I am so so so so so so so so so (breath) so so so so so so-so sorry for not updating for like a year! Oh my gosh its been so loooooong! Hahaha- but I really hope you guys like this chapter! And just so you know snapes other detention in rescheduled to 3 weeks later instead of 3 days!

Going it alone

I sat on the Gryffindor table alone gazing outside the window looking at the snow falling gracefully and silently like a thousand doves floating from the mass of a clear blue sky so peaceful so pure. It had been three weeks since Ron and Lavender had become boyfriend and…girlfriend I had seen them everywhere. And when I say everywhere I mean everywhere. I was like they were stalking me constantly following me around kissing…or something close to that and holding hands like they were permently stuck like that it was like a constant reminder of the boy I didn't get…the boy I will never get.

The scape of a chair interrupted my deep thoughts and a familiar voice broke through the silence

" –Er Hermione could you pass me the bread please?" the voice says, I sigh. Ron. Nevertheless I quietly slip him the bread and return to my now soggy cornflakes.

"thanks" he mutters

But less than two minutes later he speaks again.

"Hermione could you pass me the jam please?" he says quietly i look around and spot the jam just like 5 inches away from him what's he playing at? Not even he's that lazy. The teensiest smile appears on my face but I don't care I pass it to him anyway. Now less than 30 seconds later he speak again.

"Hermione err could you please pass me the table?" he says. I sigh again but I reach out to the ta-

"That's a good one" I say quietly retrieving my hand as he laughs at my stupidity. However I can't help but smile. Blue meets brown we hold our gaze as if were having a staring completion his eyes are as blue as the sky calm and…happy. I look quickly away and eat my cornflakes but I still feel his eyes on me. A few minutes pass then suddenly

"Hermione I-"

"Oooooooh! There you are won won!" a horribly familiar voice says " I was wondering where you had got to!-I missed you!" lavender squealed for crying out loud the last time she saw him was yesterday night!

"Oh um hi lavender!" Ron says with an impassive tone. Lavender however didn't seem to notice at all "Oh Ron your looking soooo great with all those quiditch practices!" she says in an overly flirtatious voice. I think I seriously need a bucket so I can throw up in. to my utter relive harry comes to my aid.

"Hey guys" he says glumly and sits down "I've just gotten up butt I already feel like it's going to get bad" harry say to me looking like he wants to dump he's head in his cereal. I laugh quietly

"Join the club" I say he chuckles and looks up.

"Oi Ron could you pass me the toast?" harry says and at the very moment I can Ron's eyes as we both hastily look away. I stifled a giggle and huge grin sets itself upon Ron's face. Unfortunately lavender seemed to noticed.

"Wonnie? Why are look at her!" she sneers rudely eyeing me "look at me" she says in a loud whisper turning his head sharply around to face her urgggghhh she is such and attention seeker!

"If you wanna spend more time kissing him try not to snap his neck" I hear someone say- everybody looking at me oh gosh! Did I just say that out loud? oh shoot! Harry snorts and quickly turns to talk to Seamus to pass it of as just a talking. Lavender turns to me seeing red… uh –oh I better go now. Ahhhhhh why did I just say that? I've already heard her talking about me in a –not-so-quietly voice in the dorm this is just gonna cause more trouble.

"Err I gotta go guys but Harry, Ron- lavender." I quickly excuse myself and turn around but as I approach the great hall door I feel a hand on my shoulder and a voice in my ear.

"At least I've got someone to kiss who have you got- a picture of a celebrity that's your never gonna meet?" she sneers "plus I've heard that you've liked him since your second year- aww poor you I've only stated liking him this year and I've already got him-so let's just make this clear ok he's mine and you can't have him so back off!" she finishes cruelly. She about to walk away and I can't let her get away with that.

"Lavender? I don't know who your source's are but I became friends with Ron because of his humour and his skinny sweet 1st year self… not his Quditch mucsles" I say and quickly walk off leaving her shooting daggers at my back.

...

I don't understand why she gets so jealous when half the day she is always with him talking laughing…kissing urgggh it's like she has to know what he's doing every minute of every day, I think I'm just getting very annoyed because I haven't been able to ice-skate for a long time.

Talking about Ron and ice-skating i wonder what he was about to say before lavender came? I mean Ron hasn't exactly said to me to my face" I don't want to ice skate with you anymore" but like I said we haven't had much to talk about…anything. Just then like someone had slapped me into relation a though hit me, maybe that's what he was going to say- that he didn't want to ice skate anymore with me? Or at all? Maybe I'm just over-reacting but I could not fight the feeling as tears welled up in my eyes and I quickly dashed away but I wasn't quick enough as the tears leaked over before I could stop them.

I put on my gear and storm out of the dormitories, completely forgetting to put my usual delusional charm on…

...

I trudge slowly through the snow looking at the white ground all I can think about is how Ron and how badly I miss him, I just want everything to go back to nor-

"Ahhhhhhhhh!" I scream as I collide with something big…very big.

"Hargid?" I say almost speechless

"Hermione?" he says just as surprised ohhhhh damn it! Why I camouflage myself! I stand there not knowing what to do.

"Hermione!" Hagrid says again this time draping his huge mole skin coat around me. I stagger under the weight "yer' gonna, catch a cold!" he says, I laugh "hagrid I'm fine honestly!" I say almost weak with relief that he didn't notice my ska-

"Hermione! why didn't yer tell me that you were an ice skater!" Hagrid says I freeze still as a dear being hunted; all I can possibly think is-

"How d-do you know?" I stutter I feel like I'm gonna collapse from surprise…or this coat.

"Well it's a long story when I was about ten years old I accidently stumbled into the muggle world. One minute I was in diagon alley the next I was in the muggle world! It was snowing and I saw some people in these wee littl' miny skirts! I thought they were bonkers! Dressing like that in the snow! So I went up to them and I saw they 'ad some sunny shaped shoes stickin' out from their backpacks.

So I went to them an' said

"why yer' dress like that in the middle of winter?" and for some reason they laughed! And said

"why were ice-skaters!" and walked away but I think they thought I was older then I was because I was so tall cause one of them gave me a piece of paper with some numbers on it I don't know what it was so I gave it to a person walking by maybe he would have had more use for it. So that's why I know that you're an ice-skater!" Hagrid finished I stared up at him dumb struck…there are some many unexpected things about Hagrid.

"B-but H-hagrid!—you! –how? –it's called a telephone number!-ooooh you won't tell anyone would you Hagrid?" I cried. Hagrid chuckled

"Don't worry I don't even knew what ice-skaters really do!" he admitted. Then suddenly a bright smile appeared on his hairy face. "could you show me!"Hagrid suddenly says. That snapped me out of my thoughts. I completely forgot that I was going to ice skate- even though we had be talking about it!

"Well I-I guess so." I say there no point of hiding it anymore. Hagrids face split into a huge grin, and stood there looking at me expectantly " well aren't you gonna do something then?" he laugh confused. I smiled Hagrid can be so clueless sometimes

"Hagrid-er I have to get on the ice first!" I smile

"oh-OH! of course! Of course silly of me!" he says laughing

I laugh taking off Hargid's enormous jacket stumbled onto the ice. Hagrid suddenly looked alarmed Hermione yer gonna fall!" he shouts waving his arm around helplessly. I laugh

"don't worry I wont" I say. I start by doing a simple lap around the pond Hagrid stares in amazement

"How are yer doin' that!" he says in an awed voice. I chuckle

"ha! Your worse then Ron!" I say then I suddenly stop even at the mention of his name I feel sad I continue to skate when hagrid speaks

"ron knows? And harry I guess?" he says

"yeah" I say still a bit down "they know and ginny but no-one else" I say, I pause and struggle to find the next words "Ron's actually my erm partner in an ice-skating competion im in-no" I say looking at his startled face "I just asked him about 2 months ago- he's just started im teaching him" I say with a pang. Hagrid looks at me.

How come he's no' here then?" he says I stumble on the ice slightly and quickly steady myself

"Well…since –well –som-somthings come up so hes taking a break for a while" I say trying to make my voice as strong as I can but even I notice a tiny crack in my speech.

"Lavender?" hagrid guesses. I nod. "yeah well I no about that –but don't worry he'll come roun' he smiles and I smile back.

"so" I say mischievously " do you want to see the real ice-skating?" hagrid looks puzzled.

"What do you mean I thought you jus' did?" he says " well whatever it is go on then!" he says I grin and stand in the centre of the pond my head faced down ready to do my first routine for the ice competition.

I slowly lift my head up to see Hagrid's confused face and skate backwards, spinning around once lifting off the ground and landing with one foot. I then stated forward as fast as I could stopping abruptly then slowly started to spin with one leg in the air at a 90 degrees angle faster and faster raising in higher and higher until my foot met my face I reached up to hold it there still spinning, then quickly spun it down again. I quickly glided around the pond once, and then skating back into the middle of the pond lifted myself of the ice and did a double axel in the air, and landed with a decent amount of grace curtsying to finish with my head faced down.

I lifted my head up and burst into laughter as I saw Hagrid's face, one of his fingers pointing at me and his eyes strangely out of focus. He suddenly snapped out of it at the sound of my laughter and his face split into another enormous grin.

"that-that was amazing!" he shouted as I clambered of the ice and before I could take one step on the snow I was suddenly airborne as hagrid lifted me of the pond in a back breaking hug I laughed as he put me down

"Thanks" I say smiling hugely

2Youre gonna win that competition for sure!" Hagrid says proudly, I blush and mutter

2theres loads of people better than me hagrid I'm not a professional" I say honestly

"nonsense! You're a natural!" he says

"Thanks" I say again

" so Hermione what's a telephone number?" hargid says puzzled I laugh

"Well its-" I start as we go back to the castle, with us both talking excitedly along the way.

Thanks guys hope you liked it! R&R and thanks so much

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