Always Someone

Chapter 5

A/N: Read and review!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need reviews to keep me writing...lol. Will it be a romance story? Horror? Mystery? Fluffy? Read to find out!

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Ron's shivering, milk coloured hand slowly opened the hospital wing door without Ron noticing what he was doing. His legs walked, seemingly on their own, right to Ginny and Hermione's parallel beds. There was Ginny, firey red hair draping over the side of her bed, skin as white as snow. Though her eyes were closed, she had a scared look on her face. Hermione's honey- brown hair looked drained of all the energy it ever had, as did Hermione. She looked limp, and helpless. Her eyes were closed as well, and her look was even more frightening then Ginny's. It was fear and- disapointment. For what? That she got an A instead of an A+ on a test? For- it was then, at that moment, that Ron realized he didn't really know Hermione. I mean, sure, he had 'been friends' with her for 5 years, but he hardly knew anything about her. Did she like animals? Did she listen to muggle music? What are her parents like? And other things........so many other things. Ron had told her some things about him, but not many.

"I don't know what happened- to our friendship that never really started, to you and Ginny tonight." Ron whispered out loud.

"Ronald, what are you-" Madam Pomfrey began, but stopped abruptly as she looked from Ginny to Hermione and nodded. "Just keep it down." she added and let a small, sympathetic smile onto her face. 'Weird.' Ron thought.

"If-" Ron cringed, but went on. "When you wake up, I want to tell you everything." he whispered. He slipped a beautiful pink rose into the empty vase next to Hermione's bed.

He kissed Ginny on the cheek and said,

"You have to get better." It was more of a plea then a statement. He slipped a card on the small table next to her bed and left the hospital wing. He was so enclosed in his own world and Ginny and Hermione, that he didn't realize Harry walking next to him.

"You did a nice thing." Harry said.

Ron was startled by his voice for a moment, then he looked up and recovered.

"Thanks, but it wasn't much, I mean, they couldn't even hear me." he said quietly.

"But they knew." Harry replied. Harry said things like this often. Ron just nodded and turned into the boys' dorm as Harry proceeded to the Gryffindor common room. He knew not to follow Ron, they had been friends long enough to know these things.

Ron flopped down on his four poster and carefully picked up a heavy brass frame that was resting on his bed-side table. It was a picture of him, Harry, and Hermione in the beginning of their 1st year, when everything was carefree. When they had just become friends. Harry was standing on a couch in the common room, making faces, while Ron was next to him, secretly giving him bunny ears, and Hermione had a mock look of, "Look at these animals, pathetic." and she was pointing at them "strictly." Those were the days.

And no matter how much Ron hated to admit it,

those days were over.