~I Will Always Love You~
A/N: If you've read any of these songfics when they were uploaded as individual fics, this may ease some of the confusion. I decided to consolidate all of them into a multi-chaptered fic in chronological order. There is a missing chapter after "Ready for Love" which I'm starting to get ideas for, but I haven't found a good song for it yet. Also, I have yet to write the grand finale (aka Chapter 7) which will most likely come out sooner than Chapter 3 because I have a song idea (but I'm not telling what it is!)
~~*~*~~
Ginny slammed the door to the fifth year girls' dormitory, thrust open the curtains of her four poster bed, and threw herself onto the soft mattress. She was missing Charms class, but she didn't care. She knew she couldn't go into that classroom with red eyes. They'd ask her what was wrong, and what would she tell them?
Harry had a girlfriend. She should have seen it coming a mile away. Everyone knew that he liked Cho just as well as everyone knew Ginny liked Harry. Up until now, she'd just let herself be blind to spare her own feelings, but she couldn't be blind anymore. She had to face the facts.
During the past few years, Ginny had essentially become Harry's shadow. At the beginning of fourth year, she had realized that Harry really didn't mind her presence next to him when she was able say more than two words to him without blushing. Since that revelation, she had taken to spending most of her time within a few feet of him, sometimes managing a good conversation and hoping that some day he'd notice what was quite literally right in front of him.
But he never did, she thought to herself bitterly, and now he had a girlfriend to prove it.
~*~
If I should stay,
I would only be in your way.
~*~
Ginny already knew what she had to do. She had to break that ingrained habit of going wherever Harry went. Why did she have to sit by him while she did her homework?
She didn't have to, she resolved, and from now on, she wasn't going to.
~*~
So I'll go, but I know
I'll think of you ev'ry step of the way.
~*~
But she was going to miss him anyway.
She buried her head in her pillow as a fresh wave of sobs took over her.
~*~
And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
You, my darling you ...
~*~
This certainly wouldn't do, Ginny thought to herself as she got up from her bed and made her way to the bathroom. She'd splash water on her face, wait for all signs of tears to subside, and go back to class. There was no use in crying now.
She let the cooling water soak into her face as she looked into the mirror. It certainly didn't help that the mirror was asking her if she was all right and repremanding her for not being in class ... but she barely even noticed it. She was lost in her thoughts now.
~*~
Bittersweet memories
That is all I'm taking with me.
~*~
People say that at near death experiences, they see their lives running before their eyes ... and now that Ginny's belief in love was just about dead, she saw her entire life with Harry. She saw platform nine and three quarters in Ron's first year, the first time she'd ever seen him in person. The Chamber of Secrets in her first year ... the time Harry almost asked her to the Yule Ball her third year ... and now recent events that made her cringe at the very thought of them.
She shook herself out of her thoughts, exited the bathroom, picked up her bookbag from where she had tosssed it aside by her bed, and quietly padded down the stairs to the common room, but stopped suddenly at what she saw.
~*~
So, goodbye.
Please, don't cry.
~*~
Harry was there.
His head was buried in his hands and his wayward hair was even wilder than usual. He sat alone in front of the fire, muttering unintelligably.
Ginny fought the almost irresistable urge to sit next to him and comfort him, but she knew she couldn't. Not now, at least.
~*~
We both know I'm not what you need.
~*~
As siletly as possible, she edged around the room, and after stopping to get one last look at him, she exited the portrait hole and went to Charms class.
~*~
And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
~*~
A/N: If you've read any of these songfics when they were uploaded as individual fics, this may ease some of the confusion. I decided to consolidate all of them into a multi-chaptered fic in chronological order. There is a missing chapter after "Ready for Love" which I'm starting to get ideas for, but I haven't found a good song for it yet. Also, I have yet to write the grand finale (aka Chapter 7) which will most likely come out sooner than Chapter 3 because I have a song idea (but I'm not telling what it is!)
~~*~*~~
Ginny slammed the door to the fifth year girls' dormitory, thrust open the curtains of her four poster bed, and threw herself onto the soft mattress. She was missing Charms class, but she didn't care. She knew she couldn't go into that classroom with red eyes. They'd ask her what was wrong, and what would she tell them?
Harry had a girlfriend. She should have seen it coming a mile away. Everyone knew that he liked Cho just as well as everyone knew Ginny liked Harry. Up until now, she'd just let herself be blind to spare her own feelings, but she couldn't be blind anymore. She had to face the facts.
During the past few years, Ginny had essentially become Harry's shadow. At the beginning of fourth year, she had realized that Harry really didn't mind her presence next to him when she was able say more than two words to him without blushing. Since that revelation, she had taken to spending most of her time within a few feet of him, sometimes managing a good conversation and hoping that some day he'd notice what was quite literally right in front of him.
But he never did, she thought to herself bitterly, and now he had a girlfriend to prove it.
~*~
If I should stay,
I would only be in your way.
~*~
Ginny already knew what she had to do. She had to break that ingrained habit of going wherever Harry went. Why did she have to sit by him while she did her homework?
She didn't have to, she resolved, and from now on, she wasn't going to.
~*~
So I'll go, but I know
I'll think of you ev'ry step of the way.
~*~
But she was going to miss him anyway.
She buried her head in her pillow as a fresh wave of sobs took over her.
~*~
And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
You, my darling you ...
~*~
This certainly wouldn't do, Ginny thought to herself as she got up from her bed and made her way to the bathroom. She'd splash water on her face, wait for all signs of tears to subside, and go back to class. There was no use in crying now.
She let the cooling water soak into her face as she looked into the mirror. It certainly didn't help that the mirror was asking her if she was all right and repremanding her for not being in class ... but she barely even noticed it. She was lost in her thoughts now.
~*~
Bittersweet memories
That is all I'm taking with me.
~*~
People say that at near death experiences, they see their lives running before their eyes ... and now that Ginny's belief in love was just about dead, she saw her entire life with Harry. She saw platform nine and three quarters in Ron's first year, the first time she'd ever seen him in person. The Chamber of Secrets in her first year ... the time Harry almost asked her to the Yule Ball her third year ... and now recent events that made her cringe at the very thought of them.
She shook herself out of her thoughts, exited the bathroom, picked up her bookbag from where she had tosssed it aside by her bed, and quietly padded down the stairs to the common room, but stopped suddenly at what she saw.
~*~
So, goodbye.
Please, don't cry.
~*~
Harry was there.
His head was buried in his hands and his wayward hair was even wilder than usual. He sat alone in front of the fire, muttering unintelligably.
Ginny fought the almost irresistable urge to sit next to him and comfort him, but she knew she couldn't. Not now, at least.
~*~
We both know I'm not what you need.
~*~
As siletly as possible, she edged around the room, and after stopping to get one last look at him, she exited the portrait hole and went to Charms class.
~*~
And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
~*~