Chapter 2
To the Yule Ball
Hermione walked slowly down the stairs 1,2,3... She counted the steps as she went down. Scared to death about what was going on. She kept saying to herself, "Its only Ron, Its only Ron." Ron could see the nervousness in her, he felt he should of said something to her. But no words came out of his mouth, just a simple gesture, he held her hand tighter, and looked up at his beautiful date and smiled. Hermione was calmed by this, and smiled back and took a deep breath in and released it.
They arrived at the great hall, just in time to get some food.
"Yes food I am starving," Ron shouted
Hermione just gave him a look, and she just shook her head at Ron and laughed. Still the same old Ron, "His first love of all is food." she smiled to herself.
Ron and Hermione got something to eat and then a song started to play, as Ron looked up at the band performing he saw it was the Weird Sisters.
Hermione explained, "Look Ron!! It's the Weird Sisters"
The band started up a slow song, and Harry got up, his hand extended out for Luna, his date. She smiled at Harry and grabbed his hand, and walked toward the middle of the hall. Her arms around Harry, his arms around her. Hermione looked at Ron and smiled at him. After the song ended a fast song played, Hermione thought, "I hope he doesn't ask me to dance at this."
After an hour had gone by, still Ron had not had the courage to ask Hermione to dance. Finally a slow song came on, Ron and Hermione both noticed that couples were dancing, all around them, holding onto each other like nothing else in the world mattered. Hermione just looked at her hands, which were lying quietly in her lap. She looked up to her right, and noticed a hand was extended. She looked up at Ron and he smiled, and asked, "Would you like to Dance." Hermione slowly reached her hand over to Ron's, they walked towards the dance floor together, hand in hand.
Hermione found dancing with Ron was a wonderful experience, he put his arms around her waist. Her hands went around his neck. She looked up at Ron and he looked at her, into her eyes. "Yes this feels right," Ron thought to himself. Hermione noticed Ron smelled nice whenever she was close to him. She wondered if he put on cologne just for tonight or did he always. She was enjoying it.
"You smell nice," she said. Then she realized what she said she was so embarrassed by what she said. He looked at her and smiled and said, "Thank you." As the song went, Ron held onto Hermione just as he had done before. She loved every second of it.