Title: How To Get The Girl You Lost, But Didn't Know You Lost Her, Back

by: LilyP_writer@yahoo.com

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Chapter 12: The First Problem

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Harry was sulking. He should be happy, right? Being with the girl of his dreams and having her brother aka his bestfriend's approval and blessings. But something was wrong.

"You didn't get in a fight with her did you?" Ron asked. Seamus turned around and decided to inter the conversation as well.

"Use your tongue too early?" He asked. Ron shot a death glare at him then one at Harry.

"No!" Harry felt the need to defend himself.

Hermione turned from her homework to look at him. "Then what is it?"

Harry looked around the library to make sure it was just Hermione, Ron, Seamus, Kiki, and Dean who were listening. "She hasn't kissed me yet."

"I don't want to hear this, I really don't want to hear this." Ron stood up and walked to a far away book shelf.

"Well, make the first move, buddy!" Dean spat, as if was the most obvious think in the world.

"Harry," Hermione said softly. "You two have only been dating three weeks."

"Four." Harry corrected, "And I tried making the first move. She just starts talking so it will distract me." Harry leaned back in his seat and sighed, "What is her problem?"

"I don't think it is her problem, Harry." Hermione stated, while Seamus and Dean snickered. "She is apparently fine with herself. She is comfortable in a relationship without kissing." Hermione nodded thoughtfully.

"Kiki?" Harry turned to the bored blond. She raised her head. "Why won't Ginny kiss me?"

"Because." Was Kiki's complex reply.

"Why, Kiki? Please tell me!" Harry begged.

"I promised not to. You will just have to talk to her." Kiki leaned back and examined her nails. Seamus looked in awe as she blew a piece of lint off one of her shinny, red finger nails.

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Harry walked out of the common room, he was planning on meeting Ginny in an empty class room on the sixth floor. It was just after her last class so Harry walked into the room and waited for her to walk up three flights of stairs.

Harry took this time to think about how to ask her. "Why won't you kiss me?" He tried out loud.

"Because I'm stuck in this awful frame!" A voice called out from behind him. Harry turned on the light quickly. It was Violet, The Fat Lady's friend. She was smiling and winking at him. "You meeting your young lover?"

Harry didn't answer. "Well," Violet went on, "that opening line really wouldn't get a pretty teenage lass to fall to her knees, if you know what I mean."

"No, I don't! And if you don't mind, I wish that you would be quite when she gets here." Harry barked.

"Maybe I will, depends on who she is." Violet leaned back in the frame, Harry noticed it wasn't her own, it was someone else, but they weren't in there at the moment. "Is it Miss Granger?" Violet smiled, "Miss Chang? Miss Weasley?" Harry felt his cheeks flustered. "Ah, I think we found our winner." Ginny had walked in.

"Hey!" Ginny hugged Harry from behind.

Harry turned around and wrapped his arms around her, "Hello, Gin!" Harry leaned down to kiss her but she pulled away.

"That Mac and Cheese was great at lunch, wasn't it?" Ginny mentioned, putting her bag on the desk.

"I don't know," Harry sighed. "I had the chicken soup."

Ginny sat down on a free desk, crossing her legs. "Well, I hope we have roast beef at dinner, I have a craving for it." Ginny leaned back on her hands and looked at Harry as emotionless as possible.

"Ginny?" Harry walked over, determined not to make a fool of himself.

"Huh?" Emotionless should be her middle name.

Harry walked over and put his hands around her waist. "Why won't you kiss me?"

Ginny jumped off the desk, accidentally stepping on Harry's foot on a rush to get away from him. "I don't know what your talking about!" She acted busy by looking at the books on a book shelf. Violet snickered.

"Ginny?" Harry walked up behind her.

"Look Harry, I have to go!" Ginny gave him a peck on the cheek, "See? I just kissed you!" Then she grabbed her bag and bolted out of the room.

"Smooth talker, ain't you, boy?" Violet laughed.

"Aw, shut your trap!" Harry walked out of the room as well.

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"She didn't answer you?" Hermione asked.

"Nope," Harry said, glancing around the great hall, looking for Ginny.

"I don't understand!" Hermione turned to Ron.

"Don't look at me! I don't keep track of why my siblings don't want to kiss my bestfriend." Ron said, mouth full of food.

"And they're serving Roast Beef too." Harry said, more to himself.

"Maybe you should talk to her." Hermione mentioned.

"I did, Hermione, didn't you hear what I said?" Harry said aloud.

"No, you, dim wit!" Hermione barked at Harry. "You!" She turned to Ron.

"What?"

"Your her brother, she will say it to you."

Ron looked from Hermione's stone hard gaze to Harry's pleading one. You could tell that he was thinking it over, and feeling a little nauseous as well. "I guess I could try. Where is she?"

Hermione leaned over and hugged him. "Oh, I don't know. Harry?"

Harry shrugged. "Beats me," Harry thought for a second. "I can go get the Marauders Map and the invisibility cloak and me and Hermione can go as well."

"Sure," Ron shrugged, then took a long swig of his drink. "Lets go."

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Harry grabbed his cloak and handed the map to Ron. Hermione slipped under the watery fabric with Harry and they disappeared right on the spot. "All right, she is..." Ron scanned the map. "She is on the roof of the West Tower."

Ron left the dorm room followed closely by invisible Harry and invisible Hermione. "I can't believe I'm going to ask my little sister why she won't kiss my best mate."

"And for that I thank you, Ron," Harry whispered from under the cloak, "but could we get a move on it?" Ron gave a death glare backwards.

Hermione turned and elbowed Harry, "What if someone hears us?"

"They think it will be in their head!" Harry spat.

"Shut up." Ron growled.

Harry did as he was told and followed Ron all the way to the trap door, where Ron paused to hide the map. Then his tall friend went through the door to the roof. "Hey, sis."

"How did you find me?" Ginny asked.

Ron, bless him, tried to be funny so he whispered in a mystical way: "Magic."

Ginny snorted. "Why are you here?"

Harry and Hermione, squeezed closely together to make it to the roof. Ginny was sitting, arms wrapped around her knees, on the floor next to the edge. Ron joined her and Harry and Hermione sat down quietly on a bench across from them.

"Do you not like Harry?" Ron asked softly, very much unlike him.

Ginny growled, "How did I know he would enter the conversation?" Harry felt a pang in his heart. Hermione's hand covered his, she could be so motherly.

"Whats wrong with Harry?" Ron asked rudely.

"Nothing, he's perfect," she said bitterly.

"Doesn't sound like it." Ron pointed out, then he put an arm around her. "Tell me." It's amazing how much alike Ginny and Ron are. Same eye shape, hair color, ears(but Ginny's are smaller), even their straight teeth.

"He is perfect, but I can't kiss him." Ginny sighed.

"Why?" Ron will make a great father someday.

"I don't want him to think I'm a--" She paused

"A what?" Ron said after a moment of her silence.

"A slut, I don't want him to think of me as easy." Ginny put her forehead on her arm.

"Ginny," Ron said, appalled. "Harry thinks so highly of you! Why do you think he would even consider that?"

Ginny looked up, tears in her eyes. "Because the way I was with guys before. I didn't care for them the way I care for Harry. I didn't care if they thought I was a slut, but I care what Harry thinks!"

Ron looked a little uncomfortable. "Harry thinks you don't like him." Ron mumbled. "You two have been dating for three weeks."

"Four." Ginny corrected.

"Four," Ron agreed. "Why don't you just kiss him?" Ron asked, he suddenly couldn't believe he was telling his baby sister to kiss an older boy.

"I'm scared that he will--" Ron put his hand over his mouth.

"He won't." Ron whispered. Ginny's tears rolled down her cheeks freely.

"I love you, Ron." Ginny hugged him for a long time.

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"I love you, Ron!" Hermione growled, kissing him hard on the lips. "You are wonderful! What you did with Ginny!" Hermione hugged him. Harry suddenly felt sick.

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Next Chapter: Solving The Problem

A/N: Thank you to everyone who adds my sister to their prayers!

All right, no chapter tomorrow, but there will be after that.

Thanks to:

sexy seeker : Oww...tell him that I'm sorry, they worked on Ginny!

arios : Thank you! I hoped they weren't corny or stupid.

ElizabethMM : thank you:)

Darcy16 : No problem, I can't wait for you to update!

Neni Potter : Thank you! I am writing that done for future reference! I go to a public school, the cafeteria, music hall, and gym are the places at my school...

kitkat : Thank you, I've been trying harder than usual, but I can't see any change.

brios : No, its all right, I need to cry, I think it is the only way to get my emotions out. I even noticed that in this chapter Ginny cries, I have never made a characters cry, at least I can't remember. This is the darkest chapter I have ever written and I didn't mean it to be...

Duke20104 : I'm sorry. Thank you very much, I really appreciated it! I'm really sorry about your sister. My mum had to have a c section with me too. The cord was wrapped around my head so she couldn't have me the natural way.

SiriuslyDelirious : Well, he hasn't told her, but Hermione sure has told Ron! WOOHOOOO!

A/N: Thank you for reading my fan fics.