Chapter 3: An Unbreakable Bond

She couldn't even bare to look at Ron for another second. Hermione turned around and bolted up the stairs.

"Are you actually going with Charlotte?" Harry asked.

"Yes," he answered.

"Well, you didn't have to be so mean to Hermione."

"She had it coming."

Upstairs Hermione slammed the door behind her. She flopped down on her bed, looked up at the ceiling with her hair all over the place from gripping it so tightly. Her eyes burned with unwanted tear that were caressing the inside of her eyes about to fall. She was going to prevent herself from crying. She would not cry, not for this, not over Ron.

"I'm not going to cry over that bloody git!' she told herself from inside her mind.

But you want to. You know that he is worth your tears.

"He is not worth my tears. He isn't worth any girls tears, and no silly boy is worth mine."

Ron is. You love him.

"NEVER!"

Yes you do.

"I do not have the slightest emotion for Ron," Hermione said aloud.

"There you go, Hermione," a voice said from the door.

Hermione lifted herself up to see Lavender staring at her.

"Let it out," she said soothingly.

Lavender was normally unlike this. Hermione was a bit curious to why she was acting this way. Hermione asked Lavender to come sit by her and help her to sort out this whole mess.

"I know where you've been. Ron is your best friend. He hurt you badly and now you just need to vent."

It was as if Lavender was reading her mind.

"I was in the Common Room when the two of you were fighting."

"Oh," she said softly.

"Just try and talk to him. He's your best friend. He loves you. He'll listen."

"He loves me?" Hermione again though to herself. "Like-like a friend of course."

"You're just so lucky, Hermione. I know that me and Parvati are very close but I think there may me something more there between you guys."

Hermione felt odd by the words that Lavender was saying. What did she mean exactly by something more between them?

"I mean, you're the Golden Trio. You can never break that bond. You are all so different but together you are perfect. Just be happy you will always have that."

Hermione finally smiled at Lavender. Lavender was completely right. Ron and Hermione fought at let five fights a week, but they had never stopped being friends. Hermione was not going to let a girl (that is definitely wrong for Ron) get in between her and Ron's friendship.

"Thanks, Lavender," Hermione said, giving her a brief hug.

"Anytime. The girl that Ron is dating is Charlotte Bentrik, right?"

Hermione nodded.

"I can understand that you would be protective over Ron. She's horrible!" Lavender cried.

"Protective is a good word for it," Hermione though to herself.

"I just wish I could have gotten to him first. I've always kinda fancied Ron."

Hermione's eyes peeled open. She had never though that Lavender liked Ron. She never really showed it.

"I didn't know that," Hermione said.

"Well, not may people did. Now, go talk to him."

Hermione shook her head yes and got up from the bed.