Declaimer: I do not under any circumstances own any Harry Potter characters, besides the plot

Life without you

Chapter 1: What I'm trying to say is..

She stared at him from afar. And it wasn't the first time either. How many times did her eyes follow him around the common room or in the corridors as he passed her, or even in the Great Hall at breakfast, lunch and dinner. Not even when she slept could she get those emerald eyes out of her thoughts. Day and night she dreamt of a miracle of some sort where he would go to her and declare his undying love for her

But who was she trying to kid? He, Harry James Potter be in love with her? Virginia Kathryn Weasley? YEA RIGHT! She felt the familiar feeling of disappointment wash over her; as it always did whenever she thought about it. And this definitely was not the fi-

"GINNY" boomed a voice that shook her back to reality. She looked up at the source of disruption. The emerald eyes that hunted her dreams were now looking at her in worry and frustration

"Huh? Harry?" she began, trying to ignore the tingling feeling she could feel in her cheeks

"Yea, Harry. Are you ok Gin?" he asked her, eyeing her curiously

"Yea, yea, I was just thinking about something and got trapped in my own little world" she answered forcing a smile upon her face, as a way of stopping her real thoughts from showing.

"Oh really?" he asked grinning broadly "and what were you thinking about, if I may ask"

"No, you may not ask?" she answered firmly, yet could not suppress a smile of her own. Harry always had that effect on her, ever since she first saw him seven years ago "Although you will probably find out before long" she added, smiling even more at the sight of Harry's some sort hurt look.

"Good" he said smiling again, turning to the brick wall, behind her as if it had just become the most interesting thing in the room.

"So, what did you want?" Ginny asked, to breaking the awkward silence that lingered between them. Ever since her fourth year, she had found a renewed confidence in Harry's presence.

"Oh, just thought I'd come and hang out and talk while Ron and Hermione snog each other's face off, you know the drill" he said with a smirk, shooting a glance in Ginny's direction and was surprised in finding her looking at him

~Oh, shit~ she thought ~oh, shit. I just had to, didn't I? I just had to. Oh God, oh God, I hope he didn't see. Oh God. Oh SHIT!~

"Oh, good" she whispered in a barely audible tone, looking down at the book in her hands, embarrassed

" Yea" Harry mumbled in return " So what do you want to do?" he asked her awkwardly

" I donno.. Wanna go for a walk at the lake?" she suggested shyly, hoping with all her heart that he would accept her offer

"Yea sure.. Just wait a second, will you? I need to get something from my room" he replied, getting to his feet and run towards his dormitories

Ginny stared at his retrieving figure ~ God he's sexy ~ she thought with a sigh, and waited.

~~~ Harry's POV {2 MINS B4} ~~~

"Oh, just thought I'd come and hang out and talk while Ron and Hermione snog each other's face off, you know the drill" he said with a smirk ~and I was also hoping you would go out with me, along with the fact that I love you but I don't know how to tell you~ he added in his mind, and realizing he was staring at her, he looked away blushing. He hoped against hope she didn't notice

"Oh, good" he heard her whisper

"Yea" he managed to mumble back "So what do you want to do?" he asked awkwardly, resisting the urge to tuck a fallen strand of her beautiful her behind her ear

"I donno.. Wanna go for a walk at the lake?" she suggested shyly

Harry's heart skipped a beat. This was the ideal opportunity. The chance he has been waiting for, for two years now. He tried to look her in her eyes, those eyes he loved so much, but she was looking down at her book.

" Yea sure.. Just wait a second will you? I need to get something from my room" he said, getting to his feet and strode to his dorm.

Where was it? He wrote that letter during the summer holidays, over and over again, and he knew it was somewhere there. He shuffled through his trunk, trying to find the letter, which consisted of every single feeling he had toward Ginny.

He was determined to give it to her before he had to go and face Voldemort, which was after his graduation. That was a week away. Time was running out

Ah, there it was. Under his pillow, where he left it the previous night, after reading it for the hundredth time.

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As they walked on the grounds, they didn't dare look at each other and only talked about the weather and Quidditch.

~Just do it~ Harry urged himself ~Come on man, just do it~

"Ginny" he blurted out before he could stop himself. The both stopped in their tracks, and turned to face each other. "There's something that I need to tell you" he added soon after, looking in her eyes

"Harry.. What' wrong?" she asked worried

"Nothing serious. Well for me it's serious but you might take it in a tottally different direction" he paused for a second thinking ~oh, God, this is it~

Ginny's head began to spin ~Oh, God, is this what I think it is?~ she thought. "Oh, Harry, what?" She asked him making him stop blabbing on and on.

"Well the thing is... What I'm trying to say is that.. I know that you're.." he tried to begin, not knowing how to

"Harry spill!" she commanded ~come on Harry~

"Well what I'm trying to say" he started again, desperatly trying to ignore the butterfly sensation he felt in his stomach. He began fiddling with his hands nervously. He continued with difficulty, "is that I-"

A/N I am evil ;p r&r if you want to know what happens