Everything Your Heart Desires

By: EvelynRose

Chapter 9

Teenage Drama

Hermione Granger awoke from her slumber, feeling a strong arm wrapped around her slender torso. She blinked her eyes blearily, noting that she was lying on one of the puffy couches in the Gryffindor Common Room, Ron's arm draped carelessly across her body. Ron was still sleeping peacefully, as were Harry and Ginny, who looked more than cozy, asleep on the wine colored couch opposite them. Hermione didn't quite remember how she'd ended up asleep on the couch, with Ron no less. She felt a blush creep up her neck, and was once again, glad she was the only one awake. Hermione relaxed into Ron's warm embrace, and was asleep again in minutes.

An hour or so later, Molly, Arthur, Lily, and James crept down the stairs of a hidden dormitory, not expecting to see their children asleep on the couches with their 'significant others.'

"James," Lily whispered to her husband, "Don't they look cute?"

"That they do," he agreed with his wife, pointing at the sleeping forms of Harry, Ginny, Ron, and Hermione.

"They really are growing up aren't they?" Molly commented.

"Yes they are," Arthur agreed.

The four parents turned as they heard another person come downstairs.

"Oy mate! What'cha all lookin at?" questioned Sirius Black.

"Shhh Sirius," Lily reprimanded in a harsh whisper.

"Ohh," Sirius replied, noticing the morning entertainment to be.

It had been about three weeks since Ginny and Hermione's boom box adventures, and life at Hogwarts was as dull as ever. Two days before, Lily, Molly, James, and Arthur had made a trip to Diagon Alley to get school supplies. School was to start in four days time, and no one seemed to be looking foreword to the start of term. Not even Hermione. After much prodding on the parents behalf, all the homework for the summer holidays had been completed, and now, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny were left with nothing to do.

The only big happening over the past few weeks, had been Harry and Ginny announcing, to a somewhat angry bunch of Weasley brothers, their new 'status,' as boyfriend and girlfriend. Ron took the news best, threatening to beat Harry to a pulp if he ever hurt his baby sister. But, after a few days, Ron had warmed up to the idea, and as a result, he and Hermione had hooked up, joining the ranks of the 'Hogwarts Couples.'

Even though all seemed well in teenage coupleville, the five adults knew that a screaming match was never far off. Once woken up, Ron would lay into Harry and Ginny for sleeping on the couch together, and then Hermione would berate him for overacting, resulting in another fight. As all hell broke loose in the Common Room, Harry and Ginny would sneak off, presumably to the Great Hall, but more likely, to a vacant broom closet.

James and Sirius couldn't resist. They were pranksters at heart, and their favorite kind of entertainment, (currently anyway), was 'teenage drama.' All the adults found it quite amusing. It was like watching one of those muggle tellytission shows, opera soaps.

Sirius was about to levitate a bucket of cold water above Ron's head, but then he didn't have to. Grinning, Lily, James, Molly, Arthur, and Sirius, awaited the storm that was indefinitely to come.

Ron yawned, blinking his eyes to clear his vision. He felt a warm body pressed against his own. Hermione, his mind told him.

"'Mione," he whispered, "Time to get up. It's nearly breakfast."

"Mmm. Good morning Ron." Hermione replied sleepily. She sat up and stretched her arms above her head, not noticing the five eavesdroppers on the balcony.

"How'd we end up-," Ron stopped, having caught sight of Ginny, asleep atop his best mate. Even though he was 'ok' with the two of them dating, he was NOT ok with them SLEEPING TOGETHER!

"Harry," he said harshly, "What the bloody hell are you doing with my SISTER?!?!"

Harry and Ginny both blinked their eyes a few times. Once they realized where they were and who was yelling at them, the couple sat up abruptly.

"What are you on about now Ron?" Harry asked, confused.

"What am I on about? What am I on about! Well let's see! You're bloody sleeping with my BABY sister!" Ron hollered, his face reddening.

The adults on the stairs held in their laughter.

"Well I could say the same about you and Hermione. But it's not like we did anything. I mean come on, we're in the middle of the common room. Anyone could come in, and we wouldn't want to mentally scar anyone, now would we?" Ginny retorted innocently.

"Ginny! Since when did you refer to THAT so…so…blatantly?" Ron scolded.

"Now Ron, be reasonable. Don't you think you might be overreacting just a bit?" said Hermione, the voice of reason in every situation.

"Be reasonable?! Hermione, you try to be reasonable, when you catch your best mate sleeping with your baby sister!" Ron argued.

And thus began another row between Ron and Hermione, whose infamous arguments are rivaled only by those of Lily and James Potter.

Ginny and Harry snuck out the portrait hole, not in the mood to listen to another row.

"I swear, sometimes they fight worse than an old married couple. They're worse than my parents, and that's saying something," Harry pointed out.

"They should have a contest, which couple can fight the longest about the stupidest things," Ginny said with a laugh.

Your right. Now where do you think we should go, Great Hall, Room of Requirement, empty broom closet?" Harry asked his girlfriend.

"Guess?" she replied mischievously, leading the way.

A/N
Bit of a cliffhanger there. Just so you know, I think I'm going to cut the game show it doesn't quite fit with the rest of the story. There will be one more chapter in the story. It will kind of tie up loose ends, sort of. None of you (except Autumn) will be able to guess what is going to happen in the last chapter. If you can, and your right, kudos to you!
Hint: Think about the beginning of the first chapter. There might be some clues throughout that chapter as to what's going to happen in the final chapter.
EvelynRose