Chapter 12: Insecurities

When Hermione arrived at the common room, Ginny was already there, sitting on the couch staring at the fireplace, it was clear enough she was deep in her thoughts, she must have felt bad that I left her to eat breakfast to herself, Hermione thought to herself as she sat down next to her

"Ginn…am sorry I left you earlier…it's just that…" Hermione tried to explain to her

"It's okay Mione, no need to explain at all…" Ginny said as she looked at Hermione and then back to the fireplace

"Are you sure?" Hermione asked a bit guilty of what she did

"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" Ginny asked with a bit of frustration in her voice

She thought leaving Ginny would be the best thing for her right now, maybe she was starting to think about everything that was happening, before she left,

"Don't forget we have a meeting tonight…" Hermione said as she walked to her room

Closing it shut behind her, everyone was acting strangely now, and that made her want to cry, everything was different from the last few years at Hogwarts and they were almost graduating from Hogwarts, everything would be perfect by then,

that is if they survive the war as she thought about it tears started rolling down her eyes, she whipped them Here I go again being so emotional, I don't have anything to be worried about…" she said to herself as she lied down on her bed

Taking a small red box out of her drawer, she took everything out of the box, holding a framed picture in her hand; it was a picture of Ginny and her on their last Christmas dinner with the Weasley family, as they gave each other a small hug

Then she took a small pendant out of a smaller red box, it was made of pure gold with small diamonds on the side that formed her name, it was Harry's gift last Christmas, it was precious to her, but she never really thought of wearing it,

Remembering the way Harry had given it to her, she blushed at the memory making her place it back all of a sudden, what am I thinking? She said as she placed it back on her drawer

As she lay down on her bed again, lost in her thoughts of the past, she suddenly fell asleep,

Few Hours later…

When she woke up; darkness filled her room as the light from the fireplace came through the door's opening, she heard someone talking next to the fireplace

She came out of her room to see who was outside, surprised to see Harry with a girl sitting next to him sitting on the couch, as they laughed and giggled to something,

"Harry?" she asked as she stood next to her door

"Oh, hey Mione!" Harry said as he and the girl glanced at her

"Do you know where Ginny is?" she asked trying to ignore the girl's glances, she kind of felt insecure when she saw her with him, but thought it was nothing at all

"I don't really know, she went out some time ago…" he added as he gave a quick glance at the girl

"Thanks…" Hermione said as she opened the door to her room, but before she could get in "Oh, by the way, this is Cho, the girl I've been paired up?" Harry said as he and Cho stood up and looked at her with a smile, giving her hand for her to shake

Hermione stopped and starred at them, "Oh, it's a pleasure Cho, really..." Hermione said as she pretended to ignore her hand and went in her room as pissed as ever

She changed her shirt and headed out to go to tonight's representatives meeting, when she came out her room Harry and Cho were already gone, must have headed out already she wondered to herself as she rolled her eyes

When she arrived at the room it was still empty, only Cedric was inside, writing something on the board, "Excuse me…" she said politely trying to get his attention

"Mione? You're here early then ever?" Cedric asked her stopping his writing as he looked at her in surprise

"Yeah, couldn't find everyone else so I thought they were already here…" she said as she came closer to where he was standing

"Perfect timing…here…your in charge of today's announcement…am kind of tired from everyone's negative reactions…am sure you can handle it better…" he said as he handed her a clipboard with papers with their names on it and the things that were going to be assigned to them

"Okay…" she said unsurely as she glanced at the board trying to familiarize it in her head

When people started entering the room, one at a time, noise started filling the once quiet room, "Please guys! Take your sits with your assigned partner!" Hermione said raising her hand for everyone to see

Everyone followed as they sat next to their partners, it looks like there wasn't any problem, they didn't have any problems chatting with one another, or at least that's what she thought, "Malfoy you asshole!" Ginny yelled as she and Draco came in the room

"What do you know Weasel?" Draco hissed at her

Hermione rolled her eyes at the sight of Ginny and Draco fighting with another the minute they entered the room, "We were about to start…" Hermione said interrupting their little argument, taking their sits next to each other

"Glad everyone could make it…" Hermione continued on saying, as she caught the sight of Harry and Cho giggling as they came in late from the others, how can that be when they left the room before she did? She wondered to herself as she carefully watched them take their sits

"As I was saying…were all here because your each going to be assigned a task…for each pair to be exact…" she tried continuing when she kept glancing over to Harry and Cho, that distracted her, making her loose her consciousness of her announcement

"Mione? You okay?" Cedric asked as he came to where she was standing

"Yeah, I am now…" she said as she finally gained her senses and continued on with her announcement, "Ginny and Draco will be assigned to food and drinks…"

"Food and drinks?" Draco said sarcastically

"Duh! What else did she say? Don't tell me your getting deaf Malfoy" Ginny teased, Draco was pissed but let it slide

"While Harry and Cho will be assigned to the music…" Hermione continued on

After she had said every last name, "Okay guys, I guess that's all for now…I'll be needing all of these by the end of the brake" she said relieved, as everyone stood up and chatted with their pair heading for the door, and that included Harry and Cho, that sight despised her as she watches them go out the door

"You were great assistant…" Cedric complimented as she handed him the clipboard back

"Thanks…I better head back now…" Hermione said as she turned her back to head to the door

"Don't you want to have something to drink? Some tea maybe?" he suggested with a smile, "I won't take 'no' for an answer…" he added

Hermione saddened by his sudden suggestion, "That sounds simply delightful…" she said with a smile, "Let me just get my sweater from my room…"

"Okay, I guess I'll meet you out in a few minutes?" he asked as he placed his things on his bag

"Okay, just give me 5 minutes…" she said as she hurried out the door and into the common room to head to her room, who was surprised by Harry and Cho on the couch with a box filled with c.d.'s

She ignored them as she headed in her room and grabbed her sweater, when she was just about to leave, "You going out Mione?" Harry asked as he starred at her

"Yeah, I am…" she said as she walked a step forward but was blocked by Harry

"With whom?" he asked curiously

"Why do you care?" she asked a bit annoyed

"What's wrong with you Mione? You're not usually like this…" he said as he placed his hand on her arm, ignoring the fact that Cho was still in the room

"Yeah, just have fun with your new playmate…" she said pushing her way through him, ignoring him as she headed out the halls

I've been doing a little more research on the characters and some other things to improve the story more...so please give reviews on what you think of the story!...Thanks...