Chapter 12: Hermione Granger: Strike Three, You're out…

H e r m i o n e G r a n g e r

"Stop struggling mudblood… You're not going to be able to see what's going on" Pansy rolled her eyes. "I can't believe Draco had enough guts to kiss you… Luckily it wasn't real."

Hermione kept squirming, stopping a little wondering what she meant. It wasn't real? What did that mean?

"Now be quiet or you'll ruin everything."

Hermione stood there quietly behind the bookshelves seeing Blaise and Draco having a conversation. She could feel her wrists burning from Crabbe gripping on it way too hard.

"I'm impressed Draco… I'm convinced that you actually got her to fall for you…" Blaise said.

"Yeah… So?" Draco replied looking at the wooden floor.

"This Friday I am allowing you to take my sister Angel to Madam Puddifoot's Teashop at 6pm. Don't be late."

Hermione watched a bit confused. Blaise was making Draco take his sister out to the Teashop? She continued watching as Draco gave him a nod.

Blaise laughed. "Too think that you would actually fall for Hermione… That's funny. For a second I thought you actually fell in love with her… I never knew you would accept my dare and stoop this low to actually get a date with my sister. You're the man… seriously… You never fell in love with her right?"

"No…" Draco mumbled.

"C'mon. Not even a little?"

"No… I never fell in love with that revolting mudblood…"

Hermione broke free from Crabbe's hands placing them upon her mouth. She couldn't believe it… She was all a dare, a stupid bet just for Draco to get a date with Blaise's sister… Her tears were falling down her face uncontrollably now.

She turned around seeing Pansy laughing right in her face. "See Granger? You're just a stupid, disgusting mudblood…"

Hermione stared at Pansy, not being able to stand up for herself. She ran out the door running through the halls making her way to the nearest washroom feeling her knees tremble down to her feet.

"Hermione!" Luna called out, Ginny, Padma, Parvati, and Cho racing to catch up. "What happened? Where are you going?"

She ran faster not wanting her best mates too see her. She finally made it to the washroom breaking down into the first stall she reached. She cried loudly gasping for air, her sleeves being drenched with her salty tears. She couldn't believe it. Not only did she lose a friend, she forgot who Draco really was, the worse Slytherin of them all. Hermione brought her knees up to her chest folding her arms over them bending her head down to release more tears. How can she lose so much in one day? Her under eyes were now stinging from rubbing them too much, and she still had to meet Draco in seventeen minutes. She felt so stupid letting herself fall in love with him. It angered her more how, how many times she let him kiss her.

"Hermione?" Ginny called out gently knocking on her door. "Are you okay?"

Hermione swallowed engulfing a handful of tears down her throat. She tried to control her breathing to speak. "You were right Ginny… I shouldn't have trusted him or believed in his words…" Hermione attempted to say choking on her words.

"What happened?"

"I was a dare Ginny…" Hermione said being able to hold back the tears to say what she wanted clearly.

"What do you mean?" Luna asked.

"Blaise dared Draco to get me to fall in love with him, so he could go on a date with his sister…"

"That ferret…" Ginny replied angrily. "How do you know this?"

"Lavender lead me straight to Pansy…"

"Whatta bitch…"

Hermione got up on her knees opening the door to her friends. Ginny bent down giving her a hug causing Hermione to explode into a million tears again. "I have to meet him in 5 minutes… What do I do?"

Ginny looked at her helping to rub the tears away from his face. "You need to go to him and break it off. He'd suspect something's wrong if you don't meet him."

"It's not like he'd care."

"But still… It's the only way to end this plan. Then you can avoid him forever."