Chapter 2: Plans

Hermione looked at herself in the mirror. Her friends had been able to do the impossible and more. Her hair was finally frizz and knot free. She was wearing silver small hoop earrings, her silver necklace and a silver ring for her jewelry. She had on a black string bikini with her shortest jean shorts and her platform sandals. The girls painted her nails a deep green and gave her a little clear lip-gloss and light green eye shadow.

She smiled into the mirror. This was the first makeover that didn't make her want to tear her hair out, which was in a half messy bun and half down. The hair that was down was straight to her mid to lower back until a few inches to the bottom which was in soft curls.

A big smile came to her face. She jumped up and grabbed her friends in a hug.

"Thanks guys!" she squealed. "Now lets go to the beach" she said as she grabbed her towel.

The girls jumped into Nikki's car, which her parents bought for her for her seventeenth birthday and drove to the beach. When they got there, Nina grabbed hers and Hermione's surfboards, Julie grabbed the towels and umbrella and Nikki grabbed the c.d. player.

"Hey guys!" Jared said as he walked over to the girls. "Joel and Pierre are chasing after girls and the girls are chasing after Chad." He then noticed Hermione. "Woah! Hermione. Looks like they didn't kill you." He nervously joked. He liked Hermione for a long time and was taken aback because of how radiant she looked.

'She looks so amazingly beautiful. Her looks almost match her inteligence' He joked/thought 'I'd better ask her out soon or else the competition will be too big.'

"Thanks." She said with a big smile. "Um, let's go sit down"

"Yeah" Jared answered. Nina, Nikki and Julia had gone to the boys' towels as soon as they got to the beach.

The two walked over to the rest of their friends. Everyone knew that they both liked each other, but were too nervous to ask each other out. Jared had had a bunch of girlfriends in the past, but none of his relationships ever lasted long. Hermione, o the other hand, had only dated one guy who they didn't know much about. Everyone was hoping that with Hermione's new makeover one of them would ask the other out.

Unfortunately, though, neither of them asked the other one out, but they did decide to go a party tonight. It was at Jared's brother's school, Smeltings or something.

"Hermione, with your new look the guys will be all over you." Julie squealed. Even though she wanted her friends to be together, she still wanted them to have fun.

"Yeah. When my brother found out that I was bringing friends he was

ecstatic. He even started asking about you girls, saying that his group

'ring leader' was single and he wanted to move up in ranks by getting him a girlfriend." Jared said. The eight friends laughed.

"That sounds so much like what goes on at my school" Hermione said,

remembering Malfoy and his cronies.

"Yeah, well, my brother had major dirt on me and my parents would flip if they found out, the night with the possoms and, um, you remember, and you knew the rest of the story, so he made me promise to get his group ring leader guy a date for the party tonight. And he said that he wanted someone hot and the rest of what perverted guys with lots of money and 'power' want."

"It would even be funny if one of us dated him and then broke his heart." Nina said. Everyone laughed at her predictable idea.

"That would actually be fun" Hermione said. Everyone looked at her with confused expressions. "I mean, if one of us dated him and stuff, Jared's brother would 'raise in ranks' for getting the obvious loser a girlfriend,

then whoever does it will dump him as soon as he gets all big headed and will never trust your brother again and he get what he deserves for trying to get this out of blackamil"

"Good idea 'Mione. Thanks for volunteering" Julia said.

"WHAT?"

"It was your idea. You should have the honor. And it would give you a

chance to test the new you" Nina giggled, proud of her creation.

"Plus, Julia and I have boyfriends" Nikki said. She was dating someone from their school who was in Paris for the summer vacation. Julia was dating a college student from a nearby Unversity who went to their school the previous year. Nina wasn't a dater. She just had fun and sometimes enjoyed breaking hearts because of her history with guys.

"But what about Nina? She's good at this stuff" Hermione pleaded.

"Sorry, we've voted." Pierre said with a slap on Hermione's back.

"Yeah. Now you girls had better run along to get her ready." Joel said as he made a motion for the girls to go.

"This is gonna be so much fun" Chad said as he high-fived Jared.

"I see mumsy's little boy is growing up" said a raven haired boy from

behind his pig-like cousin "Going to his first big dance"

"Shove it Potter! Or I'll tell dad" Dudley said as he turned around.

"Running to daddy are you?" Dudley's face began to redden "But aren't you suppose to be able to defend yourself like the little-"

DING DONG

"Sorry to cut our conversation short, but my date is here" Dudley turned away from his cousin and headed for the door.

"Ah, hello Simon and Jennifer." Harry heard Dudley say. He headed for the door to see how ugly Dudley's date looked. Any girl would have to be either desperate or threatened to go out with Dudley. He peeked around the corner to see Dudley talking to one of his cronies. He could tell that this one was one of the younger ones.

"Dudley, this is my brother, Jared, his date, Dana, and his friends, Nina and Chad, Nikki and Pierre, Julie and Joel and your date Hermione"