily at the trio. 'The first time anybody ever really talks to me, those dumb idiots have to ruin everything.' She turned her head back to Seamus but found the seat empty.
She looked down the big table and found Seamus with his friends. 'Great... Alone again,' she thought and sighed.
She stood up slowly and disappeared through the doors. She run quickly back to the Gryffindor tower and found her books, thankful, that the trio were so engrossed with their lunch and all the girls. She still needed to do her homework for potions.
She did all of her homework and was already finished with it about 5 o'clock. 'Now, what shall I do the last hour,' she thought and lay down on her bed. She felt drowsy and decided to close her eyes a few minutes. She heard voices on the stairs and closed the curtains. She didn't wanted to look at Lavender and Parvati's happy faces. 'I can't believe that no matter what, those two girls always manage to find something to giggle about. Don't they ever get tired?' She thought while she listened to the girls entering the room.
"Uh! I can't believe Potter finally decided to ask me to a date," said a voice. It was Lavender.
"Me neither! Weasley asked me too!" Parvati said and giggled even harder.
"So, what time was it that we should meet them?" asked Lavender.
"Uh... Oh... I believe it was right after dinner," answered Parvati.
'After dinner?' I thought I was supposed to meet all three of them! Am I only going to meet Malfoy,' thought Hermione and suddenly fear entered her mind. 'What if is a trap? And Lavender and Parvati are cooperating with the trio?' She thought and began to shiver. 'Okay, it's probably nothing. I'm meeting with that stupid idiot and I will get my wand back!' Anger had taken over her fear.
She lay in the bed and heard Lavender and Parvati get ready for dinner. It sounded like they tried at least 10 dresses or so. She could smell their perfumes. It made her nose wrinkle. Two smells field the room and she had to admit it, they smelled horrible. 'Thank god I'm not going to be near one of those two,' she thought and smiled a bit.
"Come on," said an excited Lavender.
"I'm coming," said Parvati and the girls started to giggle again.
When she heard the door close, she sighed and got up. She wanted nothing more than to get the dinner over with so she could get her wand back.
She looked at the mirror. Her cheeks were a bit flushed. 'Well... Better flushed cheeks than a pale face,' she thought remembering Malfoys always pale face, but shrugged the thought away. She took a deep breath and stepped out side and walked down to the common room.
The common room was empty. She walked out of the portrait and down the corridor. The closer she got to the hall, the slower she walked. 'Okay Mione. Don't chicken out now. Show them that you don't care, and that you're not afraid of them... Him!' She had to admit that right now Malfoy was the one she was a bit afraid of.
Finally she reached the hall and slipped through the doors without anybody noticing. She sat on her usual place, and tried really hard to eat. She even tried to think of something else, but that didn't help much.
She looked at her watch. It was already 8:30 pm. She looked up and saw that a lot of people had already left. She saw Malfoy walk out of the door and decided to get this over with. She stood and walked through the big doors. She then walked quickly over to the door that was leading outside.
Once outside she walked towards the lake. The sun was still visible on the sky but on it's way down. 'Okay Mione! You can do this,' she thought and slightly gained a bit more of confidence. She was going to get her wand back!
A/N: Okay! I know it's a cliffhanger. But I could've continued forever on this chapter. And by the way, maybe I have gotten your attention now and you will be back to read chapter 3. Well... Maybe not! But a girl can dream right? Okay, did you like this chapter? Please review and let me know. If you have any special request or ideas to my story you are more than welcome to write it in the review or email me at kirabechsol.dk!
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And thanks to Lady Coia for helping me with my grammar and spelling!