Chapter 2- Time for the Truth
After a really delicious gourmet meal that consisted of Harry's favorite food: steak and kidney pie and butterbeer they settled into a nice conversation of reminiscing about their days at Hogwarts and how Snape never like them. It was then that Hermione asked the question Harry hoped would not be asked tonight.
"So Harry, where is Cho, I thought that she would be here with us tonight", asked Hermione. Just then, Harry felt all eyes on him as if he was on display at the local toy store. You have to tell then the truth some time why not now. Harry thought. He thought back to the night it all happened
"To tell you the truth…Cho and I are divorced. I caught her in our bed with another man. One she works with. I came home late one night…last year…from an Auror (sp?) meeting and I heard noises coming from our room and that is when I opened and saw her on top of him. She was socked to see me standing in the doorway, she jumped off of him, I told her not to get up and walked out of the house and took our son with me and after that everything is history." said Harry with a sad look on him face.
"Oh Harry I am so sorry, wish there was something I could do," said Hermione with concern in her voice.
"Hey, That alright. I think it was for the best. You know the sad thing about it. That she did not even want custody of our child, told me I could have him." Harry said looking down at the table.
"THAT bh," Ginny yelled, making everyone in the room jump, "she should be in that child's life no matter how bad things are."
Harry then thought of something that would take the focus from him. "Um…Gin where is Dean isn't he your boyfriend why isn't he here either", he said. Ron slammed his fist down and he had a look as if he wanted to murder someone, Hermione and Ginny shared a look that told Harry that he had made a mistake in asking her this.
"Oh…Um…we broke up about three months ago," she said looking around as if daring anyone to say anything more.
"OH… come off it Ginny…tell him the reason why you two broke up. I mean he is going to find out one way or another," exasperated Ron throwing his hand in the air.
"No he won't"
"Will you two just tell me what is going on around here" said Harry
"Nothing that will interest you Harry", Ginny said coolly while still glaring at Ron with the up most contempt.
"Why wouldn't it interest me Ginny, you are my friend and anything that you, Ron or Hermione does always in-"
"OK… I'll tell you what really happened to me and Dean." Ginny looking at Hermione for support.
Sensing that
Ginny needed a little time to gather her thoughts she cleared throat
nd said, "How about we all go to the living room and have coffee
and talk about this there, ok."
"Sure," they all said at the
same time.
Only when they got to the living room and started drinking their coffee, did Ginny start tell Harry the story about her and Dean.
"Well you know that me and Dean have been going out for almost a two years," Ginny started, "Well, he proposed to me last year and that is when everything went down hill. It started out as little things like wanting me to stay home on certain days and trying to make me quit my job at St. Mungo's. Then it got to the point where he started grabbing me by the arm and making small bruises, I thought nothing of it until he came home one night an started accusing me of cheating on him, I told him I wasn't and that he had nothing to worry about, but he did not believe me. He started hitting me and he pushed me into a wall and that's when I hit the floor, he started kicking me in the stomach and in the face, until I passed out. After that, I have no idea what happened. When I came to I was in St. Mungo's and he was in Azkaban. The people who found me were Ron and Hermione."
"Yeah, we had just got there when we heard screaming coming from up stairs. I ran up stairs and what I saw made me snap. I saw him kicking her and spitting on her calling her all kinds of names. I was about to go and do something but Hermione pulled me back and told me that I should go and get more help. So I appartted here and got Bill and the others. What we saw was horrible, there was Ginny laying on the floor unconscious in the fetal position, she had blood all over her face and bruises on her arms and legs. We all thought she was dead. Fred, George, and Bill went looking for Dean, while Charlie and I took her to St. Mungo's, where she was for at least five days."
"When I came to, the medwitch told me that I had a cracked skull from where he was smashing it in and that is how I became unconscious. I was so scared to leave the hospital, that I asked them to let me stay there for another couple of days, but Ron assured that mom was letting use my old room and that I would not have to see Dean any more. But when I got here I felt like I was in the way so now I have a flat that is no far from here." Said Ginny sadly.
Told you all that you would be mad Cho and Dean...
