Okay, so I'm back! Aren't you happy? I'm totally feeling better after my trip to GA. Hope you guys like this Chapter, you didn't think I'd keep the Golden Trio apart for long, did you? Of course not!
Oh, HOW DARE YOU THINK I OWN HP!!! (Shamed)
Just Friends? :: Chapter seventeen – Hermione
She ran after Ron, shaken that he had gotten so angry.
"Please, calm down." She pleaded, the fire in his eyes was a different one than the one she was used to.
"Mione, Harry knows how I feel about my sister. I'm very protective; I have to be." He ran a hand through his already messed hair, "Since Fred and George aren't here to be." He added quietly. He sat down in the abandoned Common Room.
"Ginny can take care of herself, you know that. I think Harry will be good for her, not to mention the influence she'll have on him."
"I know." Ron said, looking intensely into her eyes. She loved when his crystal blue eyes met her hazel ones.
"Hermione?" Ron's voice snapped her from her daydream.
"Yes?"
"Why?"
"Why what?"
"Why is it that you're so sure Harry is good for her?" he whispered.
"I know something good when I see it."
"Really?"
"I am dating you aren't I?" His ears turned crimson, as they often did when she told him how much she thought of him. She snuggled into him, he played with her hair. This was what she liked, really liked, just being with Ron. She wished she could stay wrapped up in Ron's arms forever, but she knew should couldn't.
xXx
Harry and Ron were still not speaking, even after two weeks. It was driving her mad.
"Please! Just talk to Ron!" She was begging him now, she had been at it for nearly and hour.
"If he's leave Gin alone..." He trailed off. He wanted someone to be with so badly, that was evident.
"He's her brother, Harry. You know that's not going to happen."
"Well, I'm not apologizing."
"Me and Ron fighting is one thing, but you and Ron?""
"Oh please, I don't need this."
"Harry please! It's driving me mad!"
"Sorry, but he's gone too far."
"I know, I just-"
"I know. It's just lonely now that you two have finally gotten together. I mean, I'm happy for you guys, because I see the way he looks at you. I've never seen him look at anyone like that. I see how you look at him, and how happy he makes you. I know love when I see it, and you two are it. It's just you two are always together, all the time, alone."
Hermione looked down at the floor, "I know. I'm sorry."
xXx
Ron and Harry had started to speak again. It was such a relief to Hermione. Harry didn't seem so lonely now that Ron had started to make time for him.
"Hermione!" Ginny said, bouncing on Hermione's bed.
"Yes?"
"Ron seems okay with the idea of me and Harry!"
"That's great!"
"So how are you and my prat of a brother doing?"
"Just fine."
"Really?" You two haven't spent much time alone lately, have you?"
"No, we haven't. I miss it."
"I say that you go to the Astronomy Tower later tonight."
"Why?" She asked, puzzled.
"Just do it."
"I dunno..." She had a feeling Ron was behind this. It was sweet.
"Trust me."
"Okay."