Ron has a 'moment' with Hermione and can't stop thinking about her. He wants more but what will he do to get more?
Ron sat listening to the WWN and checking the Daily Prophet for any interesting articles, Hermione reading 'Hogwarts: a history' again noting any interest points down in a notebook.
They were all alone in the Burrow since Ron's parents had taken the rest of the family out to Diagon alley to check up on Harry at the Leaky Cauldron.
Ron looked over the newspaper at Hermione as she paused from writing something and rubbed the feather of her quill across her beautiful lips.
He felt a sense of longing gathering in his throat like when ever he usually looked at Hermione.
He swallowed the longing and looked back at a article about the dead body of the minister Prodigy Percy Weasley found in the atrium at the ministry.
It did feel rather strange that he wasn't mourning over the death of his brother but then again Percy had made his choice to desert his family.
"Ron can you pass me that old copy of the daily prophet?" asked Hermione.
Ron looked up from what he was reading and nodded, not trusting himself with speaking.
He picked up the old edition of the daily prophet and handed it to her, their fingertips touching.
Ron watched Hermione pause and looked into her beautiful brown eyes.
The moment seemed lost when Hermione took the paper and began to look through it.
But then he saw her sneak a look at him as she looked through the paper.
Ron put the paper he was reading aside and picked up the book he'd been reading before the paper had come.
On the outside it looked like a Quidditch strategies but on the inside it was really a muggle romance novel Ron had stole from Ginny's room.
He was trying to figure out a way he could talk to Hermione and let her know how much he loved her but most of the story described how the characters made love and he wasn't up to that point in their relationship.
Not that he didn't want to sleep with Hermione; it was all he'd thought about since he'd turned sixteen.
He just needed to know how to let her know how he felt.
He skipped through another few pages describing how the characters stripped off each other's clothes when he found what he was looking for.
It seemed so simple, saying 'I love you' in the book.
But it was anything but simple in real life.