Hermione and Ron were sitting in the Common Room, waiting for prefect duties to start. It was 9:45 pm and the Common Room was still half full. At exactly 9:59, the Common Room was empty, except for Hermione and Ron.
"I think we should leave now..." Hermione said looking at Ron liked she never had in a million years.
"Oh okay..." Ron said.
They both walked to the portrait hole. Ron opened the door.
"After you." He said timidly.
"Thank you." Hermione said giving a little smile.
"Okay we have to start talking to each other!" Ron thought.
They were walking through the halls taking glances at each other every five seconds. The silence was killing them both.
"Umm...are you watching the um Quidditch game tomorrow?" Ron said.
"Oh, yeah...I'm actually very excited, we're gonna kick Slytherin's ass!" Hermione said.
"Wow, Mione, that's the first time I heard you swear!" Ron said, trying to keep the conversation going.
"Well, there are a lot of things you don't know about me!"
"Like what?" Ron said, searching deeper.
"Hmm...well, I used to have an invisible friend. Her name was Tonya. We used to hang out and drink invisible tea. My parents were so caught up in their work that they didn't have much time to spend with me." Hermione said reaching into her thoughts for some memories.
"Okay, tell me something I don't know." Hermione said.
"I love you." Ron thought.
"Umm...well, when I was six, I ate a spider!" Ron said.
"You're joking!" Hermione said laughing her head off.
"Seriously, that's why I'm deathly afraid of them! It tasted like a pair of old gym socks!" Ron said, with a grossed-out look on his face.
"Okay, your turn." Ron said.
They talked for so long about the time Hermione got a piece of gum stuck on her hair for a week when she was five and about the times Ron thought there was a ghost living in his bedroom but really, it was Fred and George getting the best of him. The time Hermione poured her heart out to a guy and then found out that his mother was right behind her. The time Fred and George made Ron try on his mom's bra because it would bring him "good luck". They didn't even know that already and hour and fifteen minutes already passed.
"Okay, it's your turn again." Ron said.
"Okay, but you'll have to follow me for this one." Hermione said taking the lead in a whole different direction as to where they were headed.
"Where are we going?" Ron asked trying to carch up to her.
"Hurry up!" Hermione said, running down hall after hall, classroom after classroom, and finally Hermione stopped at a door. It was black, with little white specks moving in a slow motion.
"What's this?" Ron asked staring wide-eyed at the door.
With a big, excited smile on her face, Hermione opened the door.
Inside was a huge room the size of a master bedroom. The wallpaper looked exactly like if you looked out of the window of a space shuttle. Jupiter, Saturn, many planets were circling slowly around the sun. There were flying comets scattered all over the room and asteroids floating everywhere. But Hermione paid no attention to any of this. She walked straight up to the big cylinder covered with a blanket. She said a spell and the ceiling opened up. She sat down on the chair in front of the big cylinder.
"Mione, what's this?" Ron said, sitting down beside her.
"lts the Astronomy Tower, Ron!" Hermione said. She pulled off the dark blue blanket to reveal a gigantic telescope.
"Wow..Mione this is..." Ron started.
"Amazing...I know." Hermione said.
"I came here since first year. You know, when I feel like I have no one to talk to, I come here, because I know, the planets and the sun and the moon and the stars will never leave me. When I heard my parents started to fight again, I came here, almost every night, it's comforting."
She looked into the telescope, she immediatly found Jupiter.
"Look, come look at this." Hermione said.
Ron closed one eye, and looked through the telescope. What he saw amazed him. lt was Jupiter. You could see al the colours from red to yellow, to orange. You could even see the shades of blue on Neptune and the bright hue of the Moon.
"Wow...this is pretty fascinating!!" Ron said staring deep into Hermione's eyes. He caught the moonlight perfectly shining down on those beautiful brown eyes he couldn't resist.
They spent the rest of their prefect duty in the Astronomy Tower, searching for every planet, every star, every asteroid. Ron didn't know how beautiful the Universe was.
"Hey look! A shooting star!" Hermione said excitedly, pointing to a meteor, making a huge straight line across the dark night sky.
"Let's make a wish!!" Hermione said to Ron.
"I hope she realizes I love her!" Ron thought. closing his eyes tightly.
"I wish I find the person who kissed me during the solar eclipse!" Hermione thought.
It was nearly midnight when Hermione covered the telescope and her and Ron headed back to the Gryffindor Common Room.
"Well...good night Hermione." Ron said. "I can never get passed those beautiful brown eyes!!" Ron thought.
"Night, Ron. Sweet deams." Hermione said walking up the stairs.
"I'm sure!" Ron said to himself.