Yes I am completely aware that I took over a month to update, and for that I'm sorry. My excuse is my computer. I wrote the chapter, quite well mind you, and then next time I go to pull it up all the rest of the story is there but what I wrote on this chapter. I tried to rewrite it and next time I came back it was all gone again and so once again I tried to rewrite the chapter and it was a major fail. I gave up and put it away for a bit and miraculuously the next time I opened the file the old chapter was there so I just had to finish it. I have yet to figure out what happened to it, but I'm not going to worry about it as long as I got it back.

Merry late Christmas and New Year! I hope everyone's was wonderful. My Christmas was great. No, I didn't get a white Christmas, but I took a trip a few days before to a place that was covered in snow, so it made up for it. (: How was yours?

So the long awaited next chapter is here, and I think it will make a bit of you quite pleased. (:

Harry woke to a knock on his door. He had slept in because he had had a late night thinking about Ginny. He was obsessive and he knew it. Hermione was at the door. She was bundled up in a wool coat, jeans, boots, gloves, a scarf, and earmuffs. Her cheeks were rosy pink from the cold and Harry ushered her inside quickly because he was still in him pajamas.

"Are you coming to the burrow?" She asked.

"After I get ready I will."

"Well just to help you hurry along I'll get Teddy ready and he'll be waiting on you when you're done."

"Okay, then I'd better hurry up."

Harry took a shower, combed through his hair, and pulled on jeans, a t-shirt, a warm sweater, and a jacket. He found his tennis shoes in the living room and saw Teddy waiting for him with an excited look on his face.

"Are you ready to go Teddy?" Harry asked him, knowing the answer.

"Of course he is, he's waiting on you Harry," Hermione replied, not giving Teddy a chance to answer.

Harry scooped Teddy up and they apparated to the burrow where the Weasley family was waiting in the living room. Mrs. Weasley had made plans for everyone for the day. They were all going to pick out two Christmas trees; a large one for the burrow, and a smaller for Harry's apartment.

There was a tree farm north of London that had hundreds of acres filled with every type of Christmas tree imaginable. At the entrance Mr. Weasley got distracted and began speaking with one of the muggle workers. Mrs. Weasley stayed with him to make sure that he wouldn't get lost, and Teddy insisted on staying with Mrs. Weasley. Ron and Hermione wandered off for a bit to do, well you know what. This left Harry and Ginny alone.

They walked in silence for awhile. There was a good sized distance between them. Harry searched for a good topic to talk about, anything that he could say to get rid of the awkward silence, but he drew a blank. Finally Ginny spoke.

"We're never going to become what we were again, are we?" She asked quietly.

"Well, I don't know. When? We've been friends and boyfriend-girlfriend. And I must say, you were the one that broke up with me. So you tell me, are we?"

"I wish I could explain everything that was running through my head when I wrote that letter. That night that Hermione came to visit me, I was a mess. And she couldn't understand what I was thinking, and as I tried to put it into words I couldn't really explain it either. I'm not sure." She broke off and looked away. "I didn't get to see you anymore. I was under so much pressure and stress that anything and everything put me off. And I didn't want you see me like that. I didn't want you to not want me anymore because of how I was acting. So I broke up with you so I wouldn't have that problem. But instead, I got another problem; one worse. I broke your heart, and I lost the boy I loved. I figured if I stayed away you, you could move on."

Harry didn't say anything. He seemed to be getting his thoughts together. He turned to look at her and took one her mittened hands in his. Leaning forward, he kissed her. Softly and tentatively at first, but it grew passionate. All of their built up feelings for months overflowed into that kiss that they hadn't shared since school had started.

Harry had missed Ginny so much. He didn't know how he could miss anyone that badly. And for Harry to think something like that was huge. He missed his parents, he missed Sirius, he missed Hedwig, but he found that he could live without them. Ginny seemed to be a different story.

"I love you," was all he said. Those simple words were filled were so much feeling. They incorporated months of loneliness without her; months of a broken heart finally being sewed back together.

"I missed you," Ginny said. "I'm so sorry. You don't under…" Harry covered her mouth with his, murmuring "don't" against hers.

There heard people and broke apart, leaving their hands laced together. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley and Teddy had finally caught up with them. Mrs. Weasley pursed her lips to keep from grinning at the newly renewed couple. Mr. Weasley said, "Good for you kids." Teddy was oblivious to what was going on. He pointed out his favorite Christmas trees as they walked past them.

Minutes later Hermione and Ron showed up. Hermione bubbled over with excitement; Ron's eyes bulged out of his head. He stared googly eyed at the locked hands before looking back and forth from Harry to Ginny. After Hermione hit him lightly he broke his gaze and with an eye roll and left them alone. Hermione's mind was filled with questions that she desperately wanted answers to. Neither said anything though. They wanted to separate from Mr. and Mrs. Weasley before they asked their questions.

***

"What happened?" Hermione asked the question that had been growing behind her closed lips finally spilled out.

Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Ginny sat in Harry's living room, each with a stemming cup of tea. Harry and Ginny sat on the couch together; Harry's arm around Ginny's waist. Ginny's feet were up on the couch and her body was against Harry's chest.

They both looked at each other before answering.

"I guess we realized how much we needed each other," Harry said.

Hermione sighed and in an exasperated tone replied, "That doesn't really answer my question Harry James Potter."

"We were standing there, awkwardly mind you, and neither of us was saying anything, so I asked him if we were ever going to become what we used to be. Then he replied telling me that I was the one that broke up with him and I tried to explain why, which didn't work out very well, but I guess it worked well enough because he kissed me and wouldn't let me say another word about it," Ginny said smilingly thoughtfully.

Harry kissed the top of Ginny's head and replied to Hermione, "Was that the answer to your question?"

"Yes it was smart ass," she said.

Ron's eyes bugged from his face and Harry's got wide.

"What? Have you never heard me cuss before?" She asked.

"Bloody hell. No I haven't." Ron said.

Both Ginny and Hermione broke out in laughter at the boy's awed faces. Ginny ran a hand up and down one of Harry's arms, turned to him and said, "It's okay love. Some things are better left unknown."

Harry wasn't quite sure if there was another meaning behind that phrase, but at the moment he didn't care. He had the love of his life in his arms, a sweet, sleeping child to watch over in the next room, and the best family anyone could want at the burrow.

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