Secrets – by Come to Bed

Chapter Seven

Ron punched his pillow in angry frustration. He had woken up this morning worried that something bad would happen between him and his two best friends, but he never imagined it would be like this. Ron had a clue that Harry might have been cheating on Hermione (which he could not understand – how could someone want to cheat on Hermione?), but he never would have thought that it would have been an ugly, overweight teacher that they had all claimed to hate!

Ron groaned and flipped over on his back, staring up at the gold and red draperies on his four poster. How someone could cheat on Hermione he could not understand. She was the perfect girlfriend – she was pretty, smart, funny, and although she pissed Ron off a lot of the time, he had always felt something between them, ever since around fourth year. He had always hoped ever since then that Hermione had felt the same way. He kept all of these feelings to himself, of course. But he couldn't help feeling betrayed when, this past summer, his two best friends started dating, leaving Ron out in the cold. They made sure to always include him, to try and make sure he didn't feel that way. Ron pretended only for their sake that he was happy for them, but all of their efforts still made Ron feel excluded; knowing that they were working together to try and include him was still excluding him.

Ron felt guilty when he first started feeling that way. He tried to suppress his feelings; he kept telling himself that what kind of friend was he, wanting his friends to be miserable just so he could be happy? But his spiteful feelings on their relationship started to be felt by Hermione as well a few weeks ago, and now it was Harry that was being left out. And the thing that bothered Ron was that…he didn't seem to care.

It was then he knew that something was wrong.

He heard someone thumping up the stairs, followed by the sound of a body hitting the floor. A few seconds later he heard muffled crying. He practically fell off of his bed to get out to the corridor, and when he opened the door, he saw a head of curls and big brown eyes staring at him. Her eyes were bright with tears, and as Ron came over to hug her, he couldn't help smiling. He had beaten Harry, for once in his life.

And he was liking it.

A:N/ This chapter is dedicated to ronhermione4eva2314, who followed our story and gave us a great idea for this chapter! Thanx a bunch to those who continued to follow and those who picked it up! Sorry for the short chapter, but I'm just writing stuff down as it comes so I don't forget P When this story is finished if it ever is ill probably combine a lot of chapters and stuff. Idk. Oh and if you want to IM me, my sn is Charlie x james.

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