Mischief Unmanaged ➰ H.P

VII. Distraction and Love Marks?!

"Exceeds Expectations?! How come I got E in Charms?," Hermione blurted out, looking disbelievingly on her paper. "Professor,"

"Miss Granger, kindly check your answers carefully, you forgot to write number twenty, instead you put your answer in number twenty one and so on the remaining numbers," Professor Flitwick explained.

Hermione felt her cheeks burnt upon confirming that indeed she forgot to write number 20, she scored 19 over twenty five on their weekly quiz.

"T-this is impossible, oh my god, how could I?" Hermione shook her head, even Parvati Patil got only one mistake in the said quiz.

"It's okay Miss Granger, I think you should stop over thinking about your academics, try to relax a bit, off you go," but Hermione couldn't accept it, for her, that is one of the most embarrassing thing that had happened to her.

She tried to recall what really causes her distraction that day, and she easily figured it out. She never stopped thinking about Harry, they've been going out for four days now and he never been off of her mind since.

"Hey, what happened to your quiz?" Ron taunted with a smug grin, he got a perfect score which just doubled Hermione's frustration.

"Oh shut up," she seized her bag and immediately stormed out of the room to avoid any talks about that stupid quiz.

"Hey!"

"Ouch!" .

"Shit!"

Harry and Hermione both fell backwards after they bumped into each other.

"Harry? Why did you do that?" Hermione said as she lifted herself up, Harry who jumped out from behind the pillar to surprise her also did the same.

"Er.. I'm here to give this--" he picked up the bouquet of white Lilys from the floor, tied it together and thrust in front of her, "To you,"

Hermione couldn't help to blush, the previous aggravation was easily replaced by the satisfactory happiness upon seeing him again.

"Thanks, how sweet of you," Hermione said as they both walked towards their usual spot under an old tree near the lake.

Harry was feeling uneasy since their first quarter examination will takes place tomorrow and Draco gave him an unbelievable task.

"Distract her, don't let her grab any single book. I should be the top one this time and you promised me that," Draco told him before he gone to pick some Lilys.

"Harry?" Hermione had to tap him on the shoulder to takes him off of his thoughts.

"Y-yeah? Sorry,"

"I said I'm going to the library now and I can't go with you tonight, you know, tomorrow's our exam and I can't stand having another E on my paper," Hermione said though obviously she did wanted to stay with him longer.

Harry bolted up and extended a hand for her, "Let's go then,"

Hermione raised her eyebrow before grabbing his hand and stood up, "Harry, we can't study together, you know I have to concentrate fully on my own subjects,"

Harry's smile slowly vanished from his face, he tried to appear rejected and cute at the same time, "Yeah, I get it... Your first priority will always be your studies,"

"What? O-of course it is, but that doesn't mean that you're not in my priorities too," but Harry just pressed a finger on her lips to hush her.

"It's okay," he assured her.

"Look, okay come on," Hermione sighed in defeat before pulling his hand as they jogged towards the castle.

"I won!" Harry cheered.