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The walk to the school was short and a little awkward. Hermione and Dylan walked in front of the other three. Rikki, Ron, and Harry walked behind the duo with Harry and Ron on the sides and Rikki walking between the two blokes. The concrete was slick due to ice and snow, therefore Rikki and Hermione must be careful when they took a step.

"Well, here we are." Dylan said with a smile across his face. "come on, Hermione, let's dance! I want you to meet my friends as well. I'm sure they'll absolutely adore you!" Obvious happiness was clear on his face as he held Hermione's hand tightly.

Hermione looked a little taken back. She was okay with meeting new people, but it wasn't her favorite thing in the world to do. Granted she was always up for new things, but she not only felt strange meeting new people, but she wanted to spend time with Ron... and Harry and Rikki. She did not like Dylan the way he liked her. Hermione had fallen for someone else.

She looked over in the direction Rikki, Harry, and Ron had headed when Dylan had insisted she spend time with him and meet his friends. She saw Ron and Harry laughing and sniggering at Rikki as she attempted to scarf down an entire plate of food into her mouth. Hermione knew she could do it, but they didn't. It was good to know that at least one person was getting along with the other two.

"But your sister is showing Ron and Harry how big her appetite can get. You know it's funny when she turns blue!" Hermione improvised. She simply didn't want to socialize right now. Unless it was with one of her best girl friends or her two best friends.

"You've seen that loads of times, Hermione, you know she can do it. Let them find out she can." Dylan insisted as he gave her a small tug on her arm, signifying she wished for her to follow him.

Reluctantly, Hermione agreed, with a nod, and allowed Dylan to pull her further and further away from the trio sitting in a vacant corner, seeming to be having a splendid time.

Rikki had just finished swallowing the last bit of food. With a wipe to her mouth, she sighed. "So what are you going to do about my brother?" Rikki asked as she turned to face Ron.

"What do you mean, Rikki? It's not like I can actually do anything now. She here with him, and she's happy. So I s'ppose that's good enough for me." Ron told her, though he only meant it half-heartedly.

Harry looked at Ron with a small smile on his face. "Brilliant." He said softly.

Grinning from ear to ear, Rikki placed a hand on his shoulder. "I knew it was you." Rikki stated with satisfaction. She abruptly stood and wiped of her dress a bit, then turned to the two of them. "Get up, you two." She said playfully as she pulled them out of their seats.

"What the bloody hell are we doing?" Ron asked as he scowled at Rikki's brother standing with his arm around Hermione talking with other people.

"You're at a dance, Ron, so what d people do when they're at a dance?" She asked.

Harry and Ron gave a shrug at each other then at Hermione's friend.

"They dance." she stated plainly.

Ron groaned and rolled his eyes. "Rikki, if you haven't noticed, there's three of us. That doesn't necessarily give all of us partners."

"Don't be silly, Ron." She with a dismissive wave of her hand. "You'll have Hermione."

Hermione laughed politely and flakily at a joke one of Dylan's friends had told. She was so bored. Dylan's friends were all jocks. And if she heard one more bad comment about a person considered 'low in the food chain', she was going to loose it. From experience with house elves, she felt the exact same way with the mugggle, high school, social scale of popularity. She simply could not tolerate the inequality.

"Hermione, have you met my girlfriend, Amanda?" One of Dylan's friends by the name of 'Blake' asked with a cocky grin plaster on his face.

Hermione remembered Rikki said something about a girl named Amanda. She said Ron and Harry were all 'game' to her because thy were there with no date. And Rikki could only serve as one date for one of them. So far, Harry was the only one who was safe.

"No, I haven't." Hermione said with a smile once more. She extended her hand to the girl who stood before her. The girl was tall, and had brown-blond hair. She wore a tight, pink dress with no straps and black pumps. "It's nice to meet you, Amanda."

Amanda raised an eyebrow and looked Hermione up and down. Pressing her lips together as if she were puckering them, she replied, "The pleasure is yours. I personally, thought Dylan could do much better."

Hermione gulped slightly and felt tears brim her eyes. If she wasn't good enough for Dylan, there was no way she was good enough for Ron. "Um... wi-will you ple-please excuse me?" She asked before a sob could accidentally leave her lips. Hermione quickly walked off to the girl's restroom.

Rikki, Harry, and Ron saw the entire thing. He clenched his fists and fumed in his head. 'Why didn't he defend her? Why didn't he not comfort her?' Ron raged in his mind. Dylan had made no effort to neither comfort nor chase after Hermione after she had been insulted by that bleeding shit with heels.

"Go after her, Romeo." Harry said with a smirk. "She needs you."

Ron didn't have to be told twice. It didn't matter to him he was heading towards the girl's restroom.

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