Life After Hogwarts – Chapter 10 – Ron's POV
I looked over the letter that Hermione sent me over and over again and couldn't help but feeling hurt, she didn't want to live with me and to me it felt like an excuse so that she didn't have to move in with me. I don't think it would be that much different from us living at the Burrow except it would just be us two and the baby not my whole family and Harry there, I looked over the letter again and felt the tears well up in my eyes but somehow I managed to stop them falling down my cheeks.
"You alright?" my new roommate James asked me, I just shrugged and looked over the letter again "Something happen with your girl?" he asked.
I put the letter down and sat up on my bed facing him "You know she's pregnant and we were going to live together and stuff... well she has now decided that she is not going to move out of her parents house and live with me. It seems to me that she's thinking of excuses not to live with me, we had a conversation about living together before she got pregnant but even then she wasn't keen on the idea... I just have no idea what's going on with her" I explained to him in frustration.
James as a skinny guy and tall and although he wasn't the strongest here at camp he was defiantly one of the fastest "She's a young girl who has discovered she's pregnant and her boyfriend has gone away to work, he parents are probably the only ones there right now and she doesn't want to leave her comfort zone" he said to me, sometimes I wonder if James really is a guy.
I laid back on my bed "I have no idea what she's thinking half the time and it frustrates me! One minute she's all for us being together forever and all that crap then the next she freaking out and making excuses and I'm starting to get annoyed" I sighed loudly "Sometimes I wonder if the stress is worth it" I said and regretted it the second I said it.
The room was silent for a couple of minutes "Our girlfriends are supposed to drive us crazy and make us work for them, don't give up on her. You both knew this situation was never going to be easy so don't give up just yet. Now go to sleep we get woken up at 5am!" I heard James' bed shuffle so I knew he was getting comfortable for a night's sleep.
I decided to take this chance to write a letter back to her;
Dear Hermione,
I love you so much and it upsets me that you don't want to live with me in a place that we can call our own and I know you're going to be angry and upset at me but with everything that happened the other day when I left I completely forgot to tell you that Harry said we can rent the upstairs of Grimmauld Place so you can tell your parents to shove that newspaper where the sun don't shine.
It's not charity either because he is going to make us pay rent and be a proper landlord, him and Ginny have been cleaning and renovating it so it is liveable and Harry said he will order Kreacher to be good to us and do everything we ask which will come in handy from time to time.
How about we do a trial basis, when I come home we live together for six months and we don't like it then you can go back to live with your parents and I will go back and live with mine? Let us just give this a try Hermione... I will do anything to keep our little family together.
Please write back to me when you have a free minute, I know your busy with other things but I would love to hear how you are and how the pregnancy is going, I want to know everything good and bad OK? You can tell me all the gory details of morning sickness and other things OK? I love you and our baby so much and I can't wait to hear from you.
All my love
Ron
Xxxx
I folded the piece of parchment and put it in a envelope and I would send it off first thing tomorrow morning to she should get it by lunchtime and by the time I wake up in a couple of days I should hopefully have a reply from her then I thought: I haven't written to my family yet!
Dear mum and dad,
I am really sorry it has taken me a while to write to you but I have been so busy here getting to know everyone and falling into a routine. I hope I didn't worry you mum and I'm really sorry if I have! Things here are as hard as I thought they would be.
We get woken up at 5am to do a 5 mile run then we got for a shower and breakfast then we do defensive spell work then flying then lunch then we do another 5 mile run then dinner and a shower then bed then we start it all again the next day, they change the routine once a month so that we don't get to comfortable which I get.
My roommate is called James and he's a really nice guy! It is weird though having a roommate that isn't Harry but he is nice. He gives good advice and he is a tall skinny boy with no strength but wow he can move fast, he always finishes the run first but I'm a better flyer then what he is so I always beat him at that.
One of the things I miss at home is the food. We get the basics here and I miss my bacon sandwhiches and all the other nice food that mum makes for me and when I get a home visit it will be one of the best presents to give me!
I'm going to sleep now, I love you both so much and I hope you are both OK. Let me know if there is something wrong or anything.
Ron
P.S Mum can you write Hermione a letter and ask her how she is or something I know she would love to hear from you xxx
Hermione's POV
I woke up and just looked up at the ceiling not really wanting to get out of bed but knowing that I had to because there are things that I need to go and buy for this baby. I know it's early but I would rather have everything ready then leave it to last minute like some people do and I have also got to buy home things as I am going to be living at Grimmauld Place thanks to Ron going behind my back, he knows I'm angry about it but I do need somewhere to live, I was meeting Ginny and Harry today in Diagon Alley so we could go shopping then we were going to the house.
After getting sick, showering, eating breakfast, getting sick again, brushing my teeth and getting dressed I was finally ready to go and I was about to when the front door knocked I sighed and answered it, surprised to see Mrs Weasley standing there with Mr Weasley "Can we come in?" he asked.
They came and sat down in my living room opposite me, I asked them if they wanted a drink or something but they refused, was I in trouble again?