A/N-This is my first fic. I do not promise to upload fast, so to encourage me to do so, please R&R. No, that does not mean Rest and Relax. I'm really sorry about the possible spelling errors, I desperately NEED a beta.

Disclaimer: fan fiction-noun; a fictional account written by a fan of a show, movie, book, or video game to explore themes and ideas that will not or cannot be explored via the originating medium. Is it clear enough that I do not own HP (though I wish I did).

Chapter 1 -

She sat down on her bed, head in her hands and attempted to calm down. a few nights of helping Ron and Harry with THEIR problems as well as her studying had left her completely disorganized. Most people thought that cleanliness and organization were as natural to her as her love of school, but it was not so. She spent nearly an hour every night cleaning up the dormitory; putting everything in its correct place. Her pack-ratting tendencies did not help either. She had a stash of ALL her school papers from the previous years under her bed, all organized by subject, year, and date. So when she woke up this morning to find all of her jeans in the dirty laundry basket, she felt lost.

"Out of bed, you sleepyhead!" a little redhead chimed from the door, "Hurry up Herms, breakfast ends in fifteen minutes an you're sitting here in a towel. What's wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong Gin, I'm just tired. " she lied, "Are Harry and Ron up yet?"

"I think so, but I'd better go check on them just to make sure. Hurry up!" and with that she was gone.

"I cannot believe I could have gotten my laundry into this much of a mess!" she thought out loud, "I cannot wear my other jeans again, that's just grose." Another unsuccessful search of her wardrobe followed. I the end, she found some bright orange pants her mother had given her that summer. Looking at the clock, she realized she did not have time for anything else, those pants were her last chance. She quickly pulled them on along with some clean, but unfortunately mismatched socks (one was tie-dyed green and the other had blue and purple stripes), a black and pink top that scooped down a bit too low for her comfort (her last clean shirt), and took her cloak along. On her way down the girl's staircase, she cast a charm on her hair to calm it down. Then she realized that she forgot to take her bag and had to dash back up and get it. She fumbled with the doorknob until the door flew open by a burst of uncontrolled magic. Everything would have been fine except Parvati just had to choose that moment to come up to the dormitory and the door hit her. Hard. Herms muttered "sorry" and rushed to get to the great hall.

She glanced down at her watch and realized she still had seven minutes until the bell rang. she was surprised by this but grateful. PMS tended to increase her appetite hugely and she missed dinner because of homework. Snape had assigned a four foot essay on the use of the syrup of hellebore.

After the mad dash to get down there, she was really glad to see that Harry and Ron had saved a seat for her. She sat down and piled food on her plate more energetically than even Ron. Two pancakes drowned in syrup were quickly followed by a blueberry muffin and a bowl of cereal. She washed it down with a goblet of orange juice. In the middle of spreading jelly on her toast and biscuit, she noticed that Harry was talking to her. Let me rephrase that, screaming at her.

"HERMIONE, will you listen to me?"

Startled, she looked up, "Yes, I'm listening."

"Good, ...Now I forgot what I was going to say."

Thankfully, the bell rang just then and he and Ron had to run off to charms. She was left in peace to wrap her piece of toast and jelly biscuit in a napkin so she could eat them in arithmancy.

-(!)-

The professor was slightly blind so everyone could get away with stuff. Others abused the privilege (by abused I mean, molested, decapitated, and used necromancy to bring it back to life) but she only ate her breakfast in there and sometimes passed a note or two to her friend from Ravenclaw - Alexandria Eyleen, Andy for short. (A/N I know it should be Alex, but I like Andy better. I think she does too.)

As soon as she entered the class, Mr. Dragon Of Bad Faith. decided to comment on her outfit, "Halloween is two weeks away, Granger" She decided to ignore him and went to her desk. She found it hard to concentrate on the lesson (a muggle way of coding using matrices) due to a little paper bird gnashing at the back of her neck. She lasted another five whole seconds of enduring the annoyance that felt like paper cuts getting salted lemon juice squished on them before she turned and grabbed the origami by the throat and opened the note. it was from no other than the infamous Malfoy Junior.

Mudblood, If you're wearing those beauties to get someone's attention, you're on the wrong track. I could give you some tips if you meet me in the Slytherin locker room this afternoon right after dinner. I might just be able to help, or at least, pull them off of you.

signed,

the hottest guy in the school, if you just allowed yourself to admit it

Before she even finished the first note, another one was rolling itself up next to her ear like a pencil. This one was from Andy.

Herms, I LOVE your orange...ummm...jean like thingies. You know, you can wear them at other times too, not just on Halloween.

with hugs and kisses from that special someone you're thinking about but won't tell me who it is,

Andy

Embarrassed, she stuffed the letters in her bag and attempted to take notes until the end of class.

-(!)-

Her before lunch class was free ever since she dropped muggle studies. She went back to Gryffindor tower to get started on the project that Professor Vector had just assigned, but, instead, she was greeted by Ron screaming, "Pumpkin, I need your help on this homework! Flitwick said to describe the six advantages to non verbal spells and I can only remember four."

She walked over, surprised at her new nickname, but she attributed it to her outfit, "You don't have 'saving your vocal cords' or 'protecting the eardrums of those around you'"

"Thanks, you're a lifesaver, though I did choke on one of those once." he replied scribbling away.

A/N-I still have a little bit of this story written, so I might update it soon. remember to R&R. it only takes a few seconds of your time, but it maks me happy. and you know that when I'm happy, I will have the motivation to type up another chapter.