"So Hermione," Molly said, bringing the attention to her and the young witch as nearly the whole family sat down to dinner. "What are your plans for the summer?"
"More work Mum," Ron grumbled around a mouth of food before Hermione could even think of saying anything. "What else?"
"I'm actually going away," she added quickly before anybody could make more jokes about her interest in working and learning. There were only so many jokes she could handle and she'd already reached her limit. "Thought i might go and see my boyfriend." The table were silent and stared.
"You have a boyfriend?" Ginny asked, the beginnings of a smirk on her face. Hermione just knew that she was going to be having a long discussion later. She nodded and quickly took a bite out of her chicken leg so that she wouldn't have to say anything.
"Since when?" Ron demanded, his face turning an angry red. He was happy with all his fangirls but when it came to her moving on, it was a crime.
"Since i came back from Australia," she responded after she swallowed her mouthful of food. "Last year."
"Who is it?" Harry asked, curious. She looked around at everyone at the table and cringed internally; he was going to kill her.
"You did what?" Charlie yelled, caught off guard by his girlfriend who had just turned up on his doorstep, shoved her suitcase into his arms and told him that she'd be staying for a couple of weeks and then blurted out that his family knew. All before he'd even shut the door. All before he'd even had his morning coffee.
It was way too early to be dealing with his family.
"Let me get this straight," he stated, rubbing his temple. "Ron presumed you'd be working all summer and because you hate him making assumptions about you, you decided to break our secret to all of the family? Without me?"
"I'm sorry, i didn't mean to. Are you mad?" She crawled over the settee and into his lap, wrapping her arms around his neck and peppering kisses along his jaw. "How can i make it up to you?"
"I'm not mad, i've been trying to figure out how to broach the subject of telling them for a while now, though i'd imagined it happening with a bit more finesse than what you indicated. And i think you could make it up to me with less clothes," he suggested, waggling his eyebrows and grinning when she removed her top.
"Well it is summer." He didn't get the chance to tell her that summer in Romania was a bit different to summer anywhere else before she was locking lips with him.
"It's cold Charlie." He snorted and took his jacket off, placing it over her shoulders and watching with amusement as more of his girlfriend disappeared beneath the layers. "It's meant to be summer."
"This is summer Hermione," he informed her, taking a deep breath of the frosty air. "All cold and breezy and nippiness of summer." She glared at him and he chuckled, pulling her into a cuddle which was incredibly awkward for him as his arms couldn't make it full around her. "Why don't we head back? I'm sure the bed will be warmer."
"The bed was freezing this morning," she complained instantly.
"Well, i can make it warmer," he suggested, his husky voice sending shivers down her spine; he didn't know if they were from arousal or the cold. He was taking it from the former.
"I don't understand what you were doing so close to the blooming fire breathing dragon," Charlie exclaimed, his face pale and his arms crossed to prevent himself from rushing over and hugging his girlfriend to check if she was okay - he'd do that one the Mediwitch had finished dealing with the burns.
"She was emitting a nice heat," she told him weakly, her one face sporting ash that had streaked down her face due to the tears. "I just wanted to be warm and somewhere where i could see you work better."
"Why would you want to see me work?"
"Because you're sexy and i love you and i don't care if i completely ruined this holiday by being freezing almost every day and eventually getting burns up my leg that match yours, i'd do it again." The Mediwitch turned to him and gave him an apologetic smile - the pain relief potion had made her deliriously high. "If we match does that make us a power couple?"
"Do you want it to make us a power couple?" He asked curiously.
"Depends," she answered. "Do we get to have our next holiday somewhere with actual sun?"
"I promise."
"With no dragons?"
"No dragons," he repeated.
"That breathe fire." He sighed with exasperation and gently forced to her to lay down.
"Go to sleep!"
