Seasons of Love
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Hermione walked down the stairs and into the Great Hall. She thought it looked wonderful. Instead of the ice theme like at the Yule Ball, they had went with a Autumn theme with deep reds, browns, yellows and oranges.
Five hundred, twenty five thousand, six hundred minutes; Five hundred, twenty five thousand moments so dear; Five hundred, twenty five thousand, six hundred minutes; How do you measure-measure a year?
She walked over to Padma and exchanged polite "Hello"s and "How are you"s really just talking to waste time until the people they really wanted to see showed up.
Dean was the first to walk in the doors. Padma gasped. Dean spotted them across the room and headed straight over. Honestly, Hermione didn't want to stand here, and be in the conversation but she had no where else to go. She was trapped.
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Ron walked in the doors of the Great Hall trying to look more confident than he felt.
Okay, he thought. I'm doing okay.
Then he saw her. In a pale yellow dress she stood out in the room. She was talking to Dean and Padma with a trapped "please get me out of here" look on her face. So Ron walked across the room to help out an old friend.
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When she saw him she went through so many emotions she thought that she was going to burst. She prayed that he would come over and rescue her, and that's exactly what it looked like he was doing. Ron walked up to the group with so much confidence that Hermione actually lost some of hers.
"Hey, guys!" Ron exclaimed. He placed his left hand on the small of Hermione's back and she tingled. She wondered if he had felt that too.
"Ron! I have been following your playing. Doing good! I always tell people that we were roommates at Hogwarts, but they just don't believe me." Dean said.
Ron laughed. "Well," he said. "I hope that you don't mind if I steal Hermione from you for a bit but we have a lot of catching up to do."
"Not at all," replied Padma and Dean.
Ron offered Hermione his hand and whisked her away. By now many people were filtering in and mingling. Some were dancing to the music while others anxiously waited for their old friends to show up.
"Thank you so much for rescuing me! I know that eventually we would hit the topic of Parvati and I wouldn't have known what to do if that happened, and Ron I am just so happy that you're here! I've missed you so much!" Hermione said all in one breath.
Ron laughed and turned to face her. "I've really missed you, too!"
She pulled Ron into a tight hug. It scared her to be this close to her, but the thought that one day, she might not get to hug him scared her even more. He hugged her back and her insides felt like jelly.
She was flooded with memories of their 7th year. The days they had spent in classes together, so close, wishing to be closer; those nights watching the sun set with its brilliant shades of yellow, orange, and red, while Ron had held her close; those midnights when Ron was really behind on his homework and Hermione had stayed up late and helped him finish; and that coffeehouse where Hermione, Ron, Harry, and Ginny all sat when Hermione told them she was leaving to become a teacher. That was the night that she broke up with Ron, so he wouldn't wait for her. She knew that long-distance relationships were hard and and he needed to move on. But there was another reason that she broke up with him, although she had not fully admitted it to herself yet. She was scared of how well that their relationship was going. So she had to break it off no matter how much it broke her heart.
In daylights; In sunsets; In midnights; In cups of coffee;
Ron held out his hand. "How about a dance?"
Hermione blushed a light blush that tinted her cheeks pink. "I would love to," she said.
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Ron led her out onto the dance floor. His heart was beating so fast. What was he doing? He didn't know that, but what he did know was that he wanted to be close to Hermione, a feeling that he hadn't felt since their 7th year. The song was slow and he pulled her close. He could feel her heart beating. It was almost as fast as his. His hands were on her hips and her arms were locked around his neck. As he looked into her eyes, he remembered their last year in school together, when things had been perfect...
After they had made it official that they were dating they were never more than inches apart (except the nights that they had decided that they would sleep in their own beds). After graduation, they went back to their own houses for a few weeks to pack, spent the last few days just hanging out with the family that they would soon no longer be living with. Ron couldn't stand being this far away from her. He loved her and wanted to be with her forever. So that when he suggested that they get an apartment together. The first year it was just Ron, Hermione and Harry while Ginny was still in school, but when she graduated she joined them. It had been then best living situation. They had spent their days working together at Fred and George's shop, and their nights together laughing, watching movies and falling asleep in each others arms. They were closer than ever and they were so happy.
That when Hermione broke the news to them in the coffeehouse that she was going to leave to teach at Hogwarts. That was the night that she broke up with him. He couldn't believe it. He didn't know how he was going to make it. At first he was sad that she was leaving him. Then it was rage. WHY WAS SHE LEAVING HIM? He stayed mad at her for a long time, then the rage led to loneliness and that is when he tried out for the Cannons to get his mind off of her.
But now, here he was, standing in the middle of the Great Hall with Hermione in his arms. Nothing could get better.
In inches; In miles; In laughter; In strife; In five hundred, twenty five thousand, six hundred minutes. How do measure a year in the life?
OK I wanted to get this chapter out to you guys, so I split the chapter in half. This was mostly Ron and Hermione but the next, final chapter will have other couples too. But I wont be posting another chapter unless I get some reviews!
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