Handling Glass | ✔

Chapter Seven

I knocked on the door cautiously.
"Ron?" I pushed the door open. He was sitting on the bed, just sitting, staring at the wall. I look at harry and he shrugs.
"Ron you weren't in charms today. What happened?" I sit on the bed but he continues to stare at the wall in silence. I hesitate before putting my hand on his shoulder gently. He jerks out if his trance like he's just woken from a bad dream. He looks at me in puzzlement.
"Are you okay?" I ask. He just looks at me.
"Come on mate" Harry says. "You've got to face lessons eventually." He sits down next to Ron on the bed. He says two words, just two simple words.
"I can't." Just then the bell rang to announce it was the end of the period. My tummy flipped, I had potions now and I couldn't miss it, I'd never missed a class in my life. Harry must have seen the look on my face because he said,
"Go. I'll stay." I look at him.
"Are you sure?" He nodded. I gave him a smile of appreciation before walking out the room. I was walking down the corridor when I heard a voice.
"Hey Granger" It was a girls voice. I spun around. "Looking after your little boyfriend in there?" Oh great it was Meredith, a girl in my year, she was a bitch but for some reason she got into gryfindoor. I turned around again and kept on walking. Clearly she wasn't expecting this because she didn't know what to do next.
"Yeah you keep walking" she stuttered. I bit back a smile and turned the corner. I slammed into someone.
"We've got to stop meeting like this" Kyle says helping me pick up my books yet again. I smile not knowing what to say, I have never been the best with boys I mean Harry and Ron are my best friends so I can speak to them but this is different. He smiles back and I melt down. We stand like that for a while gazing into each others eyes like they do in movies. But this was not a movie and I knew that I had to drag myself away from this beautiful boy just to go and get an education. I inwardly sighed and broke the staring.
"Well, I need to get to potions class..." I trail off. He breaks his gaze too and shoves him hands casually into his robe pockets.
"Yeah. I'll, um, see you soon?" He says it more like a question. I nod and peel my eyes off of his angelic face. As much as it pained me I walked down the corridor to my next lesson.
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It was the first time ever, I had not been completely involved in a lesson. Not putting my hand up to answer every question or shout out when the professor doesn't pick me. Ugh, boys. I can't stop thinking about Ron and how to help him and get him out of this hellhole that he's in. It seemed like as soon as I manage to get him out my head though, thoughts about Kyle comes creeping in. Whether he likes me or not, whether it's right to feel this way then when it dawns on me that I am being selfish not thinking about how I should be helping Ron, my mind slips back into thinking about Ron. Professor Slughorn was back now and teaching potions. I was quite pleased about that because he was a good teacher, seemed to be very knowledgeable in potions and and was very kind to all of his students. This is was also the first time, however, I had grown to be slightly annoyed at his propitiousness.
My head fell into the table in front of me and I groaned. I wish I could just forget about everything, I knew I had to concentrate on my work. When I heard a soft, older and lower voice my head popped up again.
"Um hermione? Are you okay? You just seem..." He trails off thinking of the right word, I suppose he doesn't want to offend me. "Distant." He finishes off.
"Yes, sorry professor it's just I couldn't sleep last night so I'm very tired now. I just need to get back into the swing of things." I quickly made up, it wasn't exactly a lie, it was true, I couldn't sleep last night but that wasn't the reason I was 'distant'. He gave a unconvinced smile.
"Okay then." And he walked away knowing he couldn't get anything else out of me. I sighed and slumped over again.
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"Hey, Hermione. Hey." I heard a ruffled voice behind me in the corridor. I spun around to be greeted by Kyle's alluring face. My face broke into grin.
"Hey Kyle."
"Hey." He began walking with me down to the dining room.
"So, I was wondering whether you want to grab a butter beer with me on Friday." He casually said. I could feel my heart racing.
Calm down Hermione.
"What like a date?" I enquired. He smirked.
"Maybe." I gave a shy smile. It's not like me and Ron are anything and I do like him, plus he seems like such a nice guy. We were at the entrance of the hall now.
"Sure" I tried to say it casually too but I was aware of my voice shaking. A grin grew on his face.
"Well, I'm going to be in town anyway so, I'll meet you at The Three Broomsticks at 7." With that he walked away to sit with his group of friends. Still with a smile from ear to ear I sit down in between Ron and Harry.
"What made you so happy?" Harry questioned. I shrugged. Maybe this was a better day than I thought it was going to be.
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Dedicated to @maria-oceana
Extra long for ya'll because you had to wait for like 2 months. Sorry guys 😕. What do ya think?
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P.S. Sorry I'm editing all of the chapters now and going through for spelling an things, so please ignore the mistakes for now, you don't have to tell me about them I know they're there and I'm getting to it 😉