Especially For You

CHAPTER FIVE: THE SITUATION

Ron was running to the Great Hall, since he woke up a little late and he really needed his breakfast for their game against Ravenclaw. `Hello,´ he said sitting down beside Hermione and kissing her cheek. He frowned at the look on his fellow Gryffindor´s faces. `What´s wrong?´ They were all, apparently, looking at Hermione.

`I can´t watch this anymore,´ said Parvati, looking as if she´s going to throw up and running away. Ginny looked like she´s going to get sick as well. Ron, Harry, Neville and Dean looked both amazed and disgusted.

`Wha--what are you looking a---´ said Ron. He looked at Hermione and then he swallowed hard. She was reading her Transfiguration notes while eating an apple---with sauce. He started to look disgusted as well. `Hermione, wha---what are you, er, eating?´

`Oh, this is an, oh, let me see,´ said Hermione, frowning at him, `an apple?´

`I know, but what is that sauce---´

`Oh this,´ she said, blushing a little. `You know what? I never knew that maple syrup and soy sauce taste so good with green apples.´

`Maple syrup and soy sauce,´ Ron asked, swallowing hard. Seamus and Dean began to laugh while Harry and Neville just bit their lips. He saw Hermione reaching for the ketchup but he stopped her. `Whatever do you need the ketchup for?´

`Ron, let go of the ketchup.´

`Is it for the apple too?´ he asked, letting go of it.

`No, of course not! That is so disgusting,´ she said and then spread a thick layer of ketchup over her buttered toast and blueberry muffin. Ron´s jaw dropped.

`Hermione,´ said Ron, stopping her from shoving the toast into her mouth. `You might get sick---´

`No,´ said Hermione, pushing his hand away. `You should really taste it. It tastes so good!´ She began spreading ketchup on another buttered toast and then handed it to Ron, together with the muffin.

`No--no no thank you,´ said Ron quickly, leaning back to stay away from the Apple with Maple syrup and Soy sauce, and Buttered toast and Blueberry muffin with Ketchup that Hermione was offering him. *******

That evening, the Gryffindor common room was extraordinarily noisy, since they won their match against Ravenclaw. They were determined to win the cup this year, since this is going to be the last year of most of the members of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team.

`Excellent start team!´ yelled Ron at the top of his lungs, clapping wildly and raising his glass of butterbeer. `We just have to keep this going and the cup will be ours!´ Everybody cheered. Hermione was talking with Ginny, Lavander, and Parvati, while Ron kept on screaming his lungs out, when she suddenly felt sick. She gently massaged her temples.

`Hermione,´ said Lavender, frowning a little and rubbing her back. `Are you OK?´

`I honestly don´t know,´ she replied. `I´m a bit dizzy. I think that I really need to sleep.´

`Hermione,´ said Ginny, `Don´t study too much. Don´t forget that in order to do well, you also need rest...´

`Look, I´ll just go to Madam Pomfrey,´ said Hermione. She stood up and then disappeared through the portrait hole.

`I think that she is bulimic,´ whispered Parvati. Ginny just glared at her. ********

`Stupid Gryffindors!´ muttered Draco Malfoy while walking towards his common room. `They won again! Bloody gits! Those morons---´ but he was interrupted by strange noises. He carefully scanned the hall and then took out his wand. He carefully followed the noise, taking one step, two steps---and then frowned upon seeing Gryffindor´s Hermione Granger holding her stomach and she was throwing up. `What the hell? Are you bulimic? Why are girls so obsessed with weight?!´

`What are you doing here, Malfoy,´ said Hermione weakly, looking at him while wiping her mouth. Draco just raised his eyebrows and then smirked. Hermione immediately stepped back and then took her wand out. `Go away!´

`You want to know why I am here? You want me to go away? If you must know, this is one of the paths towards MY common room. This is MY territory,´ he said coolly and lazily. Hermione was about to say something back but she threw up again while Draco watched, looking very intrigued.

`That´s it Mudblood. You are coming with me,´ he said, looking tensed but with forced calmness. `It´s either you had food poisoning or you are bulimic---´ He then took one step towards her but immediately stepped back when she threw up again. She wiped her mouth again.

`Go away! I don´t need your help, Draco Malfoy!´ He just rolled his eyes and then waited for a few seconds until she stopped throwing up and then lifted her. Hermione struggled for awhile but she was dizzy and weak. `Put me down! Let go of me! You just wait until I tell Ron---´

`Will you shut the hell up,´ said Draco, looking very annoyed while walking to the Hospital Wing. `I´m not going to do anything but help you, Mudblood. As if! Look, I would love to leave you here but I can´t at this state. That´s what I´d rather do but I know that everybody will blame me if anything happens to you since I was the last person who saw you! I´m not doing this for you, but for the points that Dumbledore will give Slytherin and my cousins. So, shut up.´ This made Hermione shut her mouth.

`Stupid Gryffin---´ but he was interrupted when Hermione threw up on his robe. He stopped walking and then glared at Hermione. He sighed. `Great! Thanks a lot for the cologne, Granger.´ Hermione wiped her mouth again.

`Sorry,´ was all that she managed to say and before she knew it, they are already in the Hospital Wing.

`Madam Pomfrey!´ Draco called, `Granger is not well!´ Madam Pomfrey ran to them immediately and then gestured for him to lay her on the bed. `She was throwing up! Look at me!´

`Alright, Mr. Malfoy, this is a new robe and you can change in that room.´ Draco grabbed the new robe and then went inside the room. Madam Pomfrey looked at Hermione. `How do you feel right now?´

`I don´t know,´ she replied. `But awhile ago I was dizzy...´

`And your menstruation is regular, I suppose?´ Hermione gasped when she heard the word menstruation and then sat up.

`And your menstruation?´

`I didn´t have it in August. I thought that it was just late but I didn´t have it this month, neither---What have I done?´

`I see,´ said Madam Pomfrey softly. She began to rub Hermione´s back because she is now crying. Draco came out. `You have to be extra careful, Ms. Granger. You are now looking after two people, yourself and your baby---´

`I think she is bulimic---Baby?´ Draco said with raised eyebrows. `Baby?´

`You also have to tell Porfessor Mcgonagall, the Headmaster, and yes, Your Parents. I would also like you to go to an OB-Gyne, since this is the farthest that I can do to you. Good luck, Ms. Granger.´ Draco just looked away, not knowing what to do. `So, Ms.---´ but Hermione began crawling off the bed and then started walking through the huge doors of the Hospital Wing, absentmindedly.

`Mr. Malfoy,´ said Madam Pomfrey, looking at him straight in the eyes. `Bring her to her common room. I´ll have you responsible if anything happens to her.´ Draco´s eyes widened and then immediately ran after Hermione. He groaned.

`Look, I didn´t want to walk you all the way to your stupid common room,´ said Draco, walking beside her. `Pomfrey just asked me to...´ Hermione just looked at him and then started to cry. Draco stood beside her uncomfortably and then carefully and soothingly rubbed her back. `Don´t cry. Crying shows weakness. Crying won´t get you anywhere.´

`Haven´t you cried yet, Malfoy,´ she asked.

`You shouldn´t ask such questions,´ he replied, and then looked away. He pulled her for a gentle and friendly hug. `Look I am not doing this---´ this made Hermione chuckle.

`Malfoy, don´t worry about it,´ she said, wiping her tears. `I will not tell everybody that you actually have a heart---and that you have half Muggle cousins who you love very much...´ He grinned.

`So what are your plans? Are you going to tell Weasley that he is going to be a daddy? You better hurry up before I tell everyone---´ he said with a bit of grin on his face.

`Go ahead and tell and I´ll make sure that everybody knows that Draco Malfoy actually have a heart and half Muggle cousins! How did you know that it is a Weasley, anyway?´

`Honestly, Granger, please don´t treat me like I am dumb,´ he said but they were interrupted by slow and soft footsteps. Draco stepped in front of her and asked her to keep quiet. A silhouette appeared... it was Harry.