9.More Surprises
The next few weeks were heaven. Every night without fail, Ron and I would meet in the astronomy tower and stargaze. Believe me I did try to resist him, once I fell asleep leaning on the wall on the other side of the room, but I always awoke in his arms. This was the best part of my day. Waking up to the steady thump-thump, thump-thump of the beating of Ron's heart. I soon started to come out of my shell. I was surprised to find that I really made friends quite easily if I tried, and soon I had many friends. I always had someone to walk to class with, to chat with in the corridors, like I said, it was heaven.
The only thing that tarnished the brilliance of these weeks was the occasional meet with Malfoy. It was never like he sought me out, more like we'd brush shoulders in the hallway, and for a tense moment, neither of us would move or breathe. But then who ever was with me would pull me to class, and save me. I wonder what would happen if they weren't there to save me? Well I suppose it's best not to think about it.
In addition, Hermione and I had become exceedingly close, best friends you might say. It certainly was strange having a girl best friend, because previously my best friends had all been boys. But it was a nice change to say the least. My grades had been steadily improving, which is saying a lot since my grades were only a little lower then Hermione's to start with. A few weeks ago, Hermione had asked me what Ron and I were doing when we disappeared around 11, and came back in the morning. Happy to finally tell some one, I spilled the entire story, from the first night, telling myself to stay away from him, to always waking up in his arms. She seemed very happy for me and told me it was only a matter of time before he asked me out.
What a liar.
You see for once in my life, things were going my way, I even forgot how nothing goes my way, and something bad was bound to happen. That was my first mistake.
And now it was once again, the night before a hogsmeade weekend I was sitting next to Ron on the couch and Harry and Hermione were sitting in armchairs opposite us. We were discussing places we could go, things we could see, right now, the topic was things we could buy, because Halloween was drawing ever closer, and this year, Dumbledore had decided to throw a masquerade party for the whole school and costumes were required. While harry, Ron, and hermione were trying to brainstorm ideas, I already knew exactly what I was going to be, it was just a matter of buying the things I needed for a costume.
"I know what Ron can be!" a shouted with a mischievous smile.
"What?"
"Pippy Longstockings!"
Harry and Hermione chuckled appreciatively while Ron turned quite red around the ears. "He looks so cute when he does that!" I thought to myself. I had grown quite fond of Ron, and though Hermione no longer assured me that he would ask me out, I was positive he was just waiting for the Masquerade. I had often fantasized how he would ask me out, giving me a rose, or a ring, or just asking me in any romantic way.
I was one lovesick puppy, but then I had never really been loved before, little did I know, that I was not to be loved for a while yet, or so I thought.
We finally decided to turn in, as it was nearing midnight. And after we said our good nights, we made our way upstairs, and I fell asleep the moment my head hit my pillow.
I awoke the next morning, with the prospect of the hogsmeade trip ahead of me. I smiled and got up to take a shower, afterwards I quickly dressed and began to rummage through my trunk until I found my coin purse. I quickly poured the contents onto my bed and began counting the knuts, sickles, and galleons. I had 70 galleons 32 sickles and 28 knuts, this should suffice for the payment of my costume, candy, any jokes I might find at Zonko's, and perhaps a butter beer or two. Satisfied, I put all the coins back into my coin purse, which was made to weigh a quarter of its actual weight, and set off for the common room. I found the golden trio waiting for me, and we set off for Hogsmeade.
The weather was painfully alike my last Hogsmeade trip; though I hoped that this one would turn out better. We decided to split up, I was rather bummed to be with harry instead of Ron, but I was determined not to show it, so that harry wouldn't feel bad.
First we went to a shop that sold old-fashioned clothes, "Ye Olde Clothes Shoppe" read the sign. Harry and I had decided to go as the phantom of the opera (Harry), and I was to be Princess Anna, from the American movie, "Van Helsing". As harry rummaged around for opera clothes, I found a corset, a blouse, a jacket, and pants, exactly as I needed them. After I purchased them, I helped Harry search the old musty racks, until we found the perfect outfit, while harry was looking through a bin of accessories when he gasped. "This is perfect!" I looked to see what the fuss was about when he showed me a mask, that was only made to cover half the face, but it looked like it was straight out of the play. When the old shopkeeper heard the ruckus he came over. When he saw the mask harry was holding he grinned a toothlessly. "Form-fitting, that one. It will mold to fit your face when you put it on, and it'll stay there, no need to glue it on, or any foolishness like that." Harry bought it on the spot. After we were finished, we went to another store that specialized in hair potions, I needed one to make my hair long and curly, and harry needed one to keep his unruly hair slicked back.
After we were done there, we rushed to the Three Broomsticks, where we were supposed to have met Ron and Hermione 10 minutes ago.
"Sorry we're late guys, you should seeā¦" I never finished my sentence, because when I looked up, I saw Ron and Hermione in a remote corner, snogging their hearts out.
Author's Note: Okay I know I posted all of this at one time, and I haven't asked for any reviews thus far. So, I decided to leave you a cliffy, and I'll post the next bit when I get five reviews. Fair enough? I'm holding the nex chapters ransom muahahahhahahhaahahahahhahahahhahah! lol. Anyways, Five reviews and I'll post again. Thanks for reading!
