into your heart - ron weasley x reader

3. accidents happen

a/n (sorry it's a bit long!)
first and foremost, i'm extremely sorry for not getting this out before christmas like i said i would! i truly tried my hardest but i wanted this chapter to be a good one so i spent extra long revising it just for you all :) hopefully it being a few days late isn't too bad.
secondly, i hope you all (if you celebrate) had a merry christmas! if you do not celebrate or you celebrate another holiday, i hope you had/have an amazing time! everyone deserves comfort and joy during this tough holiday season and i wanted to let you all know how extremely thankful i am for you guys! finally, coming up with new, interesting ideas for the plot of this story has started to become slightly difficult. if anyone has any ideas or additional things you would like to see, let me know in the comments!
love you all! -sophie
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my eyes fluttered open as the ceiling of the gryffindor common room came into view. the sun was already high in the autumn sky when i awoke. as i lay there on the burgundy red sofa, i tilted my head over towards the ottoman nearby. on top was a folded piece of parchment with scribbled handwriting that i recognized to be ron's. i lifted the note and began to read;

hi, y/n. hopefully you see this note. you fell asleep while we were sitting on the sofa together. you kind of ended up laying on my shoulder and you seemed so peaceful.  i didn't want to wake you so i decided to let you sleep. please don't be embarrassed! it was only for half an hour or so. i'm hoping you don't miss too much class, especially potions. that wouldn't be good. i'm glad you slept though, you seemed pretty worn out from the previous day. i had to go to class so i sadly couldn't stay. see you during lessons, hopefully!
-ron

my eyes continued to widened after reading each sentence. i had fell asleep on ron and skipped class on my first day back to hogwarts! not to mention, i would be late for the remaining lessons i still hadn't attended. i quickly gathered my belongings and rushed out of the portrait, praying i would make it to my next class.

i ran down the empty hallways already knowing the outcome of this. how could i possibly be so stupid! i thought to myself. i'm normally good at keeping track of my time, and i'm an exceptionally good student! the professors don't deserve this behavior from me.

as i rounded the corner in the eerie dungeon hallway, i found myself face-to-face with filch, the caretaker of hogwarts.
"what exactly are you doing outside of class, miss?" filch said, squinting his eyes at me.
"i, erm, i accidentally overslept. i'm just heading to class now, i promise." i said, swallowing the knot in my throat.
"did you now?" he replied.
i nodded in response and looked down at the books i was carrying, which suddenly seemed a lot more interesting than the conversation we were having.
"well," filch began. "i see this as a sorry excuse for intentionally skipping class. detention for you, miss y/l/n, in my office after your last class."
my jaw dropped. detention?! with filch?! in all my years at hogwarts, i had not once spent a single moment in detention. i had always come up with a way to get myself out. but this time, i had nothing to say. i was ashamed of myself for letting this happen.
"alright," i said, still looking down at my books.
"i just hope you'll forgive me, i'm not normally one to be late, nor oversleep."
filch just nodded and shoved past me. mrs. norris close behind.

i shook myself from the thoughts about my new found detention and hustled to the potions classroom door. i squinted my eyes shut and took a deep breath before pushing the heavy wooden door open. as i did so, a loud squeak rang out into the silent classroom of fourth year gryffindors and slytherins.
"well, miss y/l/n, what a surprise." professor snape said with a twinge of irritation in his monotone voice.
"out of all my fourth year students, you were one of the last i would have expected to come in late on the first day of class." he said as he lifted his gaze from the papers on his desk to my eyes. "i am extremely disappointed. 50 points from gryffindor. sit, now."
"my apologies professor." i said as i hurried to my seat near the large group of gryffindor students. "it was an accident, i am so sorry. i jus-"
i was cut off before i could finish explaining myself.
"no need for an explanation, y/l/n," the potions professor said. "that is quite enough. detention, and i do not want to hear any complaints." he spat.
i nodded before reaching my seat at the far edge of the classroom. i couldn't believe it. two detentions. two in one day. i was in shock. i didn't even know that was possible. i was so ashamed of myself. small tears began forming at the corners of my eyes, almost as if they were to spill out, but i would never let them. not here, in front of my classmates.

the tears clouded my vision so greatly that i almost didn't notice a slip of parchment being passed to me. i took it and rubbed at my damp eyes with my uniform sleeve. passing notes in professor shapes classroom was a huge risk. you always seemed to get caught. i slowly took the note and began to open it, trying my best not to make a sound. inside the note had a short message, very clearly meant for me.

i'm so sorry, y/n. this is all my fault. if i would have just woke you up when i was leaving for class, you wouldn't be in this mess right now. i cannot believe myself. i'm sorry.
-ron

i smiled at ron's apologetic letter which lifted my mood quite sufficiently. i knew it wasn't his fault of course, so i quickly wrote him a note in response.

dear ron,
this is not your fault at all! i chose to fall asleep in the first place. you didn't do anything wrong. i completely forgive you. thanks for your concern though. snape can be pretty rude sometimes.
- y/n

i slipped the parchment over to the red haired boy beside me. harry sat next to him and hermione was to the right of me. she was fully alert and paying attention to the lesson. but as much as i tried, i just couldn't keep my focus. at this point, professor snape didn't seem to care. he was already disappointed enough with me to notice my lack of concentration on the subject.

soon enough, ron read the note and gave me his signature side smirking-smile, which earned him a silly smile and a blush as red as beets from me. that boy. i thought. he is going to be the death of me.

with that, the class had ended and it was time to head to lunch. as the four of us got up to leave from potions, i decided to stay back to talk to professor snape about my detention. as i departed from my friends, i strode up to his desk and cleared my throat.

"excuse me, professor?" i asked quietly.
he lifted his gaze slowly from the pile of parchment on his desk to the student standing in front of him before squinting his eyes and replying with a simple "yes?".
i took a deep breath before beginning what i was about to say.
"i apologize for being late to your class. i accidentally overslept this morning." i started.
"it truly was an accident, i would never want to purposely skip class, especially potions."
professor snape lowered the quill he was holding and placed it beside a nearby jar of ink. he crossed his fingers and drew his attention to me.
"i'm not one to normally accept behavior like this," he began. "but because i know that you do have decent marks and are a generally good student in my class, i will let the situation slide only this once."
a silent wave of relief washed over me as i let go of a breath i didn't know i was holding in.
"but," the professor continued. "you are free from attending detention in my class. you are dismissed, miss y/l/n."
i nodded my head and gathered my belongings before leaving the potions classroom and closing the heavy wooden doors behind me. i was so relieved to know that professor snape was understanding of the situation. he wasn't the type to let a misbehaving student off the hook, so i was extremely grateful that he had let me go easy.

suddenly, as if out of thin air, two arms linked with mine and began skipping me giddily down the busy hallway.
"fred, george? what are you two doing?" i said to the red-headed pair.
"oi lad." fred said quietly, as to not be heard by the other students passing by.
"we just got out of filch's office, and you won't believe what we found." george whispered to me.

a/n
what do you think the weasley twins found? :)
also, i hope you enjoy the slightly longer chapter! thanks for all your support. <3