The world couldn't have kept her apart from Draco now. With her brothers acceptance and her own discovery, Ginny felt happier than she ever could have.

She felt Harry being pushed out of her mind and found Draco replacing him, along with some newly discovered emotions. For her, life was going great and couldn't have been any better.

She seemed to have forgotten what Draco had said only 4 nights before. I can't protect you, Virginia.

If she hadn't been so happy and dreamy, she might have seen the signs.

~*~

Ginny sat comfortably on her sofa, legs underneath her and a cup of pink lemonade resting in her palms. An open book sat on the coffee table in front of her, and she was busily reading down the pages, lapping up every word.

The book was titled Can't Deny My Love. Ginny would have normally strayed as far away from these kind of books as possible, but with her new found sensuality towards Draco, she felt the need to read every single sappy page.

Her living room was quiet. It was mid afternoon and the hazy sun was sitting contently in the blue sky, casting down hot beams of light into her flat.

Maybe it was something about sitting here, reading a book and sipping lemonade, thinking of Draco and what he might be doing, that made Ginny so content with staying just like this, forever and ever.

A loud knock at her door scared her, nearly causing her to spill her drink. Her lips breaking out into a smile, she set the cup on the table next to her book and stood up, moving towards the door.

She undid the lock and opened the door, her smile fading immediately.

"Hey Ginny." Harry said, his eyes a bright green happiness that ensured his pleasant grin.

"Oh..hey Harry..." Ginny said, suddenly all her insecurities rushing back into her. She hadn't seen Harry in over a year, he had been away in Romania and she had been avoiding him at all costs. "Come in."

Ginny opened the door wider and allowed Harry to enter. He walked in and turned to face her, the grin on his face lessening slightly.

"I have to talk to you about something."

"What is it?" Ginny was curious...very curious actually, as to why Harry Potter would show up at her doorstep in the middle of the afternoon.

"I've been hearing things...well okay, Hermione told me..." Harry began, his gaze shifting to the ground as he shifted his weight. Ginny knew exactly what was coming. "Are you and Malfoy...a couple?"

Ginny couldn't help herself. She burst out laughing for no reason what-so-ever. You shouldn't be laughing! her mind yelled at her. But the laughs kept coming and she began to feel sick to her stomach.

Once her laughing fit had subsided, she looked up at Harry, who wore a very shocked expression.

"I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me..." Ginny said, her smile suddenly turning to a very sad frown. "And yes, since you are wondering...I have moved on Harry."

"With Malfoy...?" Harry said, concluding.

"Yes."

It was Harry's turn to smile. "I was hoping that you were joking, but now seeing your face I take it that you definitely aren't."

"Wow, did you come up with that all by yourself Harry?" Ginny said hastily, her expression one of fury.

Harry grinned even more, looking at Ginny with a surprised expression. "For Ron's sister, you sure are bitchy sometimes."

"Well maybe I wouldn't be that way had you not broken my fucking heart!"

A dark shadow passed over Harry's face, wiping the grin off immediately. "Ginny...I...you know what happened, and to this day I regret ever hurting you...but I was young and stupid then...how could I of known that you cared that much?"

"Well let's see Harry! I thought it was EVIDENT enough that I was completely in love with you from the moment I saw you! And...and...and you go off and MARRY my best friend! I took it lightly then, at least that's what I made people think. You thought that didn't you? You thought that IT didn't phase me at all! Well you know what? It just about killed me."

Ginny couldn't believe she had just said that. All that anger, all that frustration just...burst out all at once. Seeing Harry again hit her in the spot she hoped would never be hit again.

"I'm over you Harry...I've found someone who cares about me and actually loves me...he's so much better than you, just face it!"

Harry looked completely taken back. "I'm sorry Ginny, I can't say that enough...I didn't know...if you had told me that it hurt you that badly, I would have done something...you can't just expect everyone to know how your feeling if you don't let them know first." Harry's eyes were solemn and apologetic, and the truth of it hurt Ginny terribly.

"I'm sorry Harry...I shouldn't have gone off on you like that...it's just...well...I've had all this building up and just when I thought it was all gone you show up and..." Ginny felt her legs start to give way on her and she felt her head spinning, the world turning itself upside down. "I feel a bit lightheaded..."

Ginny collapsed, Harry catching her before she hit the floor. She had fainted, whether from heat exhaustion or heart exhaustion, she would never know.

~*~

Wild green grass blew peacefully in the cool breeze, accenting rolling hills of emerald. The sky was painted with clouds of white, each their own pattern and design.

There were no trees, only rolling grass hills and timeless clouds in a sunless sky.

Suddenly dark clouds rolled in and the breeze turned to icy cold blasting wind as Ginny felt her hair being pulling past her, hiding her face from a dark figure that was steadily approaching her.

Fighting to tame her hair and relieve it of her face, Ginny stared nervously at the dark figure. It moved closer, closer, and closer still, it's face hidden behind a cloak of deep red.

A hand jutted out from under one of the cloaks sleeves, wrinkled and bony, withered and worn. Ginny tried to scream, but her voice came out silent as the world around her.

She tried to run, tried to move, but she was glued permanently to the grassy ground. She looked down and noticed that the grass had turned from peaceful green to deadly brown. Everything around her was dying...and soon she would too.

"Ginny! Ginny...wake up!"

Ginny's eyes flipped open, the light of the room causing her to squint.

"What..." she said, or tried to say anyways. Her throat was dry and she felt like her voice had disappeared.

She looked up and saw Harry looking at her, a concerned look in his eyes.

"Are you alright?" he said, his eyes a sea of emerald waves lined with tears.

"Yea...yea I think so." Ginny said as she sat up, feeling her arms and legs completely mobile again and her voice completely audible. "Did I faint?"

"Yea...but you look fine now...I guess it was the stress." Harry smiled at her, a bit of warmness to reflect the coldness of the dream.

"I'm sorry Harry...I shouldn't take stupid things like that out on you..." Ginny said, trying to smile but realizing she isn't happy enough to.

"It's alright Ginny, just lie down." Harry said as he picked her up off the floor and settled her onto the sofa. It was so weird, Ginny thought, having Harry be so close.

She'd never actually been this close to him...never even knew what he smelled like. She breathed in the scent of his shirt and smelled peppermint.

Weird...I never thought Harry would smell like peppermint, she thought, her eyes shifting to his face as he laid her down.

"Are you sure your okay? I feel this is my fault..."

"I'm fine..trust me. And don't think it's your fault. Just promise me something."

"Of course, what is it?"

"Accept the fact that I'm in love with Draco."

"Alright."

~*~