A/N this chapter is kind of short sorry!

Chapter 3- The First Brick is laid

Ginny and Harry both forgot to go back to the living room and free Hermione and Ron from each other. They fell asleep together, still in each other's arms, waking up with smiles on their faces. Once they realized they fell asleep in such a fashion, they tried their hardest to detach themselves from each other. When all their attempts failed, they put their strong lungs and vocal chords to use.

"HARRY JAMES POTTER. YOU LEFT US HERE ALL NIGHT LONG?" Ron shouted.

"HARRY DETACH US AT ONCE!" Hermione called.

Harry ran down the stairs, scared of what Hermione is going to do to him, but on the other hand, he wanted to see what they looked like. When Ginny heard the shouting, she too ran downstairs. Once she saw that Harry was there she quickly turned around and went into the kitchen, not being able to face him again, after what happened last night.

Harry, being the nice person that he was, lifted the spell that had them attached to each other. That cooled everyone's distraught nerves. Harry then left them to be by themselves and went into the kitchen, where he could find Ginny.

"Ginny, don't yell at me. I want to talk to you," Harry said.

Ginny said nothing.

"I never wanted you to be mad at me. As you know, I broke it off with you to protect you, not because I didn't care about you," Harry added.

"Yes, I know that, but Voldemort is dead, he can't harm me or you for that matter anymore. Furthermore he has been for many months now. So now what?" she replied.

"I'm scared," is what Harry wanted to say. "I'm scared of breaking your heart again and I'm scared to see you in pain every day of my life. And… I think I still love you." But he didn't say this. What he said is totally different than what he thought.

"I don't know. Can we be friends?" Harry actually said.

Ginny looked at him with a sense of disgust. She then huffed at him loudly and left the room once again. See, even though Harry had hurt Ginny, she understood his reasons after many hours thinking about it. Ginny knew that she wanted him back and it hurt her to see that he wanted to 'just be friends.' This was the furthest thing from what she wanted.

Harry thought to himself again, "I blew it. I let her leave me again. I ruined everything I was working towards. How can I fix this?"

Harry too left the room following Ginny. He walked out the front door and went outside to think about how he can get Ginny back in his life.

Meanwhile… Hermione and Ron in the Living room…still

"Ron," Hermione said. "I can't believe what we are did. No one, I mean no one would believe that you got up the nerve to kiss me!" (A/N- nothing more than "snogging!")

"Me, kiss you?" Ron shouted.

"Yes!" Hermione said.

"I was practically forced to," Ron added.

"NO YOU WEREN'T!" Hermione replied.

"YES I WAS!"

Hermione had nothing to say in reply. They fought so often, that Hermione didn't know what to say. So she coked one eyebrow at Ron.

"What was that look for?" Ron questioned.

"You know. Now that we are…you know. I don't really want to fight like this. Well, not all the time," Hermione said.

"Yeah, well I did sort of kiss you. I was on the top and all," Ron blushed as the image returned to his head. "But you were thinking about it!"

"I will never say," said Hermione, maintaining her image.

"Whatever," Ron muttered. "'Mione, you know I never really did ask you."

"Ask me what?"

"Erm… Do you want to be my girlfriend?" Ron gulped.

Hermione's eyes grew round and then she smiled softly. "I thought you would never ask," she replied. "And that is a yes!"

Hermione stepped over and shyly hugged him. He was surprised at first but then he put his arms around her waist. They stood like that for a few minutes, completely happy in each other's presence. For once they weren't fighting or mad at each other. It certainly was a welcome change.

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