Chapter 6: Becoming a Lie.

Hermione's POV

Hermione entered the Gryffindor common room and looked around for her redheaded "boyfriend". "Has anyone seen Ron?" She asked.

"Mione!" Ginny Weasley screeched, jumping up from her chair, "I heard that you dumped Malfoy!"

"What?" Hermione was in shock that news traveled so quickly at Hogwarts. "Malfoy and I were never dating! So how could I have dumped him?" She hated lying to one of her closest friends, but figured that she had better get used to it, considering she would have to live a lie with Ron. "Now, where is your brother?"

"Oh, he's in the Boy's Dormitory. I'll go get him!" Ginny ran up a few of the steps to the dorm. "I love having power over boys!" She shouted back at Hermione, and then continued running up the steps.

Hermione nervously waited for Ron to come down the steps. "How do I pretend to like him? Oh god, what am I doing? I can't do this! I have to tell Draco no!" Before Hermione could straighten her thoughts, Ron was standing in front of her, "Ron! I, uh, I n-n-need to talk t-t-t-t-to you." Hermione stuttered.

"Why aren't you with Ferret boy, making out?" Ron smirked as he said this. Which made Hermione flaming mad, and she instantly remembered why she was going to pretend to date Ron.

Hermione smiled cunningly. "That is what I have to talk to you about." Without thinking, Hermione pulled Ron up to her and kissed him firmly on the lips. "I like you, not Malfoy." Ron's face turned bright red.

"Duh-errr. Umm- bla..." Ron couldn't get a single word, nor any partial words, out of his mouth.

"So, um, Ron? Will you be my boyfriend?" Hermione grinned at him and winked. "Did I just wink? What the hell? Hermione Granger does NOT wink! But I just did. Ah, shit! I winked." She thought quickly to herself.

Ron just stood there with his mouth hanging open in pure shock. Hermione smiled at him and shook her head, "Goodnight." She walked up to the Girls dorm to go to bed, leaving Ron dumbfounded.

Just as Hermione was climbing into her warm, comfy bed, she heard a young man's voice pierce the night air. "I'M DATING HERMIONE GRANGER!" She heard it shout. Hermione laughed aloud when she heard how happy Ron was, but then she remembered why she had asked him to go out with her, and the feeling made her sick beyond belief. "How could I have done this? Ron is one of my best friends. And now I tricked him into dating me, so that I can date his worst enemy." Hermione thought to herself as she began to cry. Tears streamed down her cheeks silently.

Hermione crawled into bed, hoping that in the morning she would wake up, and that all of this had just been a dream. But deep down inside her heart, she knew that it wasn't, and she knew that what she had done was wrong, and that she would pay for it some day.

The next morning Hermione woke from sleeping through the night. It was a Sunday morning, meaning she did not have classes that day. Slowly she climbed out of bed, still feeling absolutely horrible. Suddenly Hermione remembered what Malfoy would be doing for her, dating Blaise Zabini. "Draco is doing the same thing for me, so it will be okay, it is obvious he cares about me, if he is also tricking his friends." Finally, Hermione decided that it was all right, and that they wouldn't get caught, because they wouldn't let anyone.

Hermione looked over at the sleeping Ginny, and whispered, "I never meant to hurt your brother, if you never forgive me, I will understand." She wiped a tear off of her face and began to get dressed. She wanted to look nice, but not show that she was trying to look good.

After she was all ready, she tramped down the stairs, hoping that Ron had already gone to breakfast. But there he stood, in the middle of the common room, with a rose in his hand. He began to sing, "You! Doing that thing you do, breaking my heart into a million pieces, like you always do. And You, told me to be cool. You never knew about the heart ache, I've been going through. Well I try and try to forget you girl, but it's just so hard to do! Every time you do that thing you do!" Ron stopped and smiled broadly, pointing to Harry.

Harry began to give the base rhythm with his voice to the song, "My Girl." Ron glanced up at Hermione, handing her the red rose, saying, "I picked this for you." He then began to sing again, "I've got sunshine, on a cloudy day. When it's cold outside, I got the , I guess you'd say, what can make me feel this way? My girl, talking myyy girl! MY GIRL. I've got so much honey, the bees envy me. I've gotta sweeter song than the birds in the trees. Well, I guess you'd say, what can make me feel this way? My girl, talking myyy girl! MY GIRL. Ooohohohohooo!"

Hermione could now feel her face turning bright red, as Ron stopped singing he ran up to her and kissed her on the cheek. "Many a time, you broke my heard into a million pieces, but I always knew that someday you would become My girl."

Hermione stood and stared at Ron, not knowing what to do. He was totally in love with her.

"Hermione!" Harry called, "I need to talk to you." He lead Hermione to the opposite side of the Gryffindor common room and took her hands in his, "'Mione, I'm glad that you're making Ron so happy. But if he makes me sing the bass line one more time to one of his stupid songs, dedicated to you, you will no longer have a boyfriend." Harry laughed and began to leave.

"Harry! Wait!" Hermione called after him, "I don't know what to do. I wasn't being myself last night. I wasn't fully thinking when I asked him out. I like him and all, but I'm not sure if I want a relationship right now. But I know if I dump him, it will break his ofcourse heart. And I don't want to hurt him." Hermione had now spilled her guts about everything, except, about Draco.

"Hermione, all that I can tell you is," Harry paused for a second, "Don't live your life as a lie. And you decide where the lie is aimed. At yourself, or at Ron? Oh yeah, and if you break my best friend's heart, I will break you."

A/N: I hoped you liked this chapter. The next one will be about how Draco gets Blaise to date him. I've already started writing it, so look out for it :D Thank you to the following people who have commented: dolface546, Amalia Bradley, samaramorgan15, guitargirl08, the girl trapped in a dream, Alexandra Good.

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