'When I, thought I
knew you
Thinking, that you were true
I guess I, I couldn't trust
'Cause your bluff time is up
'Cause I've had enough
You were, there by my side
Always, down for the ride
But your, joy ride just came down in flames
'Cause your greed sold me out of shame, mmhmm
After all of the stealing and cheating
You probably think that I hold resentment for you
But, uh uh, oh no, you're wrong
'Cause if it wasn't for all that you tried to do
I wouldn't know just how capable I am to pull through
So I wanna say thank you
'Cause it makes me that much stronger
Makes me work a little bit harder
It makes me that much wiser
So thanks for making me a fighter
Made me learn a little bit faster
Made my skin a little bit thicker
Makes me that much smarter
So thanks for making me a fighter
Never, saw it coming
All of, your backstabbing
Just so, you could cash in
On a good thing before I realized your game
I heard, you're going around
Playing, the victim now
But don't, even begin
Feeling I'm the one to blame
'Cause you dug your own grave, uh huh
After all of the fights and the lies
Yes you wanted to harm me but that won't work anymore
Uh, no more, oh no, it's over
'Cause if it wasn't for all of your torture
I wouldn't know how to be this way now, and never back down
So I wanna say thank you'
-Fighter by Christina Aguilera
Ch. 3
Ginny had forgotten what being single felt like and she only had one thing to say about it:
It Sucked.
It had only been a day since the break up, but it seemed every time Ginny looked up she saw Draco with his arm around different girls. She didn't know why, but it hurt. It hurt bad.
Ginny was sitting at lunch alone when she began staring at Draco flirting with Pansy Parkinson. Ginny didn't even realize she was spacing out and totally oblivious to the surrounding world when Harry came up and sat across from her, blocking her view.
"Gin!" Harry beamed at her and snapped his fingers in front of his face. She gradually zoned back in and shook her head a couple times, blinking her eyes slowly before focusing them on Harry.
"Oh, sorry…" Ginny blushed a little and looked down at her empty plate.
"Ginny, it's going to hurt the first couple of days." Harry said calmly, sensing her pain, anger, and jealousy. He placed his hand over hers on the table. "It will be okay. I promise." Harry gave her a small smile.
Ginny smiled in response.
"Thanks, Harry, you truly do make things easier. I don't know what I'd do without you," Ginny paused. "Now, let's eat!" Harry laughed when she said this.
"You sure do know how to ruin a moment…" He said before digging in.
~*~
Now it had been two weeks since the most unexpected break up in all of Hogwarts' history.
Ginny smiled at her reflection in the mirror once more before leaving the bathroom to go down to the common room to meet Harry for breakfast. As usual, her red hair still unchanged was down with nothing but the natural wave. She had added three different shades of green to her delicate eyelids which made them shimmer in the light, giving them more depth than usual and contrasted against her almond eyes. Usually Ginny didn't put this much effort into her appearance, because lately she hadn't cared what she looked like, considering she felt she had no one to look good for. She couldn't wait to see Harry's reaction.
Ginny spotted Harry as soon as she came down those steps. He always sat in the same spot every morning waiting for her. Harry looked up as she came towards him from the other side of the common room. As Ginny got closer, Harry's mouth dropped.
'She looked gorgeous,' kept running across his mind.
"Hey… G-g-ginny…" Harry stuttered, standing up, towering over her. He smiled at her.
"Hey, Harry…" Ginny said giving him a curious look quickly before nodding her heads toward the portrait hole. "I'm starving!"
Harry followed Ginny out of the common room and into the hallway. He kept stumbling over his own feet and found himself continuously staring at her. Harry tripped for the fourth time that morning, causing Ginny to laugh.
"Harry!" Ginny let out a girlish giggle. "Are you okay?" She smiled up at him, flashing her perfect teeth.
Harry blushed pink and smiled back at her.
"Someone's a little clumsy this morning," She said, still giggling and wrapped her free arm around his arm nearest her.
They walked the rest of the way to the Great Hall this way and of course, Harry couldn't stop beaming.
They sat in their usual seats, Harry across from Ginny. As soon as Ginny's butt hit the bench, she began piling food onto her plate.
"Hungry?" Harry looked at her and raised an eyebrow then smiled.
"Yeah…" Ginny said before stuffing her mouth full.
After they'd been eating for about ten minutes and discussing random things, Ginny decided to bring up the topic she'd wanted to for a long time.
"Harry?" Ginny stopped eating and put her fork down.
"Yes, Gin?" Harry did the same. "Wait, is this going to be one of those serious talks girls always have with guys when they're really upset about something?" Harry beamed again at her as Ginny let out the laugh he'd come to fall in love with.
"No, but it is serious, nothing bad though," Ginny smiled back at him. "Look, Harry, I just really, really wanted to thank you." Ginny said this sincerely.
"For what?"
"Everything. You've been my best friend through all this crap," Ginny continued, "and I know I get pretty whiny, bitchy, and selfish, so I don't see how you put up with me. I mean I can't even put up with myself."
Harry continued smiling.
"Say something?" Ginny said after a moment of a silence.
"Uh…" Harry paused and a moment of silence passed between the two of them. Harry was about to say something, something he'd wanted to say for a long time when he let out something totally unexpected.
Harry let out the biggest belch Ginny had ever heard. She began cracking up, rolling with laughter.
"Harry," Ginny wheezed for breath. "You thought I was good at ruining moments?" Ginny still laughed as she finished the rest of her breakfast.
Harry smiled. He hadn't meant to do it and now the perfect time to get what was bothering him off his chest was gone. He decided to wait till that night when they sat in the common room doing their homework and chatting. That's when he realized he was nervous, very nervous.
~*~
Ginny's hand reached under the bed, searching for that adorable striped turtle neck her mom had bought her last Christmas, when she heard Parvati and what sounded like Pansy enter. They seemed to be deep in discussion, not noticing Ginny halfway under the bed at the other end of the room.
"Are you sure?" Pansy's annoying little-girl voice filled Ginny's ears. Ginny always liked gossip so she slid all the way under her bed and listened intently to the occurring conversation.
"No!" Parvati shot back. She was going through things on her bed, which was right next to Ginny's.
"Calm down, Parv. If you're not sure, you've got nothing to worry about," Pansy replied, now sitting on her bed which was on the other side of Parvati's.
"I know that!" Parvati's voice still sounded very annoyed.
"How many days?"
"Five."
"That's nothing!" Pansy let out a nervous laugh.
"Still, I've got to go through with this. I've got to know." Parvati and Pansy's voices trailed off as they went up the stairs to the bathroom.
Ginny quietly climbed out from under her bed, making sure the coast was clear before completely standing up.
'That was really strange. I'll have to ask Harry about that one,' Ginny thought to herself.
Luckily, she had found the sweater she'd been looking for and threw it on quickly with a pair of jeans and her leopard print slippers. She quickly pulled her hair back into a loose bun on the top of her head, grabbed her homework, and headed for the common room.
Ginny was going so quickly down the stairs, she didn't notice the toe of her slipper get caught in a crack and she began falling head first down the stairs.
Fortunately for her, of course, Mr. Famous was standing at the bottom of the stairs. Coincidence, no?
"Ginny?" Harry asked looking down at the beautiful creature he was now holding in his muscular arms.
Ginny was laughing, just laughing.
"I'm sorry, Harry. I was going so fast… I tripped… hey, you caught me!" Ginny laughed and relaxed in his arms.
'This is wonderful,' Harry thought to himself. Mentally, he slapped himself. 'Get a hold of yourselves Harry James Potter!'
Ginny felt a little dizzy so Harry carried her to the nearest vacant couch for her to lay down on.
"Once again, Harry Potter saves the day," Ginny smiled at him before sitting up. Harry sat down next to her.
They'd begun doing their homework when Ginny looked up to see Ron and Hermione snogging in the corner.
"Hey, Harry," Ginny poked him with the tip of her quill and pointed it in Ron and Hermione's direction when Harry's gaze was on her. His eyes followed her quill to his best friends.
Harry shook his head slowly, looking down ashamed.
"Those two," Harry said sounding like a father scolding his child.
"How do you put up with that?" Ginny asked, still watching them.
"Well, I just come and find you when they start," Harry laughed and looked back at Ginny. Ginny blushed.
Ginny went back to doing her homework, and before long she found herself nodding off.
"Well, Harry, I guess I better get some sleep," Ginny stood up with her books and quill in one arm and stretched with the other.
"Night, Gin. See you in the morning," Harry stood also, and smiled at her.
"Good night, Harry. Sweet dreams," She said before disappearing up the staircase.
~*~
Ginny woke up to hearing muffled voices beside her bed. She rolled over groggily and slowly cracked the curtain of her canopied bed to glance at her alarm clock which read 5:00.
'Way too early,' Ginny thought to herself before rolling over again.
She was half asleep when she heard something startling.
"It's positive, Pansy," Parvati's voice quivered.
"I'm so sorry," Pansy said in a comforting manner and went to sit next to her friend on the bed who now had silent tears streaming down her cheeks.
"My life's over. Officially over."
"No, there are things that can be done to change this," Pansy still tried to comfort her sobbing friend.
"I'm pregnant!" Was all Ginny needed to hear to wake up at 5:00 in the morning, and those were just the next words to come out of Parvati's mouth.
"Are you going to tell him?"
"Are you crazy? He'd freak!" Parvati snapped, now she wasn't holding anything back.
"You have to tell him."
"There is no way I'm going to tell him, at least I'm going to keep it a secret as long as I can," Parvati went back to whispering.
"You need his support more than anyone else's. You need to go to him today."
Ginny's mouth hung open as she listened to this.
"Who cares? He'll hate me, and then you can only imagine what Ginny's reaction will be when she finds out."
Ginny became a little more alert as she heard her name.
"Why is that?" Pansy asked curiously.
"Because she can count." Parvati said flatly.
Ginny was confused, very confused.
"So, tell Ginny first. Get it over with. She'll find out sooner or later."
"No, she'll kill me. Most likely with her bare hands."
Ginny snapped out of her confusion and her already-shocked expression became one of anger.
She knew who the baby's father was, and if Parvati had only been a week late yesterday, that would have make the occurrence about three weeks ago. Ginny had broken up with him two weeks previous, not three. Ginny's blood boiled in her veins.
[Authors' Note~~~ Sniveling little bastard! Lol. Yes, that describes this Draco… oh well, he's still hot. Yeah… hope you like this chapter as much as I do! Please review, I love hearing that you people actually read my stuff… who knew this was coming? Cuz I sure didn't until I wrote it lol… who knows what else is to come… revenge, understanding, or … just anger? Not to forget sorrow and unhappiness from Ginny's part. Anyway – The next chapter will be 'I Turn To You' as it was supposed to be for this chapter, but I didn't want to make this chapter too long and I liked the way it ended here, I hope you did too! REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!! –Hannah Holt loves you]