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[Livia♥Jared]

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by ♥Livia♥





I know we're just friends...
But I just can't pretend.

+thanks Julie for the graphic
+this is a re-post.

→Livia--♥
©-2007

[Livia♥Jared]

NOTE: i forgot to say, this is a HP story. actually, no, it isnt. It is in the world of HP, and I use some of JK Rowling's characters, but the story is based ONLY about the love of the two main characters. nothing about Voldemort, and not even a lot about Harry himself. Nothing much about magic [tiny exceptions may apply].

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-♥♥- Chapter 1 -♥♥-

Hermione turned to Ron and watched him hand in hand with his new girlfriend.

For the past weeks, he had been really distant from her, like she was not his best friend anymore. Ever since he had met Julie, Hermione felt all alone.

It was not like Harry really had time to chat with her, either. He had recently gave up on Ginny, to spend most of his time kissing a new girl that had just been transferred to Hogwarts. Even Ginny was now a couple with Neville Longbottom, who could have guessed.

Hermione was really all alone. Ron had completely forgotten that they had been in love just some months ago, and that they had share something together.

If Hermione wanted to be honest with herself, everyone had forgotten about her. She would have never thought that guys were such unfaithful to girl friends. As soon as they find love, their new girlfriends protest on having to share them, and instead to choose friendship, those stupid boys chose some love that was not even meant to last, or at least, that's what she thought.

Hermione looked at the 3 other tables in the great hall, trying to find out a girl in whom she could find a real friend. Someone who wouldn't stop caring when something supposedly better comes her way. Everyone seemed already talking and laughing together. Even Draco Malfoy, the stupid git, was hand in hand with Pansy Parkinson.

Hermione rolled her eyes at the most awkward couple of the whole school and let out a sigh. Her eyes jumped on the person sitting right next to the loverbirds and she frowned. She had never met the girl, and didn't even recall seeing her before.

Her long brown hair falling over her shoulders was half-hidding the sheet she was quickly scribbling on it. She pushed Malfoy, who had taken too much space, with an annoyed glance.

She was the only one who didn't seem to be with someone else. She seemed to be the only girl who would need a friend.

Hermione got up slowly, repeating over and over in her head a two sentences speech she wanted to let out. As she was getting closer, she over heard their conversation.

"Livia, don't be a jealous bitch." Pansy said, looking at the pretty girl on the other side of Draco.

"Shut up, Pansy, you don't even know what you're talking about." the girl simply replied, her eyes still stuck in her book.

"I know you wish you had Draco, but he's mine." she said, sticking her nose up.

"Pansy, baby, easy."

Hermione noticed Livia rolling her eyes.

"You two are annoying me. I'm trying to do my homework." the brunette repeated in a mean tone.

"You are so boring, Livia. Gosh. Get a guy. You're a shame to all of us, Slytherins."

Hermione was now standing in front of the trio, speechless. Slytherin. In her excitement and motivation to find a new friend, she had completely forgotten that if that same girl was sitting next to Draco, she was obviously a Slytherin.

"If you two are fun, than I'd rather be boring." Livia replied. "Plus, you can keep that old best friend of mine. He became a loser."

Draco turned to Livia and grimaced to her, even if he knew she was joking. She sent him a grin before to wink at him.

Hermione frowned at them, wondering since when Draco and her had been best friends. Even more impressing, she wasn't even aware Draco had real friends.

"By Merlin's beard. What are you doing here, Granger?" Pansy expressed.

Malfoy started laughing. "A mudblood near the Slytherin's table. Are you stupid, Granger?"

Hermione's lips became smaller as she felt anger run in her veins. She wanted to bitch something back to them, but didn't dare to. She wasn't standing there to argue with some losers.

"You two are really stupid, why don't you shut up a second?" Livia frowned to them. "Here, just kiss each other. Maybe it will give a break to the magic world." she kept saying.

With that, she got up quickly, closed her books with the loudest noise possible and left the table. When she arrived at Hermione's level, she grabbed her arm and brought her out of the great hall with her. Hermione's eyes became bigger from Livia's behavior, but she still followed the girl, looking at her shining hair moving on her back as she walked.

As soon as they stepped foot outside, Livia turned to her and grinned, sticking her books to her chest.

"I'm Livia Cooper." she said. "And if you want a good advice, I don't think a Gryffindor should approach the Slytherin's table."

Hermione licked her lips but remained silent.

"I only said that because the students of my house can be very mean, sometimes."

How could a Slytherin be so caring?

Hermione smiled. Maybe she had found a new best friend, perhaps.

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→Livia--♥
©-2007

[Livia♥Jared]

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-♥♥- Chapter 2 -♥♥-

"Hermione? Hello?"

The girl sighed and turned to her best friend, or at least he used to be. Her annoyance was easily showed in her facial expression and Harry's face turned into a grimace.

"Why do you look at me like that?"

He had deserted her, and he asked why she was rude to him? Hermione bited her bottom lip to stop the mean comments in her head to get out by her lips.

"No reason. I was lost in my thoughts." she just answered.

She tried to push away the anger she felt towards Harry and Ron, but when Harry turned around to kiss his girlfriend Mely, Hermione grimaced.

"Do you want to hang out with us this afternoon, Hermione?" Ron asked, firmly gripping Julie's hand.

Hermione's glance looked at their fingers interwined and shook her head in a negative way. It was hard enough to be a third wheel, but being a fifth wheel and hanging out with two couples would probably bore her to death. She didn't feel like looking at them making out all day long.

She looked up and saw Livia entering the great hall. Their eyes met and the girl's smile went up straight until her ears as she started running in their direction. Hermione smiled back and got up in a quick movement.

"No, thanks. I have someone to see." she answered, her eyes leaving her new friend' petite frame. She left the table and joined her friend, a big grin spreading on her face.

"I was wondering where you were." Hermione said, stopping in front of Livia.

"Sorry, Filch found me trying a spell on one of those annoying Hufflepuffs."

Even though Livia's words were supposed to annoy her, Hermione was way too happy to finally be with someone who cared for her to get mad.

They both walked out of the great hall and headed towards Hogwart's yard.

"You know you shouldn't get yourself in trouble like that." Hermione finally said as the shinning sun leaded their way.

"Than keep me out of it." Livia grinned, talking her friend's hand and pulling her.

She bursted into laughter, bringing an other smile to Hermione's lips and started running. Before she could realize it, Hermione ran after her. After a while of running, Livia let herself fall on the grass, breathless. Hermione tried to stop too but tripped over her feet before to fall on her knees right next to her best friend. She started laughing too, trying to catch her breath.

She didn't remember the last time she had felt so good and free with someone. Even Harry and Ron couldn't undertsand her that way, which is why she sometimes kept stuff from them. It was real tough not to be able to share your secrets with someone, and Hermione had dreamt of a girl friend for a long time. A girl she could tell everything to, without being scared of being judged, or laughed at.

She looked at Livia and realized maybe she was the friend she was searching and wishing for.

"You're crazy, you know that?" Hermione laughed lightly.

"Pretty much." Livia shrugged with a smile.

"I wanted to ask you that before but... how come I've never seen you in Hogwarts before?" she questioned.

"Oh, well I was tranferred just some weeks ago. I just had to change of school, so I'm trying my best to stay in Hogwarts now... I need to get my grades up." Livia explained. "Weird for a Slytherin, to care about that, don't you think?"

"Slytherins don't just have bad sides." Hermione said, smiling.

"I thought it would be great to be in school with my best friend, but I was wrong." Livia kept going.

"Why?"

Hermione frowned. She knew Draco wasn't nice at all with her, but he should have been at least with his own best friend.

"It's just... ever since he's with Pansy he kind of ignores me. I think she doesn't like me much." Livia shrugged again.

"She's mot likely jealous of you." Hermione said.

"Of me? There's nothing to be jealous about. My parents are rich and well-known, but so is her family. And she already has Draco... he chose her over me. What a best friend." Livia rolled her eyes with a sigh.

"Maybe because you're prettier than she could ever be."

Hermione's heart jumped in her chest. She couldn't believe she had said those words and a hint of red colored her cheeks.

Livia only smiled to her, amused by Hermione's shyness.

"Thank you." she finally said. "Aren't those your friends?" she added with a frown, looking behind her friend.

Hermione turned around looking at Harry, Mely, Ron and Julie sitting together. She smiled.

"Yes." she answered. "Well, at least they used to be." she almost whispered.

The sight of her old best friends having fun without her didn't sadden her, to her own surprise. She looked again at Livia and grinned.

"Who cares about them? I have you, now."

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→Livia--♥
©-2007

[Livia♥Jared]

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-♥♥- Chapter 3 -♥♥-

Hermione scribbled quickly the sentences in her head to finish her homework as soon as possible. She had been hanging out with Livia for the past weeks, and against all the effort Harry and Ron had made to spend some time with her, she pushed them away.

Still, at this exact moment, they were sitting next to her, working on Snape's last homework. As usual, Harry didn't know what to write, and Ron, even worse at keeping up with the classes, didn't even know what he was supposed to be writing about.

"Still working?"

Hermione looked up, not noticing that Harry and Ron had done the same, and were giving the girl who stood in front of Hermione a questioning look. A sincere and happy smile spread across her face.

"Yes, unfortunately." Hermione said, looking straight in Livia's eyes.

The slytherin smiled back at her.

"It's time for a break, don't you think?" she proposed.

"You can forget that. Hermione is always studying before to have fun. I guess it's pain for pleasure."

Livia gave him a haughty look and frowned to him.

"I don't think I talked to you, Weasley." she said, looking at him from head to toes.

Hermione sent a mean look to Ron and got up abruptly, her lips smaller because of the anger.

"Yea, mind your business." she snapped. "I'm free to do whatever I want to."

She took her books, sticking them on her chest and moved her head high. She walked, sure of herself, in the door's direction without looking back. Livia tried to catch up with her, on the other side of the table as the looks of the Gryffindor's students, their eyes following them until they were out of sight.

When they were out of sight, Hermione stopped straight anf turned furiously to her best friend.

"They get me so angry!" she yelled moving her arms frenetically. "Why do they even act like that?"

Livia grabbed both of her arms and smiled to her. Hermione couldn't help but smiled back, feeling a strong feeling invading her whole body. She let her shoulders fall down as her anger left her body quickly.

She looked in her best friend's eyes and she felt safe, and a unique kind of love spread completely in her veins, sending a rush to her brain. She didn't know why, and she didn't care at all, but she had found someone who could make every bad feeling disapear, leaving only the good ones inside her.

"You're okay now?" Livia asked, grinning.

Hermione nodded, taking a big breath, her huge smile still illuminating her face.

As usual, their footsteps brought them outside in silence, and they sat down further from the rest of the students.

"You've very quiet." Hermione pointed, looking at her friend with worried eyes.

Livia didn't dare to look up and played with the ring on a finger from her right hand. She had a hard time to tell the secrets she had been keeping for herself for a long time. Hermione was different, though. Livia had always been really close to Draco, but she never thought she could reveal to him what was hidden deep inside her body, and running in her veins all the time. If only things would be easier. But unfortunately, Draco could never make things easier. It always had to be complicated. So weird, for a boy. That is most probably why Livia had never told him her real secrets. Or maybe she was trying to find reasons to keep them for herself.

At that exact moment, though, she knew she didn't want to base this new friendship on untold evidences, or on dark secrets. She wanted to be honest with Hermione, even if it may make her back away from her.

"I'm sorry. It's just..." Livia stopped herself and let a big sigh get out of her lungs.

She felt Hermione's hand slowly sliding on hers, and squeezing her fingers as her heartbeats echoed all over her body.

"You know you can tell me anything. That's what best friends are for."

Her head still down, Livia grinned at the compassion the pretty girl had for her, and the words she had used. Livia couldn't believe she, for once, had a real best friend, someone who was interested in her... someone who cared, and wouldn't leave her for someone else.

"Promise not to run away." Livia said in a low voice, making Hermione get closer to her.

"It's a promise." Hermione said, making Livia look up at her.

Livia stared back at her, noticing the serious in Hermione's face, making her very difficult not to believe.

"I'm different from you, and from a lot of people." Livia said before to lick her lips.

Hermione stared at her, waiting for the rest of it. She didn't even blink, and barely even moved.

"I like girls."

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→Livia--♥
©-2007