A/N: Started it this morning but had a lot of free time during class so you can thank all of my teachers for assigning no work.
After Harry realized her absence in the bathroom he looked up and saw Monique who was still standing there.
"…and I love her too." Harry said. He got up brushed down the stairs past Crookshanks and went downstairs. He had secretly wondered where that cat had been all of this time. He went downstairs and caught a glimpse of Hermione's back but then it disappeared. He met up with her mom along the way who was setting up the sodas.
"Harry if you have swim trunks go join Hermione in the pool!" her mother said.
"Yeah okay." Harry told her. He now knew where Hermione was and how to get her. He went through his trunk and dumped all the contents onto the floor. He searched until he found the swim trunks that he had used on the Triwizard tournament. He changed out of the baggy clothes that Dudley had left him and into the swim trunks. He walked downstairs and heard a wolf whistle which came from as he turned around. Monique.
"You sure you like her? Because I'm better than her!"
"Look I don't know you…" Harry said then added, "…but you seem to be the bitchiest cousin and belong with my cousin and that's not a good thing." He continued walking until he came to the pool and saw Hermione in it also surrounded by what he thought to be the rest of her cousins. He traveled and fought the currents of the water to where they were playing with a water volleyball.
"Hermione?" Harry said distracting her from the ball that someone was throwing her way to catch. "Why did you run away like that?"
"Really it's none of your business. So just leave me alone." Hermione said. Since they were throwing the ball her way she got bonked in the head with it.
"Jake! You just can't throw a ball near someone's head when they're not looking it's not polite and someone could get seriously injured!" Hermione reprimanded.
"Sorry!" he apologized, "I thought you were looking." Hermione turned back to Harry.
"Like I said none of your business. You weren't even supposed to hear that." Hermione shouted.
"Well I did okay!" Harry said shouting back. He looked very angry.
"Don't yell at me okay." Hermione said tears starting to show in her eyes.
"Sorry Mione. I shouldn't have yelled at you, but you ran off. I wanted to say I do too."
Hermione turned back around ignoring the water volleyball with her cousins.
"You do?" Hermione asked.
"Yeah," Harry said.
She jumped Harry in the water and kissed him on the cheek. In the end both of them ended up underwater in the deep end.
"Hey" Hermione said when they came up out of the water.
"Hey yourself!" Harry said back as a reply
"Hey dinner's ready!" They heard the voice of Hermione's father say. They gathered in the line of the other family members. Hermione passed Harry a plate and a fork and as they passed she passed him spoons filling plates with pidgeon peas and rice, stewed fish, okra, barbecued ribs and chicken, and plenty of macaroni and cheese.
The food was mouthwatering that as they moved down the line she increasred the speed. They finally moved down the line and Hermione took them to a table. She sat down and said:
"Harry these are my cousins Katherine, Joey, Francesca, and you already met Jake." Signaling to the other teens at the table.
"So what's with you and Monique?" Harry asked.
She sighed and took a bite of her barbecue chicken and began the story.
"It started the day I met her. She came over from America. Of course she's lived everywhere I can think of Denmark, Norway, Ireland, Australia… wherever you can
think of she's been there and that has made her spoiled. All of those places and we were the same age when I met her…ten. Whenever she came over we always had a fight about something or other. Then one time when we were at our old house which had a pool too she started talking about how I wasn't worth anything that I only had my books. That I would never have anything more and that it'd be a miracle one day if I ever got married because I was that ugly. So then there was the day when I had enough or my magic had enough…I don't know which one but the next thing I saw was her in the deep end of the pool. She did the same thing to my dog too. Her name was Gypsy." Harry was gaping at her. Not only for the nasty things that Monique had said to her but the things that she had done back.
"So that's why you hate her so much!
Wait…you knocked her into the pool!" Harry said.
"Yeah it's not like she was hurt seriously. One bruise but she burst out crying like it was a big deal. It was only the deep end and she had taken swimming lessons before!" Harry was still staring at her.
"You know you're beautiful right?" Harry asked.
"No and thank you it's nice to hear sometimes." Hermione said to him while blushing.
"Come on let's finish eating so we can go back to the pool in a while." She finished her food in record speed and said goodbye to her cousins. She grabbed his hand an led him upstairs. Seeing the state of her floor she shrieked.
"Yeah. Sorry 'bout that! Was looking for my swim trunks and they were at the very bottom of my trunk." He started picking up all of his clothes some just clothes others more personal (boxers) others sentimental items (his father's cloak.)
"So what are we doing now?" Harry asked once he was done.
"Showing you a picture of Gypsy!" She produced a picture of a blond cockerspaniel that looked like a puppy. Next to her was a younger Hermione by about 6 years. You can tell that she was about ten years old.
"Awww. She looks so cute." Harry said.
"I know that's why I'm mad at Monique!"
"No…I was talking about you!" Harry told her correctingly. She leaned forward and kissed him on the lips softly.
"Thanks for the compliment!" she said pulling away.
"Your welcome." Harry said softly. He touched his forehead to hers and they stayed like that for a while.
"Ready to go back down to the…"
"Hermione, Aunt Margaret's here." Hermione's mom said.
"Aunt Margaret!" Hermione said
"What's up with Aunt Margaret?" Harry asked.
"She's Monique's mother!"
"And that speaks for itself." Harry said.
"Come on. Let's go downstairs and see the other terror."
"She's that bad."
"No just as embarrassing as Monique is mean."
"That's bad." Harry said sarcastically.
"No kidding."
Hermione grabbed Harry's hand and led him downstairs. She knew that something Aunt Gertrude was going to say was going to be totally uncalled for.
"Hey Aunt Margaret." Hermione said cautiously.
"Hermione…" she said coming over. She hugged her and continued in her ear just loud enough for her and Harry and her mother to hear, "…you've finally grown into a C cup I see."
Hermione's mother snorted into her cup of water and all Harry could say is:
"Really."
Hermione just turned around and glared at Harry. She took of her flip flop and aimed it at Harry who ducked it with his Quidditch skills and turned around and they both started grinning despite their flushed appearance.
A/N: So what'd you think of this chapter I'll try to come up with something to post tomorrow but no promises. Oh yeah I also added it so you can review without logging in and thanks to all the people who sent me those nice reviews so far. Keep reading.
