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A/N Another update. Ron's back, so what happens? This chapter also has another pairing added!

Hermione's POV

It's August 2nd. Charlie's dad is getting Ron from the Ministry right now. I'm so nervous, and I don't know why. I shouldn't be! Right now, I was in Charlie's hut hiding from Ron, cuz Bill, Fred and George share this one.

"Whoa, hey Hermione. Stop pacing, you're making me dizzy," Bill told me when he entered the building. I quickly shut the door in case someone sees me.

"Sorry, I just really don't want to see him right now," I said nervously, wringing my hands. I started pacing again.

"That's why you're hiding in here?" he asked. I nodded.

"Now I can't even go into Harry and Neville's hut because he's in there!" I exclaimed as I continued pacing, making a hole in the carpet. I've been at it for about two hours now, so the new blue carpet on the ground looked very worn and had a rusty colour.

"Don't worry, we're giving him the empty hut all by himself," he told me while looking for something. "You haven't seen my-"

"Wedding bands? Oh, yeah. Fred and George came in earlier and stole them," I replied without looking up. "Don't know why you brought them, being roomed up with the twins and all."

"Stop pacing, Hermione!" Bill called out exasperately, ignoring the part with the twins. "Why are you so nervous about Ron coming here? He won't hurt you or anyone else for that matter; we're secretly putting a tracking charm on him just in case." I stop pacing. Why was I so nervous? The tracking charm was a good idea, but why was I still nervous?

"I guess that I'm still a bit heart broken and still have feelings for the old Ron I knew a year ago," I mumbled.

"Oh, I see. What about Charlie?" Bill asked innocently. When my head shot up, he gave a small laugh. "Really, I think I'm the only guy besides Remus so far who notices that you keep staring at him. He's the guy you love, isn't he?" My face was pale. He came over to me and made me sit down. I was in a trance. Oh shit. Pretty soon everyone else is gonna know, including Charlie! "Listen, Hermione. Pretty soon everyone else is gonna know, including Charlie!" I gaped at him in shock.

"Are you a Legilimens?" I asked suspisciously as he practically read my thoughts. He shook his head.

"Nah, it's just that you and me are alike in this kinda situation; I thought the same thing with Fleur before," Bill added. "I had the same troubles. So I also thought I might as well tell her and look, we're married!" I bit my lip.

"Ok, I'll tell him."

"When?"

"The days pigs fly. And not magically."

"Geez! Hermione, I bet you anything Harry's gonna be the next to know, then the twins and then everybody else!" Bill exclaimed, throwing his hands up in the air in defeat. "So you're nervous, so you love Charlie and nervous about that too! Let's go to lunch so I can get some food and my wedding bands back!" He grabbed my arm and pulled me out fast before I could protest.

"I'm gonna kill you," I muttered to him through gritted teeth as the restaurant came into view.

"But you love me anyway," Bill said cheerfully as he dragged me through the door. It's true, though, he's like a brother to me. Just like Remus, Sirius, Harry, the twins and...that's it.

When we got inside, Arthur was already there with a grumpy Ron eating some porridge. Then Molly was sitting on the other side of Ron with Charlie and Ginny next to her. Then sitting across Ginny was Harry who was staring into her eyes and Neville who was sitting next to Luna. Then the twins sat across Ron and Arthur with Alice and Angelina on either of their sides. On the next table, there was Remus, Tonks, Sirius, Charlotte and Fleur. I was dragged to that table and forced to sit.

"There, now don't you try leaving," he whispered to me before kissing his wife on the cheek. Rolling my eyes, I got some scrambled eggs and started putting salt on it. And more. And more. I didn't even realize what I was doing. More salt.

"Do you really eat your eggs that salty?" Charlotte called out. I snapped out of my trance to see my eggs covered in huge amounts of salt. I threw it away, sighing.

"Oh, an owl came in here earlier today," Remus told me. I perked up.

"Who's it from?" I asked curiously, hoping that it was my penpal friend.

"Dunno, read it though," he said, giving me the letter. I snatched it and ripped it open. It was a letter from Draco. 'Dear Hermione, I'm sorry I had to break it off with you, but I was afraid. I can't tell you what though. Anyway, I'm moving, to Alaska soon in the US with my mom. I hope you're happy with someone else, Charlie, right? Anyway, I hope we can still be friends and send letters, and watch out for that Evil Weasel Guy. From, Draco Malfoy'. Hmm... he sounds much nicer and well again. But I had to burn this letter.

"Incendio!" I whispered as I threw the letter in the air. Sirius and Remus looked curiously at me and I just shrugged. "I can't let anyone's eyes get on it." Then I got my fresh scrambled eggs and started eating.

A few minutes later, Bill, Sirius and Remus both leaned in towards me. "Look at Ron." When I did, I stifled a laugh. One of the guys had charmed Ron's hair a sickly green and yellow, and charmed all of his shirt to say Evil Weasel Guy. I hope they didn't read my letter to get that idea.

What more is that Ron's skin was a combination of pink swirled with purple. And his nails were brown. And when he looked my way, I saw that his teeth were blue! I laughed and rolled over, laughing hysterically as the others started sniggering.

Ron stared at his hands. "YOU!" He stomped over to the three likely suspects, who were looking away whistling. "How DARE y-"

"RONALD WEASLEY! SIT DOWN RIGHT NOW!" Molly bellowed. "YOU WERE TOLD TO STAY FIVE METERS AWAY FROM HERMIONE AND YOU WILL STAY AWAY FROM HERMIONE!" Ron gave me an apologetic smile before sitting down again and sulking. I don't think I can ever forgive him, but his skin, hair and nails and clothes and teeth were so funny!

"He's gonna kill you guys," I told them as I finished my breakfast. Today was a cool, sunny day but not exhaustingly hot, like the first time. I want that to happen again, remembering Charlie taking off his shirt.

"So?" they chorused. "As long as we're near you, he can't try anything." They sniggered again. Rolling my eyes, I drank my Quantrie. Who knew that they can be so evil?

"Are we up for Quidditch, today?" Charlotte asked, taking my plate and glass to give to the house elves. Quidditch. I haven't played yet, cuz the first time I had missed out because of Ron.

"Sure," I answered, standing up. Before I left, I saw that look Ron gave me. It sent me shivers, and is bound to give me a nightmare later. Once I was out the building, I whimpered slightly. Now I realized something, I wasn't nervous. I was scared. Ron scared me, he knows all my secrets except that last one with Charlie, he knows what I do all the time, where I go, where I LIVE. Not to mention that he can scared away any guys if I started dating. I have feelings about some of my friends, and he knows some of it that could break my friendship with them.

Like how I dislike Ginny only for the reason she's way too nosy.

Or how I can't stand Neville's wimpiness and low intelligence.

Or how Luna talks strange things even I don't know about.

Or about how Harry can be so self centered about Sirius' death even after two years! Sirius only came back half a year ago.

Then there's the fact that if Ron finds out I like Charlie, I can kiss that relationship goodbye. I don't want to be mean, but sometimes, they just annoy me so much.

Sighing, I walked to the Quidditch pitch with Harry once he came out. "Are you ok?" he asked me as I stared ahead at Charlie's back.

"I'm fine," I answered in a monotone. Harry looked back and forward at me and Charlie.

"You like him, don't you?" Harry whispered.

"Bill was right, you DID notice next," was my answer. He grinned.

"Good, lemme go tell him." I held out my foot and tripped him.

"Don't you DARE Harry James POTTER!" I nearly screamed. He got up and wiped his pants, giving me a smile.

"I won't, I won't tell anyone. But when are you gonna tell him?"

"When you tell me that you're snogging with Ginny," I replied, crossing my arms. He smirked.

"Well, we were snogging last night," he started. NO!

"I'm still not telling," I said stubbornly. "But congratulations with Ginny."

"Thanks," Ginny said, coming up. She gave Harry a peck on the mouth, which I started sniggering at. Then I left the two lovebirds alone, continuing walking to the pitch.

It's no fair, everyone's with someone or another. Bill's with Fleur, Fred's with Angelina, George's with Alicia, Harry has Ginny, Neville has Luna, Sirius has Charlotte, Remus has Tonks, Arthur as Molly of course. The only people who's not with someone are Charlie, Ron and I. And nobody cares about Ron anymore, so it leaves Charlie and me. But he loves someone else.

Sighing, I took out the Firebolt I'm borrowing from Harry and got onto it. "How do I fly this thing, I haven't flown since first year." The time with Charlie definitely didn't count, nor the other times I flew with Harry or Ron.

"First you get on, then you kick off from the ground, then to turn left or right, you direct the front of the broom left or right. Gosh, Hermione, I thought you were supposed to be smart," a teasing voice answered my rhetorical question. Charlie. Shaking my head, I got off.

"I just can't fly a broom," I protested. He rolled his eyes.

"Everyone can, you can learn from me, the master." He made me get on it again. "Just gently push off to hover a few feet in the air."

"I swear, though, when it comes to flying I don't have any magical abilities," I said again. "I can't go more than five minutes or else the broom would stop working and I would fall." Oh how true that is. I pushed off the ground anyway.

"Higher," he commanded. I flew until I was about ten feet high. I was losing control already. Screaming, the Firebolt suddenly just stopped and I fell hard onto the ground on my left arm. The broomstick was fine, thank goodness. Harry would have killed me.

"I told you," I murmured as I tried to stand. Then I reached out and grabbed onto Charlie's chest when a sudden wave of dizziness ran through me.

"You have any idea what happened?" he asked me. "Are you ok?" I shook my head. "How many fingers am I holding up?"

I squinted and saw that he was holding up all six fingers on his hand. "Six." Charlie frowned. He had only been holding up two fingers.

"Come on, you're hurt. Let's go back." I wriggled away from his grasp.

"No, I'm fine," I protested, my words slurrings slightly. I tried to push him back with my left arm, but pain shot up it. I screamed out in pain.

"No, you're not fine," he said, sounding worried. "I think your arm's broken. We have to go back to Angelina, she's a healer ya know. Come on." He scooped me up in both his arms, which I giggled and whooped at.

"Weee!" On the way, we passed Harry and Ginny.

"Are you ok?" Harry asked, concerned as Charlie handed him his broom.

"She fell off her broom hard from ten feet in the air. I think her arm's broken," Charlie explained. He set me down and I stumbled a bit. Then he grabbed my arm gently and held it out. I hissed and pulled away.

"Ow!" I fell backwards yet again and fell right to sleep.

Nobody's POV

Charlie caught Hermione and set her on the ground. "This is my fault, I told her to go higher," he said, feeling guilty. Harry shook his head.

"Of course not. It's no one's fault, now let's get her to see Angelina," he said quickly. Charlie nodded and scooped Hermione up again.

An hour later, Hermione was laying on her bed in her hut with her arm in a sling. "She didn't break her arm," Angelina explained. "She fractured it, and bumped her head as well." The other people in the room, Charlie, Harry, Remus and Bill sighed with relief. "Anyway, I gotta meet Fred!" She bounced out the door.

"I guess I'm going too," Charlie told the other three. "See ya." He left the hut feeling guilty again.

"He likes her," Bill, Harry and Remus said simultaneously and looked each other in surprise.

"Well, Hermione likes him too," Harry declared. Then he remembered his promise and covered his mouth. Bill and Remus said they knew though.

"I say we play matchmaker," Remus said mischieviously. "They already flirt a lot, but we have to do something."

"I agree, I say we play truth or dare and get them into a closet," Bill added.

"For seven hours," Harry continued. They grinned in the dark, before leaving the hut.

Hermione's POV

I woke up, saw my arm in a sling and then remembered what happened. Ah, SHIT! I looked up at the calendar that Ginny usually marks and saw that it was now the next day. Groaning, I sat up. Why am I such an accident prone? I made a fool out of myself in front of Charlie!

Hmm... I love saying his name now. Charlie. Charlie. Charlie. CHARLIE! What am I doing? I'm obsessed. Either that or I'm in love. Am I?

I got up and changed with some difficulty. It seems like this is gonna be a hotter day than the last time! I changed into a tube top, miniskirt and flipflops before tying my hair up Chinese styled.

"Hermione!" I red head blob came over and squished me. Ginny. "Are you alright? Angelina said you injured your head, are you still smart? What's two plus two?" I smiled at this.

"Who's Hermione? I'm not alright I injured my ARM, I was never smart and two plus two equals 22," I faked my well being before grinning and sitting on one of the lawn chairs.

"Hermione, we're playing Truth or Dare again. Wanna come?" Ginny asked. Why are we playing it again? Cuz we hadn't played it in a while? "It's not spin the bottle."

"Sure." I followed her out before looking at my arm again. Wait a second, Ginny had hugged me hard and it hadn't hurt. I took the sling off and unwrapped the bandage. I flexed my arm. It was as good as new!

"What happened to my arm?" I asked as I reached the small circle of people in the restaurant. Bill was there, so was Remus, Harry, Charlie, Luna and Fleur.

"How did that happen?" Charlie asked incredulously. I tried whacking Harry on the head, it didn't hurt! He let out a yelp.

"That's a mystery," I muttered before joining everyone at the table. "Who goes first?"

"ME!" Harry and Ginny both cried out at the same time. "Ginny, ladies first." Ginny giggled before turning to Charlie.

"No matter what you pick, who is the person you love's name?" Charlie thought for a minute.

"Emma." My face fell. I kind of expected it, of course. Wait...my middle name's Emma!

"Remus, truth or dare?"

"Dare."

"I dare you to...yell that you love Snape!" I laughed. Remus flushed disgustedly before calling out loud "I LOVE SNAPE!" before sitting down, red.

Remus suddenly perked back up, smirking. "Hermione, truth or dare?"

Uh oh. I know that smirk, he's up to something. "Dare," I replied bravely. He grinned.

"I dare you to go with Charlie into that closet," he pointed. "for an hour!" My jaw dropped. This Remus was evil. This is not him, not my biological father!

"Excuse me?" I gasped. Harry and Bill got up and then grabbed each of my arms. Remus dragged Charlie by the collar. When Harry opened the closet door, I saw it was really small, too small.

"Hey!" I screamed as I was pushed in, followed by Charlie.. The door slammed shut and a couple clicks and spells were muttered. Good thing there was a candle at one end of the closet.

The closet was so tight that my body was pressed against Charlie, who was staring down at me. I tried to get away from him so we can both sit down, but he put an arm blocking my path. I could hear my heart poundng. His stare was so intense.

"Charlie!" I said. "Let me go." Please don't, I thought in my head.

"Why not? Dontcha wanna make out with me? Handsome, cute, wonderful me?" he asked teasingly while I giggled. Yes.

"Of course not, you're too flirty for your own good. And you love this girl named Emma." I could feel my breath suck in my throat as he leaned down and whispered into my ear.

"And your middle name is Emma, isn't it?" he murmured before pressing his lips on my cheek. I pushed him away, no matter how hard it was to.

"That doesn't make a difference, she's a pretty blonde, isn't she?" I demanded. Charlie tried to move closer, but I shrank away and slipped under his arm so now we each had half of the closet and weren't touching. Damn...

Charlie pouted again and I giggled. I sat down against the wall with Charlie beside me arms crossed. "So does this mean we're over?" he asked jokingly. I punched his arm, but grinned.

"I say that we get back at those three," I declared.

"Just HOW are we gonna do that?"

"Well, we can pretend that we have in fact been dating secretly," I nearly slapped myself for my choice of words, "and because of this little incident..."

"...we broke up and it's all their faults," Charlie finished. "Brilliant idea, they wanted us together and now we're not!"

I stood up and started banging on the door. "GO AWAY YOU IDIOT!" I screamed at Charlie. He winked at me before yelling.

"IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED, I CAN'T!" He helpped me bang on the door while we tried to wipe the grins off our faces.

I screamed one last time before the door opened and I jumped out. "DON'T COME NEAR ME AGAIN! WE'RE OVER!" Remus', Bill's, Harry's and all the other people's jaw dropped and they were shocked. They looked horrified too at the prospect I 'broke up' with him.

"Wait!" he called out, running after me. Once we were out of the restaurant building, we started laughing.

"Did you see their faces?" I cried out while howling with laughter. I put an arm on his shoulder for support.

"Yeah, they looked like they were-hahahahah!"

"Ahem," a voice interrupted. We looked up to see Harry tapping his foot. "Both of you need to get back in that closet for another 50 minutes.

"Oh no we don't!" I shouted and took off running. I looked over my shoulder and saw Charlie running too with Harry hot on his trail.

When we reached the sand, I dropped onto the sand and started giggling as both Charlie and Harry came up. Harry fell too and started to tickle my sides, and I started to laugh.

"I'll save you!" Charlie shouted and he picked up Harry with one hand and dragged him over to the water. I stood up and ran towards my hut. Charlie and Harry saw this, so the older boy dropped the younger while Harry tripped Charlie. They both got up and tried to make a desperate attempt in getting to me.

"Ahh!" I squealled as Charlie caught the door before it closed. Harry then tackled Charlie by jumping on his back and putting his arms around his neck.

"Surrender!" they both yelled at each other and Charlie toppled over. I watched them happily fight like brothers, it seems like Charlie has replaced Ron with everything. He was now good friends with Harry, captured my heart and even looked like Ron. But I love him for being him, in a different way than Ron will ever be.

"Are you ok?" Harry asked me, giving me a hand up. I nodded and grinned.

"At least now we don't have to go back to the closet," I stated, grinning. In truth, I wanted to go back, with Charlie. But I'm sure he doesn't want to.

Charlie said goodbye a several minutes later and Harry turned to face me.

"Really, you should tell him," he whispered to me as he grabbed my arm to inspect it. No blood, no gore.

"I can't," I whispered back before bursting into tears. I really wanna, but should I? I've barely known him for two weeks. Ron or anyone else had barely talked about him before this summer. Closing my eyes, I tried to breathe in and out.

"You can't keep going on like this," Harry told me softly. "I think that you should tell him, so you would know, no matter what the answer is. It's better than not knowing."

"I can't," I whispered again. He came over to me and hugged me.

"I'm your best friend, I don't want anything to happen to you," he said quietly before giving me a hug. I sobbed in his chest. I've known him ever since the beginning of Hogwarts. Even on the train, he was nice. He wasn't the mean one before the troll incident, Ron was.

"I KNEW IT!" a screech startled me. I looked up to see a furious Ginny at the door. "You've been with HER all along, haven't you?" she screamed at Harry. He didn't budge.

"No, I haven't," he replied coldly. Ginny turned around and stomped out of there. Why was she acting like this? She knew I liked Charlie.

"Why didn't you go after her?" I asked a few minutes later.

"Why should I? She obviously didn't trust me in this relationship, and besides. You're upset and need some comforting," Harry said. I hugged him. He was the greatest friend and brother a person can get.

The next day, August 4th, I woke up to see only Luna in the hut. "She's jumping to conclusions," Luna told me dreamily, brushing her hair. I sat up and looked at the time. It was around lunchtime.

"Can you tell everyone that I still feel tired and I want to go to sleep?" I asked Luna, who nodded.

"Of course. When do you wanna be wakened?"

"Um, a few hours." Nodding, she left the hut and I laid down again. I fell into slumber again.

(Dream)

I was in the middle of the forest on the island. I started running to the mountain, I don't know why but I just am.

A cool breeze sent a shiver up my back again. Then I went into the cave I was crying in and went in deeper where Charlie showed me. The heart of the mountain.

I felt heat and saw the lake of magma. Looking around, I saw Charlie looking down. "Charlie!" I shouted. He didn't hear me. Instead, he took a step and fell forward. I screamed.

Running up to him, I tripped. There were suddenly snakes all across the ground where it wasn't covered in magma. A large snake was wrapped around my waist. I froze, it was a poisonouse snake.

"Hermione!" a shout was heard. I looked up to see Harry on his Firebolt. He stopped midair as the snake hissed. Then the Firebolt gave way and both the broom and Harry fell into the molten rock.

"HARRY!" The snake was startled and bit down into my right arm. I screamed in pain and the snake disappeared, with all the other snakes.

Poison, you must suck the poison out. But I didn't get a chance to. "Hear, let me." I looked up teary eyed to see Charlie.

"You fell in the lava, though!" I cried out. He shook his head and started to suck the poison out of my blood. The pain eventually became a sting.

I stared up at Charlie again. He was dressed in faded jeans with that faded jacket I love so much. I glanced at myself and saw a black funeral gown which was drenched in blood.

Once I looked up again, I shrieked. It was Lord Voldemort. "Mudblood!"

I screamed again and hid my face in my hands.

I woke up with a startled gasp. That was some nightmare. I sniffed the air, there was as strange but strong smell. I glanced down to see my arm caked in blood. And I was in that funeral gown. My arm! There was a snake bite!

"Hermione, are you okay? OMG!" Sirius ran into the room and rushed to my bed. "What the hell happened?"

I choked and coughed. "Magical dream," I gasped. Sirius frowned.

"More like a Magical nightmare, and those never happen. There's no point in them," Sirius told me before picking me up.

"I'm fine! I don't hurt at all," I protested as he carried me to the restaurant. "Really," I added once he entered the building. "it's nothing."

"Hermione!" Remus rushed over and took my arm. Sirius placed me on the table and got out a cup of water and cloth. Thank goodness no one else is here, I think they're swimming in the hotsprings on the east side of the mountain. It is a cool day afterall.

"I'm fiine," I told them as they cleaned my arm from blood. I looked at my arm to see two hole scars in there, where the snake had bit me.

"This could be really dangerous, with all the Magical nightmares you're having," Remus told me. "Tell me what it was about." He looks tired, full moon is in two days.

"Well...I was in the volcanoe where that cave was. Then I was surrounded by snakes. Charlie and Harry fell into the lava. I screamed and a poisonous snake bit me," I started. Their eyes widened.

"But then the poison is here in real life too!" Sirius cried out. I shook my head.

"After that, I saw Charlie again, out of nowhere. He took my arm and sucked the poison out." Remus was looking very worried. "And then Charlie turned into Lord Voldemort and I woke up."

"I understand that last part, you don't want Charlie to turn against you like Ron did, that explains theVoldemort," Remus started. "You also want Charlie to be there for you all the time, that explains his sucking the poison out. But lava? Snakes?"

I looked at my black dress and realized it actually looked nice. If I wash it, I could wear it to someone's funeral in the future.

"Can I go get my things to take a shower?" I asked them. They nodded, very reluctantly.

When I reached the hut, I shuddered. Dried blood was all over my bed and covers and floor. I'm afraid to go to sleep now. I took out some clothes and went back to the building beside the restaurant. I took a hot shower before throwing my bloody clothes into my laundry bin. Then I changed into a two piece underneath my jeans and red blouse. Why did I have to wear red? Colour of blood.

Once I left the showers, I ran smack into someone again. "Ow." I rubbed my head and looked at the person. It was Ron.

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