Author's Note: Caution: Short chapter ahead. I'm sorry!!! But I was first going to blend chapter 3 and 4 together but it would have been sooooooo long...so now it is going to be a short chapter 3 and a long chapter 4. I'm sorry! Oh, and if you are waiting for chapter 13 to come out for Made For Each Other...well then, ahem, your going to be waiting awhile. I am having serious problems with that story, which is why this story is here!! :-). Go on, read it!
Disclaimer: You know the drill. If not, read chapter 1's disclaimer. Then when you come back here to this chapter you can stick your head up proudly and say, "I do know the drill!!!!" Well, that's what I would do anyway.
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"Ginny?"
Due to my lack of response, Harry called my name again with two more knocks at the door. Oh this was definitely bad...I could not take this.
I would not take this.
"I recall telling you to leave me alone," I said through gritted teeth at the door, getting inspired by my own words. Maybe this whole new personality thing still had some hope.
"Ginny, can you at least let me in so I can explain..."
"EXPLAIN WHAT HARRY? EXPLAIN WHY YOU CALLED ME WHAT YOU DID? OH YEAH I SEE A BIG EXPLANATION THERE," I shouted, my hands forming fists at my sides.
"Yes Gin...I-I know that it was wrong...and I just, I just...can you let me in?" Harry said. He actually sounded concerned, and urgent. I shook my head wondering why I was even doing this. I unlocked the door, and Harry, who must have been leaning on it, tumbled in landing at my feet.
I blinked down at him feeling an odd level of superiority while he was kneeling before me...but he quickly scrambled to get up and shut the door behind him.
I waited.
"If I could take back everything I said...I would, believe me I would. But I can't do that...so I'm just going to try my best at apologizing to you. I'm sorry for what happened, and what I called you. Ginny you are not a...bitch," Harry said the word with slight exasperation sort of breathing it out, like he couldn't even believe he had said it. "You are...nowhere near that. You are amazing, and nice, and smart...funny, and a great person to be around. And...you are right, she is changing me...and I don't know how it even happened."
I do.
"I even...kind of miss hanging around with you," Harry went on. "I mean maybe it seems like some twisted moment in time but for once we were...friends. When times felt like they were Ron-and-Hermione instead of Ron-Hermione-and-Harry...the trio...I came to you, because you always made me feel better, and I'm not sure if I ever thanked you for that. So thanks. And Gin, I really am sorry. I don't know what happened...and I really wish we could go back to old times." Harry finished a little out of breath because most of this was said in a rush, and the words kind of strung themselves together...but I knew what he said. And I was...blown away...to say the least - and for lack of a better descriptive word.
"Don't thank me." I admit. It was lame, and it was kind of ignoring all the other stuff that he said...but I really didn't know how to respond to...that stuff.
"Thank you...?" Harry repeated the words scratching his head and probably trying to remember when he thanked me.
Why did he have to look so damn sexy?
"For being there for you?" I repeated in a question-like tone, as if asking him if those were the correct words that had come out of his mouth just moments before.
"Oh...Ginny, of course I should thank you, I mean...those were some of the best times of my life...Cho and I..." I grimaced at the mention of that ditz. "We...never do stuff like you and I did together. We never just...decided to lie out in the afternoon and stare up at the clouds...talking so much that soon we were staring up at the stars."
I smiled...remembering those times - we were...practically best friends. At some points it really felt that way. I had no idea I had this effect on...on...anyone.
"When I first met you...you seemed so shy, and - and I had no idea what a great person you were," Harry went on.
He had no idea how deep he just dug himself in.
"Well, no one really knows me...do they Harry?" I snapped. Just like one of those bouncy rubber contraptions the muggles like to fling at each other.
"What...what? Gin, come on, I know you...what are you talk-"
Please.
"NO. You don't know me...you don't know anything about me - you don't even try. You know why Harry? Because you...and everyone else is too much stuck in their own problems...their own lives to even care about who I am...and maybe that I'm not as okay as everyone believes. You don't know what it's like - and you never will." I was talking about the fact that he was famous, and he caught on. He looked puzzled...and sort of shocked.
"Gin...what are you talking about?" He tried again. "I've always noticed you...why do you think-"
I starting shoving him away, literally pushing him out the door. "I'm stopping you before you start to say a very big lie...that will just end up hurting me," I told him, slamming the door in his face.
Only it didn't slam.
Harry obviously realized what was about to happen and put his hand out just in the knick of time to stop that door from knocking him out of my room. "I don't get you Ginny. You don't know how much your time meant to me...do you?" I stared at him blankly. "I mean," Harry continued, "it just, it feels like you're slipping away...and I don't want that to happen."
I stood there listening to his words, letting them flow through me, pretty sure that I wasn't fully comprehending them.
"I know tomorrow is a big day at the Weasley's...the special traditional Christmas Eve party and all. Please don't be angry with me at it...because you know something? I miss the times we spent together. Most of the time we ended up talking about nothing...but I just wanted to let you know that all of those nothings have meant so much more to me than one big...something. So...thanks." He closed the door and it was a pretty lucky thing because I collapsed on it the second it was shut and holding me upright.
Words could not describe the feelings I felt in my heart at that very moment.
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