You Don't Love Me

Chapter 6

A/N: I'm having so much fun writing this! *skipping around maniacally* People like it! *stops skipping* PEOPLE LIKE IT! *amazed face* PEOPLE BLOODY LIKE IT!!!!!!!! *feints*

Disclaimer: Um*sweatdrop* Do I really have to say this? *disapproving nod from mother* *sigh* Ok, fineI am poor, I own nothing, WHY MUST YOU MAKE ME SAY THIS?!?!?!?! IT MAKES ME SO SAD!! *crying*

P.S.: I AM SO SORRY IT TOOK ME SO LONG TA WRITE THIS! IT'S ALL MY MUM'S FAULT! I GOT GROUNDED!

*cough, cough* Anyways, on with the

Hermione whipped around to see Ginny standing there, with a look of pure shock on her face.

"What are you doing?" she asked, in a freaky tone.

Hermione looked her straight in the eye. Not even she was sure what she was doing, hanging around with the enemy and all, but she had to admit that Draco had helped her kick Lavender's @$$ earlier, so she wanted to stand up for him. "Um, I am talking to Draco," she said simply.

Draco smiled. She had used his first name.

Ginny looked disgusted. "I can see that" she said slowly. "But why?"

Hermione gave her a half smile. She was about to respond, when the bell rang for her next class to begin. "Well, got to go to Care of Magical Creatures! See ya later!"

Draco grabbed her arm and dragged her off away from Ginny, back into the entrance hall. There they found Ron crying into Harry's shoulder.

Hermione gasped when she saw this and stopped walking. "Ron!" she yelled, starting to run to where the two were near the entrance to the Great Hall.

Ron looked up with tearstained eyes to Hermione. (A/N: Well, actually he looked down, but it sounds weird to say he looked down to Hermione andyeah.) "Are you talking to me now, Hermes?" he asked, in a terribly sad voice. "After what I did to you, why would you still talk to me?"

Hermione got to where he was, trying to find an answer to the terrible question. She tried over and over but she just couldn't get what she wanted to say out over her tongue. Instead, she just jumped at him and hugged him, hard.

He started crying again, right into her shoulder, and she let him. She wasn't mad at him anymore. She was just so sorry that he was like this, and she wanted to cheer him up enough to know why.

"I'm so sorry, Hermione, sorry for everything, just so sorry" he sobbed, over and over again. "I am so sorry"

"It's OK, Ron, it's all right, just cheer up. Stop crying, I forgive you." She looked up to see Harry and Draco staring each other down. "Stop it, you two!" They quickly looked away.

Ron pulled away and wiped his tears off. Hermione tried to casually dry her robes. She smiled up at him, tears showing glistening in her eyes as well. "So, what's the matter with you, anyway?"

Ron threw his hands up in the air in a sort of I-give-up gesture. "Lavender broke up with me It's not that big a deal anymore, I was just so upset that you were mad at me and that she was mad at me and Harry was mad at me and I just couldn't take it anymore."

Hermione looked at him strangely. She wasn't sure how she felt about him. She didn't want to be mad at him, and deep down inside she knew she wasn't, but on the surface she knew she had a reason to be. Yet all she really wanted was for everyone to be happy, and she knew that was totally impossible if she was still mad at Ron. So she gave in to herself. "Well, I'm awfully sorry about you and Lavender, and I want you to know that I'm sorry for anything I've ever done to you to make you mad at me, and I also want you to know that I forgive you wholeheartedly. Just cheer up, and walk me to Hagrid's!" she said smiling, and grabbed onto his arm, leaving Harry and Draco staring after them. They both turned to each other quickly and exchanged venomous looks.

She started walking, then turned back around to see what the two were up to. "You know, if you two don't watch it, you're going to stare holes through each other. If we all want to be friends, then you're just gonna have to try not to do that. I don't want any holy friends, thank you."

Harry looked at her strangely. "Are you mad? Do you seriously think that we want to be his friend? What's gotten into you? Why are you being so nice to him all of a sudden?"

Hermione looked blankly around her at the three staring faces. Draco was wearing a bemused expression, Ron was wearing a yeah-what-is-your-problem expression, and Harry was wearing a well-I'm-waiting expression. She wasn't sure what she was going to say. She wasn't sure what was going on at all. All she knew was that the late bell had just rung and she was now late for Care of Magical Creatures.

She sighed and said, "Look, I don't know what to do about all of you. You all seem to loathe each other. Actually, it's just you two loathing him. You might be interested to know that he's changed quite a bit over the summer, and that you all might do with taking a leaf out of his book. At least he didn't let his girlfriend call me a–" But she didn't finish her sentence. All three of them were looking at her like they couldn't believe what she was saying.

Harry and Ron glanced at each other, then both walked out the doors to Hagrid's together. Draco looked at her, then shook his head and walked away. Before she knew it she was standing by herself in the Entrance Hall, not exactly sure what had just happened.

She sighed and walked out the front doors, a bit lost, a bit confused, and a bit hurt. What had just happened?

A/N: Yeah, it's short, but it's also like 2 in the morning and I have to go to bed now. Since I have a four day weekend, the next chapter should be coming up extremely soon. I don't think anyone's gonna like this chapter, but if you do please say so