Gap Year

Chapter Three: One Lucky SOB

When Hermione entered the room the party came to a halt with ever pair of eyes turning to look at her, the eyes showed a mixture of emotions for all out lust and admiration in the eyes of the men and one or two of the women to envy and all out hatred in the eyes of some of the women. Hermione was taken aback by the effect she was having, previously when she entered a room she had been lucky if one or two people acknowledged her existence it took all her effort not to turn and run out the door, \"OK find a dark corner and hide\" she said to herself \"This going to be a long night.\"
It took Hermione half an hour to finally escape the admiring crowd and find a secluded arbour in the large gardens and sit to lick her wounds, her head was spinning with the attention she had received, \"What\'s going on she thought, I\'m still Hermione Granger the Hogwarts bookworm, why is everyone looking at me like I\'m some kind of movie star?\" She asked herself, \"all right this was the response I was after but from George not the whole room, for crying out loud had they never seen a woman in a cocktail dress before?\"
An hour passed with Hermione sitting in the arbour, she would have quite happily sat there for the whole party but her peace was disturbed by footsteps walking up the garden path.
\"There you are\" said George \"I\'ve been searching everywhere for you, I saw you come then you just disappeared, I thought you where avoiding me.\"
\"Not you just everyone else,\" Hermione replied \"I couldn\'t believe the way everybody was looking at me.\"
George smiled \"it\'s your own fault if you insist on being the most beautiful woman at the party then you have to expect people to look.\"
Hermione blushed at this \"there must loads of women in there that are prettier than I am\"
\"That\'s just not true\" George continued \"your not only the most beautiful woman at the party, you are one of the most beautiful women I\'ve ever seen and believe me I\'ve seen a few, you\'ll have to come to terms with the effect you have on people sometime.\"
\"Fine\" Hermione responded with pleading eyes, \"but not tonight, I\'m feeling too fragile, can\'t we just leave, I\'ll make it worth your while, you can prove to me just how beautiful I really am\" she added the look in her eyes changing from to pleading to a seductive one.
\"I can\'t leave this early, the party has been thrown for me I can\'t just walkout,\" he looked into those seductive eyes and added \"all right, just give me an hour then I\'ll make our excuses,\" he shuck his head and smiled \"I\'m never going to live this down at work, you owe me big time.\"
Hermione smiled and wrapped her arms around his neck, \"hers part payment in advance,\" and kissed him tenderly on the lips, his lips moved in response, the kiss gathered momentum and they where both lost in the embrace, finally George pulled away trying to fight the lust that was building in his body, \"right one hour\" he pleaded and walked away with the look of a young child being forced to leave a toy shop empty handed.
Hermione smiled as her eyes lingered on his form walking back into the house, this was the first passionate kiss she had ever had, her pulse was still racing, her knees felt weak and her whole body tingled with pleasure.
\"If I feel like this from a kiss\" she told herself \"how I am I going to feel when we actually make love, well I guess I\'ll find out in a little over an hour,\" her smile widened and she settled down to wait.
Half an hour passed and George came walking back up the path and said, \"ready to leave.\"
\"Hold on you said one hour you\'ve only been gone for half an hour, I don\'t want you blaming me for upsetting the Franks,\" she replied with a wicked grin on her lips.
\"O but it is your fault though, I\'d have been all right if you hadn\'t kissed me, what can I say, I\'m just weak willed,\" he said with a lust full look in his eyes, \"besides John just complimented me on my will power, it seems we\'re the subject of this week\'s office sweep, if we leave in the next twenty minutes he wins one hundred dollars and it never hurts to suck up to the boss,\" he added with a broad smile on his face.
Hermione didn\'t know weather to be amused or angry, the idea that a group of grown men would run a sweep on how long it would take for the two of them to jump into bed seemed rather childish but it did give them an out from the party, she smiled at George, \"well let\'s not upset the boss then\" she said with a seductive look on her face.
They walked back through the party and gave their apologies to Mrs Franks, Hermione looked at Dr franks with a look of disappointment \"I\'m ashamed of you\" she rebuked him \"betting on an innocent girl\'s reputation like that, the least I expect is lunch out of the winnings\" added with her look changing to a wicked smile.
\"Tomorrow at noon be all right\" Dr Franks replied with a sheepish look on his face.
\"Better make that One\" Hermione responded \"I don\'t expect to be out of bed for twelve,\" with that she took George\'s hand and lead him to the car, Dr franks shuck his head and laughed, \"that George is one lucky SOB,\" he thought to himself, Jennifer gave him an evil glare, \"O. I\'ve got to learn to keep my thoughts to myself\" he said, this time in his head.