A/N: Horray! Another review! I got up pretty early for this so please review! Three more chapters after this! Alright to Vonn: I'm glad you like my story :) and I wrote this before I read the sixth book so nothing in here has to do with the sixth book unless I put that it did in the authors note. You could reread the longer summary in the first chapter if you want and it might make some sense:) And to Anubee: A coolata is a drink thingy from dunkin dounuts:) It's good so I sugggest if you have the chance to try one you should, but be careful that you don't laugh to hard while drinking it, it might come out of your nose! lol!
Chapter 22- One last time
After driving around a little longer and stopping at a few places they picked up dinner and went back to Hermione's.
"Well thanks for letting me use the phone." George said as he stood up from the kitchen table when they were done. "I'll see you later I have to get ready for my dinner with Alicia at seven."
"It's already six thirty and we just ate dinner." Hermione said.
"Yeah but this was dinner with you all and that will be dinner with Alicia. It's different. Well see you. Oh and Ron let me know when you want to have the talk!" Before Ron could respond George Disapparated.
"What did George walk in on this morning?" Ginny asked looking at the two.
"We were just snogging. Nothing else." Ron said.
"Seems like more." Harry pointed out.
"It wasn't." Hermione said. Harry and Ginny both looked disbelievingly at them. "Oh please! Don't give us those looks! We were in the kitchen kissing and George walked in end of story." They rolled their eyes and looked away. They went into the living room to watch a movie on TV. Ron sat down on the small couch while Harry and Ginny took seats on the other couch. Hermione laid in Ron's arms. When the movie was over it was around eleven so Hermione faked a yawn. "I'm tired I think I'm going to go to sleep. Coming Ginny?"
"Yeah." She yawned herself and turned to give Harry a kiss but he stood up too.
"I'm tired too." He said and turned to Ron. In fact they were all looking at Ron.
"I'm not too tired I'll stay down here." He said. Ginny and Harry said goodnight. Hermione went over to Ron and pretended she was saying goodnight.
"I'll meet you down here in an hour." She whispered in his ear. He nodded slightly and gave her a quick peck on the lips holding himself back from what he really wanted to do. Hermione and Ginny went for the stairs. Harry stayed down to talk to Ron for a minute. Hermione and Ginny went into their room to change.
"So what did George walk in on this morning?" Ginny asked.
"I told you – " Hermione started.
"No, really?" Ginny asked. Hermione sighed; Ginny wasn't going to give this up.
"We were but he was touching me and George saw the hikki on my neck. We were kinda close too." Hermione said.
"How close?"
"As close as you can get."
"Wow it must have been serious."
"Oh it was."
"So you did…"
"No but we came close. He said we should stop before we get to carried away and then when I told him that we loved each other and it didn't matter how far we got he said that it should be special and we should wait until the right time."
"Me and Harry lied too. I didn't fall asleep right away. We came close too but Harry said that we should wait until we're not in the same house as Ron." Hermione laughed.
"Smart idea." She opened her top drawer and started looking for a bikini to wear in the pool. She chose her light pink one and made sure Ginny wasn't looking when she put it with her pajamas. "Night! I'm going to change in the bathroom." She grabbed her pajamas and went into the hallway before Ginny could ask questions. She quickly changed into her bathing suit and put her pajamas over it. Hermione made sure that the strings couldn't be seen and went to Ron and Harry's room where she had been staying with Ron for the past few weeks. As she was walking to the door Harry came up the stairs. "Oh you can get dressed first. I'll wait." Hermione said to Harry.
"No it's ok. I'll change in the bathroom I just have to get my pajamas." Harry responded. They both walked into the room. Hermione walked over to the bed. "Night." She said to Harry as she laid down in the bed.
"Night!" Harry responded. He turned the light out for her and left the room. Hermione stared up at the ceiling and thought of Ron. She hoped Harry and Ginny would happen to get the urge to walk out to the pool. After a while she thought that Harry and Ginny would be sleeping. It had been forty-five minutes. She walked downstairs and into the living room.
"Hi!" She said to Ron. Ron jumped and looked back at her.
"Don't do that! I didn't know you were there!" Ron said.
"Sorry!" Hermione apologized. "Wanna go swimming now?"
"Yeah!" He nodded. They walked outside and turned a few lights on. Ron pulled off of his shirt and jumped in the pool right away.
"Is it cold?" Hermione asked.
"N –no it's really warm." He replied.
"Sure it is." Hermione laugheed. "But you'll keep me warm right?"
"Of course!" Hermione pulled off of her shirt and stepped out of her shorts.
"Fascinating?" she asked as she twirled around to show off her bathing suit.
"Very!" Ron responded. Hermione laughed because he sounded very serious. "Well are you coming in?"
"I suppose, if you really want me to." Ron laughed as she walked over to the edge. She closed her eyes and jumped in. When she came above the water she shivered. "I –it is c –cold!"
"Y –yeah it is!" It went silent and they were looking at each other. A second later they busted out in a fit laughter. "What do you want to do now?"
"I dunno. You wanted to see me in my bathing suit so you tell me…"
"I dunno either."
"I'll race you to the other end of the pool and back."
"What?" But Hermione had already started swimming to the other end of the pool. Ron followed after her. When Hermione got to the other end she waited for Ron to catch up before she started again. "What are you doing?" He asked when he saw her waiting.
"Waiting for you." She went to go back under again but Ron took her arm and pulled her close.
"We never got to finish." He said to her. She smiled.
"No we didn't." she smiled into the kiss. Since they were on the shallow end of the pool they walked up the stairs and landed on a lawn chair never parting. Hermione laid down on top of Ron. They never managed to do anything because they were both so tired they fell asleep right there.
Hermione woke up to bright sunshine beating down on her back. She opened her eyes and looked down on Ron's chest. She lifted up her head and looked at his sleeping face. She gave him a quick peck on the lips but before she could pull away he kissed her
"Morning Romeo." She yawned.
"Morning." He said. "We still never finished."
"Yeah I know. We'll have to finish later because Harry and Ginny will be awake soon."
"Yeah." She got off of him and sat on the end of the lawn chair by his feet.
"What are we going to do when we go back to Hogwarts and have separate dorms?"
"Your aloud in my dorm." Ron pointed out.
"And I'm sure no one will have anything to say if I sleep in there with you."
"No one said anything when we slept together this summer."
"And we didn't say anything when Harry and Ginny slept together either but that's how it works."
"See Harry won't care and I'm sure Neville and Dean won't mind. Who cares what Seamus thinks. If he says anything I'll just give him another black eye." Hermione laughed.
"We'll talk." She stood up and pulled her pajamas back on over her bathing suit and went into the kitchen. Ron watched her and then put his head back sighing. He was really going to miss waking up next to Hermione. He knew that they wouldn't be able to sleep in the same bed let alone the same room at Hogwarts because Mogonagall would have a fit. But he also knew that after this year was over both of them and Harry would probably buy a flat together and then when Ginny got out of school she would live with them too. On that happy note he got up and picked up his shirt as he was walking into the house. As he was approaching he smelt the aroma of Hermione's good cooking. Walking in the door Hermione smiled at him from the stove as she cooked. He smiled back and pulled his shirt over his head. He watched her happily as she continued to flip the pancakes. After a minute of watching her, Ron walked over to her. He rested his head on her shoulder looking over it at the breakfast cooking and wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Smells good." He told her.
"Thanks!" She replied and continued to flip the pancakes and scramble the eggs with Ron at her shoulder. There was a noise at the stairs and Ginny and Harry came down. Ron got off of Hermione's shoulder and sat down at the table Harry and Ginny joined him.
"So I was thinking next year when we're out of Hogwarts we should buy a flat together. We have that gold from the Ministry because we got all of those Death Eaters." Ron said. Ginny scowled at him.
"I have another year at Hogwarts after you all leave." She said miserably.
"Yeah but it could be yours too. We'd get it next summer and then it'll be all of ours." Ron said.
"That's a good idea." Harry agreed.
"I was thinking of next year applying for a job at Flourish and Blott's just until I could get my bookstore started." Hermione said as she placed plates on the table in front of them. They all agreed and thought it was a good idea.
"I was thinking of getting a small job at the Daily Prophet to start out with and then maybe I could eventually report or something." Ron said. Again they all agreed as Hermione now put food in front of them.
"I'm going to talk to Mogonagall about what it takes to be a seeker for the professional teams." Harry said.
"I read in the Daily Prophet yesterday that the England seeker is retiring next year." Ron said.
"Yeah I read that too so I might have a better chance." Harry agreed.
"What about you Gin? You never told us what you wanted to do." Hermione said as she took a seat next to Ron at the kitchen table.
"Oh…um well I thought I'd want to work at the Ministry of Magic in the Department of Magical Games and Sports." Ginny said. The other three agreed enthusiastically. She smiled when they didn't think it was a bad idea.
"It's going to be great. We'll all have good jobs and we'll have our own flat. We could have two rooms me and Mione will share and you two will share." Ron said. Everyone stared at him. "What? Harry I told you last night that I trust you with my sister. You two love each other and I approve of it." Harry smiled across the table.
"Thanks mate!" Harry said. "I guess I trust you with Hermione then. I approve of you two loving each other too." Hermione laughed and Ron looked alarmed.
"You didn't trust me with Hermione before?" Ron asked. Ginny and Hermione were both laughing now.
"No I just felt like I had to say something like that because you did." Harry said.
"Oh ok well than thanks mate." Ron said. Both Harry and Ron then busted out laughing as well. They finished breakfast and went to go get changed. They met back in the living room.
"So what do we want to do? We have two more days until my parents get here. And then we are going to the Burrow." They all shrugged. "Oh come on there is nothing you wanted to do this summer but didn't get to?" They looked at each other and back at her shrugging again. "Oh you three are hopeless. Let's go to Diagon Alley and do something."
"Ok." They agreed. They all got in the car and Hermione started driving. For the last time that summer Beverly Hills started playing. Hermione turned it up as loud as it could go and all four of them sang along. They laughed as it ended and Hermione turned the music down to normal.
"I'm going to miss that song this year and the TV too." Ron said. "We can get a TV for our place right?"
"Of course!" Harry agreed.
"Well than we have to get all of those DVDs too. Like The Notebook, and How To Loose A Guy In Ten Days." Ginny said.
"If we get those than we have to get the funny ones too like Scary Movie and American Wedding, all of those kinds." Ron said.
"Yeah we'll get like a billion of them and scary movies too. We could get CDs too. Like the Wheezer CD and all of the other ones with the good songs." Harry agreed.
"Well we should also have a giant bookshelf in the living room with a lot of muggle and Wizard books." Hermione said. Ginny agreed because she liked reading muggle books in fact Hermione had let her borrow some to take to Hogwarts. Hermione noticed the looks on Harry and Ron's faces. "We can put all of your Quidditch books in there too." She said. They agreed and started to talk more about what they would have in their place once they got out of Hogwarts. By the time they reached the city they had decided on getting a place with two rooms and in each room there would be a full bed and all of the other belongings of it's occupants. There would be a kitchen and dinning room for entertaining family or guests. In the living room they would have one big couch and several chairs. They would have a stand with a big screen TV and a DVD player. On the back wall there would be a big bookshelf with muggle and wizard books along with DVDs on the shelves. They decided that Ginny would go there on Christmas break and they would go to the Burrow Christmas day and then Hermione would have her parents over for dinner the next day. Harry, Ron, and Hermione decided that they would visit Ginny on Hogsmede weekends too.
In Diagon Alley they began to walk down the street. Ron had his arm around Hermione and Harry had his hand interlocked with Ginny's. As they were walking they passed Lavender and Seamus walking by. In that moment when Ron and Hermione looked at Seamus and Lavender the four of them came to an understanding and silently decided to forget about what happened in the past. Ron nodded at Seamus who nodded back. (A/N: Don't worry. I still hate Lavender but, I need everything to be forgiven for the sequel and then they will go back to hating them:)
"Hi Hermione." Lavender said as they passed.
"Hi Lavender." Hermione responded with a smile. They passed them and Harry and Ginny looked to the two strangely.
"What was that?" Ginny asked.
"I'm not sure but I think we just made friends again." Hermione responded. "You should try." Hermione nodded to Dean and Parvati walking toward them hand in hand. They stopped as they approached and said their hellos. There was an awkward silence for a half a second before Harry broke it.
"So Dean do you still want to play Chaser?" Harry asked.
"Yeah." Dean responded. "Are you having tryouts?"
"I don't need to. You can take Katie's place this year on the team. I saw you at tryouts last year and if I didn't already have Katie you would have been on the team." Harry said.
"Thanks." Dean smiled.
"No problem." Harry responded. They continued to walk along down the street. The awkwardness seemed to have gone from their friendship.
"Congratulations Dean!" They heard Parvati say.
"Well things are pretty much back to normal this year. Well whatever normal is." Hermione said.
"Who needs normal when we have each other." Ron said. Hermione smiled over at him. They decided to stop for a butterbeer and then after they walked around to a few stores. Lastly they stopped off in Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes despite Ron's protests. They walked in and started moving around the crowded store.
"Well if it isn't Ron and Mione." Fred said from behind them. They turned around and faced him. "Ron could I talk to you for a second?" He asked. Ron sighed.
"Yeah whatever." Ron said.
"Hi Hermione." Angelina said coming up by Fred.
"Hi…" Hermione replied and started talking with Angelina.
"Walk this way with me Ron." Fred said. Ron sighed and started walking with Fred. "So you and Hermione…"
"What about me and Hermione?" Ron asked. Fred walked into the backroom and Ron followed. George was in there sorting through some boxes.
"Ah Ron! Hello!" George said.
"Say what you have to say so I can leave." Ron said sounding annoyed.
"Now Ron," George started, "You and Mione are together now and what I walked in on yesterday seemed pretty serious."
"So we figured being the good older brothers that we are we would discuss this with you." Fred finished. Ron rolled his eyes and waited for them to continue if they said what he had to say then he could leave. When they didn't he got annoyed.
"Well go on!" He said.
"Have you or haven't you?" Fred wondered.
"No not yet." Ron sighed in and annoyed way.
"But you came close right?" George asked. "From what I saw it seemed like you guys had gotten pretty serious at least once."
"Well yeah we did but we stopped because we didn't want to do it on her kitchen floor." Ron said.
"Oh so you've already discussed it." Fred asked.
"Yes we have." Ron said.
"And what have you decided?" George pressed on.
"That we would wait until the right time, can I go now?" Ron asked.
"You know to be safe and everything right?" Fred asked.
"Ok, I'm outa here!" Ron exclaimed. "But you might want to talk to Harry too." Ron said.
"Oh we will." Fred replied.
"Well this was completely pointless. See you." Ron walked back through the store to Hermione. When Ron approached Angelina and Hermione stopped talking.
"Well I better be going it was nice talking to you Hermione." Angelina said. "Bye Ron." She walked through the store.
"What did Fred want?" Hermione asked Ron.
"You know." Ron said. "They were just bothering me on what George walked in on. They're probably talking to Harry now. Oh I kinda told Harry."
"Yeah I told Ginny. Did Harry tell you?" Hermione replied.
"Yeah he did but I just don't want to know details and it's cool." Ron said.
"Good. So let's find Ginny so we can go." Hermione said.
"Yeah Harry should be done with them soon." Ron said as they went to look for Ginny.
On the way back from the city they turned up the music loud and sang along. Around the time they were close to Hermione's she turned down the music after Sugar We're Going Down by Fall Out Boy.
"Ok so tomorrow we have to pack our trunks and clean up the house stuff like that before we go back to Hogwarts. We could watch one last movie tonight and then tomorrow night we'll go out to dinner one last time and everything. Oh and tonight we should eat all of the junk food so that my parents don't know we had so much of it here. They are dentist after all." Hermione told everyone. "And tomorrow we'll have to sleep in our own beds because they'll be here early in the morning the next day."
"Alright." They agreed grumpily. They pulled into Hermione's driveway and all got out of the car. In the kitchen all four of them went through every single cabinet and stripped the whole kitchen of junk food. It now sat in front of them on the kitchen table. There was a giant stack of cookies, candy, soda, and chips.
"I don't think we'll be able to finish this tonight. Maybe we should bring some with us." Hermione suggested.
"Oh I think they just might be able to finish it." Ginny said as Harry and Ron started to devour the pile of food. By the time they were ready to start the movie half of the pile had been eaten. The rest was divided among them to stuff in their trunks. All of them had changed into pajamas and were sitting on the couches. Ginny and Harry were laying next to each other on the big couch and Hermione was in Ron's arms on the small couch. When the movie was over Ginny was sound asleep. Harry picked her up and started to the stairs.
"Night." He whispered.
"Night." They responded.
"Tired?" Ron asked.
"No not really." Hermione yawned.
"I'll take that as a yes." Ron laughed. "Come on let's get our last night of sleep in before this year."
"Yeah I guess we better." Hermione yawned again. She followed Ron upstairs practically asleep on his shoulder and they went into Ron's room. Hermione was instantly asleep as her head hit the pillow. Ron made sure she was covered before laying down next to her and falling asleep.
A/N: So let me know what you thought! I'll try and update for Wednesday but I need reviews! And to Mia08: The next three chapters will have more romance in them! In the sequel it will be the "right time!" I've got most of my ideas for it but if you guys have some suggestions please, let me know!