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Ouch ... I'm a little ways through it now ... and I think it's horrible ... but I'm gonna post anyway and see how much you guys hate it, and in turn whether I should *COMPLETELY* redo it. *sighs* Where has my muse gone?????
I see a home in a quiet place
I see myself in a strong embrace
And I feel protection from the human race
It's not parental
Ginny was in despair. Again. Again and again and again and again she had to watch those scenes in the common room ... again and again and again and again she had to listen to Ron telling the world about Harry's GIRLFRIEND ... again and again and again and again everybody told her it wasn't love.
"Okay, I admit it, it's not love," she said stubbornly, kicking her bedposts and clenching her teeth and her fists. "It's not love." Kick. "It's not love." Kick. "It's not love." Kick. Again kick. "But it's important - important to me. Maybe it isn't love, but neither is Harry's girlfriend love! But nobody says anything about her."
Ginny stopped kicking and rolled over to cry into her pillow.
"I'm not angry," she whispered softly. "They're so perfect together. They're so meant. But I see the way he talks to her ... the way they hold hands ... and I just think ..." She stopped talking. God, I want that, she thought, finishing the sentence in her head. God, I want that.
But it's a fantasy, not a reality
And it's good for me you have no idea
She shoved her face harder into the soft pillow, feeling the damp spots made by her tears. I could suffocate in this pillow. I could suffocate. She tried to breathe, but the pillow blocked her. I could suffocate, and maybe only Mum and Dad would care. Harry wouldn't care. I could suffocate.
She lifted her head to breathe. "I have to get it sometime," she whispered again, with desperate determination. "I have to. I like him. A lot. Someday ..."
He doesn't like you at all, an evil little voice inside her whispered. Not at all. He loves his new girlfriend. Now get over him. He'll never hug you ... never like you ... never pay any attention to you ... you're Ron's little sister to him. He doesn't care about you. At all.
Ginny nearly screamed, then restrained herself. Why? Harry wouldn't care if I did ...
That I'm walking through the clouds
When you're looking at me
I'm feeling like a child
Vulnerablility
He had looked at her about a week ago. Before - Ginny choked, and tears formed again. New tears.
They were at lunch ... and Ginny'd managed to get a seat next to Ron, across from him. Hermione was next to him, across from Ron. He'd been digging his fork into a baked potato ... and looked up. And met Ginny's eyes. And smiled.
It was like ... it was like the most incredible feeling anyone had ever felt, Ginny had thought then. It was wondrous. Her hands shook as she ate, and she wanted that embrace more than ever. Harry, she had thought wistfully. Please notice me now. Please.
I am shaking like a leaf if you move beside me
And you're all that I see
But it's no good for me
Ginny thought bitterly, as she sat on her bed now, that Harry should have realized, that day, that she was serious about liking him. He should have known then that she wasn't just some little kid, and this wasn't just some little crush. If you put words to it, it makes it stupid, Ginny thought. But I don't have to speak - and he shouldn't have to speak - to realize what he means to me. And now that he's got a girlfriend ...
She gulped. If only ... if only. If onlys and what ifs were all that she thought about these days. If only, if only, if only, if only, if only you'd smile once more ... if only, if only, if only, if only, if only you wouldn't close the door ...
Mum always said, when you're angry or sad, to close your eyes ... and tell yourself what you see ...
You have a home in a quiet place
And someone else feels your strong embrace
She is protected and she needs no chase
And do you love her???
She saw Harry, alone, in a spare classroom, with that girl. She saw the kiss ... she saw the tenderness ... she saw everything that she'd dreamed about these months ... happening to somebody else. Another tear dropped onto the soaked pillow. Then ... she saw Harry turning toward her ... looking at her as if he'd never seen her before ... giving her that beautiful, gorgeous smile ... deep green eyes locked with hers ... and then, she felt the kiss ... and the arms around her ...
"NO!" she shouted, ashamed at herself. She kicked the bed again, and again, and again ...
You're a mystery, you are the heart of intrigue
You're no good no no good for me
You have no idea
