Here goes my story. Incase u haven't realized, the story is told in first person.

Escape

Two weeks until I get out of this place. Two weeks until I escape my father's rath. Please, Mom, if you can here me right now show me that everything will be ok. I can't take another-

" HERMIONE GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE!" Dad calls up to me. Great, I screwed up again. Another beating. Don't let me cry. Let me make it to the bathroom after this one. Please.

" Yes Daddy?" I say. I don't show my fear. He is just standing there with a belt in one hand and a knife in the other. Oh boy.

" I thought I told you clean the house before I got back?"

" I did...."

" No. You didn't! The kitchen is still filthy!" He starts advancing on me. With a wack of his belt, I fall. Just to make the beating shorter. He whips my back and I move away so he has to move. This doesn't stop him though. He just grabs my arm and pulls me up. " I always knew you were weak. First you couldn't keep your mother alive. Now you run away like a coward?" He presses the blade on my stomache and pulls it slowly and painfully across it. I can't feel it thoiough.. I feel the warm blood drip down. " NOW CLEAN UP THIS MESS BEFORE I GET BACK!" he leaves for the bar again. I make a break for it.

As I reach the landing, I hear a pop from inside my room. " Hermione? Are you here?" Harry's voice sounds. I could kill him. What if my dad was still here? I'd be dead.

" Hold On!" I reply. I run to the bathroom and wrap myself up. I apply cover up to all my bruises and throw on my Simple Plan hoodie. " Hey. What's up?" I say as I walk in and hug him.

" Uh- who are you? ANd what are you doing in my best friends bed room?" he asks me. What the hell....?

" Oh Harry, I forgot. This is the new me, if you want. Please tell me you are here to take me to Ron's?"

" No. I just came to check up on you. Well, I see you are doing good so I'll see you on Wednsday." he's lying.

" Why are you lying baby? I can see you are by your eyes. If you don't want me to come just say so. I won't hold you against you..." mabey.

" I'll see you at Diagon Alley this Wednesday." he said and kissed me lightly on the cheak. What happened to my old Harry? As he apparates, I wonder why I even bother. Once he finds out I begged Dumbledore to let me be in Slytherin, he'll dump me. No one is gonna like me... Oh well. 'Stop wallowing in self pity' is what Mom used to say to me.

Wednesday, finally. I wonder how everyone will react...?

" Hermione, can you come down here please?" Dad calls upstairs. His voice..... it's calm. This can't be good. I sit in the chair across from him in the kitchen. " Hunny, I do not want you to go to that- that school. I enrolled you in the Brentston Acadamy. Your first term starts on the 1st..."

" NO! Daddy, I have to go! Please Daddy-"

" No further discusion. Now go to your room, I'll be up to check on you later."

" But Daddy-"

" DON'T talk back to me!" he said and slapped me so hard I fell off the chair. I didn't feel anything between the fall and smashing my wrist off the floor. I felt a 'pop' in it.

" Yes Daddy." I walk back to my room in time to hear the front door slam shut. I pull on my zip up coat and hop on the bus to the clinic. Turns out my wrist is fractured. Thank God I use my other hand for my wand. I head to Diagon alley and take out money that my mom had given me berore she died. As I approached the place where I was supposed to meet the boys, I hear the boys arguing with none other than Malfoy.

" So where is that little mudblood friend of yours? She is the easiest to get to..." his voice trailes off. HA! He has a mojor shock to deal with. I realize his style has changed to. Last year was the year the school finally ditched their uniforms and he had started to wear South Pole and Ambercrombie. Here he is wearing Tripp and MadVibe. Wow. " So where is the little prep?"

" Don't sound so anxious to see me. People might get the wrong idea." I say from behind him. He turns and sees me.

" And you are...?" Why does everyone have trouble recognizing me!?

" Very funny Malfoy. Or do you prefer ferret? I am happy with either one really..." his face goes red in frustration and my black lips curl into a smile.

" You are such a muggle!"

" I thought all Slytherins were pureblooded?"

" But you are not a-."

" Are you sure about that?" I pull my Head Girl badge out of my pocket and toss it to him. After he looks it over, his smirk disappears. " Like I said, are you sure about that? It really is a miracle what a Headmaster would do for a suicidal Head Girl. A plead here and a beg there. Nothing to hard."

He tosses it back to me and turns to leave, " And you do dance good when you have no idea who you are dancing with." I call after him. He glares back at me and heads into the Quidditch store.

" How could you not tell us!?" Ron exclaims. " I mean you- are a- a SLYTHERIN!"

" I know. But I couldn't send any letters. And don't ask why cuz I can't tell you. And Harry left before I could tell him. I am really sorry guys. Really I am." Harry hugs me.

" It's ok babydoll. Just tell us next time. And when did you find out you were a pure blood?" I frown.

" When my mom died. She told me. Her and my dad got together after she got pregnant. She was a squib and my dad- my real dad- is a wizard. I actually found out that he lives on the outskirts of Hogsmead."

" When are you gonna meet him?" Ron asked as we walked to the stationary shop. " I mean he lives that close to Hogwarts and all..."

" I think I am gonna visit him when we go to Hogsmead the first time. He doesn't even know Iexist so I am really nervous." Gosh, why did I have to have the two most nosy friends in the world?

" So where are you staying until we leave for school?"

" I think I am gonna head to the Order, see how Lupin is dealing with everything."

" Well come back with us."

" Harry, you came to get me the other day and you told me you basically said you were afraid of me and hated my new look. Why would you want me to come with you now?"

" Because you are my friend."

" I'll be there later. Just let me head back and get my stuff. I'll apparate there as soon as I can."

" Ok." they say and I apparate to my room. Thankfully the car is still gone. I throw everything into my trunk including the books I had gotten when I first got my letter. I take my proto-type racing broom in my other hand and with a rush of wind past my ears I appear in the kitchen of 12 Grimmauld Place.

" Hermione! How are you?" Lupin says and hugs me.

" Good and you?" I say hugging him back.

" Great. Now come and try my new recipe...." It is good to be back with my family again. I say and smile. The first genuine smile in a long time...

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