Hey, thanks so much for all you guys that reviewed! I know this story isn't like Sweet Home Alabama, it originally was going to be but I had such great ideas that I had to follow my thoughts! :) Ron's point of view is an excellent idea Amy-amr2007!
Ron's eyes were red from crying and he suddenly stopped to embrace Hermione.
"Hermione, why did you take that ring off?" Ron asked, his throat thick from weeping. Hermione looked up at him with her big brown eyes and Ron couldn't help but feel all the anger he had felt go away. He truly loved Hermione and all he ever wanted for her was for him to make her happy. He now realized that the only way he could now do this, was to sign her divorce papers. The papers that would make their separation final, and she would be out of his life forever. Forever Ron thought, he couldn't think about that without feeling his heart beat faster in anguish and sadness. God, I love her. Ron's mind was racing with all the locked away emotions that he had set aside after Hermione's departure.
"I don't know why, Ron." Hermione finally answered. She looked as though she might begin to cry again so Ron put his hand up to her face to try and calm her. "Ron, I've said so many hateful things to you. Those things, you don't deserve." Hermione's eyes began to fill with tears. Ron dropped his hands from her and arose from his chair in a final decision. He had to sign those papers. He picked them off of the floor and glanced at them in contemplation. Hermione rose off her knees and sat down once again on the couch. She didn't trust her legs to stand.
Ron's hands shook as he looked over and reread the papers. He knew what he had to do, that was the reason she had come here. To break it off completely with him. Throughout these two years Ron had still held out hope that Hermione's anger would subside and she would come back from London and run into his arms and never leave him. He had wanted that child so badly, more than he wanted anything. Anything accept Hermione. Without her, he felt empty. Incomplete.
Hermione sat uneasily on the couch and she had an uncertain expression on her face. He wished he knew what was going through her head. Suddenly she broke the awkward silence and said tearfully,
"How come you never came after me, you know.... to London?" Ron felt his stomach do a flop and thought about the answer. But he said,
"You wanted me to come after you?" Hermione's cheeks were no longer pale, but a slight color burned on her face. Ron wondered what she was going to say as she broke the gaze from his eyes to the dusty rug on the floor.
"Of course I wanted you to come after me, Ron. I loved you, I was just stupid then."
"Loved? You no longer love me? You have fallen for that snobby fake jerk, Andy?"
"Don't call him Andy, Ronald! Let this not become another Vicky/Viktor Krum thing! You were jealous then, and ignorant!"
"Yes, I was jealous then and I'm jealous now! Hermione, Andy is not good for you! Do you guys even fight?" Ron had wanted to stir her up and he succeeded.
"Fight? Who wants to fight? Well, the answer to that is NO, we don't fight. Andrew and I get along great as a couple. I have never had an argument with him as long as I've known him!" Hermione stood up to meet Ron's gaze with an angry stare.
"Hermione, we both know that you have too much passion in you not to fight. Hell, you are uptight all the time you need a way to get out that frustration."
"Most of my frustration was caused by YOU!"
"Me? I have never done anything wrong!"
"Oh yes you have, you have done plenty wrong!" Hermione was now crimson from yelling. He always had this effect on her. Ron was pleased to get from all that sincere heart wrenching talk to something he could better relate to, fighting. Ron suddenly felt like he really needed some answers so he changed the course in conversation,
"Weren't you happy with me, living with me and being my wife I mean?"
"Ron, we weren't even married that long before I got pregnant."
"I know, I know. I just need to know if you were happy with me." Ron's ears went pink as he awkwardly looked at the floor. Hermione saw his embarrassment and was suddenly reminded of the first time he had ever asked her to go to Hogsmeade on the weekend with him.
"I was happy, Ron. You made me more happy than I could ever say. Its just..." Hermione stalled suddenly and Ron looked at her. After several minutes Hermione hadn't finished her sentence and Ron waited in agony for her reply. He sat down on the chair, finished his now cold tea and searched for a pen. He found one and then he took the cap off while he glanced at her tear-stained face. She really looked horrible. Her hair had become bushier from the stress and her face was red and white from all the mixed emotions he suspected she must have been suffering. Yeah, she looks horrible... but she's still beautiful, but she's going to be his now. Lets hope to God he'll make her happy.
"Are you positive Andrew will make you the happiest woman on Earth? If you're sure, I will sign these damn papers Hermione, I will. I'll do it for you. But if you aren't absolutely sure, if there's even the smallest doubt in your mind, just tell me. Hermione, is there a doubt?" Ron stood up face to face with her and touched her arm as he asked this question. Hermione's lip trembled as she answered pitifully,
"Yes."
