Hermione's POV
Ron and I attended Herbology without Harry. (he hasn't been around much and was missing from all the classes except for the one's I'm not in, he's obviously avoiding me.) As we were about to start planting Ron said something very disturbing to me.
"You look awfully beautiful today, babe."
Was he doing what I was thinking he was doing?
He continued, "And you smell real pretty too… Like strawberries" as he leaned down to sniff me.
"Ron! Are you FLIRTING with me?" I demanded.
"Why shouldn't I, you are single aren't you, right babe?" he said very coolly.
"RON! I did not break up with Harry so you could start hitting on me! I broke up with him so that we could all be friends like old times! You are an insensitive brute!" Then after I was done shrieking in his face, I dumped the pot of soil I was going to use for my plant on top of his red-haired head. "Oh, and by the way stop calling me babe!" I could just feel the stares aimed at the back of my head as I stalked out of the classroom.
I didn't bother to go to any of my classes for the rest of the day because I was too busy reading in the library to get my mind off of my predicament.
I spent the last week or so cooling off from the weird behavior coming from Ron, but now I needed to know what was last night's Defense Against the Dark arts homework.
I found him outside and as I was about to run up and ask him, I noticed he was talking to some girl. I couldn't see her face, so I assumed the unknown girl was Ginny.
Later, as I sat down to eat lunch Ron came bursting in with a smile on his face as big as his appetite.
"Hermione! Guess what! Well, this ladies-man just got himself a date with Luna Lovegood!"
"Congratulations! …You sure have a charm with girls…" I added sarcastically.
"I'm sorry to say, but I'm so over you!" he said in a very girly-girl dumb blonde way.
"Oh, thank you Ron!" as I hugged him.
As I was walking out of the Great Hall I heard Ron mutter to himself "She took that better than I thought she would."
Now off to find Harry!