Hey hey!
So, how is everyone? Hopin' you'll like this one, it's Autumn (or Fall) and yes, Vico, I am from Australia!
Thank you to all the kind people who reviewed the last chapter! I know how exciting it is to have your name in someone's story, so thanks to:
Emma-Lynne, Porcelain Prayer,Ginny PoshSpice, unknowninthisworld and Mrs.KristinePotter!
Like I said in the first one, this is not a chaptered story. Its four different ways that Ron and Hermione get together, that have tie-ins with each other. So you might read something in this one that was in the last one. I really can't seem to keep the lengths of them similar, so they're all different in that aspect.
Oh, and the Supertramp song in this...I don't know. Whatever's your favourite will do. Maybe 'Easy does it'.
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. Though I wishI owned PoA movie!Ron, because he's too cute!
Thanks and hope you like it!
Hogwarts had just received the first day of Autumn only a few weeks before, when one Sunday afternoon, students from all four houses went out to enjoy the last bits of warm sunshine before Winter came. Most were outside, that is. A select few that had forgotten homework and were hurriedly finishing it while dreaming of the outdoors. Two people in particular were indoors too, though only one of them was doing their homework, and it hadn't been forgotten to begin with.
"Come on, quick, I want to get outside!" Ron Weasley exclaimed.
"Ron, just wait. I need to finish this part off so I can hand it in on Tuesday." Hermione Granger replied.
"But it's not due 'til next week!" he moaned, grabbing her arm and giving it a shake. "That's two more weeks."
"That's late enough as it is! Wait, okay?" Hermione said in exasperation. "Why couldn't you have gone outside with Harry?" she asked. Ron turned slightly pink.
"Because…I want you to have some fun. Yeah. And besides, I don't want to see him doing anything with my sister." he finished quickly, shuddering.
"Well then be quiet so I can get this last bit in." she managed in a distracted tone. She'd completely missed a rather obvious hint that Ron had just left.
Ron sat fidgeting for five minutes more until,
"Hermione!"
"Alright, alright! Come on, lets go." she sighed. They left the library, Ron striding ahead in desperation. He aimed for the big doors, but Hermione stopped him. "You can't expect me to have fun while carrying these books around, can you? Come on, I'll drop them up in the tower." she explained. Ron groaned loudly, then accompanied Hermione up to the common room.
Ten minutes later they had exited the castle to find a magnificent colour show before them. All of the trees were losing their leaves, and those that remained were creating a magnificent display of reds, oranges and yellows against the pale sky.
"Wow." Hermione breathed. Ron raised an eyebrow and shot her a sideways look.
"What?" he asked.
"Its just so…romantic." she admitted, not realising her choice of words.
"You think so?" he grinned. She turned a little pink.
"Yes."
"Oh." he said nonchalantly and stepped onto the grass.
"What's wrong with that?" she asked, following him.
"Nothing." Ron replied in the same tone.
"No, really?"
"Nothing."
"If you're teasing me!" she said, standing in front of him.
"I'm not. Okay, yes I am."
"Why?"
"Because. It's a secret." he grinned.
"Oh! Ronald Weasley! You tell me this instant!" she said, stamping her foot.
"And why-" he stamped his foot back, "should I do that?" he asked.
"Argh!" she grunted, throwing her hands in the air. "You get satisfaction out of this, don't you?"
"Of course. But I…never mind." Ron started.
"You what?" Hermione asked.
"Don't worry."
"No, really." she asked, looking up at him inquiringly.
"I only like to annoy you." he smiled sheepishly.
"Why me?" she smiled back.
"You'll find out soon enough."
"Hmm. What was secret before?" she asked, hoping to catch him off-guard.
"Well. Don't tell anyone, but I agree with what you said earlier." he admitted.
"About what?"
"This. The season, the trees, the sun. The colours. It's romantic." He smiled and then began walking again.
"You really think so?" she asked, jogging to keep up. He glanced at her.
"Yeah. I do."
"Hmm." she smiled. They stayed in silence for a while longer until they came to one of the larger trees on the grounds. Ron suddenly ran towards the base of the tree and landed in the immense load of leaves sitting underneath the branches and jumped into it.
"Whoo!" he yelled before landing with an "Oof!"
"Ron!" Hermione laughed, running into the middle of the pile, searching for him.
"Gotcha!" Ron yelled from behind, grabbed her around the middle and dragged her down into the leaves with him.
"Ron! Argh! Let me go!" Hermione shrieked with laughter. They each got up and threw leaves at each other before Ron started chasing her around the tree-trunk. He tackled her into the pile before hopping up and climbing the low branches of the tree. Soon, he was nowhere to be seen.
"Ron?" Hermione called, getting up out of the leaves. "Ron, where are you?"
Then, all of a sudden, leaves were falling like snow from the tree above, and Ron jumped down from a branch.
"Bill and Charlie used to this for us when we were younger. It was great." He commented, looking up into the tree,
"Wow." Hermione whispered, looking up with him. Then, Ron started humming a familiar tune. Hermione looked over at him and he shifted his gaze back to her, still humming. "That song…"
"Supertramp. Wizard band." he told her before humming again.
"Really?" Hermione asked in amazement. He nodded. "My parents used to play their music all the time." she smiled at the memory.
"Hum with me." Ron urged, grabbing her hands. She hummed with him, and they started dancing slowly.
After a while, Ron moved closer, putting his arms around Hermione's waist. She looked up in shock, and he gazed at her purposefully until she slid her arms around his neck. He stopped humming, leaving Hermione confused. She stopped too.
"Now this is romantic." he said quietly. Hermione looked up expectantly to see him leaning down to kiss her softly.
It wasn't until the last leaf fell that they pulled apart, only to embrace and start dancing again.
Somewhere up in a nearby tree sat Harry and Ginny, who had witnessed the entire thing.
"Finally." Harry grinned before turning back to Ginny.
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