-The Warning-

Hermione sat in her arithmancy class doodling on a scrap piece of parchment. It was her first class of the school year and she had already finished Professor Vector's assignment. She had thirty minutes to kill, so she had resorted to doodling her name and Ron's over and over again in loopy scrawl.

When the parchment was completely covered in "Hermione Granger Loves Ronald Weasley", she hide the paper in the middle of her arithmancy book. She closed the book, and looked up at the clock on the wall. She still had fifteen minutes to kill.

Hermione raised her hand and asked Professor Vector if she could use the bathroom. Vector smiled and nodded, and Hermione left the classroom. But instead of heading down to the girls toilets, she walked towards Ron's Muggle Studies class.

The door was open but Professor Devout was busy writing something on the chalk board. Hermione leaned against the wall so she was out of the Professor's sight, and looked up and down the rows of students.

She saw Ron sitting at the far end of a row, balancing his chair onits two back legs. He was scribbling down what the professor was writing with a bored expression on his face.

Hermione smiled as she watched him. He looked cute as he worked without knowing he was being watched, the way he naturally bit the end of his quill when he was thinking, and the way he seductively leaned back in his chair.

Hermione was so lost in thought she hadn't noticed that Dumbledore was standing right behind her.

"Paying a visit to Mr. Weasley?" said Dumbledore in his slow soothing voice.

Hermione's heart jumped as she spun around and was shocked to see the headmaster standing behind her with a small smile. Hermione blushed, she was about to apologize for being out of class when Dumbledore spoke,

"That's quite alright. I actually came here to have a quick word with Mr. Weasley, and I should probably tell you too." Dumbledore quickly smiled and then walked past Hermione and into the classroom.

A minute later, Ron and Hermione were both standing outside in the hallway, Dumbledore closed the classroom door behind him.

Ron gave Hermione a questioning look, and Hermione gave a small shrug. Dumbledore turned to both of them and said, "Well, I'm sorry to pull you both out of your classes, but I'm afraid there is something I want to bring up."

Dumbledore smiled as Ron and Hermione waited for him to speak.

"A house elf came to me this morning and mentioned that he was unable to enter a certain room on the seventh floor last night. The house elves call this the "Come and Go" room, have you two ever heard of it?" Dumbledore asked innocently.

Ron shook his head as Hermione stood rooted to the spot.

"Neither had I, so I went to go check this morning and I found it. It was open but I wonder if maybe there were some students out of bed last night. Are you two aware of any young Gryffindors leaving the dormitories last night?"

Ron again shook his head with out speaking. Hermione could feel her face flushing.

Dumbledore nodded. "Well, all the same I wanted to bring it to your attention and remind you that students should not be roaming the halls late at night. Of course Prefects and Heads are allowed, but I ask that they only do so if there is good reason. I wouldn't want to stop anyone from using the loo."

Dumbledore smiled as Hermione and Ron both nodded and then turned to leave. When Dumbledore had left the hallway, Ron turned to Hermione and let out a low whistle.

"Geese … I thought we were in trouble for sure." Ron let his body relax but Hermione turned on him.

"What do you mean? He knows Ron! He knows it was us and he probably knows what we were doing too!" Hermione hissed. "If it wasn't for you and your stupid idea, we wouldn't look like idiots right now!"

"Excuse me? 'Stupid idea'? You didn't think it was so stupid last night when you were all over me! " Ron spat back.

Hermione's face filled with shock and then anger. "Don't you dare bring up last night like that; you damn well know how much that night meant to me!"

"So then what's your problem?"

"My problem is finding a way to walk down the halls of this school knowing that all of the teachers know that you and I made love in the Room of Requirement!"

Ron rolled his eyes, "Hermione, Dumbledore didn't go and tell the entire staff! I doubt he even knows that it was us who were out of bed last night."

Hermione crossed her arms. She was feeling so embarrassed that she was tempted to just leave the school and forget her last year at Hogwarts. She turned and started to walk away from Ron and back to her class.

Ron called after her, "Hermione where are you going?"

"Class is over. We have to be in Herbology in four minutes." Answered Hermione plainly with out looking back.

Ron watched her leave around the corner and then opened the door to his classroom; he returned to his desk and grabbed his things. His mind was swimming with thoughts and his stomach was beginning to toss and turn.

He too was worried that Dumbledore may have known that it was him and Hermione who were out of bed last night. But he was grateful that if Dumbledore did know, he hadn't said so.