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Chapter 11 Date # 7 and OSR trouble

When Hermione opened her eyes she was in the middle of a road. There were trees everywhere on both sides of it. There was no one around so nobody saw her appear out of nowhere. She looked down the road and saw where it turned. She walked down that way and saw that there was a bench and a man sitting on it reading a book. The guy had reddish blond hair and was a little chubby. He had on a blue stripped polo shirt and tan pants. She walked up to the bench and asked if it was OK for her to sit down? The guy looked up from his book and smiled and said, "Yes, you can Hermione." "How did you that I was Hermione?" His smile got bigger and he told her, " When I agreed to do this he showed me a picture of you." "So I'm going to take it that you are Jason." said Hermione sitting down. "No, Jason was not able to make it so he asked me his brother to take his place. Yes, I'm Jason." he said jokingly . Hermione just smiled and did not say anything but rolled her eyes. The introduction was out of the way. So they sat and waited for the bus to come and pick them up to go to the zoo.

"So have you ever been to the zoo?" asked Hermione. She thought it was a stupid question the moment it came out of her mouth. Who had never been to the zoo. So what Jason said really surprised her. "No, My mom did not like animals and the days that our school would go mom and dad would keep me home." "I'm so sorry Jason so today we'll try to see all the animals." said Hermione smiling at him. "OK,"said Jason looking away from her. Hermione could see his ears turning red. She had made him blush. There was not much said after that. It was just a few minutes later that the bus came.

The zoo was not to far from where the bus stop was so it did not take long. When they got to the zoo Jason was the first one to get off the bus. As he was walking the line that was on the floor at the front of the bus Jason tripped on it and began to stumble forward. Hermione who happen to be right behind him grab hold of him in time. Jason finished getting off the bus and Hermione joined him. "Thank you for that back there. I tend to do that a lot. I could tripped over my own feet even when I'm being still." said Jason. "It was not a problem." said Hermione.

They walked up to the line and waited. Finally it was their turn. "Hi, My names Brittany and how many ticket do you need." Jason looked at the teller and told her two please. Hermione liked the fact that Brittany was nice and gave her name. She gave the girl a smile and then they went to the gate. The guy at the gate was not as nice but it did not matter. Jason gave the guy the tickets.

When they where standing in front of a wooden post that had signs pointing in every direction. Hermione asked, " So where do you want to go?" Jason pointed to the left and said, "Lets go this way." Hermione saw the way that he was pointing was five different animals. There were the tigers, lions, fish, elephants, and the reptile exhibit.

The first stop was the tigers. It amazed Hermione to watched Jason watching the animals, it was like she had a little boy who was seeing things for the first time. He would say things in a whisper to her thing like, 'Did you see that?' And Look how big that one is!' That was how it went for the first three exhibits. It was after the lions they went to see the elephants, they got to where the elephants were. It was pretty loud with all the kids around and some of the kids were being rude and mean to some of the smaller elephants. An older elephant named Betty had enough of the kids and took matters into her own hands, taking her trunk and put it in the water and then blowing it out at the kids. The problem was that right when Betty put her trunk in the water the kids left and poor Jason got soaked. Hermione felt bad for Jason but could not keep the laughter from coming out. Jason took his hand and wiped the water from his face, then he joined in with everyone and laughed. When it all calmed down he excused himself and went to get cleaned up.

When Jason came out of the bathroom Hermione asked, " So where would you like to go next?" Jason replied, "I would like to go to the reptile exhibit." "OK, then lets go.", said Hermione. As they were walking Jason started up a conversation "So Hermione what kind of animals do you like?" "Well I like all animals, but if I had to choose I like cats. What about yourself?", asked Hermione with a smile. " When I left the home and got my own place the first thing I did was I got me some rats. I have three and I love them.", said Jason. Wow, was really the only word that would come out of Hermione's mouth. "I take it your not a big fan of rats.", said Jason with an understanding smile. "No, not really. I'll stick to my cat.", said Hermione walking up to the door of the reptile exhibit. After they had finished looking at the snakes and other cold blooded things. Hermione thought she would had been OK with not seeing them. As they were heading out of the door to go look at some more animals Jason's belly made a weird sound. Hermione payed no mind to it. She did make a comment about it being time to go get something to eat though.

They walked back to the place where the wooden sign was and saw that there was a restaurant in one direction and there was a snack trailer the other way. They decided to go with the snack trailer. They made there way to the trailer and saw there was a line. They talked a little bit more while in line. Slowly but surly the line went down and they finally made it to the front. They ordered their food and then Hermione told Jason that she was going to find them a place to sit. She found a nice table that had an umbrella just a little bit away from the trailer. She watched Jason as he got the food, but left the drinks. When he made it to there table he said, "I was just being careful. She nodded her head in understanding and then he left to go get the drinks. While he was gone Hermione set out to separate the food and did not see Jason making his way back to the table. That was until she felt the cold ice drink go all over her. Hermione turned around and saw Jason getting up. "I'm so sorry Hermione. Are you OK?", asked Jason making his way to her. She was freezing and sticky and just wanted to go to the bathroom to clean up so she said, "It's fine Jason. I'm just going to go to the bathroom to clean up. How about you go get us some more food and drinks. I'll be right back.", said Hermione getting up.

Hermione made her way through the crowd and found the bathroom. While she was cleaning herself up she began to think about the date and how bad it was going. However when she looked at it it's was not as bad as it could be. She was having fun the most she had had in a long time. She was cleaned up and went to go find her table and Jason.

When she made it back to the table Jason already had the food laid out for her and her drink was right next to it. "Hermione once again I'm so sorry. I'm so clumsy.", said Jason looking at her with sadness in his eyes. Hermione smile and said, "Jason it's fine. I'm all clean and the worst that happen was you had to go pay more money. So don't worry about it."

"So Jason how old are you?" "26. What about yourself?", asked Jason. Hermione smiled and said, "I'm the same age as you." "So how did you get to date 10 guys?", asked Jason. They asked the questions in between bites. So Hermione had to finishing chewing before she could answer. "I saw the ad and thought why not. I did not think I would get it. So how did you get talked into doing this?", questioned Hermione while she took a sip of her drink. Jason began to turn red and gulped and told her, "My sister felt it was time for me to go out with a girl. I usually stay home and study. Hermione did not hound on the subject of him not dating she asked, "How many sisters do you have?" Jason smiled and said,"I have three, and I was the only boy. There names are Jill, Jane, and May. Mom tried to stick with the J's, but got tired by the time May came along." "Are you the oldest?", asked Hermione. "No, I'm one of the middle children. Jill is 32 and married with kids. Jane is 23 and going to school to be a potions master, and May stays home with mom and dad. Shes still not sure what she wants to do so what about you. Do you have any family?" asked Jason. "My mom and dad live far away and I don't have any sisters or brothers." said Hermione thinking about her family and the early years. "So what is it like to have sisters?" questioned Hermione. Jason made an ugly face and then said, "It's hard. There's never any hot water to take a shower. The bathroom is always a mess. Mom and dad spoil the girls and are always hard on me. Sorry, I should not have said that last part." Jason smiled sadly. Hermione took hold of Jason's hand and looked at him and said, " It's sounds like you had it hard. I'm sorry. Jason took his hand out from under her hand and told her. " I've lived through it so it's OK."

Hermione looked at the time and saw that it was almost time to leave. "So it's almost time to go we only have time to go back and catch the bus." said Hermione getting up and throwing away her trash. The walk back to the bus was a smooth one there was no more problems. On the bus they talked a little bit more about family. After a short ride they were back at the bench. "Well Hermione I had a wonderful time. I can't wait till Friday when I will see you again. Hermione looked at Jason with a blank looked to her face. She was speechless for a second or two, but then she spoke. " Jason I'm not trying to be rude, but why would I be seeing you on Friday?" "Well Daniel said that on Friday you will be announcing what your decision will be to the world. I'm to come to One Single Rose that morning. Did he not tell you this?" said Jason flinching with each word that was coming out of his mouth. "No, he did not. He told me that I would pick the guy I liked and we would go on a trip, but there was nothing said about announcing it. I'm sorry Jason but I need to go." said Hermione trying to keep her temper down. It would do no good to take it out on Jason he did nothing wrong. Hermione grabbed the port key and felt the tug and then she was gone. Jason was left there with a look of fear on his face.

When she was back home she changed her clothes and went to the kitchen to wait for the letter she knew was coming. She was in the kitchen for just a few minutes when the owl landed on the table. Hermione took the letter and read it. Miss Granger, You will be going on a date with Bobby Steven. You will be going to Amor De. It will start at 4pm and end at 6pm. Thank you One Single Rose. Hermione looked at the time and saw that it was only 1:15 she had plenty of time to go OSR. She grabbed her purse and apparated.

ONE SINGLE ROSE

Hermione was pissed. He was supposed to come to her when he had more info on her dates. Why would he not tell her about this. Is that the reason why he wanted to see her tonight. No, that could not be it he said he missed her and was thinking about her. Was he lying? She did not know, but damn it she was going to found out.

She walked through the doors of OSR and walked right passed Miss, Murray not bothering to stop. She got to Daniel's office and did not knock just walked right in. The chair was turned to the wall when she walked in. She was about to open her mouth when Miss Murray ran up next to her and grabbed her arm. "I'm sorry sir she just ran right past me." said Miss Murray. "You may leave Miss, Murray I can take care of her." Hermione knew that voice and it was not Daniel's. The chair turned around and Justin was sitting there. Justin looked just how Hermione would imagined with the hex she used. Justin had a black eye and when he got up he was limping. Miss, Murray shut the door and Justin made his way next to Hermione. Hermione backed up away from him. "I have never had anybody do what you did yesterday." said Justin in a whisper. "If you touch me I will yell and what you got yesterday will seem tame. Hermione said. Justin backed up and looked at Hermione with hurt in his eyes and a little fear. She liked the fact that he was scared of her. The hurt she did not care about, she was not going to feel sorry for him. "Is Daniel here? I would really like to talk to him." said Hermione moving over to the desk. "He should be here soon. Hermione is there anyway that you could forgive me for yesterday?" said Justin moving closer to her. "No, what you did was wrong and you should have known better." said Hermione glaring at him. Justin was by Hermione and took hold of her hand, "Hermione I'm really sorry. Please forgive me." Hermione was feeling very uncomfortable.

So she was very grateful when Daniel walked in. The sight that greeted him was Justin looking longingly at Hermione and holding her hand. Daniel came in and moved to his desk and looked at Hermione and asked "Hermione why are you here?" Hermione took her hand out of Justin's hand and resisted the urge to wiped it on her pants. "I needed to talk to you about the dates." said Hermione. Daniel looked at Justin with menace and told, "Justin go out to the lobby so me and Hermione can talk." Justin looked pissed and again a little afraid and Hermione was sure he was when he back out of the door. "So what was that I walked in on?" asked Daniel sitting down in his chair. "That was nothing. Why?" asked Hermione. Daniel stared at her, but Hermione was not going to tell him. "No reason. So what is it about the dates you wanted to know." asked Daniel. The anger that had made her come to this place in the first place was gone. She still wanted to know about the announcement and why he did not tell her. "So I was out with Jason and the date was over when he said he would see me Friday and I asked why. That was when he told me about some announcement. Do you want to shed some light on this or continue to keep me in the dark. The anger was back at the end of her statement.

"Hermione if you will sit down I would be happy to tell you." said Daniel. Hermione sat down and lean on the desk looking straight at him. "Well.", said Hermione. "I forgot. ,said Daniel It was the same day I had come over and we began to talk about us and the other stuff. I forgot that one thing. I'm sorry Hermione." "So why is it that you never told me about it since then." asked Hermione. " It never crossed my mind again until you said something." smiled Daniel he could tell that she was not as angry as she was. "So when you asked me for the date tonight it was because of what you said in the letter." said Hermione with a blush starting to cover her face. Daniel moved out of his chair and came to stand beside her. He took a hold of her hand. "Hermione every word I put in that letter was true. I was truly happy when the owl came back with a yes. "I'm glad I said yes." said Hermione with a shy smile. Daniel moved back to his seat. "So back to the reason I came here what is this about the announcement?" asked Hermione.

"Well from what I heard. After you finished your last date you will have a day to come up with the one you want to go with. Then on Friday you will came back here and make a public announcement." said Daniel. "So now not only am I to choose a guy I barely know to go on a trip. One Single Rose wants me to make an announcement with everyone around. What the hell is wrong with your people?" asked Hermione angrily. "There not my people and I told you we are just trying to make people happy." said Daniel. Hermione frowned and said, "If I told you that I'm not happy and I will let them know it would you still make me do this announcement?" "Hermione you have been on 7 dates. Are you telling me that you have not had fun." said Daniel. She was pissed now. Let me tell you something Daniel! Kelli was nice, Dean is in love with my best friend, Mike was a shy nice guy, Arron had a thing for cats. A scary thing. Justin has a problem keeping his hands to himself. Marcus was a sweet guy, and the last one was a clumsy guy and there were some accidents. So Daniel does that sound like fun." glared Hermione.

"What was that you said about Justin?" asked Daniel. "You want to know what you walked in on earlier. I'll tell you. You see Justin had roaming hands and lips on our date. So when he kissed me I hexed him. That is why he looks like crap today. So when I came here looking for you. He was here trying to say sorry and wants my forgiveness. So that is what you walked in on." said Hermione. Hermione could see Daniel fighting the urge to get up out of the chair. "So does he have it?" asked Daniel. "No." said Hermione. "I see well remind me later not to get on your bad side." laughed Daniel. "I will." smiled Hermione.

Hermione looked at the time and saw she needed to be leaving so she could get ready for date #8. "Well Daniel I need to go. I'll see you tonight. If you still want to?" said Hermione heading to the door. She was just about to open it when a hand found her's. Daniel was just inches away from her face. Her heart was beating rapidly making it harder to breath. "I most defiantly want to." whispered Daniel. Hermione could feel Daniel's breath on her lips it was very intense. "Well I will see you tonight." whispered Hermione. She wanted to kiss him, but she just opened the door and walked out. As she was making her way to the front of OSR her legs felt like jello. She was not sure how she was able to move. However she left OSR with a smile on her face and thoughts of what the night will hold.

That's all for now. Thank you Mea346. Please review and let me know what you think.

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