Meanwhile at the party ...
Fleur and Bill had arranged entertainment for their guests: two famous breakdancers, Steve and Jess accompanied by their gang of personal cheerleaders. While they were demonstrating, Ron thought he could try and be as good as those two professionals, but... he was wrong. He tried to spin around on his head but fell flat on his face. Hermione was watching them and ran to his rescue. "Ron, are you okey?" "My head hurts!" "aaaww" said Hermione, patting him on the head. "auch! I just said my head hurts!" "ooh, right… sorry, is there anything I can do to make you feel better?" "Well, I have a few ideas…" "Really, like what?!" "my mummy always puts a kiss on my bruises." "I can do that." Hermione kisses his forehead. "you know, I hurt my lip too." Hermione leans in and kisses him softly, she blushes and runs away to her room.
Fred and George started hitting on the cheerleaders. They are especially interested in a blonde one named Katie with killer eyes. "how are you doing?" they said simultaneously. " hey boys, I'm fine now…What are you two hotties up to?" Fred: "Well How about a dance?" "Hey! I was going to ask her to dance" " no way, I saw her first!" "So not true, we always notice hot things at the same time!" "boys, boys! You're not fighting about me now are you? I've got enough love for the both of you!" "sure, we'll share."
Harry is sitting at one of the tables, suddenly another cheerleader, Keira, comes to sit next to him. "boys are such jerks!" "hey, don't mind me… besides girls aren't much better, they're too complicated and why do they love drama so much?" "Don't you dare say that girls are as bad as boys! Do you know what my best friend did to me?" "No, I don't. But I'm sure you will tell me…" "Well, first of all, he promised to come to this wedding with me. Then of course he met this girl and thought this day would be perfect to take her to a movie. Soo as you can guess he totally stood me up! No he calls me on my mobile to tell me she blew him off and he's in desperate need of a friend to talk to." "well that is normal." "really? He says he's definitely not interested in me as more than a friend, that I get, but then when I talk to Steve or Jess, he just loses it. So now he is mad at me for trying to get over him?? What is that all about? He really needs to get his act together and figure out where he's standing, you know!" "I guess…I don't know." "Oh, you're one of them?" "What do you mean?" "Well you probably broke some poor girl's heart and you can't understand why she's mad at you." "How do you know?" "Trust me, I know." "Seems that you can teach me a lot about girls…, but my previous statement still stands, girls aren't much better, I mean look at her." "what, who? Oh… you mean Katie? Well, she's an exception. One day her brains stopped working, now she's thinking with… something else"
Ron climbs up the drain to Hermione's balcony and knocks on her window. "can I come in? … it's kind of cold out here." "Ron, it's summer! But you can come in." Ron climbs through the window, he trips and falls on his face, again. "honestly, is there anything you can do without falling on your face? Besides, why did you come up the drain, you could've come up the stairs." "yeah, but the balcony sounded more romantic" "what did you want to talk to me about?" "about everything that has been happening between us lately." "like what?" "you can't ignore it anymore, Hermione!" "ok, I really have absolutely no idea what you are talking about." " well you did just kiss me five minutes ago." "oh, right, well…" "you know I fancy you right? I have been very clear about that!" "No, Ron, you haven't!" "Yes I really have! But you aren't very clear about it, you lead me on and then turn me down every time. You can't just do that, it hurts! I don't deserve that kind of treatment you know!" "yes, you're right. I …"
"I want to know, Hermione! Are you in to me or not? Then I know if I should get over you." "no, I don't want you to get over me! I…I… I do like you, more than a friend." "Are you serious, or just joking?" "I am, you know me… I always am… I'll just kiss you and get it over with." Hermione walked over and gave him a quick kiss on the lips. "happy now?!" "no, but I will be, if you continue…" Ron grabbed her wrist and pulled her closer. After struggling for a while, Hermione finally gave in and they couldn't keep their hands of each other.
Back to Harry and Keira…
"Well, Keira, before you judge every boy alive, let me tell you my side of the story." "ok, sure, you sat through my nagging." "now, here's the thing… Ginny, the Girl I love with all my heart and who loves me back, I think… I guess… I hope…, don't look at me like that!" "I can't help it, this is soo sappy." "come on, give me a break, I'm trying to put my feelings into words" "and I know that's very difficult for boys…" "right, so, can I?" "ok, I'm sorry." "So first of all she's my best friend's sister which can be really annoying since he's very overprotective. Then I hurt her, very badly, and…" "what did you do? Cheat on her?" "no." "did you try to take it to the next step and she wasn't ready yet?" "no." then what could you possibly have done wrong that is soo bad?" "I broke up with her, so she wouldn't get into trouble." "okey, now here's something you need to explain to me, Harry." "yeah, what?" "well, what is it with boys and wanting to play the hero all the time?! We are perfectly able to take care of ourselves!" "that is just because…" "I mean, actually women are the stronger sex you know. We can do three things at the same time whereas boys are barely capable of doing one thing right. Then, one more thing, boys are never able to keep a promise!" "now hey, that is not true!" "ok, there are exceptions, but they're very rare! They always promise to come or to do something and when we ask whether they actually did it… they've forgotten! Or something else has come up. Really, then they have some lame excuse and… they think we are stupid enough to believe them… newsflash, we actually do have brains, well most of us do." Keira paused to look at Katie then continued: " and we girls try to let the guys know that, but, you know we are not always that straightforward…" "yeah, that is difficult for us to read all the subtle and ambiguous hints you're throwing at us." "right, I forgot, that is not part of a boy's job description… anyway they are built to disappoint us, and the sad thing is… we lose sleep over it. And everyone knows we, girls, need our sleep to look pretty." "hey! I thought we were talking about me and Ginny?" "yeah, I'll come to that in a minute. That's another thing, you always want to be the centre of attention, we like to feel important sometimes, you know…" "ok now I really want your advice but if you continue to tell me all about your frustrations with boys, we're never going to get to my problem." "yeah, I'm sorry."
In the meantime Ginny had left her room and went to her favourite spot in the garden so she could be alone and think about things… Harry, her overprotective family, Harry, her sister-in-law, The upcoming War, Harry… She couldn't believe he betrayed her like that, wasn't it enough to have six overprotective brothers? When did they become a team? And the biggest question of them all: Why?? Harry will have to prove his love is still real, and a simple apology won't do, although… she can't resist his puppy-eyes, she knows that they are hard to resist.
Harry really didn't know what to do and he needed Keira's advice desperately. So he tried to get the conversation back to him and Ginny. "Keira, please, can I explain what happened before you jump to conclusions and start to hate me because I'm a boy?" " yes, tell me what happened." "so, I broke it off because I didn't want her to get hurt." "but…" "…no! it's my time to explain, remember? So eventually she did get hurt and I realised I made a huge mistake. I want to make it up to her and I want her to know that I love her." Then there was a pause. "Keira, I'm done now." "right, erm, you really still love her?" "I never stopped loving her. Since we broke up, everything has been such a mess." "then tell her what you've just told me. She probably feels betrayed that you didn't have faith in her." "I do believe in her, she is one of the toughest girls I know." "then why did you want to protect her?" "ok but this was a matter of life and death." "well she already has six brothers watching her back, all she needs is someone on her side. You really need to prove that you're on her side." "yeah, I'm going to try and find Hermione, she might know where Ginny is, I'll see you around?" "yeah, I guess so" "and Keira, if that guy cares about you, he'll turn around." "and if he doesn't?" "then he doesn't deserve you." "thanks, now go and find Ginny." "bye."