Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters. They belong to J.K Rowling, the coolest person ever.

Ok, this is my very first fan fiction so please don't be to mean. Hope you like.

With or without you, Ron Weasley.

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Through the storm we reach the shore

You gave it all, but I want more.

And I'm waiting for you.

With or without you, with or without you.

I can't live with or without you.

And you give yourself away…

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"Ron, you ruin everything!" I screamed at him, choking back the tears that I didn't want him to see. A few people higher up the staircase turned around, frowning, to see who was making the noise. Maybe they were surprised to see sweet, good, well behaved, smart Hermione Granger as the source. Maybe they weren't.

I waited a minute or two, sobbing silently to myself, before rushing up the stairs to the Gryffindor Common Room, and into the Girl's Dormitory. Why? Why couldn't Ron see? I never wanted to go to the Yule Ball with Viktor Krum? Ever since we'd found out about the Yule Ball I had been hoping and dreaming that he'd ask me. Every time he opened his mouth to ask me to pass him a quill or something trivial like that, I would turn away, disappointed that he still hadn't asked. I gave up on him long before Viktor asked me. Viktor was my last resort, just like I was Ron's.

Tears continued to trickle down my face as I ripped the pins from my usually bushy hair. I had spent hours making it look decent. And not for Viktor Krum. I had done it in the hope that Ron might notice me, just once. How it pained me that he didn't notice me, that he hardly even thought of me as a girl. What was I to him? A spare Harry? Only there so that if one got damaged he had another? Sometimes I wondered.

I pulled on my pyjama's and climbed into bed. Ron sometimes annoyed the heck out me, but I loved him all the more for it. I couldn't live with him, but I could never, ever live without him. We'd fought, many times, but I always forgave him. Through the storm, we'd always reach the shore. Despite everything he did, I loved Ron Weasley. He was my best friend, but oh how I wished that one day, just maybe, he'd feel the same about me as I did him.

Acknowledgements: With or Without You, U2. And Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, of course.