Thanks again! And yes, I know the last one was short, it was a filler, a lot of this was pre-written, I've had it up on other sites for quite awhile. Heh... that sounds like the same kind of review I would leave, Poky... :-P And yeah, I know it probably sounds pretty American-ish, but I am American, so ya know. It's hard to write it British-...ish when I don't really know a lot of what they talk like, if you get my drift. But I'm working on it (thank you for the tip Cassandra!). Oh and sorry, Polaris... You'll have to wait for a while for your ACTION! ::heehee::

Chapter 5: An awkward Moment... Fixed?

A few days passed pleasantly. The weather was perfect, bright, sunny, and warm. The mood was playful and excited. It was a typical summer vacation. Ron, Hermione, and Ginny all spent their time lazing about and playing games, even Fred and George joined in occasionally.

Ron, already 16 years old, was allowed to use magic, and was using it to his advantage. Hermione cursed herself for being born in September. Why couldn't she have been born just a month or two earlier? She only wanted it to get back at Ron for all the pranks he kept playing on her and Ginny. Oh well, she thought, it would only be about a month until they returned to Hogwarts, where she would be able to use all the magic she wanted.

The three teens had just got done playing a very exhausting game of something like tag, and they collapsed breathlessly on the grass. Ron had felt it necessary to give Ginny bright blue hair, and Hermione got purple dreadlocks. This had resulted in the two girls chasing Ron, tackling him, and kept him pinned to the ground until he turned their hair back to normal. Although it was quite terrifying to have purple dreadlocks for awhile, it was actually fun.

As they lay there on the ground, Hermione realized that she had still not unpacked. If she was going to be here for a month, she figured she better get to that fairly quickly. She jumped to her feet and began to walk toward the house.

"Where're you going?" Ron shouted after her.

"I still need to unpack," she replied.

"I'll help you if you like," he offered. At a nod from Hermione, he got to his feet too. "You want to help too, Gin?"

Ginny shook her head. "No thanks. I've still got to finish writing my letter to Dean."

Ron and Hermione made their way up to her room. As they reached the landing, Hermione opened the door and stepped inside. She remembered that she still needed to make the needed changes to the room.

She stepped over to her bigger suitcase, which was already unzipped and opened it up.

Ron stood there in the doorway, feeling kind of pointless. "Um, what should I do?" he asked Hermione.

"Be useful and start unpacking this," she said with a smile as she pointed to the trunk next to the one she was unpacking. Ron walked over and lifted the top of the trunk. They began putting things into the closet and drawers.

"So, how're you enjoying your stay here so far?" he asked, searching for any means of conversation.

"Oh, I'm having a wonderful time. I missed you so much before I left to come here. I know it's strange, and rather silly at that, but even though it'd only been a few days since I had seen you..." Hermione drifted off.

"So you missed me?" Ron said. He had a smirk on his face.

Hermione felt herself go pink around the ears. "Yes, I did. You are my best friend after all. And I am going to assume that you did as I said and missed me too?"

It was Ron's chance to go pink around the ears. "Well, I... Maybe a little-" he was cut off by Ginny barging in through the door.

"Hermione, I wanted to know if-" Ginny stopped and looked at them. "Um, Ron, why are you holding Hermione's knickers?" Ron looked down at his hands and found that he was in fact, holding Hermione's underpants. "Uh, well I can see I'm interrupting something, so I'll just come back later, shall I?" She stepped out of the room and closed the doors. Ron and Hermione could hear her giggle outside.

Ron immediately went cherry-red and dropped the undergarments. "Uh... I... uh.... well, um...." What was he supposed to say? Was there anything that could fix this? He had just been holding Hermione's underwear. He chanced a glance over at Hermione she was just as red, if not redder. What was she so embarrassed about, he wondered. After all, it was him that had been holding the underwear.

"Yes, so shall I just go now?" Ron said, still embarrassed.

"No, it's quite okay... I'll just take these shall I?" said Hermione, taking the knickers from the trunk and placing them in the top drawer. She smiled at him shyly, and though she still looked embarrassed, she looked as though she really wanted to laugh. He smiled back. An awkward moment fixed! Maybe his life didn't suck as bad as he thought.

As embarrassing as that moment had been, Hermione didn't want to make it any worse by telling Ron to go away when all he was doing was trying to help. It was easy to tell that Ron had been thoroughly embarrassed by it as well. So rather than make him go away, she had him stay and continue helping her, after she had made sure that all of her personals were put away.

They had finished unpacking and went downstairs together for dinner where Ginny sent them many teasing looks across the table.

Even though Hermione had told Ron that it had been perfectly all right, Ginny would still make occasional comments that would have Ron blushing like a school-girl. He would then mumble something about having to go do chores, and quickly stalk off. Hermione would then send Ginny an angry look. "What?" Ginny would say innocently, as though she hadn't meant anything by it, but the smirk would still be there to indicate her satisfaction in making her brother flustered. Hermione would just shake her head and roll her eyes in response.