Everything was a buzz around Ron. Slowly things settled, came into focus, and the buzz faded. Ron slowly opened his eyes to see a quietly sleeping Hermione, her head resting on the bed. Ron thought of nothing but Hermione, "She is even more beautiful when she is asleep." Ron reached to gently brush Hermione's hair away from her face.
"You know you love her," rang out Ron's heart.
"I know I do," admitted Commonsense as Ron continued to brush Hermione's hair. The urge to kiss Hermione, to wake her from her slumber, like in a fairytales, was strong. This was the one time that Ron felt he could not resist, he move ever so slightly so that he could kiss her. In his movement Hermione awoke.
"Ron, you're awake!" remarked a still sleepy and quite surprised Hermione.
"Yeah," grimaced Ron wishing that Hermione hadn't woken up.
"I must have fallen asleep," thought Hermione aloud, "I'm sorry Ron, I was supposed to stay up incase you came too. Have you been conscious long?"
"No, just woke up," lied Ron as he realized that he was in the infirmary. He sort of knew he was there from the start but the full concept of being there finally hit, "What are we doing in the infirmary any way?"
Hermione quickly explained what misery the Quidditch game was, and what Madame Pomphrey had said.
"So you volunteered to stay?" asked Ron.
"Yeah, Harry did too, but with his constant blackouts he wouldn't have been a good choice."
"You're right," agreed Ron, " thanks for staying anyway."
Hermione smiled as she said, "You're Welcome."
There was something painfully sweet about Ron sitting there on the infirmary bed somewhat helpless.
"You know how you feel," chimed Hermione's heart.
"That's not possible," denied Hermione.
"Quite trying to fool yourself," argued Commonsense.
"What? I'm not fooling myself! I do not love Ronald Weasley," lied Hermione to herself – she knew the truth – she loved him.
As the two sat there in silence, staring at each other they slowly leaned forward and shared a soft kiss. Neither of them realized what they were doing until their lips touched.
"I'd better go," suggested Hermione biting her lower lip she had no idea what had just happened.
"Oh-Okay," stuttered Ron just as surprised and bewildered as Hermione.
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