High School: Heaven or Hell: Chapter Thirteen:
On Monday, Hermione tried her best to avoid Harry. She went to her locker quickly to keep them from meeting there at the same time. In class she terminated all eye contact with him even though she could often feel his eyes on her. After class she would rush out of the classroom before he could catch her. During lunch instead of going to the cafeteria she went to the library.
The bell rung signaling that lunch was over. Hermione placed her book back on the shelf and headed out the library. On her way to class she ran into Ron.
"Hey Hermione!" he exclaimed, then dropped his voice; "If I were you I'll hide" He started to walk away.
"Why?" she asked stopping him. He looked up in the crowd of teenagers.
"That's why" he answered, "and she pissed."
"Hermione!" Harmony exclaimed waddling up to her, "Where were you at lunch?!"
"In the library" she answered.
"The library? What were you doing in the library?"
"Um, studying," Hermione lied. She tried her best not look her sister in the eyes.
"Studying? What were you studying for?"
"Harmony I got to get to class can we talk about this later?" Hermione asked almost desperately. Harmony stared at her sister and then reluctantly let her go. Hermione raced to her physics class, just making it as the bell rung.
"You barely made it Miss Granger," said Mrs. Starr.
"Sorry," she stated quietly. She quickly took her seat in the back of the class. Unfortunately that seat was next to Harry. She, once again, avoided eye contact with him.
"Psst! Hermione," she heard Harry whisper. She said nothing.
"Come on Hermione!" he whispered. Hermione forgot to not look at him. Then spoke a little louder.
"Mione, speak to me!" This brought the attention of the whole class to the back of the room.
"Mr. Potter is there something you wish to share with the class? asked Mrs. Starr sternly.
"No ma'am."
"Well I urge you to complete your assignment!" Harry sighed and brought his attention back to his worksheet but not without glance over at Hermione.
Around 50 to 55 minutes later the bell rung. Hermione quickly gathered her things and walked as quickly as she could out the door. What she didn't know that Harry was right behind her. So before long, Hermione felt someone grab her by her elbow.
"Hermione, wait!" came Harry's voice. She stopped and turned around.
"Hermione, why are you not talking to me?" he asked.
"Um, because," she said looking at the floor.
"Because why? You've been avoiding me like the plague!"
"Because-"
"Oh, Harry! came Brittany's shrill voice. Seconds later she was latched on to Harry's arm.
"Harry, where have you been? And why are you with this loser?" she asked as she smiled at Harry and scolded at Hermione.
"Brittany, not now."
"Why not; don't you like me any more?" she pouted.
"No, it's not that. It's just that I have to talk to Hermione and –"
"No, it's okay we'll talked later," Hermione stated walking away.
"Good, now we can walk to class together," Brittany grabbed Harry's hand and dragged to their next class.
"Brittany, why are doing this?" Harry asked.
"Doing what? All I'm doing is walking to class with you," she stated.
"You saw that I was talking to Mione and you pulled me away from her." Brittany sighed.
"I just really don't see why you would want to hang with that freak. She's a complete social outcast and hanging out her can hurt your reputation."
"I really don't care about my reputation. I consider her a friend and I want to know why she's avoiding me," Harry responded.
"She probably knows that you're out of her league," she mumbled.
"What?"
"Nothing," she said quietly as they walked in the classroom.
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Hermione was just about to close her locker at the end of the day, when she felt eyes watching her. When she turned around she came face to face with Harry.
"Oh my God! You scared the crap out of me. You really gotta-"
"What's wrong?" he stated with seriousness in his voice and face.
"Nothing."
"If nothing's wrong, huh, then why are you avoiding me?" he asked.
"Because…" she looked at the floor.
"'Because' is not an answered." Hermione could clearly see Harry wasn't going to let him go. She sighed.
"It's because I feel odd around you at the moment."
"Why?"
"Cause you saved my life and all and it just… awkward," she answered.
"What's so awkward about it?" he questioned.
"I'm not sure, it just is," she said, "But I do want to thank you for it. You didn't have to come after me."
"I know but I wanted to," he stated, "how about we start all this over?"
"Start over?"
"Yeah as in everything that's happened so far to us we put behind us and pretend like it was when we first met," he explained extending his hand, then getting, "Hi, I'm Harry Potter and you are?"
Giving him a strange look for a moment, she smile and said, "I'm Hermione Granger, nice to meet you."
"Nice to meet you, too. Hey, how about we hang out?" he asked.
"I'm sorry, but I just met you, maybe another time," she said walking off toward the school exit. Harry could do nothing but watch his brown-haired beauty walk down the hall.
"Wait, brown-haired beauty? What's up with that" he thought. Around the corner were Brittany and her two main followers, Alesha and Inara, in their cheerleader practice clothes.
"Oh so they're stating over, are they? Well we'll see if this time goes smoothly," Brittany stated as they turned around and headed to practice.
This time I'm not going to say sorry cause I know you guys are tired of hearing( or reading) it. But let's just say that most of the reason for not updating is after school activities, loads of homework/projects and not time for the extra little things I want to do.