Herminie set down the quill and smiled at her essay she just wrote for Smuggle Studies. A page more, but she had a feeling it would be fine. She plopped down on her bed and closed her eyes. She smiled to herself, knowing that her best friends wouldn't believe how she was dressed; light blue sweatpants with a white cami, her bushy hair in a ponytail. "Hermionie! Come down here.your father and I have a surprise for you!" She ran downstairs and shrieked with surprise. Perched on the kitchen counter was a beautiful golden brown owl with a dark red feather on its right wing. Hermionie was too happy for words. "I shall name you.Godric." She said with pure dignity. She gave her mom and dad a big hug and ran upstairs only to find Ron's owl, Errol on her bed. She untied the letter and offered him some of Crookshanks water. Her stomach gave a little jolt of nervousness when she realized the handwriting.

Dear Hermionie,
How's your summer going? Mine is going ok I guess. I guess the muggles have been treating Harry ok, no sign of torture in the letters he's been writing. Well.. I guess I will see you soon.

Ron

Hermionie smiled and started to write Ron back, but felt too tired. She took her hair out of the ponytail and turned off the lights. Crookshanks hopped on her bed and snuggled next to her. She closed her eyes, only hearing Crookshanks purring, Errol sipping water and pictures of Ron dancing in her head. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~**~**~* Ron paced back in forth in his room, trying to think of things to say to Hermionie. "Hey Hermionie, I really missed you over the summer." "Naw" He mumbled to himself. "Too direct, this needs to be perfect. This will be the year I have a girlfriend.and this girlfriend will be Hermionie."

Crack

Ron turned around surprised. Fred and George were standing in the middle of his room grinning madly. "Ron's loves her Hermionie. How sweet. Well, you know, miss Hermionie deserves a little surprise" They said in unison. Ron turned a violent shade of red to match his hair. "DON'T YOU DARE! I WILL MAKE YOUR LIVES MISERABLE." He threatened. The twins doubled over on laughter and headed towards the kitchen. Ron sighed. "I love her, I honestly do, but,I need to make this perfect, I need to make her like me." And with that he pounded his fist on his bed angrily. He heard muffled giggling and he turned towards the door and saw Ginny standing there laughing. Seeing how angry her brother was she ran out of the room screaming, "Mom says dinner is ready!" Ron sighed and headed to the kitchen, looking out the window, wondering if Hermionie would ever right him back.