Disclaimer- I don't own the characters or the settings. And the Fat Lady's name isn't really Denise, lol. You'll see what I mean.

Chapter 9- XOXOX

(Ron's point of view)

Of course, the first place I looked for Hermione was in her dorm room. As I tried to run up the steps, it turned into a ramp, causing me to slide down really fast.

"Damn," I cursed to myself as I rubbed my head; as I was falling, it hit against the wall. "HERMIONE!" I yelled up the ramp, which had just turned back into steps.

Ginny came down with an angry look on her face. "Do you have to yell!" she said, waving her arms against her legs. "No, Hermione isn't here." she added before I could say anything.

"Where is she, then?" I asked.

"I dunno," Ginny answered, shrugging.

I sighed and walked out of the common room. "If I were Hermione, where would I be?" I asked out loud.

I slapped myself on the head for not knowing the answer to such a simple question. After shaking my head a bit, I headed on to the library.

Sitting in the first table nearest to the door was Harry.

"Harry!" I called.

"SSSHHHH!" I turned around to find three fifth years looking at me with angry faces. They were all holding identical-looking books. I glared at them.

"Harry, do you know where Hermione is?"

"No, have you checked her dorm?"

"No, I just completely forgot to check the room where she goes every day and is most likely to be in," I said sarcastically.

"Very funny."

"Yes, I know."

"So…I guess I can't help you."

I turned and headed out of the library.

(Hermione's point of view)

I was in the Room of Requirement, sitting on a chair facing the wall in a corner crying my eyes out and trying to sort out my life. Next to the chair was a small table with tissues, make-up, and a brush lying on top of it. There was a small closet on the wall opposite the one I was facing, where I put my cloak.

'I have to stop this right now! Everyone must think I'm a crybaby…crying every single day and all. I miss Draco, and I'll never forget him, but I have to move on! Oh, I hate my life…' I thought to myself.

Just then, I heard panting and a door opening. Ron came in and sighed.

"There you are!" he exclaimed. I didn't turn around.

He turned my chair around, but refusing to look at him, I hung my head low and into my hands. Ron gently put his hands on mine and pulled them away from my face. I had no choice but to look at him. His relieved face suddenly looked worried and mad at the same time.

"What the hell are you going to do with your life?" he asked me. There was a trail of angriness tone in his voice.

"I don't know," I replied. Not a tear ran down my face when I looked at him in the eyes.

"Well, you better figure it out because not only are you ruining your life, you're ruining mine, too, and worrying all of your friends! I can't do anything anymore without thinking bout if it'll hurt you or not and I can't take it anymore!"

"Neither can I," I said softly.

Ron sighed. "Sorry," he mumbled, "No offence, but I'm going out with Luna now, and you have to get over that. There are other guys in the world besides Malfoy. And I'm taken," he added jokingly.

"I know you are." I giggled.

"So…let's get out of here," Ron started out the door.

I followed him out of the door. "So how did you find me?"

"Oh, it was the first place I looked."

"Hmm…"

"So where do you want to go?"

"I'm gonna go to sleep."

"Okay," he said, leading the way to the portrait of the Fat Lady.

"Hello, Fat Lady," said Ron, stopping in front of her.

"Oh, so you're all racist now, aren't you! I have a name, you know! It's Denise!" said the Fat Lady. I tried hard not to laugh.

"The password's pig snout! Can we go in now?" asked Ron.

The Fat Lady (or Denise) turned her back on us.

"Please?" I asked sweetly.

Denise looked at us sideways and turned her back on us quickly again.

"Please, Denise?" I asked sweetly again.

"Okay, fine." she answered, swinging her portrait open.

I stepped inside with Ron by my side. "I have a name, you know! It's Denise!" he mocked her.

I giggled, "Oh, stop it! You're so mean!"

"Eh…whatever. I've got to go." he walked out of the common room as I waved good-bye.

"Hmmm…what to do now?" I asked myself. I walked up to my dorm to get some shut-eye.

(Ron's point of view)

"Hello Luna."

I was walking towards the tree we were kissing in front of about a half hour before.

"What are you doing here?" she looked up. She had been fiddling with a piece of grass from the green meadow behind her.

"Why? You don't want me here?" I joked.

"Of course I do! But I thought that you would stay with Hermione."

"Is she my girlfriend? No, she's not. You are."

"Okay." Luna got up and gave me a hug. "It's getting dark. She looked at her wrist. On it was a circular thing with digital numbers on it.

"What's that?" I asked, pointing to her wrist.

"I thought you would know, with your dad working on Muggle stuff. Well, it's a digital watch. It tells you what time it is without you having to look at that circular wheel thing on a regular watch."

"Oh. Okay."

"I heard my house is having a party because they beat Hufflepuff in the Quidditch match this morning. You wanna come? It should have started all ready."

"All right. Harry's gonna be pissed for celebrating with the other team's house, but that doesn't matter. I mean it's not like we're best mates or anything." I grinned.

Luna and I walked to the Ravenclaw common room, which took a while because I was looking at everything we passed; I've never been in the Ravenclaw common room or anywhere near it.

Luna told the portrait the password and we ran inside. I followed her, and as soon as we got in there, the screaming people started at me.

"Hey, Loony? What's a Gryffindor doing in our common room?" asked one of the guys who was clearly drunk.

"It's all right, Steven, he's with me," she grinned.

"Oooo! Loony's got a boyfriend!" Steven exclaimed, elbowing the guy behind him.

"Shut up," she blushed. "Get on with the party!"

Pretty soon, everyone in the room was drunk and nobody noticed that a Gryffindor was in the Ravenclaw common room. Luna was talking to one of her friends while I was on the other side of the room, getting us some more beer.

I felt someone grab me from behind and turned around quickly. Luna gave me a kiss on the lips and then grabbed my hand and pulled me towards the stairway to her dorm.

"Damn…boys can't go in the girls dorm!" she frowned. "I guess you'll have to take me to yours!"

I held on tight to her hand and pulled her to the Gryffindor common room. I told "Denise" the password quickly and ran up to my dorm. A few people started (I was running pretty fast with a Ravenclaw girl holding on to my hand) but I didn't care.

Luna took over at that point. She let go of my hand and pushed me onto my bed. Pointing her wand at the door, she muttered a spell to lock it so that nobody could open it but whoever's inside, which happened to be only us.

She leaped on to me and took my shirt off, then French kissed me on the lips. That was the greatest kiss I've ever experienced in my life!

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Let's let them have their moment, shall we?

Sorry it took so long for me to update! With school starting and extra homework assignments (all the boys in my class annoy the teachers so much that they can't handle it anymore, so we get extra homework almost every other day but it's kinda fun to watch lol) I just don't have as much time to write as I had in the summer!

Hope you all understand!