Hermione's Girl Crush

Part 13: Studying

Hermione had read over the letter probably a dozen times. She was transfixed by Lilith's words. She sat at the desk awestruck and blushing. She began to read it over again when a familiar voice sounded out in the library.

"Hey, Hermione." Ginny waved over to her Luna was following behind her. Hermione quickly folded the letter and placed it in the nearest book.

"Hi, what are you guys doing here?" She hoped that her blush had dissipated. Ginny looked at the bookshelf to her left,

"Oh just looking for some books for an assignment." She smiled, Luna looked at her with an expression of confusion, but Ginny dismissed it. "What about you Granger, I heard you got a letter this morning," Ginny encouraged Hermione to elaborate,

"Oh, it was just a letter from my parents, noting interesting." She smiled plainly, "Well I have to get back at this assignment, It was nice seeing you two." Luna smiled as Ginny lead her to another section of the library.

Hermione turned back to the book she had slipped the letter into. She pulled the letter out from between the pages of the book and placed it in her bag. She tried to put Lilith and the letter to the back of her mind as she began to study.

As Hermione vigorously took notes on her parchment she heard giggling coming from all around the library. She turned to see a few girls pointing to someone just behind a bookshelf. They seemed to be swooning over this person for some reason. Some of the girls were whispering about this 'quidditch star'.

Hermione tried to tune it out, but it made it too difficult for her to focus on her studies so she placed her parchments and books in her bag and stood to make her way out of the library. She turned a corner around some bookshelves she bumped into someone much taller than her, throwing her to the ground along with her bag and parchments.

"Oh my god, Hermione I'm so sorry." The person towering over her was Lilith. She was desperately trying to help Hermione with her things. She reached a hand out to her, "Here, let me help you." She said chuckling.

Hermione grabbed the taller witch's hand and was surprised when she was almost immediately lifted off the floor. Hermione let out a little chuckle, the two of them didn't speak for a moment, they just looked at each other.

"I'm sorry, I was just um, heading back to my dorm to study," Hermione spoke nervously pulling her hand out of Lilith's and towards herself. Lilith smiled and handed Hermione's bag back to her.

"I will see you later then?" Lilith smiled, charming as usual. This made Hermione blush, she quickly looked away and at that moment saw a few of those giggling girls looking at her, they seemed angry for some reason.

"W-where would I see you?" Hermione blurted out, she was slightly distracted by the witch in front of her.

"You're going to the Quidditch match today, right? Gryffindor x Ravenclaw." Lilith smiled as she reminded Hermione.

"Oh yes, I will see you then." She smiled her blush thickened slightly.

"Alright well, I'll let you get back to studying, Ms. Granger." Lilith's final words were almost whispered into Hermione's ear as she passed. Hermione's blush was now very visible. She looked around quickly before running back to her dorm.

Once in her room, she collapsed onto her bed, her breath heavy. She whispered to herself with a chuckle,

"you got me hooked, Lilith."