Ron spent pretty much the whole day in his room. He was afraid he might do something stupid again, and he really needed some time to think about what he could do with Hermione that was romantic. So far, he had nothing. After quite awhile, Ron finally went downstairs. He walked slowly down the stairs to find Hermione curled up in a ball on the couch reading a book.
Figures! thought Ron. Not wanting to disturb her, he quietly sat down beside her and said nothing. She looked up to see who said down, let out a soft sigh, and continued reading. After about ten minutes of silence, Hermione finally just cracked.
"Why aren't you trying to get on my nerves?" She asked suddenly.
"Huh?" Ron asked completely oblivious to what Hermione was talking about.
"Every time you see me doing anything that has to do with learning, you make some rude comment, or try to persuade me not to read! Why aren't you doing that now?" Hermione said louder than she needed to.
"I just came down here to think! Is that so wrong?!" Ron yelled.
"It is if it includes "think" and "you" in the same sentence!" Hermione yelled back.
"What's that sopposed to mean?" Ron yelled very angry by her comment.
"Wouldn't you like to know!" Hermione screamed and stormed up the stairs to Ginny's room. Ron could have sworn he heard a small sob before she slammed the door behind her. Ron paid no attention though, as he stormed upstairs to his own room.
Urgh! What have I done! Now I deffinetely don't have a chance with Hermione! Ron thought to himself as he collapsed onto his bed.
"What happened?" Ginny asked when Hermione stormed into the room with tears falling down her face. "Wait, don't tell me. You had another row with Ron didn't you?" Hermione only nodded and then gulped. "What was it about this time? And please say it wasn't about Viktor Krum again!"
"It wasn't about Viktor." Hermione replied truthfully.
"Then what was it about?" Ginny asked. Hermione told her about Ron coming downstairs and sitting with her, and how she ran off in the middle of the fight.
"Now I've ruined everything! I'll never have a chance with him! He probably hates me!" Hermione said and started to cry again.
"No! That's not true! You guys fight all the time! He loves you!" Ginny said trying to comfort her.
"No he doesn't! No one loves me!" Hermione said. Suddenly there was a knock at the door. Ginny got up to answer it. She opened it only a crack so that nobody would see Hermione's tear stained face. It was none other than Ron.
"What d'you want?" Ginny asked rudely.
"I need to talk to Hermione!" Ron said. Ginny glared at him, but opened the door wider so that he could enter. She stayed glued to her spot. "Alone!" He added. Ginny looked over to Hermione to make sure it was okay with her. She nodded her head. Ginny left the room while muttering something about stupid brothers.
Ron stepped inside of the room and closed the door behind him. Hermione, he saw, was sitting on Ginny's bed with dried tears visible on her face.
"We need to talk." Ron said sitting down next to Hermione. All she did was nod her head, for she was afraid if she's try to speak, she might start crying infront of Ron, which was the last thing she wanted to do.
"I'm sorry. I know I shouldn't have made a big deal about-" Ron started to say, but was cut off by Hermione.
"-No I'm sorry! I shouldn't have even started the fight!" Hermione said.
"You don't have to be sorry." Ron said.
"Well I am!" Hermione said stubernly.(A/N sorry! I'm a bad speller!)
They were both ompletely silent for a long time. Them, suddenly Ron spoke.
"Um, Mione," He began.
"Yes?"
"Do you uh, w-want to um, er, have a p-picnic, maybe, possibly, w-with me, mayber t-tomorrow?" Ron stuttered.
"You...and me...on a picnic...together?...alone?" Hermione asked?
"You don't have to come if you don't want to..."
"Yes! Yes, I would love to!" Hermione said and hugged Ron.
If only we could stay like this forever! Ron thought. Then Hermione suddenly pulled away.
"I-I should probably, you know, go." Ron said reluctantly.
"Oh, yeah." Hermione said softly.
"Uh, bye."
"Yeah, bye."
Once she saw Ron enter his room and close the door, Ginny re-entered the room.
"What did the prat want?" Ginny asked Hermione hottly.
"Oh, nothing!" Hermione said in a sing song voice.
"Doesn't look like it!" Ginny giggled.
"Well he didn't want much...he just appoligized and asked me out on a picnic!" Hermione sqealed.
"Like on a date?" Ginny asked astonished.
"Mmhm!"
"Alone?"
"Yep!"
"On a picnic?"
"Uh huh!"
"You?"
"Yes!"
"And him?"
"Yeah!"
"Together?"
"Of course!"
"Ehmigod! He actually asked you out!" Ginny said more to herself than to Hermione.
"And he appoligized! He never appoligizes!"
Ginny just stood there completely speachless.
Meanwhile, as Ginny tried to figure out how Ron got the courage to ask Hermione out to a picnic so suddenly, and Hermione just smiled at everything, Ron was going through everything in his mind.
"How did this happen?" He asked himself aloud. He hadn't even been planning on a picnic in the first place! He just blurted it out. Now he was gonna have to make a picnic basket, and set up a clanket somewhere where the twins wouldn't "accidentaly" walk in on them, and he had to find some way to tell her his feelings!
That night he went to bed with nothing on his mind but Hermione.
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