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Chapter 9- Rainy Day

Hermione woke up to a loud crash of thunder, the bright light of lightning and Ginny's scream. She looked at the clock. It was 6 am. Hermione looked at Ginny. Ginny looked terrified, she stood up and ran into the hall. Hermione assumed she went to Harry. Hermione desperately wanted to go in there and stay with Ron during this but she wasn't sure if it was right. She instead stood up and went to her closet and took a hoodie out then went to her mirror. She rubbed her eyes and pulled her hair into a messy bun. Hermione walked out of her room and down the stairs. Then there was another bang of thunder and flash of lightning and she screamed. Hermione crouched down on the stairs scared to death because she wasn't expecting it. Ron rushed out of his room with a sweatshirt in his hands.

"Are you alright?" He asked holding out his hand for her to take.

"Y-yeah I'm fine it just frightened me." He held onto her hand and went down the stairs. She tried to turn on the light but it didn't work. "Damnet!" she exclaimed.

"What's wrong?" He asked.

"The powers dead!" She said.

"Oh, the electricity thing?"

"Yeah!"

"Lumos!" Ron exclaimed and the tip of his wand ignited.

"Oh yeah!" She took her wand out of her pocket. "Lumos!" The tip of her wand ignited too. "We have to find some candles." She told him. She was about to split up but she heard more thunder and held onto his arm. They walked around the house and found ten candles. They placed them in the living room and sat on the couch. "I'll get some poptarts for breakfast!" She stood up and he did too. Hermione was grateful for this. They took the boxes of blueberry and strawberry poptarts into the living room. Ginny and Harry were sitting on the couch covered in a blanket. Ginny was clutching onto Harry for her life. Harry looked a little whiter; his scar was more visible. Hermione and Ron took seats next to them. They passed around the boxes of poptarts jumping at the thunder. When they finished breakfast they sat there staring at the blank TV.

"Can we turn it on?" Ginny asked.

"No the power's out." Hermione responded.

"So we just sit here until it's over doing nothing?" Ginny asked.

"We could play a board game." Hermione suggested.

"A what?" Ron and Ginny said at the same time. Harry explained what a board game was while Hermione went to the closet by the TV and took a stack of them out. Ron and Ginny looked amazed at all of the games. There was Clue, Life, Monopoly, Twister, and Sorry.

"What do you want to play first?" Hermione asked. Ron and Ginny shrugged.

"How about Clue?" Harry suggested.

"Do you know how to play?" She asked Harry.

"Yeah whenever Dudley didn't have anyone to play with I always had to." Harry informed them. Hermione explained the rules to Ginny and Ron, and then they started. 15 minutes in Ron looked triumphant when it was his turn.

"Colonel Mustard in the dinning room with the candle stick!" He exclaimed picking up the confidential folder. Sure enough he won.

"How did you do that?" Harry asked.

"Well I can see all of your papers." He laughed. They all frowned.

"Let's play Twister." Ginny said.

"Do you know how to play?" Harry asked.

"No it just sounds interesting, Twister." They all laughed. Hermione explained the rules and laid out the mat. Harry got out first when he had to do a backbend type move. He knocked over a candle and almost burned down the whole house. Ginny got out next when the thunder scared her. Ron and Hermione were only left now. Hermione had right hand yellow. She leaned over Ron. They're faces were mere inches apart until Ron had right hand yellow too and he twisted under her. He caught the perfect opportunity to tickle her. He lifted up his arms and tickled her before they both fell. She landed right on top of him. After an oomph! of pain he started laughing and Hermione laughed as well as she rolled off of him and onto the mat. Harry and Ginny joined in laughing. They started Life but it got very confusing and they had to stop. They played Sorry next. Hermione bewitched the game so that it would move by its self Ginny won one game and Ron the other.

"I don't see how you two win every time and you haven't played before." Hermione said in disbelief. They just smiled. At a little past lunchtime they searched for food that didn't need to be heated up. They settled on cold leftover pizza again. When they were done eating the weather still hadn't cleared up. They played three more rounds of Clue and Ron won despite everyone hiding their papers better.

"What do you want to do now?" Ron asked. Hermione thought for a minute.

"It's lame but we could play hide and seek."

"Ok," Harry said, "Not it!"

"Not it!"

"Not it!"

"Not fair!" Hermione said. They all laughed.

"Count in the closet over there and if you're it you can use your wand. Count to 60." Harry said.

"Whatever!" Hermione exclaimed. She went into the closet and started to count. When she got to 60 she screamed it. She opened the closet and walked out. The living room looked deserted and a bit creepy with all of the candles. Hermione moved her wand around and searched for them. She didn't see them, so she started up the stairs. She went into Ron and Harry's room next. She saw the closet door open a little and then the velvet box lying on the bed caught her eye. She leapt for it but it disappeared right before she could reach it. She knew someone was in here. It had to be either Ron or Harry because Ginny couldn't use magic. Just then it occurred to her that they're using the invisibility cloak. She shut the door. "That's cheating you know!" She exclaimed. She heard Harry's bed and she saw that there it was pushed down like some invisible person was standing on it. She lunged forward and grabbed the invisible fabric. She pulled it off revealing Harry standing there on his bed with the velvet box in his hand.

"If you let me see what you got Ginny I won't tell that you cheated." She bargained.

"No, that's ok." Harry jumped down off of the bed. A loud thunder sounded and she winced.

"Please, you showed Ron!"

"No I didn't I haven't seen it either."

"But you bought it."

"I didn't see it I had it specially made. I told them how I wanted it to look."

"Well take a look now."

"Nope!" Harry walked around her and tried to get out but she blocked him.

"How did you pay for it? It must have cost a lot of money if you got it specially made."

"Yes thousands!" He exclaimed trying to get passed her.

"Show me and I'll let you out." Harry sat on the bed.

"I guess we'll be here for a long time then!" Hermione glared at him.

"Accio jewel-" Hermione started

"-Why do you want to see it so bad?" Harry interrupted.

"Because you all are keeping something from me!"

"How can you tell?" She glared at him and gave up.

"I hate you!" She exclaimed flinging the door open and storming out. When she was gone the closet door opened fully.

"Thanks mate!" Ron said sitting next to Harry.

"Just keep it out of sight!" Harry handed him the box and left the room. Ron thought that Hermione would find it if it was with Harry's stuff. He opened his trunk and stuffed it down at the bottom. Ron heard Ginny calling his name and He went downstairs. They played for another three hours. They then crashed on the couch.

"What time is it?" Ginny asked. Harry looked at his watch.

"8 o'clock." Harry said. They were silent for a minute.

"Anybody hungry?" Hermione asked. Harry nodded, Ginny shrugged and Ron did both. Hermione got up and looked at the window. It was still pouring and there was faint thundering. She went into the kitchen and searched the cabinets for food. She pulled down bags of chips, cookies, and candy. She went to the fridge and took out warm soda, and then got some cups. She went back into the living room. She put out all of the food on the coffee table in the middle. They all finished it within 15 minutes. Harry and Ginny were sitting on the small couch. Ginny was curled up against Harry. Moments later she was asleep. Harry kissed her head goodnight and closed his eyes too. Hermione looked next to her Ron was asleep as well. She snuggled up closer to him, kissed his cheek and closed her eyes. She awoke four hours later to a bright light and TV blaring.

"What happened?" Ron asked.

"The powers back on!" Harry informed him. Ginny was still asleep so he didn't move. Hermione got up and shut off all of the lights and blew out the candles. She took the remote and turned the TV down. She flipped it and stopped it on her favorite show, Friends. Hermione noticed that Harry and Ron were watching too and weren't asleep. She took the same position when she sat back down except she moved a little farther back. The episode was the series finale when Rachel goes to Paris and Ross stops her. Hermione couldn't help thinking that she wished something as romantic as that could happened between her and Ron. Ron was thinking the same thing. He was trying to figure out a romantic way to give her the bracelet though. She fell asleep watching Family Guy. Ron was still awake he took the remote from her hand and flipped through the channels. He looked over and saw Harry watching the TV too.

"Can't sleep?" Ron asked settling on a show, Punk'd.

"No I can't get comfortable." Harry said.

"Just move her." Ron said.

"Nah, she's sleeping." Ron smiled to himself he was glad Ginny was with Harry. Harry glanced over at Hermione. "You should show her the bracelet."

"I will, when the time is right though."

"When is that going to be? You and I both know she's not stupid and will find a way to see the bracelet. Isn't it better if you show her?"

"I will show her. " Ron said.

"Do it soon."

"I just don't know when though. How is she going to react when she sees it? What if she doesn't feel the same way?"

"Are you stupid? She loves you too! Didn't you see her get jealous when you were talking to Lavender yesterday?"

"When?"

"Both times. And when we were leaving she walked closer to you to make her jealous of you two."

"How do you notice this?"

"Ginny noticed most of it and I did some of it but anyways when Seamus was staring at her you were ready to curse him. I see the way you two look at each other. If that's not love than I don't know what else is."

"But you would have done the same thing for Hermione."

"True, but because she's one of my best friends and he's a prat."

"Same reason I would have done it."

"No it's not."

"What is it then."

"Because you love her!"

"I know!" Ron finally admitted somewhere other than a piece of metal or his thoughts. Hermione moved closer to Ron in her sleep. He stroked her hair and stared at her. "I do love her but it's really hard."

"I understand! Me and Ginny will help too."

"Thanks mate."

"No problem." They turned their attention back to TV and watched Brittany Snow get Punk'd.

"But how do I know she loves me too?" Ron looked at Harry.

"Think about it. At the beach, in the pool, at the carnival, Diagon Alley, should I continue?" Ron thought for a moment about everything.

"By next week I'll tell her."

"Unless she finds the bracelet first."

"She's not going to look in my stuff." Ron said uncertainly. He looked down at Hermione. She breathed in and out and even looked beautiful sleeping. He pushed her hair out of her face. He kissed her forehead and watched her sleeping. He found this more enjoyable than TV. He knew the feeling inside him was love and he had to tell her.

A/N: What did you think? I know it's not as long as the others but the next on is and I'll have that up A.S.A.P! I have now written up to chapter 20 and have decided to continue with a sequel and their last year at Hogwarts. This story is going to go up to 25 chapters! Please Review!