Flashback: "Hermione!" Ron said chasing after her. How could he muck it up?
He walked into the Gryffindor common room.
"Any of you seen Hermione?" he asked.
"She ran up there crying holding a note" Dean said.
"Thanks mate"
"What's wrong?"
"She found the note I was writing to her" he said running up the stairs. He didn't understand why she ran away like that. Did he freak her out? He found her in Ginny's arms halfway up to her dorm.
"Ron" Ginny hissed at him, "What did you do?" she said. Hermione looked up at Ron and hugged him.
"Ok, now I'm really confused. Smell you two later" she said walking down to the open common room.
"I'm confused as well. Why are you hugging me? I thought you were flipping out over that note?" she didn't say anything, just kept hugging him, still sobbing slightly.
Ginny walked into the common room to find Harry sitting there. She also saw Dean sitting over the other side of the common room. Something drew her over to Dean.
"Hi" she said, plonking down across from him.
"Hey" he said looking up. He was surprised, she was going out with Harry, not him.
"Ron" Hermione said looking up at him, "I wasn't crying because I was disturbed, I was crying because it was so sweet".
"Why did you run away?"
"I don't know" she said looking down. She wanted to kiss him. He wanted to kiss her. They both thought they felt different ways about each other. She let go and gave the piece of paper back. He handed it back to her.
"Keep it" he said, folding it into her hand. She smiled and walked up to her dorm.
"Harry" Ginny said.
"Yeah" he said.
"Harry, do you think we should wait a little bit before we like, go out?" she said. That shocked him a little.
"Uhm…. I suppose" he said. Sensing the surprise in his voice.
"It's not you. It's neither of us. I just think that we should leave it a little longer so we can mature a little bit more"
"It's ok, I understand" he said. He was thinking of the same thing. He was heartbroken though. He would just have to wait.
"Ok" she said, getting up and leaving the room. Harry sat there, his eyes filling up with tears. He knew what had happened. She had gotten real buddy buddy with Dean lately. She had been really funny towards him. He had seen what happened in the other corner five minutes ago. It was taking all the strength he had not to bash Dean's face in. He got up and walked up to his room. He didn't want to talk to anyone.