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-Chapter 15: Discovered-
'A kiss? What does he mean they're betting me a kiss?' Hermione thought, barely listening to the lecture Professor Flitwick was discussing.
Ever since Noby told her this she had been pre occupied with the thought. She knew she had to talk to Draco, Harry and of course – the unexpected – Ginny.
"Hermione" someone whispered.
She sighed heavily, she had never been so confused before, not even for her school work. She never thought she'd live the day to be so confused especially with such thoughts.
"Hermione!" the voice said again a little more louder than before.
"H-Huh? Yes Professor I will do my h-" she stopped abruptly as she spotted her best friends looking at her incredulously and that nobody else was left in the classroom but them.
"What the bloody hell are you talking about? I don't look like Flitwick!" he said rather offended at the thought that he looked as old as the Charms professor. "Do I?" he added as he faced Harry who raised an eyebrow at him.
"What do you think?"
"No!"
"Well, there you have it!" he rolled his eyes and sighed then looked back at his other best friend. "You okay 'Mione?"
"Of course! What made you think other wise?"
"Well, first of all, you were muttering to yourself about kissing and then Ginny's name came up...y-your not a-a..."
"A what?" she asked crudely.
"A lesbian...are you?" Harry asked as he bowed down his head for even considering Hermione was a homosexual.
"Are you mad?" Hermione shrieked as she stood up and paced the room, arms crossed.
"Woah 'Mione! Calm down, I never seen you so uptight and irritable like this before, except when we had our OWLs" Ron stated as he sat down on her desk.
"What do you mean uptight and irritable!" she shouted yet again "I certainly am not! I-I just have a lot of things in my mind that's all, and I don't like it...I have never been so confused in my life and it's driving me nuts!"
"Well...talk to someone, you could talk to us. It could lighten up the load you have in that crowded brain of yours" Harry said bluntly.
Hermione stopped and glared at him and he bowed back down his head.
"Oh and Harry?" she asked in a calm voice.
Harry looked up slowly, seeing her slowly walking towards him in a seductive way. His eyes slowly started to widen and he noticed – from the corner of his eye – that Ron's ears were reddening, probably because of his best friend is seducing his other best friend or he's just plain jealous. He wanted to smirk at this but Hermione was now mere centimeters away from him, one small move and his lips would touch hers. Then, she had done the unexpected.
"I am not a lesbian!" she shouted in front of his face and turned around swiftly and slammed shut the door.
Silence.
Harry still looked shocked by what happened he still didn't move until...
"AHAHAHAHAH!!!!" someone was certainly enjoying this. "AHAHAHAHAH!!!!"
Harry turned to see his best friend, and looked down on him...literally, because Ron was on the floor clutching his stomach – obviously from the pain – and he had tears on his eyes which was wiped off by his other hand.
"AHAHAHAHAH!!!!" he continued laughing and stomping his feet on the ground.
"You're mad! Get up, and stop laughing!" Harry said as he crossed his arms, face flushed.
"Y-you, t-tha...s-she was s-s-soooo...AHAHAHAH!!!!" Ron didn't have enough energy to continue what he had said and to even stop laughing.
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'Really!' Hermione thought incredulously. 'A lesbian? I mean...c'mon! What's the use of this change if they start to consider me a lesbian? Sure, call me a lesbian when all I wear are this tight skirts and shirts that can hardly even make me breath, it-'
Hermione stopped her thoughts as she stopped on the spot. She was about to turn a corner when she over heard voices, which was just around the corner she was about to take. She leaned her tilted her head to see whoever it was talking.
She raised an eyebrow.
It was Parvati and Lavender, and was talking in whispers just by the portrait of the Fat Lady; Hermione could barely hear a word they were saying. She leaned in closer.
"Oh c'mon Parvati..."
"No, we must be patient with this"
"But I'm tired of waiting, why can't we just make a bet again that he can't do it until a week? I mean, December?" Lavender said a bit louder than before.
"Shhh!!" Parvati hissed as she looked around to see if anyone overheard them.
She looked back at Lavender and started talking again, but now in much more lower voices, it was close to impossible to hear what they were talking about.
"I said...time...at least...have fun along the way" Hermione was all Hermione made out of what Parvati said.
She tilted her again to take a peek, just when a short blonde boy with a camera came skipping towards them from their other side.
"Hey girls!" Colin shouted.
"Creevy! I said keep that big trap of yours shut!" Lavender hissed at the 5th year.
Colin grinned sheepishly and made a zipping motion over his mouth.
"As I was saying, all Garnet said is that they're friends again and that Malfoy is evading"
"That's all?" Lavender asked as Parvati nodded in reply. "Well that was a load of help" she said sarcastically then pouted and added with a disappointed tone in her voice "c'mon! We wouldn't need to hear that again, because even the whole school already knows!"
Lavender and Parvati continued arguing about how useless this "Garnet" was in whispers with Colin following them closely as they walked.
Hermione couldn't hear a word they were saying anymore so she stole a peek at them just when Lavender was putting a small piece of parchment from a loose stone on the wall near the portrait.
"Don't you girls have anything to do than sneak around and disturb everyone?" the portrait of the fat lady said loudly, who had awoken from her short nap.
"Shhhh!!!" Parvati said as Lavender handed her the note.
"I can and will talk as much as I want until your three go on and stop disturbing me during my nap time, I'm a busy portrait you know! Always walking up at the least expected of times just to hear you say the passwords to let you in. Even at the dead of the night you..." As the fat lady continued her whining, she saw the three students walk fast towards the other corridor opposite her.
Hermione waited for a while to make sure none of them comes back, then slowly walked slowly towards the portrait silently as not to annoy the fat lady.
The fat lady looked at her suspiciously but has not said a word since she wasn't making any noise at all.
Hermione smiled at her then opened up the loose stone and took out the parchment that Lavender put inside.
Garnet
Thanks for the 411 but we already knew that, can we ask a favor though? Keep Harry close to Hermione, don't let her get to close to Malfoy. Thanx.
P&L
"What?" Hermione said in a whisper. Then added a bit more loudly than intended "What are they planning on doing with me, Harry and Draco?"
"Not you too! Do you know I have to put up with all you students everyday? I only agreed to be assigned to be the Gryffindor entrance portrait because I thought it was only in this house that the students follow the rules and..."
"Sorry!" Hermione told her as she rolled up the parchment and placed it back inside the loose stone. She paused for a while before she ran to the corridor she came from.
'I don't believe this!' she thought to herself, letting her feet take her wherever it desired to go 'they're plotting something against me and Draco!'
She stopped for a while and thought.
"And who the bloody hell is Garnet?" she asked herself loudly and irately then started to walk again.
"Garnet" Hermione muttered again and again "Garnet, Garnet, Garnet, Garnet..." she stopped.
"Garnet? Garnet means crimson, crimson means red..." she placed her hand on her chin and thought...hard, trying to remember her thoughts of what Noby told her about someone spying on her.
"It be about that girl yee were talking to...she is spying on yee"
'The girl I was talking to...Ginny. Ginny, Red, Red...red hair! Ginny!! So that's it! Noby was telling me that Ginny was spying on me...Garnet is Ginny!' Hermione thought as she let her feet walk again.
"Hermione?" someone asked her from behind.
She still walked on.
"Hermione!" the person said more loudly that Hermione stopped and turned to the source of the voice.
"Where do you think you're going?" Draco said as he jogged towards her.
"No where" Hermione said without looking at him, still in deep thought.
"Well, your no where is towards the Slytherin dungeons"
"Huh?" Hermione said as she glanced at him then behind her and saw that the stairs going down towards the dungeons were at the end of the corridor, where she was walking towards "Oh sorry" she said as she blushed and walked past him.
"Wait, what's wrong with you? And where are you going?" Draco said as he walked beside her.
'Anywhere! It doesn't matter, they're plotting something against us' she thought as she looked into Draco's concerned eyes. 'Hang on, the note said not to let Draco come near me, if I do the opposite, then maybe they're plan might be ruined...whatever their plan is'
"Ermm...around" she replied unsurely.
Draco raised an eyebrow.
Hermione rolled her eyes then pulled him after her.
"Just come one and take a walk with me," she said bluntly as she headed towards the entrance hall.
"Where are we going? The grounds?"
"Uh-huh" she said continuing to pull him as she reached the entrance doors and walked down the stairs to the grounds where most of the students were, relaxing for their break.
Hermione looked around in hope to see the particular people she wanted to see...then she smiled then continued walking towards the edge of the lake and plopped herself down.
"I thought you wanted to take a walk"
"Nah, I just want to have some fresh air and just lie around to relax," she said as she patted the spot of grass beside her to let him sit next to her.
When he did, she looked around her.
Harry and Ron where under the beech tree talking with Dean and Seamus probably about Quidditch since in front of them was The Daily Prophet opened to the sports section.
Not to far away were Ginny and her friends, they were just talking but Hermione noticed Ginny stealing a few glances at Harry's direction.
A few meters away from Hermione's right side, also by the edge of the lake was Parvati and Lavender talking in hushed whispers. Through the corner of her eye, Hermione knew they were looking at her and Draco ever since she sat on the ground, so she didn't look at their direction.
"Hermione?" Draco said from beside her, bringing her attention back to him.
"Yeah?"
"What's wrong?"
"What do you mean?"
"Your acting weird, like someone's following you or something"
"Oh it's nothing, I'm just...tired, is all" she smiled at him for noticing and caring, then laid her head on his shoulder.
"Hermione, I-I need to...tell you something"
"What is it?"
"I..." Draco leaned his head towards her, closing the distance between their lips.
Ringgggg..."I err...got to go to class!" Draco said immediately.
Hermione looked put down and stood up with Draco helping her.
"Okay, c'mon then" she said disappointed as they walked back towards the castle with the other students.
-End of Chapter-
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