Just A Stupid Crush

Chapter 2

It was the official first day of classes and I was excited. Professor McGonagall was handing out our schedules and while everyone else around me was groaning about his or her schedule, I was looking at mine gleefully. I couldn't wait to begin some of these classes. Especially Defense Against the Dark Arts, but I'm sure you already figured that.

In all my excitement to get my schedule, I almost forgot to "check" (or as Ginny and Natalie would refer to it, stare at) the Head Table. Wait, why-? Oh yeah. I forgot that Remus was here last night. I wonder if he's here to teach. I glanced at my schedule again and noticed that it wasn't Sirius as I had thought that was teaching the Honors Defense Against the Dark Arts. It was Remus. Hmm… interesting. So much for having Sirius as a teacher for two classes. Oh well. At least I get to see him during DADA. Wait… I do, right? I glanced over at my schedule again. Whew… It's okay. I still have him for that. Right after lunch today too.

After comparing my schedule with Harry and Ron's, I determined that we all have the same classes except that Ron doesn't have Honors DADA and Harry and I do and I'm taking Advanced Arithmancy while neither Harry nor Ron is. I glanced up at the Head Table again and saw that Sirius and Remus were leaving. Ginny, who was sitting next to me, nudged me gently and motioned with her head towards the door.

"Ginny, it's only the first day of school and we haven't even had any classes yet and you want me to go after him already?" I whispered to her. She just gave me a look. Natalie on the other side of Ginny gave me a similar look.

"Alright, I'll go. Maybe I can talk to Remus while I'm there about Honors DADA. I'll see you later." As I was walking away I could hear Harry ask Ginny where I was going.

"She's going to the library to study."

"But it's only the first day of classes!" Harry responded sounding only slightly shocked.

"You know Hermione." Ginny said calmly. This was all I heard before I left the Great Hall. I chuckled quietly at Ginny's antics.

I walked down the hallway towards the library hoping that I would pass Remus and Sirius along the way. If not, the library isn't a bad back-up idea. I couldn't help but smile when I saw the very two men I was just thinking about rounded the corner ahead and were walking in my direction.

"Hello Hermione." Remus said kindly.

"Hi Hermione!" Sirius said excitedly. I could almost picture a tail wagging and his ears perking up.

"Hello." I replied to them both. I was going to say 'hello Sirius and Remus' but I was afraid I would forget about Remus. So I just stuck with a simple hello.

"What are you doing walking around this early?" Remus asked sounding more curious than authoritatively.

"Well, I have already finished breakfast so I thought I would go for a walk." I said calmly trying not to sound like I had anything in particular I was going to do.

"Anywhere in particular you were planning on going?" Sirius asked. I loved that mans voice. It seems like ever since I had that conversation with Ginny and Natalie last night my feelings for Sirius have magnified. Oops. I forgot I was asked a question…

"Uh, well, not really. Eventually I need to go back to the common room to get my books, but other than that I had nowhere planned." I replied trying to keep my voice steady.

"Great! You can come with us then. We were just going over that way anyway. What do you say?" Sirius asked practically jumping up and down waiting for my answer. I laughed a little to myself. I wonder if he is always like this around other people other than me.

"Sure," I said trying not to let the excitement I was feeling creep into my voice too much.

"So Hermione, do you have any good classes today?" Sirius asked smiling a little as we walked towards the common room. He knows perfectly well that I have his class today.

I smiled innocently and replied, "Nope, not really." My grin widened when he smacked my arm playfully.

"Hey! I thought you have my class today." He said feigning a hurt face. The look didn't reach his eyes which were twinkling madly. Remus just looked on and chuckled quietly.

"Remus, I didn't know that you were going to be teaching here this year. Why didn't you say something?" I asked trying to get Remus' attention away from Sirius and me.

"I wanted to surprise everyone. That and Dumbledore asked me not to say anything. Well, here we are Sirius. Hermione, it's been a pleasure speaking with you-" Remus was saying but got cut off by Sirius.

"-now wait just one moment Mr. Lupin. Let's start acting like the gentlemen we are and walk this young lady back to her common room," he said trying to look shocked that Remus wasn't planning on walking me back to the common room. Remus just chuckled.

"Sirius I'm sure that Hermione is perfectly capable of walking down the hall to her common room. She is a big seventh year this year. However, Hermione I do apologize for not being a 'gentlemen' and walking you back. I have some stuff to take care of."

"Fine, if you won't be the gentlemen then I will have to be. After you, my lady," Sirius said bowing slightly and gesturing down the hallway. I laughed and said goodbye to Remus and walked in the direction Sirius was gesturing towards, my heart thumping so loudly I thought that Harry and Ron might have heard it back in the Great Hall.

"You know, Sirius, this wasn't strictly necessary." I said breaking the silence between us.

"I know," he said simply. His voice was all it took to send a shiver up my spine. He must have noticed.

"Cold?" he asked sounding concerned.

"No, I just got a chill is all." I replied smiling gently. It was then that we got to the common room. I turned to face him. It was one of those perfect moments when you just wish that you could just do or say something to let someone know how you feel about them. But I knew I couldn't say or do anything. I do have until the end of the year according to Ginny and Natalie. Plus it's just a crush that nothing will ever happen with… right?

"Thank you for walking me back, Sirius."

"Anytime." He said gently. I saw a look his eye, almost a look of longing, but then it was gone and I wasn't sure I had seen it at all.

"Well, I'll see you in class later." I said.

"Yes, and I expect you to be on time missy." He said smiling. He then turned away and walked down the hall in the direction from which we came.

I watched him walk down the hall until he turned and I could no longer see him anymore. I thought that as he was turning he looked back in my direction. I smiled, said the password, and walked into the common room.

Authors Note: Yay! 12 reviews and over 400 hits! I'm shocked (and very pleased) to say the least. Thank you all so much. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. If you did, let me know. If you didn't, let me know. Once again, I'm not sure how often I can update. I have finals next week and graduation at the end of next week so I'll probably be pretty busy. I'll try my best though to get new chapters out. Luckily today I didn't have school so I was able to write this chapter. Maybe I'll get around to writing another. We'll see.

Thanks to:

Faith08: I hope this satisfied your need for Sirius/Hermione stuff.

Writer-by-day: Yeah its weird isn't it? I don't know why I refer to him as Lupin. I guess because in book 3 he was always referred to as Professor Lupin so I just called him Lupin. But you are defiantly not alone in that.

MissPadfoot101: I referred to him as Remus in this chapter as you suggested and I will try to keep up with it.

Hiei'sCrazySpaz: You're puppy dog face is what really got to me. I saw that and was like "alright now I really need to write another chapter. :)

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