What Ginny said about Charlie definitely made sense. Maybe Ron was trying his best to imitate his older brother. After all, Hermione was safe and familiar. Maybe he just wanted something new and exciting. Something that he'd never experienced before, like what Ginny had just told her.
Hermione's move away from Ginny had been purely innocent, or was it? Somewhere deep down, just maybe, it hadn't really been Ron that Hermione had been focused on all these years. Could it possibly be that the reason she didn't have many female friends was because she only wanted one? The one that was sitting now in her bed close enough to touch.
"What's it like?" she asked her eyes fixated on Ginny's mouth. Hermione didn't miss the way Ginny's teeth lightly pulled at her lip. It was the same type of response Hermione herself had the first time she'd realized she wanted to kiss Viktor. Subconsciously the tip of her own tongue broke the seal between her lips to wet them slightly in preparation of a kiss Hermione wasn't even aware she wanted.