CastingSoulEyes June 17, 2003 Hidden Love ~ Chapter 2 ~ Departure

Life was blossoming everywhere as students and teachers ran this way and that trying to make preparations as everyone was preparing to leave for home and summer vacation, or to their new lives away from Hogwarts. There was some who were hugging teachers with tears in their eyes and saying how much they'd miss Hogwarts or small silly things like that. It was all a burly mess, as Ginny moved her way towards the common room. She was dressed still in her school uniform, looking her normal self, hidden and withdrawn. She did not look up as she moved her way through bodies, only to stop as she noticed Neville Longbottom looking at her. She paused he was probably the only one to notice her ever, as she looked to him.

"We-Well Ginny I-I-I guess this is b-b-bye for the summer." Naturally Neville spoke with a stutter as he stated his goodbye to Ginny.

She looked up at him, and spoke in her soft voice as she seen past him at Harry and Ron exiting the Commons. "Well Goodbye Neville, see you next year!" With that the youngest of the red-haired Weasley's slipped out of the Commons after her brother and Harry.

She had went unnoticed except for when Hermione stopped and asked her if she knew were Ron was. She just pointed to the grand entrance and that was the end of her conversation with the older girl, who was her brother's girlfriend. She did not really hold much of a relationship with the girl, because she was to shy to.

She paused at the top of the stairs, her arms tightening around herself as she saw. Her pale pink lips parting as she uttered protest to what she was seeing. There down at the bottom of the staircase was Harry and he was hugging Cho Chang, but saying a teary-eyed good bye to one another. What really hurt her though was when Cho kissed Harry on the lips. She was so hurt and upset she hurried down the stairs past them and outside.

She hurried onto one of the carriages, not even realizing until the thing had started moving that she had absent mindedly climbed into the carriage of one Mr. Draco Malfoy and company. She in fact did not become aware of her major goof up until she looked up to the sound of his 'I'm better than God' attitude.

"What's this? A Weasley dares to share a carriage with me? What trying to impress your friends are you?" The hotheaded boy, with the silver blonde hair looked to the girl in simple disgust.

She did not say a word to him, as she stared at him. Fear running through her.

"Well then are you dumb girl? Jesus! How dumb are you Weasley's that you cannot even talk?" He folded his arms looking and inspecting her. "You'd think you could at least be pretty or something!" Naturally Crabbe and Goyle laughed at his comment.

"I-I got into the wrong carriage." She spoke in a mousy response as a single warm, stinging, liquid diamond rolled down her freckled cheek.

"Awe, look boys I've made her cry. What a whine baby!" He sneered at the girl in his carriage.

It was hell for the 10 minutes she was forced to ride in that carriage with him, but the moment the carriage stopped she had shoved open the door and climbed out. The moment her feet touched earth she took off running to the Hogwarts Express and into the safety of one of the apartments. Hiding from being tormented.

So her last minutes of being at Hogwarts for her fifth year had ended in tears. After all the moment she curled up on the seat in her apartment on the train she brought her knees to her chest and cried hard. It was not really for the teasing, no it was over the kiss Harry had shared with Cho. So now the train lurches from the school some forty-five minutes later, all the students aboard. An end to one school year and hopefully the start of an adventurous summer for everyone, especially one shadowed Weasley.