Hermione sighed as she rolled over and got out of bed. It was a Hogsmeade day, and she was excited. Every day she got bigger and bigger, and she was big enough for people to notice, but not so big she felt gross. She got a shirt and slid it over her head. It went easily except for when it came to her stomach. There was much pulling on her part, but eventaully the shirt managed to drag down her bump and fit. It was rather snug, but it would do for now. She got some of her stretchy pants and slid into them, and then brushed her hair, grabbing her things and running downstairs.

"Hey, guys," Hermione sighed when she got to the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall and took a spot between Ginny and Ron.

"Hey," Ginny said. "What's wrong?"

"I need new clothes," Hermione said. "This shirt is my only one that still fits me, and barely. I've five months pregnant. I need new clothes."

"Then why don't you get new clothes?" Ginny asked. "We're going to Hogsmeade today."

"I don't have money," Hermione said.

"Oh yeah, I nearly forgot," Ginny said. She reached in and took a small little bag out that had several bronze Knuts, silver Sickles, and gold Galleons in it. She handed it to Hermione. "Mum sent this to me and Ron a couple weeks ago for you to use when you needed new clothes," Ginny said, shrugging.

"Thanks," Hermione said, taking the bag and putting it in her pocket. Under ordinary circumstances she wouldn't take money away from the Weasleys, but she had far less money than they had now. In fact, she had nothing except for what they gave her.

Her, Ron, Harry, and Ginny arrived in Hogsmeade, looking around. "I guess I should go to the clothes store now. Who wants to come with me?"

"Not me and Harry," Ron replied, shrugging. "Watching you trying on clothes isn't our thing."

"I'll go with you, Hermione," Ginny said.

"Alright," Hermione replied, slightly hurt, shrugging her shoulders. Ever since about two weeks ago, however, she had been feeling like she was… in love with Ron. And she didn't know what to do about it.

"Me and Harry will be in Honeydukes," Ron said. "We'll meet in a half hour in The Three Broomsticks?"

The girls nodded and turned around, beginning to walk to the local clothes shop.

"Hi, can you tell me where the maternity section is?" Hermione asked the kind old lady at the counter in the shop.

"Of course, dear," the woman replied, smiling at Hermione and pointing towards the right direction. Obviously, she thought Hermione was a villager or something, certainly not a student at Hogwarts. The two girls began walking, and then began to search the racks.

"Ginny, can I tell you something?" Hermione asked.

"Sure," Ginny said.

"I… I think I may be in love with Ron," Hermione said.

"Really?" Ginny asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah," the bushy-haired girl replied, nodding. "But don't tell anyone, okay?"

Ginny agreed not to tell anyone and then the two girls replied to searching the racks. Finally, about 25 minutes later, they were done. They choose cute dresses and blouses and skirts for the rest of the spring and summer months, and a couple of big, nice sweaters and turtlenecks and stretchy pants for the little time Hermione would be pregnant during the fall, and then they picked out some more robes in bigger sizes, since her own didn't fit anymore, and then they checked out and walked to The Three Broomsticks.

"Hey," Ron and Harry called, waving them over. They walked over to sit at their table. Ron and Harry were drinking their butterbeer, and they had ordered some for Hermione and Ginny.

"Thanks," Hermione said, sitting down and taking a sip of her butterbeer. "What did you guys buy at Honeydukes?"

That night, they got back to the castle. Hermione ran up to her dorm and put her new clothes away, and then went downstairs and ate dinner. She went up to bed early and had a bad dream. She dreamt that her little girl had been born and the Healers in the hospital left her after two faceless people came and took her daughter away. She cried when she woke up. She tried to go back to sleep, but after awhile she figured it was a useless cause and went back downstairs into the common room. As she was walking, she bumped into someone else. Someone with red hair.

"Ron!" Hermione gasped. "You scared me. What are you doing here?"

"I left something down here…"

"I love you."

"What?" Ron asked, and Hermione slapped a hand over her mouth.

"Hermione, I love you too," Ron said, and then he leaned in and kissed her.

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