Ron and Hermione were leaving the movies, Hermione had a soda on her
hands and Ron a half way eaten pop corn bag. They were laughing and
holding hands. Ron look! That's Ginny and Harry! They're coming here! Oh by Merlin Ron! I think it worked!!
Ron looked at his sister and friend walking to them and shivered.
- Are you sure? They don't seem too happy.
- Hi there! - Harry yelled in a totally not happy voice.
- Hi? - They answered.
- What did you think you were doing! Did you think we wouldn't notice who
the other was and go on with the date? - Ginny yelled not even waiting
to be acknowledged.
- Gin calm down we were just... - Harry cut Ron.
- Were just messing with us? Doing what you're not suppose to? I just
can't believe you did this Ron! You both lied to us, made us look like
fools, made us uncomfortable.
- Ok, since I notice a great use of the word us...it might not be the way
we planned it but still, does that mean you're together against us? _ Ron
asked with a hopeful face mirrored by Hermione's
- No! - Ginny said slapping him on the back of the head. - I'm leaving!
- Ginny wait! We're supposed to go back with my dad.
Ginny stopped and turned back. - Whatever, just listen to me, don't you
dare think I'll forget about this! I can't believe you humiliated me like
this, making me do something I didn't want to! - Ginny said a little
lower so only the other girl could listen. - How could you Hermione?
- I just wanted to help. - The older girl said lowering her head.
- So? How did it go? - Fred asked anxiously. They had all learned about
Hermione's and Ron's plan to get Harry and Ginny back together and the
only thing that kept them silent about it was the fact that everybody in
the family knew, so they could talk about it, otherwise they'd be walking
on the walls by now.
Hermione just shook her head negatively.
- What?! Why? - George asked outraged, he had prepared a special sweet
for the "new" couple so their mouths would be glued together! How could
they do that tohim!
- Obviously it was Ginny! Harry would've thrown himself at her feet if it
was required. - Ron saidentering the living room.
- They were furious! Ginny and I almost fought, I never saw her this
angry, save from when Harry...well you know. - Hermione said.
-That's bad..well I guess we can't do much..for now. - Fred said with a
mischievous look and took off to his old room.
Hermione-Ginny-Harry-Neville-Parvati-Dean-Padma-Ron-Hermione Seamus-Lavender
((I shouldn't even apologize because my delay in inexcusable, but still,
I'm sorry. XD))
~This is a Christmas break, just so you remember, but if I haven't
portayed Christmas activities at the Weasley house, I won't be doing that
now..sorry, but it wasn't planned on my story.~
"Aww man, think I ate too much." Ron said trying unsuccessfully to unfasten his belt. "So, when are we sorting the papers?"
"Right now, I got them right here." Hermione said. The teenagers had decided to make a little 'secret friend' game this Christmas, they would make small papers with everyone's name in it and each one would pick a paper having to get a gift for the person they had gotten, they decided the gift exchanges would happen after they got back to Hogwarts though. The participants were Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Harry, Neville, Lavender, Parvati, Padma, Dean and Seamus, to the last five they had sent owls with their respective papers and Hermione made sure no one could see what they said.
The twins obviously had plotted an evil plan to make Harry and Ginny sort each other, but it proved very unsuccessful as Hermione herself sorted Ginny.
"Well, everybody got a name? Remember do not tell anyone who you got." Hermione said eying Ron suspiciously, he seemed to be the kind that loved to find out the whole scheme of papers. "Alright now, everyone I'm going to sleep now, you all should go too, we go back to school tomorrow."
"I'm so glad we're back, this school never seemed more cheerful to me." Ginny said in a weird bubbly tone that seemed somehow fake.
"I think she's still mad at us, I don't even know how we managed to get them to participate the 'secret friend' thing." Ron whispered to Hermione as they walked to he Great Hall for the feast that welcomed back the students who had left for Christmas and the begging of classes.
"Shut up Ron,I think there's something there.I'm suspicious, but maybe I've been seeing things.I just don't think those two are good enough to put up a pretence." She spoke more to herself then to her frowning boyfriend.
"What are you talking about Hermione?"
"It's nothing.it's just.Harry and Ginny haven't been..well they have been more friendly towards each other, and sometimes after they give us a grumpy face meaning they're still angry because of our scheming, afterwards I see them grinning and giving side ways glances to each other.I think, something is going on." She said 'scratching' her chin as if in deep thought.
"How come you didn't tell me this before?" Ron asked a little outraged. "Because I'm not sure of anything, and you tend too.not keep things shut, but I'm getting to the bottom of this." She snaswered.
"Alright Miss Detective, just don't drag me into trouble with you." The made their way to the dinning hall only to find Harry and Ginny already seated with Neville and the others.
After all were seated and relatively quiet Dumbledore stood and started to speak, silencing anyone who was still talking.
"Welcome back my dear students, I hope you had a pleasurable Christmas and to the ones who stayed here, I am sure you did." He said in a light tone smiling. "Tomorrow your classes will start again, in the same schedules as before this break and as I have informed in the beginning of the term, Saturday there will be the Christmas Ball." He said smiling at the pleased sounds the crowd of students made.
"Very well, it is always a great thing to be able to welcome you with only good words to speak, so let us not speak too much and enjoy this wonderful fast." He said clapping his hands twice and the various dishes filled with different foods with delicious presentations started to appear at the tables and the merry chatter took over the Hall once more.
~~~~~~~~
A hole week had passed in which Hermione had suspicouly fallowed the ooks Ginny and Harry exchanged, tried to follow them, always taking an annoying Ron with her. The week she found their relationship had deepened quite a bit. They were friend, partners in crime, boyfriend and girlfriend and cared deeply for each other, not mentioning the deep trust that they now felt for each other. Hermione had never thought that she would enjy so much dating her Weasley. She smiled up at the tall red haired boy in front of her and laced his neck with her arms pulling with down a little to be closer the her face. "You're going to help me aren't you?" She asked with a baby-like voice pouting.
"Of course I will." He answered rolling his eyes and snickering. "If I didn't I'd pay for it anyway." He said shaking his head and receiving a kiss for his girlfriend. He slimed down and her and stepped out of their embrace a little reluctantly. "Well let's go, we're not just ging to stand here I the middle of the hall are we?" He said offering her a hand but letting her take the lead as she knew where they were headed to.
She nodded and started walking slightly lifting the skirts of her dress t oprevent them from dragging on the floor. "Ron, I'm determinate to fix this thing, right now we're going to look for Cho and tell her all that happened, and then we're going to hunt down Pansy Parkinson!" Hermione spoke walking quickly in an annoyed pace being hindered by her long midnight blue dress.
"Hermione it's the Christmas Ball tonight, it starts in less than an hour, can't it wait?" Ron would usually be the first to agree on getting away from Ball and dances but after his previous experience at the Halloween ball he found he quite enjoyed it when he had Hermione's company.
"Mione don't you think the easier place to find Cho right now is the Great H..ouch!" Ron landed on the floor with a thud and quickly untangled himself from the body that had fallen with him. "Parkinson." He said through gritted teeth. "Where's your boss?" He asked referring to Malfoy and noticing how Hermione shot the Slytherin girl dreadful looks, but before he could say anything or even allow his brain to process what was going on Hermione was forcefully holding Pansy by her collar and speaking angrily.
"I know it was you, and I will prove it, you're coming with us. Now." She aid quickly perfoming a spell to make the girl willing ot comply with her orders not giving her time to answer or fight back. "Ron the bottle of Veritaserum, we're ending this tonight."
"Hermione? Ron? Are you alright?" Came a soft voice from behind them, they both turned and Ron immediately smiled at the coincidence. It was Cho.
"Yes we are, but we need to talk to you." Ron spoke as Hermione still seemed occupied trying to feed the potion to the Slytherin girl.
"Alright, we still have some time before the ball, what is it?"
Cho's outraged and enraged expression showed all her feelings about what she had just learned, she couldn't believe all this problems had bee caused by a fake her and she hadn't even learnt anything about it.
'Count on me to get this girl to pay for this, she should learn not to use people's body, that's preposterous! Now you aren't even safe enough to walk around because you're you! You had no right to ruin their relationship because of whatever wicked frustration you and the blondie have your lives!" Hermione and Ron just stared wide eyed as the black haired girl dressed in a beautiful sleeveless golden dress raved on and on as they made their way to the Great Hall.
~The three of them entered the Great Hall with evil and glorious grins on their faces dragging around the Slytherin girl that got several arched eyebrows from her house mates.
"Where are Ginny and Harry?" Ron asked dropping the girl on a chair and making sure se couldn't get away.
"Well they're not here yet." Nevile started. "Wait." His eyes widened slightly. "There." He pointed to the entrance doors.
Ginny was entering the hall dressed and a earthy green dress that resembled the one's nymph wore with an asymmetric skirt that seemed to be made of several independent pieces of fabric, giving extreme grace and movement to it, the dress had only one sleeve that was mde in a similar way to the skirt the long fabric of the dress flowing as if being caressed by the wind, simple flowers of the same color of the dress were embroidered to the sleeve and upper end of the dress, her red haired hung loose adorned with similar green flowers. She were a soft brown eye shadow that brought out her eyes and a lip colored glitter o her lips, though her smiling right now was shining much more than the make up.
Harry was by her side. Clad in beautiful brown robes that seemed to declare they both belonged together, like nature. His disheveled black hair had a wild look to it adding to his handsome features as a stunning smiled appeared in his lips. They were holding hands.
Ron and Hermione felt that if they spoke they'd stutter. They were holding hands?
The couple although very worth of looking at didn't seem to catch the attention of the whole hall ,for which they were grateful for. The students kept dancing, eating and chatting, only some heads, specially Gryffindor's and Slytherin turned to them and looked back in awe.
They walked up to where Ron and Hermione were and the girl promptly shook herself out of her amazement and addressed her friends. "We got Pansy, she confessed it all." She spit out.
Ginny seemed momentarily surprised, but then a grin surfaced and she spoke lightly. "I'm glad, we'll make sure she gets her punishment, but I don't care to hear what she has to say, I know all I need to know." She said looking back at Harry and smiling at him and the boy inched closer and place a kiss on her cheek.
"Ok, I honestly don't understand a thing. Have I been in a come for a few years or something?" Ron asked completely annoyed at his own ignorance.
"Since when?" Hermione motioned from Harry to Ginny with a questioning look, one of her hands searching for Ron's and as she found it she squeezed it gently and smiled briefly at him turning back to her friends to wait for an answer.
"A few day's ago..a week and two days I think.on the day we were supposed to meet in the park." Harry spoke grinning widely and letting his mind wander back to their date.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT THEIR DATE BEFORE THEY MET UP WITH HERMIONE AND RON(I used a paragraph from the previous chapter as to make you remember where it stopped):
- Harry? - She asked with an incredulous face.
- Ginny.- He stated.
- What are you doing here? Me? What are yo...
Suddenly Ginny looked up, her eyes squinting. "I can't believe it! They
did this! Hermione and Ron set this whole thing up! I can't believe they
would do that! They can't just put themselves in the middle of things! -
She controlled herself not to yell.
- Ron just played me the fool all this time! Internet date...
- So that's what you're here for? - Ginny asked raising an eyebrow.
- Don't start Ginny, you're here as well - He looked down.
- Because, I agreed to help Hermione to win a bet with Cl.. - Ginny just
closed her eyes and trailed off, how could she be this stupid? Hermione
didn't even have a chance to talk to Clark all year long, let alone make
bets. - I can't believe she would just be so nosy! - She looked up with
a faint blush on her face.
-I'm leaving. - Harry said.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED:
- I...I'm...I'm glad she was. - She said in a whisper blushing a deeper
shade of red.
- What?- Harry had barely heard it, but his ears were already trained to
catch those words, he couldn't have misheard it.
- Nothing. - Ginny answered. *Maybe it's better he didn't listen. *
- No, I heard, I...just didn't know if I had heard right...I don't
understand.
- Neither do I...I think. - Ginny really did seem quite confused at the
moment.
*Well, maybe this is not as romantic as it should be, but it's a
start*
- Ginny, do you want to take a walk? Talk a little? - Harry felt ill at
ease, he didn't know what to do to keep Ginny like this, friendly, and he
definitely didn't want to say anything that would make her angry and ruin
this momentary peace.
- Yeah. - She nodded frantically until she realized what she was doing.
- Ok. - He slowly started to walk to the park, waiting for Ginny to
follow him, and she soon fell on step with him.
They both kept silence for a while. At first it was an awkward silence,
but soon a sense of comfort and familiarity settled between them. During
their relationship they hadn't had many chances to just walk, side by
side, enjoying each other's company, just for the company, not for the
conversation or anything else, and now that they were doing it, they
weren't together anymore. Apparently both were musing about the same
thing because the reminder that they weren't a couple anymore made the
silence awkward again, they both could sense the other struggling to find
something to say.
- They're going to pay for doing this. - Harry said.
- Yeah they are. - Ginny gave a half smile.
- What is it? - Harry saw the look on the red haired girls face and
stopped.
- It's nothing.
- Of course it's something...tell me. -
- I...I'm sick of this. Sick of being without you, even if as a friend. -
She said looking down with a defeated look. Harry's eyes glistened and he
jumped in front of her.
- Really? But...don't look so sad! - He said not controlling his own
happiness.
- I feel stupid Harry.
- We...you don't have to feel stupid...and we don't have to talk about
this if you don't want. - He said.
- But we do! I just, I'm just too confused to keep things this way. I'm
just going to talk and forget that I've been pretending to hate you.
Ginny saw a bench a few feet away from them and headed there, sitting
down and waiting for Harry to sit.
- Harry, I...i still like you, and I don't know how you didn't notice it
before because it's pretty obvious, but...it really hurt seeing you.... -
She trailed off.
- I'm sorry. - Harry said.
- No. I am sorry, I shouldn't have treated you the way I did, all right
you did hurt me, but it's no excuse for me to lower myself to the level.
- She said returning to her bitter voice.
-I didn't do it.
She stayed in silence choosing her words. - I know you didn't.
Harry looked up, staring into her eyes. - No you don't.
- Harry...I don't know what happened there, and maybe I never will, but I
trust you, I want to, I....If you are lying to me, and you did kiss her,
too bad, you are making a fool out of me and I'll never know, but I won't
give up on a chance to be with you, and see for myself if you really are
a jerk or not. - She said, the corners of her mouth turning up. - But I
do believe you're not lying to me, after all, the most amazing and
unbelievable things happen to you, and until today, not one of them was a
lie. - She smiled sweetly at him.
- Ginny I...
- I know it's hard for you to believe I would suddenly change my mind,
but that's not what happened, I've been thinking about this for a while,
I was just too proud to actually say it, and believe me it's hard for
Weasley's to change their minds, so value this twice as much as you
would.
- That's impossible. - Harry said with the most stunning smile Ginny had
ever seen him with and she closed her eyes as Harry's lips covered hers
and smiled into the kiss. A lingering, sweet, gentle kiss, not of two
people getting back together, full of fears and cautions, a kiss of two
people who know and like each other enough to forget everything.
- I still say they're going to pay. - Harry said breaking the kiss, still
wearing the smiled on his face.
- Oh yes they are.
- I'm so happy that you believe in me, I...It might be enough for you to
just believe me, but I promise, I'll prove it to you, that I would never,
ever do anything to lose you.
- You just did. - Ginny smiled and nodded. They stood up and started
heading to the movie Theater where they were supposed to meet Ron and
Hermione.
- Do you think I was too easy?
- What? Easy, Ginny? Please!
- I mean, we just ran into each other and I was already apologizing. -
The girl said teasingly.
- Ha! Don't you dare regret now! - He said putting an arm around her
waist and pulling her slightly. - They kept walking and whispering their
plan to each other.
- I love you, you know that? - Ginny said forgetting all embarrassment.
- I love you too. - Harry said allowing a single tear to roll down his
cheek as he pressed Ginny against him and kissed her again. The second of
thousands of kisses yet to come.
THE END!
hands and Ron a half way eaten pop corn bag. They were laughing and
holding hands. Ron look! That's Ginny and Harry! They're coming here! Oh by Merlin Ron! I think it worked!!
Ron looked at his sister and friend walking to them and shivered.
- Are you sure? They don't seem too happy.
- Hi there! - Harry yelled in a totally not happy voice.
- Hi? - They answered.
- What did you think you were doing! Did you think we wouldn't notice who
the other was and go on with the date? - Ginny yelled not even waiting
to be acknowledged.
- Gin calm down we were just... - Harry cut Ron.
- Were just messing with us? Doing what you're not suppose to? I just
can't believe you did this Ron! You both lied to us, made us look like
fools, made us uncomfortable.
- Ok, since I notice a great use of the word us...it might not be the way
we planned it but still, does that mean you're together against us? _ Ron
asked with a hopeful face mirrored by Hermione's
- No! - Ginny said slapping him on the back of the head. - I'm leaving!
- Ginny wait! We're supposed to go back with my dad.
Ginny stopped and turned back. - Whatever, just listen to me, don't you
dare think I'll forget about this! I can't believe you humiliated me like
this, making me do something I didn't want to! - Ginny said a little
lower so only the other girl could listen. - How could you Hermione?
- I just wanted to help. - The older girl said lowering her head.
- So? How did it go? - Fred asked anxiously. They had all learned about
Hermione's and Ron's plan to get Harry and Ginny back together and the
only thing that kept them silent about it was the fact that everybody in
the family knew, so they could talk about it, otherwise they'd be walking
on the walls by now.
Hermione just shook her head negatively.
- What?! Why? - George asked outraged, he had prepared a special sweet
for the "new" couple so their mouths would be glued together! How could
they do that tohim!
- Obviously it was Ginny! Harry would've thrown himself at her feet if it
was required. - Ron saidentering the living room.
- They were furious! Ginny and I almost fought, I never saw her this
angry, save from when Harry...well you know. - Hermione said.
-That's bad..well I guess we can't do much..for now. - Fred said with a
mischievous look and took off to his old room.
Hermione-Ginny-Harry-Neville-Parvati-Dean-Padma-Ron-Hermione Seamus-Lavender
((I shouldn't even apologize because my delay in inexcusable, but still,
I'm sorry. XD))
~This is a Christmas break, just so you remember, but if I haven't
portayed Christmas activities at the Weasley house, I won't be doing that
now..sorry, but it wasn't planned on my story.~
"Aww man, think I ate too much." Ron said trying unsuccessfully to unfasten his belt. "So, when are we sorting the papers?"
"Right now, I got them right here." Hermione said. The teenagers had decided to make a little 'secret friend' game this Christmas, they would make small papers with everyone's name in it and each one would pick a paper having to get a gift for the person they had gotten, they decided the gift exchanges would happen after they got back to Hogwarts though. The participants were Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Harry, Neville, Lavender, Parvati, Padma, Dean and Seamus, to the last five they had sent owls with their respective papers and Hermione made sure no one could see what they said.
The twins obviously had plotted an evil plan to make Harry and Ginny sort each other, but it proved very unsuccessful as Hermione herself sorted Ginny.
"Well, everybody got a name? Remember do not tell anyone who you got." Hermione said eying Ron suspiciously, he seemed to be the kind that loved to find out the whole scheme of papers. "Alright now, everyone I'm going to sleep now, you all should go too, we go back to school tomorrow."
"I'm so glad we're back, this school never seemed more cheerful to me." Ginny said in a weird bubbly tone that seemed somehow fake.
"I think she's still mad at us, I don't even know how we managed to get them to participate the 'secret friend' thing." Ron whispered to Hermione as they walked to he Great Hall for the feast that welcomed back the students who had left for Christmas and the begging of classes.
"Shut up Ron,I think there's something there.I'm suspicious, but maybe I've been seeing things.I just don't think those two are good enough to put up a pretence." She spoke more to herself then to her frowning boyfriend.
"What are you talking about Hermione?"
"It's nothing.it's just.Harry and Ginny haven't been..well they have been more friendly towards each other, and sometimes after they give us a grumpy face meaning they're still angry because of our scheming, afterwards I see them grinning and giving side ways glances to each other.I think, something is going on." She said 'scratching' her chin as if in deep thought.
"How come you didn't tell me this before?" Ron asked a little outraged. "Because I'm not sure of anything, and you tend too.not keep things shut, but I'm getting to the bottom of this." She snaswered.
"Alright Miss Detective, just don't drag me into trouble with you." The made their way to the dinning hall only to find Harry and Ginny already seated with Neville and the others.
After all were seated and relatively quiet Dumbledore stood and started to speak, silencing anyone who was still talking.
"Welcome back my dear students, I hope you had a pleasurable Christmas and to the ones who stayed here, I am sure you did." He said in a light tone smiling. "Tomorrow your classes will start again, in the same schedules as before this break and as I have informed in the beginning of the term, Saturday there will be the Christmas Ball." He said smiling at the pleased sounds the crowd of students made.
"Very well, it is always a great thing to be able to welcome you with only good words to speak, so let us not speak too much and enjoy this wonderful fast." He said clapping his hands twice and the various dishes filled with different foods with delicious presentations started to appear at the tables and the merry chatter took over the Hall once more.
~~~~~~~~
A hole week had passed in which Hermione had suspicouly fallowed the ooks Ginny and Harry exchanged, tried to follow them, always taking an annoying Ron with her. The week she found their relationship had deepened quite a bit. They were friend, partners in crime, boyfriend and girlfriend and cared deeply for each other, not mentioning the deep trust that they now felt for each other. Hermione had never thought that she would enjy so much dating her Weasley. She smiled up at the tall red haired boy in front of her and laced his neck with her arms pulling with down a little to be closer the her face. "You're going to help me aren't you?" She asked with a baby-like voice pouting.
"Of course I will." He answered rolling his eyes and snickering. "If I didn't I'd pay for it anyway." He said shaking his head and receiving a kiss for his girlfriend. He slimed down and her and stepped out of their embrace a little reluctantly. "Well let's go, we're not just ging to stand here I the middle of the hall are we?" He said offering her a hand but letting her take the lead as she knew where they were headed to.
She nodded and started walking slightly lifting the skirts of her dress t oprevent them from dragging on the floor. "Ron, I'm determinate to fix this thing, right now we're going to look for Cho and tell her all that happened, and then we're going to hunt down Pansy Parkinson!" Hermione spoke walking quickly in an annoyed pace being hindered by her long midnight blue dress.
"Hermione it's the Christmas Ball tonight, it starts in less than an hour, can't it wait?" Ron would usually be the first to agree on getting away from Ball and dances but after his previous experience at the Halloween ball he found he quite enjoyed it when he had Hermione's company.
"Mione don't you think the easier place to find Cho right now is the Great H..ouch!" Ron landed on the floor with a thud and quickly untangled himself from the body that had fallen with him. "Parkinson." He said through gritted teeth. "Where's your boss?" He asked referring to Malfoy and noticing how Hermione shot the Slytherin girl dreadful looks, but before he could say anything or even allow his brain to process what was going on Hermione was forcefully holding Pansy by her collar and speaking angrily.
"I know it was you, and I will prove it, you're coming with us. Now." She aid quickly perfoming a spell to make the girl willing ot comply with her orders not giving her time to answer or fight back. "Ron the bottle of Veritaserum, we're ending this tonight."
"Hermione? Ron? Are you alright?" Came a soft voice from behind them, they both turned and Ron immediately smiled at the coincidence. It was Cho.
"Yes we are, but we need to talk to you." Ron spoke as Hermione still seemed occupied trying to feed the potion to the Slytherin girl.
"Alright, we still have some time before the ball, what is it?"
Cho's outraged and enraged expression showed all her feelings about what she had just learned, she couldn't believe all this problems had bee caused by a fake her and she hadn't even learnt anything about it.
'Count on me to get this girl to pay for this, she should learn not to use people's body, that's preposterous! Now you aren't even safe enough to walk around because you're you! You had no right to ruin their relationship because of whatever wicked frustration you and the blondie have your lives!" Hermione and Ron just stared wide eyed as the black haired girl dressed in a beautiful sleeveless golden dress raved on and on as they made their way to the Great Hall.
~The three of them entered the Great Hall with evil and glorious grins on their faces dragging around the Slytherin girl that got several arched eyebrows from her house mates.
"Where are Ginny and Harry?" Ron asked dropping the girl on a chair and making sure se couldn't get away.
"Well they're not here yet." Nevile started. "Wait." His eyes widened slightly. "There." He pointed to the entrance doors.
Ginny was entering the hall dressed and a earthy green dress that resembled the one's nymph wore with an asymmetric skirt that seemed to be made of several independent pieces of fabric, giving extreme grace and movement to it, the dress had only one sleeve that was mde in a similar way to the skirt the long fabric of the dress flowing as if being caressed by the wind, simple flowers of the same color of the dress were embroidered to the sleeve and upper end of the dress, her red haired hung loose adorned with similar green flowers. She were a soft brown eye shadow that brought out her eyes and a lip colored glitter o her lips, though her smiling right now was shining much more than the make up.
Harry was by her side. Clad in beautiful brown robes that seemed to declare they both belonged together, like nature. His disheveled black hair had a wild look to it adding to his handsome features as a stunning smiled appeared in his lips. They were holding hands.
Ron and Hermione felt that if they spoke they'd stutter. They were holding hands?
The couple although very worth of looking at didn't seem to catch the attention of the whole hall ,for which they were grateful for. The students kept dancing, eating and chatting, only some heads, specially Gryffindor's and Slytherin turned to them and looked back in awe.
They walked up to where Ron and Hermione were and the girl promptly shook herself out of her amazement and addressed her friends. "We got Pansy, she confessed it all." She spit out.
Ginny seemed momentarily surprised, but then a grin surfaced and she spoke lightly. "I'm glad, we'll make sure she gets her punishment, but I don't care to hear what she has to say, I know all I need to know." She said looking back at Harry and smiling at him and the boy inched closer and place a kiss on her cheek.
"Ok, I honestly don't understand a thing. Have I been in a come for a few years or something?" Ron asked completely annoyed at his own ignorance.
"Since when?" Hermione motioned from Harry to Ginny with a questioning look, one of her hands searching for Ron's and as she found it she squeezed it gently and smiled briefly at him turning back to her friends to wait for an answer.
"A few day's ago..a week and two days I think.on the day we were supposed to meet in the park." Harry spoke grinning widely and letting his mind wander back to their date.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT THEIR DATE BEFORE THEY MET UP WITH HERMIONE AND RON(I used a paragraph from the previous chapter as to make you remember where it stopped):
- Harry? - She asked with an incredulous face.
- Ginny.- He stated.
- What are you doing here? Me? What are yo...
Suddenly Ginny looked up, her eyes squinting. "I can't believe it! They
did this! Hermione and Ron set this whole thing up! I can't believe they
would do that! They can't just put themselves in the middle of things! -
She controlled herself not to yell.
- Ron just played me the fool all this time! Internet date...
- So that's what you're here for? - Ginny asked raising an eyebrow.
- Don't start Ginny, you're here as well - He looked down.
- Because, I agreed to help Hermione to win a bet with Cl.. - Ginny just
closed her eyes and trailed off, how could she be this stupid? Hermione
didn't even have a chance to talk to Clark all year long, let alone make
bets. - I can't believe she would just be so nosy! - She looked up with
a faint blush on her face.
-I'm leaving. - Harry said.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED:
- I...I'm...I'm glad she was. - She said in a whisper blushing a deeper
shade of red.
- What?- Harry had barely heard it, but his ears were already trained to
catch those words, he couldn't have misheard it.
- Nothing. - Ginny answered. *Maybe it's better he didn't listen. *
- No, I heard, I...just didn't know if I had heard right...I don't
understand.
- Neither do I...I think. - Ginny really did seem quite confused at the
moment.
*Well, maybe this is not as romantic as it should be, but it's a
start*
- Ginny, do you want to take a walk? Talk a little? - Harry felt ill at
ease, he didn't know what to do to keep Ginny like this, friendly, and he
definitely didn't want to say anything that would make her angry and ruin
this momentary peace.
- Yeah. - She nodded frantically until she realized what she was doing.
- Ok. - He slowly started to walk to the park, waiting for Ginny to
follow him, and she soon fell on step with him.
They both kept silence for a while. At first it was an awkward silence,
but soon a sense of comfort and familiarity settled between them. During
their relationship they hadn't had many chances to just walk, side by
side, enjoying each other's company, just for the company, not for the
conversation or anything else, and now that they were doing it, they
weren't together anymore. Apparently both were musing about the same
thing because the reminder that they weren't a couple anymore made the
silence awkward again, they both could sense the other struggling to find
something to say.
- They're going to pay for doing this. - Harry said.
- Yeah they are. - Ginny gave a half smile.
- What is it? - Harry saw the look on the red haired girls face and
stopped.
- It's nothing.
- Of course it's something...tell me. -
- I...I'm sick of this. Sick of being without you, even if as a friend. -
She said looking down with a defeated look. Harry's eyes glistened and he
jumped in front of her.
- Really? But...don't look so sad! - He said not controlling his own
happiness.
- I feel stupid Harry.
- We...you don't have to feel stupid...and we don't have to talk about
this if you don't want. - He said.
- But we do! I just, I'm just too confused to keep things this way. I'm
just going to talk and forget that I've been pretending to hate you.
Ginny saw a bench a few feet away from them and headed there, sitting
down and waiting for Harry to sit.
- Harry, I...i still like you, and I don't know how you didn't notice it
before because it's pretty obvious, but...it really hurt seeing you.... -
She trailed off.
- I'm sorry. - Harry said.
- No. I am sorry, I shouldn't have treated you the way I did, all right
you did hurt me, but it's no excuse for me to lower myself to the level.
- She said returning to her bitter voice.
-I didn't do it.
She stayed in silence choosing her words. - I know you didn't.
Harry looked up, staring into her eyes. - No you don't.
- Harry...I don't know what happened there, and maybe I never will, but I
trust you, I want to, I....If you are lying to me, and you did kiss her,
too bad, you are making a fool out of me and I'll never know, but I won't
give up on a chance to be with you, and see for myself if you really are
a jerk or not. - She said, the corners of her mouth turning up. - But I
do believe you're not lying to me, after all, the most amazing and
unbelievable things happen to you, and until today, not one of them was a
lie. - She smiled sweetly at him.
- Ginny I...
- I know it's hard for you to believe I would suddenly change my mind,
but that's not what happened, I've been thinking about this for a while,
I was just too proud to actually say it, and believe me it's hard for
Weasley's to change their minds, so value this twice as much as you
would.
- That's impossible. - Harry said with the most stunning smile Ginny had
ever seen him with and she closed her eyes as Harry's lips covered hers
and smiled into the kiss. A lingering, sweet, gentle kiss, not of two
people getting back together, full of fears and cautions, a kiss of two
people who know and like each other enough to forget everything.
- I still say they're going to pay. - Harry said breaking the kiss, still
wearing the smiled on his face.
- Oh yes they are.
- I'm so happy that you believe in me, I...It might be enough for you to
just believe me, but I promise, I'll prove it to you, that I would never,
ever do anything to lose you.
- You just did. - Ginny smiled and nodded. They stood up and started
heading to the movie Theater where they were supposed to meet Ron and
Hermione.
- Do you think I was too easy?
- What? Easy, Ginny? Please!
- I mean, we just ran into each other and I was already apologizing. -
The girl said teasingly.
- Ha! Don't you dare regret now! - He said putting an arm around her
waist and pulling her slightly. - They kept walking and whispering their
plan to each other.
- I love you, you know that? - Ginny said forgetting all embarrassment.
- I love you too. - Harry said allowing a single tear to roll down his
cheek as he pressed Ginny against him and kissed her again. The second of
thousands of kisses yet to come.
THE END!