Hermione couldn´t think. The feeling of Ron kissing her made all thought vanish from her head. Nothing else mattered, just being like that forever. As long as he held her close, everything would be fine. She felt she could melt right there. They finally pulled apart, and Ron whispered, still inches from her mouth, "Hermione!". There was so much love in his voice that her eyes watered and a single tear fell. "Oh, Ron!". He gently rubbed his hand in her cheek, taking the tear away. Still with her hands around his neck, she pulled him down for another kiss. To her surprise, however, he looked away, and she kissed his cheek. Looking up at him, she asked, "What´s wrong?"

"I don´t deserve you", he said, his voice trembling from sadness and regret. Hermione then felt that something was indeed terribly wrong.

"That´s not true! If you don´t deserve me, I don´t deserve you either!"

"No. You did perfectly understandable things, I was a prat all the time, even cruel. So I won´t even ask you to forgive me, I know I don´t deserve it. "

"It is true that you weren´t very nice to me, but I wasn´t either, and you know that! Or did you enjoy to be bitten by canaries?"

" Well, I deserved that. Like I said, it was understandable." Hermione had never seen Ron like this before. He always felt shadowed by his brothers, but now he was defeated, convinced that he was the worst person in the world! But she would help him get over it.

"No, you didn´t! Please forgive me! "

"You don´t need to be forgiven. "

"You may think that, but I´m asking you, please forgive me!"

"I´m not worthy of saying this, but if you insist, it´s ok, I forgive you. "

"Oh, Ron! Don´t be like that. It is true that our past was not happy. We both committed terrible mistakes. But we have a future ahead of us, and it´s up to us to make it better!"

"No." "I´m sorry, but we can´t be together". Ron said, now crying, " I only make you unhappy, only cause you harm. It will hurt, but it´ll be better for you."

"Don´t you dare!", Hermione said, practily shouting, and glaring at him ,

"Don´t you dare to tell me what´s best for me! What, do you think your own feeling are all that matters? When will you think about mine?" Hermione said, now really shouting and crying.

"No!", Ron replied, his voice shaking, No, I was just think about you! About what would be better for you!"

"And did you really think that going on without you would be an option?"

Ron´s lips moved, but he didn´t know what to say. Hermione captured his lips again, and kissed him fiercely, putting all her feelings in that kiss, because she knew Ron needed to know how she felt about him. It worked better then anything she might have said. Ron took a longer time to recover after they pulled apart, but his expression changed.

"Oh, Hermione. I´m sorry. I´m so sorry, what was I thinking? I could never, ever live without you!"

They kissed for a while, and when they pulled apart, Ron remembered something.

"Hermione?"

"Yes, Ronnie?"

"We´ll have to follow Harry and all. Do you think it will be alright?"

"I don´t know. But before that, we have and adventure to live."

"We have? Are we going somewhere?"

"Yes", Hermione replied, "We´re going to the stars".

And they kissed again, this time with no cloud hanging over them. Although their future was unsure, one certainty they had: it would be full of love.