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Author's Notes: Thanks to all my fantastic reviewers! 76! Wow. I'm pleased, really, really pleased. Thanks you guys- you're just the best! This chapter, much like the latest chapter of my other fic, is all about confessions, and a little cameo on guys vs. girls. I got the cameo idea from the episode of "Friends" called The One with the List, where the three guys and girls are discussing Ross and Rachel's first kiss. I love that show! So, here's the next chapter, please enjoy! Oh, and I also highly recommend "All I Know" by StarGirl7, which is an excellent Ron/Hermione fic. I adore that story! Anyways, on with mine!
Chapter 10: Later That Night
A few hours had passed since the dilemma on the beach, and now it was well into nighttime. The moon was high and there was an ominous chill to the air that sent shivers down everyone's spines. The stars weren't all that visible, as overcast clouds seemed to block them out slightly, and the wind was whistling softly, tickling everyone's bare shoulders.
They had all, excluding Ron and Hermione, spent the night flirting obviously and just being smitten with one another. The couple wished they could do that, but after what they had nearly done before, they thought it best to keep a safe distance, at least for the rest of the day. It was the spirit of the beach that overtook them that afternoon, and it might not be discussed by anyone after that. They knew in the back of their minds that neither would have gone through with it, because they were both so young and had the consequences to look to. But still, they at least wanted to tell their closest friends they were in love.
Now, back from a midnight dip in the ocean, everyone proceeded back up to their separate rooms to crash for the night. Their toes squished beneath the wet sand and the gentle rain massaged the top of their heads.
They all sprang, clothes and belongings in hand, back up to the hotel, and to their respective floors.
"Goodnight, my Luna." Neville said sweetly, and kissed her gently goodnight. She, in turn, kissed him back, and then planted a sweet little kiss on his cheek.
"Goodnight." And Neville ascended the stairs to his floor as Seamus kissed Hannah as well, and Harry, not telling Ron anything yet, just gave his new girlfriend a little hug and Ron, well, he tried his hardest not to kiss Hermione, and left with, what appeared as a "platonic" hug. After his roommates had gone above and were out of earshot and the rest of the girls were well down the hall, Hermione reached for Ron around the neck and pulled his head down to hers.
"I'll tell them tonight. I can't keep this a secret any longer." She whispered into his ear and she felt him nod.
"I'll do the same- with the guys, that is." And she nodded and sighed against his neck.
"Call you in the morning?" She asked him, and released his neck and allowed him to stand up.
"You better." He said, and gave her his famous lop-sided grin before he looked back. "Goodnight, 'Mione."
"Goodnight, Ron." She said, and kissed his cheek quickly, in case someone saw.
Instantly, he put his right hand up to where she had just kissed, and held it there, as if holding it there until he saw her again. He didn't want to forget her kiss. And he went back up the stairs, and Hermione walked down the hall to her room.
"What took you so long?" Hannah asked upon her arrival.
"I just had something to discuss with Ron. We- erm- had a row before and I wanted to straighten things out before we went to bed. You know me; I don't like to go to bed with anyone mad at me." She thought quickly, and finished lamely.
Ginny raised an eyebrow at her and Hermione gave her a pleading look. Ginny, more confused than ever, shrugged at her. Then it clicked. She nodded, smiling of course, and helped her out.
"Yeah, Harry and I heard her and Ron at it when we were coming back from the bathroom. They were really, really arguing this time." Ginny said, and Hermione smiled thankfully.
She mouthed the words "thank you" and Ginny winked at her, and flashed her a you-better-spill-everything-later smile.
"Okay," Ginny started, "I came back to the blankets to see four people in very different places than when I left. Spill it girls." And Hannah and Luna blushed.
"I think I'll start," Came a voice, but it was neither Hannah nor Luna. All three girls turned their heads to see a guilty-looking Hermione smiling weakly at them.
Ron came back to his room to see Seamus and Neville interrogating Harry. He hoped to enter unnoticed, seeing as it took him quite a few minutes to get back to the room after them. However, his idea faltered.
"It's about time you got here, Weasley. We wondered where you went." Seamus said, looking back at him from questioning Harry.
"I stopped at the muggle snack machine down the hall." He said, thinking of the first thing that came to mind.
"But you don't have anything." Neville pointed out.
"Oh, the bloody machine ate my money." He said, rubbing the back of his neck with his left hand.
"What do you expect? Muggle machines don't take sickles, Ron." Seamus said, and Ron shrugged. Seamus turned back to Harry.
"It was nothing, I swear." He said, sweating slightly at the thought of his best mate pounding him to a pulp if he ever found out what went on between himself and Ron's little sister.
"Whatever you say." Neville said.
"Hey now, what about you and Luna, Neville? And how's Hannah, Seamus?" Harry asked, a mischievous glint evident in his eyes.
"Er- about that…" Seamus started, unsure of how to explain himself, until someone else cut in.
"I kissed Hermione." Ron interjected, keeping his word to Hermione by telling the guys, and everyone rounded on him slowly, while he just blushed deeply.
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"No…way." Luna breathed, and Hermione nodded. Instantly, the four friends burst into huge smiles and began giggling.
"That's It. Girl talk. Right here, Right now. An all truth session, because I know all of us has something to tell." Hannah said, and cast a look towards Ginny, indicating that she had noticed her and Harry.
"I'll get the diet coke!" Luna said, and ran off to the fridge, pulling out several cans of soda for them all to drink.
"And I'll disconnect the phone line! We cannot be interrupted!" Ginny said, and sprang off her bed and tore the phone cord from the wall.
"That leaves me with the candy and snacks." Hannah said, and went into the other room in fetch of something sweet and delicious.
"And me with figuring out the most plausible way to explain everything." Hermione said, and hugged a pillow to her chest.
Her roommates came back seconds later, carrying soda and snacks. Luna passed everyone a can and put the rest on the end table, while Hannah spilled out bags of all sorts onto the bed in front of them. Everyone meeting on Hermione and Ginny's bed, they all sat cross-legged and dove into the candy Hannah had brought over.
"Hermione, looks like you're first." Luna said, biting onto a Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Bean.
Hermione took a deep breath, and then exhaled, a smile on her lips. "It started a last night-"
"Last night?! And you haven't told us?!" Ginny interrupted.
"I'm getting there." Hermione assured her, and then continued, "Anyways, it was a couple nights ago, the night of the Luau, to be exact. I had stormed off after Ginny mislead me into going to the whole shindig, and I guess Ron followed me. I sat down in the sand and just kind of stayed there, and then I saw his towering figure over me in the light. He apologized for the fight from that morning, and I apologized for everything I had said to him. Because, I tell you, I was feeling awful about it."
The received sympathetic smiles from all three, and then took another deep breath, smiling even wider remembering it all, and continued on.
"So we made up, and we were friends again. Everything was good. Same as always. Until he told me the reason for his rage: Jealousy."
"I knew it!" Ginny gasped, and she hugged a pillow to her chest, anxious to hear more.
"I couldn't believe what he had said. I mean, I speculated him to be jealous, but he's Ron. He's always been protective, you know?" Hermione asked her friends, to no one in particular, but Ginny gave a small cough, acknowledging that she knew very well what protectiveness to which Hermione was referring. Everyone laughed a little bit, and Hermione continued still.
"So, I asked him about it. I mean, what was there to get jealous over anyways? I mean, he was jealous of Malfoy. And I could see him blushing, and he sort of, mumbled something. And then he looked down and, I remember this part vividly, 'Because he and Vicky have gotten everything I've wanted since I was thirteen.' he said to me, and I was confused, so I questioned him further, asking what on earth that was. and he replied, 'You.'" Hannah, Luna, and Ginny all sighed happily and let out a chorus of Awww's. Hermione turned a light shade of pink.
"Then me, being the questioning girl that I am, asked him if he liked me. And he said that he really did, and then looked away from me again, afraid I might turn him down, or something ridiculous like that." Hermione rolled her eyes at the memory and the thought that he might think that.
Ginny rolled her eyes too, "The daft prat." She muttered, and everyone laughed.
"Then I admitted to everything I've ever known. I told him how much I liked him and how much he meant to me, and that I was being sincere in everything I said. Then he hugged me, and we stayed that way for quite a few minutes, taking in all of this new information. We just sat there, in the sand, quiet, and it was nice." Hermione said, and the rest of them looked rather disappointed.
"And then," Hermione started, and they perked up, their ears all attentive to whatever she was about to divulge to them, "we broke apart from the hug, and I was just starting to roll over to sit next to him, and he took my hand and brought me back to him, and he kissed me." She said, and blushed furiously.
The girls shrieked and jumped up and down in their seats, shrieking wildly. They were all laughing loudly now.
"And?" Luna asked her.
"Yeah?"
"You can't leave out any details. Share!" Hermione laughed lightly.
"Okay, Okay. Gin, are you sure you want to hear the details of how your brother kisses?" Hermione looked at her boyfriend's younger sister.
"Herm, this is your time. I'll erase all bad thoughts about my brother later. This is girl talk, after all. You can't leave anything out." The red-headed female smiled and presumed to hug the pillow.
"Okay. In all honesty-" The girls hung on to her every word, "It was the best thing I've ever experienced in my life. It started off soft and quick, and at first I didn't realize it. But once it all sunk in, I kissed him back, and he gradually made it deeper. It was just deep and it was better than anything I had ever imagined. He put his arms on my waist and moved them to my back, and I ran my fingers through his hair, then put my arms around his neck and pulled him closer to me."
Luna stared off dreamily, and Ginny and Hannah were very, very excited to hear all this, despite the fact that Hermione was referring to Ginny's brother, after all. Luna took a big handful of popcorn, and shoved it into her mouth, dropping a little on the bed below her.
"Then it ended, and we just stared into each other's eyes, " Hermione was speaking in a rather dreamy tone, "and he looked me straight in mine, smiled his famous smile, and said 'I love you'"
Everyone squealed and leaned closer to hear her better.
"And you said?" Ginny said, her eyes wide with excitement, slowly chewing on the Jelly Slug in her mouth.
"'I love you, too' of course. And then he asked me to be his girlfriend, and I said that nothing could ever be better. And we kissed again, softly, and sweetly, and broke away, completely happy." Hermione dazed off dreamily, and had to be woken from her reverie.
"That is the sweetest story I've ever heard in my life." Hannah said, and Hermione blushed.
"I'm quite pleased with him." She said, and the smile never left her face. Everyone leaned forward in a friendly embrace, and all whispered words of congratulations to Hermione.
"You two are perfect for each other," Ginny said, "I think I see a future sister-in-law before my eyes." Hermione blushed and Ginny winked at her.
"It's a little early to be thinking about that." She said, though in the back of her mind figured that if they ever got together, it would last forever.
"I'm so glad you two finally figured everything out. You two deserve each other." Hannah said, and Hermione smiled still. She was so lucky to have such supporting friends.
They parted, and Hermione cleared her throat, prepared to tell them the next bit of information she had in store for them, unsure how they would take this.
"There's something else, too." She said, and they all looked at her, unsure of what more she had to say. "We didn't actually leave for snacks before."
"Well, that's certainly obvious now." Luna said, and snorted lightly.
"We, kind of, made our way up here. And made out, and I mean, really made out. Tongues crashing, passionate kissing, the whole nine yards." She said, and blushed deeper than ever.
"Wait—you two didn't…?" Ginny started, scared for the answer.
"No. NO!" Hermione said, saving her good name. All three girls let out a huge sigh of relief. "It wouldn't have happened anyways. It was way, way too early for that. And besides, McGonagall nearly caught us."
Everyone's eyes became as wide as tea saucers.
"Oh my God." Luna breathed.
"I shoved Ron in the closet and she said she heard from Malfoy that I came to the hotel with a guy. But I told her that Malfoy saw wrong and that it was Ginny getting her sunglasses, but that she went back down to the beach and I watched TV. Except my TV wasn't on, and McGonagall took note of it and I said I turned it off right before she came in. And she bought it. Right after she left, I let Ron out of the closet and we came back down to the beach." Hermione finished.
"Well, you had quite the afternoon." Ginny said, and closed her once open mouth.
"Seems I wasn't the only one." And Hermione winked to the rest of the three.
"Well, you know something happened with both of us and certain Gryffindor guys," Hannah said, referring to herself and Luna, "But I think Miss Ginerva Weasley might have a little something to share as well."
Everyone turned their heads in Ginny's direction and she looked away from them, whistling innocently.
Everyone turned to look at Ron, expecting an explanation.
"Hang on a second," Harry said, and picked up the phone and dialed a number. "Yes, Is this South Shore Pizza? Yeah, we need two large cheese pizzas sent to room #419 at the South Shore Resort and Hotel. 8 Galleons? You got it! Thanks." And he hung up.
"Okay, I figured with as much as everyone's sharing, we'll need food." Harry said, and 10 minutes later the pizza arrived at the door. Harry paid and tipped the delivery guy and brought the pizzas inside, set them on the table, and dove into a slice. The others repeated his action, with the pizza.
"Okay, now that the long, awkward silence is over, Ron, share what you got." Harry said, his mouth half full.
"I apologized. So did she. I told her I liked her. She said she liked me. And then I kissed her." Ron said simply, blushing.
"Tongue?" Seamus asked, biting into a slice of his own.
"Not that time, no." Ron said, and took a Coca Cola from the fridge, "But yeah, anyways, we broke apart. I told her I loved her. She said she loved me. I ask her to be my girlfriend. She says yes. And now we're together." And he popped the can open and took a long sip.
"Cool." Neville said, biting a piece of the crust of his slice.
"That's awesome, Mate. I'm really happy for you." Harry said, smiling genuinely at Ron, and wiping soda off the top of his lip with the back of his hand.
"This isn't awkward for you?" Ron asked, making sure.
"Nah, you kidding? It's a relief is what it is." And he and Ron laughed.
"Thanks, mate."
"Anytime."
"So you said, 'no, not that time'. Are you implying that you two have been together since then?" Seamus asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Maybe." Ron said, not wishing to share anymore than these guys needed to know. "Look, I'm not comfortable sharing it with you guys. All you need to know is today when we went for snacks, we didn't end up going for snacks. We came up to the hotel."
All three guys shot their heads up at these words, and Harry's mouth hung open slightly.
"Relax, nothing happened." Ron reassured them, and they all closed their mouths around their foods."We made out a lot, tongue was used there. McGonagall nearly caught us before it went too far. But I don't want to go that far yet. It's too soon. Way too soon."
The rest of them shrugged and took large gulps of soda (which were already out by the time the pizza got there) at the same time. Then let out refreshing Ahh's.
"So Harry, what really went on with you and Ginny?" Neville asked him, and Ron jerked his head towards Harry, looking at him through narrowed eyes. Harry smiled lightly.
"Hey there, Ron." He said, as if just acknowledging Ron's presence and Ron didn't soften his gaze, but merely stared him down, trying to be intimidating. And, from Harry's perspective, it was working.
"Ginny, share. Because we all know there's something going on." Hermione said, relieved to have her part over and done with. She was now becoming one of the excited ones.
"Fine, fine. I might have been holding a little something back from you guys." She took a breath, closed her eyes, and let it all out, while Hermione popped open her diet coke.
"It was this morning. So I haven't been hiding it for too long," Ginny started, "I'd gotten up out of bed, unable to fall asleep from thinking about certain people I was crazy about. cough Harry cough. So I got up, got in my suit, went down to the pool and swam for a little bit. Then, Harry showed up. I couldn't believe it. It was as if everything in my dreams had woken into my reality. WE were discussing Ron and Hermione actually, and what had happened the night before." Hermione opened her eyes wide with shock.
"So, we got to talking, and actually took bets on whether you two were together or not. So he said he wanted to ask me a question, except he didn't. Instead he kissed me." Ginny said, touching a finger to her lips, as if feeling where his lips were on hers.
Hannah and Luna leaned forward excitedly. After all, there were very, very few people you could talk to who could tell you how the Boy-who-lived kisses. Hermione, always of thinking of Harry as a brother, wasn't quite as eager, worried she might never look at him the same way again. But, as Ginny did listening to her talk about Ron, she put up with it.
"To describe how he kisses? I can't pinpoint it exactly. But if you guys want the dirt… he's sweet, but very passionate. He slid his tongue into my mouth, and it just felt right. I think this is honestly something that could last awhile." Ginny smiled, an almost misty look in her eyes.
Everyone Aww'ed again, smiles on their faces, each reminded of their own story that they had to tell.
"Then he asked me to go out with him, and naturally, I said yes, and we've been together since. We snuck away this afternoon, not going to the bathroom, but underneath the docks. And… we made out." Ginny said, blushing a deep red.
"Making out by the docks…" Luna said, in a dreamy tone, "just like from that muggle movie Grease."
"Luna, I had no idea you watched muggle movies." Said Hermione, taking a bite off a pretzel.
"When you're raised by all wizards, you learn to branch towards different customs." She said, shrugging.
"Anyways, that's when we went back to you guys." Ginny finished, and everyone, attention back on her, hugged her, too, and Ginny smiled.
"Ron and Hermione, Ginny and Harry…" Hannah said, and was about to add her own name with Seamus to the list.
"…Hannah and Seamus…" Ginny continued for her, and cast her a glance, in which Hannah began to blush.
"My turn, is it?" Hannah said nervously, and the others nodded. "Okay, I guess I'll start with the background information that you guys might not have picked up on. Or maybe you have, I really don't know how obvious I made it-"
"Han, you're rambling." Hermione said, reminding herself of when she had said it to Ron when he was trying to get out his feelings towards her.
She blushed light pink. "Sorry," She mumbled, and then continued, in a more dignified tone, "You all know how Ernie and I went out for a couple months. Well, we were pretty serious. He and I had also come close to what you and Ron nearly did, Herm. Anyways, I thought he was the one for me. But one day, I woke up and realized that he wasn't the man I deserved. He was always so focused on other things besides me and with his prefect duties, I rarely ever saw him. We both understood, and broke up, just a couple days shy of what would have been out 6-month anniversary."
Everyone let out sympathetic "Aww's" And everyone put a hand to her back, as if their touch would take all the pain from her memory away.
"I'm fine, guys, really." She said to them, and they took their hands off her backs, allowing her to continue, "It was about a month after that that I saw Seamus. I had began talking to him one day after Herbology, and he and I really hit it off. We had a lot in common, and he seemed really into me. He and I began pairing as partners, and meeting up in Hogsmeade, first as friends.
"He was a really interesting guy and we had a lot of fun together. That's when I began having more-than-platonic feelings toward him. It was different, almost as if he knew them, too. I only began to feel for him harder and harder each time I saw him. Than, finally, Neville dared Seamus to kiss me, and he did. It was more real then ever kissing Ernie. I loved every second of it.
"But I was still scared that it was only a kiss for the Dare and that it might harm what we had. But I kissed him back anyways, letting him know that if there was meaning behind it, that I felt it, too. Then he told me he liked me, asked me to go out, I said yes, we kissed again, and that's when you guys showed up." Hannah concluded, pointing to Ginny and Hermione.
Being girls, they hugged again, and another huge grin was on Hannah's face, matching Hermione and Ginny's. They all congratulated her and wished her the best, and the three of them rounded on Luna, who, as always, was looking away in a dreamy gaze.
"Hey there, Ron." Harry said, looking timidly at his best mate.
"You better have a bloody good explanation, or I'll call in recruits and beat your bloody ass to a pulp." Ron said, looking at him threateningly.
"Let's say, hypothetically, that I really, really, honest-to-god, crazy about her. And that I kissed her, a little bit." Harry said, appearing very inferior under Ron's towering gaze.
"Hypothetically?" Ron said, raising an eyebrow, "I would be mad you didn't clear everything with me first, and then call Fred and George, who would help me beat you up if you ever her out baby sister."
Harry gulped. "Ron, I need to tell you something, and save the beating until after I'm done."
Ron stepped back a second. "Okay…"
"Keep in mind how crazy you are about Hermione and how much you love Ginny and how mad they would be at you if you hurt me bad." Harry said, and Ron smiled at the thought of Hermione, "I kissed Ginny. And I asked her out. She said yes, so now we're together."
Ron gritted his teeth, not wanting to imagine them together. "But before you say anything, hear me out. I really, really, really, really like her. Okay? There, I said it. I'm crazy about her. I've never felt this strong for anyone in my life, and I have really strong hopes for out future together. I know what you're going to ask me, and I swear on my own life that I'd never hurt her and that I'd never put her in danger. I promise."
Seamus and Neville sniggered slightly, but still smiled at Harry. He was trying so hard to win over Ron so that he could see Ginny, without any unsightly bruises.
Ron's gaze softened, "You really promise?"
"Yes, Ron, you know me. I would never hurt her. I care about her too much to ever do that."
Ron clapped him on the back and pulled him into a one-armed, platonic, hug, and Harry was taken aback, but hugged him anyways.
"She deserves you. You deserve her. Congratulations, Mate." Ron said, and smiled.
"Thanks. I'm so, unbelievably happy you're cool with this." Harry said.
"Ahh well, It's about time you're truly happy for once. But, just so you know, if you ever do hurt her, you'll be answering to her six stronger, older brothers." Ron said, and gave him one more threatening glare, meaning all business.
"Okay, Okay." Harry said, raising his hands in the air in defeat. Ron smiled yet again.
"Now," He said, releasing Harry from the interrogation, "You two guys were in much different states than when we left."
"Um, yeah." Seamus said, "I liked Hannah for awhile, Neville dared me to kiss her, I did. She kissed me back. I told her I liked her. She said the same thing back to me. I asked her out. She said yes. Boom! Now we're together."
"Congratulations." They all mumbled to him, and he smiled, biting into another slice of pizza.
"That only leaves…" Harry started, and Ron and Seamus joined in.
"Neville." They all said at once, and turned to look at him. He froze for a second, his mouth closed on his pizza. His eyes widened, almost as if he didn't know what to say.
"Huh? Me?" Luna asked, breaking herself away from her reverie.
"Yes, you. We've all shared out tales, and now it's your turn. So spill you soul." Hannah said, and then burped lightly from her soda. Everyone giggled and Hannah turned pink.
"Oops, excuse me." She said quietly, and she laughed at herself, along with everyone else.
"Luna? We're waiting." Ginny said patiently, and popped an Acid Pop into her mouth. Seconds later, she took it out of her mouth, panting and waving her hand in front of her face, apparently wafting the sour taste from her mouth. Her face was scrunched up tight, and everyone was laughing. She took a rather long sip from her diet coke, and then was able to breathe normally.
"So. Sour." Was all she could say, and everyone only laughed. She, instead, got the flavor from her mouth with a Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Bean, and then turned back to Luna, yet again, who was organizing her thoughts in her mind.
"Ok, it all started like this. Since I first was introduced to him properly last year, I haven't stopped thinking about him. Every time I run into him in the halls, some days literally," Everyone giggled, "I just feel my heart speed up. He smiles at me, and I can't help but smile back. All the times I've talked to him, I've really learned to know him well, and learned to appreciate who he is. He's the sweetest, kindest, most caring guy I've ever met."
Everyone Aww'ed yet again. Luna smiled, really wide.
"Seamus dared him to kiss me today. I couldn't believe it. I didn't know if Seamus knew something I didn't or whatever. But I thought he wasn't going to go through with it. I was nervous that I'd gotten my hopes up at least one kiss. But he did it; He kissed me. And I reacted in enough time to kiss him back. It was as if everything I had felt about him was pouring into my mouth through his, and I was just, utterly happy. And then he asked me to be his girlfriend, and I accepted, of course." She finished, the dreamy look on her face once again.
"Wow. I never, honestly, thought Neville would be able to find the courage to ask you out. I will admit, I'd heard him talking about you to Seamus a few times in the common room, thinking no one else was listening. He's liked you for so long, Luna." Hermione told her, and Luna only smiled wider.
The girls, the four best friends, all went in for one last, huge, hug with each other, and they all sighed happily.
At last, they broke from their hug, and Ginny raised her can of diet coke, "Here's to romance, all of us getting what we wanted for so long, and the trip of our lives." She said, her voice rose slightly, as if making a speech.
"To the trip of our lives!" They repeated, raising their cans as well, and clinking them together. They took sips from it, and then went quiet, each in their own little world, where they were sure to stay for quite some time.
"Well, as Seamus knows, we were playing Truth or Dare, and he dared me to kiss her. I knew you wouldn't let me turn it down, and I wasn't going to. I was just nervous. So I kissed her. And she kissed me back." Neville said, and then looked at Seamus, "Oh, and thanks for making me do that, man. I owe you."
"Don't mention it. I'd heard enough of your complaining. Figured it was about time you did something." Seamus said, and shrugged.
"Still, thanks. I would never have gotten the courage to. But I did, and then I asked her to be my girlfriend, and she said yes. And I feel like the happiest guy in the world." He said, and smiled, Luna's face in his mind.
"I'm the happiest guy ever." Ron argued.
"No, I am." said Harry defensively.
"You're all wrong. I am." Seamus said.
"Rather than argue and becomes bigger prats than we already are. We're all the happiest guys in the world. Agreed?" Ron said, taking charge.
"Yeah, okay." They all said.
"Man, together one day, and Hermione's already rubbed off on you a lot." Seamus said, and Ron threw a pillow at him.
Seamus didn't retaliate, for at that moment, Hannah's voice came into his head, telling him how much she liked him. He went off into his own reverie, as did all the other guys, and they just stayed there- four guys, all with the girl they had always wanted, thinking of that girl and how much it hurt them to be away from her.
Could it be love? More than one of them asked themselves that night.
Author's Notes: Finally! Done with the chapter! It's really long, but it goes more in depth to everyone's story, except Ron and Hermione's, but this entire thing is about them. I have midterms all next week, so I won't be able to work on the next chapter of this, but as soon as they're over, I'll work on chapter 11 and post that as soon as I can. Possibly a little delay on that- but we'll see what happens. Anyways, I hope you guys liked this chapter, because it was really fun for me figuring out everyone's situation. As always, thanks to my reviewers, especially the ones who told me that the ending to the last chapter wasn't all that bad. Hehe! Love you guys! Please review! My goal is to reach 100 this time! Can we reach it?