Our Complicated Love.

Why do I keep running into you!

Hermione walked out of her Arthimancy class still miffed about her earlier run in with Malfoy. Honestly why was he being so rude this year? He was being twice the prat as usual. How do his " Friends" out up with him? Come to think of it, Hermione hadn't actully seen him flanked but a crowd of Slytherins for a while now. But it was only the first day of school so she shouldn't run into any conclusions.

She had a free period after lunch so she was going to use it to catch up with some of the homework they had already been assigned. Maybe Sprout and Slughorn were easy for the first day back but that wasn't the case with her Arthimancy teacher. 

She wonderd if she should head to the Gryffindor common room to wait for Hary and Ron first or  just go straight to lunch. Her stomach growled making the decision for her. Harry and Ron would eventually come to lunch to.

Hermione went and sat at the Gryffindor table across from Neville. He perked up when she sat down. " Oh hello, Hermione" He said. He had a book in his hands that he was gazing interestedly in. " Hello, Neville, What are you reading?" 

" Oh it's just some book Gran bought me for my birthday. It's about magical plants and other stuff related to herebology"

" Sounds interesting " Hermione said. She scanned the great hall, noticing it was rather empty. Where is everybody? She wondered. As if to answer her question a bunch of students started flooding into the hall, including Harry and Ron who came to sit beside her. 

" Where were you both.?" She questioned. " Did I miss something?"

" Yeah" Ron said, already stuffong mouth with food. " Ogmade tip dis weecan" Bits of food came flying out of his mouth.

" I'm sorry, what?" Hermione persisted. 

" He said there's a hogsmead trip this weekend." Harry said, filling his plate.

" Ohhh" Hermione nodded.

Ron swallowed his food and spoke first, waiting to fil his mouth with more food. " Yes we have a free period after! Think I might take a nap!"

Hermione was suddenly stern. " The free periods weren't given to us for nap time, Ronald. They were ment for studying and catching up."  Ron rolled his eyes. " Whatever " He said already biting into his roll.

" Anway.." Hermione continued. " I was wondering if you two wanted to join me in the library?" 

" For what?" Ron asked. " Studying of course!" Hermione said. " But we don't even have homwork" Ron whined. " Well soon we are going to have a lot of it!" Ron just ignored her. 

" How about you Harry?" Harry scratched the back of his neck the way he always did when he was nervous. " Well I have to check on the Gryffindor quidditch list with McGonagall and... uhh.." 

" Uh  means your not coming, I get it. I'll go by myself then." She grabbed her bag and stood up. " And since you two aren't coming I might as well not wait and leave now." She turned on her heel and left the great hall.

She walked down the corridor and up the first flight of stairs until she rounded the right corner that would lead her to her favourite place: The Hogwarts library. She could probably walk here blind folded. Not that she'd try of course, the stairwells would sometimes un-expectadly change and she didn't want to fall. Though she imagined there must be some kind of charm there protecting that from happening to the students, although she didn't read anything about one in Hogwarts a history.

She opened the doors to the library and smiled at Mrs. Pince, the librarian. She went to sit ather favourite table in the back of the library. She pulled her Arthimancy homework out of her bag and started working on it.

After about half an hour she got to a question that required a text book she didn't have. She frowned. Why would her proffessor ask a question that they most likely didn't have to book to answer the question with? She read more. Ahh it said the book could be found in the library. 

Hermione picked up her parchment and walked up to Mrs. Oince. " Uhmm Mrs?" She asked. " I was wondering if you might be able to tell me the general area of where I could find this book?" 

Mrs. Pince put her glasses on a looked at Hermione's parchment. "Over in that section dear, near the charms section"  She said and offered Hermione a warm smile in whick Hermione returned.

She walked over the section where the librarian had told her. She turned into the isle and immediatly halted. Malfoy was standing in the middle of the isle gazing around the same section she needed to. He seemed to sense she was there because he looked up at her and sneered. " I knew a mudblood must be near, it started feeling dirty in here." 

Hermione wan't going to back down. " Well if your suddenly feeling dirty Malfoy then I think you've got a problem. The boys bathroom is right over there down that hall." She gestured with her hand. 

Malfoy cheeks tinged a shade of pink. And her glared at her with an icy cold glare. " You know that's not what I ment, Mudblood. " 

" Well then next time you shouldn't be rude to people Malfoy.They might not be so rude back"

"  I'm not rude to people, Mudblood. Ask any pureblood they'll tell you. Oh wait don't speak to them you might get your mudblood germs on them. And don't wave your hand again you might spread your germs over here." 

That one stung, deep. But she would never let him know that. She knew who the real human being was here, and it wasn't him.

" Your a horrible person, Malfoy." She said. And as if a second thought she addded " And seriously come up with something other than Mudblood. It's  getting old." 

She walked over to the section he was in. She wanted to get the book she needed whether he liked it or not. She didn't care. As soon as she was within five feet he immdediatly jumped back another foot. Hermione found this amusing. " Scared of muggleborns, are you Malfoy?" 

He galred at her. " I most certainly am not! I don't want to catch your germs ." He stormed out of the section. " I'm sorry being human isn't contagious Malfoy!" She called. That was payback for what he had said about her earlier. 

She grabbed the book she wanted and headed back over to her table to complete her homework before her next class.

A/N: okay so this one was a little short, but I already gave you guys a chapter today. Please read and review!