A/N: Sorry it took so long for me to update. This chapter it pretty long, so everyone should be happy. The song in the chapter is Home by Three days grace. The show mentioned is Veronica Mars, and is seriously one of the best shows ever!! Okay. Enough babble. Here is chapter 10. ENJOY and REVIEW!!

Chapter 10- What could be worse then school

I finished with my shower, now fully awake. I wrapped a towel around my dripping body and wrapped a towel around my head, keeping my hair from dripping everywhere. I walked out into the hallway, and once again pass my brother's room, before getting to mine. I banged on the open door, forcing him to jump up in shock. He looked at me, tiredly angry at me for waking him before his alarm went off.

Beep. Beep. Beep.

He looked at me and shook his head.

"Just like clockwork." I said, before going to my room. I shut my door and looked throw my closets for my school outfit. I heard the shower turn on, telling me I wouldn't have to wake him up again. I found my school outfits and began to go through them. The only thing I didn't like about my school was the dress code. We were all in uniforms, although, it was a different selection then usual school uniform. Our school colors were black, red and white, so no matter what we chose to wear, they always were those colors. The guys had two pairs of black baggy dress pants and a pair of black baggy shorts. On hotter days, the boys are allowed to wear a red sleevless shirt, other than that they had a red t-shirt, a white button up shirt two different jackets and a black hoodie.

The girls had about the same amount for a selection. They had a black skirt that went down to their shoes, a red skirt that went just above the knees, and a pair of black pants and white pants. We also had three tank tops, one of each color, three light, zip up jackets, a black t-shirt and a white three-qauter length sleeve shirt. The boys have a pair of gym shoes and a pair of dress shoes. The girls have a pair of gym shoes, dress shoes, and boots.

I decided to wear the red skirt, white tank top, black zip up and the boots. If we chose to wear the tank top, we had to wear the zip up with them, although some teachers would let you take it off in class.

I was sitting in front of my mirror, trying to hurry and curl my hair, so I could get down for breakfast. I heard my dad yell up the stairs, letting Ron and I know it was done. Then I heard the horn outside. I smiled when I realised that my brothers were almost all here. Another tradition of ours, was to have a big family breakfest on the first day of school. I curled my last strand of hair and rushed over to the window. I saw Fred's car outside, which told me the twins were here, as well as Bill's and Charlie's car. I looked down the street a noticed my final brother, driving down the street. I let out an excited squeak and turned around to rush downstairs.

I jumped off the last step, getting everyone's attention. I recieved several good mornings and a couple put more clothes on. I laughed and walked over to my seat between my oldest brothers, Bill and Charlie. Ron was the lucky one who's seat was in between the twins. Percy usually sat on that side, but Dad decided to have him sit on the end across from him. He said their was no point in having it empty now, but we knew he decided this because we all knew he felt left out. Bill and Charlie had each other, The twins had each other and I had Ron and he had me. That could be one of the bigger reason why he is such a prick, but thats a completly different story.

"Where's the cheer uniform squirt?" Bill asked me, before taking a bit off his plate.

"I didn't go out for cheerleading this year." I said confidently. Charlie nearly choked on his milk.

"Are you sure you want to do that Gin? People are going to treat you way different." He said to me and I nodded proudly.

"Yes!" The twins yelled in unison. Bill and Charlie shook their heads.

"What?" Ron and I asked, looking around the kitchen.

"Well you see." George began.

"Bill, Charlie, Percy and us were talking forever ago." Fred continued.

"About which one you two would each be more like."

"And our little Gin-gin is the rebel just like us." They both said laughing. I cracked a smile

"Well which one did I get?" Ron asked confused. Charlie looked at him.

"Who else but the sports one." He said and they high fived. I rolled my eyes.

Ron pressed down the accelerator a little more to get us through the yellow light before it turned red. Breakfest had carried on a little longer than it usually did, so now we were running behind. I must tell you it was werid with Ron being in his basketball uniform and for me to not be in my cheerleading one. I was happy though and I was fine with that.

He made a sharp turn into the student parking lot and quickly began looking for a spot to park. He drove up and down the lanes, until he finally found one, although it was in the way back. We got out of the car and ran up to the school doors. Once we reached the doors, I really regretted choosing the boots for today. Students still filled the hallway as we made our way to pick up our schedules in the cafeteria. We pushed open the cafeteria doors and quickly made our way to the table that held the schedules with our last name. I saw brown wavy hair and a cheerleading outfit as we walked up and I automatically knew who it was.

"Cali!" I yelled and she turned around and smiled. Ron and I walked over to her and got in line behind her. There were only two other students in front of her, so we wouldn't have long to wait.

"Hey, long time no talk." She said to me smiling. She hugged the two of us before moving up in line a bit.

"So who is cheerleading captian for the juniors." I asked. It would have been me, had I tried out.

"Robyn." She said and my eyes popped. Ron stepped in front of us to grab out schedules.

"Weasley, Ronald. Weasley, Ginevera. Weasley, Cali." He said to the lady and she went through the files. I igorned him after that and continued my conversation with my cousin.

"How did that one happen?" I asked, slightly worried.

"Well she will be fine. I'm the co-captian." Cali said waving it off. Like I said before cheerleading was just an amusment to her. Ron moved us out of line and handed us our schedules. The first thing I looked for was where my locker would be. Our school alphabatizes the lockers, instead of putting them in order by year. My freshman year I was in between George and Ron. After the twins left school, I have been between Cali and Ron.

"Well this is good. Our lockers are right by the parking lot doors." He said pretty happy. That meant a quick stop at the locker before we could dash out the doors everyday. We made our way back to the area of our lockers as I looked over my schedule.

First Period- History of World war one and two- Binns 7:00-7:50

Second Period- Gym- Hooch 7:55-8:45

Third Period- Chemistry- Snape 8:50-9:40

Fourth Period- Lunch/Study- Hagrid 9:45-10:35

Fifth Period- Geomentry- Viktor 10:40-11:30

Six Period- English/Reading- Lupin 11:35-12:25

Seventh Period- Chior- Flitwick 12:30-1:20

Eighth Period- Sociology- Dumbledore 1:25-2:15

I sighed at my schedule. They gave me the most boring class ever for first period. Then the most active class right after that. I was also hoping for lunch fifth, but I guess fourth is better than third. Sixth would even have been a good lunch hour. I looked up from my schedule to open my locker and put my stuff in it, grabbing my binder for history. According to my schedule and were my locker is, I should be able to make it to my locker after second, third, fourth and sixth. So I had to remember to bring my Geomentry to lunch and Sociology to chior. I sighed and shut my locker. Cali was leaning against her locker.

"When do you have Binns?" She asked, a worried look on her face.

"First." I said sighing. A smile appeared on her face.

"Me too!" She said excited. A smiled cracked out of my suddenly tired face. She handed my her schedule and I looked it over, comparing it to mine.

"We have first through fourth together, but the rest are completely oppisite from mine." I said, handing my schedule back to her. The locker on my other side shut and Ron looked at us before addressing Cali.

"Hey Cal. Have you seen Mione?" He asked looking up and down the halls. She shook her head and he walked off. He stopped and turned around. "Hey sis! Do you have lunch fifth?" He yelled down the hall.

"No. Do you have gym second?" I asked back, seeing as we couldn't have many classes together.

"Yep. See you in gym!" He yelled before running off to see Hermione. Cali and I talked for a bit before we began to head off to History. The bell rang through the halls, letting us know that we had five minutes to get to class. We both sighed and walked into the empty class room. On the chalkboard in front was out seat assignments. I just looked for our names and sat down in the seat assigned to us. We sat down in the seats, Cali in the seat in front of me. I laid my head down on the desk for what seemed like a second, but my head popped up at the sound of the bell, telling us that if we were not in class then we were late. A few extra students walked into class right then, followed by Binns himself. Ginny looked around the room, hoping to see someone else that she was friends with. The only other person was Katie Finnigan, Arianna's ex-boyfriend's younger sister. She was also on my squad, well my old squad. She was the one with a major attitude and her face always showed it. Nevertheless, she was one of my friends, only because we were on the squad. Mr. Binns called attention to the front of the room and began to explain the course descriptions and expectations. I was asleep within three minutes.

I collapsed into my final class, sociology. If I never mentioned how much I hate the first day of school, I am now.

I had Cali and Katie in my first class, although I wouldn't consider Katie to be a good thing, seeing as about half of the squad decided to shun me and Arianna since we didn't join this year.

Gym class will be the most interesting though. Junior and senior gym classes are combined, so I had older friends in the class with me. Cali, Arianna, Andrew, Ron, Harry, Hermione, Draco and Robyn. All of us were in the same class. Fun and chaotic, two of the best things ever.

I then had Cali and Arianna in my chemistry class and Cali, Arianna and Missy in lunch and study with me. A big shock of the day, was in geomentry when Wayne and Mark sat down on either side of my desk. Apparently they failed the class last year and just happened to be in class with me this year. I wasn't complaining though, because if they weren't in that class with me, I would be alone.

Then for english and reading I had Robyn, Stephani and Cassie. Cassie somewhat shunned me, but only because she did what the crowd did. She never made her own decisions, but thats her choice. For chior I had Arianna, Robyn and Hermione, so I am pretty sure more talking will be going on then singing.

I put my head on my desk, waiting for the bell to ring. I chose to sit all the way in the back, mostly because it was my last class and I wanted to sit by the air vent. The bell rang and Dumbledore came in and shut the door. I looked around. After I looked once, I looked again. Not a single person in my class that I was friends with. I sighed and put my head head back down. Dumbledore began to talk, which I was only half listening to. I heard the door open, but didn't bother to look up.

"Ah, Mr. Malfoy. How nice of you to join us." I heard Dumbledore say. Maybe I heard wrong. Maybe he said missus. But I could of sworn that she said she wasn't going to take junior and senior sociology until next year.

"Yeah I know. I had something I had to do." He said and my head shot up and my eyes popped. Draco was in my sociology class. He looked around and his eyes landed on me. He smirked and walked over to the open seat next to me.

"Fancy seeing you here." I said in a whisper. He smirked again and I turned my attention back to class.

The final bell rang and I said goodbye to Draco and walked towards the stairs. Arianna and his lockers were upstairs while mine was downstairs. I walked down the crowded stairwell and pushed my way through the crowd to my locker. Ron and Cali were both already there.

"Lets go Gin. I want to get outta here before we get caught in traffic." Ron said, trying to hurry me. I rolled my eyes and opened my locker throwing my stuff in it and slamming it shut. The three of us walked out the doors and quickly walked to the car. Ron unlocked the doors and we both got in the car.

"Your coming to our house tonight, right?" I turned around and asked Cali. She nodded.

"Yeah. Mom has some banquet to go to with the new boyfriend. I swear since my dad died three years ago she had a new guy every week." She said monotonly. I gave her a sympathy look and nodded my head.

"Yeah. Our dad began working obsessivly when mom died." Ron said, not taking his eyes off the road. I nodded to his comment as well and turned up the radio.

I'll be coming home just be alone

Cause I know that your not there

And I know that you don't care

I can hardly wait to leave this place

No matter how hard I try

Never satisfied

This is not a home

I think I'm better off alone

You always disappear

Ever when your here

This is not my home

I think I'm better off alone

We pulled into the driveway of our house and all of us got out of the car, dragging ourselves to the front door. I swear we had to look like zombies coming in the front door. We all walked in and dropt our bags right by the door and kicked off our shoes.

Cali ran upstairs to take a shower and Ron and I both went downstairs to the computer room. On the way to my computer, I booted up the guest computer, so Cali could use it. I walked over to mine and sat down in front of it, moving the mouse to wake it up. I wasn't really suprised to see that everyone was away, well with the exception of my brother Bill. What suprised me was that Bill was online.

Bill: Hey you. How was school?

Ginny: Haha. Your actually online...?

Bill: Well I had to check my mail and talk to you.

Ginny: About...

Bill: I will be coming over later. Dad told me Cali is there and he has a business trip so he won't be home until tomorrow.

Ginny: So he told you to babysit...??

Bill: Don't you think your a little old for a sitter. You know Aunt Karen. She wants adult supervison for Cali all the time.

Ginny: Haha yeah.

Bill: Although I don't think cool big brother counts for adult, its close enough for her. Be there in an hour.

I smiled and put an away message on. Ron asked what I was so happy about and I told him dad wasn't coming home and that Bill was the 'supervisor'. He laughed as well and I left the room, going upstairs to look for an after school snack. I heard thumping coming down the stairs and I figured it had to be Cali. I looked over at her to see her dressed in a tank top and pajama shorts, which reminded me I wanted to change.

"Hey! Watcha makin me?" She asked, suddenly full of energy.

"Nothing. Make your own food." I said laughing. She laughed and looked in the cabinet.

"Mmmkay." She said before grabbing a bag of chips and a pop. She then walked out of the kitchen and to the living room.

"Make sure Ron doesn't see you. Those are his chips." I said before grabbing a pop tart and a pop and put them on the kitchen table. I ran up to my room and changed into my comfy clothes, which was the same as what Cali was wearing. I then made way down to the living room, stopping to grab my food. Cali was watching some show that I hadn't seen before. She must have known that, seeing as she decided to tell me what it was.

"Veronica Mars. Its a good show. You would like it." She said, looking at me for a moment, before turning back to the show.

We watched the show for about a half hour, before Ron came up and stole the chips from Cali, as well as the remote. He put some game on, against our protests, just as the front door open.

"Anyone home?" Came the voice of my brother Bill. Cali jumped up with me and she ran into the foyer and wrapped her arms around his neck.

"Theres my baby cousin." He said spinning her.

"So your the baby sitter." Cali said laughing.

"Only for Ron, because he is the one who needs it." Bill said rubbing her head.

"Hey!" Ron yelled from the other room. We walked in there and sat down on the couch again.

"Well what do you guys want for dinner?" He asked. We shrugged.

"Pizza is fine." Ron and I said at the same time.

"Have your guys had a home cooked dinner since mom died?" Bill asked and we both shrugged again. "Well in that case I will make dinner." He said and walked up to the kitchen. I looked at the clock on the wall.

"Its only 3:30 Bill." I said, getting up to help him in the kitchen.

"Well were going to have a full dinner." He said going through the cabinets.

"You really hate living alone." I said, not really meaning anything by it. I immediatly stopped what I was doing to see if he was okay. He stood silent, facing the other way. It happened barley five months ago, so I know the wounds were still fresh.

"You guys just need a mom meal." He said continuing through the cabinet. After the accident I found out that Bill and his girlfriend, Fluer, had been engaged. They were going to announce it to the family that night when mom and Fluer returned from the store.

"So whats for dinner?" I asked, changing the subject.

"Well I was going to make speghetti." He said grabbing the straight noodles from the cabinet.

"Whats so special about speghetti?" I asked. He froze for a millisecond, before looking for sauce.

"Well you can bake right?" He asked and I nodded. "Well I was going to have you make a cake." He said and I jumped up.

"Really! I haven't baked in forever." I said clapping my hands together.

"I think we could use one of Ginny's great cakes." He said rubbing my head. "I am going to make speghetti with meat sauce, garlic bread and we can whip up a salad, too." He said. I know he will never admit it, but this was more for him then it was for us.

"I'll make the salad. And soup, too." Cali said, bouncing in the room. Thats the one thing I loved about my cousin. She was her own person and she was always a little ball of energy. Bill smiled at her and she began to look for everything she would need.

"Cali when you find the flour let me know." I said from the other side of the kitchen, going through the fridge, getting milk and eggs. I bent down to grab one of the six packs of eggs. We always carried two. In fact we tried to have two of the things that run out fast. I was about to grabbed the eggs, when I saw the milk and decided to grab that. I lifted it up and put it on the counter. I then grabbed one of the packs of eggs and stood, shutting the fridge.

"Hey Gin!" Cali yelled from behind me. I turned around to see a smile on her face, while she tossed the open bag of flour at me. My smile faded quickly as I dropt the eggs to try and catch the flour. This was one of those moments when everything went really slow. Cali's smile disappeared as fast as mine and she dove forward to catch the eggs. She missed of course and the eggs shattered on the floor, cracking everywhere, as well was landing on my feet. The werid liquid made me jump, missing the flour, causing it to explode, just as Bill turned around.

"Wow. I thought we would last longer before causing a mess." Bill said laughing, wiping flour from his face.

We finally got to eat around 7:30. Ron decided to help, just as we were almost done. We ate and we joked around for an hour, before putting Ron on clean up duty. Cali and I went down to the living room and began to watch tv again. Bill walked outside into the backyard, not really speaking to anyone. I looked at Cali and she returned my concerned gaze. I got up after a minute or so to go check on him. I opened the door and shut it behind me. I saw him leaning against the siding, smoking.

"I thought you said you quit." I said as I walked over to him. He looked at me and laughed.

"Its not that easy." He said, taking another drag from his cigarette. I rolled my eyes and patted down his pockets. Once I found the one the pack was in, I put my hand in and took them out.

"Well for the night your a non-smoker." I said and he looked at me like I was crazy. The back door opened and Cali walked out, carrying the cake.

"Why would you guys leave me inside like that." She said, walking over to us. We sat down at the picnic table. We both took pieces and enjoyed my wonderful creation.

We sat outside for while and watched the summer sun set. When the bugs really started to bite, we decided to go inside. Cali picked up the cake and I grabbed the garbage and made sure that Bill's captive cigarettes were still in the bush. He hadn't seen me hide them in there, thankfully. We walked towards the sliding door, when Ron came rushing out. His breath was heavy and fast.

"Hey Ron! Calm down." Bill said rushing over to him. Worry suddenly hit me, seeing my normally calm brother having a hard time speak and breathe.

"Phone... Police." He said, his breathing off still.

"What about it?" Billy said, his hand on Ron's chest trying to slow his breathing.

"Accident... Aunt Karen... Critical." He managed out and I am conviced that the whole world stopped then. Bill's hand stopped rubbing Ron's back and I let out a gasp. The only other thing heard was the glass shattering on the deck when the cake fell from Cali's hands.