Because You're Mine

By: Tatortot

Chapter Three

The Next Morning

'Disclaimer--dont own HP

A/N-- Thanks for my reviews! I'll be looking forward for more!!! =D

"RON! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?!"

Immediately, Ron jerked awake, looking around for who was yelling. When he saw Harry standing over his bed, he opened his eyes widely.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU AND HERMIONE DOING?"

Hermione was sleeping, her head on Ron's chest, and looked very cute. He didn't want to wake her, so he slid out from underneath her, and dragged Harry out into the Common Room.

"Harry--" he began, ready to explain.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS! YOU HIT ON HERMIONE ONLY FEET AWAY FROM ME! I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!" Harry repeated.

"Harry, shut up and let me explain."

Harry, rather reluctantly, shut his mouth. He folded his arms across his bare chest, he, too slept only in boxers, and flopped onto a nearby armchair.

"First of all, I did not HIT on Hermione. We just fell asleep. I would NEVER try to have sex with her in the dormitories. Expecially if we just started dating---"

"WHAT?!?" Harry yelled, jumping up from the chair.

"We just started going out last night---"

"WHAT?!?!"

"It just sort of happened. I mean, we were sitting in the common room talking, and the next--"

"WHAT?!?!?!?"

"Bloody hell," Ron mumbled. "HARRY JAMES POTTER SHUT THE HELL UP RIGHT NOW AND LET ME EXPLAIN!"

Harry shut his mouth again and flopped on the armchair.

"Okay. I'll tell you all that happened......"

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"And then I woke up and you were yelling at me."

Harry sighed. He felt awful for yelling at Ron. "Sorry I flipped out. I mean, it just comes as a shock when you wake up and find your two best friends sleeping in the same bed. And I've been kind of on-the-edge since...." Harry stopped there, his voice trailing off.

"Since Ginny and Neville started dating?"

"WHAT?!?!?!"

"OH! Nevermind," Ron said quickly. Why was he so thick! Ginny made him promise that he wouldn't tell Harry. She knew he'd get upset, but for five years she liked him, and he never did anything about it, and she needed to move on. He still fancied her, and almost as much as Ron fancied Hermione, so they knew he'd be upset. VERY upset.

"I was gonna say 'since Sirius died'! Oh my God, Oh my God, this-this isn't happening! It--it can't be happening?" Harry began pacing back and forth around the room, and talking to himself.

Ron quietly backed away and tip-toed up to the boy's dormitories. When he walked in, Hermione was sitting cross-legged on his bed. "'Morning, 'Mione," he sighed.

"Oh, 'Morning, Ron. Does--er--does Harry know?"

"Yeah. And he was completely cool about it.......no yelling.......no jealousy.....nutten," Ron said sarcastically as he plopped onto the bed next to Hermione.

"Hmmmm.... he knows about Ginny and Neville?"

"Now he does, yeah."

"Hmmmm."

"What?"

"Well," Hermione said matter-of-factly, "What would you do if you woke up and saw your two best friends sleeping--er---in the same bed, then you find out that your crush--who has a crush on you, as well----is dating someone? I mean, I'd feel awful. Excpecially if my Godfather died not too long ago.... I just---I think we should be careful for Harry."

"Where is this leading?"

"Er--well, you know I love you, but I think we should just stay friends until Harry cools down a bit."

"W--What? Are--are you breaking up with me? B-because you don't want to hurt Harry's feelings?"

"Well---er---no, but.....Oh for Heaven's sake, Ron. I love you... You know that, right?"

Ron nodded, so Hermione continued, "But, Harry is just---really sensitive right now, and he might be a bit jealous about me and you, and then the Ginny-and-Neville thing, I just think we should--er--"

"Break up?"

"Well---yeah. I didn't think about it last night, but Harry's really at a bad time right now, and the last thing he needs is his three closest friends to start dating people and leave him as a singled-out person and--er---"

"So you care more about Harry's feelings than mine?"

"No---"

"Well, then what? What are you trying to say other than the fact that you're breaking up with me?" Ron asked, his voice rising.

"I care about your feelings more than anyone else's, Ron, but I worry about Harry's actions. The next thing you know, Parvati Patil will slip into his bed, butt-naked, thinking it was Dean's. If something like that occured, Harry could do something very stupid."

"Right. I--I guess you're right, Hermione, you're always right."

"When did you all of the sudden call me 'Hermione'?"

"Well, 'Mione' was for when you were mine, and I loved you, but now, you're just Hermione. Always right.

Always looking up at the boy who lived, down at the poor, sidekick, ugly Ron. 'Cause that's what I'll always be: Just Ron." And with that, Ron stood up and walked out into the common room, where Harry was sitting on the couch, and out the Portrait Hole.

A/N: Bet you didn't expect that, did ya? Next Chapters:

~Hermione and Harry's talk... ^_^

~A night of Truth Or Dare, Spin The Bottle, and Seven Minutes In Heaven

~Hermione's diary entry

~Ron and Hermione's month w/o each other

~Christmas Ball

~AND MANY MORE!