As I walked back inside the common room, I was greeted by a crying Hermione and an extremely conflicted Harry. Her eyes were red, she had been crying for quite a while now.

"I left for- what, half an hour?" I said furrowing my eyebrows sitting beside Hermione wrapping my arm around her. She buried her head into my shoulders crying even more. I looked over her shoulders raising my eyebrows at Harry who only looked at me confused.

"Ron," He mouthed whispering. Ronald Weasley? The hell would he do to make Hermione literally cry over him? The only time Hermione cried over a guy was when Ron had yelled at her for going to the Yule Ball with Viktor.

"He's not worth it," I said skeptically unsure what he did. The door suddenly barged open and Ron came inside. Hermione's eyes lit up so quickly looking towards the door when Lavender also walked in. Ron had his back faced against us when Lavender literally jumped onto him kissing him. Oh.

My jaw dropped open and my eyes widened. Ron and Lavender started dating, now Hermione's heartbroken all in the span of 30 minutes while I was gone. The two were kissing really passionately, Lavender's arms were thrown over Ron's shoulders and his were around her waist.

"Ahem," I slightly coughed grabbing the two's attention.

"Oops," Lavender said laughing awkwardly eyeing the crying Hermione in my arms, "I didn't know you guys were here,"

Ron smiled at me then at Hermione who got up so fast storming up towards the girl's dormitories, not looking back.

"What's wrong with her?" Ron asked furrowing his eyebrows with Lavender still in his arms.

"Don't worry about it Won Won," Lavender said in a baby-voice pulling Ron into another kiss. Won Won? That almost irritates me as much as Two Pumpkin Pasties Please, almost.

"Ahem," I coughed a little louder to separate them apart.

"Well, I guess this isn't the right place Won Won, good night," She said giving him one last kiss before walking up to the girl's dormitories with bright red cheeks. Harry and I both gave each other strange looks eyeing Lavender and Ron. Ron was absolutely... Dazed, he had this dreamy expression on his face.

"So what's going on in between you and Lavender?" I asked.

"Me and Lav? We're in love"

"You two have been dating for an hour,"

"What Lav and I have- well, let's say, there's no stopping it, it's chemical. Would it last, who knows? Point is, I'm a free agent," He said walking up to the boy's dormitories with his dreamy smile.

I turned to face Harry and we both broke into quiet laughter, of course, I felt terrible about Hermione but Ron and Lavender, their relationship was... Interesting. Not breaking the laughter, I sat closer to Harry laying on his chest as he wrapped his arms around my back gently kissing my head and rubbing my back.

"Would you like it if I acted like that?" I asked wrapping my arms around his waist.

"Honestly I don't think you would be able to,"

"You don't think I'll be able to look at you straight in the eye and act cute?"

"Not really, no,"

"Two pumpkin pasties please?"

"Shut up," He said cupping my cheeks bringing them closer to kiss my lips. It started off as multiple pecks but soon quickly turned into snogging. Time stopped whenever our lips crashed, it made me feel like the happiest and luckiest girl on Earth.

I pulled back slowly resting my head back on his chest while he played with my hair. If nothing were to happen- if Voldemort were to somehow disappear into the thin air, maybe then we'd be able to stay like this forever growing old together.

"How'd the talk with Dumbledore go?" Harry asked still playing with my hair.

"I didn't get a chance to talk to him, Snape came out of nowhere,"

"Snape? He always ruins things, I swear,"

"Tell me about it. I'll just have to talk to Dumbledore later. Stay like this for the night?" I asked not wanting to let go. He didn't reply, only laying back pulling me with him on the couch. I buried my face into his chest wrapping my arms around him and closed my eyes feeling his heartbeat. Even though I was still in my sweatshirt, I fell asleep right away in his arms.

~***~

"Ahem," The two of us were woken up by Hermione crossing her arms and staring down at us. I was still in Harry's arms not wanting to get up, though I was awake, my eyes were shot close.

"Wake up you two," She said shaking me.

"Blimey Hermione, what time is it?" I groaned digging my head deeper into Harry's shoulders.

"It's six in the morning, get up,"

"What? It's too early,"

"Get up, I don't want to have to Run into Ron and Lavender in the common room," She said shaking Harry and I even more.

"Where're we going?" I groaned getting up causing Harry to open his eyes,"

"To the library- That's the only place Lavender and Ron won't snog each other,"

"Morning Hermione, morning Evelyn," Harry said getting up. Sleeping on the couch was just absolutely terrible, my back was aching a lot.

"Come on you two, pull yourself together," She said rolling her eyes. I got up tying my hair in a high ponytail getting ready to leave the common room. From behind me, Harry followed and got up to his feet grabbing my hand.

"Let's go," Hermione said leading the way to the library. The whole walk there, she was not in a good mood at all. Her eyes were slightly swollen, possibly from crying herself to sleep. I felt slightly guilty that she cried herself to sleep by herself while I was in the common room cuddling Harry.

"He's at perfect liberty to kiss whomever he likes, I really couldn't care less," Hermione said out loud as we entered the library gaining everyone's attention. Even though it was early in the morning, there were a couple of students inside already.

"Was I under the impression that he and I would he attending Slughorn's Christmas Party together, yes. Now, given the circumstances, I had to make other arrangements," She continued, putting back a stack of books she borrowed from the library not too long ago.

"Have you?" Harry asked raising his eyebrows.

"Yes, why?"

"Who did you ask?" I asked as she stopped walking around the isles of bookshelves.

"Um, it's a surprise. Anyways you've got something to worry about Evelyn," She said changing the subject and walking directly in front of me.

"See that girl over there?" She asked motioning towards Romilda sitting in front of a window reading. She was the same girl that fancied Harry during our third year, I remember her.

"That's Romilda Vane. Apparently, she's trying to smother Harry a love potion," Hermione whispered. From over her shoulders, I could see Romilda smiling at Harry which made my blood boil.

"Really?" Harry asked raising his eyebrows trying to look over Hermione's shoulders.

"Hey! She's only interested in you because you're the chosen one," Hermione said snapping in his face to grab his attention.

"But I am the chosen one," He replied smiling. Almost immediately, I grabbed the piece of folded parchment paper in Hermione's hands and hit his head with it.

"Ok, sorry- um... Kidding,"

I sighed taking a deep breath, taking a step closer toward her only to be stopped by Harry grabbing my wrist.

"What? I just want to talk to her," I whispered continuing to glare at her.

"It's fine Evelyn, don't worry about it,"

"Don't worry about it? For fuck's sake Harry she's trying to smother you a love potion!" I whispered. Hermione and Harry both looked at me surprised raising their eyebrows, this was the first time they heard me curse.

"I mean, for Merlin's sake," I said coughing slightly looking away.

"Well anyway, I'm assuming you two will be attending Slughorn's Christmas party together?" Hermione asked trying to hide a laugh. Harry eyed me raising his eyebrows with a smile on his lips, even though he didn't say anything I knew what he meant, he was asking me to attend the party with him without directly saying it.

"Yeah, of course," I replied with a smile.