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Chapter 11- I Love You

Hermione opened her eyes and looked around her room. The fact that Ron might tell her today put her in a good mood. She sat up and saw Ginny sleeping. Hermione walked over to her dresser and picked out the pink top she bought the other day and black capris. She picked out some jewelry, did her hair and her make-up and went downstairs. She found Ron at the kitchen table looking very distressed with a cup of coffee in his hands. He was still in his pajamas.

"What's wrong? Does your head still hurt? I did the spell right."

"No, my head is fine I'm just thinking."

"About what?" Ron looked at her searching for a lie.

"Uh… stuff." Hermione poured herself a cup of coffee.

"Oh… k." She sat down. It was silent and Hermione didn't do anything to break it she was hoping Ron would. When they had finished their coffee without anymore talking Hermione went into the living room and started reading a book. Ron went upstairs to get dressed. He came down a few minutes later wearing a green t-shirt and khaki shorts. He took a seat on the couch next to her and turned on the TV. Hermione glanced over to him; he was barley paying attention to it. He turned on a cartoon and she looked at him. He was staring at it absentmindedly. She continued to stare and he didn't notice. If he loved her then why couldn't or wouldn't he tell her? She stood up, put her book down and stomped away. She went to her room and shook Ginny awake.

"Huh?" Ginny mumbled.

"Gin if he loves me than why won't he tell me? He's had the perfect opportunity. More than one actually." Hermione said to Ginny, whose eyes were still closed.

"Harry said he wants to give you the bracelet but he can't think of how to do it. I think he's just nervous. Give him time." Ginny mumbled her eyes still closed.

"I don't care about the damn bracelet! Why is he nervous? I kissed him yesterday and I thought that told him how I felt." Hermione threw he arms up and walked out of the room. She went downstairs; Ron was still on the couch watching cartoons or whatever he was doing. Hermione groaned and walked out of the house through the back door. She walked all the way out on to her street and down it. All that kept running through her head is why he wouldn't tell her and the fact that love isn't the kind of word you play with like that. She wanted to hear the words come out of his mouth but he wasn't saying anything. Apparently he thought the bracelet could express his feelings. Hermione heard feet behind her and turned around it was Ron running to catch up with her.

"I saw you leave." He said finally catching up with her.

"I just needed to get out of the house for a few minutes." She said turning back around and continuing her walk. Ron could tell she seemed mad at something.

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah, sure. Just wonderful!" Hermione said sarcastically. Ron didn't say anything else. He was afraid she might flip out at him and he didn't want to start rowing with her, they had been good with that lately. They walked on until they reached the ice cream shop and they turned around. Hermione felt a drop of water hit her head but didn't think too much about it. When they got back to Hermione's house Harry and Ginny were watching TV. Ron sat down on the couch but Hermione went upstairs. She picked up one of the books she got the other day and sat down on her bed and started reading. Reading calmed her and she didn't feel that mad anymore. Maybe if she gave Ron a little time he would come around like Ginny said. She heard a knock at the door. "Come in!" Ron walked in and stood at the door.

"Are you sure you're feeling ok? You seemed mad before." Ron cautiously sat on the side of her bed. She put her book down and looked at him.

"I was but I got over it."

"What were you mad at?" Hermione shook her head.

"It was nothing."

"Ok. What are we doing today it's raining?"

"What?" Hermione's face fell.

"I looked outside for you and the rain was pouring down. When I walked in before I felt a few drops."

"Me too. Damn rain! That's twice it ruined our plans!"

"We can find something to do here. Are there anymore scary movies we could watch?"

"That's a good idea. I have Scream 2 and 3 also and we could watch the Ring." Hermione stood up and Ron followed. Hermione made some popcorn and they all went downstairs to watch the movies. Hermione did the same fake scared thing maybe Ron could take a hint. Well she thought the kiss might have been enough of a hint but apparently it wasn't. Hermione grabbed his arm and jumped, Ron barley watched the movie. He kept his hand in his pocket where the bracelet was. He was thinking. Ginny told him to just tell her and then later give her the bracelet but he wasn't sure the words could come out. He looked over at her scared face. He knew she felt the same but it was so hard. Hermione glanced at Ron's face he didn't look as scared as he did when the watched Scream. She figured he was still thinking. Maybe if she made the first move then he would do something. But she had already made the first move when she kissed him yesterday. It was up to him now to do something next. She stopped pretending to be scared when they put in The Ring. Ron didn't even notice. Hermione's mood shifted back to being angry. She scowled and tried to pay attention to the movie. Harry and Ginny were to busy kissing to notice anything except the fact that Ron hadn't broke them up. They looked over at both of their distant expressions. Ginny had an idea.

"We'll be upstairs." She said pulling Harry with her. Ron saw this as an opportunity.

"Uh…Hermione?" She looked at him hopefully.

"Yes?" He had his fingers around the box but then got scared.

"I – uh I – do you want to go upstairs too?" Hermione's face fell she didn't answer. She stormed up the stairs and he went after her. She walked toward the sliding door and pulled it open. "Where are you going?"

"I don't really care! Anywhere!" She walked outside and closed the door behind her. Rain hit her on the head and she immediately became soaked. She didn't care though. She was furious. Tears were streaming down her face. She heard something behind her but didn't care she walked along the side of the pool and was turning to go to her car.

"Hermione!" She turned around and looked at Ron.

"What!" She demanded angrily. He was soaked too but didn't seem to care. She wanted to get in her car and just get away.

"Don't go!"

"Why?" She demanded. He looked nervous but he took a deep breath and his empty hand out of his pocket.

"I have to tell you something." He yelled nervously.

"Oh yeah what's that?" She retorted even more angrily.

"I – I Love You, Hermione!" He shouted through the rain. She didn't want to go to her car anymore.

"What?" She asked. Her voice softened and she was no longer angry. He walked closer to her and took her hands.

"I said I love you!" She smiled through the rain and tears. "I always have. I couldn't say it before because I was scared but I do. I love you Mione! I always will too." He pressed his lips against hers and she kissed him back. When she finally pulled away she smiled at him.

"I love you too." She hugged him tightly. She never wanted to let him go. She again met their lips. This time the kiss was deepened. Ginny and Harry were at the door watching. They had heard Hermione yelling and came to the door.

"Finally!" Harry said to Ginny.

"Yeah but if they stay out there any longer they're going to freeze to death!"

"I don't really want to break that up."

"Neither do I."

"It looks like they're keeping things heated." Harry laughed.

"Shut up!" She slapped him. "Go get your friends before they get sick!"

"Can you imagine getting sick from snogging in the rain?" Harry laughed. "Fine I'll get them." But he didn't have to Ron and Hermione were running back toward the door through all of the rain. Ginny and Harry ran back in the living room like they never saw anything. Hermione and Ron went upstairs to change. Hermione closed the door to her room; she leaned on the door and smiled. It finally happened, her lips still had Ron's taste on them and she wanted to remember that moment forever. After a minute she walked over to her dresser and put on a pair of jeans and a hoodie. She pulled her hair up into a messy bun and then washed all of the make-up off of her face. It got messed up out in the rain anyway. After there was a knock at the door.

"Come in." Ron walked in with the velvet box in his hands. Hermione smiled.

"I got this for you when we went into the city." He handed her the velvet box and she opened it. She tried to look surprised but it didn't work so well.

"Thank you!" She hugged him and kissed him softly on the lips.

"You already saw it didn't you?" He asked.

"No of course not!" Ron looked at her disbelieving. "…Well I wanted to see what you guys were keeping from me."

"When?"

"Yesterday."

"Why didn't you say anything?"

"I was waiting for you to say something. I figured you would have wanted to give it to me and tell me so I didn't say anything. And besides I kind of did at Lavender's party." Ron smiled. He took the bracelet out of the velvet box and clipped it to her wrist.

"I should have listened to Harry. He told me to give it to you before you found it." She laughed. "But I wanted to find the perfect way to tell you."

"This was perfect." She pushed him against the wall and kissed him again. After 10 minutes Hermione decided they should go downstairs she pulled away and took his hand. "Harry and Ginny probably already know but let's go downstairs anyway." They walked downstairs and took a seat on the couch. Harry and Ginny smiled at them.

"You owe me 5 Sickles!" Harry said to Ron.

"What?"

"I bet you yesterday that she would find the bracelet before you gave it to her." Ron started cursing under his breath and threw the 5 Sickles at Harry. Ron put his arm around Hermione and they watched TV. Well Ron did, Hermione read her book again. 10 minutes later there was two loud cracks and Fred and George were standing in front of the TV.

"Oy! Get out of the way!" Ron said.

"Hello to you too!" Fred said.

"We came to borrow your telemaphone." George informed them.

"There is one in the kitchen you could use." Hermione said not looking up from her book.

"I'll show them!" Ron stood up and walked into the kitchen. Fred and George followed. When they got in the kitchen Ron turned around and started yelling he had no intention of showing them the phone right now. "Why did you tell mum that Hermione and me were dating? She came here and started questioning us! She said that you two told her!" Fred and George laughed.

"But isn't it true?" Fred asked

"Now it is but it wasn't before!" Ron shouted.

"Finally!" Fred and George said together. Ron laughed at this because everyone was saying the same thing. He pointed to the phone and left the kitchen. He returned to his seat and went back to watching TV. Fred and George came out of the kitchen a few minutes later.

"We were invited to a party. Can you drive us?" Fred asked.

"What happened to Apparating there?" Hermione asked finally looking up from her book.

"We can't Apparate in front of muggles are you crazy?" George asked.

"Why are you dating muggles then?" Fred and George looked at each other. Fred didn't say anything he just kind of hung his head.

"So can you drive us?" George asked. Hermione looked uncertainly at the two.

"Sure…uh what time?"

"We'll Apparate back in 3 hours." George said and they Disapparated.

"What did I say?" Hermione asked.

"Nothing it's just that Fred still isn't over Angelina turning him down. I guess he's trying to get over her with a muggle." Ginny informed her.

"Oh," Hermione said. She looked at her watch it was only 3:30. "Do you want to get something to eat?"

"Yeah I'm starved." Ginny said.

"Is there anything to eat here?" Harry asked.

"No but I could go to the store and get some stuff. The rain seems to be clearing up a bit." Hermione said.

"I think we'll stay here." Ginny smiled at Harry. Hermione and Ron walked out of the room. Hermione took an umbrella out of the hall closet. She opened it and then the door. They walked out into the rain. Hermione held it high so it would cover Ron too. They ran to the car and she closed the umbrella and got in. She started the car and pulled away. The windshield wipers weren't doing a very good job of keeping the rain out so Ron bewitched it so they could see clearly. They got to the store parking lot and it was practically empty except a few cars. She parked close to the store and they made a run for it putting their hoods up. In the store they took the hoods off of their heads. Hermione grabbed a shopping cart and they started to look down the isles.

"What's this?" Ron asked holding up a package of Oreos.

"Cookies!" Hermione said. Ron tossed them in the shopping cart. When the shopping cart was full Hermione looked in. There was nothing they could eat for meals. It was completely full of junk food. "We can't live off of this stuff?" Hermione exclaimed.

"Why not? I've always wanted to try." Ron smiled.

"That's ridiculous! We don't need this, and this, and this!" Hermione started taking things out.

"Yes we do." Ron put them back in.

"Don't argue with me!" Hermione frowned at him.

"But it's fun." Ron smiled. Hermione looked up at him and smiled too.

"We can keep some of this stuff but we have to get real food too." Hermione compromised.

"Thank you!" Ron gave her a quick kiss and they went through the shopping cart and emptied it. It was now only one third full. They had pop tarts already so they got some cereal and milk for breakfast. Hermione got only the things she knew how to make. When they got up to the cash register Ron saw all of the candy and started looking through it.

"Don't you think we have enough?" Ron thought for a minute and then tossed a pack of Starbursts in.

"Now we do!" Hermione laughed. They paid for all of the groceries and ran back to the car. They got wet when they were putting the groceries in the trunk. They quickly got in and Hermione drove on. Ron opened the pack of Starbursts and put one in his mouth. "So what are we going to do for Harry's birthday? It's in 9 days?"

"Your mum said we would have the party at the Burrow and that she would take care of the guests and everything."

"I know. But I think we should do something for him too."

"Ok what?"

"I don't know I was hoping you would."

"Let's talk it over with Ginny later." Hermione said as she pulled into her driveway. They rushed in the house with all of the groceries. Harry and Ginny met them at the door and helped bring the groceries in. They put it all away and Hermione made something for them to eat. After they ate they were extremely bored again. They decided to watch more TV until Fred and George came. Like clockwork they arrived exactly 3 hours after they left. They sat down on the couch.

"Don't you have to go?" Harry asked.

"Not for another half hour. We thought we'd stay here till then but now I see that that was a bad idea. There's nothing to do." Fred said. They were in the living room flipping through TV channels. To top off all of the boredom there was nothing good on TV.

"So what happened between you two?" George asked Ron and Hermione.

"Yeah what's this?" Fred picked up Hermione's wrist and looked at the bracelet. "Aw, how sweet Ron. Never thought you had it in you." Fred laughed. George came over and looked at it.

"Did you really write that?" George asked. Hermione pulled her arm away.

"Do you want a ride to the party or not?" Hermione asked. Fred and George looked like they were going to continue making fun of Ron but stopped.

"So what happened?" George asked.

"What do you mean?" Ron asked.

"Last time we were here this wasn't on her wrist and you two weren't together." Fred said.

"It was funny! It kind of started yesterday at Lavender's party." Ginny informed them.

"What happened at Lavender's party?" George asked.

"Well when we got there we went in the pool and Seamus was staring inappropriately at Hermione so Ron punched him. Then Lavender was all over Ron and she tried to get him to kiss her by playing Truth or Dare but I went first and Ron and Hermione kissed. Parvati then dared Ron to kiss Lavender but he kissed her on the cheek and they were mad. Then she came over and tried to get in the game Hermione left and I jumped in splashing her. Parvati charmed the Frisbee to hit Ron in the head and then Lavender spiked his drink with a love potion – from your shop – finally I flipped out at her and we left early. Then today Hermione left the house mad about something into the rain and Ron ran after her. They told each other that they loved em' and then here we are." Ginny said all in one breath.

"I was wondering what happened to Seamus. He came in the shop today and he had a black eye. That'd be the last time he's coming in." Fred said.

"And that Lavender girl. She won't be getting any more love potions from us." George finished. Ron was red in the face and Hermione's cheeks were pink. They turned their attention back to the television until 7. They all got in the car and dropped Fred and George off at the house where the party was. Fred and George told her to pick them up at one. Hermione started to get mad and tell them off. They apologized dully and Hermione drove back to her house. The rain started to lighten up a little but it was still rainy. When they got back to Hermione's. The only thing they could think to do was watch TV. Soon after Harry fell asleep on Ginny's shoulder. She shook him awake.

"Harry why don't you go to sleep?" Ginny said.

"Nah, I'm fine." He mumbled. 5 minutes later he was asleep on Ginny's shoulder again. She lifted his head up and stood up.

"Come on, you're going to sleep." She pulled him up and he groggily walked up stairs led by Ginny. She came down a minute later. Hermione remembered that they had to plan Harry's birthday.

"So let's figure out what we're going to do for Harry's birthday." Hermione said.

"I thought we were going to the Burrow?" Ginny asked.

"We are but we want to do something else for Harry's birthday." Ron said.

"Ok, so what?" Ginny asked. Hermione walked out of the room and came back with a piece of paper and a pen.

"Well we could go out to a restaurant." Hermione wrote as she spoke.

"I like that idea. We could go out to eat and then come back here and open the presents and stuff. We could invite a few people." Ginny said.

"Yeah. We'll have our own party for Harry here too. A surprise party, we could come back from the restaurant and everyone would be here to surprise him." Ron said.

"Who would we invite? We're no the most popular people in Gryffindor right now?" Hermione asked.

"Well I think Neville is still friends with us." Ron said.

"Fred and George would come too." Ginny said.

"I guess we could invite Luna too if Neville is coming?" Hermione suggested.

"Mione are you feeling ok? Loony Lovegood?" Ron asked.

"That's not funny Ron!" Ginny slapped his arm.

"Well who else is going to come?" Hermione asked.

"What about Ernie Macmillan? " Ginny said. "Isn't Harry friends with him?"

"Yeah I guess." Ron said.

"How about some people from the D.A?" Hermione suggested.

"Who? Most of them we barley even know. Lee Jordan. I think he works at the twins joke shop he might have been there the first time we went I don't remember." Ron said.

"Yeah that's all from the D.A. Wow we don't have any friends that's sad." Ginny pointed out.

"What's the point if there is only going to be 10 people there including us and Harry?" Ron wondered.

"Well are we going to do it or not?" Hermione asked.

"Why not?" Ginny said. Hermione left the room again and came back with a bunch of papers and pens. They made the invitations and Ron went to get Hedwig and Pigwidgeon. By the time they finished it was only 10. Ron left the room and came back with the package of Oreos they bought at the store. "What are those?" Ginny asked as Ron opened the package.

"Oreo cookie things." He said with a full mouth of Oreo. Hermione groaned at Ron.

"Swallow please!" She exclaimed.

"Sorry!" Ron said again with a full mouth. Hermione couldn't help cracking a grin.

"There's nothing good on TV!" Ginny exclaimed. "What's the point of a TV if there is nothing good to watch on it?" She tossed the remote on the couch next to her and took a cookie from Ron. Hermione took an Oreo and opened her book. Ron picked up the remote and started flipping through channels. He noticed Hermione was completely absorbed in her book. He pressed the volume button and she didn't complain. He turned the volume up all the way till the point where Ginny was covering her ears. "What the hell are you doing Ron?" She shouted over the noise.

"Look!" Ron pointed to Hermione; she was still reading as though the volume was still the same as it was a minute ago. When Hermione got to the end of the page and turned it she noticed the volume.

"Why is the TV up so loud?" She shouted. Ron turned the volume down before answering.

"You didn't notice that before?" Ron asked.

"No, I was reading." Hermione said and Ron laughed. "What?"

"You were just so into the book. What are you reading?"

"It's a book on what to expect for the N.E.W.Ts."

"Oh right we have to take them this year." Ron's face fell.

"If you study then you will pass." Hermione lifted the book back up and started reading. Ron snorted.

"Fat chance." Hermione laughed behind her book. When she was more than halfway finished she closed the book and moved closer to Ron. He put his arm around her and she smiled. She realized that the only thing different from before today is that they both knew that they loved each other. Her breathing became slower and she fell asleep. Ron looked at his watch. He would have to wake her up in an hour so they could pick up Fred and George. The next thing they knew Ginny was shaking them both.

"Come on! We have to get Fred and George! We fell asleep." Ginny shouted. Hermione sat up and looked at her watch they were supposed to be there an hour ago. Then there were two loud cracks that startled Ron awake.

"What happened?" He sat straight up. Hermione looked apologetically at Fred and George.

"Sorry we fell asleep!" Hermione apologized.

"It's okay. The party wasn't over when we left but we figured since we have an early day tomorrow we should get going." Fred said.

"We also figured you lot fell asleep, so we stayed a while and then we left." George informed them.

"When nobody was looking we Apparated."

"We just wanted to tell you that you don't have to come get us."

"Well see you!" And with two more loud cracks they Disapparated. Ron looked mad that he was woken up from his sleep and Ginny kept nodding off.

"I'll see you on the morning." Ginny yawned. When she was gone there was silence.

"Tired?" Hermione wondered.

"Eh not so much any more." Ron said.

"Good!" She kissed him and they leaned back on the couch.

A/N: What did you think? I hoped you liked it! I thought this was the best chapter because they finally get together, but don't worry there are still other good chapters It's your own oppinion on what is your favorite... but anyways I will post a new one when I have more reviews soo please review! Next chapter is called Romeo and Juliet so review and you will get to read it! Love you all! -Kylie