Chapter Ten: Revealed

Hermione too a sharp breath and let a tear fall. She couldn't believe her eyes. Ron was standing in front of her. Ron was her admirer all along. He was so sweet... Hermione thought and smiled at him.

"Ron I can't believe it was you! H-have you been out here all night?" She asked walking over to him and hugging him. She felt a sudden shock as he told her that he came out in the morning, when there was light. "B-but Ginny she said you were missing! I was so worried Ron!" she let more tears fall. Tears she didn't know needed to come.

"I'm sorry; Harry and Ginny were in on it the whole." Ron told her and explained how Ginny had helped him disguise his writing in the beginning of the year. And how he ended up writing it himself later into the year. She saw him looking at the ground, his red hair soggy from the rain. She felt herself getting confused.

"Did you get the stuff yourself?" she asked feeling a bit hurt under her great feelings of love. She was watching the rain bounce off of the surface of the lake when she heard Ron begin to speak.

"Yes Hermione I bought all of it. I was the one who picked it out, a-and well Ginny did tell me not to buy you the perfume...but I did anyway, and saved a bit to put on each letter. So you could sort of know who it was underneath it all." Ron explained his hands in his pockets.

Hermione smiled up at him and walked over and leaned onto his shoulder. "Ron, you know how I said 'I can't do this I love Ron'. I-I meant it, I still do mean it. Even if my Admirer was someone else I would tell them the same; especially if it wasn't you." She looked up at him and saw he was beaming at her. She could feel her cheeks were burning.

"Hermione I have something for you" he said handing her the final letter. A small box was with it. She took it tenderly in her hands and held it there not wanting to take away the mystery.

"Do you want to go inside and talk by the fire?" Hermione asked realizing she was freezing cold. Her cloak had soaked all the way through and she wouldn't mind cuddling up by the Gryffindor Fire place with Ron right now, or ever.

Ron took Hermione's hand and pulled her into him for a brief moment she didn't know what to do. But before she could say or do anything he had kissed her smiling down at her. They walked to the common rooms holding hands and keeping each other warm.

When they reached the common rooms they both took their cloaks off and let them dry. Hermione sat down lying on the sofa in front of the fire with Ron next to her. She traced her finger around the edge of the letter before opening it. Inside the now wet envelope was a small crinkled poem he had written for her.

"Dear Hermione,

Know you know who I am and I am glad. Even if you didn't want to date me and didn't like me or love me the way I love you, I would be Happy that I was able to finally confront my feelings for you.

Yet, yes It would be nice if you do like me. It would indeed make me feel very happy, and I want to tell you that no mater what I will always love you.

Here is my last poem, well for now that is.

Love can shatter

Yet my love glows

And I hope it shows

In the way I see thee

Day be Day

I want to say that I needed to tell you I loved you and still love you ever since my first year but It has grown ever more great each time I see you. And in fourth year I began to "love" you in a greater strength. And I need to say this—I was jealous of Krum. And I wanted to ask you to the Yule Ball in fourth year. But I lacked the guts and the nerves to ask you. I was afraid of you."

Yours truly,

Ron Weasley,

Hermione read it out loud to herself and them smiled up at Ron. "Hermione," he said handing her the box. And told her to open it, inside she found a locket. In the locket was a picture that was of them together. It was from last year when she had kissed him on the cheek before the game and another from Hogsmeade in third or fourth year they were laughing together. It was sweet she knew he had put a lot of time into being there for her and loving her.

"Ron I love you too" she smiled up at him her eyes gleaming with joy and happiness. Her eyes were twinkling with a kind of happiness only truelove ever could muster. She did love him, and with all of her heart.

She sat up and leaned on his shoulder, they were holding each other together. The warmth of their two bodies increasing as the warmth of the fire heated them up. It seemed to be only five minutes later and was actually an hour later and Hermione leaned over kissing Ron on the lips. Letting him be her first Real kiss.

"How sweet" Hermione heard someone whisper. And she looked over her shoulder to see they were not as alone as they thought they were. In fact, they were in the middle of a full common room. Well in a sense. Harry, Ginny, Neville, Parvati, Lavender, Seamus, and some other people they knew had walked down from the dorms for dinner when they walked in on Ron and Hermione kissing.

Ron laughed and kissed Hermione back ignoring the people behind them. On that day Ron and Hermione began to date and they still have feelings for each other to this day. Be it love, hate, or sadness they share feelings for each other.