NORMALLY I'M NOT THE KIND OF AUTHOR TO PUT EVERYTHING IN CAPS TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE READ THIS LITTLE MESSAGE THING. BUT I FEEL LIKE ITS NECESSARY (AND ANNOYING, BECAUSE, CLEARLY YOU GUYS KNOW THERE'S A MESSAGE THING IN THE FIRST PLACE, I MEAN YOUR NOT STUPID. . . . . . . I GUESS *just kidding*) BECAUSE IN CASE YOU GUYS DIDN'T NOTICE, THIS IS ACTUALLY BASED OFF OF 'Someone Like You' BY Adele. AND I MEAN NEARLY THE ENTIRE STORYLINE. IF YOU HAVEN'T HEARD IT, WHICH IS HONESTLY HARD TO BELIEVE, GO HEAR IT SO YOU CAN SEE WHERE THIS STORY IS GOING. IT'LL MAKE THINGS A LOT CLEARER.

BY THE WAY: THE REST OF THE STORY WILL BE COMING FROM RON'S POINT OF VIEW!

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter.


Chapter 9:

Five Months Later


My hands were shaking as I took out my wand to direct the broom to sweep the floor, do the dishes, and wipe down the counters. Hermione and Autumn were coming over soon. Samantha was upstairs relaxing, and Ginny and Harry were helping me clean up a bit. Ginny was cleaning the living room and parlor and Harry was cleaning the Dining Room and guest bedroom.

Fuck, why am I so nervous? Maybe it was because of the 'surprise' Hermione told me she had for us. What if she was moving away because of that promotion she wanted so bad. What if she's met someone? That scared me the most.

Wait! That shouldn't scare me at all! I'm a soon to be father and husband. I'm not romantically interested in Hermione anymore, I can't be. I told myself it was probably like how Bill felt about Tonks'. Sure everyone thought they were going to end up together, but he fell in love with someone else. And now look at him. Married expecting his third child. Perhaps Bill had these thoughts' before becoming interested in Fleur. Just like I'm having these thoughts' of Hermione. It's perfectly normal.

"Ron you're so bloody weird", said a voice from the doorway. I turned around to find Ginny shaking her head in disapproval with her wand held up, catching the objects I'd accidentally let go of (dishes, broom, dish rag. . .).

"What did I do", I asked.

"Well for one you're staring off into space and changing your face expression every three seconds", Ginny said, "But anyway, I'm done and Harry's almost finished. Have you figured out what you want me to cook?"

"Uh, yeah, Samantha bought the ingredients for some Chicken and spinach pasta", I answered. She dried the dishes, put them away, and swept the last bits of crumbs from the floor and dumped them in the trash can with the flick of a wand.

"What about dessert?"

"Cake."

Harry popped up behind Ginny.

"I'm all done, what do we do now", Harry asked.

"I'll go ahead and start cooking", Ginny said.

"I guess we can play a quick game of Wizards' Chess", I suggested to Harry.

"Sure, I bet you I'll win this time", Harry said a little enthusiastically.

"The only thing you'll accomplish in this game is losing. Again", I said.

"Seriously, Ron, you don't stand a chance. I've been practicing all last Sunday with Mr. Weasley", Harry said.

We sat down and played Wizards' Chess. I was playing the game, but my head wasn't really in it (yet I still beat Harry within the first three minutes). I was too busy thinking about Hermione and what her surprise could possibly be. I couldn't wait to see her. After that week of staying at her house we all kept in contact for about three weeks and then we kind of just went back to the usual- pretending the other didn't exist. But apparently Hermione wanted to come see us and tell her about her surprise.

Harry and I played for about thirty minutes and then we heard my doorbell go, Ding- Dong! And I was glad because I'd finally get to figure out what this bloody surprise was.

"I've got it", shouted Ginny from the kitchen. But Harry and I jumped up and tumbled over each other through the thin corridor just to get to the door too.

Ginny looked at us and rolled her eyes and muttered, "Boys" under her breath. She twisted the knob and opened the door and squealed when she saw Hermione.

"Ginny! Oh, I missed you so much", Hermione said in this high pitch girly voice. I still couldn't see her face though.

"Hello, Ginny", said a familiar guy's voice. I jerked my head at the sound. Who was that?

Ginny opened the door a little wider. She obviously didn't expect another visitor either.

And I didn't expect for the guy's voice to be that Autumn bloke from the last time we'd seen Hermione. I also didn't expect to see Hermione looking that- beautiful. Her hair was curly and a lighter shade of brown with blonde streaks under a wool grey hat, a black jumper with grey tights, and a black cloak over that. She didn't have on makeup, there weren't any body enhancements that I could see, so what was so different about her?

She had a familiar glow in her eyes that I used to see when I looked at her in Hogwarts'. She came over and hugged me with one arm. It was short and sweet, like a hug she'd give to Harry. And it was completely alien to me. And I wasn't entirely sure how I felt about that.

She gave Harry a quick hug too, the little flimsy side hug that she gave me.

"Mm, it smells great in here, what's cooking", asked Autumn bloke. That certainly won Ginny's heart with him. Ever since mum started teaching her how to cook, she coo's over every little compliment about her cooking.

"It's chicken and spinach pasta. And pretty soon the Cake should be ready", Ginny said cheerfully. She looked like she was about to explode from excitement. Like a balloon about to burst.

"Hermione! I haven't seen you in a while! You look nice", said my fiancé's voice from the bottom of the stairs' and went over to Hermione to give her a hug.

"Thank you! You don't look too bad yourself for a pregnant woman", Hermione said. Samantha smiled at her and grabbed me by the waist.

"Pretty soon little Edward Arthur will be out of here", Samantha said rubbing her tiny stomach. It is really hard to believe she's seven months pregnant. She looks like she gained a couple of pounds from the first time I saw her. This often makes me wonder if the baby is okay. So most of the time she doesn't do anything, much to her dismay. She's usually very active but for the sake of my worry of the baby's health I do my best to keep her from doing any work.

"And Autumn you look very nice yourself", Samantha said.

"Thank you, your home is really nice", Autumn replied.

Ginny went into the kitchen and shouted for Harry to set the table.

"Ron, do you have any fire whiskey", Hermione asked me. This must be for the surprise.

"Er, yeah I've got fire whiskey", I replied.

"Do you mind taking out some wine glasses and the fire whiskey, I have something special to announce", Hermione said looking extra excited.

"What's the surprise", I asked.

"Well it wouldn't be a surprise if I told you, now would it", Hermione asked.

"Oh, c'mon, I'm going to find out in twenty more minutes anyway", I replied stubbornly.

"Exactly, so you can wait", Hermione said grinning. I rolled my eyes and blew hard.

"Fine."

"Thank you", Hermione said.

I took out the fire whiskey and four wine glasses and a regular one for Samantha and went to the dining room table. Everyone was sitting and taking forkfuls of chicken and spinach pasta. The entire time Hermione smiled and Autumn grinned, everyone else was just sitting quietly and eating quickly so we could hear her big news.

Finally we all had finished and we poured fire whiskey into our glasses, Hermione and Autumn stood up.

"Okay, so you guys already know I have something to tell you, so here I go", Hermione said giggly.

"Hurry up and tell them", Autumn said whiningly, but there was a special twinkle in his eye, and a wide grin on his face that suggested he was just as giddy as she was.

"I'm engaged!" Hermione said smiling. Ginny immediately jumped up and squealed.

"That's great!" Ginny shouted in this annoying high pitched voice. "To who?"

"To me", Autumn said. Hermione reached up and kissed Autumn briefly.

I thought I'd be sick at the sight.

"That's fantastic news", Harry said.

"Absolutely, now we have two upcoming weddings", Samantha said. She looked genuinely stunned herself.

"So when's the big day", Harry asked.

"We decided to get married in the Winter so it'll be sometime in December", Autumn replied. He hugged Hermione tightly from behind and put his arms around her stomach.

"But we already decided who my maid of honor will be", Hermione said smiling hard at Ginny. "Ginny, would you-"

"Of course, I'd love to", Ginny said.

"And Samantha I'd like for you to be a bridesmaid", Hermione said.

"Me? Sure, uh- thank you", Samantha said.

We all went into the living room. I sat next to Samantha with my arm around her. Harry and Ginny sat in the floor, their legs crossed and his arms around her. And Hermione and Autumn were sitting close together on the couch.

"So when did you guys become romantically involved", Samantha asked.

"Hmm, about a month after you guys left", Hermione replied.

"How'd he propose?" Ginny asked.

"Well we decided to go shopping, and the first place I wanted to go was the bookstore, and so did he; which is weird considering he hates to once we got there I was searching for a book, and he handed me one. It didn't have a title; it was just a red book with actual gold outlining it. And when I opened it there were a whole bunch of words in French on the first couple of pages. I stopped then but he told me to keep going. Then there was a page with a picture of me on there and under it was a page dedicated to how much he loved me. And then he took my hand and leaded me to the display shelf and there were tons of books forming the words: Would you marry me? And of course I said yes", her eyes began to glisten with tears at the memory; she gave Autumn a small kiss and looked him in the eyes, "The most wonderful thing that's ever happened to me."

Autumn smiled at her and kissed her again, and once they broke it she smiled back.

Bloody lovebirds.

"That is the sweetest thing I've ever heard", Ginny said in a dreamy voice. She turned to Harry and frowned, "You'd think after all these years you would do something like that for me", she said jokingly.

We all laughed and started talking about work and caught up a bit.

Apparently Hermione had gotten promoted and Autumn moved in with her. She also spent a month in France right after he proposed, which explained the first pages of his 'proposal book'.

I thought about everything that just happened in the past four hours. My best friend/ ex-girlfriend is engaged. The person I'd been in love with is happy and about to get married to another man. But I'm about to get married in three months, and I'll be a father in two and a half more months to the woman I love.

So why in the hell do I feel so shitty about this whole thing?


Sincerely,

Jay