A/N: Hey! Thank you reviewers! I got 16 of them YAY! Ok same deal for tomorrow alright! You reveiw and I'll update! And to Mystics number 42: No they won't sleep together in this story but they do sleep in the same bed (innocently.) They might take their relationship to the next level but I can say that by the end of the sequel that they will! So on with the chapter!

Chapter 19- Head Girl and … Head Boy?

Over the next few weeks they had done everything on the schedule, to Hermione's delight and Ron even braved the "Roller Toaster" for Hermione at the amusement park. Today was the second day in the week that their Hogwarts letters would arrive. Hermione, Ron, and Harry were now sitting at the kitchen table. They were waiting on Ginny. All three of them had a section of the Daily Prophet that they were reading. Ron was the first one to notice the faint pecking at the window. He put down his paper and went over to the window. Harry and Hermione didn't notice until he had taken the letters off and went back to his seat.

"Are we going to Diagon Alley today?" Ron asked.

"Why?" Hermione wondered, not taking her eyes off of the paper.

"Because the letters are here." Ron answered as he looked at the four letters in his hands. Hermione looked up with an expression of happiness on her face.

"Really they're here!" She asked. Harry and Ron knew that she had been anxiously awaiting this since they left school. Ron nodded. "Well hand it over!" She exclaimed trying to get hers out of his hand. Ron stood up.

"Come get it." He lifted the letter in his hand above his head. Hermione tried to reach it but the fact that he was much more taller than her came into play.

"Come on please give it to me!" She begged still jumping up to reach it." Ron laughed.

"You'll have to reach it." He started moving away and Harry was laughing in his seat.

"Give it to me, damnet!" She went after him. He tried to get away and run but she jumped onto his back and was now trying to get the letter.

"Harry catch it!" Ron threw the letter to Harry and Harry stood up and backed away from Hermione. Hermione let go of Ron and went after Harry.

"Don't make me hurt you Harry, just hand over the letter." Hermione said calmly as she approached Harry with an outstretched hand.

"Alright, here Ron." Harry threw the letter like a Frisbee to Ron except Hermione jumped and caught it. Ron pulled it out of her hand just in time.

"Why do you have to read it? You already know you got Head Girl." Ron said eyeing the letter.

"That's not true. Anybody could have gotten it. And the booklists are in there." Hermione protested with her hands on her hips.

"Yeah, you're right it was probably Parkinson who got it. Yeah that'd be it and Malfoy got Head Boy." Ron joked. Hermione's face looked offended.

"You think that she would have gotten it instead of me?" Hermione asked.

"No." Ron answered simply. Harry was just watching the two finding this all amusing.

"Then can I have my letter?" Hermione asked.

"Not yet!"

"Fine, I'll open your letter and you can open mine." Hermione grabbed his off of the table and ripped it open. Ron started to open hers when he heard a large shriek and Hermione jumped into his arms and wrapped her legs around his middle. "You got it your Head Boy!" She exclaimed kissing him. Ron almost dropped her from shock.

"Your kidding right?" He asked.

"No look!" She held the letter in front of his face. He had to tighten his grip on Hermione because he almost dropped her again.

"M – me? H – H – Head Boy?" Ron stuttered.

"Yup!" She now held the badge in front of his face. His look of shock turned into a grin.

"Wow, your Head Girl and I'm Head Boy!" He laughed.

"I got it?" Hermione asked. Before waiting for and answer, she wrapped her arms tighter around Ron and buried her head in his shoulder. Ron frantically tossed the letter to Harry. Harry finished opening it and nodded at Ron to tell him that she got it. Ron breathed a sigh of relief (although he knew she would get it) and spun her around. Laughing, she kissed him. A very tired Ginny came down the stairs.

"What's up with them?" Ginny asked Harry.

"Head Boy and Head Girl." Harry said as he picked up his page of the Daily Prophet.

"No way! Ron got Head Boy?" Ginny asked. Harry nodded as he read the paper. "But how – he can't – this is Ron we're talking about!" She exclaimed. Ron pulled away from Hermione for a minute.

"You know I can here you?" Ron asked.

"Yeah so answer my questions." Ginny demanded.

"I don't know. You'll have to ask Dumbledore." Ron answered.

"Trust me I will. I'll make sure he was sane and sober when he made the decision." Ginny said as Ron glared.

"Well let's get going. We have to go to Diagon Alley and get all of our books and stuff." Hermione said and Ron released her. She hurried up the stairs to get dressed.

"I'm going to go send mum a letter. She'll be happy to know." Ron said as he followed Hermione up the stairs. Ginny looked at Harry with her eyebrows raised. Harry just shrugged and followed the other two upstairs. Sighing, Ginny went back up to her room and found Hermione already dressed in a black tank top and a jean skirt. She was clipping the bracelet Ron gave her to her wrist and then started to apply her make-up.

"Congratulations Hermione!" Ginny said. She went over and hugged Hermione.

"Thanks Gin!" Hermione said. Around a half hour later they were all dressed. Hermione in fact was outside in her car waiting for the other three. She was getting very impatient so she honked the horn twice and decided to look over the booklists. Hermione noticed that there was a new Defense Against the Dark Arts book so Dumbledore must have found a new teacher. One by one they all got into the car. "Took you long enough!" Hermione exclaimed as she pulled out of her driveway. The normally hour trip to the city took 45 minutes because Hermione was rushing. As soon as she parked the car she shoved the booklists in her purse and hurried out of the car. Hermione practically dragged Ron through the busy muggle street and into Diagon Alley. She rushed them into Flourish and Blott's and right before she could pick up any book Ron nudged her and pointed out the window. As she looked she saw Lavender with her arm locked with Seamus's and they were laughing.

"Ha!" He laughed. "I wonder if he knows about her love potion obsession."

"Who cares? She probably already slipped it to him." Hermione laughed and then turned her attention back to the books. A half hour later all four of them had their books and were on their way to getting their potion ingredients. When they had everything on their lists, Ginny said she needed something at Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes. The first people to come up to them were Fred and George.

"Well if it isn't the Head Boy and Head Girl! Mum told us." Fred exclaimed.

"Congratulations Mione." George added.

"Yeah you too Ron." Fred said sarcastically. Ron could tell the jokes were coming so he grabbed Hermione's arm.

"Come on Hermione let's go." He started walking toward the door but turned to Harry and Ginny first. "We're going to be outside when you're done." They walked outside and onto the street. The door behind them opened and closed again, Ron and Hermione spun around to find Draco Malfoy there with Pansy Parkinson closely wrapped around his arm.

"Did I hear right? Weasley and Granger are Head Boy and Head Girl?" Malfoy asked. When they didn't respond Malfoy taunted some more. "And I see you two are a couple. HA! Weasley I thought you would at least do a little bit better than a mudblood." Pansy Parkinson shrieked with laughter. Ron dropped his books and took his wand out of his pocket. Malfoy backed up against the wall of the store and Ron had his wand aimed at his throat.

"Ron let it go." Hermione said. Ron sighed and reluctantly lowered his wand he turned around to pick up his books. Malfoy sniggered and Pansy Parkinson laughed.

"Hey Granger, you know Victor Krum was just as ugly as this one but at least he was good at Quidditch." Malfoy laughed harder while Pansy shrieked some more. Before she could think, Hermione dropped everything in her hand and slammed her fist into Pansy Parkinson's jaw. Pansy let out a cry of pain. When Hermione realized what she had done she backed up speechless and looked from her fist to Pansy's jaw. Malfoy walked over to Pansy and looked at her jaw. Ron looked at Hermione amazed.

"You'll pay mudblood." Malfoy sneered he started reaching for his wand. Ron had enough; he took Malfoy by the neck and brought his head, hard, against the wall of a store. Malfoy let out a grunt of pain.

"Go to hell Malfoy!" Ron said angrily. He released Malfoy when someone pulled him back. Malfoy took Pansy's hand and led her off in another direction. Ron looked at who had pulled him away from Malfoy and saw Harry standing there and Ginny was looking from Ron to Hermione to the space where Malfoy and Pansy had just been.

"W – what happened?" She asked wearily. Ron didn't say anything; he started angrily picking up his and Hermione's books and shoving them into the bag. Ginny and Harry looked at Hermione expectantly.

"I – I just got mad. I – I didn't mean to hit her." Ron stood up and Harry turned to him.

"And you?" Harry asked.

"You would have done the same thing Harry!" Ron snapped. "You saw what happened ok. Malfoy just pushed me one too many times." Ron said angrily. Hermione's looked was still completely incredulous; she couldn't believe she just punched someone.

"Let's get some ice cream." Ginny suggested. Nobody argued, in fact nobody spoke, they just followed Ginny. When they were at the ice cream shop Harry, Ron, and Hermione sat down at the booth while Ginny went to get their ice cream.

"Hermione, uh… are you ok?" Harry asked. Hermione who was staring off into space looked over at Harry.

"Yeah, I just can't believe I hit her." Hermione looked down at her fist and saw there were no marks. "It felt good to hit her after what she said but I just – I'm not the kind of person that hits people – she just – "

"She got what she deserved." Harry finished. "And Malfoy too." Harry added when he saw Ron's face. Ginny came back with their ice creams and they sat silently eating them until they heard giggles from the booth behind them. Harry and Ginny could already see but Ron and Hermione had to turn around to see. They immediately turned back around because the sight they saw was sickening. Lavender and Seamus were there. They had one ice cream and Lavender was feeding it to Seamus. She then got some on his nose and licked it off. Ginny held in her giggles while the other three looked completely revolted.

"You know there are other places to do that like not in public!" Hermione said loud enough so Lavender and Seamus could hear.

"Maybe we should finish outside?" Ron suggested.

"If I have the appetite to." Hermione said. Everyone else laughed. They went outside onto the busy street and started wandering around.

"So we have everything for school right?" Ginny asked.

"Yeah we have everything we need for school. What did you two buy at Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes?" Hermione asked. Ron noticed Harry and Ginny shift the bags so that she wouldn't be able to look in them. Ron knew that there was Skiving Snackboxes in the bags.

"Oh, you know just the usual." Ginny said.

"What do you want to do now?" Harry asked before Hermione could ask what the usual was.

"Ooo! Let's go shopping!" Ginny said excitedly.

"Uh…" Harry started.

"Although shopping might be fun for you. Harry and I don't exactly enjoy it." Ron finished.

"Yeah." Hermione said, a little grateful because shopping wasn't on the top of her "favorite things to do list" and she wanted to get started on reading her new schoolbooks.

"Well you two could Apparate back to Hermione's and we could go shopping." Ginny suggested happily.

"Ok." Harry agreed.

"Do you want us to take your stuff back?" Ron asked and then saw Hermione's face.

"Yeah, sure." Hermione said glumly handing her bags to Ron. Ron looked apologetically at her. He leaned down and kissed her.

"Sorry." Ron muttered when his face was inches away from hers.

"That's ok. I'll try to hurry it up and when I get back I can start reading my books." Hermione said.

"Aw, I thought you were going to hurry up to be with me." Ron said.

"You're the other reason." She smiled. He kissed her one more time. Harry and Ron Apparated back to Hermione's leaving Ginny and Hermione alone on Diagon Alley.

"Well come on we're burning daylight!" Ginny exclaimed. She led Hermione through the Leaky Cauldron and onto the street. Ginny led her through almost all of the stores that were there and by the time they were done shopping through all off the stores Ginny only had a few dollars left of her muggle money. Ginny and Hermione each had a handful of bags, about eight each. Half of the bags Hermione had were Ginny's. Actually one of the bags of Ginny's had stuff for Harry in it. Ginny said that Harry needed some new clothes. Hermione didn't think Ron needed some new clothes but got him a few t-shirts with band names on them. They drove back to Hermione's house and all of the way there Hermione had to listen to Ginny drone on about shopping and the clothes she bought. When they got there Hermione grabbed as much bags as she could and hurried inside before Ginny could say another word. Once she got through the door she dropped all of the bags and rushed over to Ron. When she reached him she threw her arms around his neck and hugged him.

"Remind me never ever, ever to do that again, without somebody else there to keep me sane." Hermione said. Harry and Ron laughed and Ginny came through the doors with the rest of the bags.

"How many of those bags are actually yours?" Ron asked.

"About four." Hermione answered. She moved over to the fridge and took out a can of soda. Ginny sat on the floor amongst the bags and started riffling through.

"Do you guys want to see what I bought?" Ginny asked Harry and Ron. "I already showed Hermione. Oh and I bought stuff for you too Harry."

"Yeah, she tried on every damn piece of clothes she bought." Hermione muttered so only Ron and Harry could hear. They laughed.

"Why don't you show us later Gin?" Ron asked.

"You got me stuff?" Harry asked with his eyebrows raised.

"Uh-huh." Ginny nodded. Harry turned to Hermione.

"I'm hungry." Harry said changing the topic. "What's for dinner?" Hermione groaned.

"Dinner, I've got to make something." She said.

"I'll do it!" Ron said.

"What?" Hermione laughed at him.

"I – said – that – I – would – make – dinner." Ron said slowly.

"Your joking right?" Harry asked.

"No I'm not."

"What would you make? Do you even know how to cook?" Hermione said.

"I could make something easy." He went over to the cabinets and started searching through them.

"Like what?" Hermione asked.

"Like this, it looks easy enough." He pulled down a box of Macaroni and Cheese.

"I'll be watching TV trying not to think of what that's going to turn out like." Harry said. He left before Ron could make an angry retort. Ginny gathered up as much bags as she could and started to bring them upstairs. Ron started reading the back of the Macaroni and Cheese box trying to figure out how to cook it. Hermione was going to help Ron but then noticed the bags from Diagon Alley. She immediately went through all of the bags until she found her stuff. Hermione sat at the kitchen table and absorbed herself in Standard Book of Spells Grade 7. Ron went under the cabinet and pulled out a pot. He started cooking and had no trouble till he had to mix the cheese in.

"Uh…Hermione?" Ron brought the bowl of macaroni and powdered cheese over to the kitchen table.

"Yes?" She looked up from the book and saw the problem. "I can fix that!" Hermione quickly took the bowl and hurried over to the counter. When they were done they called Harry and Ginny to the table to eat. Harry looked at it and picked up a forkful.

"Well it doesn't look poison." He said after examining it.

"It's not!" Hermione exclaimed with a full mouth. All three heads turned and looked at her. She quickly let her fork fall and put her hand to her mouth. Hermione swallowed the food. "Sorry!" She quickly exclaimed.

"You know I think Ron's a bad influence on you." Ginny said.

"Well I've been saying that for the past seven years." Hermione replied with a laugh. "And this one here too." She pointed to Harry. Ginny laughed and Harry looked offended. Ron was waiting for Harry to eat.

"Are you going to eat it or do I have to shove it down your throat?" Ron demanded.

"Why are you so eager for me to eat it? This wouldn't be the first time someone's tried to do me in I know how it works." Harry said.

"Just eat it and then you can apologize." Ron said gruffly. Harry examined the forkful of macaroni one last time.

"Alright, well it was nice knowing you all." Harry shoved the fork full in his mouth. They all looked at him expectantly and he swallowed. Hermione reached her hand across the table and felt his forehead.

"I think he just might live!" Hermione exclaimed.

"Well?" Ron looked at him.

"It's not half bad." Harry admitted. "But I much rather eat the school food." Hermione coughed to the side. They could tell that it was taking all of her energy not to scold Harry about house elves. When they finished eating they went downstairs to watch a movie. They all let Ginny chose a movie. She chose The Notebook and Hermione was barley-paying attention to tell them that Ron and Harry wouldn't like this movie. Soon after it started Ron and Harry became restless and were getting bored.

"I think I'm going to bed." Ron yawned. Harry stood up as well.

"Yeah, I'm going too."

"Night." Hermione said vaguely from behind her book.

"Are you going to come up to sleep or do I get the whole bed to myself tonight?"

"Sure." Hermione replied.

"Oh, come on I don't even get a kiss?" Hermione looked up from her book.

"Sorry!" She placed her book down and wrapped her arms around his neck. She kissed him hard for a few seconds and then sat back down. Ron was left with his eyes closed and his lips puckered still waiting for more. When he realized he wasn't getting anymore he looked to see if Harry was coming. Harry wasn't getting any luckier; he got a peck on the lips and Ginny ignored him as she turned her attention back to the TV. They walked upstairs with glum expressions on their faces. Hermione lay down and held the book in front of her face as she continued to read.

A/N: Well please review and let me know what you think! Remember I will update if I get 15 or more reviews by tomorrow! Love you all! -Kylie (Oh and yes my name is Kylie, myfriendishyper)