Wow, two updates in the same week. Thanks for all those reviews. Reviews really make authors days. Another boring chapter, but I need to write them, so we can get to the big conflict.

Chapter 2

I'm back

Harry and Hermione woke up and went to work in London as soon as they finished eating breakfast. Work was very slow and had gotten slower when Voldemort died. At about 5 o'clock, Harry and Hermione had come home from work.

"Hey honey," Harry said to Hermione, kissing her. Even though they had the same job title, they hardly ever saw each other.

"What's for supper? Harry asked her when he got through the door.

"What are you cooking?" Hermione question.

"Aw…man, why do I have to cook again?" Harry asked, jokingly, acting like a teenager who doesn't want to do their chores.

They both walked upstairs and got out of their work clothes, putting on more comfortable ones. When done, Harry went back downstairs to cook. Hermione slowly followed after him, going to help him.

Ring, Ring

The telephone rang.

"I've got it," Hermione said, running to go find the phone. She found it and picked it up, just in time, before the answering machine would pick up. They were both still in the kitchen, but Harry was cooking. Hermione thought it would have been Ginny, their 'girl-talk' about Draco.

"Hello?" She said, once picking up.

"HELLO, THIS IS RON!" He screamed.

"Ron, you don't have to scream, talk normal. Hermione told him. She was shocked to hear his voice.

"He still doesn't know how to use a telephone?" Harry said to her, laughing.

Hermione grinned and went back to her phone conversation. "How have you been?"

"Not bad, works has been alright."

"Where are you?"

"I was just about to get to that. I'm at something called an aeroport, I think."

"An airport?"

"Yeah, I'm coming home!"

"Oh my gosh Ron, that's great, when will you be home?"

"Around two in the morning. So I'll drop by tomorrow, after I get some sleep."

"Yeah, since I know you'll be tired after an airplane ride."

"Well, ill see you when I come over. What time do you want me to come?"

"What time do you think you will get up?"

"I'll come over around 10."

"Okay, see you then."

"Bye."

"Bye."

Hermione hung up and turned to face Harry. She was excited that her best friend was coming back home from the United States.

"What's going on with him?" Harry asked Hermione.

"Harry, Ron's coming home!"

That's great. When?"

"Early tomorrow morning. He's going to drop by at 10."

"Yeah! It'll be good to see him again."

"Do you think he told Ginny and the other Weasleys?"

"I hope so."

"Well, I'll go and call her."

"Eat first."

"Oh alright," Hermione said with a little bit of disappointment in her voice.

Harry and Hermione sat at the supper table. They ate the food Harry had prepared. Hermione was done first. She got up and walked over to the table and dialed Draco's number, knowing she would most likely be there.

"Whatever happened to the post?" Harry asked her.

"Well, talking is a lot easier that writing on parchment. Now that the Weasleys now how to use telephones."

"Hello?" Draco answered on the other end of the phone.

"Draco, is Ginny there?"

"Yeah, hold on."

Hermione heard Draco hand the phone over to Ginny and tell her who it was.

"Hello." Ginny said.

"Hey, did you hear the news?"

"What?"

"Ron's coming home."

"When?" Ginny asked.

"Tomorrow."

"Good, someone to stay with my parents." Ginny said in a not-that-excited voice,

"Ginny, you're supposed to be excited to see your brother."

"I am, I am, but He just gets me really mad that he doesn't trust Draco."

"He will eventually."

"He better, I'm going to go and spread the news to the rest of my family."

"Bye."

Without another word, Ginny hung up the phone to go off and tell the rest of the Weasleys. Hermione hung up the phone and walked back over to Harry.

"Was she excited?" He asked her.

"A little, but she's mad because he doesn't trust Draco."

"For some weird reason, I'm starting to trust him."

"Yeah, I'd never think I could trust someone who used to call me mudblood."

"Why can't Ron trust him?"

"I don't know, but Ginny's definitely getting frustrated with him."

"Yeah, I would be getting mad over it too."

"She's been going out with him many months now, they really serious." Hermione said.

"Imagine what Ron would be like if they got married."

"He would be a wreck. He would try and kill Draco."

It was still early when Harry and Hermione got done talking. They couldn't believe Ron was finally coming home. Harry decided that they should go and buy Ron a welcome home present. Where else would they go to buy it but Diagon Alley? Using Floo Powder, which was a lot safer now, they arrived there.

Harry and Hermione first decided to go into a shop that sold a lot of Quiditch items. They bought Ron a miniature Quiditch game (AN-Think of a foosball table, yet being magic and Quiditch). Once done paying, Harry and Hermione summoned the game to there house and decided to stop by Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes to go say hi to the twins. It turned out neither Ron nor Ginny told them about Ron neither. They decided to fill them in.

"My little brothers coming home-" Fred started.

"And he didn't even tell us?" George finished.

"He's going to love living at the burrow with Mum and Dad." Fred told Hermione.

"Yeah especially being all alone with them."

Harry took a look around the store while Hermione talked to the twins. In a little while, they aparated home. Using magic, Hermione wrapped his present. Harry hung up a banner that read 'Welcome back Ron.'

In about another hour, they decided to go to bed. Harry had a hard time falling asleep. Hermione was too excited to fall asleep. It would be the first time in almost six months they would get to go and see Ron.

At 9 o'clock Hermione awoke. She got up from there bed and took a shower. Hr sudden movement made Harry stir in his sleep, eventually waking him up. He went into the other bathroom and took a shower. Harry was done first and went downstairs for breakfast. Hermione came down slowly after.

Ding Dong

"Come in," Harry screamed from the kitchen.

"Ron," Hermione ran up to him and gave him a hug.

After her, Harry gave Ron a hug and a pat on the back. "Nice to see you again, mate." He said.

You too," Ron muttered.

"What have you been up to?" Hermione asked.

For the next two and a half hours, the trio spent time reacquainting. They learned everything about Ron and what he had been up to.

AN-Wow am I tired. Accidentally, the next few chapters will be shorter then this, but have more action. This chapter just had to be done.