The Other Girl
Chapter 3: Regret
Author - PreciousLittleMe
Rating - G
Keywords – Ron/Hermione, Seventh Year
Category – Angst/Romance
Disclaimer – I don't own them, I just play with them.
Summary – Carla leaves Hogwarts. When she dumps him though he accuses Hermione of breaking them up.
Author's Notes – I gave some recommended songs to go with the fic/ship in the last chapter and I think I'm going to do it again! The song 'You Weren't In Love With Me'. If you're an Aussie that watched Australian Idol, Courtney sung it in the first week of the final 12. I've gotten some great feedback so far, thankyou so much! I hope you like this chapter as much :)
Hermione was sitting in the common room studying when Carla approached her.
"Hi." She said, sitting down.
"Hey."
"So you know Viktor quite well."
Straight to the point, Hermione thought.
"I suppose."
"You're so lucky."
"Yeah, you've said..."
Hermione suddenly had a thought. "I could mention you in one of my letters if you like."
"Would you?"
"Of course."
"That would mean so much to me. Maybe he would actually talk to me when I go back."
"When do you go back anyway?"
"In a week."
"If I post it soon he should get it before you arrive."
"Thankyou so much."
"You're welcome…so what are you and Ron going to do when you go back?"
"I'm not sure yet. We've considered a long distance relationship but they're so hard to continue."
"Yeah…"
"Anyway, I have some homework to do in the library, I'll see you later. And thanks again"
"Bye."
A week later Carla was about to be on her way home. Hermione had come down with Harry and Ron to see her off.
"I'm going to miss you so much" she purred to Ron, her hands around his waist and leaning in to kiss him.
"Yeah, I'll miss you too."
Hermione looked away and tried to block out the rest of their conversation. She thought after two weeks of seeing them together it would've gotten easier, but it hadn't. She still wanted him. Every part of her ached to be
"Bye Harry, bye Hermione. Thanks for mentioning me to Viktor; I can't wait to talk to him."
"Yeah, bye." Hermione said. She walked away as soon as Carla disappeared from sight. Harry jogged up beside her. Ron stayed where he was standing.
"Are you okay?"
"I'm fine, why wouldn't I be?"
"Carla had quite an effect on you."
"You sound just like Ginny."
"I do?"
"She's been telling me the same things. How it's obvious why I don't like Carla and that the whole school knows."
"I don't know about everybody, but definitely a lot of people."
Hermione remained silent.
"So are you going to do anything about it now?"
"No! Carla's still his girlfriend even if she is in a different country, and even if she wasn't I haven't told him before, so why should I now?"
Harry shrugged. "It's up to you."
Harry walked off towards the Quidditch field, leaving Hermione to walk herself back to the castle.
Pro: I'll finally know where I stand
Con: He'll laugh in my face
Pro: It'll be over with
Con: You'll regret it
Con: You'll regret it
Con: You'll regret it
Hermione wrote the same line over and over again. She couldn't tell him, she just couldn't! It was two weeks after her conversations with Harry and Ginny and she had put off thinking about it for just as long. Owls were constantly approaching Ron with the newest letter from Carla and he was hardly ever seen without a quill and parchment in his hands, ready to write a reply, so Hermione didn't pay much attention when he entered the common room with yet another letter in his hand.
"What did you do?" Ron demanded, towering over the sitting Hermione.
"What are you talking about?"
"This!" Ron waved the parchment in front of her face."
"What about it?"
"Carla just dumped me. For Viktor."
"Look, I'm sorry for you, but what has this got to do with me?"
"You must've said something in one of your letters! You were the one who told him about her! What else did you write?"
Hermione felt her own temper rising. As much as she had wanted them to break up she would not ever and did not write anything but the briefest mention of Carla to Viktor. How dare he accuse her of doing so?
"I wrote that my so-called friend was dating a girl from his school and asked if he knew her, not that it's any of your business! Ask Ginny if you don't believe me, she read part of it."
"How about in the letters after that?"
"I haven't written to him since."
Ron fell silent, but Hermione
"You got dumped, not because of me or anyone else. Viktor has beaten you twice now. Face it."
Hermione regretted the words as soon as she said them. They were cruel at the best of times, let alone to someone who had just been dumped. Ron's lack of reaction made it worse. He didn't say anything back, didn't look mad, didn't move. He just looked blank.
"Ron…"
Ron finally moved, but only to turn around and leave the common room rather quickly. Hermione had the urge to kick something. She had finally done what Ron often did and said something incredibly stupid. And would now have to apologise for it, if he would even listen to her, which he had a right not to, considering what she had did. Hermione got up, waved her wand over her piece of parchment so it disintegrated (she didn't want anyone reading it) and went off in search of Ron.