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Summary: She loves him, he doesn't know but he loves someone else, and she loves this guy—you just can't win. What if love doesn't have to be written in the stars but in your eyes and the only people that can see it are the people around you? Let the third war begin.

Truth, we don't wanna hear
It's too much to take
Don't like to feel out of control
So we make our plans
Ten times a day
And when they don't go
our way we

Breakdown
Yeah we breakdown
Well don't you breakdown
Listen to me
Because

It's just a ride, it's just a ride
no need to run, no need to hide
It'll take you round and round
Sometimes you're up
sometimes you're down
It's just a ride, it's just a ride
don't be scared
don't hide your eyes
It may feel so real inside
but don't forget it's just a ride

Ron's Point of View

I am probably the only person who truly understands the complexity of Harry and Hermione's relationship. It is so much deeper than what people think and that is what worries me. I know that if they aren't careful they could put themselves in a very sticky situation.

I woke up to find Harry's night lamp on but his bed was empty. I trudged over to his bedside and put out the flame. There was a book on his bed table, The Five People You Meet In Heaven.

'Has Harry Potter gone soft?' My gut is telling me that something is not right.

There were little clues too justify why I was on the look out for Harry. He had been acting really strange since Hermione had arrived. And while she was gone she was all he ever talked about. I had tried to make it come out innocent by talking about her too. Don't get me wrong I love Hermione like a sister but she isn't exactly my favorite topic, at least not anymore. I can see it in Cho's eyes; I am not the only one who is suspicious about how Harry Potter really sees our friend.

As I walked down the winding stairs towards our common room I find Harry and Hermione asleep on the couch. Thankfully, they do not have their arms around each other (they used too). But being together, completely by themselves could get them into trouble, no, it will get them into a lot of trouble. To them what they saw and felt for each other was totally innocent, I know better. I've watched the two of them go through everything together, save the wizarding world together. I was placed in their lives to balance out the situation because if they had been the dynamic duo that they are I assure you they would be married by now or probably not talking. Which is worse?

But I know that they could get themselves into a lot of trouble if someone caught them together, especially now that Harry had Cho.

"Harry, get up." I tapped him on the shoulder.

Hermione's feet pulled away from Harry's lap and I looked at her. "Ron?" I had forgotten that Hermione was a light sleeper.

"I'm sorry, Hermione. I didn't mean to wake you." I apologized but spoke louder since my intention was to awake the-boy-who-lived.

Harry murmured something I could not comprehend.

"Harry." Hermione kicked him lightly.

"Uh?" Harry's eyes shot open. "What's wrong?"

"Do you want someone to see the two of you? Are you deliberately trying to ruin your last year here?" I asked. They both looked at me, confused. " Hello?" I tried to keep in my frustration but I suppose I wasn't doing a very good job since my voice got louder. But I saw a shadow jump and run up the girl's part of the dormitory. "Who are you?" I called out and ran to the steps. I knew better than to go up on after whomever that might have been. I wasn't really willing to get expelled on the stupidity of my best friends. "Too late. You guys can't be all over each other like you used to."

"All over each other?" Hermione asked trying to comprehend my words. They were looking at me as if I were speaking in some foreign language.

"I'll explain it to you later. But I think you should go back to your own quarters." I looked at Hermione and she was obviously confused about the way I was acting. Hermione's eyes were glassy but it only because she did not understand my actions.

"We need to talk." Harry looked at me (like I'm a punching bag, actually) when Hermione finally left the room.

"We do." I looked at him evenly.

"What was that all about?" Harry was obviously very upset about my actions.

"You really don't know?" I asked him.

"You think I would be asking if I didn't?" He clenched his fists. "You really bothered Hermione."

"You don't see it, do you? The way you look at her. You have a girlfriend and still you look at her that way. It doesn't take a genius to see it, Harry."

"Ron, you aren't making any sense. Try speaking in English." Harry was really not picking anything up. Harry had definitely proved to be the daft prick people assumed he was.

"You are in love with her." I sum it all up. "Do you need me to spell it out for you?"

"I'm not in love with her." He laughed mockingly. "I mean I do love her, she is my best friend. I can't be in love with her, she's my best friend too."

"She was my friend too." I reply remembering what I had gone through when I realized how I felt for my shaggy-haired friend. Harry looked at me in shock. I had requested that we would never talk or even think about my feelings for Hermione again. "You might not see it now Harry but you've got to open you eyes, one day, hopefully sooner than later you will see and feel what really is inside your heart. And when you do I only hope that she reciprocates, but you can't have her now, because you can't do that to Cho."

He's looking at me obviously shocked by my choice of words. He is in so much shock he that he is unable to speak. "And I won't let you do that to Hermione." I turned around and left him. I didn't want to push it onto him like that but I knew that if he had continued to act the way he did around Hermione, he would hurt her. He was in a win-win situation and she was on the losing end.

Hermione was next on my list. I knew that I had somehow hurt her and in the process rekindling the pain that I had felt (when I realized that there would never be a Hermione and Ron or a Ron and Hermione) I hurt myself in the process.

"Hermione," I called my friend as I saw her in the hallway. Harry and I had just gotten out of Potions and Hermione had not showed up for class. Harry had not really said a word to me since my little speech earlier that morning. I had not said anything either. I really loved Luna, with all my heart. But Hermione will always be the girl who got away in my life.

"Hello, Ronald." She smiled. She was hiding behind her feelings again. But her eyes were the secret to what her heart felt. And I could see that I confused her and she had probably come up with all these things only depressing herself.

"I'm sorry about this morning, but you really shouldn't have missed a class just because of what I had said." I apologized.

"Really, Ron," She smiled. She was amazing at hiding her feelings. It was almost as if nothing had happened. She was amazing at everything, actually. "I had a meeting with Dumbledore. I had to submit my work to all the teachers as well. Do you really think I would skip a class just because? Sorry, to burst your bubble."

"That's a relief." I smile.

"Hi, Harry." Hermione stands straight. I turn around to see him standing right behind me.

"Hello, mate." I greet him as well.

"Hello," He nods his head. "What class are you off to?" He asks Hermione.

"I don't have a class at the moment, I'm going to head off to the library. I still have a thousand and one things to do." She bit her lip. "I'll see you at lunch."

"We haven't got a class either." Harry said. He and I had every class together. Hermione's got mixed up because she absolutely refused to take Divinations. "Why don't we just spend time together? Like we used to." He seemed to be really hopeful.

"Boo!" Cho had appeared from nowhere.

"Hello," Harry beamed and gave her a quick kiss. "Don't you have Potions next?"

"Oh, didn't you hear? Neville knocked over a couple of bottles in Snape's classroom and now the whole place smells like a graveyard." Cho giggled her eyes practically disappeared when she did. "He cancelled class today, said it was a health hazard or something like that."

"You're lucky." I scratched my head remembering my class earlier.

"So I assumed that since you haven't any classes we might as well spend a little time together." She looked at Harry.

"Well, I was making plans with Hermione and Ro—" He began.

"Like I said Harry, I really can't I've got more than a hundred things to do." Hermione said. I was beginning to think she understood the little situation we had earlier. "We can do it some other time, okay? There's always next week."

Harry looked at me as if asking me if it was okay. "It's fine." I nodded my head. I think he was beginning to understand what I had explained to him either. He mouthed a sorry to Hermione as literally pulled him away.

"I've never seen anyone so possessive." I said as Hermione and I walked side by side. I noticed a smile form on her lips. She looked down. "Hermione, look at me."

She inhaled and looked up at me a smile already plastered on her face. She had mastered fake smiles and illusions to make you think she was happy.

"I'm sorry. I really am. And I want to be able to explain everything to you. But I won't be able to do it here." I tell her when we make it to the entrance of the library.

"Take me where you will." She shrugged.

"Are you sure?" I ask in shock.

"Of course, friends are more important than getting ahead of the class." She smiled and her eyes were shining. This smile was genuine. "Besides I can get ahead in no time."

"Aha!" I say triumphantly. "It is getting into your head."

She rolled her eyes. "Where are we going?"

"I was thinking the garden." I took a step into the sunlight.

"We're here so talk." Hermione smiled. "I really want to know what is bothering you."

"I don't really know where to start." I say when I realize that I didn't have a speech prepared.

"Well, I haven't really prepared anything." I ramble.

"The best speeches are those that are unprepared and come from the heart." She encouraged. "And you can quote me on that. Start with why you kicked me out this morning."

"I didn't kick you out." I defended.

"Really? Cause I felt like you wanted me out of the common room as soon as possible."

"I did. Only because I am trying to protect you, Hermione."

"Protect me? Protect me from what?"

"Getting hurt." I squat and sit on the grass. Hermione follows me.

"I'm still not getting you. I only got hurt when you made me feel like I did something terribly wrong. Did I do anything wrong, Ron? Because I've been thinking about it all morning and I still haven't figured it out." She was starting to get a little frantic but her face said otherwise.

"Calm down, you did not do anything wrong. Its just Hermione you can't be the way you used to be around Harry especially now that he has a girlfriend. You are exposing yourself to something that could hurt you more than Voldemort ever could." I start not really comprehending what I'm saying.

"Ron," Hermione looked at me seriously. "You do realize you said Voldemort. I've never heard you say Voldemort, ever."

"You did too." She nodded. "But that is not the point. Hermione, Harry is now a boyfriend."

"And I am a girlfriend." She reminded.

"I know. It's just that it could be messier because Harry's girlfriend is here and your boyfriend is half way across the world. If Cho begins to get suspicious about anything you could be placed…"

"In a very sticky situation. You do realize that you've said that like a dozen times today?" She asked. "I understand, Ron. I do. And I love that you are so protective because I didn't know you actually loved me."

More than you know, Hermione. More than you know.

"And you have nothing to worry about because Harry would never see me that way." I can see a hint of sadness in her eyes. And I know that she thinks that Harry would never feel the way she did. But he does and soon he will realize it too.

Like a jolt inside me (a blast from the past) I remembered the night that Hermione's heart broke. I would never forget that night because it was the same time my heart broke as well.

Flashback

"Ron?" Hermione looked up from her books. Her eyes were red. Harry had just told the two of us that he was going to go for Cho.

"I saw you run in here." I sat down beside her. "You'll be okay, Hermione."

"It's not going to happen, Ron." She cried. "I'm not like all the other girls. How could I possibly think that he would feel the same way? I mean he's Harry Potter. All the prettiest girls in school are literally throwing themselves at him. How could I even think that? I'm hideous. I'm just his best friend, the one he can count on and that's it! He'll never see me that way. I shouldn't have let myself fall like that. I should've known better than to think that he'd actually like me." Her fifth year was not going as planned.

"Maybe it's just a phase. Harry might feel the same way. He'd be crazy not too." I managed to choke out. Her words were breaking my heart but I couldn't put myself before her. Not while she needed me. "It's all right."

"It's not alright." Her tears began to flow freely now. "I'm never going to be okay. It just, it hurts so much."

"I know it does." My heart was aching. "You'll get over it." I assured her, almost like I was assuring myself.

"I never will. First love never dies, right?" Hermione smiled through her tears.

"It never dies." I confirmed knowing that my feelings for Hermione would change but never be completely gone.

End of Flashback

"Ron?" Hermione looked up at me. "You were in your own world for a minute there."

"Oh," I felt my blood crawl to my cheeks. "I'm sorry I was just remembering something. Where was I?"

"I was saying that Harry would never see me that way." She smiled, but it was obvious that she was a little sad about that. "But I've got Adam now. And he seems to be crazy about me. I don't know why, thought. There are times I feel like I don't deserve him." She put her head down. This was the Hermione that no one knew, not even Harry knew this side of her. This side of her was reserved for me, and this was the side of her that I had fallen in love with a few years back. It was not that she was fishing for compliments; she had never really been given any in her time. A person doesn't just want to be known for being smart the rest of their days.

"I can see why he's crazy about you." I smiled.

"Thank you, Ron." Her smile was brighter than ever. "It means a lot." She tucked a strand of her straight hair behind her ear and put her hair down and suddenly grew a fascination for the grass.

"Maybe if I looked like the other girls he'd notice me." I remembered she had made that comment the first time Harry walked up to Cho Chang.

"You have no idea how beautiful you are." I asked trying to be as sincere as I felt. "Friendship or no friendship Harry would be crazy not to fall for you." I reassured her.

"You didn't." Hermione crossed her arms.

"I never said I didn't." I suddenly felt brave enough to confess my feelings but that would be reserved for another time because my heart belonged to someone else now. I loved Luna more than Hermione and nothing was going to change that. "Just look out for yourself, okay?" I stood up and offered my hand for Hermione to take.

"I think I can do that." She smiled.

"And tell this Adam guy he's got quite a catch." I put my arms around her.

"I will, tell Luna the same will you?" She replied. "Thank you, Ron. For caring so much, I love you for it."

"And I care about you too." I tapped her nose with my finger. It was too awkward for me to tell her that I loved her; I was still a guy, after all. She hit me on the arm and laughed. "Ouch, what was that for?"

"For being such a guy." She smiled. "But I'm glad we talked. You should go and do your boyfriend-girlfriend things with Luna. I'll see you at lunch."

"I will." I waved as she made her way back into the castle.

I probably benefited from the talk more than she did because it had somehow been closure for me. My feelings for Hermione had disappeared, not completely but it only made my feelings for Luna even stronger.

One day, I might thank Hermione for not feeling the same way because that might've changed the possibility of me ever getting to know Luna Lovegood, the love of my life.

Love is when you don't want to go to sleep because reality is better than your dreams.

A/N: Here is chapter four! I hope you guys review. Please tell me what you think in full detail. What do you think about the story? What would you change? Thanks. Please review!

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