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"Sorry," He said in this high voice. Looking just above my eyes.

~Never knew I could feel like this
Like I've never seen the sky before
I want to vanish inside your kiss~ Sang from my wand, which was now currently laying
on the couch, we had seconds before been sitting on.

"What kind of song IS this Hermione?" He asked in an amused way. I blushed embarrassedly. Why had I played a LOVE song? I am really very stupid sometimes I swear.

"It was just the first song that came to mind," I said defensively. His eyebrows raised in that way that they always do when he's thinking something inappropriate, which, consequently, is probably completely appropriate to what was going on in my mind at that second.

I showed him how to do the steps and he followed gingerly as if afraid that I was leading him into some sort of trap. We continued through the steps for a while. It was hard and not very enjoyable I'll say, because for one, I've never been that close to Ron before, not counting that time he tackled me on the couch, and this was a totally different mood. Then we were laughing and joking, but this... This was different. Not to mention that I kept hearing an awful voice inside my head telling me that he's only here with you because he couldn't get a better date.

~Come what may
Come what may
I will love you until my dying day~

"So, why exactly did THIS song come to mind?" Ron asked amusedly. I felt my face heat up.

"Not because of whatever your thinking in that twisted mind of yours," I said looking up at him sharply. He grinned at me in a way that said "Liar, you know you want me!" which was exactly what that little annoying voice in my head said too.

"Hey, a guy can dream," He joked I ducked my head so he wouldn't see how red my face was. Even when he is joking he gets to me. Damn.

"Actually, I just had it stuck in my head," I mumbled into the navy blue material of his dress robes, that's how close we were!

"Oh, I see, thinking about that special someone and kept humming little love songs 'till one got stuck there?" It was strange the way he said it, like it was meant to be a joke but he couldn't quite say it without sounding kinda... Angry.

"Which special someone might that be?" I asked.

"Oh come on Hermione, there's got to be some guy you have your eye on, that's what fifteen year-old girls DO isn't it?" He asked that bitterness still there. It annoyed me, that bitterness in his voice, like he was prosecuting me.

"Oh so you finally figured out that I'm a girl?" I asked matching the bitterness in his tone. He pushed me back away from him and stared at me with this crazy look on his face, like he was insanely mad but didn't want me to know.


~Storm clouds may gather
And stars may collide
But I love you until the end of time~
"Is that some sort of sick joke?" He asked through clenched teeth.

"Does it seem funny to you?" I muttered sharply. He let go of my arms turning and pacing around in a circle quickly before coming back face to face with me.

"So that's what this was all about then?" He asked his voice and face serious now.

"What?" I shouted "What are you talking about Ron? That's what, what is all about?"

"Don't play dumb with me Hermione, I've figured it out, I've figured out your stupid hidden messages!" Ron shouted grinning in that insane way again.

"What hidden messages Ron? what are you talking about?!?"

"Forgotten now have we? Now that I've figured out your little mind games, you decide to deny them? TYPICAL! That's just too BLOODY typical!" He was beginning to sound a bit hysterical and it was getting tiring, especially since I didn't understand what he was talking about.

"Don't curse," I murmured on impulse. He glared at me.

"So I'm right then, just admit it, you wanted me to ask you to the ball so that you could prove you're a girl, so you could get me all... aroused-"
I couldn't believe he said that. AROUSED? I hate to say it, I really do but my eyes instinctively looked low, before I realized that through thick robes... there was nothing visible...

"-Just to laugh in my face and tell me you never liked me like that anyways, and that I'm just a stupid boy!" I gawked at him.

"That's not true!" I shouted.

"Come on Hermione, stop denying it! First the skanky robes, and then pretending to be sick so we would have to stay up here all alone... pressed up against... each other..."

"I didn't pretend anything," I said trying to sound angry, but the end of 'anything' came out as a sob.

"You were just using me! Just to prove how stupid I am! Just to prove that even if you don't ALWAYS look like one you can be as much of a slut as Lavender and Parvati! Well I didn't fall for it Hermione, I didn't this time!"

"But Ron-" I whimpered breathing in that hard gasping way you do just before you start crying.

"I didn't even want to go with you! I only asked because Harry PAYED me to do it!" He glared at me in a malicious and triumphant way.

Harry PAYED him to do it. Payed him. He was BRIBED to ask me. He really thinks I'm a... Slut.

I ran up to the girl's dormitory just as the last few lines of the song sang out from my wand:

~Oh, come what may, come what may
I will love you, I will love you
Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place~

I hate crying, I really do, it makes me feel like I've lost. I'm not really very competitive except when it comes to Ron.

He never even wanted to go with me.

Makes me wonder why I even started liking him in the first place. You can't like someone you constantly fight with. It doesn't work.

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Well, you can't really have a Ron/Hermione fic without at least ONE row, now can you? Yes Ron is stupid, but guys (no offense to any who are so generously reading my story, and even more generously reviewing... hint hint) normally are when it comes to stuff like this.... I should know. Man he really is sticking to that "hidden Message" thingy.

Anyways, thank you my reviewers! If you have nothing better to do then checking out my other fics is a good idea! :) I've got like.... Five, no six.... I dunno, I've got a few others!