A/N: Hehehehe...sorry I'm just happy. I don't know why, maybe I have another story! Anyway hope you all like it! If you do read my other stories please and for the people who are waiting for the sequel for the Kiss, I'm working on it. It's a bit hard so it will take some time. Anyway without further ado...the story

Just Friends

Chapter 1 – Rumours

Ron and I are friends. Always have been and always will be. We are JUST FRIENDS! No really we are! I don't know why there are all these rumours going around that we are anything but friends (which we are). Friends, I mean, not going out or dating. I have no idea who started those rumours but when I find out who they are, I am going to hex them so badly that they will never be able to speak again let alone spread a rumour. Okay…maybe I won't do that but I will give them a very long detention. One of the benefits of being prefect. No, it's not abusing my privilege. I have a perfectly legitimate reason to give them a detention…they were…okay maybe I don't, but I'll find one. I just have to find that blabbermouth.

I mean where did anyone get the ludicrous idea that Ron and I are an item? It's absurd. It's preposterous. It's outrageous. I certainly don't like him I mean I do like him but not in that way, just as a friend. Only a friend. And I'm definitely sure that Ron doesn't like me…I mean he didn't even realize I was a girl until fourth-year and I had to practically spell it out to him before he got it…I mean not that it bothers me… Anyway where was I? Yes, how did someone form a crazy rumour on the basis of nothing? Ron and I have always been just friends and have never shown signs of being more than just friends and never will. Maybe we do spend a lot of time together but that's completely normal. Isn't it? We are best friends after all and we do have prefect duties together and it's not like we spend every moment together…well just most of the day. And most of the time we're with Harry, but come to think of it, these days it's more just Ron and me since Harry has been spending a lot of time by himself or with Ginny. I think there's something going on with them. But unlike that nosey person who's been making up rumours about me, I am not going to spread a rumour. Argh! It drives me crazy just thinking about it too! I don't know why, it's just a stupid and silly rumour but it infuriates me that people actually believe it. It is ridiculous!

And do you want to know how I know this? I heard this third-year student sighing, yes, sighing about Ron. When did people start sighing about Ron? I'm not saying that Ron isn't good-looking. Quite the opposite, but she was sighing about Ron! My Ron! Uh…what I mean is she doesn't even know him. I've know him for six years so if anyone should have the right of sighing about Ron, it should be me! Not that I would. Anyway, she said dreamily, "Ron is sooo hot! I wish he didn't have a girlfriend!" I stopped dead in my tracks. One question kept repeating itself in my mind. When did Ron get a girlfriend? A strange feeling came over me, a feeling I could not quite place. "I know! Hermione Granger is so lucky that Ron is her boyfriend." I just stood there stunned. I approached the pair of third-years and asked, "What are you talking about?" They looked very surprised and I couldn't blame them but I was curious. One of them said timidly, "We were just saying what a cute couple you and Ron make." I stared at them for a second trying to decide if they were serious; they were. "We are not a couple," I told them finally. The third-years looked stunned and told me, "Well that's what the whole school thinks" and then they ran away. I have no idea how long this rumour has been circulating. If I hadn't accidentally heard that conversation I might still not know. Everybody might be still going around thinking that we're a couple or worse, that I like him, which is not true. I have to set everybody straight.

Grrr! Here comes Parvati and Lavender. They probably started that rumour.

"Oh hi Hermione," greeted a very cheerful Parvati. "What are you doing up here in the afternoon?"

I have a right to be here. It is after all my bedroom as well as theirs.

"Why would you say that? Where else would I be?" I asked icily. I know it's them. It has to be they who spread that rumour. They would be just the sort of people to do that. They're always gossiping about frivolous stuff and wanting to know who's dating whom. Last year they kept on asking me about my love life.

"Out with Ron of course."

What?!

"Why would I be out with Ron?"

I know if this whole rumour thing wasn't driving me so crazy I would probably be out with Ron…and Harry too. But that was beside the point. Why did she think I would be out with Ron??

"Because he's your boyfriend," said Parvati as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

I should have expected it but I didn't. It still surprised me.

"He's not my boyfriend," I said through clenched teeth.

"O did you break up?" said Lavender sympathetically.

Did she not hear me?

"We were never together." I wanted to scream it out but I remained calm. It wasn't their fault they were so slow.

"It's okay. You can tell us; we won't laugh," added Parvati.

This was unbelievable. They were even thicker than I thought.

"Ron and I were never together." I said this very slowly so it could get through their thick skulls.

"It's okay Hermione," said Lavender, encouragingly. She even patted me on the back. But I saw her whisper to Parvati, "Denial is one of the stages of break-up."

That was it. "Ron and I were never together and never will be!" I screamed. "I don't fancy him. Our relationship is purely platonic."

I think it finally registered.

"Oh, well that's not what everybody else is saying," Lavender and Parvati both said innocently.

"What have they been saying?" I asked suspiciously.

"That you've been going out…for six months now I think," said Lavender.

I know my jaw dropped open. Unbelievable! How did I not know about this? I know everything. I wonder if Ron knows. I am going to march downstairs right now and find out.

"Well it's not true! Ron and I are friends. Just friends!" I said before I quickly exited the room.

A/N: Just want to say thanks to be my beta doraemon. She's been a great help to me especially with my commas. I hoped you all like this first chapter, if you did please review! If you didn't, tell me what you didn't like. Cheers.