Chapter 52
Ginny spun around in Joe's arms smiling up at him; this was perfect she loved spending time with Joe. Every time she looked at him she felt butterflies take off in her stomach. She didn't know if what she was feeling was love but she knew that whatever it was it was strong.
The song ended and she looked over at the table laid with food. Joe just rolled his eyes and led her over to the table. Frank and Alice were there and Ginny could see that Alice's foot was tapping along to the new song in the same manner as Joe's. But Frank was too busy talking to Ted to notice.
"Joe why don't you ask Alice to dance while I get something to eat?"
He looked at her and then tapped Frank's shoulder.
"Mind if I ask your lovely lady to join me in a dance while my girls stuffing her face."
"Go ahead."
Alice smiled at Joe and Ginny as she took the boy's hand and went out onto the floor. Ginny watched for a moment as the two twirled around together and then she picked up a ham sandwich and took a bite savouring the taste.
"Hungry?"
She smiled at Andromeda through a mouthful of sandwich and swallowed.
"Yeah and you look bored."
The older girl smiled as she picked up a sausage roll looking at her boyfriend.
"Yeah they've gotten into a conversation about tactics for the match next month and now I can't get his attention."
"Bet you can if you try hard enough."
Andi gave Ginny a quizzical look and Ginny tapped her cheek making a kissing mouth and nodded her head in Ted's direction. Andi's eyes widened as a smile grew over her face and with a wink she moved over to Ted. Ginny watched as the girl put her arms around the boy's waist and gently kissed his cheek. He turned and smiled at her and she took his hand.
"Will you dance with me Ted?"
"If you'll excuse me I have to dance with my lovely girlfriend."
Ginny watched the two go to the dance floor and Frank turned to look at her.
"So are you enjoying yourself?"
Another song started up as Ginny picked up a butterbeer.
"Yep it's turning into a good night."
Frank nodded looking around the room; Ginny followed his gaze to where Joe was spinning Alice around. She saw a mixed emotion on Frank's face and tapped his shoulder.
"Would you care to dance with me?"
He nodded again as he took her hand gently in his and led her onto the floor. She happily spun in his arms jumping around the room with him. She saw Alice nearing and reaching one arm out behind her grabbed the girls arm.
With one quick motion Ginny had pulled Alice in front of Frank and placed herself in front of Joe. She smiled as she took his arm and danced with him. They spent the evening in each other's arms and before they knew it the clock had reached eleven.
"Come on lets head up to the common room."
Joe gave his arm to Ginny and they walked slowly up to the seventh floor corridor until they found themselves outside of the common room in front of the portrait of the fat lady. Ginny turned her attention to Joe.
"I really enjoyed myself tonight."
"Me too, beautiful."
Joe's lips were touching hers and then he stood back.
"Well goodnight."
They had moved into the common room without Ginny noticing and with one last kiss she headed up to the dorm room. She had expected to find them all asleep but the other four girls were all sat at the foot of their beds lost in conversations.
"What's going on?"
They all looked at her and she noticed that they were all grinning. Lily spoke up quickly though.
"Remus owes you dinner."
Ginny scrunched up her face a moment trying to work out what she meant and then grinned looking at her best friend.
"No way, you and James finally."
"Yep and before Easter aren't you the lucky one."
"I never had any doubt that it would be before Easter."
She dropped onto the floor next to her friend and looked at them all.
"So dish the dirt."
Amanda was grinning as she turned to her.
"Not much dirt to dish actually. I was speaking to Sirius and he asked me if I liked James. I confessed but what I didn't know was that James was standing there, and he kind of asked me out. So now we're going to Hogsmeade together."
"That's so sweet."
Amanda rolled her eyes at Ginny but just grinned.
"So come on then what happened at this ball then?"
"Frank got jealous of Alice and Joe."
"No he didn't!"
"He so did when you were dancing with Joe his eyes sort of sharpened and he looked like he wanted to hurt Joe. That's why I started dancing with him."
Lily was laughing lightly with Amanda and both girls looked at them.
"Seems like someone had a good night then don't it Mand."
"Yeah making Frank jealous, going dancing. What you think Bran?"
"That they had a better night than me!"
The four girls turned and looked at her but she just shrugged. Lily had stood up and made her way over to her wrapping her arms around her.
"What happened?"
"Pete and I broke up for good. He likes someone else."
"Who?"
Branwen shrugged small tears coming to her eyes and Lily hugged her tightly.
"Want to curse Pete, cos we can you know."
Branwen smiled a watery grin.
"Can we give him a rat's tail?"
Ginny exchanged a look with Amanda and both moved over to Amanda's trunk. Ginny pulled out a book and looked through the pages while Amanda pulled out a few ingredients. With a smirk Ginny turned to the sad Welsh girl.
"How does Monday sound?"
Then with gentle laughter the girls went to bed knowing they had lessons the next day, but with ideas of how they would be getting back at Peter.
