No Longer Alone
*I do not own Harry Potter - I am not as brilliant as the excellent JK Rowling who owns Harry Potter*
Hermione catches Ron with Lavender right after the Quidditch match in the boys dormitories together. She assumes the worse and flees, deciding to hang out more with Ginny, Harry, determined to never love Ron again, only she falls for someone else...
Hermione POV
I cannot believe that Ron won, he really was amazing. Ron Weasley was incredible, saving all those goals for Gryffindor. I was proud to be his friend.
But a patch of worry knotted into my stomach when I realized that I had made a note to tell him my secret. Tonight, I should have told him years ago. I've always been in love with Ron.
Obviously I was disgusted with him when I first met him on the Hogwarts Express back in first year. But I'd been eleven and I was sixteen now, an older woman and hopefully good enough for Ron.
I had always felt he had a soft spot for me, and that powered my confidence.
I walked into the Gryffindor Common Room, watching all the people in room awaiting Ron's arrival from the pitch. I decided I was too chicken to tell him and wandered over to Harry who was drinking some Butterbeer. Harry was always going to be seen as an attractive man, he was muscular and always brave. I always felt sorry for Harry, the boy I'd read about when I was younger. I never dreamed that I would become his best friend.
"Hi Harry."
"Hey Hermione" Harry smiled, sitting down on a sofa next to Ginny and Neville in front of the grand fireplace. "You ok? You look nervous."
"Me? Yes, I'm ok. Urm, have you seen Ronald?" I asked, and mentally cursed myself. You could tell how I was when I called Ron 'Ronald'.
Harry looked at me curiously and winked. "He's in our dormitory, I think."
"Thanks."
I walked confidently towards the door to the Boy's Dormitories and walked up the stairs quickly. I paused outside the dormitory door and pulled myself together. I raised my hand to knock…
"WonWon! Why won't you? I love youuu!"
My hand froze and clenched into a fist. I knew that voice, it was Lavender Brown, a girl in our year but who was clearly infatuated with Ron as I was; only I was truly in love with him. She wanted popularity from him.
I was breathing hard, my lungs squeezing inside my chest as I awaited a reply.
"Lavender…don't…don't do this..this I can'..can…do.."
I didn't realize that tears were falling from my eyelids and dripping down my face as I stood their shaking pain. My heart felt like it was on fire, being burnt of every feeling I had. My brain was muddled by what my brain was calculating and I didn't want to know. But my brain always made the answer clear:
He was having sex with Lavender, he loves her not you, if he wants to do it with her instead.
I turned to run down the stairs, but not before my mouth opened and a cry of pure heartbreak and pain came from it. I clasped my mouth shut and fled down the stairs, wiping my tears and running back into the Common Room to the others.
Ginny saw my face, motioning to go outside to an abandoned classroom. There she sat down and held her arms open and I sat down next to her and cried into her arms. Harry had followed and stroked my hair fondly as I broke down, next to my two friends.
Tell me what you think! First Harry Potter FanFic in a while as "Harry's Diary" was a flop!