Chapter 2

Ron leaned over toward Hermione and kissed her briefly on the mouth. Hermione moved towards him to kiss him back, but he was already making his way back to his place in the circle. She sighed scolding herself.

"Why would Ron want you? Enough people have told you to move on, mostly Ginny true, but others as well.

But he kissed me! Of course he kissed you that's what spin the bottle is."

By the time she had finished thinking the bottle was spinning again. It landed on Harry. He shrugged and spun it.

'It's easy for him to be casual about kissing people,'' she thought slightly angrily, "he's done so much of it.''

The bottle finished spinning every-one looked up to see whom it was. It was Ginny. She crawled over to where Harry was sitting and kissed him. He kissed her back and they looked in rapture at each other.

They broke apart and the game continued. After several more spins Lavender announced they would be switching games to Truth or Dare. She turned and faced Ginny.

"Ginny, who was your first real kiss with?" she asked

"Michael Corner" she said calmly "Duh! OK my go, Hermione!" she rounded on her friend

"Who would you most like to date in the whole wide world?"

Hermione looked around the room not meeting any-ones eye.

"All I'll tell you is that he's sitting in this room now."

She turned her face back to the circle expecting to find every-one slightly puzzled and confused by her reply. Instead she saw them all nodding their heads and agreeing with each other. He was pretty sure she heard Harry say 'told you so', what was going on?

Ron walked slowly up to her and looked her straight in the eye before bending down and kissing her gently on the mouth. She stared up at him and returned the kiss tenderly. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Dean, Neville and Parvati handing Harry a galleon each. She continued to kiss Ron. Eventually they broke apart and looked around the room.

Some one had put some romantic music on and every-one was paired up and either slow dancing or kissing or in some cases both. Ginny and Harry were clearly only focusing on each other and nobody had ever seen Neville so involved with any-one as he was with Padma Patil.

"What do you think of sneaking out to my bed while nobody's looking?" asked Ron.

"I think good idea!" Hermione whispered back. She followed Ron up to the boy's dormitories…