It had been a long day and Ronald Weasley really couldn't be bothered with prefect duties; and the fact that Hermione Granger wasn't even in argument mood (she refused to speak to him since the accident in potions earlier) it was even more boring. They turned the corner and came face with Ron's best friend Draco Malfoy.

"Hey mate!" said Ron giving him a high five.

"Excuse me; it's after hours so you're not aloud out of your common room." Said Hermione from beside me with slight aggression in her voice.

"I'm a prefect if you hadn't noticed!" said Draco in a mocking voice. Ron moaned, he didn't want to get Hermione in an even bigger mood

"Yes, but I also noticed it's not your night." Said Hermione, "Now get back to your common room before I give you detention." She finished, Ron letting out another moan

"Oh, im so scared!" he said with a laugh

"Detention, Saturday night. I'll contact Professor Snape!" said Hermione and Draco faced suddenly turned shocked

"You have got to be kidding me. Ron help me out here." He said turning to his best mate for support. Ron was just about to reply when Hermione spoke up

"He can't do anything now you've already received the detention, but if you argue I'll add another Saturday. Now of you go." She said, motioning with her hands. He scoffed at her, before turning on his heel and leaving her stood with Ron.

They started making there way down the corridor, the silence was practically deafening. It was so silent you could her Ron's very soft souled shoes on the floor. Suddenly however Hermione spoke up

"I don't like that friend of yours!" she said angrily

"If your talking about Draco he doesn't like you either." I replied

"Well, in future will you tell him not to bother us." She snapped

"I wouldn't moan if your friends came along, but that's right, you have none." I snapped back, and regretted it an second later

"Hermione, im sorry. I never meant to say that" I said softly, I hoped she wouldn't cry I hate it when girls cry.

"You only say what you mean to say Ronald." She said, not looking at me. Im sure her voice waved a little.

"Hermione, I honestly didn't. I was just mad because you always have a go at my friendship with Draco." I said. "You have plenty of friends." I finished

"Like who?" she replied, still not looking at me

"Harry!" I replied

"Oh come on, yeah he's nice to me, but he'd much rather spend time with the other guys." She said quietly, speeding up. Oh God she better not be crying

"I consider you a friend!" I said practically running to catch up with her.

"ha-ha, you hate me" she said, once again picking up speed.

"If I hated you I would have given in my prefect badge when I found out you were the girl prefect. I would have stomped out of potions today instead of working with you." I said, running once more to catch up with her.

"It probably would have been better if you had to be honest." She said, suddenly we were both laughing our heads of, remembering this morning.

"I really didn't mean to make that potion explode on us. I was proper happy thinking I had my first pass." Ron said through laughs.

"Well, I got my first fail." Hermione said hitting him on the arm, but not hard enough to hurt him since she was to busy laughing. Suddenly out of no where Ron captured her face and planted a soft light kiss on her lips, at first she was confused, then she returned it, then she pushed him away.

"I'm sorry, that was stupid of me." Said Ron quietly, looking down. Hermione just stood there in silence. After about a minute of silence Ron spoke up again.

"Maybe we should just go back to the common room!"

"Why did you kiss me?" she suddenly asked, Ron now felt quiet shy.

"Because I wanted to, because it seemed right. Maybe I thought you might have feelings for me." He said quietly.

"But your Ronald Weasley." She replied and he just shrugged his shoulders.

"Your one of the must popular wizards at Hogwarts, im one of the must unpopular witches. You boost about the fact you're a pure-blood; yet im a mudblood." She said

"Don't call yourself that" Ron replied still not looking up.

"why not, everyone else does." She told him

"Look, I don't care if you're muggle-born. I don't care that your not as popular as me. You're the smartest, prettiest most our going witch I have ever met. I really like you Hermione, and I think I have for a long time." Said Ron, looking up finally, waiting for an answer. However he did not receive one, just a kiss on the lips. He returned it happily and they stood there for what seemed like years just snogging. Finally they broke for air

"Ron, I want to keep this between us two." Said Hermione quietly

"What why, I'll make sure Draco doesn't give you a hard time." Ron said shocked

"It's not that, I just don't want you to go a show off then dump me. If it's just between us I won't feel as bad when you dump me." She said quietly

"Hermione im not going to dump you anytime soon, and I want to show off about my new girlfriend I think she's pretty amazing." Replied Ron smiling

"Well, can we keep it to ourselves for now?" said Hermione quietly

"Yeah sure. I don't want to have an argument and end up with us splitting after we haven't even had one date." Said Ron reaching out and grabbing Hermione's hand.

"Thanks Ron!" she replied and they walked back to the common room hand-in-hand.