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A.N. Hey everyone! I decided to repost this chapter, because now that I think of it, I liked it better before I messed with it! Lol, Anywho, in my first version I had Neville in it but when I first started re-writing on the computer, everything got changed, so when I tried to add him again, it got even weirder! Lol, so Anywho, here's the edited chapter : )

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Hermione woke up early that morning for some reason, even though she had been up late talking with Ginny, she couldn't sleep any longer. She slowly got up out of bed, took a shower, got dressed and headed down stairs before anyone else had awoken. Hermione walked into the kitchen and over to the fridge and got out some milk and a couple eggs for pancakes. She turned on her radio as she mixed the ingredients together to make pancakes for everyone. One of her favorite songs was just staring so she turned up the volume. It was 'Breakaway' by Kelly Clarkson. Since the volume was up and she was singing quietly to herself, she didn't hear Ron enter the kitchen. He walked up behind her and tapped her on the shoulder after listening for a minute or so. She jumped and the batter she had been stirring flew into the air and fell to the floor splattering the mix everywhere. She quickly turned around and let out a small scream.

"Sorry, 'Mione, I didn't mean to scare you I thought you heard me walk in." When he said this it seemed like Hermione wasn't the only one who was scared.

"It's no problem, just help me clean this up." She said slightly laughing, after calming down a little.

"So, what are you doing up so early?" Ron asked her breaking the silence.

"I couldn't fall back asleep. So I thought I would come down and make breakfast. What about you?" She asked him still smiling.

"I couldn't sleep either. Do you have any idea how loud Harry snores?"

"No." She said as she pulled out a towel from the cupboard under the sink.

"Well, let's just say, you don't want to know." He said grabbing a towel to help her clean up the mess. Hermione let out a small giggle. Ron didn't seem to notice and just continued to wipe up the batter off her cream-colored tile floor.

When they had finished cleaning up they put the two towels in the sink and decided maybe it was better idea if they didn't make anything that involved batter or cooking for that matter.

"Hey, do you wanna go for a walk down to the park?" Hermione asked him.

"Yeah, sure." He said smiling at her.

"Cool, I'm just gonna write a note to Harry and Ginny. If they wake up they'll wonder where we are."

She walked upstairs and put the pink sticky note on the bathroom door. The note read,

Morning guys, Ron and me went for a walk down to the park. We'll be back later. Love, Hermione

Even though it was only 8 in the morning, it was quite warm. So neither of them needed a jacket. Their walk had been pretty quiet; they both were looking around at the green trees and clear blue sky, listening to the birds whistling in the air. When they arrived at the park they both sat down on the swings, gently kicking the grass beneath their feet.

"Isn't lovely out?" Hermione asked.

"Yeah it is." He said back looking at her smiling, his bright blue eyes and red hair shining in the sunlight. Hermione looked over at him, took one look in his eyes and nearly melted. She smiled back at him, and then looked back down at her feet trying to cover that she was blushing. She just couldn't stop smiling.

"Hermione?" Ron said dreamily.

"Hmm?" Hermione looked up. Ron looked at her for a moment and started to draw closer to Hermione. She too started to lean closer; she could feel his breath on her face, the only thing she could think was, oh my gosh, I'm about to kiss Ron… but then …

"Hey guys!" It was Suzy walking with Harry and Ginny trailing behind her talking. Ron and Hermione jumped away from each other and Ron nearly fell off of his swing. Hermione was hoping that no one would notice how much she was blushing.

"W-what are you guys doing here?" Hermione asked her three friends walking toward them.

"I came over to see if you guys wanted to do something today, and luckily Harry was up when I got there, or I would have been locked out." Suzy said energetically.

"We saw your note and thought that we would come down to." Ginny added.

"Oh, actually we just about to go back, but what do you guys want to do?" Hermione asked everyone trying to push out of her head what almost happened.

"What is there to do?" Ginny asked.

"Well, we could go to the mall." Hermione suggested. They all agreed and since the mall was only a couple blocks away, decided that they would just walk. They came to the tall glass doors of the mall and went inside. Surprisingly, it was almost empty. It was usually very crowded because of the unbearable heat outside. They went into various stores looking through all the different things. Ron picking things up and making odd comments every now and then.

By about eleven they were all getting pretty hungry because none of them except Suzy had ate anything all day. They all headed down to the food court and each ordered something. The only bad thing was that Suzy and Hermione had to pay because all Ron, Ginny and Harry had were some Knuts and Sickles.

Before they could sit down Suzy pushed her way next to Harry and shoved Ginny out of the way, taking a seat next to Harry. Harry looked quite scared and scooted his chair a few more inches away from her. Every once and a while Ron would glance over at Hermione, but when she looked up he would look in another direction, pretending that he had been looking that way the entire time.

All of a sudden Suzy said "Oh no. What in the world are they doing here?" under her breath. "Who?" Hermione asked her as she picked up her cup of soda and took a sip.

"It's just that my old boyfriend and his friend are here, and I really don't want to talk to him, but there from America, I have no idea why there here." She said hastily. "I hope he doesn't see me." She slouched don in her seat a little more trying to hide herself from them.

"Which are they?" Hermione curiously asked. Suzy answered her and said, "They're the two sitting at that table by the big window over there."

In Hermione's opinion, she thought that they were cute. One of them had dark brown short hair, and the other had longer light brown curly. They seemed to be talking about something, but then they both got up and headed toward the trashcan to throw away their trash. It seemed that Hermione had looked a little too long because they both looked over and spotted Suzy by doing so.

"Hermione! Why did you stare? Now they're coming over here." She said in a whisper and lightly hitting Hermione in the arm.

"Sorry." Hermione mumbled rubbing her arm. A moment later they both arrived at the table.

"Hey Suzy, it's good to see you again." Said the brown haired boy. The boy with curly hair smiled and waved.

"Hey guys. What are you doing here?" Suzy asked them trying to be polite as possible.

"Oh, we're on vacation here for the summer."

"That's nice." She said, and then added, "Everyone this is Eric," she said pointing to the curly haired boy, "and this is Luke, my ex-boyfriend." Pointing to the other boy. "Guys, this is Hermione, Ginny, Ron, and Harry."

It seemed for the first time all summer, Suzy acted normally around Harry instead of hanging all over him, in fact, she did just the opposite. It was like they were just friends. Harry seemed quite relieved. The two boys pulled up a chair and sat with them. Eric put his chair next to Suzy's and Luke put his beside Eric's. They sat there and talked for a least an hour, and the whole time it seemed like Suzy practically never took her eyes off Eric. Hermione got the impression that she had a little crush on him. It was getting late so Suzy and Hermione told the two where they would be for the rest of the summer so that they could stop by and hang out.

Just when they were about to leave, Luke left and went back to his place where Eric was staying with his family but Eric decided he would make his way back later and hang out with everyone for a while. So all of them left and made their way down the long sidewalk to Hermione's house and Suzy's house.

Harry had finally had room to breathe since Eric had stayed with Suzy to talk to her and he could talk to Ginny for a while.

"So, whatever happened with you and Dean?" Harry asked her as they both walked. The year before Ginny had been going out with Dean.

"Oh him. He broke up with me first week of summer." She said.

"Oh I'm sorry Gin, I didn't know." Harry said sympathetically but for some reason he was happy that they weren't going out anymore and didn't know why.

"That's okay, he was a jerk anyway." She said waving her hand in front of her. "I mean, he broke up with me by owl. Can you believe that?"

"Are you serious? He is jerk. Just don't tell him I said that, I have to share a dorm with him for the another year."

"Don't worry I won't tell him." She said with a slight giggle. Harry smiled at her and they walked in silence for the rest on the walk, admiring the view around them.

Just like Harry and Ginny, Ron and Hermione were walking in silence. They didn't really know what to talk about. After what almost happened that morning they were both a little more nervous around each other than usual. It was way too quiet for Hermione so she thought she would try to start up a conversation.

"So … about this morning …" she said.

"Y-yeah, look it meant nothing." Ron said quickly. Hermione tried to hide her feelings but hurt look flashed on her face. Then realizing what she was doing she attempted to cover it up and said, "Yeah, I know, it was nothing. We're just friends."

"R-right." He said stuttering. Hermione had a small tear in her eye but she just turned her head and held it in.

Back by Suzy and Eric, it was anything but quiet. They were talking the whole time back. After a while their conversation came to an end but Eric started it up again.

"So, I was wondering, you know, if you wanted to go out sometime … with me?" He asked her with his hands in his pockets looking at his feet until he was finished with his sentence. He looked up at her and into her eyes. She smiled, nodded her head and said, "I'd love to."

"R-really?" he said sounding surprised.

"Yeah." Now Suzy was now smiling ear to ear and so was Eric. She couldn't believe how obsessed she was over Harry. She knew that it would have never worked out between them anyway. They all arrived at the house and went in, around six Eric left and Suzy walked him out. When she returned she had a big smile on her face and a sparkle in her eyes. She said bye to everyone and went home. The rest of the group all went to bed. They were really tired but Ginny and Hermione stayed up to talk a while.

"So he almost kissed you!" Ginny said excitedly.

"Yes. But then you guys came." She said gloomily.

"Oh. Sorry."

"That's fine. He doesn't like me. He told me that it meant nothing on the way back."

"Believe me Hermione, my brother likes you, he's just being the stupid idiot he is."

"I'm beginning to think that he doesn't." She said throwing herself on her bed and putting her head in a pillow.

"Yes, he does." She said finally. "Hey, have you noticed Harry lately? He's been acting weird."

"I think that he likes you." Hermione said simply.

"Yeah right, Harry doesn't like me, I think we settled that a couple years ago."

"I don't know Ginny I've seen the way he looks at you sometimes, even last year whenever you walked into the room he went all weird and forgot what he was saying."

"Really?"

"Yeah. Anyway, I'm really tired. Ready to go to bed?"

"Yeah. Night, Hermione."

"Goodnight." She turned off the light and they both went to sleep.

A.N. – hey! I hope you liked the first 3 chapters! I'll have the next chapter out sometime in the next couple of days I think : ) I would do it tonight, but I wanted to change a few things and I haven't worked it all out yet : ) so thanks a bunchie for reading and please review!