Disclaimer: Any characters or settings you recognize don't belong to me. That's basically it.

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CHAPTER 3: The Astronomy Tower

Ginny pulled her covers off around midnight. She was in a tight white tank top and flare low-rider jeans. She shook Tarah awake, put a finger to her lips telling her to keep quiet, and pointed to her watch. Tarah looked at her own watch smiled, and pulled off her own covers, to be found in a red halter top and jeans. The two girls crept quietly out of their dorm as not to wake the other girls, and left Gryffindor tower for the astronomy tower.

They had heard that a kick ass party was going down there tonight as a was to "kick off the start of term". They knew these parties usually involved a lot of dancing and alcohol, so naturally wanted to check it out. It was actually Colin who had told them about the party, but seeing as how he didn't want to go (something about girls always coming on to him), he had stayed behind.

"This is gonna be great!" Tarah said to Ginny as they walked silently through the corridors.

"Shh," whispered Ginny, "we don't want Filtch to catch us before we even get to the party do we?" Tarah Giggled. That's when they heard the noise behind them. It sounded like someone was walking right towards them, but when they looked behind themselves, no one was there. They kept walking.

Then they heard it again. Ginny spun around, knowing not even Filtch would try that hard to stay hidden.

"Who's there?" she asked to the darkness. There was no answer. Tarah stood at Ginny's side and peered into the darkness. The noises started again.

"Who ever you are come out and show yourself." Ginny kept her voice steady, although she was trembling inside. Then she felt something grab her around her waist and lift her off the ground. She screamed, and Harry's invisibility cloak fell off. He was laughing hysterically.

"You… you…should have seen your face." He said between fits of laughter.

"Ass! You scared the shit out of me!" Ginny said smacking him on the shoulder.

"Ouch." Said Harry grabbing his shoulder in fake injury, "oh god I think my arm is broken."

"Shut up." Harry started laughing again.

"Come on, can you blame me?" he asked. Tarah started laughing along with Harry.

"Come on guys, your going to bring Filtch's cat over here." Ginny said, stifling laughter.

"S…Sorry." Said Tarah between giggles, "let's hurry and get up to the astronomy tower."

"You two going to that party?" Harry asked as they began to make their way through the hallways again.

"Course," Ginny said, "wouldn't miss it for the world."

"Well if your going then I'll just have to accompany you." Harry said, holding out his arm and winking at Ginny, she blushed and took it.

They finally got there and opened the door to find a large circular room. The whole center of it had been fashioned into a make shift dance floor, while Merlin's Wizard beer (3 times more alcohol than muggle beer) cans had been stacked up against the wall. Empty cans on one side, full ones on the other. Someone had brought a sound system which had been charmed to work inside the castle. They weren't really playing what you'd call "dance music" but then again Ginny didn't really like "dance music" anyway. People filled the room, all of them either dancing, or snogging in some corner. Harry quickly disappeared towards the beer, and Tarah dragged Ginny onto the dance floor. Within 5 minutes Tarah was grinding with Ravenclaw 7th year Doug Jennings and Ginny was standing beside the wall of full beer cans drinking and talking with a fellow Gryffindor 6th year who went by the name of Connor Samson.

"So you're on the Hogwarts Wizard's checkers team?" Ginny asked him, already extremely bored with the subject. Connor was extremely hot. Tall and muscles the right size in proportion to his height, black hair, tan, deep chocolate eyes. But he had to be the most boring person Ginny had ever met. "I didn't even know we had one."

"Oh yah I founded it, and I'm captain. I've beaten every student at Huffelpuff, and Ravenclaw, cause there's tournaments too you know. But they're not as popular as quiddich."

"I wonder why." Ginny said under her breath.

"Of course nothing's as popular or fun as quiddich!" said Harry, coming out of nowhere and bursting into the conversation, much to Ginny's relief.

"Well that's easy for you to say Potter," said Connor, "I mean you're captain and everything. But personally I think the fun bit is a manner of perspective. You know there's a lot of fun to be had in checkers--"

"Ginny I was wondering if you'd care to take to the "dance floor" with me," Harry asked, chucking his empty beer can onto the floor.

"Would I ever." Ginny replied, glad to get away from Connor. She chugged the rest of her own beer, grabbed Harry's arm and dragged him into the middle of the crowd. The DJ was playing their own mix of muggle music, and as Linkin Park's Faint came on music was so loud that they could hardly hear anything. It wasn't what you would call dance music, but it had a good beat to it. Ginny and Harry grinded and danced together for what seemed like an hour.

Aerosmith's "I don't want to miss a thing" came on (AN: I know it's kind of an old song but I couldn't think of any other slow ones, and I just saw Armageddon this morning, lol) and Harry grinned at Ginny. She blushed (she seemed to be doing that a lot tonight) as he slid his arms around her. She put her head against his chest and closed her eyes as they swayed to the beat of the music. She could hear his heart beat through his shirt and smiled when she realized how long she had waited to be in this position. In Harry's arms. But it felt different than she had thought it should. She had always imagined being in Harry's arms feeling a sense of safety, warmth and love. Now here she stood and she couldn't help but think that there was something wrong with all of this. She opened her eyes and pulled back, his arms still around her, to look Harry in the eyes. He looked back at her and smiled. He put his thumb on her cheek.

"Ginny you have no idea how ling I've wanted to do this." He said. Not even a day yet he thought to himself only since I saw you with Malfoy, I knew I had to have you before he did. His thoughts were brimming with hatred for Draco, but he didn't show it in his face. And before Ginny could think, he had closed the space between them and enveloped her lips in his.

Oh... My…God! Ginny thought Harry's kissing me! Ok Ginny calm down. You've waited for this moment since…well…forever.

I know. But then why does it feel so wrong.

Harry practically begged for entrance into Ginny's mouth, but she pulled back and pushed him away.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"Harry…" she paused. Quick! Think up a lie. "I'm just really tired. I think I'll go back to GT (AN: Gryffindor Tower).

"Oh, well I guess I'll see you tomorrow then."

"Yah." Ginny went off to find Tarah as Trebel Charger's "Hundred Million" came on. Harry disappeared into the crowd.

Ginny found Tarah in a corner snogging with the guy she had been dancing with.

"Tarah." Ginny said, Tarah looked over at her and Doug started nibbling on her ears. She giggled.

"Just a second." She said pushing Doug away. "What's up Gin?"

"I'm heading back." She said.

"What Happened?" Tarah asked. She could tell that something had obviously happened.

"Nothing…"

"You kissed Harry didn't you?" Tarah asked, ecstatic.

"How did you know that?" Ginny asked flabbergasted.

"I saw you." Tarah laughed. "How was it?"

"Weird. Any way, I'm going to bed."

"Girl you move fast don't you." Tarah said jokingly.

"Tarah! I didn't mean like that!"

"I know you didn't. Well let's go then."

"No you seem to have your hands full." Ginny said looking at Doug standing in a corner all by himself watching them and sulking. She laughed. "You stay."

"Alright, if you want me too."

"I'll see you tomorrow." Ginny turned around and walked out the astronomy tower door.

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Tarah had been in the corner with Doug for about half an hour when he tried to get her to come back to his dorm with him. She'd slapped him, and told him she wasn't that kind of girl (he was left extremely confused).

Tarah was on her way back to Gryffindor Tower when she heard voices coming from an open classroom.

"You have her yet?" came the first voice. It was obviously feminine.

"Almost. I think I might have scared her away, but I'll have her soon enough." The second voice sounded familiar. Tarah went over to the door to listen.

"You'll get her you always do."

"You're right of course." The second voice laughed. "Oh course, as long as I get the better of Malfoy that's all that really matters. She's so gullible, probably thinks that I love her or something. But lets get down to business, I'm done talking about that red headed bitch."

There was a shuffling of furniture, Tarah peered in the crack in the door and saw Harry sucking on the neck of Ravenclaw seeker Cho Chang. They had been talking about Ginny, she knew that for sure. And Tarah wasn't going to sit around and let her best friend be hurt like this. She had to do something about it.

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I'm really sorry that the chapter took so long. And I apologise about the spelling and shit, but I haven't sent this to my beta yet cause I was really eager to post it. I'll repost as soon as I send it to her! Thanks to my 2 reviewers (lmao)!!

Unperfection I read ur comment and realized that you were right about the height thing so I went back and changed it, lmao. I don't know id I corrected the spelling though, I might have, but if I didn't then I'll make sure that it's right for all the other chapters he comes up in. Thanks for the review! :)

Darkmercy059. Sorry it took so long for the update. Thanks for the review :)

I'm almost done my next chapter so it shouldn't take as long. Hope you liked this one. Lmao. REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!