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CLOSE TO MY HEART
CHAPTER 3
ONE LOVE
"Harry, hurry up. Everyone must be waiting for us." Hermione said impatiently.
"What! For what?" Harry asked groggily from his armchair in which he had been sleeping peacefully.
"It's Friday, ten minutes to seven, and if you're not going to hurry up, we'll be late for the D.A. meeting. I've got to meet Professor McGonagall for something so I'll meet you there, in the Room of Requirement. Call Ron and please HURRY!" She shouted and hurried out of their common room.
"RON!" Harry bellowed to his best friend. By now he was fully awake and was pocketing his wand. He had kept it in his back pocket but took it out as he remembered Moody's advice against losing buttocks. He smiled to himself and shouted once again, "RON!"
"Yeah coming." Ron came out bleary-eyed and muttered, "Such a nice winter evening, let me sleep."
"We have to go for the D.A. meeting." Harry reminded him.
"Oh yeah. Where's Hermione?"
"She had some work with McGonagall. She'll meet us in the Room of Requirement."
"All right, let's go." Ron said and they hurried out. They went to the familiar corridor and saw that the Room of Requirement was open and everybody including Hermione was already there.
They came into the room and muttered, "Sorry, we're late."
"It's all right." Ginny said, "Let's start."
"Well today we'll practice whatever we have done till now." Harry addressed the gathering. There was a chorus of "Oh no" but Hermione silenced them with a look. Quietly, they started practicing stunning spells, patronuses, and everything else they had done within the past two years. Now even Neville could perform all the charms. As the shouts of "Stupefy!" and "Petrificus totalus" filled the room, Harry noticed that it was already nine thirty and blew the whistle. On hearing the whistle, everybody stopped their work. Lavender, who was hit by a really fierce Cheering Charm by Seamus, was laughing madly. Hermione quickly did the counter charm and glared at Seamus.Harry interrupted her thoughts and announced, "It's past nine-thirty and we are very late. Friends, I just have one last piece of advice for today's meeting-run to your dorms before you are caught!" His advice was followed by rapid scrambling for the exit as everyone knew that being caught after nine by Filch meant a week of detention. Harry helped everyone go out and then himself came out in the end. Ron and Hermione were waiting for him outside the Room of Requirement. The trio hurried to the Gryffindor Tower and woke up the fat lady to give her the password ("Snape Stinks"). Harry came in first and went straight to his dorm. Hermione muttered something about completing her Charms homework and sat down in a corner of the common room. As soon as Ron saw that he was alone with Hermione, he went to her and gently tapped her shoulder.
"Hermione, can I talk to you for a minute?" he asked.
"Of course you may. What happened?" she asked.
But they couldn't complete their conversation. Neville ran down the stairs and shouted, "Trevor's missing!"
"Now, Neville! Calm down. When did you see him last?" asked Hermione matter-of-factly.
"I…I don't know. But I haven't seen him since we came back from the Room of Requirement. Hermione, would you mind looking for him in the Room of Requirement? I'll look in the corridors"
"Uh…Neville, it's already bedtime. If we're caught out of bounds…" Hermione said.
"Come on Hermione." Ron tried to convince her. Turning to Neville he said, "We'll look in the Room of Requirement. Don't worry, we'll find Trevor." He added looking at Neville's worried face.
They went out of the portrait hole much to the inconvenience of the fat lady, who had to be woken up. They went straight to the corridor in front of the Room of Requirement, but neither Ron nor Hermione was thinking about finding Neville's toad. Each had the other in mind. When the door finally opened, they discovered that they were in a huge room, with a big bed. There were roses everywhere, in the flower vase on the bedside table, on the bed, some were even glued to the tapestries. Both of them were suddenly very embarrassed to find themselves in such a room. But Ron had already promised himself that today he would pour his heart out for Hermione to hear.
He gently went to her and placed his hand on her shoulder. Hermione instantly turned. Their faces were merely inches away. Ron could feel Hermione's heart beating faster than usual. He could only hear her heartbeats. He did not know whom her heart was beating for.
He couldn't stand like that any longer. He looked deep into her soft brown eyes, which said everything. She closed her eyes and moved closer to Ron. He put an arm around her waist and pulled her even closer. In no time his lips were on hers and they were sinking into a deep passionate kiss. Ron felt Hermione's knees go weak, and as a result of this he held her closer than ever. When they finally broke apart, he whispered in her ear, "I love you Hermione. I've always loved you and will continue to do so."
With this, Hermione wrapped her arms around him even tighter and said, "I love you too Ron. Oh! I really love you." Instinctively, both of them moved towards the bed. Hermione lay down and Ron climbed on top of her. Hermione took his hand and placed it on her bosom and whispered, "Ron, make love to me." Once more immersed in a beautiful, heart-warming kiss, Ron and Hermione felt the most beautiful sensation creep through their bodies.
The next morning, Ron woke up to see Hermione's bushy head peacefully resting on his chest. He pulled her naked body closer and gently kissed her and thought, "I'm the luckiest guy on earth." He remembered the lyrics of a famous muggle song that he had heard on the disc Hermione gave him on his birthday.
"One love - for the city streets
One love - for the hip-hop beats
One love, Oh I do believe
One love is all we need.
Everyone has to have someone to love, someone to be loved by. I have Hermione, I have my everything, everything I need, everything I love, everything I care for, everything I live for…
But he again remembered the lyrics of the same song.
Late at night I'm still wide awake
Feel this is far more than I can take
I thought my heart could never break-
No, my heart will never break. Hermione is always there for me. She'll always be by my side. This is the girl I want to spend my life with. I love her…
Hope you liked it. At last the made-for-each-other couple is together. Please read and review.
Lyrics of the song taken from "One Love" by Blue. So fans of Blue, you've got another companion.