The next morning when we woke up she was still in my arms; the tension in her shoulders had gone telling me that she was okay. But she still had a small frown on her face reminding me of how I had been the one to upset her, I had been that one to make her cry but also how I realised that I wanted to be the one that she loved.

I gently eased her off me and made my way upstairs for a change of clothes and for a shower, I hopped into the shower and stood under a jet of steaming hot water, willing it to ease the tension I was feeling. Twenty minutes later I walked down to the common room only to find that she wasn't there anymore, I figured that she would probably be upstairs getting ready for breakfast as well so I sat by the fire to wait for her. It had been a couple of minutes when I felt a cautious hand on my shoulder; I turned round to find her standing there. She was surrounded by a halo of light illuminating her brown curls and making it look almost as if she was glowing. She was an angel, my angel. I was suddenly aware that she was actually saying something and quickly started to pay attention.

"…are you sure it's not my fault, I mean it's so unlike you to just miss something like that without telling someone first?" she asked. I shook my head afraid that if I opened my mouth I would just say something stupid. Then without warming I jumped of the armchair I was sitting on and launched myself at her. Trying to show her in that one hug how much she really meant to me. She let out a short surprised chuckle and hugged me back, she hugged me back with a force not letting go, as though if I would leave if she did. She then pulled me away from her and held me at an arms length.

"Now don't you EVER do that to me again okay, if you ever leave me like you did yesterday I promise to hunt you down and disown you as a best friend. Comprendo?" she said, and the thing that scared me most is that she looked deadly serious. I nodded my head and audibly gulped. Narrowing her eyes she looked at me and said.

"Good, now because we didn't hang out yesterday, and we hardly ever hang out normally, we are going to spend the whole of today together,"

Wow so much for trying to avoid her for a while. This was going to be just great.

HG/GW

We had true to word spent the whole day together, first going out by the lake and catching up about everything, talking about my OWL'S and her Newt's, talking about everything and anything that came into our minds. It felt good to be like this again, but it was weird because every time she got too close I would just instinctively flinch away, every time I wanted to do something I would have to think it through about 10 times wondering whether it would give something away or make her uncomfortable and just make everything really awkward. It was now time for lunch, according to the noises my stomach was making, but since we had spent so much time down by the lake we knew it would be pointless to go to the Great Hall knowing that lunch would be over. So much like yesterday I made my way to the kitchen except this Hermione was walking with me as well.

She kept brushing her arm against mine, and every touch from her was sending shivers down my spine, I felt as though I was soon going to explode with want. I just wanted to grab her, pull her towards me and kiss her. And she was making it so damn difficult for me to resist. Why couldn't she just hate me? Why couldn't she just tell me to go away? But no it wasn't like that was it. Every time I tried to get away she would pull me closer, as if afraid that I would run away. It was like the harder I tried to get away the closer she would pull me. Not that I tried very hard to get away. I loved it, every moment of it, which was why I was dreading it so much. She didn't know that I was imagining that we were together. It felt like I was using her or something. And I know that sounds completely mental, but I honestly think that I may be going mental. We made our way down to the kitchen in a comfortable silence and were met by about 50 house elves each, we sat and ate our meal talking about trivial little things, like Christmas presents we got for everyone, and whether we think it will be snowing for Christmas. Afterwards we made our way up to the common room, deciding that it was to cold to go outside again. Plus we hadn't seen Harry and Ron all day so we decided to spend some time with them. Once we got there we found that the common room was really full. We made a b-line to the fire where we saw Harry and Ron engaged in a match of wizard's chess, they seemed totally oblivious of our presence and we had been sitting there for about 15 minutes just watching them when Ron's knight finally got Harry into checkmate.

"Argh, how do you always manage to get me into checkmate like that? It's so frustrating I wish I could just win once." Said Harry looking completely defeated, It was funny how someone who had got into the most encounters with Voldermort and lived to tell the tale, could be so put down by losing a chess match, a small smile spread onto my face as I though about it.

"What are you grinning away about Gin?" she said a smile lighting her face up as she said it; I sighed internally at how completely perfect she was.

"Nothing, it just makes me laugh how bad boy's can be affected by such small things…" I said with a chuckle. She smiled and leaned closer to the fire, which in turn led to her leaning closer to me, I shuddered at the contact. Taking this as a sign that I was warm she snuggled closer to me. Finally I couldn't take it any longer, I totally stiffened.

"Sorry I'm really tired…going to get to bed…see you tomorrow," I stuttered out, she looked at me with a faint trace of hurt in her eyes, and something else, something looked like disappointment. I rushed upstairs and closed the door to my dorm; it was still early so no one else was up here. But I was exhausted and needed to think. It couldn't have been disappointment could it?

Well that's chapter three up, sorry it's probably really bad, but it was really late when I was writing it and I wanted to update soon. Well I thinking Ginny should get Hermione a really good present for Christmas, what'd you think? As always reviews are appreciated, your last batch of reviews made me smile a lot [=