Ron

It's All About Harry

Ginny woke up to the sound of the door opening, but in her semi-conscious state she kept her eyes closed and didn't move na inch. However, soon the bed she lied comfortably in curved lightly to the weight of another person and the smell of toasts and bacon reached her nostrils.

"Hum, breakfast in bed?" She asked sly, stretching, eyes still closed.

"Don't even start with the mellow tone, it's me." Ron's voice reached her.

She immediately opened her eyes widely. "Ron?"

"Me!" He sarcastically answered. "I told mum that to wake you I needed the smell of food.

She just showed her tongue to him in a childlike gesture and pulled the tray close to her.

"So, what happened?" She asked a sip of juice.

"Mum asked me to wake you." He shrugged.

She rolled her eyes. "Shouldn't you be at work, after all?"

"George gave me a free day."

"He did?" she asked surprised.

"Ok, I gave myself a free day." He sighed. "I just… well, Hogwarts starts again next week, George will start the shop in Hogsmead tomorrow, and I wanted to talk to you before you… go."

Ginny let go of her toast at that, curious. "Something happened?" She was really worried; Ron had never taken time to talk with her before.

"No, I just realized that since the end of the war we've barely spoken. Not that we used to talk all that much, but…"

"But we barely see each other." She completed and he nodded. "But what is it? Something in special or you just want to hear me talking about how wrong you are if you think the Cannons are winning this year?

Ron laughed a little and stole a sip of her juice. "No, I know you think this. Someday I'll prove you wrong." She looked disbelieving at him and he added. "I just won't set a date for that." She laughed along with him, but soon he took a deep breath and finally said: "It's about Harry."

Ginny closed her eyes for a moment before looking at him. "Ron, look, don't get me wrong. I know I'm your younger sister and that it makes you overprotect me, but I think it's time you drop that. You know Harry as much as I do and you know how he it. We're dating because we love each other, it's not we're joking around just to snog once in a while. You should trust more in him – and me. I know wha-"

"Hey, hey, hey, calm down." He was finally able to interrupt Ginny and she took a deep breath on the pause. "I know all that. That's not what I wanted to talk about.

She looked genuinely surprised. "Then… what?"

"About Harry and I."

Ginny was silent for a while, but soon she started laughing. Ron remained serious, but that didn't stop Ginny from intensifying the laughter and turning it into a big. After some time trying to control herself, Ginny managed to calm down, though her breathing was still heavy, her belly and cheeks were hurting and some tears coming down her eyes.

"So-sorry." She said between her breaths. "It's just... oh God, the idea of my boyfriend dumping me for my brother was..." She chuckled. "Ok. Go on."

"Harry is my best friend, you know. And I'm sure you understand how important he's to me – as are you."

Any trace of laughter extinguished from Ginny's face with the seriousness in his voice. "Of course I know, Ron. What do you mean?"

"Ever since the end of the war all Harry does when he has a free time is to 'runaway' with you." He quoted with his hands. "I can't blame him, of course. I too try to spend all of my free time with Hermione. But it is… odd to me. Harry has always been my best friend, the guy to whom I'd tell everything I needed, and that was always there, even when I was a jerk and wasn't there myself. You've always been the closest to me in the family, the one I played when we were kids, and in the year Fred and George went to Hogwarts and there was just us…" He seemed really emotional with what he was saying, and Ginny felt an unusual moisture in the corner of her eyes. "And suddenly everything changed and I didn't even see. You went to Hogwarts and I pushed away each day more, and Harry started to spend summer breaks with us, and Hermione too, and we kind of stopped talking. And then you grew up, you changed, and even my best friend saw that and I didn't.

"Ron…" Ginny was touched with her brother's words and tried to say something after she pushed the tray away and touched his shoulder, but he didn't let her.

"No, let me finish. The thing is: you were my best friend when we were kids, and then I let you aside when I met Harry and Hermione. And now it's like I've lost my best friend, because he saw the little sister I stopped seeing and he decided she was important, and she – you – are important, I just… was an idiot and didn't realize it. I know that what you and Harry have is real and I am really happy for both of you. He deserves to finally have someone so important in his life, to finally have a family, and you, you deserve the best guy in the world because you're amazing and – and Harry is the best guy in the world. I just-"

"Ron, Harry doesn't need me to have a family." Ginny said without worrying that a tear finally got down her cheek. "Harry has a family. He has you and Hermione. He is your best friend? Yes. But you're forgetting the important part, at the same time you are his best friend. We grew up, Ron, me, Harry, Hermione… and also you. But that doesn't mean things changed, we simply matured. Much more than normal teenagers do when they grow up, we've been through some terrible things that made us grow up a lot faster. But you're still a brother to Harry." She hugged him. "As you are to me." She pushed away to be able to look at him and added. "And you were my brother first, dare he to try and steal you."

Ron laughed and kissed her forehead. "Sorry, I think I ended saying nonsenses."

"I think Hermione would be proud. I know I was. I love Harry. Ron and it comes a point when the person closer to us ends up being the one we love, because we build a life together. But I love you and that's never going to change, no matter what. Just like Harry loves you and Hermione and that won't change either.

"I love both of you, too." He hugged her again, strongly, and said. "And don't break his heart, he's too fragile."

She laughed and nodded. "Ok, I'll try." She pushed away, took the last sip of her juice, and said as she pushed him out of the bed. "Now excuse me that I'm going to change."

"Hey! I though you slept in your morning clothes, when Harry comes to wake you he never leaves the room and you go down all dressed up."

"He closes his eyes." She winked wickedly and he sighed shaking his head.

"Don't tell him about this conversation; it will break my entire moral when I talk to him about watching you change."

She laughed once again and pushed him the last inches for him to be out of the room. "I'll miss you up at Hogwarts.

"Me too."

A/N: Hello, guys! So, this isn't actually a "new" fanfiction, 'cause I've been writing it in portuguese for a while. It's still in cahpter three, though. I really suck at updating stories. Anyway, I really do love Ginny's relationships with her brothers and was eager to try something around it. H&G may appear a lot - more thasn the other couples, anyway - 'cause I really do love them very much, but I'll try not to focus on that (chapter two barely quotes the ship, and the third doesn't even mention, so). I hope you guys like this, and I promise to update it soon (at least to chapter three, that is already written).

As usual: if you're brazilian, you can find this fanfic in portuguese right here on my profile with the same title.