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End of chapter 2:

"How are you gunna tell Hermione?"

"How are you gunna tell me what?" Hermione had just entered the common room and Ron's face had turned a pale white.

Chapter 3:

"err….." was all Ron could manage. 'Oh my god what am I suppose to say. Quick Ron think.' Ron said to himself.

"umm…crookshanks ran away!" Ron quickly said. 'Oh that's the best you could come up with? Great real great, how are you gunna explain that one to her.' He was once again talking to himself.

Hermione looked at him as if to say 'what are you on'

"Ron what are you talking about crookshanks is upstairs in my dormitory on my bed." Said Hermione

"Ok well if he didn't then there's no need to worry." Said Ron coolly.

"Since when have you been worried about crookshanks" asked Hermione raising an eyebrow.

Ron thought about it 'she's right I don't really care about crookshanks, but she doesn't need to know that.'

"Is it wrong that I was worried about one of my best friend's pets?" Ron said a bit loudly.

"I didn't say it was wrong, it's just not like you to care about crookshanks." Hermione yelled back.

Harry and Ginny left the common room knowing that yet another Ron and Hermione fight was about to ignite. And boy were they right. They made their way through the portrait hole. They walked down into the grounds, just as they reached the lake Ginny turned to Harry.

"I wish Ron would just tell her it's not like she doesn't feel the same way!" Ginny said this without realizing that Harry didn't know how Hermione felt about Ron.

"Wait are you trying to say Hermione feels the same way about Ron as he feels for her." Said Harry.

"ummm…well yeh, you may as well know I already blurter it out. Yes Hermione does like my dear yet daft brother." Ginny said.

"I knew it! I always thought them two fancied each other, I mean I had seen Ron look at Hermione a couple of times, and when she saw him do it she would turn an awful shade of red!" said Harry bouncing up and down on the spot looking rather stupid.

"Why didn't you say something to one of them?" Ginny asked.

"I never really thought about them as more then friends" said Harry as thought in deep thought.

"Oh well its gunna happen soon I can feel it. They've been dancing around it for years.

Meanwhile back in the common room, anyone who had walked in had walked back out again, knowing well enough not to stick around during a Ron and Hermione fight.

"I might not like crookshanks but doesn't mean I don't care!" yelled Ron.

"I never said you didn't care at all! I only thought that you didn't care about crookshanks, you after 3rd year it wouldn't surprise me!" Hermione yelled back.

"I don't like crookshanks but I do care! I care about your feelings and about how you would have reacted to him running away. I care about the fact that you would have been upset and crying if he did run away. Hermione I just…I bloody care about you ok!" Ron yelled all of it except the last phrase.

Hermione just stood there with a ghostly white face, shocked and thinking 'did he just say that?'

While he was thinking the same thing to himself 'did I just admit to her that I care about her, I did and now she's just standing there looking at me? She looks so white, actually she looks like she's gunna faint!'

'Bang' his thoughts had just come true Hermione had in fact fainted…