A/N Alright so here's the next one! =] A little later than I wished but my muse decided to take a random break on me and not come back... Grr. Haha Well here it is. Prompt was 'Beautiful inside and out' the pairing was Hermione and Krum courtesy of Rita Arabella Black! =] Hope ya like it.
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People stared at him regulary. He was used always being the topic of discussion wherever he went; heads always turned in his direction to get a better look. Pens were always pointing at him with the same question. 'Can you sign my …' Always something different, but yet the same. It gets tiring after a while. Boring. Unproductive.
No one knew the real side of him; the nonathletic, sensitive, introverted person. He was really the one who loved to read and write. No one knows he bits his lip when he gets nervous which is during almost every game. No one knows. He's a hidden person, well only half of him. People know one side. The fame side. The side where he is popular.
That's why he likes her so much. She doesn't care that he's a famous seeker. She just goes about her business as if he isn't there. When people crowd around him, she just sits in her seat, across the room, in the boring library. It was as if no one was in the room except her and the books. In her mind, there were no screaming fans, or even Krum; it was just Hermione.
That's when he finally decided to go over and talk to her. It took him a long time to get the courage to. It took him even longer to think of what he would say when he finally got her talking. He had never seen her talk to anyone except Potter and that red head that follows him around. It was worth a try though.
"Hello," Krum spoke simply, in fear that his natural nervousness would show if he said too much. Hermione's head snapped up from the book she was reading when she heard his voice from behind her. That Bulgarian accent was noticeable from a mile away.
"Uhm...hey," she whispered as an answer, but turned it out as more of a question.
"I vas vundering something," I murured. She raised her eyebrows in response. "Vill you go to the ball with me?"
She looked shocked. Which she kind of was. Why, out of everyone at this school, would he ask her? "Why me? There's a lot prettier girls than me that would just love to go with you," she told him as she looked down at her feet.
"You are beautiful, inside and out," he smiled at her with a crooked smile that she loved and actually returned one herself.
"I'd love to go to the Ball with you, Viktor." While she spoke to him, the large smile was still intact on her face. His smile got bigger as he reached for her hand, and together walked up to Gryffindor tower, where he gave he a shy kiss on the cheek before returning to his own chambers.