A/n: Hey guys! yeah this is my first fic. I have a couple of poems on fanfiction though... Um this was never meant to turn out like this :S Not so much detail... Oh well that just mean i have to write more chapters! crap! I would like to thank my darling Evil Spapple Pie, the one on whom i force all my creations! Love you sweetie! Go check out her work, it's cool! I have different ways to go with this but hmmm.... ok please read and review cause it would mean sooooo much to me! Oh and thank you to my buddies Megan and Jessica for letting me borrow their names. I didn't know anyone in Ginny's grade 'cept for Colin. Ok I'll let you get on to reading now. And please be kind! This is only my first attempt!!!

Chapter 1: Painful Memories

The woman smiled after the kids as they boarded the bus. They reminded her so much of the old days with her friends while they were at school... The group consisted of three girls and three boys, only one couple out of these seemed romantically linked though. The couple was holding hands, looking at ease and utterly complete. She swallowed back a sob, she knew that look, she recognized it from the days when she and... but she didn't want to think of that, after years of hurt she knew that the only thing to do, was just forget. But she couldn't, at the first sight of the kids the painful memories came swirling back, and though there were some happy memories there, the bad ones were so terrible that they were smothering the good ones, leaving the woman to wonder why the group had ever gotten together in the first place. But then she remembered... it wasn't some freak accident, it was that boy. He drew everyone to him, but out of all of them he had chosen her to love, for a while... but that didn't matter anymore. None of it mattered... But the memories wouldn't stop, they kept pushing forward. With a sigh, the old woman let them come, as she had done many times before, and like before she promised herself this was the last time, the last time she dragged up things that part of her wanted to keep hidden....

"Ginny!" came the shout. She knew who it was calling her name, that magical voice. She willed herself to keep breathing and she turned around to see a pair of bright green eyes on her.
"Hi Harry, what's up?"
"Uh, yeah, um nothing much... Hey Gin?"
"Yeah"
"Do you, ummm.... I mean, if you want to that is, I mean I understand totally if you don't but..."
Ginny was stunned, Harry the famous Harry Potter, getting tongue tied around her? Never, he couldn't be, but there he was, standing in front of her stumbling through his words as the came rushing out of his mouth. But wait what was that he had just said? She hadn't caught it properly, it sounded like he had just asked her to go to Hogsmeade with him. "Pardon, what did you just say?"
"I, umm... just wanted to know if you wanna go with me to Hogsmeade on Saturday?" He gave her a smile that made her knees go weak. "Please?"
Act normal, she told herself. Stop it knees! "Yeah, sure, that sounds great." She found herself saying.
"Really?!? Oh great, I mean, cool." He smiled again, and Ginny found her heart in her throat. "Well, I, um... have to get to class now."
"Oh yeah, class..." She replied, while mentally kicking herself for sounding like such an idiot.
"I'll see you later?" he asked, searching her eyes.
"Yeah, ok." 'If he doesn't stop looking at me like that, I think I'll faint,' she thought to herself.
"Bye, Ginny." He said it as if he really didn't want to say goodbye at all.
"Bye Harry." She said in an almost whisper. I love you, she wanted to scream after him as he turned to walk away. 'Hmmm, nice butt though,' she thought cheekily. 'And he wants to go to Hogsmeade with ME!!!!!'

Ginny practically skipped to her next class, not caring that it was potions and if she didn't hurry up she was going to be late. As it happened she got there just in time. "Lucky!" said Colin as she slid into a seat next to him. "One second more and you arse would've been in the frying pan! Hey, you looked flushed are you alright?"
Ginny just nodded, she didn't want to tell anyone her good news just yet. She wanted to hug it to herself for a bit more.
Potions went fast, well, fast for potions. And Gryffindor only lost 10 points, which was, perhaps, a record - for the least amount of points lost through one Potions lesson.
She had a spare period now, so she went to the Common Room to see if she could find Hermione, deciding that she wanted to tell the other girl first, before Hermione could found out off Harry. 'And also,' she told herself, 'to see what she thinks about it.'
Hermione wasn't in the Gryffindor common room, and Ginny wasn't in the mood to go on a search for the girl, no matter how excited she was. Ginny went upstairs to the dorm she shared with the other fourth year girls. No one was in there and Ginny was pleased to have time to herself, to plan out Saturday and what she was going to wear. Ginny lay down on her bed, and her mind was just drifting when a creaking sound brought her out of her Harry trance. But it was only Crookshanks, Hermione's cat. "Hey kitty," Ginny called out. Crookshanks jumped up on Ginny's bed and it was then that she noticed there was a piece of parchment stuck in the cats collar. She pulled it out and read it.
Dear Ginny, it started, Roses are red, Violets are blue, I never knew beauty, Until I knew you. Are we still on for Saturday? Love Harry.
Ginny felt her face going red, almost to the same colour as her hair. It was the sweetest thing anyone had every written to her. She sighed and held the piece of paper to her heart. "Oh shit!" she sat up suddenly, he'll want a response. She wasn't that good at writing things like that, maybe she should wait until one of the other girls came up, she could get them to help her. Yes that seemed a good idea, although she could imagine the giggling that some of them would do, especially Jessica. She should just go to Megan, she always had guys hanging off her. She would have to be good at this stuff. Yes, she would get Megan to help, Ginny decided as she drifted off to sleep.



A/N: Thanks for reading and remember what i said about being kind!!!!!