Ron grabbed Hermione's hand as he led her out of the portrait hole at Gryffindor Tower and down the hall to the Head's dorm. The walk started out as a quiet and awkward one. Both of them stealing glances at each other. As they made their way into the head's common room, Hermione could feel the heat radiating off of Ron's body. She knew that this night was going to get very interesting.
Back in the Gryffindor's common room, the rest of the couples from tonight's game were spread out over various chairs and sofas. Currently Harry was lying back on the sofa in front of the fireplace with his head in Ginny's lap. Neville was the first one to speak.
"You know, I wonder if Ron and Hermione will actually do anything when they get back to their rooms, or if they will chicken out and avoid each other again?"
"Yeah, I can see it now. Hermione's sitting there waiting for Ron to put the moves on again, and all he can do is stand there and stammer his way out of it." Dean agreed.
"He better do something!" Ginny interjected. "The Weasley reputation is at stake here. If he can't "perform", then I will definitely have to owl a few brothers of mine and let them know the youngest man in this family is serious need of some tutoring on their part."
Everyone chuckled.
"He would kill you Ginny." Lavender added from Dean's lap.
"I can see it now" Harry imagined aloud. "Bill, Charlie, Fred, George, heck even Percy, all striding menacingly down the corridor and bursting into the Great Hall all demanding to talk to Ron about his "performance issues.".
Laughter filled the common room.
"Oh I have one even better." Parvati said. "I can just picture Hermione taking it into her own hands and doing the logical thing on her part…she'd get a book!"
"Oh yeah" Lavender said between giggles. "I can see it now. Ron as red in the face as can be as Hermione has a book of instructions in front of him saying "Study harder!"".
Neville was clutching his sides from laughing so hard now.
"All I can say is that I hope he does the family proud." Ginny snickered.
Little did the others know, but currently Ron was not having any sort of "issues" at all. As soon as the portrait shut behind them, Ron had grabbed Hermione by the waist and had her currently backed up against the common room wall, smothering her with kisses and using his hands to explore every part of Hermione's body.
"Ron?" Hermione asked breathlessly "Don't you think we should continue this in one of our bedrooms?"
"I don't think I can make it too a bedroom Hermione." Ron said in between kissing her neck and nibbling at her ears.
"Ron we have to slow down a bit here." Hermione said as she pushed Ron back a bit.
Ron groaned at the loss of contact with her body.
"Slow down? Hermione, no one has gone slower than the two of us up to this point. Personally, I think it's time we sped it up a bit." He said as he came at her once again.
Hermione stepped out of the way just in time for Ron to miss her and hit the wall.
"Merlin! What did you do that for? That bloody hurt you know." Ron grimaced as he rubbed his sore head.
"I'm sorry Ron. I didn't mean for that to happen. It's just that you're not paying attention to me."
"Hermione, I am paying a tremendous amount of attention to you if you haven't noticed."
Hermione glared at Ron with her arms folded in front of her.
"You know what I meant! I'm just saying that after everything we've been through to get to this point in our relationship, that maybe slowing it down a bit and taking our time, just might be better."
Ron rolled his eyes. He couldn't believe her. She had to know what she did to him. If he had to wait any longer he was gonna go mad. Ron took a deep breath.
"Hermione, I understand the whole taking it slow thing, but I'm not sure how much more of this I can take. I already had to wait till this bloody game was over. Please, don't make me wait another night!"
"Another night? Is that what you think I want you to do? Wait another night?"
"Well yeah," Ron said confused "Isn't that what you meant by slow down?"
Hermione let out a soft giggle. She slowly advanced toward Ron making him back up until he felt the wall behind him. She lean up and softly kissed him on the lips.
"I think you misunderstood me Ron." Hermione whispered. "I have no intention of making us wait another night. All I meant by slow down was just that, slow down. I've waited for this too, and I want to make sure it lasts all night long."
Ron saw the look of hunger and lust in her eyes. He smiled. Gods, he loved this woman! He grabbed her by the waist and brought her body flush against his once more.
The other participants in the nights festivities were still laughing and giggling about Ron and Hermione. Slowly the laughter died down and a silence filled the common room. Neville finally spoke first once again.
"Seriously though. What if Ron isn't stammering away, but actually doing something with this opportunity? It's making the rest of us look bad, just sitting here like this. I don't know about the rest of you lot, but" he said as he stood up and offered Parvati his hand "I'm not really all that tired. How about it Parvati, are you ready for more?"
Parvati threw her arms around Neville's neck.
"I'm so ready!"
"See you lot in the morning" Neville called out to the rest of them as he and Parvati headed upstairs to the boys dormitory.
"Hey don't forget to draw the curtains. And make sure you use a silencing charm!" Harry yelled back at him.
Dean looked at Harry.
"There is something wrong with this picture mate when Neville Longbottom has a girl in his bed and you and I don't."
Harry laughed.
"Well what are you waiting for?" Lavender wriggled her eye brows at Dean "It's not like I would tell you no."
Dean grabbed Lavender's hand and proceeded to follow Neville upstairs.
"Hey!" Harry called after them. "Same thing goes for you two. I don't need to see or hear anything from you guys again tonight!"
With everyone else gone, Harry and Ginny were finally alone.
"It looks like it's just you and me now." Ginny smiled. "Whatever shall we do?" she said as she batted her eyelashes at Harry.
Harry sat up and then pinned Ginny to the sofa underneath him.
"The innocent little schoolgirl act doesn't work for you Gin."
"Oh really? And what exactly will work for me Mr. Potter?" She asked as she brought her hands up into his hair.
"This" Harry said as he crashed his lips into hers.
A/N : Thanks for the patience everyone! Also a big thanks for all the reviews! I absolutely love them (yes, even the ones that may not agree with the story), I read every one of them! Well the next chapter starts the next game…hope you all are enjoying this!