A/N: Hey!! I thought I said I would get this out quickly!! I'm sorry! I'm horrible with updating fast. Thanks for not getting fed up with me! I had a lot of problems that I didn't think I would have with this chapter. But I finally finished it. I hope you like it! Sorry that it's so short...shorter than I intended on it being.
Disclaimer: Check chapter 1. Also **THIS CHAPTER...NOT FOR FANS OF THAT JUST DARLING CHO CHANG!**
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As if we were doing something illegal Harry and I jumped about a foot in the air, scampered away from each other, then regained our composure like a soldier called to duty.
A smirk. "You two hookin' up?"
I shot her a glare. "Why's that any of your business?"
"Oh Ginny, hun! I don't care! Come on, I'm back, just help me with my luggage!"
I blinked. Five times maybe. Ginny, hun? I don't think so! I stepped in front her, in what I hoped was a menacing way. I needed it to be, since Harry was cowardly slinking away. Though in my heart I knew I could never think of him as a coward. Figures she would ruin a moment like we had just been having. "Who invited you back in?"
"Who ever said I left?" She challenged.
"I did." Harry had finally stepped up, and his eyes were narrowed, and dark.
"All right then, jeez, I'll just bring the bags up, myself." She rolled her eyes, and started walking over to the staircase, but Harry stood in her way.
"Why the hell are you back here?"
To me it seemed like it wasn't my place to intervene, and I should probably have left...but I wanted to see Harry punch that slut right out the door!
"Harry, I never left. My grandmother was sick, and I had to tend to her. You know that." Her eyes now matched Harry's.
I snorted. Grandmother!? Oh come on! How over-used is that!
Harry snarled disgustedly and moved to the right, allowing her to pass. Once she was out of earshot, I rounded on Harry.
"Why did you let her in here?" I couldn't believe this, no way was I letting her ruin things now...not when everything I had ever worked for was finally coming together.
"Ginny, you know she would have figured out a way to stay here with me blocking her path or not."
He was right of course.
It was no use denying it - Cho was back at the burrow.
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"Rhett...please! Don't go!"
"...I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me, in spite of the whole silly world going to pieces around us - I love you...Kiss me, Scarlett - kiss me, once..."
"You low-down, cowardly, nasty thing!--"
"Ginny I don't get it-"
"Shh, Harry," I said quickly, hugging my knees to my chest, as I snuggled further back into the couch, and turning my attention back towards the screen.
"Everybody was right! You aren't a gentleman!"
"Nevermind...Goodbye, Scarlett."
"Ginny, why-"
"Shush, Harry!"
I heard Harry turn away from me, back to the screen, mumbling about three and a half hour long movies, and damn confusing chick flicks.
I turned to look at him, and his expression was priceless. He was staring intently at the movie, re-mouthing what the characters were saying. His eyebrows were furrowed as though trying to make up false predictions for Divination.
I rolled my eyes, grabbed a nearby throw pillow, and thwacked Harry over the head. I felt him jerk forward beside me, but didn't dare take my eyes off the TV for I would've burst out laughing.
Suddenly, a handful of popcorn was strewn my way. "Harry!" I shrieked. "Mum'll kill us!" But Harry just laughed, and continued pummeling me with kernels. "Ah, sod it."
I jumped up, to dodge the next bout of it, and leapt on top of Harry. A good wrestling tip I picked up living with seven men. The bowl of popcorn flew up into the air, did a few mid-air turns, and then flew everywhere. On us, over us, under us.
Harry was struggling under me. "Surrender!" I squealed.
"Never!" Harry yelled defiantly, as though he were a knight in battle.
I giggled, trying to keep a firm hold on his wrists, but I lost control and started laughing hysterically, unsure how I was ever going to stop, until Harry pulled me forward and captured my lips with his.
Oh. That's how.
I finally resisted trying to hold him down, and melted completely into him.
I didn't like thinking while kissing, but I couldn't help wondering why I was in such a bad mood before Harry suggested watching the now forgotten Gone With The Wind. Something had happened that I couldn't quite put my finger on...Ah doesn't matter now. I closed my eyes, using all my concentration on this wonderful, amazing kiss that would have been perfect if it hadn't been for...
"Ahem," A loud cough came from behind the couch.
Harry and I shot up.
It was all beginning to come back to me now.
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Cho laughed. "Ah...sorry about – er – interrupting you two, but- " She suddenly jerked her head to face me, in such a fast motion that my heart stopped for a second. She was really creeping me out. "Since I was gone during Christmas...I never gave my gift to you!" She triumphantly held out a nicely wrapped rectangular package for me.
"I – um – er - " Well this was...unexpected. "You didn't have to-"
"Don't be silly, hun! Of course I did."
I blinked. Well it was settled then, if it was any type of food, I was not eating it. I laughed nervously, unwrapping the present, slowly, ever so slowly partly afraid that as soon as I opened it up a bomb would go off. I slipped what I realized now was a journal, out of the wrapping. It was black, leather-bound and –
My face went white, and I dropped the horrid item.
It looked just like Tom Riddle's diary.
I couldn't look at her, I couldn't move. My eyes were fixated on that journal. It wasn't the same one. It couldn't have been. But I couldn't speak all the same. Every memory I had ever vanquished from my mind came flooding back to me, and my eyes went red from trying so hard not to lose my self-control. My hands were icy, and clamped at my sides. Tom Riddle's face was blinding my vision and I almost stopped breathing.
"What the hell is your problem?" I heard Harry shout furiously from the kitchen, away from me. I crumbled against the sofa, clasped my hands around the diary, and chucked it at the window. The window hadn't broken – there were spells preventing that. I felt a hot tear trickle down my cheek.
"Harry – I – what's going on?"
"Don't pretend you don't-" Harry cursed so horribly, I never, ever could've imagined such a word coming from his mouth. "know. You know," he spat. "You know what it's reminding her of-"
Cho put a hand to her mouth. "Oh my God. Oh my God, Harry. I'm – I'm sorry."
"No you're not," He shouted with venom. "You aren't! Get the hell out of here, I don't want to look at you."
"Harry..." I then heard Cho sigh, and her footsteps fade away, and I felt Harry enter the room.
"Ginny?" He whispered quietly.
I drew in a shuddering breath, and looked at him through misty eyes. "I hate her. I hate her."
Harry swallowed, and sat down next to me, wrapping his arms around me. I laid into him, and closed my eyes breathing in his scent. "It's going to be okay, Gin." He continued with soothing words.
Finally, after the final set of tears had been dried off, I brought myself to look back up at him. "Do you still – do you still think about it?" I asked. I didn't have to say 'The Chamber of Secrets' he knew.
Harry licked his lips. "All the time, Ginny."
I sat back on the couch, pulling the slightest bit away from him, but making sure his arm was still secured around me. My teeth chattered. "So do I. Every day. And, I tried getting rid of it...vanishing it from my thoughts, but they keep coming back, and then today. Seeing it..." He let me continue talking. I just needed to get this off my chest. "Seeing the diary. It looked so much like it. So horribly like it...I lost control, and...everything came flowing back." I swallowed a lump in my throat. "I'm not making sense," I muttered with a weak laugh that sounded more like a hoarse cough.
"Yes you are," He said lightly. "You are. Ginny I'm - " He paused. "I'm scared to sleep sometimes," He said. "I'm just...scared."
It had taken so much courage for him to tell me that. Me. A girl. He was trying to be strong, and I knew it...everyone knew it and he had just confided something so deeply in me, that I would never ever forget the meaning of it. With six brothers, you learn, that confessions like that, from guys, are rare.
And at that moment, I fell in love with him all over again.
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A/N: *smiles* I know...Cho was horrible, and it was depressing, but I had to have that moment, because it was one I've been planning before I even wrote this story. Of course the story isn't over. Cho will get hers. Anywho, I hope it was good enough, with just the right amount of sap and squishiness! *feels squishy* Please review!
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