April 29th 1998
Hermione, Ginny, and Lavender all sat at one of the tables in the library. They all had a multiple books in front of them, and all had their quills rapidly moving across their parchments. Occasionally you would hear one of them murmur that they need some extra ink or parchment. Sometimes you could hear the occasional swear word being uttered from one of their mouths as they made some sort of mistake on the parchment. You could see one of them every twenty minutes or so, get up to find another book, before sitting back down in their chair.
It looked bloody boring to Draco, Harry, Ron and Blaise. They had entered the library sometime ago to study like the girls were currently doing. Draco had been dragged of course because Blaise thought that it would be fun for the four of them to get to know each other more. For Hermione, of course. But Draco knew differently.
So they choose a table that wasn't far from them. And yet they didn't get to do that much studying because they ended up talking about quidditch or girls. But then they ended up looking up at to see the girls, and they couldn't help but be shocked at the lack of talking going on.
They even thought that when Luna came to join them later on that they would stop to chat. But no! They just mumbled their greetings, and continued to work on their assignments. So they looked guiltily at each other, and started to crack open the books. The only problem was the following.
Draco didn't really need to study, actually he never really did study all that much. He did get good grades, heck he was second to Hermione, but he found that studying was a pointless waste of time.
Blaise and Harry were in the same boat as each other. They didn't get the best of grades as Hermione and Draco, but they didn't get horrible marks. They were average, so they studied only what they felt that they needed the most help in. Harry it was Potions. Blaise it was Arithmancy. And they would occasionally ask Draco questions.
Now Ron was a different story altogether. He was the one that needed the most help. He wasn't stupid, he just didn't like to do the work. Or the studying. Or the time to learn. Heck, he didn't like to do anything that involved school. He just liked to go to the class, sit there and have Hermione copy the notes while he got to sleep. It was only this year that she stopped doing it for him. He racked his brain for the right wording that she had used.
"If you think for one minute Ronald Weasley, that this year I will give you a 'free ride' , than you got another thing coming!"
He still shuddered at the words. For even though Hermione was a sweet girl, she was awfully scary when she was mad.
"You think that they would have talked at some point and time?" Draco mumbled to himself.
"Nope. Not if Hermione is there, Malfoy." Ron whimpered as he looked longly at the girl's table. "She is a...What's the muggle word Harry?"
"Nazi." He looked up from his notes, and looked at the table as well. "Hermione is a Nazi when it comes to the year end exams and she will be even more because of N.E.W.T.'s."
"Why does she go like that?" Blaise asked."
Harry and Ron shrugged.
"It's probably because she wants to do something with SPEW." Ron muttered.
"SPEW?" Draco and Blaise asked confused, and they looked at each other with a hint of worry in their eyes.
"You mean she hasn't given you the whole spiel about it?" Harry asked shocked.
"Lucky buggers if you ask me." Ron mumbled under his breath.
Draco had heard it because he was sitting across from him, but he choose to ignore it. "Why would she?"
"SPEW is..." Ron started, but was interrupted by a loud voice.
"FOR THE LAST TIME IT IS S.P.E.W!!!" Hermione's voice rang out across the room.
"Why are you even listening to the conversation?" Ron turned around in his chair, and answered her back. "How can you even hear me from where you are?"
"I told you before Ronald that I have excellent hearing!"
"My ass you do." He mumbled as he turned back around. He then felt a hard object hit him in the back of the head. He whipped his head back. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR YOU BINT??"
Hermione raised an eyebrow. "I told you I hear everything. EVERYTHING!!" She then turned back to her work, and decided to ignore the rude hand gesture he threw her way.
"You know Zabini," Draco mumbled to Blaise beside him. "Your cousin can be scary sometimes."
Blaise nodded his agreement. "I know it. She gets the hearing from Nan you know."
"Really?" He sat back with a surprised look on his face. "Well that explains a lot of looks and questions."
Blaise chuckled. "And the anger is definitely from my side of the family."
Harry chuckled at this. "Then why don't you have an anger like that?"
Blaise smiled. "Because Harry my dear. I actually get my temperament from my biological father. Whoever he may be."
Harry and Draco looked at each other, they both slightly shook their heads. Harry sighed and went back to the studying that they were suppose to be doing. While Draco just sighed and leaned back into his chair to leave himself to his own thoughts.
It seemed like hours had passed, and it was when the candles around the library were lit that the girls looked up from the work that they were doing.
Hermione then lifted her arms above her head and allowed herself the comfort of a nice stretch. She twisted her back a little and sighed when she let her muscles relax. She smiled when she turned her head over to the boys table.
"Hey Gin." Hermione leaned closer to her friend.
"Mhmmm?" Ginny answered as she placed her quill down and slowly relaxed her fingers.
"I think that our boys need to get back to studying..." She trailed off and nodded her head in the boys direction.
Ginny, Luna and Lavender all looked over at the boys, then they all broke into a huge grin.
"Well it looks like Ron had to over work his dear brain." Lavender giggled.
"I think that Harry and Blaise did too." Luna sighed and turned back to look at Hermione. "I think that Draco on the other hand got bored."
Hermione and Ginny nodded their agreement.
"Malfoy does get bored easily," Hermione's cheek went a little pink at the turn of thoughts. "Well, except when we are doing that."
"Well I have to agree with that." Ginny sighed and slightly tilted her chair back. "Harry's mind tends to wonder off when we are talking. He doesn't think that I notice, but I do."
"Ron only thinks about food." Lavender stated.
Then the three girls all looked at the dreamy smiled Luna. They waited until she turned her head and smirked.
"Blaise and I don't talk." She gave a sly smile. "And we never get bored."
Hermione was the first to laugh, followed by Ginny and Lavender. They couldn't help but laugh at the statement and thought about how true it was. While all of their boys had some quality about them. They tended to have the same thing. When it came to sex, they NEVER got bored.
"Luna I have been meaning to ask, but when did you and Blaise become 'friends'?" Lavender asked.
"Well the end of last year."
Lavender blinked. "Details!"
Luna gave a throaty laugh. "To be honest I don't know. It was just one of those things that happened." She turned and looked at Hermione. "You understand that Hermione."
Hermione nodded her agreement and looked at over at Draco. She gave a small smile and thought about how everything started. Right from it being Blaise's long lost cousin, to them coming up with the agreement, and to the night when they got "married". Everything happened the way that it did, and Hermione couldn't have been more happier.
"I think she does." Ginny nudged Hermione and smiled when Hermione pushed her back.
"Well either way I think that they have had enough sleep." Hermione got up and with a swish of her wand everything went back into her bag. "And it's time for my lovely man to get up."
Ginny, Lavender and Luna stayed in place to watch the scene in front of them. They watched as Hermione quietly walked up to Malfoy. They watched as Hermione leaned down to whisper something in Malfoy's ear. They watched as Malfoy's eyes slowly opened and a genuine smile bloomed on his face. They all sighed when one of Malfoy's hands reached up to cup Hermione's face and bring her face down to place a kiss upon her lips.
"I wish that Ron would do that to me sometimes." Lavender said when she turned to look at the girls as Hermione and Malfoy walked out of the library hand in hand. "I get jealous of those two sometimes."
"I have to agree." Ginny muttered as she watched her best friend throw her head back and laugh at something Malfoy said before turning the corner and out of sight. "Not to say that Harry can't be romantic. It's just....Oh what's the word!"
"It's their aura." Luna stated. "They both have different auras when they are not together. It is a sense of being completed when they are. It makes our relationships seem like nothing. Not saying that it isn't, but theirs is something more."
Ginny and Lavender gave their nodded of unspoken agreement.
"It's like all these years were a built up to this moment and this time. Regardless of what her birthright is and what he's was. The fighting, naming calling, competition over each other and the plain fact of their existence has all lead up to this point and time." Luna paused.
"What about Hermione and Ron?" Lavender asked in a soft voice.
"It could have been said the same for them." Luna looked straight at Lavender. "But the thing that a lot of people didn't notice was that the those two were siblings competing for Harry's attention."
"Sure they had some sexual tension at first. But the truth be told, they are vying for Harry's attention."
"Is this why you got sorted into Ravenclaw?" Ginny said with a smile.
Luna reached down into her bag and pulled out her glasses. She placed them on and smiled. "I got sorted into Ravenclaw for the sole purpose that I am different. It also helps that I am smart. But Shhh. Don't tell anybody."
Ginny and Lavender broke into a laugh.