Chapter Four: Reply of the Lady
A/N: OMG!!! For the first time! I finished an ff!!!!! WOHOO!!! Ehem Anyways... well...just as promised! The FOURTH I repeat! The FOURTH and final chappie of my fan fiction is already here and it's a pretty long one too!!!! And oh! To those who had already read my story, be sure to read it again coz' there's been a lot of changes in all of the chapters...you know... corrections in the grammar and the sentences... O.o...more particularly, chapter three And by the way, you will notice in this chapter that the poem thingy is already omitted because in this chapter, they are now going to set things straight between them! And by the way, expect the unexpected from all the characters!
Disclaimer: ...they're not mine...üü
(Wohoo!!!! Harry Potter 3 would be out in the Philippines this 2nd of June!!!! Alright!!! I'm sooooooooooooo thrilled!!! Drool Ah...Dracoooo...drool ....Lol! Ü) Ehem back to business!
What will I do? What will I do? Hermione whined to herself as though trapped in some cage but tried to wear a blank face.
"Hermione? What is it?" Ron asked as he watches Hermione think.
"Well...I'm not really ready yet Ron." Hermione started.
Ron looked horrified.
"No...it's not that I'm already rejecting you—" Hermione said hurriedly as she looked at Ron with pity. "It's just that, you're moving so fast and that I don't really know what to do in this situations. To be honest Ron, all I ask from you is time...that's all."
"But why?" Ron asked blankly.
"Well, even I am already called by almost everybody as a Know-it –all here at school, there are still certain things that I must decide and think all over before saying it."
"Oh...so you're saying that you needed some time to think all over to the things that I said to you before you give your decision?" Ron said as though it just hit him and was catching on to what Hermione is saying.
"Yes!" Hermione said exasperated. "Boys!!" she thought, irritated.
Pause
Then all of a sudden, they heard a sound like a person sniggering.
"Ron...did you hear what I heard just a moment ago?" Hermione said looking a bit scared.
"Yeah...I think so..." Ron agreed as he looked around at the completely empty Common Room.
"Who are you? Show yourself!" Hermione warned as she pulled out her wand from her pocket.
"You know Hermione? Ron doesn't understand things all at once because you still need to bang it on his face" a voice from a corner said.
Ron and Hermione whipped around to see who was the owner of the voice, both red in the face and was clearly startled.
"HARRY JAMES POTTER!!! REMOVE THAT CLOAK AT ONCE!!!" Hermione half-shouted as she rose up from her seat while Ron followed the suit.
"HARRY!!" Ron said.
"Well...I forgot to get my wand that I regretfully left on my things here...then I noticed that Ron wasn't in his bed yet so I thought that he might be unto something... so to be able to not disturb him, I decided to put on my invisibility cloak." Harry shrugged as he pull off his invisibility cloak and turned out that he was listening to them from a nearby mahogany- made chair near to where the two sat.
"ARE YOU TRYING TO SCARE US OUT FROM OUR SKINS?!!!!!" Ron said as he rubbed his chest.
"I SWEAR HARRY THAT I'M GOING TO HEX YOU!!!" Hermione shrilled as she points her wand to Harry threatingly.
"Calm down Hermione!" Harry said as he bit back the grin that was threatening to show.
"Then explain to us why you seem to have heard our whole conversation?" Hermione said as she slowly sat on her chair.
"YEAH!" Ron agreed as he sat down too.
"Well...not actually the whole conversation...to tell you the truth." Harry started as he face the two. "When I already got my wand, I noticed that you were crying" He looked to Hermione. "So, I thought there was something that Ron said to you that might had made you upset...so I stayed a while to know what's the problem." Harry explained.
"Oh..."
"And then I was so confused why you had cried after hugging Ron." Harry continued.
"Yeah! I noticed that too... and by the way Harry, don't forget that I heard what you said a while ago before you removed your cloak!" Ron said raising an eyebrow at Harry.
"Sorry mate! But that's true you know..." Harry grinned.
"Yeah... I know!" Hermione agreed.
"Hey!" Ron pouted.
Harry and Hermione looked at each other and then turned away laughing their lung out.
"Anyways—"Harry said wiping some tears out of his eye from laughing, "back to what we were talking about... could you explain why you cried after hugging Ron?"
"Ah..." Hermione started, rampaging her mind for some excuse so that they would not know what she really feel for Ron. "Well...I just noticed how...er...weird...yeah that's it! I just noticed how weird he was acting lately that I thought...um...that he was somehow...er...very mad at me...but after he told me everything...well...I was just so happy that he wasn't mad at me at all...that I couldn't help but to hug him." Hermione stammered.
"Oh..." Ron said looking a bit disappointed. I thought she had the same feelings for me too...Ron thought.
"I see..." Harry said though looking at Hermione in a way that suggests that he had SOME other things in mind.
"It's true!" Hermione said defensively.
"I wasn't saying anything!" Harry said thoughtfully.
After a moment of silence, Harry stood up from her chair.
"Where are you going?" Ron asked.
"To bed...I'm tired" Harry yawned.
"Really?" Hermione and Ron said both raising an eyebrow at Harry.
"Really!" Harry said looking quite taken aback.
"I think I'll go up to..." Hermione said after a while.
"Yeah...me too..." Ron said and then the trio said their goodnights and headed off to their dormitories.
Days after that night, Hermione and Ron was helping Harry in mastering all the spells that he might need in the task in the empty Transfiguration class one day.
"Very good Harry! You're already doing it!" Hermione said as Harry uses the shield charm.
"Yeah!" Ron cheered.
"Well...if it hadn't for you two, maybe I wasn't able to do it at all." Harry said.
"Well, that was nothing really! Anyways, we still need to eat breakfast you know...I think it's the end of the lesson for this morning." Hermione said as she levitates the things that they had been throwing at Harry.
"Yeah! I'm starving already!" Ron said.
"Are you coming Hermione?" Harry asked.
"No... you go on... I'll just catch up okay?" Hermione said as she puts everything at their proper places.
"Okay..."
Down in the Great Hall
"Um... Harry, don't you think Hermione is taking quite a while now?"
"Yeah..."
An idea struck Harry. "Hey, why don't you just find her? And bring some of these," Harry handed out some sandwiches, "so that if ever she was up to her 'spew' thing again, at least she could eat some breakfast."
"Yeah, sure...thanks Harry."
By the Marble Staircase
Gosh...I am so hungry already. And then my back hurts too! Stupid Peeves! He shouldn't have pulled the carpet under me! Hermione raged as she rubs her butt in pain.
"Hermione! There you are!" Ron called out across the Entrance Hall.
"Ron! What are you doing here?" Hermione said as she walks toward Ron.
"Well, I thought...well actually Harry and I thought that you had already headed off to our Common Room to bully yourself about the spe—I mean the S.P.E.W. again that I brought some sandwiches...so that...you could eat some..." Ron trailed off as a thought was dawning on him.
"Oh...that's nice of you..."
"By the way...um...would you like for a walk?" Ron asked hopefully.
"I'd love to" Hermione said.
"Great!" Ron said. At least no one could interrupt us...Ron said to himself.
As the two walks around the lake eating their sandwiches quietly, Hermione hadn't notice Ron looking at her as though she was only the thing that is surrounding him.
"Um... Ron, do you want to sit for a while?" Hermione suggested as she throws the last piece of her sandwich.
"Sure! I'll be glad to." Ron agreed while the Giant Squid's tentacles resurfaced to get the sandwich.
As the two sits under their usual tree, Ron brought up the subject about the night he had told Hermione his feelings for her.
"Oh...THAT!" Hermione said.
"So have you thought about it?" Ron asked.
"Well...honestly speaking? Yes..." Hermione said while she looks at Ron, blushing furiously.
"So what do you say about the things that I had told you?"
"Um...well..." Hermione stammered trying to choose her words carefully.
"Yes?" Ron asked, looking at Hermione thoughtfully in the eye that made Hermione wish to melt on the spot.
"Well... to tell you the truth? Well... actually, I really DO love you...and its been years since I felt something for you...though I was just afraid of rejection that I didn't even tried to show it to you openly but in only small ways possible..." Hermione admitted. "And remember in the Yule Ball? Well, I was really hurt when you kept on insisting that I like Krum that I lost my temper and got so mad at you that I almost told you what I really feel for you in our row in the common room."
She does love me! I can't believe it! She really does love me! Ron thought ecstatically to himself that she looked at Hermione more meaningfully and Hermione who, in turn, looked at him in a very passionate way.
Then after moments of looking at each other, Ron cupped Hermione's cheek gently and slowly he leaned forward to kiss Hermione, while Hermione in turn closed her eye as their lips met gently.
"I really love you Hermione..." Ron said.
"I love you too..." Hermione replied.
-(But no matter all these doubts:
-I believe that love is not a matter of reflex,
-time, space, differences:
-I take you for who you are
-and though outwardly
-you may think we're worlds apart,
-deep within your loving heart
-I know you believe-
-we are not so unlike
A/N: I know! I know... it was just a gentle ending...and that the poem was inserted in the end...hehehe...well...I hope you enjoyed it...and sorry for those people who thought that the kiss was quite not detailed because I never experienced it even though I'm already turning 17 next year...so I'm really sorry but then I just left it as simple as I can. Give out some reviews okay? Please? If you wanted a sequel...well...it's up to you! And thanks for reading my story! I really appreciate it! Maraming Salamat! Or in English, thank you!ü
A/N: OMG!!! For the first time! I finished an ff!!!!! WOHOO!!! Ehem Anyways... well...just as promised! The FOURTH I repeat! The FOURTH and final chappie of my fan fiction is already here and it's a pretty long one too!!!! And oh! To those who had already read my story, be sure to read it again coz' there's been a lot of changes in all of the chapters...you know... corrections in the grammar and the sentences... O.o...more particularly, chapter three And by the way, you will notice in this chapter that the poem thingy is already omitted because in this chapter, they are now going to set things straight between them! And by the way, expect the unexpected from all the characters!
Disclaimer: ...they're not mine...üü
(Wohoo!!!! Harry Potter 3 would be out in the Philippines this 2nd of June!!!! Alright!!! I'm sooooooooooooo thrilled!!! Drool Ah...Dracoooo...drool ....Lol! Ü) Ehem back to business!
What will I do? What will I do? Hermione whined to herself as though trapped in some cage but tried to wear a blank face.
"Hermione? What is it?" Ron asked as he watches Hermione think.
"Well...I'm not really ready yet Ron." Hermione started.
Ron looked horrified.
"No...it's not that I'm already rejecting you—" Hermione said hurriedly as she looked at Ron with pity. "It's just that, you're moving so fast and that I don't really know what to do in this situations. To be honest Ron, all I ask from you is time...that's all."
"But why?" Ron asked blankly.
"Well, even I am already called by almost everybody as a Know-it –all here at school, there are still certain things that I must decide and think all over before saying it."
"Oh...so you're saying that you needed some time to think all over to the things that I said to you before you give your decision?" Ron said as though it just hit him and was catching on to what Hermione is saying.
"Yes!" Hermione said exasperated. "Boys!!" she thought, irritated.
Pause
Then all of a sudden, they heard a sound like a person sniggering.
"Ron...did you hear what I heard just a moment ago?" Hermione said looking a bit scared.
"Yeah...I think so..." Ron agreed as he looked around at the completely empty Common Room.
"Who are you? Show yourself!" Hermione warned as she pulled out her wand from her pocket.
"You know Hermione? Ron doesn't understand things all at once because you still need to bang it on his face" a voice from a corner said.
Ron and Hermione whipped around to see who was the owner of the voice, both red in the face and was clearly startled.
"HARRY JAMES POTTER!!! REMOVE THAT CLOAK AT ONCE!!!" Hermione half-shouted as she rose up from her seat while Ron followed the suit.
"HARRY!!" Ron said.
"Well...I forgot to get my wand that I regretfully left on my things here...then I noticed that Ron wasn't in his bed yet so I thought that he might be unto something... so to be able to not disturb him, I decided to put on my invisibility cloak." Harry shrugged as he pull off his invisibility cloak and turned out that he was listening to them from a nearby mahogany- made chair near to where the two sat.
"ARE YOU TRYING TO SCARE US OUT FROM OUR SKINS?!!!!!" Ron said as he rubbed his chest.
"I SWEAR HARRY THAT I'M GOING TO HEX YOU!!!" Hermione shrilled as she points her wand to Harry threatingly.
"Calm down Hermione!" Harry said as he bit back the grin that was threatening to show.
"Then explain to us why you seem to have heard our whole conversation?" Hermione said as she slowly sat on her chair.
"YEAH!" Ron agreed as he sat down too.
"Well...not actually the whole conversation...to tell you the truth." Harry started as he face the two. "When I already got my wand, I noticed that you were crying" He looked to Hermione. "So, I thought there was something that Ron said to you that might had made you upset...so I stayed a while to know what's the problem." Harry explained.
"Oh..."
"And then I was so confused why you had cried after hugging Ron." Harry continued.
"Yeah! I noticed that too... and by the way Harry, don't forget that I heard what you said a while ago before you removed your cloak!" Ron said raising an eyebrow at Harry.
"Sorry mate! But that's true you know..." Harry grinned.
"Yeah... I know!" Hermione agreed.
"Hey!" Ron pouted.
Harry and Hermione looked at each other and then turned away laughing their lung out.
"Anyways—"Harry said wiping some tears out of his eye from laughing, "back to what we were talking about... could you explain why you cried after hugging Ron?"
"Ah..." Hermione started, rampaging her mind for some excuse so that they would not know what she really feel for Ron. "Well...I just noticed how...er...weird...yeah that's it! I just noticed how weird he was acting lately that I thought...um...that he was somehow...er...very mad at me...but after he told me everything...well...I was just so happy that he wasn't mad at me at all...that I couldn't help but to hug him." Hermione stammered.
"Oh..." Ron said looking a bit disappointed. I thought she had the same feelings for me too...Ron thought.
"I see..." Harry said though looking at Hermione in a way that suggests that he had SOME other things in mind.
"It's true!" Hermione said defensively.
"I wasn't saying anything!" Harry said thoughtfully.
After a moment of silence, Harry stood up from her chair.
"Where are you going?" Ron asked.
"To bed...I'm tired" Harry yawned.
"Really?" Hermione and Ron said both raising an eyebrow at Harry.
"Really!" Harry said looking quite taken aback.
"I think I'll go up to..." Hermione said after a while.
"Yeah...me too..." Ron said and then the trio said their goodnights and headed off to their dormitories.
Days after that night, Hermione and Ron was helping Harry in mastering all the spells that he might need in the task in the empty Transfiguration class one day.
"Very good Harry! You're already doing it!" Hermione said as Harry uses the shield charm.
"Yeah!" Ron cheered.
"Well...if it hadn't for you two, maybe I wasn't able to do it at all." Harry said.
"Well, that was nothing really! Anyways, we still need to eat breakfast you know...I think it's the end of the lesson for this morning." Hermione said as she levitates the things that they had been throwing at Harry.
"Yeah! I'm starving already!" Ron said.
"Are you coming Hermione?" Harry asked.
"No... you go on... I'll just catch up okay?" Hermione said as she puts everything at their proper places.
"Okay..."
Down in the Great Hall
"Um... Harry, don't you think Hermione is taking quite a while now?"
"Yeah..."
An idea struck Harry. "Hey, why don't you just find her? And bring some of these," Harry handed out some sandwiches, "so that if ever she was up to her 'spew' thing again, at least she could eat some breakfast."
"Yeah, sure...thanks Harry."
By the Marble Staircase
Gosh...I am so hungry already. And then my back hurts too! Stupid Peeves! He shouldn't have pulled the carpet under me! Hermione raged as she rubs her butt in pain.
"Hermione! There you are!" Ron called out across the Entrance Hall.
"Ron! What are you doing here?" Hermione said as she walks toward Ron.
"Well, I thought...well actually Harry and I thought that you had already headed off to our Common Room to bully yourself about the spe—I mean the S.P.E.W. again that I brought some sandwiches...so that...you could eat some..." Ron trailed off as a thought was dawning on him.
"Oh...that's nice of you..."
"By the way...um...would you like for a walk?" Ron asked hopefully.
"I'd love to" Hermione said.
"Great!" Ron said. At least no one could interrupt us...Ron said to himself.
As the two walks around the lake eating their sandwiches quietly, Hermione hadn't notice Ron looking at her as though she was only the thing that is surrounding him.
"Um... Ron, do you want to sit for a while?" Hermione suggested as she throws the last piece of her sandwich.
"Sure! I'll be glad to." Ron agreed while the Giant Squid's tentacles resurfaced to get the sandwich.
As the two sits under their usual tree, Ron brought up the subject about the night he had told Hermione his feelings for her.
"Oh...THAT!" Hermione said.
"So have you thought about it?" Ron asked.
"Well...honestly speaking? Yes..." Hermione said while she looks at Ron, blushing furiously.
"So what do you say about the things that I had told you?"
"Um...well..." Hermione stammered trying to choose her words carefully.
"Yes?" Ron asked, looking at Hermione thoughtfully in the eye that made Hermione wish to melt on the spot.
"Well... to tell you the truth? Well... actually, I really DO love you...and its been years since I felt something for you...though I was just afraid of rejection that I didn't even tried to show it to you openly but in only small ways possible..." Hermione admitted. "And remember in the Yule Ball? Well, I was really hurt when you kept on insisting that I like Krum that I lost my temper and got so mad at you that I almost told you what I really feel for you in our row in the common room."
She does love me! I can't believe it! She really does love me! Ron thought ecstatically to himself that she looked at Hermione more meaningfully and Hermione who, in turn, looked at him in a very passionate way.
Then after moments of looking at each other, Ron cupped Hermione's cheek gently and slowly he leaned forward to kiss Hermione, while Hermione in turn closed her eye as their lips met gently.
"I really love you Hermione..." Ron said.
"I love you too..." Hermione replied.
-(But no matter all these doubts:
-I believe that love is not a matter of reflex,
-time, space, differences:
-I take you for who you are
-and though outwardly
-you may think we're worlds apart,
-deep within your loving heart
-I know you believe-
-we are not so unlike
A/N: I know! I know... it was just a gentle ending...and that the poem was inserted in the end...hehehe...well...I hope you enjoyed it...and sorry for those people who thought that the kiss was quite not detailed because I never experienced it even though I'm already turning 17 next year...so I'm really sorry but then I just left it as simple as I can. Give out some reviews okay? Please? If you wanted a sequel...well...it's up to you! And thanks for reading my story! I really appreciate it! Maraming Salamat! Or in English, thank you!ü