Written for the 30 Words or Less challenge, where the object of the game is to answer 100 prompts with stories no more than 30 words long. I plan to do five prompts per chapter (for an eventual total of 20 chapters).
In which Ginny is "loved."
I. Reality Check
Get a grip, Ginny, you tell yourself, closing the diary and burying it beneath a mountain of other textbooks. Time to stop fantasizing. Time to face the real world again.
II. Absolutely Alone
But the real world is hard when nobody knows you exist, and you find yourself digging up the diary and cradling it in your arms as you fall asleep.
III. Prince Charming
If I were there, I'd be your friend, the diary murmurs in its wet inky voice, and you know it's impossible but you feel your heart speed up anyway.
IV. Virgin
When he pulls you down to the Chamber of Secrets, he laughs at how little you are, how innocent and insignificant and worthless, and never have you felt more betrayed.
V. Good Question
Later, when they ask why you wrote back to him, you swallow the truth and say, "Good question." You don't reveal the real reason.
Because it wasn't love.
Not really.