Can you lie next to her and give her your heart?

.::.

"I'm sorry!"

"Sorry doesn't change anything, Ronald. You know that."

His wife stalked around the kitchen, turning off the Muggle stove and setting out the vegetables on the table, before picking up a wriggling Hugo and setting him in his high chair.

"You publicly embarrassed me in front of my boss!" she exclaimed loudly. Hugo squealed in delight and clapped his hands.

Ron nodded towards his son. "Little tyke doesn't think I did anything wrong," he said.

It was clearly the wrong thing to say.

"Didn't we say that we weren't going to discuss our personal lives to the media and at work?" Hermione asked, frowning at him, daring him to tell her she was wrong.

"Yes," Ron admitted. "But you got to admit, 'Mione -"

"Don't call me 'Mione, Ronald. My name is Hermione."

"It was funny."

"It was not."

"Aw, c'mon, even -"

"You'll be making this up to me."

"I know."


a/n - based on the song White Blank Page by Mumford and Sons. For the Album Challenge. WC: 166.