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Cherry Blossoms
By Alan's Only AND Arlena Biotch
Part 2
Slowly her eyes opened they felt awkward and weird. She rubbed them and yawned. She was nice and warm. She looked around and noticed that she was in her room. The house elves haven't been in. She sat up and looked over at the cloak. She had enough time to get out of bed take a shower and get changed. And which she did.
She walked out of the portrait and was engulfed by warm arms.
"Oh my god Hermione I was so worried!" said Ginny. Her face was pressed in to Hermione's shoulder. Hermione wrapped her arms around Ginny. "I thought you would try to kill yourself." Ginny sobbed.
"Never!" said Hermione strongly. Giving Ginny a squeeze.
"Then I thought that you went off to find out wither or not you are straight!" said Ginny. She never took her face from Hermione's shoulder. But Hermione could understand every word.
"I would never cheat on you," said Hermione.
"I know…And I know that you would never try something like that." said Ginny. Hermione could feel a wet spot in the crook of her neck.
"What do you mean?" asked Hermione she started to think that Ginny was not as strong as she put on. But Hermione didn't say any thing on that track."Never mind," she whispered and kissed Hermione's neck. A little frown creased her lips but turned up in to a smile when Ginny moved away.
"Let's go eat," said Hermione. She took Ginny's hand and walked out of the common room.
They walked down the marble staircase and in to the great hall their fingers were still tangled. Ginny lightly tried to pull away but Hermione just held her hand tighter.
They walked up to the one table in the middle of the room. The occupants of the table all look up at them. Some of their eyes traveled down to their hands. Dumbledore started to clap and the other teachers followed soon the last of the students joined in. Ginny blushed and Hermione just smiled. They sat down at the table, Hermione next to Dumbledore and Ginny on her other side.
"Hello ladies how nice of you to join us," said Dumbledore's friendly voice.
"Hi, Headmaster!" said Hermione's happy voice.
"Let's eat!" said Dumbledore. The food appeared on the table.
Hermione slowly took notice that only Dumbledore didn't want to talk about her and Ginny's relationship. A Hufflepuff 5th year and a Ravenclaw 1st year were wildly trying to get questions answered. Soon it became to much and Ginny kindly told them to shut up. The rest of the meal was pleasant. The only other Gryffindor at the table was a 7th year male and he kept giving Ginny weird looks.
At the end of the meal Hermione and Ginny walked back up and into the tower.
"Listen Hermione I have some work I have to do…I'll see you later." Said Ginny she looked sorta fidgety and walked rather fast out of there. Hermione shrugged and went into her room. She didn't even notice that the black blanket was no longer in the chair she threw it onto.
She stripped then walked into the bathroom and drew herself a nice warm bath. She tried one of the new taps and it sprayed yellow bubbles. A light smell of lemons filled the room. Hermione smiled and she slowly dissended in to the warm water. The bubbles soothed away all the tension in her body even the bit she did know she had. Her mind lightly registered that the water smelt of the blanket. And that the owner must smell like that too.
"What I'm I thinking?" Hermione said aloud.
Her mind did get off the subject be then it landed on Ginny. She had been acting weird for the last few days but Hermione had just brushed it off. But today was on the top of the list. Ginny had never tried to get Hermione to let go of her hand. She had always hid them. And Ginny seemed to lean a way from her at the table. I think Ginny's speech may have me on high alert today… Hermione thought. But why was Nellive giving Ginny those mean looks? Hermione thought. Nellive had never had a thing against gay relationships. But still…Why? She kept asking herself.
Finally she just gave up and got out. She wiped herself off and drained the tub. She pulled her hair up in to a ponytail so it wouldn't get tangled. She walked into her room and changed back into her other clothes. No need for more work she thought to herself. She threw her wet towel into the hamper. She then flopped on to her bed. She smiled as the smell of lemons enveloped her. She thought it was for the fact that she just toke a bath. But soon the spicy smell of 'old spice' flouted in to her nose. She sat up and looked down at the bed. There was the black blanket. She pulled it out from under her and looked it over. A normal blanket wouldn't hold so much sent. She tried a couple spells until the black blanket turned itself in to Professor Snape's Black outer robes.
"That was rather nice of him…" Hermione said aloud. She folded it and sat it next to her bed. She laid back on her bed and snuggled in to her own sent. It was a rather gingery smell. Her eyes slowly closed and she was sleeping again.
I try to look around…
I see nothing…
A voice sang out threw the darkness. Hermione looked around. It was so dark that even when Hermione put her hand in front of her face. So only found darkness.
I want to look for you…
I want to love you…
Hermione tried to stand but it felt like some one was holding her down.
I look for you…
I find you…
Hermione noticed that the voice belonged to Ginny. She screamed out for her but no sound came from her mouth.
But you love some one else…
I want to give up…
Hermione started to cry; "I will never love someone else!" she was able to yell.
I did…
I gave in…
"What do you mean?" screamed Hermione. A bright light appeared and Ginny walked out of it. She was in a long rose yellow dress. It split on the shoulders but came back into a gold cuff around the wrists. Around her waist was another gold band. The rest of the dress flowed to the ground. Hermione thought Ginny looked like a goddess.
I had to know…Ginny's voice said but not a sound came from the goddess.
"What do you mean?" screamed Hermione. Tears started to roll down her cheeks.
The woman slowly walked over to Hermione. But she really glided. The light started to change. The came to a stop in front of Hermione. She gave a little smile. Hermione could smell Ginny's rose smell. The smile soon turned in to a grin. The skin of her lips slowly pulled back. Hermione was to scared to look away. As the skin pealed a clear liquid began to ooze out of the wounds. Hermione screamed and was able to close her eyes. There was a sickening wet thud. Then it sounded like she was breaking her ribcage open. There was another Thud. A weird smell filled Hermione's nose it was like rotting flesh and years old blood.
"Hermione, love, look at the one you claimed to love." said a voice it sounded a bit like Ginny. But it was ragged, cracked, and held no happiness.
"NO!" Hermione screamed.
"Look." It demanded again. It sounded like the thing was right above her. She could feel the hot breath of the thing. The liquid fell on to her chest it felt like it was about to burst.
Hermione wildly flailed her arms. They hit something it was soft. Hermione opened her eyes to find Ginny staring down at her. Her hand was on Hermione's head.
Hermione was breathing hard and a cold sweat covered her body. " Oh Ginny it was terrible."
Ginny said nothing she just looked down at Hermione. tears in her eyes. She just shook her head. Hermione threw her arms around Ginny.
"Hermione…I'm sorry…" Ginny whispered. She didn't hug her back or even put her arms around her.
"Ginny…Why are you sorry?" asked Hermione. She held on to Ginny tightly breathing her rosy smell. She didn't care really. She was just happy that Ginny was all there and her skin wasn't falling off.
"It was true…" said Ginny. Hermione's face shot up to look at Ginny's face. It had tears streaming down it.
"What do you mean?" she asked. She let go of Ginny and sat back. Ginny said nothing but she did shoot up from her seat and run out the door. Hermione sat there dazed for a couple seconds then she took off after her.
She searched the tower. Then started around the school she couldn't find her anywhere. Hermione went to the library and searched it. Still nothing. She went in to the great hall. She was rather startled that it was dinner. She felt weird when she sat in a empty seat.
"Miss Granger were is Miss Weasley?" asked a low baritone voice. Hermione jumped and looked around. On her left was a 5th year Slytherin. And the one on her right was Professor Snape. He was facing her and had a little smirk.
"Um…In the tower." muttered Hermione. She didn't look at him. She just kept her eyes trained on the table.
"Really…" said Snape. Hermione could tell that he didn't believe her. She looked up at him. He had an eyebrow cocked.
"Yes," said Hermione. a bit more strongly now. But all Snape had to do was look in to Hermione's eyes to tell that she was hurting inside. And he did.
He muttered some thing under his breath and visions of her dream crossed her mind. But that's all. Hermione thought nothing of it. But she did feel a little weird and left open. But she just shook it off. She looked up in to Snape's eyes. They looked rather sorry. But the look was gone as fast it had come.
"Um…" Hermione was going to say something about his robe but he turned and started a different conversion with Dumbledore. Hermione felt a bit taken back. She turned back to her food.
Once done she walked back to the tower. No one was in there so she walked in to her room. She sat on her bed. She was wanted so bad to snuggle up to Ginny. But she will do the next best thing. Study!
Once in the library she looked for the beast in her dream. She found a couple promising titles. Dream Beasts, Things with No Face, Smells and What Makes Them in Dreams and Human's and the Beasts Within.
She sat down at a close table and propped up a book. She tried to remember all she could. Nothing was in the first 3 books. Then she opened the last book.
As she read the index one of the contents jumped out at her, Changing Forms in Dreams. She flipped through the book and found the chapter.
It didn't seem she'd find anything until a word caught her eye. Rotting the passage was describing a beast.
Aloonthhadeorlitoyo-Inanonevfe(Aloonth for short)
Height: 9 to 20 ft tall
Color: any color of the outside hair color
Eyes: deep black
Face shape: It has a normal human shape head, But the jaws jet from it and the fangs look like wolves.
Arms: about 2 ft long,(if 9 ft tall every foot adds 4.5 inches) the fingers are 5 inches long, the nails are a dark a dark white, stained with lies.
Torso: 3rd of the height, the ribs that protrude from the chest looks like it was blown out.
Tail: It is about twice as long as the body is and holds a deadly green poison.
Legs: 2/3rd of the body, Its knees bend the other way, and its feet hold 3 inch long nails.
Smell: The rotting smell is from the old lies that have built up and the years of old blood smell is from the biggest lie, the worst it was the older the blood well smell.
Weapons: A clear liquid drips from every pore and its mouth.
This beast usually comes out of a person who has deceived you. Or has a much bigger secret that they have lied about. Usually in the genre of love or friendship. The person will look like a god-goddess. If you have seen this beast then you should think over your relationship.
Hermione snorted and stopped reading. She closed the book and put it and other the books away. She had always believed books but in this case she didn't care how creditable the book was she wasn't going to listen to it.
She headed back to her room. She sat on her bed and looked around. There were pictures of her and Ron, Harry and others. Some of just them, hung on the dark red walls. There was a desk on the far wall it was clean and tidy. There was a fireplace around it was a lion carved in to the wood. Her bed was a deep red and gold. The dark cream colored curtains hung by the poles. The chair in the corner was a deep maroon.
She sighed and changed in to her sky blue PJs. She slid into the covers and fell in to a fit full sleep.
TBC
(AN/ hey all! This story is the longest I've ever written! Really the longest first two parts. But what the hell! Please Review.)
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