'Oh no!' she thought. 'I did it with Gaston!'
Hermione slowly turned around and gasped. She was with Ron. Memories of the night before and how amazing being with him felt like suddenly rushed through her.
'How could I have given in to him so easily. I was building up the perfect wall.' Hermione thought.
'That wall was meant to fall, Hermione. It was eating your heart out,' a voice in the back of her head said.
'I just wish I could have been strong enough to make a better decision than to totally give in to him,' Hermione told herself.
Ron began to stir and Hermione stiffened. Ron pulled her closer to him. He slowly opened his eyes and stared into Hermione's chocolate pools. They were staring nervously back at him. Ron grinned and kissed her forehead. "You were amazing last night, 'Mione."
Hermione grinned slightly and sat up. Ron stared at her confused and sat up also. He wrapped his arm around her shoulder and Hermione brushed it off. "Ron, last night wasn't supposed to happen."
"But it did, Hermione. You can't just change it," Ron looked at her hurt. "I…I don't want to change it."
A tear escaped from Hermione's eye and she looked at him. "Ron, I don't want to change it either. I just wish I hadn't have given in so easily. I mean what kind of a lesson does that teach you."
"'Mione, I learned my lesson the second I saw your eyes when you saw what I was doing. I learned my lesson when you broke it off with me. I learned my lesson when you invited that French guy over here. Last night was the only night that I have gotten sleep since we split. I really feel like last night needed to happen for us. It showed me that there is still hope for us. I feel like it let me show you how much I still love you. I don't know…" Ron put his head in his hands.
"I wish I could just say that everything is the same now, but I can't. I can't because I don't think I can trust you right now. It's going to take me awhile to build up a trust with you," Hermione sighed and wrapped the sheets tighter around her.
"Well, we could start out slower. We could just you know, date for awhile until your comfortable again or until your ready for us to have a relationship again."
Hermione smiled and kissed his cheek. "That sounds like a plan." Hermione suddenly looked around the room and realized where she was. "We did this in my parents room!"
Ron blushed. Hermione wrapped the sheets around her like a strapless toga and got off the bed. She started pulling the sheets and comforter off. Ron pulled his bathing suite back on and helped her. It was early so no one was up yet. Hermione took them to the laundry room and washed them. She took some of the clothes she was washing earlier from the washer. She pulled on some shorts and a t-shirt and snuck back upstairs and came into Ron's room.
"You wanna go for a walk?" Hermione asked. Ron nodded and pulled on his shirt. The two walked around the neighborhood and discussed what they were going to do that night. They decided on just going out to eat.
"How can food be fast?" Ron asked. Hermione laughed.
"The food isn't actually fast. They just make it fast. I'll show you tonight. We have several places. There is Chick-fil-a, McDonalds, Burger King, Arby's, Wendy's, Taco Bell, Krystals, and like fifty others. " Hermione explained.
"What is Chick-fil-a?" Ron asked.
"It's a place that only serves chicken. They don't use any other kind of meat. They have really good food their. You'd love their chicken nuggets," Hermione grinned.
"Well, It's settled then. We are going there," Ron smiled.
"I wonder what happened to Gaston and Solange," Hermione said as they turned the corner.
"I was thinking about that too. I'm kind of nervous to go back to your house. You know how Harry and everyone are going to be," Ron laughed.
"Well, we are about to find out," Hermione giggled and pointed at her house down the street.
"Shit," Ron cursed and stopped for a second.
"Ron, I promise that in the long run it will be best to get this over with…" Hermione started.
"No, it's not about that. Look who is walking down the sidewalk and coming our way," Ron whispered. Hermione looked up and saw her creepy neighbor power walking towards them in his workout gear. Hermione squeaked and turned her back to the old guy and faced Ron.
"Kiss me!" Hermione gasped.
"What?" Ron said confused.
"Just do it!" Hermione wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled his face down to hers. Hermione's lips touched Ron's desperately and she immediately opened his mouth and pushed her tongue in. Ron had never had Hermione take control of the kiss before. It was starting to turn him on. Ron heard a 'grrruuuumpphh' next to his ear. Hermione continued to kiss him for another ten seconds before she pulled away.
"What happened to taking it slow?" Ron looked at her with half confusion and half wanting to pounce her and have another last night.
"Well, I was saving you from that old guy. Kissing you avoided any kind of having to acknowledge him," Hermione smiled.
"Well, next time you do that, could you not do it so forcefully to where it gives me a boner," Ron laughed and fixed her hair.
"Oh," Hermione took a step back and tried hard not to look down. She blushed, "I'm sorry."
Ron laughed boyishly and grabbed her hand, "Don't be. You should just be glad I got it from you and not that old guy."
The two walked back up to the house and cautiously opened the door. "Heeeeeeey!" Harry called as they stepped into the living room.
"Where have you two been?" Ginny smirked.
"We just went on a walk," Hermione smiled and sat on the couch.
"Yeah sure," Gisele giggled. "And what happened when you two left to argue inside?"
"I can answer that!" Harry laughed. Ron glared at him. "Let's just say that I could hear quite a few noises going on in Hermione's parents room when I went upstairs to get a cd from my room."
Ginny gasped and Gisele squealed. Hermione hid her face in her hands and Ron looked like he wanted to punch Harry.
"In the parents room!" Ginny giggled excitedly. "Are you two back together again?"
"No" Hermione insisted. Ginny and Gisele slumped back into their seats and they looked confused. "We are taking it slow. Just dating right now."
Ginny and Gisele once again sat up. "There is hope, though, right?" Gisele said eagerly.
"Yeah," Hermione blushed and looked at Ron. He grinned at her. "I'm going to go change."
"Ooh! Can we help!" The two G's said at the same time.
"Yeah, come one," Hermione laughed and they ran up the stairs. Obviously this was a time for the girls and guys to get the full story.
GUYS
"Alright Ron, I want the full story," Harry spread out on one of the couches and grinned.
"Guy's I swear it was nothing like I ever expected from Hermione. She was wild in the bed and it was the hottest thing I have ever experienced," Ron bragged as he sank into a comfy chair.
"Lucky," Nick sighed.
"We went into her parents room to fight so no one could hear, but like out of no where she jumps on me and pushes me onto the bed. She like practically ripped my bathing suite off," Ron embellished.
"Our little 'Mione did that," Harry said surprised. "Dang, I never would have thought of that."
"Yeah, I know. It surprised me too. It was her idea to take it slow, though. She thought that when we finally do hook up, it would make it even better than last night," Ron grinned.
GIRLS
"Okay Hermione, dish it out," Ginny laughed and started rummaging through Hermione's closet.
"Alright well, it's going to totally surprise you. It wasn't like the first time, you know. This time was rough. We both had so much pent up emotion that it just blew itself out of us. It was totally mind-blowing," Hermione gabbed out as Gisele straightened her hair.
"Your so lucky!" Gisele sighed.
"Well, after Harry kicked us inside we went into my parents room so that we wouldn't bother the party. We were in the middle of a fight when we both just kind of stop and stare at each other. At like the same time we are swept up into a kiss and falling on my parents bed and were ripping each others bathing suites off. It was like something out of a movie," Hermione said truthfully as Gisele turned to putting on her makeup.
"Maybe I should like break up with Harry so we can have an awesome making up session," Ginny laughed. She pulled out a dress and examined it closely before putting it back.
"And get this, it was totally his idea for us to take our relationship slowly. He wants me to be able to build up my trust for him again before we start going out," Hermione giggled. The other girls both sighed with an 'awwwwe'.
"Hey what happened to Gaston and Solange?" Hermione asked. Ginny laughed.
"They left together. Solange was totally trashed and hanging all over him. Supposedly he was taking her home, but Gaston isn't really the type of guy that will past up a horny, drunk girl. Hermione smiled.
"I guess it really was a good thing I left that party," Hermione grinned.