Handling Glass | ✔

Chapter Eleven

I laid on my bed as I stared up at the ceiling. I sighed. I didn't know what to do I had tried running after him:
"Ron!" I called after him as he stormed down the corridor.
"Ron, please!" He suddenly stopped and I stopped too. But he didn't say anything, he didn't have to, his hateful glare said it all. It was like a punch to the chest and I just stood there as he walked away from me.
"Hermione?" A voice drew me out of my thoughts and I look up. Annabelle, one of my room mates was looking at me with a worried expression.
"Yeah?"
"Did you hear me?" She confirmed. "I said are you coming down for dinner?"
"Oh." I opened my mouth to automatically say yes when I shut it again when the realisation hit me that Ron would be there and I would have to face him. Suddenly I wasn't that hungry.
"I'm not actually that hungry but I might come down later." I smiled.
"Okay." She grinned and walked out the room. I sighed and slumped back down again to do what I had been doing for the past 2 hours; staring up at the ceiling.
* * *
A knock at the door woke me from my dreamless sleep. I must have fallen asleep when I was ruminating. The room was dim and Annabelle still hadn't come back from dinner so I suppose it wasn't that late. Before I could reply the door was pushed open and Kyle stepped in. I gave a small unconvincing smile and pushed my fingers through my hair as I sighed.
"Hey, you." Kyle smiled as he came into the room and sat on the end of my bed.
"Where have you been? You weren't at dinner." I shrugged.
"I wasn't hungry."
He moved closer to me but for some reason, I didn't want to be near him, I didn't want to talk to him, I didn't even want to see him, I just wanted Ron. I edged away but Kyle didn't notice.
"Hermione? Is this about Ron? Are you still worked up about him?" He sighed. It took me a minute to decide to say "no. I'm fine."
"Your not fine Hermione." He grabbed onto my arm as I tried to get up and I tried to tug away but he pulled me closer to him. Before I could pull away again he spun me so my face was inches away from his and he grabbed my face with his hands and forcefully kissed me. We drew apart and he held my face in his hands.
"Hermione," he whispered. "I'm never going to hurt you like he has. You can trust me." Suddenly all my anger was gone and I wrapped my arms round him, snuggling into him.
"I know, I'm sorry."
* * *
I sat there staring into thin air. Even after my talk with Kyle as soon as I left him the hole in my heart came back. I was sat in my transfiguration class, my head circling with thoughts of Ron. I felt guilty that I felt guilty about Ron because it's not fair on Kyle but at the same time I was angry at Kyle because he doesn't understand and he just shrugs everything off, it's like he doesn't truly care about my feelings. Then I feel sorry about thinking that way about Kyle and then it just goes in a circle. I was just starting to think about it the seventh time round when I was interrupted by Professor Magonagal's voice.
"Miss Granger? What do you think?" I snapped out of my thoughts and focus my eyes at her at the front.
"About what?" I said unintentionally. The class laughed and Professor Magonagal frowned at me. She asked me the question again and thankfully didn't tell me off but I knew that she would be speaking to me after class and my mind worried about that instead.
* * *
I thought I had been able to sneak out as I approached the door but no such luck because her voiced boomed from behind me.
"Miss Granger." I closed my eyes and exhaled before turning around.

"Yes professor?" I asked as innocently as possible. She called me over and I took nervous steps towards her. I'd never been properly told off before unless you count the many times with Harry and Ron but if you think about that we were kind of saving the world and all that and it doesn't really count. I mean I had never been told off on my own for something like this.

"Is everything okay?" She asked concerned.

"Yeah, everything's fine. Why?"

"Because you seem very... preoccupied at the moment. Is everything okay?" Now don't judge me for what I'm about to do next, it definitely isn't like me. It's just as she was talking to me what was going round in my head was that it was lunch time now and I would have to speak to Ron if not see him and I don't think my mind was cut out for that just then so I did a very stupid thing. The only thing I could think of to get me out of seeing Ron at lunch and for a while.