5. The Essentials

Poison- Dior

Characters: Ron, Hermione

Word count: 158

First year

She is impossible.

She is always disdainful when she speaks to him.

She is proud to last degree.

She is exhausting.

She is a walking nightmare.

She has a voice that sounds like the rattles used by the cheering crowds when they encourage their local Quidditch team.

She is grating.

She never gives him credit. Never.

She sees further than he does.

She sees things he has not noticed yet.

She is confident and her stiff manners make his tongue itch with rude words he is able to keep to himself – sometimes.

She makes him feel inferior.

She knows everything.

She is so perfect.

She is killing him.

Wait.

She lies with nerve.

She protects them.

She does not even twitch under Professor McGonagall's percing gaze when the lies slip from her lips.

Suddenly, he is getting used to her.

She is still a nagging pest of a girl.

But she is also his friend.