Pleas read and review! I need to know if i'm just totally wasting my time with this. But I'm kinda happy with this chapter... so... let me know what you think! oh and I don't own any of JK rowlings characters of course! i mean otherwise, I'd be rolling around in cash! haha

Chapter Two

Hermione barely made it through the rest of the hour without falling asleep when finally the bell rang. She shot out of her seat and picked up her books off the desk. She turned to Harry, "Well, I'll see you around?" she said, flashing her beautiful smile.

"Oh—yea, see ya" Harry said in a tone as if she had caught him off guard.

"K, well bye!" and she hurried out of the classroom thinking, "man, I HAVE missed a lot—since when did this school get cuties like THAT?"

She went to her locker to change her books from history to math. Sigh… algebra, that's definitely something I didn't miss. Her thoughts were interrupted by a sudden, excited voice, "Hermione!!!" She quickly turned around to see a tall girl wither her obviously dyed, red hair in pig tails running toward her and a taller boy with natural flaming red hair and freckles following close behind. Hermione let out a squeak. "Izzy!" she screamed and the two girls embraced. She then turned toward the boy and stood on her tip-toes to throw her arms around his neck. "Ron it's so good to see you!"

"It's good to see you too, Mione" he said and gave a goofy lop-sided smile.

"Ohmygosh, I'm so happy, how have you guys been? I'm so sorry I didn't keep in touch as well as I should have."

"Oh its ok," said Izzy, "we know you were busy. I'm just so happy you're back!" she squeaked and gave her best friend another quick hug. "Hey well we better get to class—what do you have next?"

Hermione gave out a frustrated sigh, "Algebra dos."

"Great!" grinned Ron, "so do we!"

The three friends went down the hall into the classroom. She greeted her teacher, Ms. McMonagal as she had with Mr. Simms. She then noticed a familiar face sitting towards the back of the room. "Hi again, Harry!" she waved, "Come on guys, let's go sit over here." Hermione, Izzy, and Ron went down the aisles toward Harry.

"Hi, Hermione." He looked at the other two. "And you're… Ron and… Isabella?"

Izzy somewhat shuddered at the name, but laughed, "yes, you're right, unfortunately, but please call me Izzy."

Ron joined in, "so I see you two have met already?" he looked from Harry to Hermione.

"Yeah. We had history last hour with Simms." stated Hermione. She turned to Izzy, "Since when did you become a red head?"

Ron quickly answered this instead, "Since she thought she could win me over by trying to impress me with similar looks." As he ran his hand through his hair and flashed his signature slightly crooked smile. Even Harry, who had been more like a spectator in this conversation, had to laugh at this.

Izzy, however, just rolled her eyes and in a heavily filled with sarcasm tone stated, "Oh yes, because I just want you SO bad. Oh baby, oh baby." Ron's smile faded and he just shrugged and slouched into his desk.

Through a small fit of giggles Hermione got out, "God, I've missed you guys." After finally composing herself, "so really, why?"

"Oh you know me, I can have my hair the same color for too long—gets too boring otherwise." She just laughed. "I'm thinking of an ultimate blond next." She said, her blue eyes twinkling. And with that the bell rung and Ms. McMonagal went to the center of the class and began calling roll. When the last person was called and accounted for, she turned to the board to begin the lesson.

Izzy took that opportunity to scribble a quick note to Hermione.

--So… what do you think of Harry?

She folded it up and discretely handed it back to her friend. Ron glanced over to his left and rolled his eyes at them.

--I have to say, he IS really cute. :-P Have you ever talked to him at all?

--No, not really. We have a couple classes together, and he seems nice. He came a little after you left.

--Yeah. That's what he said last hour. I think we should hang out this afternoon and maybe see if he would like to come along.

--Ooooh. So does a certain best friend of mine have a little crush on the new kid? Hmm you better watch out missy, I'm gonna have my eye on you!

Hermione let out a slight giggle at the thought and then heard from the front of the room. "Unless that piece of paper is your notes on completing the square, Miss Granger, I trust you will help it find its way back into your bag." Her teacher said strictly.

Hermione blushed and folded up the note and placed it under her notebook. Once again she found everyone in the room looking at her momentarily. She slid down in her seat and tried to shield her eyes from everyone's gazes. Ron and Izzy just chuckled quietly and shook their heads as the turned back to the front of the room.

"well, well," Hermione heard a whispered voice say to the right of her. She looked to see Harry's bright, green eyes looking at her, "only the first day back and already getting in trouble." He said, joking. She just smiled at him and mouthed, "shut-up!" She picked up her pencil to start copying the noted from the board. Though part of her brain was busy copying, the other half seemed to be drifting.

She was on a tropical island, walking along the ocean, the white sand filling in between her toes. There was a cool breeze that made her light blue sarong flutter and her hair sway with the wind. A man walked beside her in bright Hawaiian patterned swim trunks. He was very built and his already messy jet black hair continuously became more messy with the help of the wind. They stopped and turned toward each other. She looked into his deep emerald eyes. He pulled her close and bent his head down, his lips coming closer to hers…

"Yo! Hermione!" Izzy called, waking Hermione from her daydream fantasy. "Lets go! We gotta get goin so the lunch lines don't get too long."

Finally fully back to reality, Hermione quickly thought of an idea. "Hey, instead why don't we go out? My parents gave me the car for the week."

"Great idea!" chimed Ron. "I really wasn't looking forward to yet another day of overcooked tater-tots."

Hermione and Izzy laughed. Hermione turned to see if Harry was still there. He was just picking up his books when she asked, "Harry, would you like to come with us?"

He just looked at the three and back to Hermione, "Oh, ok. Sure, yea, that'd be great… I mean, if it's not too big of a hassle."

"Aww," Izzy said, "that's so cute. He's so modest." She flashed a friendly smile to Harry, "Of course it's not!"

And with that, the four of them wandered out the classroom.