It is time
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Over the next few days, Hermione and Harry visited Ron in the hospital wing with the Weasley gang. However on one beautiful Wednesday evening, Hermione found herself alone with Ron. Harry and Ginny were at Quidditch practice, Fred and George had gone back to Diagon Alley, and Mr. and Mrs. Weasley had gone back to The Burrow. Hermione didn't think that Ron would be alone, she thought that at least Lavender would be there. When she asked Ron if he had seen Lavender yet, he blushed and muttered something about being asleep every time she came to see him. Hermione secretly beamed at this and finally decided that it was time enough to tell Ron the truth about how she felt about him and about Amlire.
"Ron, can I talk about something serious to you for a second?" Hermione asked pausing briefly to glance at Ron's expression.
"Sure, is it that serious?" replied Ron, noticing Hermione's serious look, and he quickly changed his from amusement to serious.
"Yeah, well it kinda is", said Hermione," Remember when you got poisoned"?
"Yes?" said Ron.
"Well, when you were getting poisoned, I kinda, well, I kinda felt the pain that you were feeling. Of course it was not as powerful, or as painful as you were feeling, but it hut just where you were poisoned." said Hermione.
"How is that possible?",questioned Ron," I've never heard anything like that happening before, unless we were connected like Harry and Voldemort. Which were not."
"Well, I researched in the library for a bit and found a book called In Depth Interpretation of Souls by Amelia Crangby, in that book I found the only possible explanation is a term called 'Amlire' or the eternal bonding of two souls. In rare cases the bond is strong enough that in certain circumstances, one of the souls feels the pain that is caused by the other soul getting hurt." replied Hermione. She left out the part that the souls were destined to be intertwined together forever.
"So, that's what you think happened? That this Amlire thing?" asked Ron, "But that would mean that our souls are bonded..."
"Yeah, exactly", said Hermione," I think you should read it for yourself. Hermione pulled the book out of her bag and handed the book to him. He opened it to the marked page.
As Ron read the definition of Amlire, it occurred to him that this meant that he and Hermione were destined to be together. He was so happy but couldn't tell Hermione about this becuase Ron felt that she didn't like him more than a friend and she never would. Hermione looked away from Ron when he finished reading and decided to study her lap. Ron just stared at her.
"So, this means that we are destined to be together? I really don't get it. Is this what it means?" asked Ron.
"I guess so" replied Hermione.
"I can't believe that, no it just doesn't make sense", said Ron, "We can't be destined to be together, we just can't"
"Oh I see" said Hermione. 'That's it', she thought, ' Ron doesn't even like me as more than a friend, he'll never love me.'
"Well, I guess I'll go watch the Quidditch practice, Ron, just forget that I mentioned this, please, it's really so silly." said Hermione as she got up off her chair and was just about to start to walk away, " There has to be another explanation for why I felt your pain, there just has to be".
"I don't believe that for a second." said Ron and he grabbed Hermione's wrist to prevent her from leaving."I've never been so sure about how right you are when you say this is Amlire."
"What makes you say that?" asked Hermione.
"Because I have been in love with you since I first saw you. Hermione Granger, I love you." said Ron.
He was staring at Hermione like never before. She saw for the first time in her life Ron staring at her as if he was completely in love with her. He didn't look at her like a friend would look at another friend, but he looked at her now as a man fully in love with the woman that was standing in front of him.
"Oh Ron, I have been in love with you since I first saw you too!" said Hermione.
They both stared at each other for a moment until Ron couldn't take it any longer and pulled Hermione into the deepest kiss she had ever had.
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