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Hermione Granger was Head Girl.

She loved what she got to do, helping plan Hogsmeade trips, decorating the school during the Holidays . . . the project McGonagall gave her. Sure there was a lot of work that went into it. Like managing the Prefects' patrolling routes and the prefects themselves so that they weren't abusing their powers, keeping them updated on the list of forbidden objects for the other students, keeping those same students in control even when they wouldn't listen, and of course, dealing with Zabini.

But sometimes, it was a lot of work, and a lot to handle.

She could keep up with everything fine - that wasn't the problem - but between all of that and still maintaining her studies as well as trying to manage what she would do for her career when she got out of school, there wasn't a lot of time for anything else.

She really missed her friends. Yes, she lived in the same house as Harry and Ron, yes she had meals with the friends in her house, classes sometimes with her friends in the other houses, but she hadn't been able to actually hang out with them since she was given the title for their last year at Hogwarts.

She missed going to Hogsmeade with Ginny, and getting to talk to her on school days off over the weekends. She missed talking to Luna and Neville about the random things she'd come up with, and how well he was getting on with his Grandmother now. She missed talking with Harry and Ron about what they were going to do when they left Hogwarts, or when she needed someone to talk to about the war.

And she really missed Ron.

It was difficult, being in a relationship with him and hardly being able to see him. It had been difficult enough being in a relationship with him after all of the losses of the war . . . loving someone when she was so broken, with everyone they'd lost.

It meant a lot that she was able to lean on him on days that she felt particularly hollow, and she provided the same comfort for him.

They loved each other. It was everything that he was there for her, and she was happy she could be there for him, but she wished they could spend more time together more often.

Hermione knew her schedule upset him, they'd had more than a couple arguments about it. In some, he told her that he felt like she loved her title more than she loved him. Now and then she needed the responsibility as a distraction, sure. But of course it wasn't true, and it had hurt her that he felt that way.

Every so often, she felt like she was the only one trying to find a way to be together. She admitted with her schedule, it was a rarity to have a completely free day to do whatever she felt like with, and she could understand how Ron could get frustrated with that.

But occasionally, she felt like they weren't really meant to last. Or that they might need a break . . . Some times she felt like maybe they just couldn't make it work, and she really hated when she felt like that.

And every once in a while, she felt like maybe, he felt like that sometimes, too.

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