Unofficial Portkey Archive

A/N: Yeah, yeah. I love you guys too much. TRIPLE update!! Now who's the best author around? MUAHAHA.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything that you recognize belongs to JK Rowling. I'm just a bored person wanting to write a teenage story.

"What the fuck are you doing with my boyfriend?"

At the sound of Cho's angry voice, Harry and Hermione broke apart. Both turned red, though for different reasons. Hermione was extremely embarrassed at having been caught kissing Harry in front of the whole school, and was also ashamed at having been fooled by Harry, as it was obvious that he had been lying about breaking up with Cho. Harry, on the other hand, was extremely angry. He knew that Hermione was immediately going to think the worst, and he would have some explaining to do. But more than that, he was angry that Cho thought she still had some pull over him, when all he really wanted to do was be with the girl he really cared about, and perhaps even (though it was too soon to say for sure) loved.

"What are you talking about, Cho? I broke up with you, remember?" Harry said angrily. The students in the cafeteria, who had turned their attention from Cho to Harry and Hermione in order to gauge their reactions, went back to looking at Cho.

"Baby, why would you do that?" Cho cooed. "You know we were just having a little disagreement. There's no need to go off with some other girl." Here Cho dropped the pretense of sweetness as she glared at Hermione. Hermione glared right back at her.

"Hermione is not just some other girl, Cho. She's not some in-between girl. I care about her, Cho. And I never cared about you. If anything, you were the in-between girl," Harry retorted. Hermione, while a small part of her was ingratiated that Harry felt this way, was even more mortified. "Oh shit, she thought. What is Cho going to do to me?"

But it seemed that Cho was going to give up without much of a fight. She didn't respond to Harry, and only sneered at Hermione before turning around. For one brief moment, Hermione thought that Cho might just walk away, but then Cho spoke.

"If one person in this school ever talks to these two people again, you can be assured that you will always be an outcast in this school," was all Cho said. But it was enough. If someone with as much popularity, and therefore power, as Cho said something like that, you know it would be true. Nobody dared to condradict the demands issued by Cho and her cronies, just because they didn't want to be outcasts. So, Cho had effectively cut off Harry and Hermione from the rest of the school. They were now doomed to have a miserable social life for the remainder of their time at EMHS -- unless Cho deemed it prudent to allow them back into the social circle.

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Lavender and Parvati had been watching the whole exchange, horrified for their friend, and no even more horrified at Cho's announcement. Lavender gave Parvati a look, and Parvati nodded in return. Together, they marched up to Cho.

The slap Lavender gave Cho reverberated in the cafeteria. Cho looked stunned for a moment, and then smiled. She could now add Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil to the Outcast List. Not bad for one day. But before Cho could say a word, Parvati spoke.

"You know what, Cho? I'm tired of you. I'm tired of you trying to dictate our lives, when really, you're the one with the problem. Where do you get off, telling us what to do? Who gave you the right to decide who's "popular" and who's not? I've put up with you for years, but now I think there's something Lav and I need to do." With that, she and Lavender picked Cho up. The latter struggled, but was hardly in a position to do any harm. The two girls, still carrying the third, walked over to the large trash can that stood beside the cafeteria doors.

"I think it's time to go where you belong," Lavender said. And with that, she and Parvati dumped Cho into the bin.

From somewhere behind them, somebody began to clap.

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"Damn Harry," Hermione thought as she walked through the parking lot to her car. "And damn Cho. And damn the whole bloody school for listening." She was still seething over the confrontation in the cafeteria. She was extremely proud of Lav and Parvati, however, and how they had handled the situation. While it had seemed like something out of a horribly cheesy movie, she had to admit that it had done the job.

As she finally reached her car, she rummaged in her purse to find her keys. Her search was interrupted by somebody clearing their throat, and she nearly screamed.

"Holy shit, Harry. What the hell are you doing here?"

"You invited me to your house, remember? And you said you'd give me a ride," was the reply.

I think there's only one more chapter left! But it's not written yet, so who knows. I like to drag things out. And, of course, I also write short chapters...but wait, what does that have to do with anything? Hmm.

Hope the trash can wasn't too cheesy. LOL. If it was, tell me in your review! (hint hint).

Love, Kaye