Hey, guys!
The third chapter is up, and I hope you like it :)
I can't help but posting it, although I haven't seen any of your reviews yet..?
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Hermione woke up.
She recognized the surroundings as the inside of her bed with the curtains drawn.
She was sweating and breathing heavily. It had all seemed so real!
The way Fred kissed her, and the way Ginny had caught them in the act, with her hands on her hips.
"But it was only a dream..", she thought and sighed, partly relieved and partly sad. She really missed him, they hadn't spoken since.. forever, and most of all she missed the feeling
of his lips against hers.
That was when the plan took shape in her head.
The way Fred had contacted her in the dream was brilliant, she could repeat his schedule in her sleep, so all she had to do was to write him a note, and put it under the lid of his desk in one of his classes.
She had to be careful, though, not to put the note under George's lid.. that might make it a little more complicated than it already was.
During that day, Hermione experienced that sneaking into classrooms with nosey first years, and arrogant seventh graders, wasn't as easy as she'd first thought.
But after her third period, she ran off from charms class, without waiting for Harry and Ron.
"Sorry, got to go!", she just shouted over her shoulder as she ran.
"You aren't still doing that timeturner-thing, Hermione? Dumbledore asked you to only use it in emergencies, you know!", Harry called after her, but she just shook her head and continued running.
When she approached the dungeons, she could see students from the sixth grade gather outside the door to professor Snape's classroom.
Fred and George were among them.
"Ah, well.. let's do this the easy way..", she thought as she stumbled through the crowd to give him the note.
As she poked his shoulder, some of his classmates whistled, and some of the girls giggled.
"Fred", she whispered, "I have something for you..", she handed him the note.
As their hands touched, they both felt a tingling. Like a tiny, electric shock.
Hermione nodded at the note, before she looked him in the eyes and turned around to get to her next class.
"What's that?", George asked, as he was poking his head over his brothers shoulder.
"What? Oh!", Fred said as he folded the note an extra time, and put it in his pocket, "That's just some notes I asked her to pick up from the library..".
George seemed satisfied with the answer, and as professor Snape opened the doors to his classroom, Fred wished he could turn right around and kiss Hermione again.
Halfway through class, he pulled the note up from his pocket and read it.
"Need to see you!
Meet me by the portrait of Basil Fronsac.
Hermione."
"Aw, how sweet", he thought to himself and smiled, "she's drawn hearts instead of dots over the i's..".
Wait! What the heck? When did he begin to think about Hermione like that?
No, he couldn't! She was her little brother's best friend, and they'd known each other since her first year at Hogwarts.
If they ended up together.. no, it would be totally weird! Not to mention wrong, but still.. she'd really grown this summer.
She'd.. changed, in some ways that really made her attractive, and he felt drawn towards her in a way he'd never felt before.
He was still thinking about this as he walked to the library and the portrait of Basil Fronsac.
They couldn't be like this. They couldn't end up like a.. couple.
He had to tell her.
But as he saw her, all the doubt vanished from his mind, and all he wanted to do was feel her lips against his again and the smell of her hair.
She was sitting on a bench by the portrait, reading.
"Of course", Fred thought and grinned.
As she looked up and saw him coming, she clapped the book tight together and smiled at him before she stood up and walked towards him.
Five minutes later their location was by the least visited bookshelf in the back of the library.
With his hands around her waist, he pressed her body against his own.
She let her hands rest on his chest, before she moved them and put them around his neck, playing with his hair.
He kissed her neck, and she was sure that if he hadn't been holding her this tight, she would have collapsed on the floor.
"I've missed you..", he whispered in her ear.
She just kissed him again as an answer, and hoped he got it.
"Wait", Fred suddenly said and pulled away, "I think I heard footsteps".
"What did you expect?", Hermione replied and kissed his neck, "It's a library, people come and go all day..".
But he let go of her and walked to the end of the bookshelf, before he quickly turned around and started putting on his tie again, which Hermione 'accidentally' had opened and pulled of him during the last few minutes.
"What's going on?", she asked as she started running her hands through her hair nervously.
"It's Harry and Ron, they're coming", he whispered and gave her a quick kiss, "See you later", and then he ran off.
"Oh my..", Hermione thought as she took a random book from the shelf, pretending to read it when Harry and Ron came around the corner.
"Hey, you!", Ron said as they saw her.
"Uhm.. hey", she answered and tried to look innocent.
"Really, Hermione? Is that why you ran off so suddenly?", Harry asked and pointed at the book she was holding.
She turned it around to look at the cover of it.
The letters in pink told her the title of the book: "Love potions; how to make the love of your life love you back".
As she read it, she could feel her cheeks get slightly hotter as they turned red.
"Uhm.. well.. I..", she said, as she said a silent prayer for them not to have seen Fred run off a few minutes earlier.
Later that day, she met Ginny in the commonroom.
She sat down beside her in one of the big, red couches, and put her feet on the table (something she usually wouldn't do, but didn't care about now).
"So, Ginny", she said, "What are people around here.. you know, saying about me these days?".
"Why do you ask?", Ginny asked and gave her a suspicious look.
"Oh, well.. you know, just curios to know what people here really think of me", Hermione answered and smiled sheepish at her.
"Well, as a matter of fact.. ah, here comes Lavender, why don't we go up to the dorm?"
Lavender Brown was the number one gossip-source in the school, so maybe - if she was lucky - she'd have some juicy news to tell.
"No, wait - I want to hear what Lavender has to say. Why don't you sit here and talk to her for a while? I'll be over there", Hermione said.
"Listening?", Ginny asked and grinned at her.
"Of course!", she said and returned the grin, before she walked over to an armchair, not too far from the couch, but far enough so Lavender wouldn't think she was listening.
"Hi, Ginny!", Lavender said and sat down beside her, "Have you heard the latest news?".
"No, what's that?", Ginny said and tried to sound very interested in what she had to tell her.
"Well, my.. sources, say that they saw Hermione Granger and your brother kissing in the library earlier today!"
"Wait, what? Ron?", Ginny asked.
"Noooo, your other brother!"
"George? Or maybe Charlie or Bill? But that wouldn't be possible, because they don't go here, so that leaves.."
"Fred! Exactly!", Lavender said and giggled.
"Are you sure that's true?", Ginny said and gave her a stern look, "You know, you shouldn't be spreading rumors unless they're true, Lavender.."
"Pfff, of course it's true! They've been hot for each other for weeks now, Ginny, and if you don't know your brother well enough to see that, you really have to sharpen your senses!", she said before she continued, "And you know, if Hermione won't take him, I would surely be glad to.."
"Well, THAT'S enough!", Hermione thought, and jumped out of the armchair and crashed herself between Ginny and Lavender.
"Hey you guys!", she said and let out a fake laughter.
In a silent corner of the commonroom, Fred stood, listening to the conversation and laughing to himself.