So. Here's Chapter 4. Thank you for the reviews everyone. They make me so happy! Ta ta!
Chapter Four
Hermione stood up from the table and said weakly, "I'm gonna go to the library...again. Don't follow me because you want to bug me okay?" "Oh but it's so much fun watching you read for HOURS and HOURS." Harry said with sarcasm dripping from each and every word.
Hermione rolled her brown eyes and took off in the direction of not the library, but the Gryffindor Common Room. "It's time to go and spy on Ron and Lavender" Hermione said. "What was that?" Ginny Weasley, the youngest and only female Weasley asked as she stolled up next to Hermione. "Oh hi Ginny. I said, "It's time to not go and lie on some and serve..." Hermione grinned at Ginny. "Okay Hermione. You've been in the library too long." Ginny giggled and was soon off in the direction of the Great Hall.
"Smooth." Hermione said to herself.
Hermione once again borrowed Harry's invisibility cloak and was off towards the grounds. She soon spotted Ron and Lavender sitting by the lake giggling with each other. "Now. I'll just sit by them and casually listen to their conversation. Wait. Casually? They can't even see me!" Hermione sighed at her dumbness and took a set right behind Ron and Lavender.
"Oh Ron. I'm so glad you asked me out. I thought you liked Hermione Granger. Silly me. She's nothing but a suck up bookworm." Lavender cooed and touched Ron's arm.
"That's a bit harsh don't you think?" Ron asked removing Lavender's hand from his arm.
"Not really. I could be harsher." Lavender smiled.
"Well. I don't appreciate you insulting my friends. I have no feelings for Hermione. I never did. She doesn't deserve for you to make horrible insults behind her back." Ron looked away from Lavender and laid down on the grass. Upon doing so, he hit Hermione's knee and yelped, "What the bloody hell was that?"
Hermione grimanced and covered her mouth with one hand and rubbed her knee with the other. Cautiously, she stood up. "Can you hear it? I can hear someone moving...but there's no one near us." Lavender said looking around. "Freaky. Let's move to a place where there are more people. Just so we won't get paranoid, of course." Ron and Lavender stood up and started walking to a different section of the lake when Lavender shoulder hit Hermione's. Hermione once again covered her mouth. "Oh my gosh. It's not supposed to be freaky that we have ghosts at Hogwarts but this is beyond weird." Lavender said.
Hermione stood alone as Ron and Lavender sat together once again, 'He never liked me...he never saw me more than a friend. I SUCK at body language and what not.' Hermione throw a pebble in the lake and heard gasps behind her, "Did you see that pebble? Did it? Did it just be thrown in the lake by nobody?" She turned around and discovered it was a bunch of first years. Hermione threw a pebble at them and the whole lot of them screamed and ran back to the castle. 'I've heard enough. Back to the castle.' Hermione walked to the common room in such pain. Her heart ached so bad. 'How could I be so dumb?' She thought over and over again.
When she reached the boys dorm she noticed Harry going through his trunk, "Where the hell did I leave my invisibility cloak. I'm positive I brought it with me to Hogwarts." Hermione gasped loudly and Harry whipped out his wand and whirled around in the direction of Hermione, "Who is there? Are you using my invisbility cloak? Give it back!" Harry used his vacant hand to grab a hold of the cloak but Hermione moved on time. Harry struck again and Hermione once again moved. 'I'm like a cat. Cat reflexes!' Hermione thought as this went on for sometime. Harry stopped suddenly and said, "This is stupid. I'm paranoid..." Hermione finally relaxed until she felt the cloak snatched from her. "Hah! I tricked you. Why were you using my cloak Hermione?"
Hermione glared at Harry and shouted, "That wasn't fair. I was doing well with my cat-like reflexes until you tricked me. One day, we WILL have a rematch. I was borrowing it to get to the restricted section of the library."
"You lie. I can tell. You're left eye twitches when you lie."
"It does?"
"Yeah. It's twitching right now."
"How weird."
"I know. But, come on Hermione you can tell me. I promise not to tell."
"But you and Ron keep secrets from me so it's only fair I only tell...myself secrets."
"That doesn't make sense."
"It makes as much sense as your 'People alike attract' theory."
"It's not a theory. It's a proven statement!"
"Now you are the one who lies. Admit it, Ron and you keep secrets from me." "I admit it. We do. Only because...you are a girl. Not that that's a bad thing. It's just most of our secrets are about girls."
"Oh and like I don't understand girls? Did you ever stop and think that maybe I know which girl likes which guy."
"No. But now I do. So come on Hermione. Since Ron and I have secrets between each other, this can be a secret between us."
"Well. I do want to share a secret..." Hermione looked down at her feet and kicked the bedpost angrily, "It's just...I didn't know Ron liked Lavender. I always thought he sorta kinda maybe liked me."
"Ah. I see. It's a bit of a shocker isn't it? The truth is, Ron never told me he liked her either."
Hermione thought back to what Ron had told her when she had used the Polyjuice potion to become Harry,
"YOU KNOW WHO I LIKE!" 'Someone is lying...' Hermione thought to herself.
"Wait. Are you sure Ron never told you he liked Lavender?"
"Positive. Why?"
"Just asking."
"Hermione, question. Do you have any idea why Cho Chang wants to hook up with me all of a sudden? I mean, I told Ron I liked her a little bit so he could leave me alone. He keeps questioning me who I like. Once I told him Ginny so he could get out of my hair but that made it worse. Much worse. That's why I had that bruise under my eye."
"Is that why."
"That's why. Anyway, now Cho is convinced I told her I liked her and that I kissed her. I never did that. Are girls always this crazy, Hermione."
"Oh yeah. The whole lot of us are very insane." Hermione didn't dare tell Harry the truth. Not now at least.
