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Chapter Ten ( I really can't think of new chapter titles? anyone wanna hook me up? lol)

After lunch, everyone parted their separate ways. Mrs. Weasley set about cleaning the kitchen up, Mr. Weasley went to read the daily paper, Bill and Fleur apparated out to go see Fleur's parents, and Ron and Hermione went to go take a walk. They would have remained in the house and played a good game of chess, but they didn't want to be under the scrutiny of Ron's parents. All throughout dinner, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley had been giving Ron and Hermione "looks." I guess it didn't help that every so often Ron and Herm's hands would brush when reaching for food and they'd blush and look away from each other. Or his parents would ask them questions like what were they going to do today and they'd give them quick,brusque answers. Bill and Fleur had noticed but decided to say nothing.

'I'll have a talk with him later,' thought Bill.

Both teenagers were glad to be out of the house. As soon as they were out of sight, Ron grabbed Hermione's hand. 'God, I love the feel of her hand in mine. It feels...right,' Ron mulled over in his mind. Hermione's thoughts were pretty close to Ron's as well...'Is he wearing cologne? mmhm. Maybe, if I happen to "stumble" he'll catch me...interesting...very interesting..." The two kept on walking down the path, neither caring where it led, just happy to be together. Hermione was getting up the nerve to "trip" on something when she saw a beautiful sight up ahead. They were coming towards a pond, vast and glorious. A mesmerizing blue was radiating from the water, the sun reflecting off of it's pearly depths, and the trees were creating a haven of shade from the heat.

In the midst of the beauty of the pond, a series of events concluded. Hermione need not worry about scheming to get Ron closer to her. For on the way to the pond, there was a rather large hole that just happened to be covered up by leaves and branches. (a/n hmm, odd that huh:)) Now, it wasn't a six foot hole that you can't get out of, merely...for lack of a better phrase, as big as a buffalo wallow. This hole was located a bit away from a rather large rock, which in turn was on the shore of the pond. Paying no heed to their surroundings except the pond, Hermione and Ron walked over the hidden hole and both ungracefully fell into it while shouting out in surprise and confusion. Neither person noticed another scream and splashing taking place...

Eventually, after all the mass confusion, the situation presented itself in that Hermione was found to be ontop of Ron who got caught on the bottom falling down.

'Well, this doesn't happen everyday' mused Ron. 'Although the situation does have its benefits...' was his last thoughts to take over because Hermione had moved to try and get up but she couldn't. This action just brought her closer to him.

'Smooth move Hermione. Make yourself look like a total idiot trying to get up and not being able to. Although, this was kind of like my plan, just less painful,' thought Hermione. After trying to get up Hermione just laid on Ron. Both were catching their breath and caught up in being so close to each other.

"Herm, are you ok?" asked Ron. He was looking up at her with an intense gaze, searching her face for signs of distress. She seemed to look fine for a person who fell in a hole, considering he's had just soo much experience in that department. (a/n not!)

"I'm fine. My pride is a bit wounded, but I'll get over it. Stupid hole..." was her reply. She stared right back into Ron's eyes, gazing for what seemed like hours but was really only seconds. Neither of them noticed that they were moving closer to each other, closer, closer, until they were practically breathing down the other's throat. Ron moved his head more up and he kissed Hermione. It was a chaste, sweet, kiss at first, her responding slowly. As a little time went on, both demanded more of each other, their exploration of each other deepening. Ron's tongue nudged at her lips, causing her to hesitant a moment before opening her mouth to him. His hands were slowly wandering over her, exploring her, memorizing what he could. Finding all the sensitive spots that made her make those cute little noises that drove him insane, like the one at the base of her spine. Or just kissing the skin right under her earlobes made her gasp with pleasure.

While thoroughly ravishing her with kisses, his hands slowly came to the base of her shirt, wondering if she would let him go that far. (a/n now as some of you may be wondering, yes, they slept together, but no they didn't' have sex. they just Slept! lol, seriously, fully clothed at that.) His fingers crept upwards coming to rest on her stomach. Ron waited for her to pull away, smack his hand or slap him at all. To his surprise she moaned and kissed him harder which he took as a good sign and kept up his perusal.

This would have gone on longer, but the noises they did not hear earlier, they heard now.

"Who's there?" was voiced from a direction on the other side of the rock. Hermione and Ron suddenly stopped what they were doing. Her lips left his, and both opened their eyes and stared at each other, slowly coming back to earth.

"What was that?" she whispered to him. Ron shook his head no to her question, replying that he had no idea who was yelling at them. Just as both hastily got up to right themselves and make them look more presentable, the voice spoke again.

"Come out, we know you're there!" Both were afraid of who they would come upon. This person may have seen what they were doing! 'Oh no oh no oh no, they're going to tell the whole world what we've been doing. Even worse! They may tell Mr. and Mrs. Weasley!' Hermione concluded with her guilty thoughts. Surprisingly Ron was very calm and gave Hermione a look that told her it was ok and to follow his lead.

'I wonder if I'm right. I better be right about who this is or we're in a deep load of shit.' Ron voiced to himself. Ron took her hand and they both walked around the walk towards the pond. They were met with a surprising sight.

"What are you guys doing?" Hermione asked Harry and Ginny, who were standing in the pond, looking at them with much the same expression.

"We were going to ask you guys the same question. What was that noise we heard earlier?" asked Harry. He still had a puzzled look on his face and was waiting for one of the two's answer. He said to them, "All I know is that just as Ginny was pushing me into the pond, the little imp, we both heard screams and we thought the worst." Hermione decided to give them an answer since she felt she had composed herself well enough.

"We were headed towards the lake and got caught up in what we saw. The next thing we knew we'd fallen through some branches into this small pit. That's why we screamed. Ya, who does that anyways...If Fred and George made that hole, I'm going to be soo mad,'' she finished vehemently.

Ron grabbed Hermione's hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze. "I'm just glad we're both ok. Oh, by the way, did you guys happen to get harassed by Fred and George?" Harry and Ginny gave each other a knowing look.

"Actually," Ginny started, "we heard them yelling at you guys so we got ready as quickly as we could. Surprisingly, we got ourselves out of their grasp, ha-ha."

Harry laughed with Ginny as well. "Ya, it was funny afterwards. But while I was hiding in your closet, holy crap! I was scared they were going to find me in there!"

"I would have found a way to keep them away from your hiding spot, Harry. No need to have worried," reassured Ginny. After that last comment, everyone just sat around by the pond, reflecting in the quiet. Harry and Ginny were still soaked from "falling" in the pond, but it was so hot outside that they would be dry in no time.

Ron and Ginny both broke the silence, asking the other couple at the same time, "Why are you here?"

Harry replied, "We of course wanted some time to ourselves before having to deal with any other Weasley's. So we came to the pond. What about you guys?"

"After getting woken up by Fred and George, we got dressed and went down to have lunch. You won't believe it," Ron suddenly exclaimed. "Bill and Fleur came by. Yes! Fleur! I was so surprised. Anyways, I guess she and Bill are engaged now. Mom and dad almost keeled over with that information. All through lunch they talked about the wedding etc…Finally we stole ourselves away and followed this path, leading to the pond. So, all in all, the same reason you guys are here; quiet time for us."

And with that, each couple went back into silence, enjoying the time they had left until they would be barraged by the millions of questions bound to come from family members.

a/n: you guys got your wish. "lucky"…..anyways, I put this up just because you love me so much and I would have no time getting this up tom or the next day anyways…so you'll be waiting awhile for another post. Let me know what you guys think of these chaps I put up, ok? I was kinda rushed for time in writing the end of this chap soo...grammar and time settings etc and whatever else can go wrong is probably wrong...Lataz!