The Common Room was almost empty, most of the students we down in the Great Hall for supper, all but Ron and Hermione. Hermione was hunched over her Ancient Rune homework and Ron babbled on about Quidditch. She let out a loud sigh and scribbled more notes down on the parchment.

" Are you feeling ok 'Mione?" Ron asked taking a break from his annoying babble. She looked up from her notes and smiled.

"Yes I am very much ok peachy even," She went back to scratching notes.

"All I have to say is spew is messing you up." He smirked and laughed.

"What's wrong with wanted to save the House Elves seeing as no one else cares about them" she said getting a little huffy. She looked at him and tried to hold back the blush that must have been crawling to her cheeks. It happened every time he looked at her.

" Well Dumbledore does and Dobby and Winkey" He said half joking half serious.

"They don't count Mr. "I'm just going to join S.P.E.W. because it will shut Hermione up"" She huffed closing her book.

"That's not the only reason... I'm waiting for the annual meeting when Harry has detention..."

"Harry always has detention and you do too, shouldn't you be polishing the silver in the trophy room?" She sneered slightly, knowing that he didn't always have detention.

"Not till six…" he said slightly fast trying to move along the subject.

"What did you do to Snape this time?" she said rolling her eyes just the way he hated.

"I called him Snivillis then I kind of vandalized his desk with a substance I'm not at liberty to discuss…" He said blushing slightly.

"Ronald Weasley! You could get yourself expelled for that you know! You know Snape would do it too!" she said sitting up quick, her eyes wide.

"Yeah but he didn't seem upset, so I'm frightened to go to detention" He cringed and sank deeper in to the chair he was sitting in.

"Well maybe next time you'll actually think before doing some thing, and you know as well as any one else you don't call Snape Snivillis he'll hex you in to next week!" Her voice leaked with disappointment in her best friend.

"After that detention Harry had, I mean the one he couldn't sit down for a couple hours, I'm scared to go" He cringed again and Hermione rolled her eyes.

"We never knew if that's really what happened I mean he wouldn't tell us... but talk to Dumbledore see if you can take detention with filch tonight I'm sure you'd have loads of fun with that." She said with a sigh

"You know I cant do elbow grease," He said making a perfectly Ron Weasley face.

"then I guess you have to take your chances with Snape, or you could just STOP GETTING IN TROUBLE!!" She yelled at him playfully. He looked down at his holey shoes and mumbled.

"But that's no fun..."

"Well if you would stop trying to act like your bothers you might not spend every night in detention!" she said in a stuck-up tone. She knew she pushed it to fair when that look appeared on his reddening face.

"I'm going to practice on my new firebolt that the twins got me." He said fast and got up. He ran up to his dorm and slammed the door. Hermione rolled her eyes and ran up after him.

"Ron stop being such a prat!" she said loudly as she flung the door open.

" Dear god Hermione!" He yelled pulling the sheets from his bed up around his naked body. Hermione's eyes went wide and she slid out of the room and on to the floor.

" Sorry" she said getting up and started walking down the stairs " I'll see you down stairs…" she said all frazzled. He finished dressing and grabbed his new Firebolt. He clomped down the stairs and say Hermione blushing madly on the couch.

" I'm really sorry" She mumbled in to her hair. Ron turned his Weasley red and shot her a sideways smile. " But you should be studying and not going out to fly around the Pitch. You have a Potions essay due tomorrow have you even started it?" she said taking her know it all tone with him.

"Yes I'm almost done" He lied; in truth he was only half.

"Ron I know you well enough to know that's a lie" she stated folding her arms in front of her.

"Ok, ok so I'm only half done!" he said giving in with out a fight, knowing it could go on forever.

"And you'll go and fly around the pitch till 5 30 then come in and eat then go off to detention and wont get back till 11 you'll be up till 1 doing your essay and be falling asleep in potions tomorrow which will get you another bloody detention," she said with attitude she didn't mean to have.

"Ahhh... life is a cruel cycle isn't it?" he said with a sarcastic tone.

" Ron, your a Prefect shouldn't you be setting a good example" she said rolling her eyes at him.

"probably but that's why they made you a prefect Hermione" He said innocently.

"I don't see why they even thought of making you one its not like you do any thing on time or right at all." She rolled her eyes again as she always did to him. He said down at the table and started to do his potions essay. 'I'll show her' he thought to himself. Hermione pulls out another book from her bag and started to do her Transfiguration homework. "Wipe that look off your face Ron."

" What look?"

"That I can't believe I'm doing this and missing Quidditch look"

"I'm missing Quidditch because I jizzed on Snape's desk oops…never mind that…" he said mentally kicking himself at letting it slip.

"You really should miss Quidditch, then its not like it's a game or any thing its just practice" she said looking up from her homework.

"I know I know" he said a little annoyed with her badgering.

"Even though you need as much practice as you can get" she mumbled under her breath not knowing that he heard her. His eyes started to water, as he looked down at him pathetically written essay.

" Hey Ron" she said closing her book as her stomach started to rumble. He didn't respond to her question. " Ron?"

" Wh - what?" He said through sniffles.

" Lets go down to di - what's wrong?"

" It's nothing, nothing at all" he said wiping the tears out of his eyes before turning to look at her.

" Ron what's wrong?" Concern dripped from her voice as she spoke to him.

" It's nothing, I'll just go get changed and we can go to the Great Hall" He got up and sulked up to the boys dormitories. He changed in to jeans and a Cannons tee shirt and walked back down to the Common Room. " Ready?" he said feeling better then he had before.

" Yep" she said finishing her homework. They walked through the portrait and down the hallway to the main staircase. " I'm really sorry about you missing Quidditch and call, but look on the bight side Harry is too." She smiled at him. He didn't answer right away, but just looked in to her eyes.

" I'm Sorry" He finally said.

" For what?" she asked, her faced flashed with confusion.

" For… this" He pushed up to the wall and placed his lips over hers. Her body hummed at his lips found hers and she went in to shock. His lips slid down her cheek and along her neck.

" Ron what are you doing?"