Chapter One
She didn't know if she could hide it for much longer seeing her grow more mature with every summer was making Hermione go mad. Over the past year she'd tried several times to divulge her feeling but settled on pursuing the brother closest to the young girl. She wasn't quite sure how he would take the news but she was sure that he'd try to be understanding he usually was with her. He'd always held her and Harry in his confidence, she knew that Ron would try his hardest to understand these unconventional feelings. Or at least she hoped that he would.
She walked up to his bedroom door and knocked cautiously and she hoped that Harry was still out by the pond with the girl she'd fallen for so long ago it was almost a blur now. A muffled "Come in" came from the other side of the door and she opened it with the utmost care. She was well relieved to see only Ron sitting on his bed struggling to work on their summer potions essay.
"Ronald I need to speak with you quite in private, do you mind taking a break?" Hermione said a little shakily.
Ron looked up probably thinking it had to do with what they'd done the previous night. "Sure Hermione what is it you aren't regretting the…what…what we did last night are you? You said that you were sure you were ready I'm sorry if I'd hurt you."
Hermione sat down on the bed next to him searching for the right words, "Ron it's not about that I well…I feel that…I need to break up with you. Don't say anything just hear me out okay." She took a deep breath and cringed at the look on Ron's face, "Ron I don't regret the sex, I do however regret putting you through this lie. We're going back to school and I want to go back with a clean conscience. I love you but I love you more as a brother, I've only been dating you to get closer to someone else, someone I'm not quite sure if you will or will not take exception to." She looked up again to see a rather frightening expression on Ron's face.
"And who exactly is this mystery man? Is it Harry have you been leading me on for that prissy little jerk who thinks he can make off with my little sister?" he said fuming over her confession.
Hermione flinched, "No Ron it's not Harry and it's not a guy," she took a deep breath and let it all out in a slur. "I'minlovewithyoursister!"
Ron raised and eyebrow unsure of what Hermione had said though he was sure he heard something rather odd in that. "What you say?"
"I said Ronald, I'm in love with Ginny, she's perfect I can't keep my mind off her, she's so mature and pretty, she's beyond lovely, she has always been the one I truly fancied and I can't contemplate living without her knowing for much longer. I need her in my life I mean you're great Ron but I love your sister not you." She let it all out confessing everything she'd been holding in for the past five years.
Ron sat there mouth open eyes wide utterly speechless. Hermione waved her hand in front of his eyes. "Ron are you okay did I break you?" he looked at her and began to speak. "Hermione I never knew I support your love but Ginny's with Harry and I am damned sure he would object he's in love with her too of course so far as I know."
Hermione sighed unaware that Harry was standing at the door and had heard everything from the point of her confession on shaken by what he was hearing. "I know that she loves him Ron and I know that he loves her but it's so hard for me to not confess this if even only to you." Hermione sighed again, "I'm really very unsure of how she'd take it if I told her she's still so innocent though she's so grown up too."