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Chapter 5: A Joke
Ginny felt like the whole world was gone. It was just her and Harry caught up in this beautiful and indescribable feeling from the moment his lips touched hers. Nothing mattered, anymore. Then, almost as quick as it had happened Harry pulled away, leaving a faint smile on her face. The reality of it all hit her hard like a bludger to the head. Sirius was howling with laughter and at first Harry looked scared but was now snickering. She glanced at both of them and really didn't know what to say.
"You were right Sirius," said Harry with no warning.
"About what?" asked Sirius, a weird expression on his face. It was something between him about to burst out laughing again and utter confusion.
"That she'd admit it," said Harry nudging him in the arm.
"OH, that," said Sirius, trying to act like he knew all along.
"What?" asked Ginny furiously through her teeth.
Even she would say it right now, she was pissed off. Was this all their form of a cruel joke?
"We had a bet going, that you would admit to liking me and kiss me, since we were pretending to be going out. Don't want to lose our cover story you know," said Harry grinning and giving her a wink.
"Right," said Ginny putting on a small smile.
Not that it was real, she felt like someone had taken a sledge hammer to her chest.
"So you two ready to go in?" asked Sirius glancing nervously between the both of them.
"I will be in a minute, you guys go on ahead," she told him with a sigh.
"What are you going to do?" asked Harry uncertainly.
"Nothing really, just have one last quick swim," she said with confidence.
She wasn't about to tell him the truth. The way that she couldn't look him into the eyes anymore. And that she needed to be alone for a minute to sort it all out.
"See you upstairs then," said Sirius leading a reluctant Harry away. She could still hear their voices as they walked through the crowd.
"What were you talking about? I didn't bet you anything," she could hear Sirius saying.
"Shhh.I know, but I had to think fast," said Harry.
"Why?" asked Sirius.
To her great disappointment they were too far away for her to hear anymore. She turned back to the water, took a deep breath and plunged in. It was a wonderful feeling, the water surrounding her, no longer could any thoughts plague upon her. But this perfect moment couldn't last she needed air. Swimming back to the surface she got out and slowly made it up to the apartment.
She was about to enter when a sign on the door made her stop dead in her tracks. She read it out load to herself:
"Come and Join in the Hogsmeade Celebration!
Please be in costume and enjoy the festivities during the hours of 7:00pm and 11:00pm."
Smiling, she turned the doorknob and stepped inside. No one was there and she looked around for them. Suddenly plan as day she spotted a note on the table.
Ginny,
We went out to the store. Be back later.
-Sirius and Harry
This would mean she had the whole apartment to herself. Grinning at the thought, she went over to Sirius's music maker and turned it on, to listen to the local wizarding station. Humming the song lightly, she went and took a shower, washing all the chlorine from her hair. It was a soothing feeling, considering all she had to take in.
Once dried and in a jean sundress, she took this opportunity to get a butterbeer from the refrigerator and sit out on the porch. The sun still shone brightly through the occasional cloud, and she could feel her body relaxing. She was almost asleep when she heard the door inside slam open.
"Leave me alone," she could hear Harry shouting at Sirius as he brought in groceries.
Deciding to leave her nice spot, she went back in and could see Harry's face was bright scarlet.
"Why should I?" asked Sirius grinning from ear to ear.
"It was so not funny!"
"Yeah, it was."
"No."
"Let's ask Ginny," suggested Sirius raising his eyebrows at her.
"Ask me what?" she asked. She was almost a little afraid to know.
"That's not necessary," stated Harry as if she hadn't spoken at all.
"Fine, spoil my fun," said Sirius giving a pretend pout.
He went about putting away the new things they had purchased. She looked at them and saw he had gotten them ready made sandwiches for lunch.
"What fun?" she asked. They had raised her curiosity.
"Harry would kill me if I told you," said Sirius when they were alone in the kitchen and Harry was in the bathroom.
Just by the look on his face it was hurting him not to just blurt it out. Frowning slightly she just sat down at the table in silence. During lunch, Harry started up the conversation of the Hogsmeade celebration.
"Given any thought as to whom you're going as?" Ginny asked him between a sip of soda.
"Actually, I figuring that perhaps we should go as a famous couple," suggested Harry quietly, as if she might be too angry.
"Oh, who?" she asked excited by the idea.
"Have you ever watched any muggle movies?"
"A few times."
"That's good. Have you watched the movie, The Matrix?"
"No."
He let out a long deep sigh. It almost broke her heart to see him look so put down.
"Why?" she asked.
"Because there were two people in it, that would have been fun to go as," he explained.
"We could still," she said happily.
"You'd be willing to go as someone that you have never heard of before?" he asked kind of with a puzzled expression.
"Sure! Sounds like fun," she said returning the grin he gave to her.
"The Matrix?" started in Sirius as they were all finishing up.
"Yeah, you seen it before?" asked Harry mildly shocked.
"Yes, actually I have," said Sirius, his tone disapproving.
"Er.do you think there's something wrong with it?" asked Harry nervously.
She could feel her stomach drop out. Apparently Harry's had his heart set on this and it would even be disappointing to her if they didn't go as who he wanted them to. Seeing as she knew how much it meant to him.
"No, not really. But I don't know if it's such a good idea if Ginny doesn't even know the character she needs to be. Speaking of which, who are you going as from the movie?" questioned Sirius.
"I'd be Neo and her Trinity," said Harry quietly.
Sirius grinned, and almost started laughing. Her stomach returned, he must have been only joking.
"What's so funny?" asked Ginny after a minute.
"Nothing," said Sirius innocently.
She gave him a suspicious look, and then turned to Harry.
"We have to go to a muggle store for these don't we?" she asked.
Harry nodded with a small smile. Sirius chose to spoke up.
"I'd like to relax the rest of the day but I can drive you two to a muggle mall tomorrow," he offered.
"Perfect," said Ginny happily.
The rest of day went just fine, as well as it could. They all went their separate ways, Harry doing some of his homework early, Sirius cleaning, and Ginny herself reading.
Before she knew it, it was the next day, as she lay under a sheet on the couch, just waking up. Harry tip-toed across the room unaware of her being awake. She stood and walked around behind him, keeping silent. Just as he was about to enter the kitchen she grabbed his shoulder causing him to jump.
"Damn it Ginny," he told her, turning around.
"What?" she asked as if she had done nothing wrong.
"You know what," he told her sternly.
She grinned, and he cracked up laughing.
"Sirius said if we're going to the muggle mall today he just wants to drop us off and will pick us back up around lunch time," he explained to her later as they were heading out the door, Sirius had gone to the car already to cool it down.
"Will it take that long?" she asked as they went down the first flight of steps.
"No, it shouldn't I know basically what store we need," said Harry calmly.
"What store is that?" she asked a few minutes later when they sat down together in the back.
"Hot Topic," stated Sirius listening in.
"Hot Topic? Isn't that, whatever is 'in' right now?" she asked uncertain.
"Not really," said Harry leaving it at that.
Now she really was curious, not to mention about the store, but the muggle mall itself. She had been to wizard malls; she had a funny feeling this would be very different. Before long they had pulled up to what a sign said was the, 'East Entrance'. Her and Harry stepped out and bid good-bye to Sirius. She was in awe as they walked in at seeing so many muggles in the same place. Harry must have been able to tell, because he had to grab her arm before she walked right into a wall due to staring at a group of them.
"This is fascinating," she announced aloud.
"Just wait until you see the store we're going to," he said grinning at her.
Soon they were in front of a store that the sign above said, 'Hot Topic'. Inside she could see that everything was either red or black and the majority was leather and metal items, but it reminded her of a word, her old muggle pin pal had used, 'gothic'.
"Is this the place?" she asked nervously.
"Yep," he said taking her hand to reassure her.
Together they stepped inside and he quickly wound them around to the back.
"I know just what.we.need," he said searching through a rack.
She was only mildly listening, she was looking at a display of belly button rings, knowing her father would skin her alive if she got one. After a few minutes he appeared beside her and got her attention.
"Take a look," he announced holding up the clothes.
Her jaw dropped, it must have been a joke.
Chapter 5: A Joke
Ginny felt like the whole world was gone. It was just her and Harry caught up in this beautiful and indescribable feeling from the moment his lips touched hers. Nothing mattered, anymore. Then, almost as quick as it had happened Harry pulled away, leaving a faint smile on her face. The reality of it all hit her hard like a bludger to the head. Sirius was howling with laughter and at first Harry looked scared but was now snickering. She glanced at both of them and really didn't know what to say.
"You were right Sirius," said Harry with no warning.
"About what?" asked Sirius, a weird expression on his face. It was something between him about to burst out laughing again and utter confusion.
"That she'd admit it," said Harry nudging him in the arm.
"OH, that," said Sirius, trying to act like he knew all along.
"What?" asked Ginny furiously through her teeth.
Even she would say it right now, she was pissed off. Was this all their form of a cruel joke?
"We had a bet going, that you would admit to liking me and kiss me, since we were pretending to be going out. Don't want to lose our cover story you know," said Harry grinning and giving her a wink.
"Right," said Ginny putting on a small smile.
Not that it was real, she felt like someone had taken a sledge hammer to her chest.
"So you two ready to go in?" asked Sirius glancing nervously between the both of them.
"I will be in a minute, you guys go on ahead," she told him with a sigh.
"What are you going to do?" asked Harry uncertainly.
"Nothing really, just have one last quick swim," she said with confidence.
She wasn't about to tell him the truth. The way that she couldn't look him into the eyes anymore. And that she needed to be alone for a minute to sort it all out.
"See you upstairs then," said Sirius leading a reluctant Harry away. She could still hear their voices as they walked through the crowd.
"What were you talking about? I didn't bet you anything," she could hear Sirius saying.
"Shhh.I know, but I had to think fast," said Harry.
"Why?" asked Sirius.
To her great disappointment they were too far away for her to hear anymore. She turned back to the water, took a deep breath and plunged in. It was a wonderful feeling, the water surrounding her, no longer could any thoughts plague upon her. But this perfect moment couldn't last she needed air. Swimming back to the surface she got out and slowly made it up to the apartment.
She was about to enter when a sign on the door made her stop dead in her tracks. She read it out load to herself:
"Come and Join in the Hogsmeade Celebration!
Please be in costume and enjoy the festivities during the hours of 7:00pm and 11:00pm."
Smiling, she turned the doorknob and stepped inside. No one was there and she looked around for them. Suddenly plan as day she spotted a note on the table.
Ginny,
We went out to the store. Be back later.
-Sirius and Harry
This would mean she had the whole apartment to herself. Grinning at the thought, she went over to Sirius's music maker and turned it on, to listen to the local wizarding station. Humming the song lightly, she went and took a shower, washing all the chlorine from her hair. It was a soothing feeling, considering all she had to take in.
Once dried and in a jean sundress, she took this opportunity to get a butterbeer from the refrigerator and sit out on the porch. The sun still shone brightly through the occasional cloud, and she could feel her body relaxing. She was almost asleep when she heard the door inside slam open.
"Leave me alone," she could hear Harry shouting at Sirius as he brought in groceries.
Deciding to leave her nice spot, she went back in and could see Harry's face was bright scarlet.
"Why should I?" asked Sirius grinning from ear to ear.
"It was so not funny!"
"Yeah, it was."
"No."
"Let's ask Ginny," suggested Sirius raising his eyebrows at her.
"Ask me what?" she asked. She was almost a little afraid to know.
"That's not necessary," stated Harry as if she hadn't spoken at all.
"Fine, spoil my fun," said Sirius giving a pretend pout.
He went about putting away the new things they had purchased. She looked at them and saw he had gotten them ready made sandwiches for lunch.
"What fun?" she asked. They had raised her curiosity.
"Harry would kill me if I told you," said Sirius when they were alone in the kitchen and Harry was in the bathroom.
Just by the look on his face it was hurting him not to just blurt it out. Frowning slightly she just sat down at the table in silence. During lunch, Harry started up the conversation of the Hogsmeade celebration.
"Given any thought as to whom you're going as?" Ginny asked him between a sip of soda.
"Actually, I figuring that perhaps we should go as a famous couple," suggested Harry quietly, as if she might be too angry.
"Oh, who?" she asked excited by the idea.
"Have you ever watched any muggle movies?"
"A few times."
"That's good. Have you watched the movie, The Matrix?"
"No."
He let out a long deep sigh. It almost broke her heart to see him look so put down.
"Why?" she asked.
"Because there were two people in it, that would have been fun to go as," he explained.
"We could still," she said happily.
"You'd be willing to go as someone that you have never heard of before?" he asked kind of with a puzzled expression.
"Sure! Sounds like fun," she said returning the grin he gave to her.
"The Matrix?" started in Sirius as they were all finishing up.
"Yeah, you seen it before?" asked Harry mildly shocked.
"Yes, actually I have," said Sirius, his tone disapproving.
"Er.do you think there's something wrong with it?" asked Harry nervously.
She could feel her stomach drop out. Apparently Harry's had his heart set on this and it would even be disappointing to her if they didn't go as who he wanted them to. Seeing as she knew how much it meant to him.
"No, not really. But I don't know if it's such a good idea if Ginny doesn't even know the character she needs to be. Speaking of which, who are you going as from the movie?" questioned Sirius.
"I'd be Neo and her Trinity," said Harry quietly.
Sirius grinned, and almost started laughing. Her stomach returned, he must have been only joking.
"What's so funny?" asked Ginny after a minute.
"Nothing," said Sirius innocently.
She gave him a suspicious look, and then turned to Harry.
"We have to go to a muggle store for these don't we?" she asked.
Harry nodded with a small smile. Sirius chose to spoke up.
"I'd like to relax the rest of the day but I can drive you two to a muggle mall tomorrow," he offered.
"Perfect," said Ginny happily.
The rest of day went just fine, as well as it could. They all went their separate ways, Harry doing some of his homework early, Sirius cleaning, and Ginny herself reading.
Before she knew it, it was the next day, as she lay under a sheet on the couch, just waking up. Harry tip-toed across the room unaware of her being awake. She stood and walked around behind him, keeping silent. Just as he was about to enter the kitchen she grabbed his shoulder causing him to jump.
"Damn it Ginny," he told her, turning around.
"What?" she asked as if she had done nothing wrong.
"You know what," he told her sternly.
She grinned, and he cracked up laughing.
"Sirius said if we're going to the muggle mall today he just wants to drop us off and will pick us back up around lunch time," he explained to her later as they were heading out the door, Sirius had gone to the car already to cool it down.
"Will it take that long?" she asked as they went down the first flight of steps.
"No, it shouldn't I know basically what store we need," said Harry calmly.
"What store is that?" she asked a few minutes later when they sat down together in the back.
"Hot Topic," stated Sirius listening in.
"Hot Topic? Isn't that, whatever is 'in' right now?" she asked uncertain.
"Not really," said Harry leaving it at that.
Now she really was curious, not to mention about the store, but the muggle mall itself. She had been to wizard malls; she had a funny feeling this would be very different. Before long they had pulled up to what a sign said was the, 'East Entrance'. Her and Harry stepped out and bid good-bye to Sirius. She was in awe as they walked in at seeing so many muggles in the same place. Harry must have been able to tell, because he had to grab her arm before she walked right into a wall due to staring at a group of them.
"This is fascinating," she announced aloud.
"Just wait until you see the store we're going to," he said grinning at her.
Soon they were in front of a store that the sign above said, 'Hot Topic'. Inside she could see that everything was either red or black and the majority was leather and metal items, but it reminded her of a word, her old muggle pin pal had used, 'gothic'.
"Is this the place?" she asked nervously.
"Yep," he said taking her hand to reassure her.
Together they stepped inside and he quickly wound them around to the back.
"I know just what.we.need," he said searching through a rack.
She was only mildly listening, she was looking at a display of belly button rings, knowing her father would skin her alive if she got one. After a few minutes he appeared beside her and got her attention.
"Take a look," he announced holding up the clothes.
Her jaw dropped, it must have been a joke.
