Disclaimer: I have never and never will own Harry Potter. I know this. But a girl can dream can't she?!

A/N: Hello all. I hope you all enjoy this one-shot! This is my first EVER Harry Potter fan-fic! It's just something I threw together b/c I can't stop thinking about Ron and Hermione (Sad I Know)!!! Anywhoozle, please enjoy reading!!!

Drift Away

Hermione wiped furiously at her tears as she slammed her bedroom door behind her. She threw herself onto her bed and screamed into her pillow. What she didn't realize was that someone had seen her barge into the girls' dormitories and heard her screams.

Ginny knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" Hermione called in a shaky voice.

"It's Ginny." She said.

Hermione walked over to the door and opened it.

Ginny saw her tearstained face and immediately asked what was wrong.

"Why do I let him get to me?" Hermione asked. "I'm Hermione Granger, the smartest in my class! I shouldn't be letting him do this to me!"

"Wh—" Ginny started, but couldn't finish, because Hermione was in full-blown-rant mode.

"I mean, I have always been the levelheaded one, the one that you could always come to for answers. But now, I can barely even fix my own problems, let alone anyone else's! I can't stop thinking about him! I'm not supposed to worry about him instead of my studies! I'm not supposed to get depressed if he doesn't notice when I walk into a room."

"When who doesn't notice?" Ginny finally got out.

"Your brother, of course!" Hermione stated. "Who else would drive me this bloody mad?" Hermione asked throwing her hands up in the air and beginning to pace around the room. "When I saw him there with that sorry excuse of a human being, I snapped! Whatever could he see in that pure waist of oxygen?!" Hermione began to tear up again.

"Hermione, you have to calm down." Ginny said, trying to soothe Hermione.

"How am I to calm down?!" Hermione sighed. She sat down in front of Ginny so that they were eye to eye.

"Listen, Ron is a piece of work. He is stubborn and thick. He is completely infuriating most of the time, but he is also completely in love with you. And if he knew he'd hurt you like this, I don't think he'd be able to live with himself." Ginny said looking Hermione straight in the eye.

"Oh yeah," Hermione said rolling her eyes. "If he was in love with me, why is he constantly off snogging Lavender?" Hermione asked.

"Because he's Ron and he doesn't think." Ginny said matter-of-factly. "He was probably trying to make you jealous after the whole 'Victor Krum' thing. And it worked." Ginny said. "Listen, I know my brother very well, and when I say that he's in love with you, I mean it."

"Ginny, he doesn't love me." Hermione said looking down.

"Yes, I do."

Hermione looked up quickly to see Ron standing in the doorway.

Ginny took that as her cue to leave, leaving Ron and Hermione alone at last.

"You what?" Hermione asked, shocked.

"I love you." Ron said, stepping closer to her.

"Good. Because I love you, too." Hermione said smiling up at him. It was the first time she'd smiled in days. "Sorry about the birds." Hermione said with her eyes shining up at him.

"Sorry about Lavender." Ron said.

"If you forgive me I'll forgive you." Hermione said.

"Is this sorta like that 'I'll show you mine if you show me yours' thing?" Ron joked.

Hermione giggled and looked up at him. "Shut up."

Ron chuckled and bent down and pulled Hermione into a kiss…the first of many kisses to come. And as they kissed, everything and everyone but them drifted away.

A/N: I hope you guys enjoyed my first Harry Potter fic! I'm just in a huge HP mood right now, so I threw this together real quick! And sorry if it was a bit OOC! That is just how I wrote it! Sorry! Anywho, please leave a review telling me whether it sucked or not!!!

Thanks for reading!