Chapter Twelve: Finally!
The following day, Ron woke up a bit pale. He was rather pale and nervous through breakfast. Harry noticed how little of his food he ate.
"Good morning!" said Hermione, sitting down next to Ron. He nearly choked. Somehow he managed to mutter something that sounded vaguely like "Good morning," but Harry wasn't so sure. Ginny slid sweetly into the seat next to Harry and he smiled, turning to her. Smiling, but without looking at him, she scooted herself closer to him so their legs were touching. Then she looked up at him. "Hello," she said.
"Hello," answered Harry, "any more good dreams?"
She grinned evilly. "Unfortunately not," she said, "I can't be that lucky every night."
"Guess not." He had trouble not grinning when Ginny was around, it seemed.
The rest of the day was rather awkward, Ron fidgeting and muttering and not raising his eyes off the floor while Hermione stared at him suspiciously and Harry tried hard not to laugh. After their last class, Harry went up to the dormitory to get the invisibility cloak, then went to meet Ginny under the trees. Ron led Hermione to a secluded corner of the common room.
They sat and did their homework for a while, Ron being rather uncharacteristically quiet. When they had finished, Hermione looked at him questioningly. "Is something wrong…?" she asked. Ron quickly shook his head. "Oh, no…! nothing's wrong!"
"Then what's going on?"
Ron took a deep breath. "Hermione… I, I um…"
Hermione nodded encouragingly. "Hermione…"
He let out a very exasperated sigh. "Oh bugger all this," he muttered as he swiftly leaned towards her and pressed his lips to hers. Her eyes went wide for a moment, before she relaxed and kissed back.
Harry cleared his throat. Ginny giggled.
Ron and Hermione broke reluctantly apart and looked up at the two who had discovered them. Fred and George whooped with laughter (apparently, Harry and Ginny were not the only ones who had discovered them).
The twins positively glowed as their minds registered the possibilities of their new discovery. They turned to each other, grinning. Fortunately though for the four younger students, Angelina Johnson and Katie Bell waltzed over at just that moment.
Angelina swooped to Fred's side. "Don't give them too hard a time," she cooed to him, "they're so cute!"
"Yeah! They remind me of Oliver and Alicia when they first started!" squealed Katie, clutching at George's arm. Fred and George turned various shades of pink as the girls kissed their cheeks in a practiced manner, making it obvious to everyone that this was perhaps a normal occurrence.
"Well, we certainly can't tease them now," muttered George irritably. "Yeah, now they'll be teasing us!" added Fred, much to Angelina's cheer. She giggled evilly. "If you're lucky, they wont be the only ones," she said. Fred went even redder and George laughed until Katie gave him a sharp rise of her eyebrows. Then he shut up.
The four younger ones had been starring puzzledly at the four older ones, wondering what was going on. They had just begun understanding and seeing the humor in this situation, when the oldest Weasley at Hogwarts stepped onto the scene.
Percy surveyed the scene before him suspiciously and shouted "What is going on here?" sounding rather irritated. Everyone burst into laughter at Percy's red face as Fred planted a large smacking kiss on Angelina's mouth. Percy sputtered. "This is a public common room!" he shouted, "I will not tolerate such public indecency in my common room!" The rest of them followed Fred's example and one by one each couple kissed loudly. Percy stormed off to find Professor McGonagall to the sound of every student in the common room laughing.
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