A/N: I'm really truly sorry for such a long wait. I didn't even stick to the apology letter, where I said I'd update a week after I posted the Apology. I've said why I haven't been able to update this story and it's also because I've been busy with school work since these are the months where my teachers pack on the homework.

Again I'm sorry for the wait.

The two kissed until someone cleared their throat not too far away. Harry and Ginny broke apart to see Hermione and Ron standing there. Hermione had this huge grin on her face and Ron...looked as if he was about to murder Harry.

"Are we interrupting something?" Ron asked, eyeing both Harry and Ginny. Harry could see in his best mate's eyes that he was disapproving more and more on what had just happened by the second.

"Uhm...uh..." was all Harry could manage to say. He felt Ginny slip her small hand into his.

Ron raised an eyebrow. "And what the bloody hell was that? Kissing in the middle of the common room like that!"

Harry turned pink as Ginny and Hermione both rolled their eyes at Ron. "Honestly, Ron. Leave it alone, they were just snogging. It's not like you and Lavender didn't do that." She pointed out, saying Lavender's name as if it was acid.

Ron ignored Hermione. He turned to Harry. "Could I speak to you outside?" He asked.

Harry, for once in his life, feared his friend. He nodded uncertainly, and followed Ron cautiously out of the common room, fearing for his life, he had gone up against Voldemort and not feared him this much.

Once the two had exited the common room and the portrait swung itself to a close, Ron started yelling. "What in the bloody hell do you think you were doing? She's a year younger than you, isn't that illegal or something?"

"No, it's not."

"You always have to be right, don't you?" Ron spluttered.

Harry shook his head, burying his hands deep into his trouser pockets. "I'm not always right, might I say. Hermione is the one that is always right, not so much me." Harry said, standing completely still as his best mate continued to yell at him.

"And I thought you were dating Cho! Are you cheating on her with my sister? How could you, Harry! Using Cho and Ginny like that. I could hex you." Ron says, his left hand clenched into a fist and his right holding his wand so tightly that his knuckles were white.

Harry's eyes widened. He hated seeing Ron mad like this.

"I'm not dating Cho, Ron." He said calmly. "I'm not cheating on anybody with Ginny and I'm not using anyone. Now put your wand away, mate." Harry said, looking down at the Ron's wand then back up into his friend's angry eyes.

"But then again, you are the boy who lived, you have to have a girl on both arms and a passé' following behind you, don't you?" Ron asked, ignoring what Harry had said.

Harry fought the urge to roll his eyes, which would only make it worse. "Ron, that's not how it is, I don't ask for all the girls to follow me like that, if it was up to me, I wouldn't have any of them notice me. But that's not the way it is, unfortunately. I only like Ginny, and that's it. I would never hurt her, and you have to trust me on that."

Ron sighs, and Harry sees him stow his wand back into his back pocket. He was calming down."I wish I could, but one minute you tell me you like Cho, and I find you snogging my sister."

"We weren't snogging, Ron." Harry tried to point out, his cheeks turning a slight pink colour.

Ron rolled his eyes. "Yes, because your lips moving from left to right is not snogging. You two were in the middle of the common room showing off your kissing skills as if it was some parade float!" He exclaimed, throwing his hands in the air. "And what happened to liking Cho?" He raised an eyebrow, lowering his hands and crossing them over his chest.

"I lied." said Harry simply. "I did so, because I knew you'd react like this."

Ron scoffed. "Obviously, I'd act like this. YOU WERE SNOGGING MY SISTER, MATE."

"Yes, I know I was." said Harry, fighting the urge to roll his eyes once again. "Why do you have a problem with it?"

"Because she'd been hurt, Harry. By Voldemort and by Dean. I don't want to see it happen again. She's my baby sister."

"I know that, Ron. I won't hurt her, don't you trust me enough to know I won't hurt her." Harry tried to reason.

"I trust you with things like being a good friend, and catching the Snitch and things like that, but-"

"But when it comes to your little sister all that means absolutely nothing?" Harry interrupted, about to lose his temper.

"Harry," Ron's voice dropped to a whisper. "She the only baby sister I've got."

"I know but...Ron, I really like her. And I think she likes me too." He said, avoiding eye contact this time.

"How...how long have you liked her, Harry?" He asked, not looking at his friend but at his shoes. His voice was no longer angry and loud but calm and quiet.

"Since maybe the beginning of the year." said Harry with a little shrug.

"And you're sure she likes you back?" Ron looks up and raises an eyebrow.

"Well...I think she does."

Ron nodded. "Have you told anyone?"

Harry shrugs. "Hermione."

"So, let me get this straight, you told Hermione, but not me?" Ron said.

"Only because I know you would act like this." Harry said, defeated.

"You could've just told me." Ron whispered, looking almost hurt.

"You may think that, but the truth is you wouldn't like it at all." Harry said. "You would've done exactly this!"

"But, I would've found out anyway."

"I guess I was just putting it off."

"And, I didn't even tell Hermione. She found out on her own." Harry told him.

"Hermione is a smart girl." He said, smiling a bit.

"Brightest witch of our age." said Harry, nodding.

The two stayed in an awkward silence for awhile before Hermione came out. "Everything alright?" She asked.

"Uh...yeah." said Ron. "Everything is fine."

Hermione looked to Harry for confirmation of that statement. Harry nodded.

"So, are we okay?" Harry asked Ron when Hermione cautiously walked back inside the common room.

Ron pondered this for a few moments. "Yeah, I guess so. You do realize that if you hurt her, I'll have to...you know...hurt you or something."

Harry nodded with a bit of a smile. "Yeah, I know."

"Good." Ron muttered. "Look, I really don't want to hurt you, so don't hurt her."

Harry put up his hands, like what someone does when they're surrendering. "I won't. I promise." He said.

"I'm going to hold you against that promise." Ron said, seriously. "Now, let's go back inside before Hermione and your...girlfriend start to worry." He said girlfriend with a shiver.

Harry rolled his eyes. "Yes, let's go back."

Ron turned to the Fat Lady and muttered the password. The portrait swung forward and the two walked back inside the common room where Ginny and Hermione sat on the couch.

"Everything alright?" asked Ginny, smiling at Harry.

"Everything is fine." said Ron.

Ron, though getting his anger out, was less than place when Harry placed himself close to Ginny.

"Baby steps." Hermione hissed out of the corner of her mouth. Harry then scooted farther away, and patiently waited for Ron to go to bed.

He soon did, Hermione followed suit and Harry turned to Ginny.

"So..." Ginny said. "Ron wasn't too much of a bitch to you was he?"

Harry shook his head. "At first he was, but then...he sort of calmed down. Gave me a brotherly warning." He told her, looking into her eyes.

Ginny smiled. "Of course he did." She intertwined her and Harry's hand. "They're all overprotective of me. Seeing as I am the youngest and only girl. But since you're like family to them maybe they'd not give you glares when they see us together."

Harry chuckled. "I hope so, but I bet they won't cut me any slack even though I am there friend and practically family."

There was a moment of silence before Ginny said, "You know, I really thought you were into Cho...again."

"Oh trust me, I wasn't." Harry shook his head.

Ginny gave Harry a sceptical look, but Harry didn't notice, he was too infatuated with her striking features.

"No, she's a bit over-bearing at times." Harry said, still staring Ginny in the eyes. Not knowing what came out of his mouth.

"She is rather pretty though." Ginny reasoned.

"Well, there is a certain red head that I am currently thinking about."

Ginny blushed ever so slightly. "And I have a black hair, green eyed Wizarding World saviour on my mind."

They heard a groan from the stairs, obviously coming from Ron.

Ginny rolled her eyes and turned around to face the stairs where her brother hid. "Ron, go away and stop eavesdropping!" She yelled.

"Fine." Ron grumbled. "But, just remember," He poked his head out of the stairs. "I'll be watching you." He looked at Harry and Ginny with a glare before leaving.

"He's like an overprotective father." Ginny muttered.

Harry chuckled. "He's just looking out for you. I get it, but he is a bit overprotective."

Ginny rolled her eyes again. "It's bloody annoying."

"If I had a little sister that was going out with him, I'd probably be the same way."

"The only problem with that is that the over-protective brother doesn't understand how suffocating it is."

"Well, you aren't the only one who is being watched all the time now." Harry said with a slight chuckle.

Ginny chuckled. "That's true. So I'd be careful if I were you because we both know what would happen if you hurt me." She said moving her eyebrows up and down.

"Yes, I know and I don't want to get beaten to a pulp by my best mate." said Harry. "And I'd never hurt you, Ginny. I love you Ginny."

Ginny looked taken back by what he had just said. "You...love me?" She asked.

Harry nodded, not breaking eye contact with her. He had held in the truth long enough and he had to say it. Out loud. And to her face. He loved Ginny Weasley and she needed to finally know.

"I love you too, Harry." She said quietly, leaning her head on his shoulder. She closes her eyes and let out a sigh. "I always have. I just-Hermione said I should try other guys instead of following you around like a crazed little girl. But, I never really gave up on you."

Harry smiled and kissed Ginny's head. She was now his girl, so to speak. They were now a couple, and he wouldn't have it any other way.

"I should probably go upstairs before your brother has my head over the fireplace." Harry muttered after a while with regret.

Ginny sighed, knowing it was true. "Oh, alright then." She looked up at him with her big brown eyes. She made a bold move and planted her lips on his.

Harry jumped, but quickly relaxed into it.

"Goodnight, Harry." Ginny smiled before walking up the stairs to the girls dorms.

Harry sat there for a while, staring into the fire that blazed just as brightly as Ginny's fiery red hair. He smiles, Ginny was now his.

His girlfriend.

He liked the sound of that...he had waited long enough as it was. And Ron, he'd slowly grow to accept it, Harry knew he would.

It'd just take time.

The End.

A/N: OK, it's the end and I'd like to thank my mrs0cullen for helping me get through this. I'd also like to say sorry for such a sucky ending, I've been planning to end this for awhile and this ending is really just a sucky ending.

But Epilogue coming most likely.