Chapter 59: Train back home

Unfortunately, Gemma didn't confront me since that day, she almost avoided me, although she didn't run away. Another bad thing is that Pansy didn't come near me either, ever since that day she hasn't allowed me to come near her and she has steadfastly refused to go through with the deal no matter what I did... I could only put up with me for the time being.

I don't know if it was because of party nerves or something else, but Pansy's absence didn't cause me much trouble temporarily, I had more important things to take care of. This past holiday season, I took the time to find out the addresses of various acquaintances so that I could send their gifts.

The day came, and I was walking with Hermione and the other girls to Hogsmeade station. There were also all the boys and girls who were going home for Christmas, I slipped between them, so my brothers wouldn't find out I was leaving. Gemma was among them, but I only saw her for a second before she was out of sight.

Already when we entered the train, me, Hermione, Lavander and Parvati sat in the same compartment. I had many more friends who wanted me to sit with them like Susan and Hannah, but there was no more room, so I promised to visit them on the trip.

During my ride in the compartment...

"Red, seriously you can't help us find information on him?" Hermione asked me as we talked, Parvati and Lavender were having their own conversation, but right now they paid attention to what we were talking about.

"Whose?" Lavender asked.

"No one," Hermione quickly denied, since it was kind of a secret, but her attitude made her look suspicious.

"Hermione, if you try to hide something you don't do it like that, you should say the name of another person instead of denying it" I gave a lecture on how to lie "And I can tell you that I actually know who is he"

"Really?!" Hermione asked in surprise.

"I knew it from the first moment"

"What?!" She exclaimed "Why didn't you say anything?! We searched for days" she said very angry.

"Because it wasn't something that mattered to me or was any of my business"

"I hate you, at least you would have saved me work... Who is it?"

"I'm not going to tell you"

"Red! You're an idiot" Hermione said angrier.

"I never said I would tell you"

"Who are you talking about?" The girls next to us asked.

"Hermione wants information on a dead wizard, you know, she likes that corpse stuff...Ouch," I yelled as Hermione hit me with her book.

"Shut up, it can't be serious with you... I'm... looking for information about an old Muggle-born wizard who was very good at his studies, I wanted to know more about his history to see how it went, I found it interesting..."

"You see Hermione, if you can lie when you put your mind to it. I'm proud of you, student turned teacher" I wiped a fake tear from my face, drawing laughter from the other two girls in the compartment.

Hermione hit me again with her book exposing her lie, which took a lot of courage for her to say. But in that angry moment she got an idea, and she stared at me with narrowed eyes.

"Are you really not going to tell me anything, or is it that you don't really know?" She asks mockingly.

"Hermione, today you're on fire... but it won't work" I praised her, but she got a little depressed that her plan didn't work "How about we make a deal?"

"A deal?"

"Yes, let's say I can tell you who is..." I paused briefly to look at her, narrowing my eyes, "in exchange for a kiss"

"Uuuhhhhh" X2 Parvati and Lavender looked like wolves, while Hermione suddenly hardened upon hearing me.

"Red! Can't you take this seriously?! I hate it when you get like this" she complained.

"I'm serious, a kiss, and you'll know who you're looking for" I laughed at the way she acted, more thanks to the pressure of having two of her classmates watching her.

"Don't play, it's annoying"

"That I don't play, if you really want it then..."

"Kiss... kiss... kiss..." X2

"Shut up you two, I'm not going to do that" Hermione yelled at her classmates who weren't helping her, they were just making her more embarrassed.

"Come on Hermione, he's not ugly enough to say you're missing something," Lavender sneered.

"Why don't you do it yourself?"

"I'm not the one asking he for something, if it were me I wouldn't hesitate"

"Then don't say anything," Hermione cut her off.

"Well, I guess you'll be left without knowing... Lavander, Parvati, don't you want to know something? It's the same deal"

"No... no, I'm fine like this" Parvati replied, a little nervous and shy.

"Me the same..." Lavander followed her, what was before was just acting.

"You don't find it cute now, do you?" Hermione got even when she saw the embarrassment of her classmates who were bothering her a moment ago.

"I'm surprised how brave the Gryffindor are, I thought they would have a little more courage" I made fun of the shy attitude of the girls, although I think that the one who is wrong in the group is me.

"You are the pervert!" Hermione yelled at me.

"So you don't want to know?"

"Not if I have to fall into your trap"

"Coward" I told her without even looking at her face.

"Shut up, it's just that I won't let you take advantage of me"

"Coward"

"That's not going to work"

"Coward..."

"Alright, enough already!"

Hermione jumped forward to the surprise of the three of us, and she gave me a kiss on the cheek before returning to her seat and glaring at me at her face flushed but her expression unchanged, she was to act tough.

"Wow" I was surprised as I stroked my cheek.

"Uhh" X2

"She did," Parvati whispered to Lavender, though we all heard them.

"You don't say anything" Hermione with her false bravado shut her classmates off before they made comments that she wasn't ready to put up with "Now tell me"

"You surprised me, Hermione"

"Tell me who is he!" She rushed me because she could hardly keep her confident look and seems was on the verge of running out of the compartment.

"I guess it's okay, but it wasn't the kind of kiss I wanted"

"You're not going to get anything more from me" she said very stubbornly.

"Then I guess I can't tell you"

"Red! I'm about to throw you out the window"

"Okay, calm down, I won't tell you who it is, since you didn't give me the kiss I wanted, but for your efforts I'll give you a clue... you're looking in the wrong place, it won't be in the books you looked for"

"I already know that! If it were in the books I've been looking for, we wouldn't be in this situation"

"You ain't going to get no more from me"

"I hate you" she said, very furious as she kicked me before hiding her face in her book so as not to be seen by her classmates.

There was a silence for a moment, after a while Lavander started the talk and in it we made fun of what I should be grateful for that Hermione didn't put on lipstick or anything like that, otherwise I would have to explain the lip mark on my face to my parents, Hermione could only cringe and groan from time to time, but the atmosphere was pretty good.

"Hermione, after what I did that time… do you get so nervous about a simple kiss on the cheek?" I asked intrigued.

"What happened the other time?" Parvati asked.

"What did you do?" Lavender began to create a story inside hermind...again...

When Hermione heard me she almost froze, the memories of that time still gave her nightmares and even though our relationship improved, a part inside her still reminded her to get away from me every now and then, but she just ignored it usually. But when she realized what I said and her classmates started asking about it, she was startled.

"RED SHUT UP! Nothing happened!" She said Hermione standing up and hitting me on the head with her book "*Hit* Never *Hit* happened *Hit* nothing... Do you understand?! *Hit*" She was very elated.

"Yes, I already understood, nothing ever happened, stop hitting me" I begged for mercy, it's strange that this is the second time we've taken this train and also the second time that she attacks me in some way...

Hermione don't stopped looking at me with hatred and some fear, it seems that I relived the bad experience, she was able to calm down, but she didn't stop throwing glances at me from time to time. On the other hand, both Parvati and Lavander were surprised like never before, it was the first time they saw Hermione with such an aggressive side, they were almost even a little scared that she wasn't the real one, for that same reason they didn't ask again, now they thought it might be a touchy subject.

The atmosphere wasn't as lively as it used to be, so to give Hermione time to relax with the excuse of going to see the others, I left the compartment.

I took my way and went to see Hannah and Susan who were with other Hufflepuff, I stayed for a while to chat and talk about Christmas and stuff. I also hung out with Cho, Padma, Penelope, and even briefly greeted the Slytherin girls, but didn't hang around with them because Pansy couldn't seem to get close to me yet.

-Compartment-

"Hermione, are you okay?" Lavender asked.

"Yeah, I just don't want to talk…" she answered in a weak voice.

"But you're crying," Parvati pointed out.

"What?" asked the girl without realizing that tears were running down her eyes, noticing it she did not hold back much longer and she began to cry slightly, the memories of her tormented her.

"Hermione, don't cry" both girls hugged her "Red she did something bad to you that you don't want to tell us about?! Do you need us to give him what he deserves?"

"No, I'm fine"

"Hermione you are not well, you are crying"

"It doesn't matter if he's attractive, if I hurt you, we can't leave him like that. If he hurts you so much, stay away from him" Lavander said, she was worried about her friend.

"No... he... he's an idiot, but he's a good friend" Hermione sobbed, the past hurt her, but she remembered the moment of the fight against the troll, her friend had taken it upon herself to protect her at all times at the expense of him own security and she couldn't forget it "He did something very bad to me, but he also protected me when I needed... he cares about me, but he doesn't know when to stop...he's a big idiot"

"Are you sure everything is okay?"

"Yeah, just let me tidy up a bit," Hermione said, wiping her tears away with her sleeve.

The girls chatted a bit to lighten the mood, but although they tried they couldn't get out of Hermione what happened, it was a secret that she kept deep inside her.

-End Compartment-

I ended up going back to the compartment a while later, when I opened the door I realized that some things were not right. Hermione's eyes were red, and she wasn't looking at me directly, it seemed that she had been crying, there was also Lavender and Parvati who were now looking at me with disgust.

"I bought candy" was the only thing that came to mind as I blurted out a large amount of groceries I bought from the cart lady I'd passed on the way here.

"Thank you," Hermione answered, appearing normal.

They all took the sweets, but from the looks of the two girls who looked at me like a villain I knew that when I wasn't there something could have happened... rather I knew what had happened.

"Hermione" I called her.

"... Yes?" she asks, very nervous.

"I'm sorry" Try to get the most sincere out of me.

"W-Why?" she asks, trying to sound like she didn't know what I was talking about.

"Just, I'm sorry, you know why" I said, but I didn't get an immediate answer, she just tries to look away trying to hide her face.

"I, I know, I already forgave you" she replied, and gave a sharp exhalation before trying to look at me steadily.

After that everything improved, Hermione showed confidence as if nothing had happened, although I don't know if it was only in appearance. We ended up talking about various topics, from school to each other's Christmas customs. Lavander and Parvati joined midway, but they were still judging me.

"I think that with a simple apology you shouldn't forgive him" Lavender said, even though we had put that issue aside a long time ago, maybe she really is mad at me for how she saw Hermione.

"No, Lavender, I already forgave him" Hermione tried to explain at the same time that she didn't want to talk about it anymore "

"I think Lavender is right," I said, surprising all the girls by agreeing.

"No, Red, you already…" Hermione tried to stop me.

At that moment I knelt in front of Hermione to everyone's surprise and Lavender to one side gave a loud "Hhaa" widening her eyes seeing me in this position.

"You're?!" Lavender pointed a trembling finger at me.

When the other two girls heard her, they looked at her for a moment and then widened their eyes at the same time as she shifted her gaze to me. Hermione even seemed to cling tightly to the seat nervously.

"R-Red y-y-you...?!" Hermione stammered and she was speechless.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

"A-Are you going to-to-to...?" Lavander's eyes seemed to tell me that in her mind there was already a whole scenario.

"What? No... Did you expect me to say something like 'since I have no way to make amends for my mistake, I'll make sure to use my life to prove it to you by giving myself to you' or something like that?" I clarified that it was a misunderstanding.

"So you're not going to…?" Lavander asked, between confused and disappointed.

"No...unless...you want something like that?" I said, looking at Hermione, "I could try..."

Hermione didn't even answer me, she just shook her head strongly, she was very nervous and a few seconds ago it seemed that her heart was going to jump out. She loosened a bit from her seat, as she had her nails dug into it.

"Then why you...?" Parvati asked.

"To make up for my mistake," I said, and immediately took off Hermione's shoe and grabbed her white stocking covered foot.

"What are you doing?" Hermione asked, flustered, trying to pry her foot out of my hands.

"I apologize" I said as I began to massage her foot against her will, using [Ecstasy] albeit to a totally different degree than I used on Gemma, even less than Pansy at one point.

"Let go…AAAGgghhhh" Hermione let out a loud moan as she threw her head back. Nothing sexual, more like a masseur hitting the right spot.

Parvati and Lavender were about to scream when they saw me 'attack' Hermione, but when they heard her moan, they froze and stared at her in confusion. Hermione noticed her too and blushed and tried one more time to remove her foot.

"Let go of me, what are you doing?" She said, but her voice was almost a whisper.

"Massage, I wanted to apologize, so I decided it was time to kneel at your feet to prove my sincerity"

"No need... MMmmm" she gave a muffled groan.

"I think so, it looks like you like it, even if you resist" I laughed as I tried to take off the other shoe.

"Let go of me" Hermione tried to kick me.

"What's wrong Hermione? It looks like you like her. I'm already kneeling before you and that's already degrading me a lot, I lets me give you some pleasure"

"But…but…it embarrasses me," Hermione exclaimed.

"Did I touch your feet?"

"Um…" Hermione only nodded with a blush.

"Ooh... and I was thinking of taking off your stockings"

"NOT!!"

"Okay, calm down, I know you like it, let me do it. Think of it as a normal massage, this is my apology" I said applying my power again.

"Hmm..."

With that Hermione, though embarrassed, let me go on...or maybe her pleasure didn't let her resist. The other two girls were somewhat stunned to see her partner squirm in her seat, and somewhat eager to feel the same. They both took off their shoes and, pretending to be offended, proclaimed that the only way for us to be friends again and for them to forgive me was if I also apologized to them in the same way.

And so the last leg of the trip is spending my blood magic on making the trio of girls moans, but it's not like I don't take retribution. Lavander, who was the bravest to take off her stockings and let me massage her bare feet, had to put up with I was kissing her feet in surprise, letting out a scream with which I still couldn't stop laughing. The girls freaked out a bit after that, and Lavender insisted on putting her stockings back on.

At the last moment, I reasserted my authority as the alpha by overpowering the three girls with my great skill. Perhaps because I hadn't had Pansy in so long, every gesture of hers or moans of hers seemed so arousing to me that I could almost feel my heart going at dangerous speeds.

When we arrived, the three girls could barely stand up, sprawled across the seats with goofy grins on their faces. They had trouble standing up for a while and we ended up being one of the last groups out.

When we went down to the station, the three of them took their things and ran away almost without saying goodbye, the moment they saw their parents they ran away from me out of embarrassment. I laugh a little at the shy attitude of the lionesses, but seeing the surprised look on their parents' faces as they were quickly dragged out of the station was a lot of fun.

I took the time to say goodbye to the others, but I didn't take the time to meet their families either, I just greeted them from afar. I was about to find the best way to get home until I saw someone familiar... I went out to get some air and at that moment I saw the taxi driver from the previous times.

I approached him and got directly into the car, since it seemed interesting to me that with so many possibilities it is the third time that I meet him.

"Where to...? Wait...you're the bad guy. How's everything?" The taxi driver happily greeted me after recognizing me.

"Well, it seems that you follow me everywhere, we meet often"

"Isn't this just the second time we've met?" He asks, somewhat confused.

"Yeah...it's still a lot of coincidence" I realized that one of the times I saw him was Tenebrius.

"Could be... Where?"

"Charing Cross, near the place where you first picked me up, do you remember?" I said, I was going to go to the Leaky Cauldron, I would use this short taxi ride to get my head in order, I needed time to think.

"Of course, where did you come with the young miss?" He asserts confidently through the rearview mirror.

"Exact"

"Well, here we go"

We started our journey and along the way he talked to me.

"You look better"

"Yes... my problem is solved, now I'm almost a normal boy. Maybe it was because of the change of environment or just puberty" Talk to him.

"See, I told you, you just have to give it time. How was your new school?"

"Fine... and thanks for the advice. You were right, the bad boy does stay with the girls, although they don't necessarily want that" I felt a little uncomfortable reflecting on what these months at Hogwarts were like... I'm a boy bad, and a terrible one.

"Meeeh, it's not always what you think. Sometimes the things we look for come to us but in a different way than we expected" The taxi driver commented and then looked at me for a while in the mirror and said "It's not that I want to get into the problems of others, but I can see you're clearly nervous"

"Well... my emotions are not calm at the moment... I'm a little worried about my family's reaction to my change"

"but your change is good"

"Not necessarily... with my change I have also done bad things to some girls... I did something to a friend and that torments me a bit" Reveal, the taxi driver was a good man and a stranger, I needed someone to talk to.

"Did you stick gum in her hair?"

"No"

"Well... don't do it... I did that once to my now wife when she was a child, and she still hasn't forgiven me"

"haha, I'll keep that in mind"

And with that we reach our destination, it was a short but somewhat satisfying talk, I like this guy and it seems that we have a destiny to see each other so often. Take a piece of paper and write down some dates before you go to the taxi driver and pay him.

"Hey, here" I gave him the paper "you probably meet me at King Cross station this day, if you come for me, I'll pay you double"

"... ok" the taxi driver took the paper and put it in his visor "good luck with your family"

"Thanks" I said as I got off.

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Comment if you have any idea for the taxi driver's first and last name, I was thinking of putting "Alfred" but comment if you think of a better one. Also comment on some images or drawings if you want how it would be.

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