Chapter 2 Un-wanted Surprise
Hey, I don't really have anything to say.. So here's the story.
Katrina
Hermione stepped out of the air conditioned car in to the scorching sun. She sighed, her mother was talking loudly on her cell phone, her father as well. She looked up at her new home, It was nice but nothing special, you could tell it was a bit bigger then her old home. Hermione really didn't care what the inside looked like. It had to be nice so she didn't care to go in.
"I'm going to see if they have a park." Hermione stated looking for some kind of permison but instead she got her mother talking louder on the call phone and her father making a 'shooing' movement with his hands. Hermione huffly walked out to the end of the drive way. It was really a simple little place. Only two other mansions surrounded the circular drive.
Hermione continued down the side street. She didn't see anything that caught her eye. But even Hermione had to admit, it was a beautiful area. She kept on walking for around 20 minutes, until she reached a small clearing, it had a little park, But behind the park there was a gray stoned building. Hermione smiled as she went over and sat on a swing. Hermione turned her head to look at the building, she was now close enough to see it was a swimming pool.
'what's the use? I'm sure every house here has their own swimming pool.' she thought. Hermione got up and figured it was worth a look.
She walked over and entered the gray building, a strong smell of clorine washed over her. It was a magnificent building cream colored tiles plastered the floor. Egg white paint covered the walls. Hermione walked straight forward she noticed there that she was on a balcony ledge. She looked down, IT was a magnificent Olympic sized swimming pool. It was huge! Hermione could see two figures swimming in the pool. Hermione squinted, she noticed one was a girl and one was a guy.
Hermione walked a little closer to the edge, her foot steps echoed . The boy looked up, he had blond hair. Hermione squinted to see how he was. She couldn't see his facial features. Hermione caught his attention. He started walking up the long stair case. Hermione's face widened. Before she seen who it was she was tempted to go down and introduce herself. But she was glad she didn't when Draco Malfoy came face to face with her. His body glistened with water. His face as wide as Hermiones. They stood there for about 2 minutes of silence before Hermione spoke up.
"Malfoy." Hermione growled.
"What the hell are you doing here Granger?" Malfoy asked stupidly.
"I just moved here if it's any of your business what so ever." Hermione said rudely as she smirked. Draco starred in shock.
"Cat got your tongue ferret?" Hermione remarked.
"Shut up you filthy little insufferable mud blood" Draco sneered. Hermione just glared a deathly glare at him. Malfoy looked her up and down.
"Not bad for a mud blood even I must say. You never notice it under the Hogwarts robes I guess. Not bad not bad at all. I must say I am surprised." Malfoy sneered glancing behind Hermione to check her out. Hermione noticed this and pulled out her wand and pointed it at her throat.
"Don't you dare talk to me like that!" Hermione said pressing it harder into his adams apple.
"Now now, you wouldn't want to do anything rash now would you mud blood?" Malfoy mocked. Hermione lowered her wand and turn to walk out.
"See ya later Granger." Malfoy grinned walking down the long stair way and back into the pool. Hermione turned around to say a remark to him, But he was already down half the stairs. Hermione watched for a moment, he was practically back in the pool .. With the girl. Who was the girl? Hermione didn't care. Malfoy looked up. She could tell he was smirking. Hermione turned on her heel and headed out the door.
"I can't belive this! Malfoy lives some where near me. This is horrible!!" Hermione screamed at her self.
She was now in a foul mood. Hermione stormed into her house. The movers had tons of box's blocking the stairs. Hermione glanced into the kitchen the same bloody moving guy was still flirting with her mom.
"Ahem!" She glared at him as she entered the kitchen. He instantly went into the living room and began moving box's up the stairs.
"What's up with the bitchy mood?" Her mother asked hotly as she filed her nails. Hermione was about to reply when her mother began again.
"By the way, we are going for dinner tonight at an old friends. I want you to dress nicely and be ready by 8:00." Her mother told her. Hermione angrily rolled her eyes as her mother walked by up the stairs to go see the mover.
The day grew older and Hermione progressively set up her room, By the time she was done it was 6:49Pm. About an hour before she left.
Hermione eagerly headed for the shower. 10 minutes past and Hermione emerged wrapped in a towel. She dried off and headed to her closet to find some clothes. Hermione decided on black form fitting elegant pin striped pants , a black tank top and a see through shirt covered in blue sparkles to go over top. She put on her clothes and sat at her make up table.
"Something simple, yet classy… hmm…" Hermione thought as she outlined her eyes in black liquid eye liner , mascara and covered her lips in a colorless gloss.
"Hmm.. Now for the hair." She said as she walked in and grabbed her blow dryer and brush. Hermione sighed as she slowly straightened her hair, it had taken about 40 minutes but it was well worth it in her mind. Straight and flipped out. How she liked it.
Hermione grabbed her silver necklace that had a blue diamond shaped like a star in the middle. Hermione noticed she had changed a lot during the summer. She no longer had the little girl look. But now she looked like a teen, she was glad. Hermione had also gained a lot of self convidence.
Hermione remembered back to last year, when they were fighting in the ministry. When she almost died. When her parents greeted her at the train stations. They seemed so loving… It was an act. It was all an act. Hermione remembered getting into the car.
"So what happened this year?" Her father asked.
"Ohh nothing much I almost died, help Harry…"
"Ohh that's nice." Her mother said looking out the window.
Hermione stopped remembering the thought of this angered her. Her parent's wouldn't care if she died. To them she was a mistake. A bright mistake.
"Hermione!" Her mother yelled impatiently from the bottom of the stairs. It has been a long time since Hermione had heard her mother yelling her name.
"Coming mother." Hermione said in an exasperated tone. Hermione went to the stairs. Her mother was dressed in a rather revealing dress and her father in a suit.
"Come on!" She said eagerly.
"Ugh," Hermione mumbled following her father out the door. She walked over to the car and opened the door.
"What the hell are you doing?" Her father asked as if she was dumb.
"Getting in the car." Hermione said as she cocked her head.
"We are walking." Her mother pointed at a house across the circular drive.
"Oh." She sighed. She silently followed her parents. Hermione stepped up onto the marble steps and rang the door bell. Her parents were talking excitedly in the shadows.
The door opened. Hermione gasped. As she looked into the face of a blond boy.
"What are you doing here mud blood?" Draco asked in a confused yet snotty tone.
"I'm.. I'm… I'm..uh.."
"Who is it Draco?" A long drawling voice asked.
"Just Mudblood Granger." He replied in an arrogant tone. His father appeared beside him, he looked very angered. Hermione's parents emerged from the shadows.
"I'm terribly sorry Miss Granger." Lucias said to Hermione. Hermione stared in shock.
"Draco I would think I raised you better, apoligize to Miss Granger." His father ordered.
"Imsorry." Draco mumbled. Hermione had to put a smile on when she seen him apoligize.
"Crucio." His father said as he pointed his wand at Draco. Draco collapsed on the floor. Whimpering. His 16 year old son, under a curse. Hermione jumped down at his side.
"Hello Kate, Dave.How are you?" He asked.
"Oh just great Lucias and yourself?" She replied in a flirtasuouse tone.
"Great. And how about you Miss Granger?" He asked head held high looking down at her at his son and their daughter.
"Horrible! Take it off of him, your hurting him!" Hermione said tear's forming in her eyes.
"Well my dear I do believe that is the whole point to the Curse." He said firmly. Draco wasn't whimpering anymore, but his body was twitching.
"Take it off him please." She begged.
" Hermione shut up and stop begging!" Her mother ordered. Lucias finally lowered his was when Narcissa Malfoy appeared at the top of the stairs.
"Narciassa! It's been so long!" Kate said rushing past Lucias to hug her.
"indeed it has been Kate." She said smiling. The adult's left to go to the living room.
"Mal--- Draco are you okay?" Hermione asked helping him up. For a second she thought she seen something in his eyes… no it couldn't be… It was Malfoy…
'Stop it Mione , your being stupid!' Hermione told herself. Hermione could hear her parents laughing and discussing something humorous.Hermione couldn't keep it inside her any more.
"Are you as confused as I am Malfoy?" she asked hoping he would respond civily.
"yes Granger I am, First I get cursed for calling you something my father taught me and cursed me if I didn't treat mud bloods-- or none pure blood people like I did." Malfoy rubbed his arm.
"So you don't know why I'm here?"
"Not a clue Granger, you're the know it all! You figure it out." He said pulling his arm from her grasp.
"Just when I thought you turned civil." Hermione said in an exasperated tone.