"Hermione, will you marry me?" George proposed in a quite serious voice, but with a much less serious face. With great haste, he whipped out his wand and tapped the candy dish three times to turn off the magical microphone. He then proceeded to burst out laughing. I laughed along with good measure.

George's eyes filled with tears of hysteria, and he held his stomach in visible pain. Then, he slid off the love-seat we were on, and started to roll upon the ground from laughter.

"Well… its not THAT funny. Sheesh, you'd think that you were proposing to Snape or something, the way you're getting amusement out of this." I was mildly offended for just a moment about the sudden outburst, when an even more startling occurrence burst through the door.

"DON'T DO IT HERMIONE! DON'T DO IT!"

Ron's usually sparkling blue eyes looked like they were lit on fire with urgency. His face was beet red, although it was hard to tell whether it was because of anger or sheer exhaustion. He looked like he had ran all the way to the common room in less than one second.

Ron crouched over, his hands on his knees. He huffed and puffed for a moment before lifting his head and narrowing his eyes at George.

George, in the meanwhile has placed himself (unknowingly) in an unfortunate position. He had heard the outburst and raised himself up from his rolling position onto one knee (one knee! What was he thinking?) to see what the commotion was about.

"I will KILL YOU!" George's eyes widened as he realized how he looked bent on one knee right next to me. This was NOT part of the plan! Ron burst forth, newly energized, and tackled George back to the ground.

"Ron! Ron WAIT!" I tried to pry him off of poor George as he started to turn red from Ron's firm grasp around his throat. "RON! It's not what you think!"

Ron released his grip and looked up at my pleading face. "Oh yea? Did he or did he not just propose to you?"

"Well yea but.." Oops, wrong choice of words.

Ron, in a fit of rage, tried to regain his grasp on George's throat, but George flipped him over and held him down with one arm. Ron struggled underneath George's strong grasp.

"Just listen a minute you great git!" George yelled in Ron's face, and looked up at me for help.

"Listen Ron, we knew you were listening! It was all a part of the plan. You see, I was only trying to make you jealous by flirting with boys and going on a date with George—"

"Jealous? Me?" Ron's face became even redder.

"Yes yes, now just listen!" I had to admit, I was nervous as hell to explain this whole ploy. I was afraid I had just blown my chance with Ron for good.

"When we made this plan, we knew it had to be an outrageous conversation—like a marriage proposal—for you to hear, in order to get you really jealous. Well, that was all George's idea actually. He said that you would never see through my little flirting attempts.

"In fact, at first I had Lavender helping me to find boys to flirt with," Ron's rose wrinkled in disgust at Lavender's name, and I felt a stab of satisfaction. "and that's how I ended up on the date with George."

"It was there that we both learned we were using each other to make another person jealous." Ron shot a glare at his brother, and again I felt even better.

"George figured out that it was YOU who I was trying to make jealous, YOU who I truly liked,"

"Me?" Ron looked up at me and suddenly my nerves were replaced with thousands of butterflies inside of my stomach.

"Yes, so he told me we needed an outrageously big plan to get you to become jealous, that you were too thick to see what I was trying to do. You see, I knew you were thick, but not that you were THIS thick…"

"Me?" Ron had stood up now, and was moving closer.

"Er, um yea…" He took a step closer and suddenly I could feel myself move towards him as well. He had a bewildered look on his face, as if he wasn't quite sure what he was doing, when suddenly—

His lips were upon mine. My eyes dreamily closed and I leaned into his embrace.

His hands moved up and covered my cheeks, as he cradled my head gently.

My world all seemed to melt into this brief, soft, wonderful kiss.

In short, it was bloody brilliant!

I broke off and gazed with starry eyes into the clearest blue eyes I'd ever seen. "What just happened here?"

"Jeez Hermione, I knew you were thick, but I didn't know you were THAT thick." Ron grinned down at me, and I suddenly knew that everything was going to be different from this moment on.

And so it ends. Tear! I hope it ended the way my faithful readers would like it to; I really hope no one is disappointed! All I know is that any ending that ends with some R/Hr smoochin' is ok by me! Well, it's been fun…. A MILLION THANK YOUS TO ALL WHO REVIEWED! Perhaps there will be a sequel, we shall see! Ta Ta!