Hey again everybody! I actualy remembered to put up my chappie! lol. thanks to all my LOVERLY reviewers. oh, and in case you were wondering, my evil mouse is still up to his old tricks... he thinks I am responsible for the holes on the Ozone layer... i told him to shut up and he kept arguing with me so i held him above my evil cats clutches and he was squealing for forgivness and mercy..shows that stupid mouse...cant believe my evil cat actually served a purpose...lol.
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me: do I have to do this again?
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me: im tired of it! isnt it obvious i dont write the story?
EDG: it doesnt matter how obvious it is! you have to disclaim!
me: NO! locks EDG in closet
EDG: let me out! im scared of dark..and small spaces!
me: you should have thought about that BEFORE you threatened me..
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Chapter 7: Faltering Friendships

Harry was a bit shocked. He had figured that she was going to say something at least, but not kiss him. He didn't want her to know that he was awake, but he started to kiss her back. She almost didn't seem to notice. He put his arm around her. She knew his arm was there but she didn't make the connection that he was awake until a few seconds later.

She opened her tightly clenched eyes. She pulled out of his tender grip that he had with his arm. "Harry! Please don't be mad at me! I'm so sorry!" she whispered quickly.

"Don't be..." he said almost romantically.

"You...you're...you're not mad at me?" she said utterly shocked.

"Why would I be? Should I?" he asked questioningly.

"Only if you want to be, but if you are I am so sorry! I just wanted to see if-" she was about to spill, but caught herself before she messed up.

"See if what?" he asked a little too curiously.

She had her hand on the rail on his bed, "Never mind, sorry for disturbing you." she said quickly. "Please stop me. That was fantastic!" she thought surprisingly.

He grabbed her hand and pulled her back, "I need to find something out for myself!" he said before pulling her back to his lips. He sat up and she sat down beside him. She practically melted onto the edge of the bed. She had her arm around his neck. His arm was around her waist and the other was on her neck.

"I think I do love him...NO!" she pulled away from him.

"Stop it! We're just friends!" she whispered angrily. She quietly ran back to her bed and threw the covers over her head. She soon fell asleep with a grimace on her face.

He couldn't understand what had just happened. Was he dreaming? He almost felt as if the pillow came up behind him. He fell asleep.

He woke the next day with the sun shining on his face. Hermione still seemed to be asleep. "What happened last night?" he whispered quietly to himself. He was almost too tired to remember yesterday at all. He suddenly remembered kissing someone, but he couldn't remember who it had been. It had been really late and it was dark, obviously. He thought he was thinking about it too hard, "It was probably just some weird dream..." he surmised.

A Healer came in a few minutes later with a tray of food, "Eat up!" she said cheerfully and then walked off.

He looked down at his food. He didn't even feel the tiniest bit hungry. He felt like he could just live without food for the rest of his life.

He remembered being in the muggle hospital, but he had woken up here. "So it was all a dream?" he thought confused.

"Harry mate?" someone interrupted his train of thoughts.

He looked up, it was Fred and George, "Oh hey guys! How are you?" he said smiling pleasantly. "We're fine; you gave us both a bit of a scare! First you help take down some of the most wanted wizards and then we find out you fainted!" "Of all things!" they took turns saying.

"Well I'm sorry for being so weak after all the stuff that's happened to me! So excuse me!" he said nonchalantly.

"We're only joking anyways. So, what have you been up to all summer? You haven't even written to Ron about us!" "Yeah, we'd at least think that you'd say hi!" "But not one letter!" "Not one!" they said simultaneously.

"Well, forgive me again!" he laughed. "So, how have you been?"

"Well, if you must know!" Fred began. "Business has been booming!" George said in turn. "We were overwhelmed with customers when we first started opening, but it seems as though everyone likes our shop!" Fred said as a matter-of-factly. "Yeah, especially students!" George laughed.

"I bet!" Harry said amused by the two of them. "Have you brought me anything?" he said jokingly.

"Yes as a matter of fact! One of newest products! It's called Sizzling Sores." Fred introduced. "You drop a few drops onto your enemy's food and they get a whole bunch of sores in there mouth." George said proudly. "Best part is though, is that they actually start to burn!" Fred almost laughed. "Makes it almost impossible to eat anything!" George added humorously. "Just don't tell anyone that you have one, especially our mum! She'd have a fit if she knew we were giving them to you..." Fred whispered slipping something, a small glass bottle into his hand. "It's a new product; we haven't even put it on our shelves yet! So consider this a small thank you for the donation you gave us!" George said in a very business-like way.

"What are you two doing around here?" a very stern voice said from behind them.

Harry looked behind them as Fred and George turned around. "Oi Hermione! You can't go sneaking up on people like that!" George said quietly but a bit agitated. "Yeah! You seem too much like Percy when you do that!" Fred said quietly.

Hermione hated being compared to Percy. She used to admire him, but when she found out that he abandoned his family like that, she hated him instantly. "Don't you dare compare me to that evil prat! If you haven't noticed, I've never abandoned my family!" she said sounding a bit hurt.

"We take it back Hermione!" Fred said smiling. "You've proved yourself worthy of not being compared to Percy!" George agreed.

"How so?" she asked confused.

"You just called him an evil prat!" Fred said happily. "And people who call him that obviously aren't like him!" George concurred. "We must part with you two now! Adieu!" they said in unison.

After the twins left, Hermione stood there too nervous to say anything. She had wished that last night was just a dream, but she knew it wasn't. "He must think terribly of me now." she thought to herself. "But he had been such a good kisser." she remarked back to herself.

She turned to go back to her bed. "How'd you sleep last night?" he asked suddenly.

"What is he playing at?" she thought confused by him. "Is he trying to act like last night didn't even happen?"

"I can't believe you Harry!" she said almost angrily. She stormed off to her bed.

"What'd I do?" he asked as she walked away. "Women!" he grumbled.

"What about 'em?" Ron asked walking up to him.

"Hermione!" he said exasperated. "Well...don't be so harsh on her mate! She's probably just having some after effects of what..." Ron trailed off. He didn't know if it was a touchy subject for him.

"She's just too emotional!" he said a little loudly, but quickly lowered his voice. "It's really starting to annoy me!" he said running a hand through his already messed up hair.

"She's a girl! What do you expect?" Ron laughed.

Hermione marched up to the both of them. "Ron shut up! And I can't believe you act like nothing happened! If anything is wrong with a woman, it's because of the men around her!" she said commandingly.

"Only because women are too confusing!" Harry retorted.

"Because men are too stupid to know how to handle a woman and we can't express our true emotions because men are too introverted! They don't show emotion! And if the woman around them has a problem they don't want to hear about it! So we try to act like nothing is wrong, but even if you do ask us what's wrong you usually don't care about it and don't want to hear about it. The only reason we act this way is to try and get the man in our life to at least LOOK at us!" she said like it was a speech.

"We don't ask you what's wrong sometimes because if we do, women automatically think we don't care so they storm off in a huff!" he responded quickly.

"Why do you have to be so argumentative?" she asked annoyed.

"Why do you have to keep talking?" Harry said without thinking about what he said. Hermione's jaw dropped.

"Harry James Potter I hate you!" she shouted and ran out of the room.