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Chapter 10: Like The Old Days.
"Where are we going?" Ron asked looking at me.
"Just.somewhere." I said, linking our arms together. I saw him grin in the twilight.
We walked until we were at the rocks by the lake. I climbed up on top expertly and waited for Ron to climb up and sit beside me. He came up a few moments later, huffing slightly.
"Took you long enough." I said grinning at him.
"What about you? You scaled these rocks like you do this all the time!"
"I sort of do." I said, not wanting to let him know that this was exactly where I was when he and Hermione had their little encounter.
"So why are we out here?" Ron said a few minutes later. I sighed and pulled my knees up under my chin.
"I just.I miss our talks and I thought that if we came out here we could talk without being interrupted.you don't mind do you?" I said looking at him out the corner of my eye.
"Of course not. You're right; we haven't had a proper Ron/Ginny talk since I don't know when."
"August 27th, the year before you came here." I said not looking at him this time. However, he looked at me, mouth wide open.
"You.you remember that?" he said amazed.
"Of course I do. Girls remember dates like that, boys don't. Obviously." I said smirking slightly.
"Sorry Gin. I haven't been the best brother in the last few years have I? I've only worried about Harry and Hermione." He said looking ashamed of himself.
"Ron! They're your friends. I don't blame you for spending more time with them than me. I'm just your sister!"
"Just my sister? You're not just my sister, I'm closer to you than any of the others, you know that, I know that. You're a best friend too. A best friend who I kind of neglected." he said looking down.
"Don't be stupid."
"Can't help it. Isn't that what you always say?" he said smiling.
"True, yeah I do. But what can you do?" I said and he shoved me.
"Oh Merlin, don't shove me!" I said worried. Ron stopped and looked at me carefully.
"Ginny what's wrong, I wasn't going to push you over the edge or anything." He said looking over the edge of the rocks. I pulled him back and he fell onto his back next to me.
"Gin! What'd you do that for? I'm alright, I'm not going to fall and neither are you."
"Yeah.I know." I said but not looking over the edge like Ron had done.
"There's something you're not telling me." he said narrowing his eyes.
"No there's not!" Oh real smooth. Now he knows something is up.
"You wanted to come out here to talk, so talk."
"Give me something to talk about and I will." I said stubbornly. Not me and Harry, not me and Harry.
"How about.you and Harry."
What? Is he a seer or something?!
"Next subject."
"Not a chance."
"All right, then we talk about you and 'Mione afterwards." I said thinking of the photos. They were the perfect way to keep him quiet about what I was going to tell him.
"What actually happened there?"
"Are you kidding me? You stood up and yelled at Harry without actually knowing what was going on!? Ron you git."
"I.well.you.she."
"A whole sentence please." I said rolling my eyes art him.
"Hermione told me what you two had talked about. About you liking Harry again and-"
"I do not like Harry again. Why does everyone keep saying that?!" I said more to myself than to my brother.
"Probably because you do. Just a wild guess."
"Honestly I don't. At least.I really don't think that I do. I just.he was saying and doing certain things that made me think that he liked me and then he went and "broke up" with me without so much as a goodbye and that upset me. He didn't really do anything wrong Ron. It was my own fault for agreeing. I shouldn't have done it knowing how much I used to care about Harry. I knew that it was a possibility that I would start to fall for him again and I took that chance. I did. Not Harry, I have no one else to blame."
I said not looking at Ron but out across the lake where the stars above were reflected.
"Maybe so but he still shouldn't have treated you the way he did. Harry's my best friend sure, but that doesn't mean that I will let him get away with hurting the people that I care about. It could have been.I don't know.Lavender and I would have yelled at him."
"That makes me feel so much better Ron, Lavender can hardly remember her last name half the time, let alone if Harry was treating her wrong. I wonder why would someone with a colour for their last name would name their child a colour for their first name. Don't you think that's a little weird?" I asked Ron, trying to get off the subject.
"Nice try Gin but it didn't work."
"Argh! Can't you either be stupid or smart, not both? It comes at the wrong time!" I said laughing. I felt as though I had had a big weight lifted off my shoulders being able to talk to Ron about it. Even if he was Harry's best friend. Or was.
"Oh Merlin Ron, I haven't messed up your entire friendship with Harry have I?" I asked biting my lip.
"Dunno." Ron said staring at a point on the lake. "Don't particularly care at the moment either."
"Stop it. Don't stop talking to him because of me." I said on the verge of tears.
"I'm not talking to him because I had a fight with him. It's nothing to do with you." He said picking up a pebble beside him and throwing it into the lake. A soft "Ow!" was heard from below, Ron and I looked at each other and burst out laughing.
"So anyway, what's happening with you and Hermione?" I asked changing the subject successfully this time. Ron smiled and twirled his wand between his fingers.
"Well I took the incentive and listened to you and I brought her outside, over there in fact."
"Really?" I said not looking at him or the spot.
"Yeah and well I just asked her again, in a little more detail than that of course but you probably don't want to hear about your best friend and your brother getting together." He said laughing slightly.
"Of course I do! I've only been waiting for this since your second year when you burped up slugs. Not just anyone would do that for their friend. You were always defending Hermione. It just made sense that you two would eventually and I mean eventually work out that you liked each other." "How do you know so much about this boy girl stuff?" he asked, awed.
"Well for one I am a girl so I know about it and I pay attention to things like that. Unlike some people."
Even in the twilight I saw my brother blush. Yet he was smiling.
"You really care about her don't you?" I asked him and he looked at me confused.
"Didn't you just say that?" he asked me. I sighed.
"Yes I did, that's just from observations, I want to know what you think."
"Oh right. Yeah I really do care about her. I remember on the train in first year I thought she was such a know-it-all, granted I still think that, but that was my first impression. All I wanted from that moment on was for her not to be sorted into my house and as luck would have it, she was. I can tell you that I wasn't that happy. Then there was the whole Troll incident." Here he laughed.
"We could have saved her and got out of the girls lavatories without getting into trouble if we hadn't shut her in there with the Troll. I felt really stupid then. That's when I performed "Wingardium Leviosa" properly and it was thanks to Hermione that I was able to do it."
"Then you know what happened from then on because you've been here with us."
"Fair enough," I was really enjoying his story telling so I asked him the age-old question.
"When did you know that you really cared about her?"
"Probably fourth year. I was in my "girls are icky" stage before that. Right after the Yule Ball. As much as I don't want to remember that, I probably always will." He said shrugging it off. I meanwhile was sitting there, mouth hanging open. Ron saw this and raised an eyebrow at me.
"Fourth year! And you've only just said something! You are a prat." I said laughing.
"Hey, give me a break. It's not easy, especially with Hermione, but then that's why I like her, she's a challenge." He said smiling wistfully.
"I'm sure she'd love to hear that from you."
"What? That she's a challenge? She'd probably take it the wrong way!"
"Say it properly and she won't. Like whilst you are dancing in each other's arms at the Ball."
"Yeah.thanks Gin."
"What'd I do?" I said but he wasn't listening.
"Have you got a date for it yet?"
"No! I didn't bother looking cos I just figured that Harry and I would go together." I said feeling incredibly stupid.
"So you're still going to go then?" he asked.
"I wasn't going too but I thought why have Harry think that he has effected me enough to stop going to the Ball that I have been looking forward to since third year?" I said confidently. More confident than I actually felt.
"That's the spirit! Good for you Ginny." I smiled and looked at my watch. We had been outside for an hour already.
"We better get back. Come on." I said jumping down from the rock and waiting for Ron at the bottom.
"Want a piggyback Gin?" he asked suddenly.
"Just like the old days?" I asked.
"Sure, just like the old days." I climbed up onto my brothers back and he carried me all the way back to the castle.
I bid good night to Ron and went to bed extremely tired. The last thought I had before drifting off to sleep was that I had a week to get over myself.
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A/N: Phew. I get the feeling that not many people are going to like the next few chapters so I think that I'll re-read them and work on them more, make them more realistic if I can. But then again, it is a fan fiction, anything can happen. I beg you all to keep that in mind. Anything can happen.
Reviewers:
Lyeza Hey! Now, about Draco, I can tell you this much: He will be mentioned again in further chapters.You might not like the way that he is portrayed, but like I said above, keep in mind that anything can happen!
AofR Glad you like my relationship lingo lol. About the Harry/Ginny one.we'll just have to wait and see. I'm going to re-write the last chapter to make it better than it is. =D. Hopefully people will like it. But it's still another 6 chapters off yet. Lol. About the awards, thank you! I got one award. An "Encouragement In English" considering that I get straight A's in English, I don't see why it isn't an Excellence, everyone else got one. Hmph lol. I'm a sore loser.
Winky55 Harry is indeed such a guy lol. I'm glad that you are happy with my updating! I do my best =)
Wilania I completely agree with you. Harry is way out of character. I see what you are saying about the whole Vodermort thing, you're right, but I'm not that good with feelings like that. I don't do well with writing about boys' feelings, as I know hardly anything about them myself! Lol. But I guess I can get away with it because it is in Ginny's point of view, so she isn't going to see Harry at his worst, because as she/I pointed out, he is very good at hiding his feelings, even to her. Did I get out of that on a technicality? Lol. =D. About him kissing Sarah.just you wait. Lol.
TheLoneReed Thank you very much! I did in fact win an award. "An Encouragement In English" Award, (as I mentioned above) I would be very honoured if Spot were to make me an aluminium/mayonnaise trophy. I don't have any trophies. Sad really. =( lol.
Mel B Hey Mel! Even I was "Whoo Hoo!" when Ron yelled at Harry, and I wrote this! Lol. Just thought I would throw in a Harry/Ron fight, it doesn't happen very often. = )
Well that's it from me this time around.
Enjoy boys and girls! No offence to those of you who don't come under either gender.lol! Just kidding.
~Nesserz.
Chapter 10: Like The Old Days.
"Where are we going?" Ron asked looking at me.
"Just.somewhere." I said, linking our arms together. I saw him grin in the twilight.
We walked until we were at the rocks by the lake. I climbed up on top expertly and waited for Ron to climb up and sit beside me. He came up a few moments later, huffing slightly.
"Took you long enough." I said grinning at him.
"What about you? You scaled these rocks like you do this all the time!"
"I sort of do." I said, not wanting to let him know that this was exactly where I was when he and Hermione had their little encounter.
"So why are we out here?" Ron said a few minutes later. I sighed and pulled my knees up under my chin.
"I just.I miss our talks and I thought that if we came out here we could talk without being interrupted.you don't mind do you?" I said looking at him out the corner of my eye.
"Of course not. You're right; we haven't had a proper Ron/Ginny talk since I don't know when."
"August 27th, the year before you came here." I said not looking at him this time. However, he looked at me, mouth wide open.
"You.you remember that?" he said amazed.
"Of course I do. Girls remember dates like that, boys don't. Obviously." I said smirking slightly.
"Sorry Gin. I haven't been the best brother in the last few years have I? I've only worried about Harry and Hermione." He said looking ashamed of himself.
"Ron! They're your friends. I don't blame you for spending more time with them than me. I'm just your sister!"
"Just my sister? You're not just my sister, I'm closer to you than any of the others, you know that, I know that. You're a best friend too. A best friend who I kind of neglected." he said looking down.
"Don't be stupid."
"Can't help it. Isn't that what you always say?" he said smiling.
"True, yeah I do. But what can you do?" I said and he shoved me.
"Oh Merlin, don't shove me!" I said worried. Ron stopped and looked at me carefully.
"Ginny what's wrong, I wasn't going to push you over the edge or anything." He said looking over the edge of the rocks. I pulled him back and he fell onto his back next to me.
"Gin! What'd you do that for? I'm alright, I'm not going to fall and neither are you."
"Yeah.I know." I said but not looking over the edge like Ron had done.
"There's something you're not telling me." he said narrowing his eyes.
"No there's not!" Oh real smooth. Now he knows something is up.
"You wanted to come out here to talk, so talk."
"Give me something to talk about and I will." I said stubbornly. Not me and Harry, not me and Harry.
"How about.you and Harry."
What? Is he a seer or something?!
"Next subject."
"Not a chance."
"All right, then we talk about you and 'Mione afterwards." I said thinking of the photos. They were the perfect way to keep him quiet about what I was going to tell him.
"What actually happened there?"
"Are you kidding me? You stood up and yelled at Harry without actually knowing what was going on!? Ron you git."
"I.well.you.she."
"A whole sentence please." I said rolling my eyes art him.
"Hermione told me what you two had talked about. About you liking Harry again and-"
"I do not like Harry again. Why does everyone keep saying that?!" I said more to myself than to my brother.
"Probably because you do. Just a wild guess."
"Honestly I don't. At least.I really don't think that I do. I just.he was saying and doing certain things that made me think that he liked me and then he went and "broke up" with me without so much as a goodbye and that upset me. He didn't really do anything wrong Ron. It was my own fault for agreeing. I shouldn't have done it knowing how much I used to care about Harry. I knew that it was a possibility that I would start to fall for him again and I took that chance. I did. Not Harry, I have no one else to blame."
I said not looking at Ron but out across the lake where the stars above were reflected.
"Maybe so but he still shouldn't have treated you the way he did. Harry's my best friend sure, but that doesn't mean that I will let him get away with hurting the people that I care about. It could have been.I don't know.Lavender and I would have yelled at him."
"That makes me feel so much better Ron, Lavender can hardly remember her last name half the time, let alone if Harry was treating her wrong. I wonder why would someone with a colour for their last name would name their child a colour for their first name. Don't you think that's a little weird?" I asked Ron, trying to get off the subject.
"Nice try Gin but it didn't work."
"Argh! Can't you either be stupid or smart, not both? It comes at the wrong time!" I said laughing. I felt as though I had had a big weight lifted off my shoulders being able to talk to Ron about it. Even if he was Harry's best friend. Or was.
"Oh Merlin Ron, I haven't messed up your entire friendship with Harry have I?" I asked biting my lip.
"Dunno." Ron said staring at a point on the lake. "Don't particularly care at the moment either."
"Stop it. Don't stop talking to him because of me." I said on the verge of tears.
"I'm not talking to him because I had a fight with him. It's nothing to do with you." He said picking up a pebble beside him and throwing it into the lake. A soft "Ow!" was heard from below, Ron and I looked at each other and burst out laughing.
"So anyway, what's happening with you and Hermione?" I asked changing the subject successfully this time. Ron smiled and twirled his wand between his fingers.
"Well I took the incentive and listened to you and I brought her outside, over there in fact."
"Really?" I said not looking at him or the spot.
"Yeah and well I just asked her again, in a little more detail than that of course but you probably don't want to hear about your best friend and your brother getting together." He said laughing slightly.
"Of course I do! I've only been waiting for this since your second year when you burped up slugs. Not just anyone would do that for their friend. You were always defending Hermione. It just made sense that you two would eventually and I mean eventually work out that you liked each other." "How do you know so much about this boy girl stuff?" he asked, awed.
"Well for one I am a girl so I know about it and I pay attention to things like that. Unlike some people."
Even in the twilight I saw my brother blush. Yet he was smiling.
"You really care about her don't you?" I asked him and he looked at me confused.
"Didn't you just say that?" he asked me. I sighed.
"Yes I did, that's just from observations, I want to know what you think."
"Oh right. Yeah I really do care about her. I remember on the train in first year I thought she was such a know-it-all, granted I still think that, but that was my first impression. All I wanted from that moment on was for her not to be sorted into my house and as luck would have it, she was. I can tell you that I wasn't that happy. Then there was the whole Troll incident." Here he laughed.
"We could have saved her and got out of the girls lavatories without getting into trouble if we hadn't shut her in there with the Troll. I felt really stupid then. That's when I performed "Wingardium Leviosa" properly and it was thanks to Hermione that I was able to do it."
"Then you know what happened from then on because you've been here with us."
"Fair enough," I was really enjoying his story telling so I asked him the age-old question.
"When did you know that you really cared about her?"
"Probably fourth year. I was in my "girls are icky" stage before that. Right after the Yule Ball. As much as I don't want to remember that, I probably always will." He said shrugging it off. I meanwhile was sitting there, mouth hanging open. Ron saw this and raised an eyebrow at me.
"Fourth year! And you've only just said something! You are a prat." I said laughing.
"Hey, give me a break. It's not easy, especially with Hermione, but then that's why I like her, she's a challenge." He said smiling wistfully.
"I'm sure she'd love to hear that from you."
"What? That she's a challenge? She'd probably take it the wrong way!"
"Say it properly and she won't. Like whilst you are dancing in each other's arms at the Ball."
"Yeah.thanks Gin."
"What'd I do?" I said but he wasn't listening.
"Have you got a date for it yet?"
"No! I didn't bother looking cos I just figured that Harry and I would go together." I said feeling incredibly stupid.
"So you're still going to go then?" he asked.
"I wasn't going too but I thought why have Harry think that he has effected me enough to stop going to the Ball that I have been looking forward to since third year?" I said confidently. More confident than I actually felt.
"That's the spirit! Good for you Ginny." I smiled and looked at my watch. We had been outside for an hour already.
"We better get back. Come on." I said jumping down from the rock and waiting for Ron at the bottom.
"Want a piggyback Gin?" he asked suddenly.
"Just like the old days?" I asked.
"Sure, just like the old days." I climbed up onto my brothers back and he carried me all the way back to the castle.
I bid good night to Ron and went to bed extremely tired. The last thought I had before drifting off to sleep was that I had a week to get over myself.
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A/N: Phew. I get the feeling that not many people are going to like the next few chapters so I think that I'll re-read them and work on them more, make them more realistic if I can. But then again, it is a fan fiction, anything can happen. I beg you all to keep that in mind. Anything can happen.
Reviewers:
Lyeza Hey! Now, about Draco, I can tell you this much: He will be mentioned again in further chapters.You might not like the way that he is portrayed, but like I said above, keep in mind that anything can happen!
AofR Glad you like my relationship lingo lol. About the Harry/Ginny one.we'll just have to wait and see. I'm going to re-write the last chapter to make it better than it is. =D. Hopefully people will like it. But it's still another 6 chapters off yet. Lol. About the awards, thank you! I got one award. An "Encouragement In English" considering that I get straight A's in English, I don't see why it isn't an Excellence, everyone else got one. Hmph lol. I'm a sore loser.
Winky55 Harry is indeed such a guy lol. I'm glad that you are happy with my updating! I do my best =)
Wilania I completely agree with you. Harry is way out of character. I see what you are saying about the whole Vodermort thing, you're right, but I'm not that good with feelings like that. I don't do well with writing about boys' feelings, as I know hardly anything about them myself! Lol. But I guess I can get away with it because it is in Ginny's point of view, so she isn't going to see Harry at his worst, because as she/I pointed out, he is very good at hiding his feelings, even to her. Did I get out of that on a technicality? Lol. =D. About him kissing Sarah.just you wait. Lol.
TheLoneReed Thank you very much! I did in fact win an award. "An Encouragement In English" Award, (as I mentioned above) I would be very honoured if Spot were to make me an aluminium/mayonnaise trophy. I don't have any trophies. Sad really. =( lol.
Mel B Hey Mel! Even I was "Whoo Hoo!" when Ron yelled at Harry, and I wrote this! Lol. Just thought I would throw in a Harry/Ron fight, it doesn't happen very often. = )
Well that's it from me this time around.
Enjoy boys and girls! No offence to those of you who don't come under either gender.lol! Just kidding.
~Nesserz.