"He might have been walking around somewhere, thinking. He did that at the Burrow a lot." Hermione said, trying to convince him for the thousandth time.
"Hmm..." Ron said. You could literally see the wheels turning in his head, trying to figure out where Harry could have been.
"Ron, give it up! Even if he was in her room, which he wasn't," she said, putting a lot of emphasis on the last word, "You wouldn't have much of an argument. Ginny knows what we were doing last night. And you know she'll throw it in your face if you accuse her of this." She raised her eyebrows, daring him to contradict.
He stared at her for a moment then sagged his shoulders in defeat, and kept on eating. She smirked at him, proud of her achievement. For a few minutes they sat in silence, only the sound of Ron's consistent sighs. The silence was broken however when Harry and Ginny came and sat across from Ron and Hermione at the Gryffindor table.
"'Morning guys," Harry said innocently.
Ron scrunched his eyebrows together and looked at Ginny, "You found him, then?"
"Yeah, I ran into him when I was walking down here,"she started putting food onto her plate, as if she really had only met Harry in the hall.
"What were you doing in the hall, Harry?" Ron asked suspiciously.
"Just walking... and thinking..." Hermione looked at Ron smugly when Harry said this. A sad smile appeared on Harry's face, pretend of course, directed at Ron and Hermione.
Once again, Ron slumped his shoulders in defeat and said, "I'm done, see you guys later, we don't have classes until later right?" He got up from the table. They all nodded, because of what they had been through the year before, Professor McGonagall didn't have them taking too many classes.
"I'm coming too, Ron!" Hermione said, as Ron started walking away, getting up from the table, Ron stopped about ten feet from the table and turned around, waiting for her.
Before leaving the table, Hermione whispered to Ginny and Harry, "You owe me. Big time."
"We know." They said in unison, their eyes wide in agreement.
She walked off, grabbing Ron's hand. He let go of it and put his arm around her waist, holding her close. He kissed her on the forehead as they walked out and she smiled up at him. A few cat calls were made towards them, by younger students. The couple didn't seem to notice though, as they walked out of the Great Hall together.
"Aww... they're cute," Ginny said, her hand under her chin, watching the couple leave the Hall.
"Who knew Ron was that... endearing." Harry said, looking sideways at Ginny with a smile on his face.
"Well, he waited forever for Hermione. I doubt he's going to let her go that easily," she started eating the food on her plate, "I don't know how Hermione can stand him though."
"She waited forever for him too," Harry said. Ginny nodded in agreement.
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It was a brisk day, as it was early September, and Ron and Hermione were walking around the lake. Ron still had his arm around Hermione, now for warmth instead of just wanting to keep each other close.
They stopped walking and Ron sighed while saying, "I love you, 'Mione."
She smiled up into his face and stood up on her tip toes so she could kiss him. After a quick kiss she wrapped her arms around his neck and hugged him tightly. "I love you too," she whispered into his ear, intentionally blowing air onto his skin. Chills went down his whole body, despite the fact that the breath on his skin, which was the cause of the chills, was warm.
"And you said you didn't have sex appeal," Ron said. She laughed, he could feel the vibrations on his chest which was pressed against hers. She pulled away from him a little bit so that she could kiss him, more deeply this time. It lasted for a minute or so, until Ron pulled back completely, out of her arms, and started walking backwards. His raised eyebrows were telling her to follow him.
Hermione looked confused, "What are you doing?" He turned around and started walking towards the castle which was about 20 feet away. He glanced behind his back, every once and awhile, with a smile on his face, telling her to continue following him.
She knew he was playing some sort of game so she just kept following a few steps behind him with a quizzical look on her face. Finally she realized he was leading her to the Head students dormitories. When they got to the portrait she said, "Now, why would you lead me here? Unless you want...," she bit her lip, "...something." He said nothing, but smiled, and they walked into the common room. He went over and sat on the couch right by the fireplace. Ron patted the space next to him, motioning for her to sit next to him. Instead of sitting where he motioned for her to do, she sat on the coffee table right in front of where Ron was sitting on the couch. He leaned very close to her as if he were going to kiss her and said, "That was a nice walk, don't you think?" He pulled back and smiled at her sweetly. Hermione was taken aback for a moment, she was, of course, expecting him to take her up on the offer she just gave outside of the portrait.
"What are you playing at?" She asked suspiciously.
"Nothing," he put his hands behind his head and put his feet up onto the couch so that he was laying on it, his head turned toward Hermione.
She laughed, "Right," she got up from the table, standing over Ron, "Well, I will leave you to that then." Before she could get far he grabbed her hand and pulled her back. She could tell the joke was over, he wanted her now. She looked down at his face her bushy hair falling around her face, "Yes?" She asked.
He let go of her hand and rested both of his hands on her hips, pulling her closer.
"Do you want something?" She asked sweetly.
"Mhm┘" She knew what he wanted, and wasn't about to refuse him. She climbed onto the couch so she had both legs around his hips, straddling him. He put his hands under the hem of her shirt, his hands still rested on her hips. She stopped kissing him for a moment, her face inches from his, and just looked at him. There was something in her eyes, a mixture between want and love for the person laying under her. Tears were starting to form in her eyes, and Ron looked concerned, but there was no reason for him to be.
"I love you, Ron. So much," she whispered breathlessly. But before he could say anything, his mouth open ready to speak, she closed the gap between them. She took advantage of his open mouth and their tongues seemed to do a dance in each other's mouths.
This kiss was different than any they had shared. There was passion of course, but there was something there that had never been there before. Maybe it was that, in the past few minutes, Hermione just fell madly and deeply in love with her boyfriend. She had loved him for a while now, but in this moment, she knew she could never love another. He was the one for her.
Ron's hands started moving up underneath her shirt and he started kissing her neck. She groaned and forgot where she was at the moment. She moved her hands out of his hair and moved her hands slowly, tantalizingly slow, down his chest and down to the center of his excitement. His breath grew more ragged, and suddenly kissing Hermione seemed more difficult, so she took over and started kissing his jaw, neck and chest. She slid down his body more so she could get his pants unbuttoned, all the while, still kissing. But before she could do this they heard the portrait opening, and laughter filling the room.
"Where do you think they went?" They heard Harry say.
"I don't even want to think about it..." Ginny said. Harry chuckled.
Hermione scrambled off Ron and fell onto the floor with an involuntary screech. She let out a loud swear as she hit her head on the table. Ron laughed, Hermione didn't often swear.
"What the...?" Ginny's face appeared over the couch, "Oh hey! What are you doing on the floor Hermione? Did you just swear?" She said with a smile on her face. She was apparently filled with sarcastic questions because she asked, "Why are you so out of breath, Ron?" She raised an eyebrow at him. Harry appeared next to her.
"Oh, I'm sure they just went for a jog or something, Gin. What else would they be doing?" He smiled down at them. Hermione got off the floor her hand placed where she had hit her head.
"What took you guys so long?" Hermione asked, with difficulty, she had hit her head pretty hard.
"We ran into Neville and Luna," Ginny said, an emphasis on Luna's name, as if to prove to the boys that she and Hermione had been right the first day back, she went on, "in the hall. Neville seemed really embarrassed, but Luna just acted like it wasn't weird at all that we had just caught them snogging."
"Snogging?!" Hermione said in disbelief.
"You're kidding!" Ron said, sitting up from the couch. Ginny and Harry came around the couch and sat in the one person armchair, Ginny sitting on Harry's lap.
Harry didn't seem fazed by Ron's glare at him and went on, "Yeah! We were walking back here and we came around a corner, and there they were. All over each other."
"Quite literally. Neville didn't seem embarrassed at all, the way he was kissing her." She shook her head as if getting something got of her mind, "God."
"Wow." Hermione said, her eyes wide in disbelief. Harry started rubbing Ginny's thigh innocently, Ron glared at Harry again, but Ginny changed the subject.
"What time is it?" she asked.
Hermione looked at the clock on the wall, and let out a yelp, "Twelve o'clock! We have ten minutes to get to class!" They all scrambled up and got all their books. They left a few minutes later and were off to their first class of the new year at Hogwarts.
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