This drabble also written for Lady Phoenix Fire Rose's OT3 Boot Camp using the prompt 'empty room'
Alone
I think I'd like you to come to Slughorn's Christmas party with me….
Maybe we should go together….
I was planning on asking you….
Normally, Hermione didn't pace. She detested it, actually, but in this moment – as she was alone in the dormitory – she couldn't help it. Slughorn was throwing a Christmas party. She was allowed to invite anyone she wanted. She wanted to invite Ron.
She just didn't know how to ask.
He'd want to go – she knew that – but would he want to go with her? And in what way would he be going with her? As a friend?
Or as something more?
She shook her head. No, she wasn't going to think about that. Not until she'd found the courage to ask him in the first place.
And she did find the courage. Eventually. Not in the way she expected to, but she managed, and he said yes, and for a while, she was excited.
And then he'd changed his mind. If she'd had any hope that something might happen between them at the party, that was soon crushed by Lavender Brown.
It happened after the Quidditch match. Ron had done an excellent job – even if he had had the help of Liquid Luck. Her heart fluttered inside her chest as she saw his excitement.
But then… but then she had come along.
Lavender had beaten her to it, and now Ron had her and Hermione had no one.
She cried in an empty classroom that night. It was stupid – crying over a boy – but the tears refused to go away.
I know I wrote something similar a few drabbles back, but that was from Lavender's POV. This one's from Hermione. And I love this moment in Ron and Hermione's relationship - I think it's when they both realised how they truly felt about one another. I hope you liked, and your reviews are much appreciated.
Oh, and I know it doesn't end happy, but the happy moment is when she asks Ron :)