Contemplating Confusion

by ©SimbiAni™ and SweetieK

Summary: A joint effort between two dream-dazed fans, one who can't get enough sappiness, and one who has a tendency to surround herself in drama. In this episode of our adventures, Hermione realizes she has a crush on both Ron and Harry. How will she come to terms with this new issue, and who will she choose? No specific year, and complete AU.

Warnings: This fic is not to be taken seriously. It is the result of a non-HP-writing fan (well, who admittedly dreams HP though) reluctantly bribed into RP-ing HP with a drama princess. Although this has been edited to fic form (meaning, minus all the zany chat inbetween each other's posts), you must still expect to encounter lots of randomness, sillyness, grammatical errors, repetitiveness, loss of sense of time, probly OoC-ness too, and extreme lack of plot. Once more, this fic is here purely for your amusement. You have been warned. Enjoy! Hopefully it brings a smile to your face, hehehe...

Chapter Two:

Mystical Morning

Hermione awoke, nearly forgetting the night before. She laughed and got dressed in black pants and a black halter top, for once happy that they could wear what they wanted on weekends. She brushed her hair, and made it completely straight with a new spell she had found out from a friend; and walked into the Common Room, waiting for Ron to wake up so she could see his reaction when he found his homework was done.

Harry woke, finding himself groggy and with an achy pain in his head. It seemed he had dreamt of nothing but a certain kind've feeling, a longing of sorts. After he'd dressed, he'd also woken up Ron (who was quite grumbly himself and took some convincing to get up- "i'm not going to town so why wake me up for early breakfast let me keep sleepin" followed by Harry's own sleepy voice insisting "nah you have to come down, mate seriously you're coming by special circumstances" and then answered by Ron's "bloody special, i'll show you special, i want to sleep i'm staying in bed g'bye..." and followed by Harry tugging him out of bed and nearly knocking him downstairs), becuz Harry'd remembered what Hermione'd done the previous night and wouldn't let it go to waste.

Hermione actually broke out in a fit of giggles. It was too much to see. A sleepy Harry tugging a Ron who was in his pajamas out into the Common Room. She finally controlled her laughter long enough so she could see his reaction.

Harry rubbed his eyes as he wandered over to Hermione, realizing only a minute too late that in his bustle of getting Ron up he'd forgotten his glasses (which he usually put on last anyways). He merely waved a "be-right-back" in Hermione's direction (which he could tell by the sounds of her giggling.. what at, he couldn't guess- what could be so funny about? oh nevermind, he thought busily, turning back to the stairs).

His turn was a bit off though, becuz he tripped right smack-dab into Ron, who seemed to be staring at their Hermione.

"What did you do to your hair?" Ron said in curiously loud voice.

Harry grabbed ahold of him to keep from falling, and Ron nudged him towards the stairs absently as he headed toward Hermione.

"You- you did that spell on it again!" Ron sputtered.

Harry began climbing the stairs, and started giggling a bit himself.

Hermione nodded. "Yup, why?" she asked curiously. "Oh, don't you think you should at least start on your homework?" she suggested. She knew he would think she was nagging again.

Ron paused, and looked toward the place he'd left this bag the night before, remembering his storm up when Harry had finished so smoothly. "How did you know I hadn't finished- Oh who'm I kidding, I'm just that predictable now, aren't I?" he sauntered over to his chair and plopped down in it. "You can carry on to the trip without me, I'll be staying here." he declared, sullenly.

"Ronald Weasley, if you don't get it out then I will and I will force you to write!" Hermione exclaimed, nearly sounding like Ron's mother. She knew that would work.

Ron winced visibly as Hermione's voice turned sharp and shrill, and he held his hands up in protest. "Fine, fine, I'll get it out alright... If you wanted me to come with you that much, all you had to do was beg-" he grinned slyly, as he pulled open the zipper of his sack. He ducked as she tossed a couch pillow at him, and then he stuttered confusion bits of words as he stared at his notebooks he'd pulled out. "How?" (bah, notebooks, scrolls, whateva, LoL)

Hermione grinned. "Better get dressed. Oh, by the way, nice teddy bears, Weasley." she teased, indicating his pajamas. "Wouldn't want everyone in Hogsmeade to see you like that."

Ron turned as red as the Gryffindor drapes, and tried (and failed) once again to utter something coherent.

Harry came down just then, glasses securely on, and himself fully dressed, and saw Ron looking flustered, and he laughed. "Still a stuttering fool round the pretty girls, eh, Ron?"

Ron turn even redder.

Just then, Harry saw Hermione too, coming from the girls down with her purse in hand. "Ohh.." was all he could say. Then, "Lovely hair... hehe..."

Hermione blushed a bit. "Thanks," she replied, biting her lip again. "Both of you ready?" she asked, looking at both of them.

Ron quickly stood. "I'll be back down in 5 minutes!" he scrambled up the stairs to escape the pjs and get into some real clothes before Hermione could get in any more laughs about them.

Meanwhile, Harry turned to Hermione and inquired about the change of hair, and whether they should wait for Ron to walk down to breakfast together, or just meet him there.

"I think it might take him a while. We can meet him down there," she answered, heading towards the exit of the Common Room.

Harry followed her unquestionably, and laughed out loud at the thought of Ron showing up at breakfast still in his pjs. And then he realized, he was unconsciously walking closer to Hermione, and he wondered, when did that start happening? He gave himself a mental shake to try and clear his head...

RP Disclaimer: Hermione is all SweetieK. Harry and Ron though, are SimbiAni's sappy expressions. Other chars' usage are varied, depending on whose RP turn it was, hehe.

Movie/Book Disclaimer: JKR and WB etc own the books and movies. I make no money off this zany sappiness, none at all. Honestly.