Disclaimer: (seems pointless to put these in still, I think you've figured out that I don't own Harry Potter, but…) I'm pretty sureI actually own the plot, but I may be wrong.

Author's Note: by the way, I messed up yet again with my story. When Harry (or anyone besides Ron) called Hermione 'Mione, it shouldn't have happened, and I'm too lazy to go back and change it, so just ignore that, and you'll understand next chapter.

The following is from Ron's point of view.

Let The Torment Begin!

I'm in SO much trouble. When Lavender showed up today, it was torture. I can't believe she came! Now she hates me, Hermione's mad at me for not telling her, and I had to explain to everyone why Lavender was there at all! This really isn't my day! Worst of all, not just them, but everyone thinks that I cheated on Lavender and Hermione, which I would never do! They both mean the world to me, even if Hermione is a friend, and Lavender is- was- more. I hate Hermione's bloody boyfriend.

Ugh. Hermione apparently never fancied me, as she so 'nicely' told me. I really should have told her straight out before hand. Curse me having to wait. I really wish I had had the courage to just grit my teeth and do it. Now she and Lavender both hate me. I tried to go apologize to them, and maybe tell Lavender (not that she'd believe me) but they were both asleep, though their pillows were wet.

Here comes Harry. The only one who really knows what happened.

(No one's point of view)

"Hey Ron."

"Hi."

"You gonna be okay?"

Ron gave him a look,
"Do I LOOK like I'm gonna be okay? I just lost my best friend and my girlfriend. Well, one of my best friends that is."

"Yeah, I'm really sorry mate."

"Thanks. I really should have told Hermione though. And I probably should have written Lavender and told her what was going on. I'm such a GIT!"
With that, he threw himself sideways on the bed, so he was now lying with his face buried in his pillow.

"Shut up Ron, no your not."

"Yes I am."

"Yes Ron, you did do some stupid things, but you're not a git."

"I kinda beg to differ."
The boys looked up to see Ginny in the doorway.
"Ron, what were you thinking!"

"Look Gin, I don't need your little lecture on what I did wrong, I already know."

"Yeah, well Ron, maybe you do need a lecture. There are two heartbroken girls down there, who are going to be crying for a long time, and it's all because of YOU! Learn to take consideration for someone other than YOURSELF!"

"GINNY DON'T YOU THINK I BLOODY WELL KNOW THAT! IT'S NOT MY FAULT THAT LAVENDER SHOWED UP TODAY! TRUST ME IT'S NO PIECE OF CAKE ON MY END EITHER!"

"YEAH WELL MAYBE IF YOU THOUGHT ABOUT HOW THEY'D FEEL WHEN THEY FOUND OUT YOU WOULD HAVE COME UP WITH SOME WAY TO TELL THEM THAT WOULDN'T HURT ANYONE!"

"LOOK I'M SORRY IF I'M NOT PERFECT GIN! I CAN'T HELP IT IF I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO TELL THEM! AND ANOTHER THING! WHERE DO YOU GET OFF TELLING ME OFF? YOU'RE NOT MUM!"

"GUYS!"
The battling siblings quieted, and turned to see Harry, holding his ears, with an exhausted look on his face. They immediately felt bad, yelling wasn't helping things, and Harry had nothing to do with any of this, he shouldn't have to make the peace.

"Look, Ginny, I know you care about Hermione and Lavender, but Ron is the one who has to deal with what happens. He may lose his girlfriend because of a misunderstanding."

Ginny looked defeated.
"You're right Harry. Ron, I'm sorry, it's just, I can only imagine how those girls feel. Lavender thinks she's been cheated on, and Hermione's heart has been ripped out and stomped on, and OOPS!"

(Ginny's point of view)

"What are you talking about Ginny?"

Ron looked warily at me, I clamped both hands over my mouth; I just made a really bad mistake.
"Um, nothing?"

"Ginny, what are you talking about?"
Ron repeated. My brother just doesn't know when to stop sometimes. I know it would come out sometime anyway, so I guess I might as well tell him now, but I still feel bad.

"Ok fine, but you have to promise not to tell anyone, she doesn't even know I know."

"Fine whatever, I swear."
Yeah right! Like I'm going to let you get away with just that! That's not nearly good enough.

"Ok, well, Hermione… she fancies you Ron."
Oh, well I guess it is… Since when do I spill this easy?

"No she doesn't! Just a little while ago she told me that she would never ever fancy me, and that not everyone worships me (no clue where she got that, I swear I never said it) and I could tell she was marveling at the fact that anyone would date me at all!"

"Wow, she said that?"
I put on a look that I think looked amazed, but I really am not very surprised. Ron's really daft sometimes. It's really bad that Hermione said that, but I can understand why. She doesn't want to mess up him and Lavender- even though she's madly in love with my brother! She's such a good friend. He has no idea what he got when he befriended her.

(No Point of View)

"Look, Ron I understand that you're upset, and I can see why she said that-"

"HEY!"

"Ron shut up and let me finish! Anyway, you need to get a grip! Do you have any clue how stupid you acted tonight? They don't deserve this. You need to go explain everything to them, and I suggest you come up with a story to tell Mum and Dad as well, unless you want to tell them about your fight, not to mention how you've been lying to them for a month, or to let them think that you're a cheater, and hurt the girls purposely. Now I'm going to go check on Hermione, I think Lavender fell asleep a little while ago, though I wouldn't be surprised if Hermione fell asleep too, it's tiring having your heart broken."
And with that, Ginny turned and flounced out of the room, leaving Ron with his mouth hanging open and an astonished Harry staring at her as she went.

"Wow, what got into her?"
Ron said, looking over at Harry, who was still staring at the door.

"Ron… she's right, and you know it."

"Harry!"

"Well, it's true! Mate, I don't want to make you mad, but… look, you kinda broke those girls' hearts, and you really should explain it all to them."

"I know. But what if Lavender is still mad? I mean, this did all start because I fought Hermione's boyfriend (or ex, or something) and… I mean it was because he was insulting me, but she wouldn't understand that! I mean, I love her, but-"

"Woah, woah, woah!"
Harry interrupted,
"Back up a little here! You love her? When did this happen? Have you told her?"

"What?"
Ron looked truly confused.

"You said you loved her."

"I did?"

"Yup, plain as day, you said, and I quote 'I mean, I love her, but…' So… what does it mean? Do you really? Have you told her?"

"Yeah, yeah I guess I really do love her… but I definitely haven't told her. D'you think I should?"

"Ron, if (well when) you tell her, that would be a perfect ending to it!"

"Yeah!"
Ron's face was shining; he looked like his problems were finally going to end. Then suddenly, his face fell.
"But what about Hermione?"

"Oh."

"Yeah, she's still really mad at me!"

"Well, if Ginny's right about Hermione –and don't give me that face Ron, she very well might be– then sounds like what you need to do is not only apologize for lying to her, but also for making her feel like you fancied her too, and do something to make her feel better, because you really hurt her bad."

"Wow Harry. Since when do you have this much information on girls?"

"Ron, I don't really have all that much. No offence mate, but you're definitely not great with girls."

"Yeah, well, I'm just gunna go to sleep now, I'll try to fix things with the girls in the morning."

"You might want to come up with something to tell your parents first, they're going to be really mad."

"Yeah, good point. What d'you reckon?"

"I reckon you're own you own for this one. I've given you so much information already; you need to figure out how to handle your parents."

"Right."

Ginny walked downstairs, after finishing her lecture to Ron, only to find the other two girls asleep. She sighed, and moved around as quietly as she could, getting ready to go to sleep herself. She had just finished getting into her pajamas, when she heard a soft whisper.
"Ginny?"

Ginny looked up from where she had been trying to get her covers untangled to see Hermione, propped up on her elbow, looking towards her.
"Yeah?"
She answered just as softly, they didn't want to wake Lavender.

"Where were you?"
Ginny had disappeared after she had shown Lavender the room, and Hermione wanted to know where,Ginny was usually there to comforther whenshe needed it!

"Oh, I was giving my git of a brother a little talk about what he did. He's really daft you know, he had no idea what he did to you until I told him! And even then, he didn't seem to completely get it."

All of a sudden a look of terror crossed Hermione's face,
"Wait, what exactly did you tell him?"

Ginny's face went plae for a second, but she quickly remdeemed herself and went on talking.
"Oh, you know, just that he was a jerk for not telling you, and that he should have told Lavender, and basically what he did to hurt you both."
Ginny knew she was lying, but she couldn't tell her best friend that she had betrayed her! Hermione already wouldn't even admit to her that she fancied Ron, how would she feel if she fould out that Ginny had told Ron!

Hermione didn't seem to totally believe her, but she dropped it anyway.
"Oh. Is he going to tell you Mum and Dad what really happened?"

"I highly doubt it. Knowing him, he'll come up with some elaborite story to tell them and make it all better, one lie after another, you know?"

"Yeah, he really should tell them the truth though."

"Yeah, but, well... he's Ron."

"Yeah."

"Look, I'm really sorry Hermione, but I'm going to get some sleep, I have a feeling we'll need it for tomorrow."

"Probably. OK, goodnight Gin."

"Night."

(Hermione's Point of View)

Night, ha! Like I could sleep at a time like this! I can't believe I practically told Ron I hated him! So not true! I swear, sometimes i hate the fact that I fancy him. Wait- did I really just admit that I fancied him? Well, I guess I do, now that i really think about it, I think Ginny knows, but she hasn't said anything about it yet... although she did keep telling me that I've been looking extremely happy the past couple of weeks.

So I fancy Ron. It seems so weird to think that. Well, Ginny's asleep now, so I might as well go down to the kitchen and make some tea or something, I can't sleep like this.

(No One's Point Of View)

Ron had realized a long time ago that he couldn't sleep, and lying in his bed, he realized that it was no good to just lie there, it was only making him mad. He got up and went downstairs and was walking to the door so he could go outside,when he heard something in the kitchen. Creeping toward the door, he grabbed a broom that someone had left lying around and pushed it slightly open to see someone moving inside the room. He couldn't tell who it was, so he crept into the kitchen, and held the broom high, just as the person was turning around, and he heard a scream.

(Hermione's point of view)

I had gotten down to the kitchen, and was trying to make myself tea the muggle way (we're still not allowed to use magic outside of school) and I had set the water to boil, and was now trying to figure out where Mrs. Weasley would keep tea bags. I knew she had them somewhere, but I wasn't sure where. I had finally found them and had turned around to put them on the table, when I saw a tall man standing in front of me, a broom raised in his fists, ready to attack me! I screamed, and tried to get away, but I felt him catch my wrists, and then heard a familiar voice.

"Hermione?"
I knew then who it was.

"Ron?"

"What the bloody hell are you doing down here?"

"What am I doing down here? If I recall correctly, you just tried to kill me!"

"Well, I thought you were asleep! How was I supposed to know who you were?"

I just looked at him. He really can be quite daft sometimes. After a while I felt the need to explain why I was down here, so I simply said,
"I was making tea."

"Oh. Well I was going outside, you know, to clear my mind."

I'll clear his mind for him. Betraying both Lavender and me, and then trying to kill me! I'll blow his mind up if he wants! Of course I couldn't actauslly say that, so I just nodded. We were silent for a while, and as my water boiled, I made my tea, and he watched as I sat down at the table to drink it, then came and sat next to me, I tried to move away, but he followed suit and moved closer.

"Um, 'Mione?"

'Mione. His special nickname for me. You know as starnge as it sounds, I think he's the only one to ever call me that. I used to love it, but now I'm finding myself despising it. It makes me happy, even now when I hate him.
"What do you want?"
I snapped at him, and he seemed to recoil for a minute, which strangely satisfied me.

"Look, I know you're mad at me, and probably want me out of your sight forever"
Got that right.
"But I really need to tell you this, and if you still hate me afterward, I'll leave you alone, ok?"
I nodded curtly again.
"Ok, well the thing is... see... wow, this is harder than i thought. Um, I guess what I'm trying to say is... I'm sorry."

"For?"
Just saying 'I'm sorry' isn't going to get him anywhere, and I think he knew it, but I thought I'd remind him anyway.

"For, you know... being a jerk. I really should have told you earlier, but I was scared! I thought that if I told you, you'd hate me, because I thought you fancied me, which I probably shouldn'thave assumed, but I did, and evenif you did, I acted wrong, because I led you on and acted like I fancied you too, and I know I screwed up, and 'Mione I'm so sorry!"
There he goes, flashing the nickname again. It's really hard to stay mad at him when he does that.
"Do you hate me?"

And then there he goes with the puppy dog face! That's another thing I can't resist.
"No..."
He looks relieved.
"Don't look so happy, I don't hate you, but I still don't like you. And what aout everything else you did! You should have just told your parents what happened in the first place! I helped you against my better judgement, and lok where it got us all! And now all you're gunna do is lie again!"

"So what, you want me to tell the truth?"

"Better than lying!"

"I can't do that! You know I can't!"

"Well you have to at least tell Lavender."

"Yeah, I'lll do that, but what if she doesn't believe me?"

"Then that's your problem isn't it?"
That's when I'd had enough. I just walked out of there and got in bed. I was sick of arguing, and I was sick of Ron.

Ok, there it was. I hope you guys liked it!

Sorry that still wasn't very long, but it is longer.

Thanks to all my readers, especially those who reviewed.

kittywonders- Thanks again! Yeah, it is sad, but I had to write it. I'm continuing to try to update as soon as possible, but am having writer's block, and I just have a lot going on lately. Hope you like this!

dancerrdw- thanks for reviewing! It's really cool that you like it. Sorry this took so long, I really am trying to write faster.

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goblin monkey- Ron thinks that if he tells Lavender, she won't believe him, and if she does… well, Lavender's kind of a gossiper, and he's scared that she'll tell his family what happened. It a hard position for him to be in, not to mention the fact that he's Ron, not the best at understanding girls' feelings and everything.

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