Chapter fourteen
Her hate towards Karen practically melted away when she saw the snow outside. It had snowed late that year, but it was still snow. She was so happy. Unbeleiveably happy. By the time she walked out to breakfast that morning she was ecstatic. Ron saw the look on her face the moment she walked into the Great Hall.
"Why are you so happy?" He asked her, although he was smiling.
"Why can't I be?" she asked him.
"I was just asking." he took a bite of toast, "So how's your eye?"
"Perfect." she sighed looking longingly towards the enchanted ceiling where the snowflakes were gently drifting towards them.
He raised an eyebrow and followed her line of vision to the cloudy sky above them.
"You like snow." he said.
"What was your first clue?" Crys responded sarcastically, "Wanna go out and play?"
"Are you being serious?"
"Yes. There's still an hour until Transfiguration."
"Alright." he gave in easily this time, just because she looked so happy.
On their way out he looped his arm around her waist. She stopped and pulled a scarf, hat and matching mittens out of her bag. She pulled them on and grabbed Ron's wrist pulling him out the door running as fast as she could. She stopped when she took her first step into the snow, her eyes wide. She let go of his wrist and slowly continued walking out into the cold. Her cheeks grew pink as she spun in circles, leaving footprints in the perfect snow and snowflakes catching in her dark hair. She stopped to face Ron, who was still standing on the front steps of the castle watching her move, and she walked towards him a lopsided smile crawling across her red lips. She grasped a hand around each of his wrists and slowly walked backwards pulling him onto the white grounds. She stopped about ten feet from the school and wrapped her arms around his neck, looking into his eyes. She felt his strong arms wrap themselves firmly around her waist and lifted her feet six inches off of the ground she her eyes were level with his. They kissed slowly and Crys wiggled her hips to snuggle closer to him in the insane cold. He smiled into the kiss at feeling this and was about to take their kiss to a different level when-
"Could you get room, Weasley," said the drawling voice of Malfoy, "I am not enjoying this show you are putting on, and you should get your slutty, mudblood girlfriend out of here before something happens to her."
Ron was about to put Crys down and beat Malfoy to a pulp but Crys spoke first, "So Draco, doll," she barely pulled her face away from Ron's, "How is your girlfriend?" Malfoy glared at the couple and pulled out his wand. He threw a hex at them, but Ron suddenly flung them to the side and into the snow as Crys pulled his wand out of the back of his robes and threw one back that didn't miss. Malfoy giggled, looked offended, giggled and stormed off giggling, to Professor Snape, no doubt, leaving Ron free forty minutes to take it to all the levels he wanted to.
Dear Ron,
Meet me tonight in the astronomy tower at eleven for a surprise. Don't ask me anything about it or I'll call it off.
All my love,
Crystal
Ron read the note through several times at the breakfast table the next morning. He tucked the note into his pocket as Harry entered the Great Hall. He smiled to himself as they set off for Defense Against the Dark Arts. What could she have in store...
Ron headed to the Astronomy Tower at ten of eleven under Harry's invisibility cape thet night. He was really excited about Crys' surprise. What she could be up to he had no idea, but he was looking forward to it.
When he walked into the room at the top of the tower there was Karen, dressed in cheap lingere, wand ready to curse him when he walked through the door. And she did.
Honestly, Crys thought as she walked nervously to the Astronomy tower, does that girl think I am that stupid? The note was right there in his pocket. Idiot. She tried to keep back in the shadows because Ron had already taken Harry's invisibility cloak, although Harry had lent her the Mauderer's Map which currently showed Filch and Mrs. Norris on the trail of Seamus and Lavender, who were in a broom closet two floors below her. When she finally reaached the Tower she wiped the map clean and checked her watch. It was 11:08. Perfect.
She threw the door open and saw Ron, his eyes randomly darting to strange corners of the room at even intervals, and Karen laying next to him, obviously posing, with her head propped up on her hand.
"Oh Karen!" Crys exclaimed, "I'm so sorry! I didn't realize it was your night with Ron! Is it Wednesday already? I'll be off then." She turned to leave but Karen wasn't so happy with her reaction.
Her eyes narrowed and jaw dropped in disgust. She mumbled something along the lines of dirty Griffindors and stormed out of the room. The second the door slammed behind her the spell on Ron broke and his eyes looked normal again as they fell on Crys.
"Where's Karen?" he said absentmindedly.
Playing with his head a little won't hurt. Crys thought and she looked offended by his last statement. She grabbed the invisibility cloak he had left lying on the floor and stormed out. On the Mauderer's map she saw Filch headed towards Ron and decided it probably wouldn't be best if he got in that much trouble so she whispered a quick spell to crash some things over in the charms classroom and the dot labeled Filch and the dot labeled Mrs. Norris both ran towards the sound from different directions.
Why did I say that? Why would I say that. My girlfriend, the best thing to happen to me, ever, was standing right there after seeing me with that slut and I practically broke her heart by asking for the girl who gave her a black eye two days ago. I can't beleive it. She's going to hate me. What will I say? Ron heard a loud crash from across the castle. He set off at a run towards Griffindor tower. when he whispered the password and climbed through the portrait hole after a dissapproving look from the fat lady he heard something behind him. He spun around and Crys jumped out at him from behind a chair.
"Crys!" he started, "It wasn't me! Sh-"
"I know." she smiled at him and pecked him on the lips, "But I had you going for a while there didn't I?"
"You-" he gave her a releived smile and tackled her onto a nearby sofa where he began to tickle her like crazy. Her giggles echoed through the empty common room and up through the dorms. When Ginny came down to see what was wrong she saw Crys and her brother laughing and snuggling on the couch. She smiled and wondered why she couldn't find a man as great to her as her brother was to Crys.
