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 Nine:

Truce

Hermione sat down in the empty Great Hall mumbling mean things about Ron and Malfoy. "...should both be in Slytherin.." was one of the things that was said. Her head shot up. Her problems were solved! She thought Ron was a prat and she didn't like him which meant she DID like Harry more! She was relieved her problems were completely solved and she smiled. (or so she thinks ¤sigh¤ LoL)

The two boys found her in the deserted great hall at their table, and she seemed slightly less agitated than she'd been when she stormed out the half hour before. Harry approached her and said in a kind voice as possible, "You know, you really have got to stop this running off thing you've been doing. It's getting harder to catch up to you."

Ron sat down across from her, not looking her in the eyes. He mumbled a "sorryforactinglikeaprat" then looked up at her hopefully, with puppy eyes.

Hermione looked at Harry, then Ron. Damnit! How could problems come back so fast! She didn't know, but hers came back in a heartbeat. She smiled at him. "No more ideas that I like the ferret?" she asked softly.

Harry chuckled. "No more. Ferret boy remains unliked by all three of us."

And Ron grinned.

"Good," she replied simply. "I think we should get out of here. About 3 minutes till its past curfew." she said, smiling at both of them now. She was getting REALLY sick of this problem.

As they walked back to the Gryff dorms, they walked on either side of her. Harry was on her right, Ron on her left. And both of them held one of her hands...

Harry was lost in own thoughts, wondering how was he and Ron going to come to a compromise and not only that, but actually get around to telling Hermione how they- Ron- felt? How could he not tell how he felt too, now?

And Ron- Ron was thinking how could he have let Harry hear that? After Harry had said it might cause them to have issues, even- gah, not be friends anymore? How he bring himself to be the one to risk that? Ron was torn...

And both boys were quite aware that holding Hermione's hand suddenly felt like the most wonderful feeling... and they wondered if Hermione did feel something like that way about them? (After all, if it definitely wasn't Malfoy she was fancying, then who?)

Hermione at first felt a bit odd about them holding her hands, but found that a happiness overcame the odd feeling. She smiled at both of them, feeling the happiest she had in a long while. A very long while. She felt herself blush, but only a bit.

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 own the books and movies. I make no money off this zany sappiness, none at all. Honestly.