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a/n Im so sorry for not updating this story sooner, but I added chaps. 3 & 4 and I re-did chapters 1 & 2 to make the story better, well I hope you guys enjoy Please R&R :)

- LittlePixie

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She had loved Ron Weasley for sometime now, actually ever since the yule ball. Hermione smiled to herself, thinking about how cute Ron looks when he got all jealous. She let out a sigh, she was positive that he didn't think of her as more then just a best mate. Little did she know, Ron was lying in his bed, thinking the exact same thing about her...


"I have never met such a self centered prat like you Ronald Weasley!" Hermione Granger screamed at the top of her lungs. Her and Ron Weasley were in one of there infamous rows yet again. Their fellow Gryffindors had learned to tune them out by now...except for a couple of first years who were hanging on to there ever word.

"Well I have never met such a big headed, stuck-up, know-it-all like you Hermione Granger!" Ron shouted, his face matching his flaming red hair and with that last comment a very teary eyed Hermione ran out of the common room.

He hurt her so much yet she couldn't help but love him... If only he knew how I actually felt about him and how much I loved him, Hermione thought to herself. She was so deep in her thoughts that she didn't notice that she had just kept running... subconsciously trying to the furthest away from him that she could and to escape the pain he always ended up making her feel, but her mind was in a totally different place. When she finally jumped back to reality she was at the Entrance Hall, and she decided that a walk by the lake would help her clear her mind and calm her down a bit. The lake could be so calming it seemed to make her forget all her worries, even for just a little while.

After a nice slow walk, she decided to go and sit down against her favourite tree, right next to the lake. It was almost sunset, and the colors that would reflect off the water were absolutely amazing.

She leaned back, watching the lake, and took a deep breath. How could someone that I love so much make me feel this bad...? She started thinking of all the fights they've gotten into... and all the terrible things they've said to each other, and soon a single tear made its way down her cheek...followed by another...and another. Then she was sobbing.

Then came a soft but sudden voice that made Hermione jump. " 'Mione, are you ok?"

"Harry don't do that" she said, half laughing. She was trying to wipe her tears so Harry wouldn't see that she had been crying, but her attempt was in vain, her thoughts drifted back to Ron, and the tears just started to flow again.

Harry put his arm around her to comfort her. She buried her face into his chest and cried. He held her and let her cry as he watched the sun setting against the lake. He hated to see her so upset; she had become like a sister to him throughout their years at Hogwarts, just like Ron, and his family had become like family to him, he loved them all, but then his thoughts turned to the only sister of the family, Ginny.

Harry sighed at the thought of the youngest Weasley. She was everything that he wanted in a girl. She was smart, beautiful, funny... she wasn't afraid to stick up for what she believed in and wasn't afraid to stand up to her older brothers, or anyone for that matter. She had a fiery personality that attracts you to her, and the wits that kept you there. She loved Quidditch just as much as he did and was a bloody brilliant chaser to top it off. He would have asked her out ages ago...except for the one small detail. Ron was his best mate and her older brother, and Ron felt it was his duty to protect her.

Harry knew that Ron really cared for Ginny and didn't just think of her as a sister but also as a best mate as well. He also knew that Ron was Ginny's favourite brother, though she would never ever admit it out loud.

"He's such a git"

"Hmm...Oh...yeah, he can be..." Harry said as he looking down at his friend's tear stained face.

"It'll be okay, 'Mione, really it will. Ron just gets carried away you know that. He doesn't mean the things he ends up saying, he really cares about you, and you of all people should know that."

"I know Harry, its just I never thought that someone I lo-...someone who is so close to me could hurt me this much with words alone, he really gets to me." She hoped that Harry hadn't noticed that she almost admitted her love for Ron.

"What was that you almost let slip Mione?" He asked with a playful smile, he already knew the answer.

Hermione cringed "I was hoping you didn't catch that..."

"I know you love him," he said to her "I can see it in the way you look at him. I'm not as blind as Ron when it comes to things like that." He said with a huge grin. "You guys should really tell each other how you feel you guys would be a great couple!"

"But no where as near as great as you and Ginny would be." She said, managing a bigger smile.

This time it was Harry's turn to blush...

"But...uh...I...Ron..." Harry stuttered as Hermione giggled. "Don't worry...I know you love her but you won't do anything without Ron accepting it because he's your best mate. But if I know Ron...he'd rather have you dating his only sister then Dean, or any other guy for that matter."

They both laughed...

"How about this Harry, the day you ask Ron to date Ginny I'll tell him I love him. That way he'll be too disgusted with me to worry about you and his little sister."

"Hermione trust me, Ron will probally surprise you to his reaction to you saying that to him...but you've got yourself a deal, and I'm gonna hold you to it, Ms Granger," He said, holding out his hand to shake on their deal. What Hermione didn't know was that Harry had a plan in mind for when that day comes.

"I know you will Mr. Potter" She said shaking his hand with a smile. She then wiped away the last of her tears.

Who knows, maybe he might love me, too. Like Harry said you don't always know what goes through that boy's head. She quickly shook the idea out. She was 100 percent sure that Ron only saw her as a best mate, maybe even like a sister, but nothing more.

The two friends started to make there way back to the castle and in for dinner. They walk the rest of the way towards the castle and into the great hall in a comfortable silence, each, thinking about the conversation they has just shared, until a voice disrupted their thoughts...

"Oi, Granger, I need to have a word with you"...


Dun dun dun cliffhanger :P

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