Best Kept Secret Chapter 2 You'll die trying, a harry potter fanfic

Best Kept Secret - Chapter 2 - You'll die trying to live this down, you might as well forget

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the original Harry Potter characters.

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As Hermione and her mother drove along the freeway, heading towards the train station exit, the silence was awkward and the tension could've been cut with a knife. Hermione and her mother used to be so close, but after her father had left them at the beginning of the summer, things had become distant. Hermione's whole world was a complete opposite of what it used to be. Anne, Hermione's mother, had always tried to talk to Hermione since her father had left, and after Dumbledore's death, but all Hermione could say was 'Mum, you just don't understand.' All Hermione could think was that she was alone in this world, besides Ron and Harry, who could only possibly comprehend, but wouldn't understand this loss and what effect it had on her.

"Hermione, dear, we're almost there. Make sure you have everything put together, okay?" Anne gave her a concerned look.
"Yes mother," was all Hermione had as a response.
Hermione silently put her iPod, book, parchment, and quill in her backpack.
'Does she think I don't know what to do? Argh, I can't wait to get to The Burrow, so much of the stress will be gone. And I'll get to see Ron and Harry, I have so much I need to tell them.'

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The car turned onto the exit and it had started to pour.
"Just what we need," Anne said sarcastically.
"At least you don't have to worry about the garden dying for another week Mum," Hermione said.
Anne smiled, 'Maybe the old Hermione, my bright, intelligent girl is coming back. I can only hope.'
Anne slowly found a parking spot and parked the car. They grabbed all of Hermione's luggage and headed for the building. The air was cool and calm, the rain felt nice especially since the tension was gone between the two of them for the moment.
Once they headed inside they headed to Platform 5, and Hermione gave Anne a huge hug and whispered in her ear, "Mum, I'm sorry about they way I've been acting. Things are just really hard right now. I love you."
Anne tried to hold back tears as she squeezed her daughter and she quietly said, "It's okay, Hermione, I do understand."
Hermione silently boarded the train, only to find that her train ride was only around two hours and she had kept herself busy with trying to organize thoughts, emotions, anything she could try to digest not literally.

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The train had come to a halt at exactly 11:37 AM and Hermione gathered her luggage and walked off the train with doubts. Hermione looked around the crowded platform and found what she had expected. Two lean, tall teenage boys, one with shaggy bright red hair and the other with shaggy jet-black hair, two pairs of green eyes, clouded with sadness. They seemed to have momentary happiness in them when they saw Hermione, which made her smile. She ran to them and gave them each a big bear hug. This is the kind of thing she needed to keep her happy. The constant of these two boys made her forget all the pain she had endured during the summer.
"Wow, you two have grown this summer haven't you? I can't even touch the tops of your heads to ruffle your hair, and it looks like you two haven't eaten anything since June!"
"'Mione, stop it; you're just as bad as Mum was with Harry! Geeze!"
"Fine, but you're ruining my moment!" Hermione moaned.
The three of them walked out to the car, since Harry had gotten his license over the summer, to keep himself busy, they had drove. They started the car and slowly got out of the parking lot into London's heavy traffic. About in another month, they would be at the same train station, leaving for Hogwart's for the last time. Harry had decided to go back to Hogwart's only because Minerva McGonagall had been pronounced Head Master after Albus Dumbledore's death. No one had learned who the new Gryffindor head of house was, even after Hermione had written to McGonagall, she wouldn't say who it was. It was to be kept a secret until the new term.
"So why didn't Ginny come with you guys to come pick me up?" Hermione asked.
"She was still sleeping. We left really early this morning because we had some things to pick up at Diagon Alley, we didn't feel like waking her. She would've been bloody mad."
"Oh."

Harry turned on the CD player and put in a random CD, and turned it up. Hermione had recognized the song and started singing along.

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'Drink down that gin and kerosene,
And come spit on bridges with me.
Just to keep us warm,
And light a match and leave me be.
I keep my jealousy close,
It's all mine.
And if you say this makes you happy,
Then I'm not the only one lying.

Keep quiet,
Nothing comes as easy as you.
Can I lay in your bed all day?
I'll be your best kept secret,
And your biggest mistake.
The hand behind this pen relieves the failure everyday.

Keep quiet,
Nothing comes as easy as you.
Can I lay in your bed all day?
I'll be your best kept secret,
And your biggest mistake.
The hand behind this pen relieves the failure everyday.

I keep my jealousy close,
It's all mine.
And if you say this makes you happy,
Then I'm not the only one lying.
Drink down that gin and kerosene,
And come spit on bridges with me.
Just to keep us warm,
And light a match and leave me be.

Keep quiet,
Nothing comes as easy as you.
Can I lay in your bed all day?
I'll be your best kept secret,
And your biggest mistake.
The hand behind this pen relieves the failure everyday.

So wear me like a locket around your throat,
I'll weigh you down, I'll watch you choke.
You look so good in blue, you look so good in blue.

So wear me like a locket around your throat,
I'll weigh you down, I'll watch you choke.
You look so good in blue, you look so good in blue.

Keep quiet,
Nothing comes as easy as you.
Can I lay in your bed all day?

Keep quiet,
Nothing comes as easy as you.
Can I lay in your bed all day?
I'll be your best kept secret,
And your biggest mistake.
The hand behind this pen relieves the failure everyday.

Keep quiet,
Nothing comes as easy as you.
Can I lay in your bed all day?
I'll be your best kept secret,
And your biggest mistake.
The hand behind this pen relieves the failure everyday.'

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Once the song was over, the tension eased and they were almost to The Burrow.
'Just what I needed,' Hermione thought, 'just what I needed.'

Credit to Fall Out Boy for the song - Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner.
That was longer than the first chapter, that for sure.
I made sure I made it longer because the first chapter was really short.
Sorry about that.
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