"Love is friendship set on fire."
-Jeremy Taylor

As December came closer, the snow had finally decided to cover the ground. I watched as it floated down gently like feathers covering everything in sight. My heart was full of joy. I loved the snow and how everything looked so perfect covered in it.

Everything outside was quiet as I stood waiting patiently. I never thought this month would go by so quickly. It was already two days before we would leave for our winter break. That meant I had to spend time with my dreadful family. Also have to attend the ball my parents throw every year with someone I would not enjoy being around. I had wished I would be able to spend the holiday with my friends but my parents would not allow it. Not to mention they had no idea who my friends are and would probably lock me up if they knew who I would rather be spending my time with over them.

I heard footsteps crunching through the snow towards me and knew he had finally arrived.

"Sorry I'm late" he mumbled with an innocent smile across his face

I grinned "It's alright, just means I'll have to beat you up"

"You couldn't beat me up if you wanted too Bella" Ron smirked

"No, I'm pretty sure I can" My smile got bigger since he had no idea I was hiding a snowball behind my back

"Prove it" He challenged me and right after that, the snowball headed right for his head.

He starred at me for a moment "If that's how it's going to be, you're dead" and he started running at me.

So I did what any normal person would do and ran away. Which I seemed to be a faster runner then him as I sped down the hill and then towards the frozen lake. But I had been wrong since he had been right behind me with a snowball in his hand. I dove behind a tree when he whipped it in my direction. I quickly started to form a ball in the snow, and peered from behind my tree, but Ron wasn't there. I looked around in confusion.
Then I was tackled into the snow. Luckily with my snowball still in hand so I smashed it on him but it didn't seem to be very effective though. So I started to laugh at my sad attempt.

"What?" He had a small grin on his face as his body had mine pinned to the ground

"We are ridiculous" I smiled

"Maybe a little bit" He said still very close to my face

"You know you make a nice blanket" I smirked starring into his blue glistening eyes

"Why thank you, love" he whispered moving his face a little closer to my own

My heart started to race and I think I even started to blush as I tried to think if I should kiss him. Which was stupid to even be asking myself, of course I should kiss him. But before I had the chance his lips crashed onto mine. My eyes went wide as I was confused, but after a second I realized and closed my eyes and moved my lips with his.
Sadly it ended as quickly as it started. He looked at me with a huge smirk. I just smiled shyly, searching for the right thing to say after that.

"I'm going to miss you over break, Bella" He beat me to saying something too

"I'll miss you too, at least you have Harry and Hermione. Where I get to spend time with Draco" I laughed at my own demise

"I guess you're right about that" He smiled rolling off me and stood up, lending a hand to help me up.

"Hey, at least we have DA tomorrow night before we have to leave the next day" I got excited as I remembered

"You know you're adorable when you get excited over simple things" He smiled grabbing my hand as we walked back up to the castle

"Thank you?" I gave him a weird look which made him laugh

He sighed when we stopped in front of the entrance

"What's wrong?" I tilted my head a little

"It sucks not being able to hold your hand in front of everyone or not being able to kiss you" he frowned

"You can do that in front of anyone you want, just not in front of my brother or his little minions" I said lifting up his chin so he could look at me

"I don't want to get you in trouble" He said starring into my eyes

"Then we just hide it from Draco, easy as that, at least till I'm out of that house" I smiled trying to reassure him

"Well we will need to make a plan to get you out of there" He put on a small smile

"Good idea" I went up on my tip toes to give him a kiss on the cheek "But I'm hungry so let's go to dinner"

I smiled around at everyone as they practiced their spells in the room, I had been insanely happy today. It was probably because Ron kissed me yesterday or the fact that all day he would hold my hand or sneak kisses. I had no idea if I was his girlfriend but it didn't matter at that moment in time because I was stuck in a blissful feeling.

"Alright everyone!" Harry's voice echoed through the room and everyone stopped "You're all doing amazing! I just want to wish all of you a Happy Christmas before you leave and we will plan another meeting after break" He smiled to everyone.

Soon after everyone started to file out of the room, wishing each other a Happy Christmas. I hung back for a moment with Ron and Hermione who were waiting on Harry. But clearly he was going to stay since Cho was hanging back so we went on without him. Ali had dragged Hermione away to help her with some kind of charms question that even I had trouble coming up with the right answer. So that left Ron and me.

Ron grabbed my hand and I looked up at him and smiled "So I guess I won't see you until after break huh" He whispered

"Well we could try to say good bye in the morning but it will be hard, Draco will probably be by my side making sure I sit with him" I sighed

"Well we can meet up for a bit on the train" He smiled and pulled me close to him as we walked

"Yeah that sounds like a good plan, I can get Ali to distract my brother" I grinned at my brilliant plan

He stopped walking and I realized he had walked me all the way to Ravenclaw tower. My happiness had died a little, I didn't want to leave him.

He lifted up my chin so I was staring at his gorgeous eyes.

"Bella?" He had turned seriously but with a soft voice

"Yes?" I whispered confused

"Your my girlfriend, right?" He had said it so innocently it made me smile

"Of course" I told him and his face lit up like a little kid seeing he got million toys on Christmas

He leaned down and gave me a sweet soft kiss on the lips and pulled me into a hug "Good night beautiful, I'll see you tomorrow" he whispered into my ear then pulled away.

"Good night, Ronnie" I smirked and ran off before he could get mad.