'Ron, Ron!' Waved Lavender, beaming towards him.
'Come and sit with us.' Finished off Pavarti.
At that exact moment Seamus and Dean had walked in. Ron turned to them and gave them the cockiest arrogant smug smile he could, before swaggering confidently over to the girls beaming up to him.
The girls, who had realised what he was doing, hugged him and placed a kiss on his cheeks.
'Girls, Girls there is enough Ronald to go around.' A cocky smile, that even Draco Malfoy would be proud of, came across Ron's face.
The rest of the fest was quite fun for Ron and the two girls. They spent their time making Seamus and many other boys jealous of Ron. The two girls fed him food, giggled at his jokes, kissed him repeatedly on the cheek and flirted with him in any ways they could. The fest passed to fast and soon they had been told to go back to their houses and to get some sleep. This is when Ron realised he could have to pay for his self-confidence at the feast. Pavarti and Lavender wished him luck and gave him a good night hug.
Ron made his way up to his dorm room. He was shitting himself; Seamus certainly didn't like him, this meant that Dean didn't and Harry wasn't going to like him either. The only person in his dorm who might actually like him was Neville, but Ron highly doubted that Neville would speak to him since his Grandmother was friends with Molly and Neville probably wouldn't dare speak to him, now that the others weren't. Ron cautiously pushed open the door.
Seamus, Dean, Neville and Harry were happily chatting away until Ron came in. An awkward silence hung in the room. Someone had pushed Ron's bed into a corner, away from the rest of them.
'Thanks. Really kind.' Spat Ron sarcastically, he didn't want to spend a minute in there longer than he had too.
'Humph, at least I don't steal people's girlfriends.' Seamus muttered loudly under his breath, he hoped Ron would hear. Seamus thought that Ron wouldn't dare attack him again since Harry, Dean and Neville had spoken to him before saying that they were on his side.
'At least I can get girls.' Laughed Ron nastily, he was just provoking Seamus. He knew Seamus wasn't patient and was going to use it against him.
And with that last comment Ron left the boys and strolled down to the Common room, his journal in hand.
No one in the Common Room spoke to Ron, they just blanked him. Ron didn't mind this one bit, it gave him time to write and draw in peace. Around an hour later, the common room was empty, all except for Ron, drawing creatures in his journal, and Hermione, who Ron thought was most probably reading some book. Ron didn't know whether he should try and speak to her, but it seem someone or something had the same idea.
Crookshanks leapt from Hermione's side and curled up on Ron's lap. Hermione at first didn't realised Crookshanks had left her but when she went to stroke him she realised. Hermione looked up to see something she thought she would never ever see.
Ron was sat quietly was Crookshanks curled up on his lap purring contently; Ron was gently scratching him behind his right ear, this was Crookshanks favourite place to be stroked.
'Erm, that's my cat.' Hermione said gently. She had heard what Ron had done to Seamus and didn't know if he would hit out at her.
'Oh, I know 'Mione. Here you. Bye Crook.' Smiled Ron, he placed the ginger fur ball next to Hermione, then sat back down and carried on drawing.
Hermione was totally baffled by Ron's behaviour; he had sat peacefully with Crookshanks, stroked him, called her "'Mione" and had been really nice to her. Maybe he wasn't so bad.
'Err, what are you doing there?' Asked Hermione awkwardly, trying to start up a conversation.
'Just drawing.' Answered Ron, he didn't look up once.
'May I ask what?' Hermione could never remember him drawing, well she never did pay attention to what he did in the Common room, unless it was homework.
'You.' Ron looked up at her and gave him one of him special cheeky smiles.
'Oh...Can I see?' Hermione blushed, someone was drawing her.
'Well, ok. But I haven't finished and it isn't as good as I normally draw, I'm better at drawing creatures.' Ron walked over to her, with his drawing in hand, and showed it to her.
Hermione was silent for a bit until...
'Oh Merlin! It's beautiful Ron.'
Ron's drawing of her looked so life like, so real; she found it hard to believe that it was a drawing not a photograph.
'Here take it.' Ron placed it in front of her, he turned to go to bed; knowing that probably the rest of his dorm "mates" were asleep.
Hermione ran in front of him and hugged him tightly. Ron didn't hesitate he gripped her hard back; Hermione was his friend again.
'I'm sorry for ignoring you.' Drops of sadness started to fall from her eyes.
'Shh, sh...' Ron's voice was calm and soothing. 'Now there is no point crying over spilt potion. It wasn't your fault and how could you have ignored me? You haven't had a chance.'
Ron sat Hermione down next to him, her head resting on his shoulder, his arm nearest to her around her. Crookshanks unhappy that there was no attention on him, crept back up the girls' stairs. After they had talked about what they had done in the holidays and about Ron's fight with his family, Hermione fell asleep in Ron's arms.