She stood up, out of the fireplace and looked around once more. It was her home; she hadn't recognized it because it was the fireplace in her parent's bedroom. She hadn't been in there room since the night she found out her parents had died, it looked the same, everything was still where it was the day they had left it, and yet it looked so empty. The deep maroon walls, the large king sized bed covered in matching comforters and sheets, the pine bookshelf full of many books about dentistry and teeth, the mahogany desk, the beautiful expensive paintings all scattered around the walls of there room and the balcony outside there window, it was all so, so vacant and bare.
"This is your house?"
"Used to be."
"O my god Mione, this is gorgeous, and hunormous! Why didn't you tell me you were so rich?" Ginny asked while looking out the door into the balcony that led to the stairs.
"Because I'm not that rich."
"Like hell you aren't rich. Is this your parents room?" she asked as she walked around looking out threw the window into the outside balcony.
"Yea, it feels so eerie."
"Of course it does to you, your parents aren't living I here anymore." She went over and comfortly wrapped her arm around Hermione neck. Hermione looked around and went over to the fireplace once again, ducked into it, and pulled a silver box from onto of a secret box kind of thing hidden in the stones. She ducked back out from inside the soot covered fireplace and took the little box over to the bed; it looked like a silver cigar box, except it had no words on it, but a crest of some sort.
"What's that Mione?" Hermione opened it and inside were several little gold rocks, papers and by the looks of it, letters, a necklace, a ring with a red stone and a silver diamond the size of a quarter.
"Wow those are beautiful." Ginny said pointing at the stones.
"Stuff of my mums, she hid it so knowone would ever steal it from her. I wanna get everything I can, just in case I don't come back."
"Yea that's probably the best idea, do you need any help?"
"No I don't have to get alot of things just a few." She suddenly remembered Mike. She shut the box quickly and went over to the window and looked out searching for his car, but thank god, there was no car of his. She knew they had to hurry, although it's not as if she wanted to, she had to, she didn't want Ginny to meet Mike, or Mike to meet Ginny mainly.
Hermione showed Ginny around her house and all the rooms that followed. They walked past the closet door in the main hallway on the first floor and Hermione suddenly stopped and turned to look at the closet door.
"Mione what is it?" Ginny asked concerned about her. But she didn't know, knowone knew what Hermione was staring at, but only her. She opened the door and looked into it. Ginny had no clue what to think or what she was suppose to be looking at. Hermione moved forward and pushed the coats and old clothing out of the way to the side, and starred at the old rotting wood wall in front of her eyes.
"Hermione?" she just stood there not paying attention to Ginny, but to her memories, her memories of the past that would haunt her forever. She backed up pushed the coats and crap back into there original position and shut the closet door.
"Hermione! What's going on?" Ginny asked starting to get a bit annoyed and worried.
"Sorry Ginny, nothing I was just checking on something."
"Why didn't you answer me, it was like you were in some kind of trance."
"No I wasn't."
"Mhmmm, so what was so special about that wall? Is there like a secret tunnel back there or something spooky like that?"
"No Ginny, it's just that I remember alot about that closet, alot of memories." Hermione laughed.
"About a closet? Yea you know what, I don't want to know" Hermione laughed once again and went to go check and see if Mike was back, and thankfully, wasn't. Ginny seen out the window, and seen the little cap cod right outside the window.
"Is that part of this house, it looks to awful close to be a neighbor."
"Yea it's where Mike lives, my parents built him that a couple years ago when he first moved in, and he still lives in there."
"Aww that's so sweet of you guys letting him live here, and you built him his own home."
"Yea well I don't think we should've, I mean he just doesn't……." She started but was cut off by a loud crash sounding from the upstairs. Hermione sat the box down on the coffee table and ran upstairs (followed by Ginny) slowing down as she checked each room, but found nothing, until she came to her parents room and found what looked like a wand, and it was, but not Hermione's or Ginny's. They picked it up and Ginny examined the room, and up the chimney while Hermione took a closer look at the wand, and noticed it was Ron's.
"Ronald Weasley get your fucking ass out here now!" Hermione yelled to knowone.
"Are you sure it's Ron's?"
"Of course I'm sure it's Ron's, I've seen it every day, for the past 4 years at school."
"Yea I guess your right, plus it is his, there's a mark on it that Fred made about a year ago. RON GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE NOW!" Ginny yelled, but knowone came out. They checked the closets and all of the rooms once more, and found no Ron. They were now In Hermione's room, trying to make sense of the happenings.
"Well maybe it was in my pocket and I accidentally dropped it."
"Ginny even if you did drop it, how do you explain the large crash up here?"
"I'm not sure Hermione, I mean we did find that big book on the floor when we got up there, maybe it fell off the desk, and it did look like it was about to."
"Yea I guess your right Ginns. Come on there's one more thing I got to get, but its outside. You can stay here if you want, it doesn't matter."
"Are you kidding, and miss out on the outside? I'm going!
"It was just a suggestion, but let's go then."
The two teenagers went downstairs and outside after grabbing something to eat. They walked down the hill of the cobblestone walk way tht led to her driveway.
"Are we going inside Mike's house?"
"No I lost my key a while ago. But were going into the forest there's this cave tht I have stuff in." she lied about the first part, but there was no way in hell that she was going inside there, to many memories, to much pain that filled that house. She hadn't been inside his house since last summer when he took her there to rape her, while her parents, still alive, would just be peacefully sleeping without one worry about her.
"A cave, I love caves! What kind of cave, is it dirty, can you see it from here? How big is it?" Hermione laughed as they walked into the forest. She stopped and turned around as Ginny kept walking. She thought she heard footsteps behind them, but she must've been imagining things, as there was knowone to be seen or heard, not a trace of anyone.
"Were half way there hun, you'll see for yourself in a few seconds." She said as she turned back around and joined Ginny.
"O, right." Ginny replied half disappointed, half anxious.
They walked threw the dead leaves that had already started to fall, and threw the still green lush grass that lie underneath there feet. Dodging around for trees that had been in there path, they finally got to the cave. It was beautiful in a unique way. It was mostly underground with bits of stone peaking threw the overgrown moss, it was surrounded by a little creak that went threw the cave and up to the lake all the way down the rest of the forest filled hill.
"Wow. This is great Hermione, and it's underground! Come on I wanna see the inside." They walked closer, and climbed down inside, Hermione leading the way.
"Whoa." Ginny said obviously shocked by her cave, and yet who wouldn't be? It was amazing; it was just about the size of her bedroom so she wasn't crammed or anything. She had carried a big comforter that replaced a bed, with about for or 5 blankets that covered it, because the nights could get very chilly, and set it down next to an oil lamp that lit the room during the nights. "Hermione this is incredible, I want to live down here. "
"No trust me, you don't. Besides you wouldn't last one day down here by yourself." Hermione just laughed.
"Yea you're probably right, as always might I add." She walked to the back and examined the little river in the back, and then the rest of the cave. Hermione bent over next to the lamp and gently picked up the small round brush with the intricate design on the back. She walked over to Ginny and said "My brush." holding the brush in front of Ginny's chuckling face.
"We finished then?"
"Yea I think so." Hermione turned around and walked up to the outside, but collided into what she thought was nothing. She fell backwards, looked up and realized that she had collided into Ron, Harry, and Feorge, underneath Harry's invisibility cloak, which was now on the ground underneath her.
"What the hell are you four doing here?" Hermione asked outraged as Ginny helped her up.
"Hermione said that you guys couldn't come!"
"Were sorry, we were just curious." Harry apologized, mainly so he could get some loving later that night.
"I'm not sorry." Fred said sarcastically.
"Well you guys should be, did u ever think that Hermione had a reason for you guys not to come?"
"No, we didn't." Fred said.
"Does it look like she does, does it?" George asked.
"Not that you four can see. I didn't want you guys to come because I didn't want Mike to see you."
"O that makes us feel better." Ron said, the first time since last night, speaking in front of Hermione.
Hermione just glared at Ron. "Yah it should, because if Mike sees you then your all dead, but that wouldn't be such a bad thing, now would it." Adding the last part towards Ron.
"And why would he kill us?" Harry asked curiously.
"Because he's worried about me. He thinks that I'm going to get all these guys attracted to me because of the way I'm dressing and acting and then get raped."
"A well he a bit paranoid now isn't he?" This time by George.
"He's right you know, by all of it, I could get raped, it's not as if its uncommon or anything." Hermione said a bit too aggressively, with tears forming in her eyes. They just starred at Hermione, unsure of what upset her like that, let alone what to say next.
"Whoa sorry, didn't know it was such a touchy subject."
"Your tough, you would never let anyone do that to you." Harry said comfortly. Hermione just rolled her eyes and said "Yea I guess." And started to climb up the rocky ditch when she noticed that knowone was coming.
"Are you guys coming or what?" She heard them say "yea" and "I guess" and "I suppose." She let them go in front of her, Ginny leaving in front of Harry, who was last with the invisibility cloak in his hands. Hermione just stood there looking at her escape when Harry noticed she was still standing there.
"Hermione, you alright?"
"Hmmm? O yea sorry Harry just was thinking for a second."
"That's alright, you just look alittle……stressed, about something."
"Not really, I mean I guess I am, bout my parents and all."
"O yea I completely understand Hermione, I mean I know I don't remember when my parents died, but I can definitely remember it, and how hard it is to go threw something like that. Atleast your not being hunted or anything." He said chuckling.
She laughed alittle, "Come on you little ray of sunshine." He laughed and climbed up the rocks, followed by Hermione. The Weasley's were standing around the cave looking at the little creak. They seen Harry and Hermione and came up to them, waiting for a signal to do something.
"Where we off to next Mione?" Fred asked curiously.
"Your house I suppose, you three can apparate there If you'd like, it'd be faster." Hermione said pointing at Feorge and Ron.
"Naw, well stay here and go with you guys." George said.
"Yea for all we know you could ditch us and go to America." Fred assumed.
"Now why would we ever do something like that dear brothers?" Ginny said skeptically.
"Ha ha, let's go mates." Ron said sarcastically. They walked back up to Hermione's mansion, when she looked alittle closer and seen that the old rusted Ford was back next to Mikes cod.
"Fuck." She said under her breath as she grabbed Ginny and motioned the other four to follow her quickly deeper back into the forest once again.
"What's this all about?" George asked.
"Mike, he's home. We can't go back up there, or he'll see us."
"Well the boys can still use the clock, and he wont mind as much if he just sees me and you, right?" Ginny asked.
"I'm not sure. I didn't want him to see you in the first place or me for that matter."
"Well then we'll all go under the cloak." Fred said.
"You know there's not that much room there." Harry replied.
"Shh keep your voices down; I don't want him hearing us. I guess were gonna have to use Ginn's plan; it's the best we have. But were going to have to sneak, I don't really want him to start yelling at me for leaving."
"Doesn't he know?" George asked.
"No, not really, I didn't tell him. I got pissed at him, so I kind of ran away."
"What! You mean he doesn't know where you're at?" Ginny practically yelled at her.
"He probably thinks you were kidnapped or something like that Hermione." Harry said.
"No he……………"
"You should go tell him Hermione, he's probably worried about you." Fred said.
"No he knows I ran away," She said irritably "he figured it out by now, he's not that thick."
"You still should go talk to him Mione." George suggested.
"Yea." Harry said.
"Yea he should know atleast……" Then by Ginny.
"You guys, listen to me. I don't want anything to do with Mike, he's a bastard. So just forget it, okay"
"But, Hermione he's your uncle." Fred said.
"No he's not; he's not anything an uncle should be. I don't want anything to do with him."
"But he's your only family." Harry stated.
"You guys, listen to me, I Don't Care About Mike. I don't care if he's the last person on this planet, I don't care if he's being murdered by Voldemort," Fred, George and Ginny had shuddered alittle, while Harry and Ron were used to it. "I hate him; I never want to speak to him again."
"But why, I mean is it because of the whole trying to sell your parents house thing? Because that would be a really silly reason to say something like that."
"No Ginny, that's not why." She said calmly.
"Then why?" Fred asked.
"Because," She wasn't sure what to tell them, she wanted so bad to tell them how he had been raping her almost every single night since her parents had died, she really did. She couldn't, not now anyway, they'd just kill him right then and there. "Just because, okay? Now put the clock on and don't say a word, come on Ginns." Ron was about to say something, but Harry signaled him silently, not to say anything, while Fred and George exchanged looks with each other, and Ron and Harry, Ginny just stared at Hermione who was looking up the hill, to see if Mike was inside his cod, and by the looks of it, he was.
She started forward with Ginny at her side when she started, "Good thing you've got an ass, or they'd be furious with you right now babe."
Hermione slightly smiled and looked over at Ginny's face and whispered in a few moments seconds, "Good thing good thing girls have boobs, or hell knows where wed be right now." They both laughed and turned back to the invisible blokes.
"What you two laughing at?" Sounding like George asking.
"Nothing, nothing at all." replied Ginny. They walked up to the drive way that wrapped around the hill that the house was on, and walked forward quietly. Hermione prayed to god that Mike didn't look out the window, or had better hearing than before she left. They were climbing up the hill on the cobblestone walk way when she heard the voice of terror.
"Hermione, is that you?" Sure enough Mike was standing in his doorway with boxers and a muscle tee on, looking closer at Hermione. He sounded calm, but that was probably only because she had Ginny with her, that he could see. She just kept on walking and hoped that he wouldn't call her again, or chase her down.
"Hermione!" she stopped, because she could hear the anger in his voice, the others could not hear it though, it was only her that knew what he would do to her if she didn't stop, even if Ginny was standing right next to her. "Hermione, come here." She looked over at Ginny and started, "Go back." But Ginny shook her head no in refusal. Hermione just let it go and stuffed the box and brush into Ginny's purse. They walked up with Ginny right at her side, to Mikes house.
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