love story cassette tape
ron/hermione
He's sitting in their flat, drinking mead while she's leaning on his shoulder. Rain slams itself against blackened windowpanes, trying to break its way through and dampen the warmth within walls. They're sitting on the cold wood floor because they haven't even bothered unpacking the furniture yet, and he's strumming the guitar she bought for him incoherently, whispering strings of words in hopes of passing it off as a song. Hermione thinks it's beautiful – Ron thinks she's beautiful. They're a little bit drunk, and a lot in love, you see.
A bit too young to be in love, but it's just right. They feel slightly giddy, as they had in Professor Slughorn's class, standing in front of a cauldron of Amortentia.
"I can't play this bloody thing." he says, and she laughs as he slides it across the floor and into a dark corner.
"You were good." she whispers, and then yawns.
It's later than they thought, and her eyelids flutter, heavy with sleep. She moves in attempt to relax on the hardwood floor, and she inhales deeply. He lies down next to her, and looks at her. He feels like he's somewhere ridiculously high up; there's a lack of oxygen going through him.
Milky white skin, perfect strawberry lips, brown eyes that could make any man surrender his breath – and they did. Ron's especially.
He clicks the Deluminator, and the single lamp gives up the fight. He holds Hermione tightly in his arms.
"Good night, Ron," she murmurs, and kisses him with quiet passion, her tongue caressing his bottom lip, and he tastes something like sugar. Hermione. A Muggle tape rolls in the background, soft, ambient tunes floating across the room with ghostly elegance.
"I love you."
"G'night, Hermione," he whispers back, "I love you, too."
Miniscule seconds before he falls asleep, the sweet floral scent of her skin fills his lungs, much more powerful than any batch of love potion.
A/N: Just a teeny Romione drabble, 'cause I love them. :) Written to Tom Felton's 'If You Could Be Anywhere'. That boy is ridiculously talented. Anyways, R&R please! :D I don't own Harry Potter or anything recognizable here.