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*Now on to chapter 2*

Hermione Granger awoke with a shock, gasping for breath. As she took in the sight of her darkend bedroom, her heartbeat slowed and she remembered, it was just The Dream. The same strange, intoxicating dream that had haunted her on and off for years. As always waking up from it brought the pain of disappointment into the pit of Hermione's stomach, as she foung herself missing him. This person who didn't even exist.

She'd been just a little girl when she'd first begun dreaming of him, so young that she hadn't yet resembled the teenager in the mirror. The dreams began to flood her consciousness with a new urgency, as if they were trying to tell her something. Hermione frowned as she slumped back against her pillows, wondering if she would ever understand. But then, Confusion and Mystery had been principal players in her life since the day she was born.

Hermione rolled over onto her side, facing her bedroom window, and listening to the waves lapping the shore outside. The sound alone usually lulled her to sleep quickly, but not that night. She couldn't seem to get those sapphire eyes out of her head. Eyes that she had practically memorized, without ever having seen them in her waking life.

"See that I'm everywhere, everywhere, shining down on you..."

The pulsing hip-hop beat of the some "Shining Down" Blared from Hermione's wand Alarm the next morning. She unearthed her head from the covers and pressed the tip of her wand to hit the snooze. How could it be morning already? It felt like just moments earlier that she had managed to fall back to sleep.

"Hermione!" A voice sand out from across the hall. "Are you up? I made pancakes, come eat them before they get cold."

Hermione's eyes flickered open. Sleep or pancakes? That was a no-brainer. Her mouth was already beginning to water at the thought of her mom's specialty. She threw on the robe and fuzzy slippers that her friend Ginny got her for her birthday last year. And padded through the modest house until she reached the cozy kitchen. Jean Granger was in her usual morning mode, sipping coffee while studying her newest clothing designs in her sketchbook. The crinkly sound of Jean's favorite old jazz record, by none other than her grandmother June Granger wchoed from their vintage record player.

"Good morning, sweetie," Jean greeted her daughter, looking up from her sketchbook with a smile.

"Morning." Hermione leaned over to give her mom a kiss and glanced at the sketch she'd been working on. A long, flowing dress with a bit of indian kinda feel to it.

"I like it," Hemione said approvingly. She settled into her seat in front of a plate of golden pancakes topped with strawberries. "And I definitely love this." Hermione said while taking a big wiff of the delicousness.

"Bon appetit." Jean grinned. "Speaking of food, do you have lunch plans with the girls today?"

Hermione shrugged as she inhaled her first forkful of delicious pankcake. "Just the usual, nothing special."

"Well, I have a free afternoon, so I was thinking I could pick you up at lunch and we could go for burgers at the pier." Jean suggested. "What do you say?"

Hermione gave her mom a sideways look. "You still feel sorry for me don't you?"

"What? No!" Jean said innocently.

Hermione raised an eyebrow at her.

"Okay, fine," Jean said, relenting. "I don't feel sorry for you because I know your so much better off without him. But I can't stand to see you hurt."

Hermione nodded, looking away. It had been two weeks since her first real boyfriend, Ron Weasley, had brokedn up with her on the last day of wizarding school. His exact words had been "Babe, you know I think you're the best and all, but I can't have the baggage of a relationship right now. I gotta live up my time here and play the field ya know. So Hermione had to start the summer off broken hearted and it only got more painful as she found out the Ron was now dating Lavender Brown.

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