Chapter 5 – December

Monday 1st December

What happened after on the 29th

I just stood there. Watching them. What else could I do? Go and slap Cho and drag Harry away? No. I just ran. I ran back to the common room ignoring Hermione asking what had happened and ran into my dorm. Luckily, no one was there. But after a few minutes there was a knock on the door and I could hear Hermione's voice. "Ginny? Are you alright? Can I come in?" I said nothing. I couldn't talk right now, not after what I just saw.

The door opened and Hermione walked in and sat on my bed. She touched my arm and I slowly lifted my head and looked at her with a tear stained face. "What happened?" Hermione asked. I decided to tell her everything, from beginning to end.

"I ran up the corridor as fast as I could, looking for Harry but it was very hard to find him. I turned a corner and saw him. He had Cho pushed up against a wall and was kissing her, even on her neck with his hand on her thigh. She was squealing with delight and I stood there thinking 'what a bitch'. But I knew it wasn't her fault really. I wasn't sure what I should do, but I was certain I didn't want Harry to see me, so I just ran as fast as possible back to here. That's it".

I finished my story and sighed. I thought Hermione would give me wise words like: "don't worry Ginny! There are other people out there!" or "it's ok, find someone who deserves you". But they'd all be lies. But she surprised me and hugged me and said: "I'm so sorry Ginny. I thought he really liked you".

Friday 5th December

It's been a hard week but I've managed. I told my friends what happened and they felt so sorry for me. "You poor thing! First James, now Harry!" Abby said sympathetically. "Don't worry Ginny, I'll beat him up for you" Katy said, clenching her fists. That was her answer for everything but it helped to know my friends cared. I told them not to worry and I walked up the stairs to bed.

Sunday 7th December

I spent most of yesterday and today trying to avoid Harry. I'm sitting by the fire now, writing in here. Quite peaceful really, I'm safe now. Harry's gone off with Cho for a while; they won't be back for hours. I cringed as I thought what they could be doing. SHIT! THEIR BACK!!! I better run. Write again later.

I was caught. I nearly made it out of the portrait hole when Harry yelled after me. But there was no way I could face him yet after seeing him and Cho. I ran for what seemed like ages till I knew I'd better stop. I rested against the wall and sighed with relief knowing I'd lost him.

"Ginny?" came Harry's sweet voice from next to me. Shit, his found me. There's no chance I can escape now. I looked up at him and stood facing him. "Why did you run away? I was running after you calling your name!" Harry said breathless. I put on my 'innocent' face. "Did you? I didn't hear you" I replied. That has got to be the most stupid excuse I have ever told. But Harry accepted it strangely.

"Right, well I was just wondering why you've been avoiding me recently." Harry asked. "Have I? You must be mistaken Harry, I've just been so busy at the moment" I replied. I started fake laughing and gently hit his arm. A shiver ran through me when I realised who'd touched him there. I quickly pulled away and stepped backwards. Harry looked quite hurt and muttered "sorry" and walked away.

I felt awful. Everything sucked right now. My heart had just been broken by James and now this happened with Harry. I sat against the wall again and cried again feeling as though nothing else could possibly happen to make my situation worse. "Ginny?" a voice said timidly. I looked up with tears running down my face and saw Ron standing there. 

Monday 8th December

I decided to tell him everything. He listened intently to all my feelings about Harry, James and Cho. When I had finished, I looked up at him expectantly. At this point, he was sitting on the floor next to me. I wondered what he would say, I was also worried that he would go and beat Harry up. But he simply said: "it's ok Ginny, if you and Harry were meant to be, someday it'll happen" and he hugged me.

Thursday 18th December

Its Christmas next week! Yay! I'm really looking forward to it and maybe it will cheer me up. I was sitting at breakfast today with Ron, Harry, Hermione, Fred and George and was eagerly waiting for an owl from home. A swoop of wings could be heard above and there was Errol flying towards us (and I mean right at us!) We all ducked and Errol hit the wall.                                     Fred walked over to him and picked him up, taking the letter off of his leg.

"What does it say Fred? Are we staying for Christmas?" I asked. "Yep! Mum and Dad are visiting Bill in Egypt so we're all staying here" Fred replied. I smiled; it was always nice to see Hogwarts at Christmas time. I looked over at Harry and saw he was smiling as well, but at me.

Wednesday 24th December

Christmas Eve is here! I'm in the common room at the moment waiting for Abby to come downstairs. For once I'm in a very good mood! No idea why. Nothing can upset me now!

I'm upset. Harry and Cho are all over each other outside the Gryffindor common room. I walked past them giving them both a dirty look. Harry took time out of kissing that slut to see me. I quickly climbed through the portrait hole and ran up the stairs so he wouldn't ask any questions. I ran into my common room and closed the door. "Hi…Ab...by…are…you…ready…yet?" I asked, breathless.

"Yeah nearly. What's up with you? You're all red, very unattractive" Abby replied. "Thanks mate! I'm on the run from, Harry" I replied. "Did you give them the evils again Ginny?" Abby asked, eyebrows raised. "Erm… no…" I replied nervously. "Course not. It's so obvious you still like him Ginny" Abby said. "Ok fine I do. It just hurts so much when I see him with Cho. I really do like him you know and I just wish we were together…" There was a noise from outside and we both peered around the door and saw Harry running down the stairs away from our dorm.

Thursday 25th December

Yesterday was worrying. Me and Abby just looked at each other with wide eyes. I prayed that he was just passing by and didn't hear anything but I doubted it very much. Oh well! It's Christmas so I shouldn't worry so much! I got loads of presents and lots of food from mum. Does she think I'm so thin that I need galleons of chocolate? Well, maybe not galleons but quite a lot.

There is a lot of snow outside that me and my friends were making snow angels. It was a lot of fun and we could have done it for ages but we started to get tired so we stopped. We had a lovely Christmas dinner and there wasn't many of us so that was nice. Harry kept glancing at me from across the table; luckily Cho was at home with her family so I didn't have to do any evil looks.

I'm in bed now writing in here. It was quite a good day really and I tried to avoid Harry a lot. We're going to have a new year's party soon in our common room; other houses are invited too (but no Slytherins).

Wednesday 31st December

Wow! That was a great party! But strange too… Here's what happened:

Everyone was listening to music and dancing around holding bottles of butterbeer (and sometimes vodka) having a great time. I even danced myself but kept getting looks from Harry. At 11:55, Harry came over to me and grabbed my hand and pulled me upstairs to his dorm. "What's going on Harry?" I asked as he sat down on his bed. "We need to talk Ginny" Harry asked seriously.

"Ok, what about?" I replied. "First of all, me and Cho aren't working out. She's so overprotective and wants me to ditch my friends for her. So I'm going to break up with her" Harry said. I secretly was thinking: 'YES!!!!!!!!!' "But it's not just that…" Harry continued. I looked at him expectantly. "I like someone else and I think you know who" Harry said. Downstairs I could hear people chanting "5…4…3" "I love you Ginny" Harry said on 2. On 1, Harry pressed his soft lips against mine in a heart warming kiss.

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