A/N: I am soo sorry guys! I forgot all about the Ball. This is the real chapter 4. Please read this one because it is the ball and it is funny. I am sorry guys. I forgot this chapter was on my laptop and not posted. When I didn't have my laptop I thought I already had this one posted so I posted after the ball. So I hope you all like this chapter.

Hermione sat on the side next to Ron and watched as Ginny and Harry danced across the dance floor. She'd danced with Ron a bit but each time it was kind of awkward for her no matter how much she tried to push it aside. It was just so awkward being with him like this when they where only still friends.

"So…"

Hermione turned her attention to Ron and looked at him curiously. "Yes Ron?" she asked softly telling him to continue on with what he was going to say at the moment.

"I was wondering-"

"Hermione Granger!" Lavender's voice hissed as she approached the two. "Y-You foul girl you!! What do you possibly have that I don't?"

"Foul girl? Is that honestly the best you can do?" Hermione asked as she looked at Lavender with a grin. "And for your information, Ron can keep his reason for going with me to himself. A stupid blonde like yourself shouldn't have to know."

Lavender gave Hermione a cold glare and then stomped away in a huff. She was so mad she couldn't even explain it. She wondered why Hermione was so happy that Ron got a date and now she knew why. She'd had it with Ron anyways, he never liked her and she could tell. He would always be staring at Hermione instead of her, even during the time they'd been dating. She'd just have to get over it no matter how hard it really was for her to do so.

Hermione sighed as she turned her attention back to Ron. "You where saying Ron," she said softly telling him to keep going.

"Er," Ron muttered as he watched Lavender walk away and then looking at Hermione. "I was wondering if you wanted to go get some drinks."

Hermione gave a small nod as she stood up and held her hand out for Ron to take. "Alright then let's go. I could use some butterbeer," she told him quietly as she gave him a sweet smile.

Ron smiled lightly as he took Hermione's hand and pushed himself up. He took Hermione's arm in his and started to walk her out of the Great Hall. "Hermione, what do most of the girls think about me?" he asked quietly as they walked along.

"Well a few good many like you but they all say that you have your eyes on someone else. I don't believe who they say the girl is though or I did at least," Hermione told him with a weak smile as she walked around. "When Ginny told me I knew it had to be true since she too had taken a notice in it."

"Oh really," Ron grumbled having a feeling Ginny knew he had his eyes on Hermione and he knew now that she knew too but he didn't get why she was doing this to him if she did know. "Then who is it I have my eye on?"

"Me," Hermione said simply though a blush crept its way up to her cheeks. She suddenly found that she couldn't walk any more and looked up to see in the doorway of the Great Hall a mistletoe. "Ginny Weasley," she muttered as she turned and looked over at the innocent looking Ginny dancing with Harry.

"H-How'd you know it was you that I had my eye on?" Ron asked quietly, not hearing her say Ginny's name but noticed the fact they where now stuck under the mistletoe together.

Hermione looked at Ron and took in a deep breath. "I learned it from Ginny. She dropped me a few hints and unlike you I can figure them out," she told him.

"What do you mean unlike me you can take hints?"

"I've been giving you hints that I loved you for years now and yet here we are, still only friends! Did it ever occur to you that I might have liked you? That I am a girl who has feels of her own?" Hermione cried, tears rolled down her cheeks slowly. "I don't want to be friends anymore Ron. I feel something different between us and if you are only going to trash that then you aren't worth my time."

"Hermione-"

"Just kiss me and get us free Ronald," Hermione cried, trying to keep back from breaking down completely.

Ron kissed Hermione lightly on the lips as he was told and walked her out from under the mistletoe. "Hermione, please just let me talk," he begged her.

"No Ronald," Hermione cried and then starting to run towards the steps but someone held her back by holding onto her wrist. She turned back and looked at Ron, tears streaming down her cheeks fast.

"Hermione, just listen to me," Ron told her knowing that she'd have to listen because he had hold of her wrist and she was weak compared to him so she had no chance of breaking free. "Look, I know you are a girl with feels and you are the most wonderful girl I've ever met. I'd never trash the feeling that I have about you. Hermione, I love you and I'd never hurt you. I-I'd never use you and then dump you like you are nothing at all because you aren't. Hermione, I truly love you with all my heart."

Hermione looked at Ron and could tell he was telling her the truth at the moment but she was still crying. She whipped her cheeks with her free hand and then stared up at him. "C-Can we try the mistletoe again?" she asked softly with a weak smile on her face.

Ron smiled lightly as he walked her back into the door way slowly and then looking at her. "Ready to try this all over again?" he asked her softly and getting a small nod from her. "Hermione, I love you so much and have for a while. I only went out with Lavender because I was jealous about you and Krum. I'm sorry if that caused you any trouble or pain at all. I love you and I promise I always will," he told her softly, as if he where making a speech to marry her or something but he felt like she needed an explanation of the whole thing.

Hermione whipped the tears from her cheeks with her free hand and looked at Ron with a weak smile. "Ron, why where you jealous of Krum and I last year? I wasn't even dating him; we are only friends as I've tried to tell you before," she said softly her eyes rather puffy from the few minutes she'd been crying.

"I was more jealous of what Ginny told me last year. She said that you snogged with him and well, I was hurt and all upset about it," Ron told Hermione quietly as he looked down at the floor, not wanting to look into her eyes. He didn't want to see her expression, what ever it might be.

Hermione smiled weakly and lifted Ron's head up with her hands so he was looking at her. "Ron, I didn't snog with him though. I've never been snogged actually," she told him softly with a smile. Though she didn't find the fact that she'd never been snogged a good thing really but it was something that Ron would probably be happy about. He'd be the first and hopefully the only one who'd ever lay their lips on her.

Ron grew a smile as he looked into Hermione's eyes and pulled her closer to him. "There is a first time for everything but not here," he whispered and then kissing her lightly again before walking her out from under the mistletoe.

"Ronald Weasley, you aren't serious," Hermione replied though she had a bright smile on her face showing him she was actually pretty happy about going off and snogging each others faces off.

"Come off it Hermione," Ron told her as he started to take her up the stairs heading towards the common room where he knew he could get a little privacy with her for at least a little while. "You've got to let free sometimes."

Ginny and Harry peeked their heads out from the Great Hall and watched as Ron and Hermione walked off together. "We did it Harry," she whispered lightly and then looking up at Harry. "Should we go up to the common room and bust them later on?"

"Totally but let's let them be for now," Harry said with a smile and then taking Ginny's hand in her's. "For now, we dance."