"Wake up, sleepyhead." Kitty opened her eyes lazily to find Ron leaning over her. She smiled.
"Hey," she murmered groggily. "What time is it?"
"Time to get up," Ron answered. "It's our last day here, remember?"
Kitty sighed. "Oh, yeah, I forgot about that."
Ron gasped, pretending to be shocked. "How could you forget?" he stuttered.
Kitty laughed. "Well, with all of yesterday's events, I can't think of anything else," she smiled, winking.
Ron grinned and plopped down on the bed next to Kitty. She cuddled up in his arms and they lay there for a few moments, with Ron stroking Kitty's hair.
"I love you," Kitty whispered.
"I love you too," Ron whispered back, kissing Kitty's hair. Suddenly, the door opened and in pranced Hermione, looking disguisted at the sight of them.
"Harry said to meet him in the common room in 15 minutes," she spat, then pranced back out. Ron and Kitty looked at each other for a moment, then burst out laughing. After they calmed down, both of them got up and went to get themselves ready for their final day at Hogwarts.
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Twenty minutes later, Kitty, Ron, Harry, and Hermione were standing in the common room. They were the last ones there, as everyone else was already downstairs saying their goodbyes and taking pictures. Ron and Kitty were holding hands, looking at each other uncomfortably, as Hermione was giving them her usual stares. It was Harry who broke the silence.
"Congratulations you two," Harry said. "I hear you guys are engaged." Of course, Harry knew this already. He had been the first one Ron had told. Hermione, however, was unaware of the circumstances.
"You--you are?" she stuttered. "Since when?"
"Since last night," Kitty beamed.
"How can that be? Last night I saw you with Draco!" Hermione accused.
"We were saying our goodbyes," Kitty rolled her eyes.
"But you...you kissed him!" Hermione screamed. There was a short moment of silence as Ron gave Kitty a confused look. Kitty took a deep breath.
"He--he gave me a necklace. I kissed him, yes, but it was brotherly," Kitty lied.
"Brotherly my ass," Hermione growled. Harry cleared his throat.
"Ron, Kitty, go on down to the Great Hall. We'll be down in a sec. I have to talk to Hermione ALONE," Harry said. Ron shrugged, but he and Kitty did like Harry asked. Kitty had a feeling that Hermione wasn't going to be very happy with what Harry was going to say to her, but she kept her mouth shut. When she and Ron reached the Great Hall, the first person to greet them was Seamus. He spun Kitty around, then gave Ron a hearty slap on the back.
"Congratulations!" he exclaimed after Kitty and Ron had stopped laughing. "I'm so happy for you two!"
"Seamus, you seem to be more excited about this whole thing more than we are," Ron said. The three of them laughed.
"Well, I was kinda thinking about asking Lavender the same thing," Seamus said.
"Go for it!" Kitty and Ron said in unison.
"Hah, she'll think I'm joking," Seamus laughed nervously. "But what the hell, I'll amuse myself. Oi, Lavender!" he called out.
"Yes, Seamie?" she walked over.
"Will you marry me?"
"Oh, stop kidding with that kind of stuff," she giggled, but then stopped. "Oh, were you serious?"
"See?" he said to Ron. "I told you."
"Aw, I'm kidding too!" Lavender cooed. "I'd love to," she replied, wrapping her arms around Seamus's waist. "We could even have a double wedding with Kitty and Ron!"
"Good idea!" Kitty exclaimed.
"Yay!" Seamus cried out. "I'm engaged!"
Lavender laughed. "Although I do have to admit...Ron's proposal was a little more romantic," she teased.
"What??" Seamus cried out.
"KIDDING!" Lavender comforted him. "Just kidding! Your proposal was very sexy."
"Hah, I knew it! Take that Ron!"
Lavender sighed and rolled her eyes. "I still think you got a more romantic proposal," she whispered to Kitty, and Kitty laughed. "Congrats!" she said audibly to Ron and Kitty.
"Thanks," Kitty said. "You too!"
Lavender smiled, then opened her mouth as to say something, but before she got that chance, Ron yelled out, "Hey Harry, what's wrong?"
The group turned and looked toward the door. Kitty noticed that Harry was holding his hand over his eye. Ron rushed over to his best friend with Kitty, Lavender, and Seamus close behind him. Kitty gently pulled Harry's hand away from his face to expose a swollen, black eye. Kitty gasped.
"Oh my gosh! Who did that to you?" she asked.
"My ex-girlfriend," came the reply.
"You broke up with Hermione?" Ron asked incredilously. "No way!"
"No, I dumped him," Hermione burst in. "Especially after the way he talked to me in the common room. He had no right to treat me that way because I have only been the nicest, most caring..."
"Oh my god, shut up!" Kitty burst out. "You have not been nice OR caring!"
Hermione looked at her. "You should be the one to talk you two-tim..."
SMACK. Hermione instantly shut up and brought a hand up to her cheek. Then she turned to give Kitty an evil stare, but Kitty was as shocked as Hermione was. Hermione slowly turned to look at the person that slapped her.
"I'm so sick of you tormenting Harry and ragging on Kitty!" Ron exclaimed.
"You--you slapped me!" Hermione stuttered.
"No shit, Sherlock," Ron rolled his eyes. (A/N: See Amanda? Ron CAN be sarcastic :-P lol)
"But--but we're supposed to be best friends!" Hermione whimpered, close to tears.
"The Hermione I was best friends with was sweet and caring, unlike you!" Ron burst out.
Hermione stared at him got a moment, then turned to Lavender and Seamus. She opened her mouth as to say something, but closed it again seeing the cold looks the two gave her. Her lip quivered for a moment, then she burst into tears. With her hands over her face, Hermione ran out of the Great Hall. A few people turned and looked at her, but most didn't draw their attention away from their conversations.
Kitty turned back to Harry. "So what happened? What did you say to her?"
"Well after you guys left, I told her off for always getting on your case. I said that she had no right insulting you like that because you were ten times a better person than she was." Harry looked down at his feet, slightly blushing. "I told her it was over and then she kinda punched me and screamed, 'How dare you? You can't break up with me!" I just shook my head and left."
"Wow Harry," Ron said. "I thought I was the only one that hated her."
"Naw, she's been getting on our nerves too," Lavender said, motioning to herself and Seamus.
"I guess it's time we all let her go," a quiet voice behind Kitty said.
The group turned, startled. "Draco!" Kitty exclaimed. "You scared us!"
Lavender and Seamus looked at Draco, then gave an excuse to leave. Ron squirmed at the presence of the Slytherin, but Kitty and Harry smiled at him. Draco didn't smile back. Instead, he looked solemnly at Kitty and her smile flickered.
"Kitty, I really need to talk to you," Draco said seriously. "Sorry Ron, I hope you don't mind if I steal your girl for a few minutes."
"Sure, go right ahead," Ron whispered. Kitty's smile faded at the look on Draco's face as she followed him out of the Great Hall. They soon got to a staircase and Kitty paused.
"Draco, where are we going?" she asked cautiously.
"You'll see," he replied.
Kitty frowned. "Sweety, you know I'm engaged, right?"
Draco sighed. "Yes, I was there...I mean, I heard...word travels fast," he quickly covered up.
"Ok," she frowned again as she saw a hint of pain in his eyes, but it quickly vanished.
They continued up the stairs until Draco stopped in front of a too familiar door. It was the abandoned classroom on the second floor. Draco opened the door.
"After you," he said.
Kitty walked in and looked around. The walls looked so bare and empty compared to the usual decorations that covered them put up by Draco to make Kitty smile. Draco walked in after her and closed the door.
"You can sit if you want," Draco said nonchalantly.
"It's ok, I'll stand. What did you want to tell me?"
Draco took a deep breath. 'It's going to be ok. This is for the best, even if it will ve hard and painful for both of us' he told himself. "Kitty," he started. "I..." he trailed off. 'I can't do this,' he thought. Draco sighed. "I--I have never...I never loved...you," he forced out. His eyes were focusing on the floor.
Kitty froze. "Wh--what?" she asked disbelievingly.
Draco gulped. "I'm sorry. I told you I did only to help me get my mind off of my true love."
Kitty sat there speechless. She felt the tears rising. "And pray tell, who is your true love?" she finally whispered.
"I love..." Draco scanned his mind for a name and it landed on the last person he would even consider falling in love with. "Hermione."
Kitty felt like her stomach had just dropped twenty stories. She couldn't stop the tears anymore. She shook her head softly. "No..." she whispered.
Draco turned away. Kitty looked at him and a new emotion overtook her: uncontrollable anger.
"How could you?!" she burst out. "How could you do this to me?!"
Draco didn't reply. He didn't take his focus off of the wall.
Kitty was trembling with rage. "No wonder you love Hermione. You and her deserve each other!" she yelled and ran out of the room.
Draco turned and looked after her. As she turned the corner, he sunk against the wall and slid to the floor. He leaned his head against the wall and whispered, "I'm addicted to you, heartbreaker..." He sat silently for a moment, then his head fell into his hands and silent tears began to fall.
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Kitty didn't stop running until she reached the bathroom. She stopped in front of a mirror and leaned herself on a sink. She stood there breathing heavily for a few minutes as the tears continued to fall, then looked up into her reflection. Her face was red and tearstrained, and her eyes were puffy from crying. She splashed her face with water, and within a few minutes, she managed to calm down. 'I should get back,' she thought. 'The others will start to worry.' She looked at her reflection again and groaned. "I can't go back looking like this," she moaned.
"You're a witch, aren't you darling?" the mirror asked her.
"Oh yeah," she murmered. "Thanks." She took out her wand and muttered, "Facio clenarium", and her face returned to its original, nonpuffy state. She sighed and fixed her hair with another flick of her wand. With one last glance in the mirror, she turned and headed back to the Hall. When she got there, she was instantly greeted by Ron and Harry.
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A/N: Here's chapter 9. I know I said I would only have one more chapter, but I lied. The last chapter turned out to be so long that I had to break it up into 2, so ch 10 is the final chapter. I hope to type it all up tomorrow before I leave for Hawaii on Saturday. Reviews are greatly appreciated! Luv ya all!
"Hey," she murmered groggily. "What time is it?"
"Time to get up," Ron answered. "It's our last day here, remember?"
Kitty sighed. "Oh, yeah, I forgot about that."
Ron gasped, pretending to be shocked. "How could you forget?" he stuttered.
Kitty laughed. "Well, with all of yesterday's events, I can't think of anything else," she smiled, winking.
Ron grinned and plopped down on the bed next to Kitty. She cuddled up in his arms and they lay there for a few moments, with Ron stroking Kitty's hair.
"I love you," Kitty whispered.
"I love you too," Ron whispered back, kissing Kitty's hair. Suddenly, the door opened and in pranced Hermione, looking disguisted at the sight of them.
"Harry said to meet him in the common room in 15 minutes," she spat, then pranced back out. Ron and Kitty looked at each other for a moment, then burst out laughing. After they calmed down, both of them got up and went to get themselves ready for their final day at Hogwarts.
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Twenty minutes later, Kitty, Ron, Harry, and Hermione were standing in the common room. They were the last ones there, as everyone else was already downstairs saying their goodbyes and taking pictures. Ron and Kitty were holding hands, looking at each other uncomfortably, as Hermione was giving them her usual stares. It was Harry who broke the silence.
"Congratulations you two," Harry said. "I hear you guys are engaged." Of course, Harry knew this already. He had been the first one Ron had told. Hermione, however, was unaware of the circumstances.
"You--you are?" she stuttered. "Since when?"
"Since last night," Kitty beamed.
"How can that be? Last night I saw you with Draco!" Hermione accused.
"We were saying our goodbyes," Kitty rolled her eyes.
"But you...you kissed him!" Hermione screamed. There was a short moment of silence as Ron gave Kitty a confused look. Kitty took a deep breath.
"He--he gave me a necklace. I kissed him, yes, but it was brotherly," Kitty lied.
"Brotherly my ass," Hermione growled. Harry cleared his throat.
"Ron, Kitty, go on down to the Great Hall. We'll be down in a sec. I have to talk to Hermione ALONE," Harry said. Ron shrugged, but he and Kitty did like Harry asked. Kitty had a feeling that Hermione wasn't going to be very happy with what Harry was going to say to her, but she kept her mouth shut. When she and Ron reached the Great Hall, the first person to greet them was Seamus. He spun Kitty around, then gave Ron a hearty slap on the back.
"Congratulations!" he exclaimed after Kitty and Ron had stopped laughing. "I'm so happy for you two!"
"Seamus, you seem to be more excited about this whole thing more than we are," Ron said. The three of them laughed.
"Well, I was kinda thinking about asking Lavender the same thing," Seamus said.
"Go for it!" Kitty and Ron said in unison.
"Hah, she'll think I'm joking," Seamus laughed nervously. "But what the hell, I'll amuse myself. Oi, Lavender!" he called out.
"Yes, Seamie?" she walked over.
"Will you marry me?"
"Oh, stop kidding with that kind of stuff," she giggled, but then stopped. "Oh, were you serious?"
"See?" he said to Ron. "I told you."
"Aw, I'm kidding too!" Lavender cooed. "I'd love to," she replied, wrapping her arms around Seamus's waist. "We could even have a double wedding with Kitty and Ron!"
"Good idea!" Kitty exclaimed.
"Yay!" Seamus cried out. "I'm engaged!"
Lavender laughed. "Although I do have to admit...Ron's proposal was a little more romantic," she teased.
"What??" Seamus cried out.
"KIDDING!" Lavender comforted him. "Just kidding! Your proposal was very sexy."
"Hah, I knew it! Take that Ron!"
Lavender sighed and rolled her eyes. "I still think you got a more romantic proposal," she whispered to Kitty, and Kitty laughed. "Congrats!" she said audibly to Ron and Kitty.
"Thanks," Kitty said. "You too!"
Lavender smiled, then opened her mouth as to say something, but before she got that chance, Ron yelled out, "Hey Harry, what's wrong?"
The group turned and looked toward the door. Kitty noticed that Harry was holding his hand over his eye. Ron rushed over to his best friend with Kitty, Lavender, and Seamus close behind him. Kitty gently pulled Harry's hand away from his face to expose a swollen, black eye. Kitty gasped.
"Oh my gosh! Who did that to you?" she asked.
"My ex-girlfriend," came the reply.
"You broke up with Hermione?" Ron asked incredilously. "No way!"
"No, I dumped him," Hermione burst in. "Especially after the way he talked to me in the common room. He had no right to treat me that way because I have only been the nicest, most caring..."
"Oh my god, shut up!" Kitty burst out. "You have not been nice OR caring!"
Hermione looked at her. "You should be the one to talk you two-tim..."
SMACK. Hermione instantly shut up and brought a hand up to her cheek. Then she turned to give Kitty an evil stare, but Kitty was as shocked as Hermione was. Hermione slowly turned to look at the person that slapped her.
"I'm so sick of you tormenting Harry and ragging on Kitty!" Ron exclaimed.
"You--you slapped me!" Hermione stuttered.
"No shit, Sherlock," Ron rolled his eyes. (A/N: See Amanda? Ron CAN be sarcastic :-P lol)
"But--but we're supposed to be best friends!" Hermione whimpered, close to tears.
"The Hermione I was best friends with was sweet and caring, unlike you!" Ron burst out.
Hermione stared at him got a moment, then turned to Lavender and Seamus. She opened her mouth as to say something, but closed it again seeing the cold looks the two gave her. Her lip quivered for a moment, then she burst into tears. With her hands over her face, Hermione ran out of the Great Hall. A few people turned and looked at her, but most didn't draw their attention away from their conversations.
Kitty turned back to Harry. "So what happened? What did you say to her?"
"Well after you guys left, I told her off for always getting on your case. I said that she had no right insulting you like that because you were ten times a better person than she was." Harry looked down at his feet, slightly blushing. "I told her it was over and then she kinda punched me and screamed, 'How dare you? You can't break up with me!" I just shook my head and left."
"Wow Harry," Ron said. "I thought I was the only one that hated her."
"Naw, she's been getting on our nerves too," Lavender said, motioning to herself and Seamus.
"I guess it's time we all let her go," a quiet voice behind Kitty said.
The group turned, startled. "Draco!" Kitty exclaimed. "You scared us!"
Lavender and Seamus looked at Draco, then gave an excuse to leave. Ron squirmed at the presence of the Slytherin, but Kitty and Harry smiled at him. Draco didn't smile back. Instead, he looked solemnly at Kitty and her smile flickered.
"Kitty, I really need to talk to you," Draco said seriously. "Sorry Ron, I hope you don't mind if I steal your girl for a few minutes."
"Sure, go right ahead," Ron whispered. Kitty's smile faded at the look on Draco's face as she followed him out of the Great Hall. They soon got to a staircase and Kitty paused.
"Draco, where are we going?" she asked cautiously.
"You'll see," he replied.
Kitty frowned. "Sweety, you know I'm engaged, right?"
Draco sighed. "Yes, I was there...I mean, I heard...word travels fast," he quickly covered up.
"Ok," she frowned again as she saw a hint of pain in his eyes, but it quickly vanished.
They continued up the stairs until Draco stopped in front of a too familiar door. It was the abandoned classroom on the second floor. Draco opened the door.
"After you," he said.
Kitty walked in and looked around. The walls looked so bare and empty compared to the usual decorations that covered them put up by Draco to make Kitty smile. Draco walked in after her and closed the door.
"You can sit if you want," Draco said nonchalantly.
"It's ok, I'll stand. What did you want to tell me?"
Draco took a deep breath. 'It's going to be ok. This is for the best, even if it will ve hard and painful for both of us' he told himself. "Kitty," he started. "I..." he trailed off. 'I can't do this,' he thought. Draco sighed. "I--I have never...I never loved...you," he forced out. His eyes were focusing on the floor.
Kitty froze. "Wh--what?" she asked disbelievingly.
Draco gulped. "I'm sorry. I told you I did only to help me get my mind off of my true love."
Kitty sat there speechless. She felt the tears rising. "And pray tell, who is your true love?" she finally whispered.
"I love..." Draco scanned his mind for a name and it landed on the last person he would even consider falling in love with. "Hermione."
Kitty felt like her stomach had just dropped twenty stories. She couldn't stop the tears anymore. She shook her head softly. "No..." she whispered.
Draco turned away. Kitty looked at him and a new emotion overtook her: uncontrollable anger.
"How could you?!" she burst out. "How could you do this to me?!"
Draco didn't reply. He didn't take his focus off of the wall.
Kitty was trembling with rage. "No wonder you love Hermione. You and her deserve each other!" she yelled and ran out of the room.
Draco turned and looked after her. As she turned the corner, he sunk against the wall and slid to the floor. He leaned his head against the wall and whispered, "I'm addicted to you, heartbreaker..." He sat silently for a moment, then his head fell into his hands and silent tears began to fall.
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Kitty didn't stop running until she reached the bathroom. She stopped in front of a mirror and leaned herself on a sink. She stood there breathing heavily for a few minutes as the tears continued to fall, then looked up into her reflection. Her face was red and tearstrained, and her eyes were puffy from crying. She splashed her face with water, and within a few minutes, she managed to calm down. 'I should get back,' she thought. 'The others will start to worry.' She looked at her reflection again and groaned. "I can't go back looking like this," she moaned.
"You're a witch, aren't you darling?" the mirror asked her.
"Oh yeah," she murmered. "Thanks." She took out her wand and muttered, "Facio clenarium", and her face returned to its original, nonpuffy state. She sighed and fixed her hair with another flick of her wand. With one last glance in the mirror, she turned and headed back to the Hall. When she got there, she was instantly greeted by Ron and Harry.
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A/N: Here's chapter 9. I know I said I would only have one more chapter, but I lied. The last chapter turned out to be so long that I had to break it up into 2, so ch 10 is the final chapter. I hope to type it all up tomorrow before I leave for Hawaii on Saturday. Reviews are greatly appreciated! Luv ya all!