Chapter 7
Hermione looked at Ginny for a long moment staring her in the eyes, "Ginny promise me you wont interrupt me for any reason until I've said I've finished." Ginny nodded her head in silent promise and Hermione continued. "Now I know that you probably haven't noticed but, my dear Ginny I've had rather hidden but fully bloomed feelings for you that were unexplainable at first, you see I've loved you for the longest time, everything about you makes me seem to want more, though this may or may not come as a shock but I've spoken to your brother about it and he's given me the permission I needed to go after my true feelings, all of which point to you." Hermione paused for a second and looked out the window towards the garden before once again turning her eyes back to Ginny's. "I can fully understand if you want to just stay the way we are now, as good friends but I want to know how you truly feel about me when you give me your answer to my biggest question, the only question anymore that means anything to me. Ginevera Weasley will you be my love, my life, my day and night, will you please be my girlfriend?" Hermione finished off holding the younger girls hand between her own and looking her fully sincerely in the eyes.
Ginny looked at Hermione and smiled, "Hermione I've loved you too and my feelings have yet to change over the past several years and I want yes to be yours, all that is important to you because it means you will finally be mine and everything that's right in my life." Ginny leaned forward and placed a chaste kiss on Hermione's cheek as Hermione blushed over the more than elaborate answer given to her more than too elaborate question.
Ron who had been waiting outside the door smiled and turned away to give the girls their time. Knowing that now they could both be happier than they ever would have been with him and Harry. However Harry had also been standing in the shadows outside the door he was happy for them yes but he was still hurt over losing one of the only three girls he'd ever felt anything for and whom he thought returned his feelings. His heart sunk knowing now that he wasn't going to have any of them, Cho had left him in his fifth year, and Ginny had broken him again just the day before for some they'd both know through out their innocent and not so innocent school years, who would understand her and cater to her needs better than Harry ever did or could have done. And the last of the three had never taken interest in him so far as he knew her and her blonde hair the pixie like vision stuck in his head the ever beautiful Luna Lovegood, she wouldn't even think of taking him she was to oblivious to his feelings. But Harry had always loved her yes he'd liked Ginny and he'd liked Cho but he loved Luna. Now he couldn't have any of them and he was pissed.
Ginny and Hermione were sitting together and Hermione explained her plan with Luna and Luna's feelings for Harry to Ginny, not knowing that he was standing in the shadows brooding over how best to release his fury on them well out of earshot of them. If he'd known what they were talking about that day would have been much brighter for him because he'd be anticipating Luna's arrival and confession of love the next day. The girls were ecstatic over their blooming relationship and the relationship soon to be blooming with two of their closest friends.
The girls went down to breakfast together intent on hiding their new relationship from everybody but Harry and Ron for now, because though their friends may be accepting but they weren't quite sure how everyone else especially Mr. and Mrs. Weasley would react to the news, but they doubted that they'd be quite so accepting of it. They ate a quiet breakfast and went about doing their chores before going back to the bedroom and further discussing their plans.
"You know Hermione I think this could really work I mean Harry always seemed so much more interested in her than me anyway, and I've been onto her feelings for him for a while, it's hard to miss the way she looked at him whenever she thought nobody was looking. It's so sweet Harry can finally be happy with someone determined to stop his heartache." Ginny said leaning on Hermione who was stoking her hair absent mindedly.
"I know it's so perfect I can't see why I didn't think of it earlier. If only they'd gotten together long ago we wouldn't have had to worry so much about any of this. Oh I do hope he's happy, he's going to be so surprised when she shows up tomorrow it's going to be so wonderful who knows what will happen when they get their time alone and she finally divulges her feelings for him." Hermione continued to stare out at the pond in the distance stroking Ginny's hair. "They'd make the cutest couple I swear her as pale as he is dark the beautiful contrasts of their complexions it would be like a fine piece of art their love, they're opposites in vision but on the inside they're alike and so compatible they've both felt true and serious loss." She sighed envisioning all that she was saying and speaking as though she were telling a bedtime story as the sun began to set outside casting streaks of purple, pink, and orange across the western horizon.
Ginny slowly began to drift off for a quick nap before dinner Hermione began to read while Ginny rested in her lap. Anyone looking in on the scene would have seen one of the most beautiful and unconventional couples that god could have put on the earth, and oh Merlin did they look wonderful together Hermione in her natural state of contentedness and Ginny in hers as she smiled lightly in her sleep dreaming of all the things that are to come and all of the things in the past that lead to them.