"You don't have to cook," Ernie assured her. He noticed when she inched closer and tried put an arm around her waist, but she slipped away to look for her wand. "I can stay. I'll have to run through home first real quick. Don't want to get my nice robes all mussed."
He didn't have any compunction about staying in the house with Lavender, especially not after the scare at the Ministry.