Disclaimer: Not mine. No està watashino. (Hee hee. Love Janglish!)
Notes: Okay, have been getting some wonderful reviews, and I'm sorry that this chapter has been so long in coming, but I think I'm going to have to update like maybe twice a week instead of daily. Too much school stuff. Grr.... but yeah. Also, this is a very slow going fic, and I'm kinda going to keep it that way. Things will eventually heat up... just not for a while.
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Chapter 4
Three hours later Ginny woke up, finding herself wrapped around Hermione. The best part was, Hermione was just as tightly wrapped around her. She closed her eyes nad let herself savor the feeling for a minute.
Hermione, still asleep, sighed airly and pulled her bedmate closer.
Ginny sighed and opened her eyes, biting back a moan at the expression of contentment on Hermione's face. "Why?" she whispered sadly. "Why can't it be like this when we're awake? Please?" she ran a hand over her face and, knowing there wouldn't be an answer, she slowly detangled herself from Hermione and climbed off the bed.
She tiptoed to the door and turned back to look once more at the love of her life who was blissfully unaware of the fact.
Hermione had shifted, sprawling out to cover most of the king sized bed in the way that only very small people and cats seem to be able to do.
Ginny's smile – an unconscious echo of her brother's four hours previous – realized in that instant that things would never be the same between them again. Even though Hermione wouldn't know how close they had been, nor what Ginny had whispered, Ginny did. And no matter how many times she tried to tell herself to be happy she had had that, she couldn't help but want more.
She wanted it when they were awake, sleeping, and for all time. She wasn't so foolish to think that Hermione wanted the same, after all, she was dating Ron.
So she would step back. Slowly enough that no one notice that she was disappearing from their world, but disappear she would. So she wouldn't have to see them. So she wouldn't have to see her.
She steeled herself to it, not surprised at the ache that it caused when she thought of all the things she would have to give up. She was surprised at the tears that escaped to wind their way down her cheeks, but she figured it was natural to cry when things ended.
She sadly blew a kiss back to the sleeping figure and slipped out, closing the door carefully behind her.
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Hermione woke to the sound of a click as the door was shut. She sat up, looking at the space where Ginny had lain next to her.
She didn't understand these feelings running through her, but she knew that she was horribly disappointed to find that space empty.
She couldn't tell you why.... only that she was.
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A/N: Sorry! ::Hides under a blanket in the corner:: I had to do it!!! I swear it'll get better and things really will escalate between them. But there's a few things that have to happen first. And you can't kill me or I'll never get the rest of it typed. :)