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The two weeks were almost up, and Hermione couldn't decide if she was sorry or not. Sure, the Canary Islands were great, hot beaches, great food and all that, but she missed Hogwarts. And Sten was great too, but she had noticed some things about him that made her feel a little weird. Like how he made fun of the people who fell off their surfboards or had trouble swimming. Little things, things that she might have laughed at herself, but when Sten did it, it seemed as though he was laughing at them and not their mistake. Every time it happened, she opened her mouth to say something, and every time, he would laugh and smile at her with his dark eyes sparkling, and his white teeth flashing, and all thoughts of reprimand went out of her head. She missed her friends too, lots. She missed Harry's green eyes and new found wit, and Ginny's sweet smile and subtle power. And Ron...well, he was special. She missed his lankiness and his complete bafflement whenever something happened, and yet the ability to figure out small details that nobody else noticed, and his ability to beat her in chess, and his enthusiasm...

"Hermione?" Sten asked, puzzled. "Where are you?" Hermione blinked, sighed, and then smiled.

"I'm right here Sten," and she snuggled next to him. The two were sitting on a swinging seat on the deck of one of their little bungalows.

"No, where are you really?" Sten asked again. "You seem a million miles away."

"Oh, I'm just thinking about school and my friends is all." she said sleepily. "I miss them." Hermione looked up at Sten, hair white against the starlit sky. "I'll miss you too." Sten smiled down at her. They cuddled for a while, and then when her parents called her, she left him, muttering a sleepy "Bye" in his direction.

Two more days! Two more days until she left and went back to school! Hermione was in a panic. She had to get her clothes back from the millions of places that they had managed to spread themselves in the course of two weeks, which really was an amazing area, with all sorts of things in places she never would of expected. Such as her purple shirt underneath the sink, and her black jeans behind her parents bed. Not to mention she still had to buy Ron a T-Shirt and get Ginny her present.

Ginny had asked for an interesting present, not exactly unusual, but interesting. What she wanted was pictures of the hottest guys on the beach. She had asked for her gift in secret of course, so as not to hurt Harry's manliness. Hermione smiled when she thought of Harry. Now there was a lovesick puppy. But enough of Harry and Ginny's relationship, there was were guys to photograph.

Her first target was Sten, of course. She knocked on his door and was greeted with the heavenly sight of just-woken-up Sten, eyes all sleepy with his hair all mussed. Not to mention he only slept in his boxers (which were black today, she noticed).

"What Hermione?" he asked, almost a growl in his morning voice.

"Nothing, just...can I take your picture?" She held up the camera. "I want to remember this trip." Sten nodded his assent and went into some very funny poses involving clenching his muscles. After two or three poses she gave him a quick kiss on the cheek and headed of for the beach, humming.

Ah, the beach of Gran Canaria, with its freezing waters, huge sand dunes and ever present wind, it was no wonder that people came only to experience the food and surfing. It was most definitely not a sun bathing beach. Luckily, she thought, the surfers had quite good bods. Oh look, there was on now. She snapped a shot of him just as he was about to fall off the board, with the sea spraying in his face, Maybe I should take up photography she thought as she captured yet another guy in a great pose. Once the roll was full, she walked up back to the hotel to work on getting her bags together.

I know this isn't really that long, but it IS longer than some of my other chapters. You see, Sten isn't perfect, just incredibly hot. About last chapter, I was reading it when I noticed the letter. It's terrible! Well, not exactly, but I meant for some of it to be crossed out! I hope you guys were smart enough (what am I talking about? Of COURSE you were smart enough) to figure out how it was supposed to go. Can you please Review "Into the Woods" as well? I love that story and nobody seems to be reviewing it. Review!