Title: Nerves
Date: 08/16/1998
Time of Day: 4:00 PM
Characters: Ron Weasley
Location: The Burrow
Status: Reflective
Brief Summary: Ron is nervous.
Completion: Complete
Warnings: None
I shouldn't have left work so early because I'm going mad worry about this date. I've known Hermione for seven years and yet I feel like I'm meeting her for the first time tonight.
Harry said that I should be myself, Ginny said I should be myself but a bit nicer, and Charlie winked at me and said to be good.
I stopped at Madam Malkin's and got a new set up robes today and I stopped at Gringotts to deposit my cheque and get a bit of money out for tonight.
Hermione and I have quite a bit to talk about and I want to share my plans with her. I asked Verity for a bit of advice today and she told me to be honest with Hermione about everything.
It's hard though to talk about my feelings, I mean after all this time shouldn't she know? Do I have to spell everything out for her? Are we really going to have to do all that romantic stuff? I'm really pants at the romantic stuff and even when I tried to get her perfume for Christmas I failed miserably.
What I need is advice from a woman like-Fleur or Verity. Not MUM. All I need is Mum getting all sentimental on me. I know how to be polite and to treat Hermione with respect but what I need to know is how to romance her a bit. My Dad would say I need to know how to woo her.
I am going to take Harry's advice and talk to Hermione about my nightmare. I have to pick the perfect moment and the situation has to be right. Harry seems to think that if I just talk to her that she'll open up to me. I hope he's right.
Two hours to go and I guess I'd better get showered.
I'm more nervous about this than I was my first Quidditch match and that's saying something.