I'll Be Around Only If You Want Me To

Chapter 5

She gasped and reacted as quickly as she could and ducked down the bludger going over her, but just barely. She saw it circle back around and her eyes widened realizing someone was cursing it but didn't have time to think about who since it was coming at a dangerous speed. She hopped onto her feet and ran down the bleachers but heard the whizzing sound and dropped down, it missing her once again. Unfortunately when she dropped down she tripped and went down the bleachers landing on her stomach.

She rolled on her back and looked around to see the Quidditch players dropping to the ground and start running towards her (they all knew her since she was Harry's best friend), well some to her some to try and wrangle the rouge bludger. She saw it circle back and grabbed the nearest person and hopping on their broom yelled, "Go!" The person nodded quickly and kicked off the ground soaring high. Hermione wrapped her arms around the man's waist and closed her eyes tightly.

She finally looked down and sighed with relief once she saw that a few people had gotten the bludger under control and finally looked to see who's broom she had gotten on. She instantly recognized the back of the head of the man she had loved 'loves…" said a mind in the back of her head then she came to her senses and said strongly, "Take me down." Oliver looked back at her then nodded silently.

Once they were close enough Hermione jumped off the broom and ran over to Harry who hugged her friendly and they started walking away, that is until they heard clapping. Hermione turned around slowly hand instinctively going for her wand then she remembered she didn't have it…

She faced the bleachers as a familiar bleach blond stepped out of the shadows clapping with his Slytherin smirk plastered on his face. "Good show Mudblood, I didn't know you could run that fast." She stayed silent just glaring but boy if looks could kill… "Nothing to say Granger? That's a surprise, usually I can't get you to shut up." Hermione turned away to walk away and Draco continued following her…egging her on, "Oh come on Granger, I've been waiting all summer for this!"

Hermione walked over to Harry and said, "I've got to go." She kissed him on the cheek (FRIENDLY guys!) and continued walking…so did Malfoy.

"So you'll talk to him but not me eh?" Draco looked at Harry then at Wood and then stopped and said, "What you like him better? Are you 'with' (cough cough) him too?" Hermione stopped, " Or is it just Wood?" Hermione turned around and crossed her arms and Malfoy smirked, "Come on, from one teacher to another…are you screwing the Hero or the Keeper."
Hermione laughed once then said, "Well from if it's from one teacher to another…"

Harry looked at Oliver and said, "This isn't going to end well, come on." He started walking towards Hermione with Oliver right behind him.

Draco shrugged, "Come on then."

Hermione shrugged then pounced on him and punched him once or twice before strong arms grabbed her waist dragging her backwards, she got a good kick in before she was thrown over a shoulder and carried away, she kicked and punched trying to get back to Malfoy who was being pulled up by Harry… 'wait…if Harry's over there then who…' she lifted her head to see whoever was carrying her and to her not-so-surprise, it was Oliver.

Oliver brought her into the locker rooms and sat her down on the bench holding her wrists and said, "Just calm down Hermione."

Hermione tried to pull her wrists back standing up and said, "No way, he's asking for it and I'm not going to let him get away with it again!"

Oliver held tight and said, "If you don't calm down I'll-"

"You'll what Oliver! You gave up the right to care about what I did the moment you left!" Hermione yelled and Oliver loosened his grip out of a bit of shock of what she said and she took the chance and pulled her wrists loose. She rubbed them and said, "I'm out of here."

Oliver stopped her by getting in her way and said, "Hermione please, can we talk?"

Hermione sighed angrily and looked away and said, "No, let me pass."

"I won't let you leave until we talk about it."

"About how you left without a goodbye? No let's talk about how you never visited or called or hell even called! For all I knew you were dead, the only reason I knew was from all the hype about you becoming Keeper for this team. No, no, no that's too tame how about we talk about why you chose Quidditch over me!" She said tears forming in her eyes.

Oliver shook his head, "Hermione that's not what I meant-"

Hermione crossed her arms, "Did you ever love me?"

Oliver was shocked and said, "You know I did."

She shook her head and said, "Because maybe I was wrong because a lot of women said that you couldn't love, that you were just in it for sex. Is that what happened? You wanted sex so you said 'I love you' to try to get me into bed. Or maybe you were just polite, or hell maybe it was just a reflection of my feelings and you thought 'what the hell, I'll tell her I love her.'"

"I love you more than I have ever loved anyone!" He said defending himself, "And that's why I won't let you give up teaching for me."

Hermione wiped away some tears in her eyes not allowing them to drop, "Shouldn't that be my choice?" Oliver stood silent and Hermione shook her head pushing past him and he winced knowing how hurt she was. She, meanwhile, walked out of the locker rooms and leaned against the door letting a tear roll down her cheek.