Bonus Chapter
"Please 'mione, can we go back now? I'm
tired and this is boring." Ron moaned to his
companion as he dragged his body along the corridor walls. Hermione
strode in front of him stopping every so often to peer through each
compartment window to make sure there was no misbehaving going on
among the students inside. She ignored Ron and continued her patrol.
"Hermione!" Ron called out to her again, this time louder as she
tiptoed to examine the compartment to her left.
"Ron, stop your
blubbering!" she snapped back hotly glaring at him. "We've only
been out here for thirty minutes and-" Hermione had just turned her
head back to the compartment window when she gasped. Shocked and
speechless she slowly inched her way back to the ground beneath her
and slumped back into the wall behind her. Ron hurried over to her
and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Hermione, are you ok? What
happened? What did you see?" Ron asked looking alarmed and
concerned, his earlier boredom instantly vanishing. When Hermione
didn't answer he took a step to look into the window and Hermione
grabbed his arm by the elbow. Startled, he turned his attention back
to Hermione whose bulging eyes reminded him of Dobby, the house elf.
"No, don't look! You were right…er…this is tiring and
boring! Let's just go!" She straightened up and turned to head
back toward the back of the train where they had come from. She
yanked on the sleeves of Ron's robe but he didn't budge. Ron was
over 6 feet tall now and though he was still considered skinny,
Hermione, at 5'6" and quite thin herself, was no match. Ron,
after giving Hermione one last questioning look, turned around and
peeked inside not knowing what to expect. He gasped just like
Hermione had.
Draco Malfoy was seated inside but he wasn't
alone. His fellow Slytherin Pansy Parkinson was there with him, or
rather on top of him to be more accurate. They were snogging
senseless while struggling to remove their clothing off of one
another. It seemed Malfoy was more experienced with this than Pansy.
Pansy had only managed to undo his belt buckle while Malfoy had
removed her button down shirt with ease and managed to undo
the closure of her white lacy bra with just one hand. Ron held his
breath as he watched Malfoy lift the bra straps off of Pansy's pale
shoulders and lower it down her arms. It was almost off-
"RON!"
Hermione hissed and jerked his arm violently. "We're going. NOW!"
Hermione stomped furiously down the corridor back towards their own
snog-free compartment and Ron, though itching to get a peek at
Pansy's bare chest, thought better of it and followed closely
behind Hermione.
"Oh wait 'til I tell Harry about this!"
Ron exclaimed. "You sure you wanna go back now 'mione? We haven't
patrolled all of the train, you know? Besides, I'm having a blast!
Come on! I say we head back…you with me?" he was almost skipping
with delight. Hermione stopped and stood very still. Her hands were
clenched in a ball of fist and her shoulders were shaking with fury.
She spoke without turning around.
"If you want to go back and
ogle at Pansy's breasts some more, be my guest. But I'm going
back." And at that she continued to head back leaving behind Ron
who was utterly stunned. In all their seven years of friendship, she
had never spoken so coldly to him.
"Oy 'mione! Wait up!
Hermione!" Ron's long legs didn't take many steps to catch
up to her. But when he was in arms reach of her shoulders she broke
off into a run yelling behind her "Just leave me alone!"
"Oh
bloody hell!" Ron muttered under his breath and sped up to
catch her. He finally got hold of both her shoulders and without
intending to, backed her into the wall roughly. "Oh" said Ron and
quickly released her from his grip. "S-sorry. I didn't mean to do
that so hard." Hermione, looking down sideways to avoid his eyes
said nothing but shook her head as if to tell him he hadn't hurt
her.
"Listen 'mione," Ron spoke again and Hermione could
tell he was choosing his words very carefully.. "Mm…I'm not
exactly sure what happened back there, but if I offended you in any
way…Mm…I didn't mean to…I mean I was joking really…I
don't see what the big deal was about…" His voice
trailed off.
Hermione kept her head down but her eyes had shot up
meeting his. She looked downright scary.
"The big deal, Ron,
is you acting like a stupid ol' prat drooling over naked girls!"
she spat out. At this, Ron felt his face get hot.
"First of
all, Hermione," he spoke in a mocking tone "I was not
drooling. Second of all, Hermione, she wasn't naked, she was
merely topless. And third of all, Hermione, what's it to you if
I look at naked girls?" He was practically shouting now.
"If
there's any naked girl you are to drool over, RON, IT SHOULD BE
ME!" Hermione was so heated at that point that what had come
out of her mouth did not sink in to her brain for a few seconds. When
it finally did, her face had turned redder than Ron's flaming hair.
Ron, who was quite certain he had heard wrong, looked up and down
the corridor as if looking for someone to ask "Excuse me, but what
did she just say?" When no such person appeared, he turned back to
face his mortified friend.
To Ron's great annoyance, she broke
off into a run for the second time.
He grasped her arm and
pulled her back just before she had the chance to get hold of the
handle to their compartment door.
"Her-
gasp-mi-gasp-o-ne" Ron panted, squeezing her
right arm with one hand and clutching his sides with the other. He
was leaning forward with his head facing down and used Hermione's
shoulder to rest it on. He then fell back against the wall and
gradually slid down to the floor still holding on tightly to
Hermione's arm.
"Ron, let go of me" Hermione said
calmly. She was bent forward sideways and her back was starting to
ache.
Ron shook his head.
"Ron, let go" she
pleaded.
"No"
"Yes"
"No"
"Yes"
"You
don't like me looking at other girls?" Ron asked
straightforwardly. He finally let her go and Hermione straightened
herself rubbing her lower back. She was taken back by this and
remained silent. Then she nodded and shrugged at the same time.
Suddenly she felt very vulnerable.
"Listen Ron," her voice
was squeaky and she had to pause to clear her throat. "I just felt
it was inappropriate of you to…I mean as Head Boy you have
responsibilities and…besides it was an invasion of privacy…and-"
she let her voice trail off.
Ron got to his feet and smoothed out
his robe. He then turned to Hermione and stated very nonchalantly
"Ok, I won't look at other girls anymore." He grinned.
Hermione couldn't believe her ears. It was the sweetest, most
caring, most decent thing he had ever-
"But only because you said you'll let me see you naked, and I know I've never said this before but you got some pretty huge-" SMACK!
A/N Well you know the rest! Hope you guys enjoyed this bonus chap. Chapter 4 coming soon…!
