A/N: I couldn't resist a little joke. Sorry to anyone who was sad or offended. But I warned you in my profile, I'm weird and like funny things. I did make sure to post the real chapter right after the joke one. Again please continue reading. I think you'll like it.

"Hermione, I…" he fumbled around with his words. He couldn't think. Damn. This isn't the way I wanted this to happen.

Hermione was fuming. "You what, Ron?" she was infuriated. "You didn't think Lavender and all of the other blonde hussies you've been with were intriguing enough so you thought you would go out and have a laugh at me about my love life?"

"No…I just," he began but Hermione interrupted him.

"What, huh?" she screamed. "Just thought you would begin a new hobby making girls believe you're someone else and then laughing at their ignorance and stupidity. Well you listen here Ronald Weasley; I will not be made a fool of."

She began to calm down a little and Ron thought he might get a chance to speak. But he thought wrong because before he could even think of what to say Hermione started yelling again.

"What were you thinking? Who put you up to it, Fred and George? How did you do it? How COULD you do such a horrible thing, Ron? WHY would you do it?" she hollered as tears filled her eyes.

"Could you please just let me talk?" Ron asked a little more frustrated than embarrassed now. "Just please let me tell everything, okay? I didn't mean for it to happen this way Hermione," he said as he looked down at the ground like a small child who was in trouble.

Hermione had her back turned to Ron. She couldn't abide to look at him. "Okay," she said still quite heated, "but you only have a few minutes before I'm gone so you had better make it quick. And when you are finished, I am never speaking to you ever again." It hurt Hermione that those words could ever come out of her mouth, especially when directed at Ron. And to think I loved him. I would never have done anything like this to him or anyone else and he… but she was cut short on her thoughts as Ron began to speak.

"Hermione, I didn't want to hurt you. That was not my intentions." He paused. "Firstly, I think you should know why I did this," he said as he walked up behind her. " I...erm, I Love You..."

"What?!" Hermione shrieked. "You WHAT?! You expect me to believe that!"

"I never really quit lovin you, but I thought that you had moved on. So I tried to move on too, but I couldn't. I wanted every girl I had to be you," he said rapidly. Rpn took a deep breath and continued. "I didn't think you would ever love me like you used to. I had to know for sure though so I changed, but only physically- everything else was me...er, mostly."

That's kind of sweet. What! What am I thinking that's not sweet; it's stupid- very stupid. He could have just told me. Honestly how hard is it to just TELL someone that you are still in love with them. The worst thing they could say is they don't feel the same way. Hermione was too upset to realize that she could have done the smae thing she wanted Ron to do.

"Secondly, how I did it. Well ,ther was pretty much only one way..."

"Polyjuice Potion. Ron, how..." Hermione's question was waved off by Ron.

"Just let me talk, Okay?" he cut in. "We learned how to modify certain potions during Auror training so they would last longer or be more effective. And I got the hair from a muggle barbershop- I figured he wouldn't mind if I took the hair clippings of one of his customers," Ron explained. "I figured I could use him to get close to you and find out if you still loved me too. If you did, I would tell you how I felt and we could be together and this plan was so much better before it was put into action."

There was a long pause.

Ron continued. "I was just too scared to come out and say I love you. You are so far above me in every way, and it terrified me that that was reason enough for you not to love me. But I'm not so afraid anymore because you said earlier that you loved me." He looked at Hermione pleadingly. "Hermione, say something please."

"You expect me to believe that Ronald Weasly. UUUGHHH!" she yelled. "I have only ever been so angry that I could kill someone twice before in my life, and I hate that YOU have made me feel that way now. I can't believe you would do such a thing Ronald," she spoke as she pulled out her wand. "Why don't you just go? I'm sure Fred and George will have a good laugh about your little prank. GOOD-BYE RONALD!!!!!!! she screeched.

There was a loud 'crack' and Hermione was gone.

Well I sure screwed that up, Ron thought. She was more upset than I have ever seen her. She will probably never talk to me again. Merlin, I feel like the world's biggest PRAT. This is terrible. This is not how I wanted things to be. I bloody blew it.

Ron cleared everything away with a few flicks of his wand, and he Apparated home.

He couldn't sleep because he was too worried about everything that had happened. He was so close- so close- to being able to have the girl he had wanted for so long, and now she hated him. No, no, no, she utterly loathed him and despised him. He felt like a slimy, disgusting worm- kind of like one of the slugs he threw up in second year.

It was two weeks before Ron even saw Hermione again. When he did see her she would not look at him. He could have been on fire and she could not have cared less. He thought it might be okay to go over and say hi since she was shopping with Ginny.

"Hello, Ginny," greeted Ron. As he turned to Hermione, he thought he might like very much to die right there. "Hey, Hermione."

"Hi, Ron," Ginny said.

Hermione just looked at him but remained impassive. I don't think she has told Ginny anything yet or else Ginny would have said a lot more than just 'Hi'.

"Well, I'll see you later Ginny," Ron said as he left. He didn't bother to look at Hermione before he walked away.

Ginny turned to Hermione and was shocked to see how angry the bushy-haired witch looked.

"What was that all about?" Ginny asked her friend.

"What was what al about?" Hermione questioned.

"OH, COME ON," Ginny said dragging out each word. "You only ever act that way when you are mad at Ron for doing something stupid," she said matter-of-factly. "So, What did he do?"

"What makes you think he did something wrong? Maybe I'm over him. Maybe I just...Why are you smiling at me like that?" Hermione asked sounding more than a little peeved.

"You really are the World's Worst Liar, you know that?" Ginny announced smugly.

Hermione sighed. "Do you really want to know what he did?"

"HA! I knew there was somethign wrong. Now you have to tell me. You know I won't let it go." Ginny voiced brightly.

"You are awfully mean and pushhy today," Hermione sneered. "But I guess I'll tell you what's wrong." Hermione wasted no time with useless details. "Ron decieved me; plain and simple."

"I know it was NOT plain and it was NOT simple. I want details." Ginny retorted.

"He just did it in a way that is difficult to describe, but it hurt me very much. And forgiving him is going to be extremely hard for me to do. I just don't feel like talking about it right now, okay. I promise I'll tell you later, really." Hermione finished with a sad look on her face that told Ginny that she needed to wait for Hermione to tell her all about it when she was ready.