Love is. . .

Ch. 2: Oblivious

Harry was definitely worried about her. This was the third time this week that Hermione had come downstairs to breakfast late and with deep dark circles under her eyes. This was Hermione for gods sake. Hermione made sure to get at least eight hours of sleep a night, and set an alarm clock an hour earlier than she needed to get up just to make sure she was always on time!

So the fact that this tardiness was becoming a habit, was very much cause for worry.

Harry ran through a list of reasons in his mind that Hermione could possibly be late:

Indigestion? Possible, but not likely.
Studying? Usually I would say yes, but we don't have any tests this week . . .
Worry? Probably, but over what?

Stealing a quick glance over in her direction over the rim of his goblet, he saw her gazing longingly over at Ron, who was arguing animatedly with Seamus about quidditch.

Though imperceptible to anyone else, Harry would not be fooled. He'd known her for six years, and two of those years he'd known she liked, possibly loved Ron. He'd finally put two and two together in their fourth year when she had worried so much about Ron in the second task almost to the point of madness and when she had shouted the what-would-become-infamous statement, "Well you know what the solution to that is? Next time ask me before somebody else does, and not as a last resort!"

The silence that had echoed through the common room after they had both stormed out had been priceless. After all, it was a rare moment when Lavender had nothing to say!

Dean had finally broken it and said, "They're both so dense! They can't see what's right in front of them! It's obvious even to me that they're in love, and they're still oblivious to it!"

Lavender cut in with, "Yeah, I mean how many hints does Hermione have to give him?"

The next year Ron finally got off his arse and asked her and she had accepted. It would have been perfect, until a sixth year Hufflepuff asked Hermione to dance, and Ron flew off the handle. What ensued had been the argument to top all arguments.

They hadn't spoken for a week, the longest ever, and Harry had just been starting to get worried when they had walked into breakfast together talking and bickering like normal. Shaking his head, he had returned to his eggs.

Harry knew how much it hurt Hermione to have to listen them talk about girls almost endlessly, but Harry knew she would never leave during one of their discussions because it would look all too suspicious if she just walked away for seemingly no reason, and because it would hurt too much not to know.

He also knew that Ron didn't even really care about these girls, and he had a feeling he did it just to get a reaction out of Hermione.

But even after Hermione constantly put down whatever girl-of-the-week they were talking about, something she rarely did for anyone else, and even stormed out a handful of times, Ron was still completely oblivious to the fact that Hermione had feelings for him!

It was almost funny, the ways that both of them thought they were being subtle when they were stealing glances and dropping hints to the other, which in realty were heavy-lidded gazes that often lasted for minutes and nuclear bomb sized clues!

"Hey Hermione, what's this?" Ron asked, picking something up that lay between the fruit bowl and the pitcher.

"Nothing! It's nothing just a scrap of parchment, give it back!" She said her voice rising dangerously snatching the paper back.

"Jeez, what's up with you? All I did was ask a simple question and you bite my head off!" Ron replied, his own voice rising.

"It's rude to just steal other people's papers without asking!"

"I wasn't stealing! All I did was ask you what it was!"

"You should still have left it alone!"

"What's on that anyway? I bet it's something important! What does it say?" Ron asked leaning over to get a better look.

Taking a step back so he couldn't see it she yelled, "It's NOTHING!"

"It looked like a letter! Writing to Vicky again are we Herm-own-ninny?" Ron seethed, enunciating her name like Victor always did, wrong.

"It is NOT a letter to Victor! And even so I don't see how it's any of your business who I'm writing to!"

"It could be a boy!"

"YES it could and VERY WELL MIGHT BE RONALD!"

"It is! You can't write to other boys!"

"And why not?"

"Because- because, because, they aren't good enough for you!" He sputtered.

The whole table who had otherwise ignored their argument as it was a daily routine they were used to by this point, now swiveled their heads towards the arguing couple and stared, shell shocked at Ron.

"What are all you bloody wankers looking at?" He roared.

The heads quickly swiveled back.

"Hermi-" he started.

"No, Ron. I know, you just don't want me to be happy! But it's none of your business what boys I'm writing to, IF I were even writing to any! And if I want to be interested in a boy, that's my business! Merlin knows you and Harry are always talking about girls! So why should it be any different with me?" She shouted, and with that turned on her heel and stalked out of the great hall.

"Well mate, you've really done it this time!" Harry said patting Ron on the shoulder.

"Who is it? I'm going to kill him!" Ron said angrily.

"Kill who?" Harry asked.

"Whatever boy she's taken a fancy to!"

"Ron, you're completely oblivious. Open your eyes!"

"What?" Ron asked his brows furrowed in confusion.

"If you don't know I'm not going to point it out to you!" Harry replied and went back to his toast.

A/N: Sorry for the short chapter again guys! And I've been noticing that I usually have a lot of mistakes in my writing, so if anybody wants to beta, that'd be great! Either email me, or tell me your review! And again thanks for reading!!

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moony128- What do you mean that Hermione has feelings for ONCE? Lol, do you mean like feelings besides anger? Anyways glad oyu liked it! This IS NOT i repeat IS NOT a one-shot! And it will be in letter form sometimes, but also in Peoples POV, like this chap was in Harry's, but it will mostly be Ron and Hermione's, and accasionally somebody elses just so you can see what it's like on the outside! Hope you liked this chapter!

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