Hi everyone! I know I haven't been posting for what looks like ages and I'm sorry…Let's say that I still had to figure out the best way to end this fanfic and I think it's not that bad! Maybe Deathly Hallows helped me a little bit with writing the ending…Well, I hope you'll enjoy my last chapter!Bye

A silent drizzle was falling on Hogwarts that night, a cold wind blowing furiously among the trees. Still, the moon was clearly visible in the sky, surrounded by a black wall of clouds. Hermione lifted the scarf up to her mouth, her nose almost numb with cold, cheeks flushed and eyes bright and excited.

She reached the quidditch pitch in a rush, just in time to see him coming out of the dressing rooms, hair still damp, laughing at something Harry appeared to have said a few moments before. When the team noticed Hermione standing still a few feet from them the laughter abruptly broke down. Everyone fell silent. Ron's eyes were fixed on hers, but Hermione was looking at everyone but him. He looked at his teammates and they immediately knew that they had to leave without uttering a single word.

Now they were all alone, the wind caressing their silhouettes in the dark of the night. Hermione finally lifted her head up and was surprised to see him staring at her with a malicious smile on his face that said "I know why you're here". She rolled her eyes absentmindedly, looking away because unable to hold his gaze but smiling in spite of herself. Ron walked towards her, stopping a few feet from were she stood. Then, placing his hands on her back, he pushed her towards him until their bodies were touching each other almost completely. They fell silent.

"What's wrong Hermione?" he asked her finally.

"Nothing, nothing's wrong…"

"Then why are you here? I thought we said we'd meet in the common room, so…"

"So what?"

"So there must be something going on or you wouldn't have come out this late on your own. But of course, maybe I'm wrong."

"No you're right. I was waiting for you in the common room, but then I couldn't help but feel a little restless, sitting there doing nothing except reading the same three lines over and over again. So I came here to…"

"To do what?" he asked raising his eyebrows.

"Well I don't know really."

"To kiss me under this splendid full moon maybe?" He suggested smiling confidently.

Hermione smiled too, reminded of what had happened a few weeks before. They stared at each other. Then Hermione grabbed the collar of his cloak, forcing Ron to bend down on her. She stopped him when his mouth was just a few inches from hers and he groaned in protest. She smiled playfully, raised herself on tiptoes, watched his mouth longingly and bit his lower lip, starting to kiss him in a way she had never done before. Ron was certainly not expecting this…at least not from Hermione, who backed away from him as if she had been burnt, blushing violently and covering her face with her hands.

"I'm so sorry Ron! I don't know what got into me…" she said. But Ron was drawing her close to him again.

"Sorry for what? For doing just what you felt like doing and for making me feel so turned on right now? You don't want to know what you're making me think of…"he smiled maliciously. at her.

"Ron!!!" she reprimanded him looking both outraged and pleasantly embarrassed.

"Come on Hermione! You know I would never hurt you in any way!" he said sounding a bit offended.

"I know that! It's just that when we're this close I don't know what I'm doing anymore. Look what I've just done!"

"And was that bad? Because I don't really think it was…"he smiled.

"I don't know Ron...but if I'm acting this way right now, what do you think will happen next time?"

"I can't wait to see what will happen next time..."he smiled again.

"Ron please be serious! It's not normal to fell so addicted to someone else…I can't concentrate during classes anymore, and it takes me hours to finish my homework! And this is because I keep thinking of you, your eyes, your mouth, how great your hands feel on my skin…and…and this is bad! Don't you see?"

"If this is bad, if you really think this is bad, then you don't want to know how I feel when I'm with you. Believe me, you don't want to know…I never thought I could be so powerfully attracted to someone in my life."

"I thought it impossible too, at least until you kissed me, and after that it was like a free fall. It all went much worse…But if you hadn't kissed me…" she began to wonder.

"Well I kissed you! And now you know as well as I do that we can't be parted!" he said matter-of-factly.

"Who says that?" she challenged him. "I could simply ignore everything that happened between us and go on with my life, fall in love with an other guy an forget everything about you, never wanting to kiss you again."

"As if you could Hermione! You know very well that you can't forget that part of me, it's not something that you erase from your heart, not even with magic. The way in which you and me connect is just perfect, we don't need proof! I mean, you know how you feel when my hand touches your face, when my lips touch your skin and …"

He kissed her, letting himself go, wanting her to feel the same way, so incredibly confused by those perfect moments they spent together. But then Hermione pushed him away, breathing heavily, trying to regain her rationality.

"Ok Ron I get it okay? But you can't do this to me!" she cried.

"Do what?" he asked a little confused.

"Making me feel like this! Like I can't live without you being so close to me, so close to my heart…I mean, how can you be so sure of what you feel? How do you know that this is real and not a simple and silly crush?" But she paused. There was an other question that she wanted to ask…"How do I know that our kisses are different from the ones you shared with Lavender?"

"You know they're not the same thing! I guess that this is your problem, isn't it? Lavender all over again…"

Hermione fell silent. The hole in her heart was still there, even if she thought it had vanished, and not even the seriousness she could see in Ron's eyes could at that moment convince her that what she was hearing from him was the truth. Her heart had failed so many times and she couldn't trust it anymore.

"Listen Hermione, I know how you feel, but there have been a lot of things going, and I realised that there's only one thing that is still the same after all these years. It's the way I feel whenever I see you or you're next to me. Nothing can change that, and surely not Lavender. You're the person that keeps me real Hermione, don't you understand that? I can't lose you…"

"But why didn't you say all these things to me before? I thought I was being pushed away…and rejected…and…betrayed! Do you know how that feels? I don't think so! And now…..you're telling me amazing things, and you almost look like you're going to tell me that…"

"That I love you? Because that is exactly was I was going to say." He said almost in a whisper. "Hermione…you know I love you, you've known it all along, and I know that keeping this from you has hurt you more than I could ever imagine. If you could only forgive me for all the time we've wasted!"

"I wish I could just say the same things to you Ron, but it's not so simple! All this time, the only thing that kept me real has been thinking that you couldn't possibly love me, because if that was true, all those lies I had built for my heart to stop ache would shatter." She clutched her heart and a few tears ran down her face. "I thought you barely knew that I existed!" she cried at last.

"This is not true!!!" he cried.

"Don't you understand? If I listen to my heart right now, all my defences are going to be useless and all the feelings that I've been hiding for so long will come out and it won't be possible for me to take them back. I will be exposed and weak. Then what will happen if something goes wrong and we just split up?"

"Who knows Hermione…maybe we'll split up, or maybe we'll get married! I mean who cares? Don't you understand that this is about living what we have now? Maybe it took me some more time to figure things out but you can't blame me for that. All I want right now is to have you by my side, nothing's more important than that. And I promise you that I won't let this happen again. Hermione…you just have to trust me!"

Hermione seemed to think about it for a few seconds but then she flung her arms around his neck and kissed him with such enthusiasm that Ron almost lost his balance and had to grip Hermione as firmly as he could not to fall on the ground. The black clouds had finally vanished.

When they broke apart after several minutes, they were both smiling.

"Don't ever let me go" Hermione whispered in his ear. "Because if you do, I swear to God I will kill you Ronald Weasley!" and she kissed him again.