1Harry Potter is still not mine.

"Ronald Weasley, get down here this instant and eat dinner with the rest of us!" Molly Weasley screamed at her youngest son from the bottom of the stairs. Which she knew was no use, her son would continue to sit upstairs until Hermione was done and gone. But today was Easter, so whether he wanted to or not he was going to eat with his family. But Molly was starting to run out of options. Arthur, Fred, George, Ginny, Harry, Flur, and herself had already tried to get him to come do things with the family. So Molly was bringing her last enforcement, had always been able to get through to Ron before, so hopefully he could do it now. The whole family knew why he wasn't coming down, because Harry and Ginny had explained it to them their first night at the Burrow.

"Bill, could you please go talk to your brother? I know he's embarrassed to be around her, but it's Easter and I would love it if we could all eat as a family tonight," Mrs. Weasley asked her son.

"Sure Mom. I'll go talk to Ron," Bill answered. As he slowly started to make his way up the stairs to Ron's room. On his way up he ran into Hermione coming down. "Hey, Hermione I'm going to go get Ron to eat dinner with us tonight why don't you come with me?" Hermione nodded and followed Bill up the stairs. When they reached Ron's door Bill stopped Hermione from opening the door.

"Hermione I'm going to leave the door open a crack so that you can hear us talking. But you have to promise to stay until I come out. Ok?" Bill explained to Hermione. Hermione thought for a moment, then decided that this was a reasonable request and nodded that she would stay. Bill nodded to their agreement and knocked as he slowly opened Ron's door.

"Ron? It's Bill, I just want to talk to you about Hermione. If you don't want to eat with us you don't have to. I just thought that you should know that if you don't eat with us you're going to break mom's heart." Bill shot out before he was even a foot in the room. He flicked the switch and looked around the room to find Ron huddled in the corner of his bed, sniffling.

"Ron, have you been crying?" Bill asked hesitantly asked. Ron nodded his head slowly, then broke into more tears. Bill automatically grabbed Ron into a side hug, while glancing at the door. Where he saw Hermione peering through with tears in her eyes.

"Hey little bro, why are you crying? It's not like you to be emotional, not that I'm complaining, it's good to let your emotions out," Ron just shuddered and looked up at Bill, "Ok, so I can see you don't really want to talk, so how about you listen. I understand that you don't want to see Hermione right now, but you can't avoid her forever. She's one of your best friends, and you love her. If she doesn't love you back, you'll just have to accept that and try and move past it. But you have officially spent enough of your vacation up here. Tonight is your last night before you go back to school, and you're going to spend it with your family whether you want to or not ." Bill told Ron.

"It's Easter, and mom really wants you to eat with us. You can sit as close or far from Hermione as you want, but you really need to eat with us tonight. It will hurt to see her but it's going to for a while, and there's no better time to start then when your surrounded by family and friends." Ron looked at Bill like he was about to say something, but all he managed to do was make a noise from somewhere in the back of his throat.

"What was that little bro?" Bill asked trying to mask a small chuckle. Ron looked like he was in great pain as he sat up straight and cleared his throat.

Hoarsely Ron said, " It's not that I don't want to see her, it's just if I'm around all those couples, then I'll think about how she's with Kyle and I'll be upset again. It was bad enough I had to be with Lavender for four months, but then I see her with someone else. She's been with him for at least a month, but probably longer. Harry and Ginny told me about the conversation that Ginny had with her before break. She told Ginny that she doesn't have feelings for me because she loves Kyle." After saying that Ron became silent again, this time staring at the floor.

Bill sighed heavily and looked towards the door again. Just to make sure that Hermione was hearing and seeing all of this. Sure enough Hermione was staring through the door with what Bill thought were tears in her eyes. Shifting so that he was looking directly at Ron, Bill looked at him closely for the first time. He looked disheveled to say the least. His hair, that hadn't been cut in a while, was sticking up in every direction. He had large circles under his eyes, and looked paler then usual. Bill hated seeing any of his brothers like this, so he decided to make one last attempt before going down stairs.

"Ron you don't have to come down, but we would all love if you would," Bill stood to leave, " Look, I know it's hard to wait around for something that you know might never happen, but it's even harder to give up, especially when it's everything you ever wanted. So all I'm saying is don't give up just yet. Maybe you should write to her if your not ready to talk to her. She might come around. Dinner starts in three hours." Then Bill walked out into the hallway.

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While Bill was talking to Ron, Hermione peered through the door and listened intently. Through the entire conversation Ron looked tired and miserable. Hermione couldn't believe that someone would put themselves through so much for her. When Ron finally did talk his voice sounded as if he hadn't talked all week, and he was crying. She just couldn't stand to see him like that, so she silently began to cry to herself. When she saw Bill coming to the door she quickly backed out of the way, so he could come through.

Bill looked down at her and slowly shook his head. "Look Hermione I can't tell you what to do, but if you have feelings for my brother I think you should break things off with this Kyle guys. Unless your feelings for him are stronger then the ones you have for Ron, then you need to break things off with Ron. I know your not dating, but you need to tell him that you don't want to be with him. Until then he'll hold out hope, and if you don't feel the same then don't make him wait for nothing." Then Bill turned and started to walk down the stairs.

"Wait, Bill. I do love Ron, but I'm scared that he'll hurt me, or worse. What if I hurt him and then were not friends. I don't think I can take us not being friends anymore. Also I'm not sure how to break up with Kyle. I've wanted to for a while but, I'm afraid to hurt him too. He's a really nice guy," Hermione rushed out.

Bill looked up at her and said one simple sentence. "Just do it the Hermione way, and everything will be ok." Then Bill continued to walk down the stairs to the rest of the family. Hermione walked down to Ginny's room and plopped down on her cot.