The next day at work Ginny sat quietly in her office. Everyone was working diligently, except for her, who was still having trouble concentrating. She had some notes scribbled down on parchment with ideas for her next article, but she could not get herself to work.
She looked out her window and zoned out for a couple minutes, thoughts floating about in her mind like her brain was an ocean, and then snapped herself out of it. She had to concentrate. She shook her head, looked down at her paper for a few minutes, and then looked up at the wall opposite from her desk. For another couple minutes she considered different forms of revenge on two certain people that she did not like at the present moment, but she had enough of that and did not want to stoop to their level. Backstabbing and lying could only go so far.
Ok, back to concentrating...
Finally, just as she was able to start writing, she heard a shrill scream come from outside of her office. It was high-pitched, definitely a girl's voice, and it succeeded in making her drop her quill with annoyance.
"WHAT?" was the sound that was heard throughout the office. Ginny, curious as to who would be screaming and interrupting people who were trying to get their work done, got up from her beloved desk and ventured out of her office to find out for herself.
Everyone had their heads up and was staring intently at Mr. Hillman's door. Ginny walked over to a cubicle where her co-worker Sarah was sitting. Sarah was a friendly person who handled the advice column of the newspaper. She seemed content with the position she maintained, and since she was in the cubicles she always knew the current office scandal.
"What is going on?" Ginny asked her, constantly switching her glance from Sarah to the door and back to Sarah again.
"Well, Cho was called to see the boss and that's all I know."
"That explains who is screaming, but why?" she wondered out loud with curiosity. Of course it would be Cho who be freaking out, that was something that Ginny wouldn't put past her, but what could possibly make her act like that?
"And there is a rumor floating around that she is being fired for having someone else write her article for her," Sarah replied. Office gossip was always fun, but could at times be dangerous. This was one of those times when it was entertaining.
Soon after a maddened Cho flung open the door to Hillman's office and stomped out, her face a bit red and her expression looked like she was constipated. This thought made Ginny laugh as Cho looked around and noticed that everyone was staring at her.
"What are you looking at," she snapped and everyone pretended to go back to work. Cho's eyes eventually landed on Ginny, who was trying her hardest not to break out in laughter at the situation. Cho's faces never seemed to cease amusing her.
Cho walked, or more like stomped, over to where Ginny was standing. Pointing a single skinny finger at her she said with pure disdain, "You! This is your fault, isn't it?"
Ginny had no part in what was happening to Cho, as much as she wish she had, but instead she liked to think of it as karma coming back and biting Cho in the ass. That goes with the popular saying 'what goes around comes around'. After all, it was only fair, wasn't it?
So, she smiled innocently and asked, "Is what my fault?"
This question made Cho even angrier. "You know what I'm talking about."
"No, I don't," Ginny responded.
Sarah looked up at the upset Cho and, with a casual tone of voice, asked, "What Cho, did you get fired?"
Without answering, Cho stormed out of the office, pushing papers off of people's desks and shooting everyone evil glares the whole way. Most people went back to work immediately after the show was over, but there were still the few who whispered to each other about what just happened.
The popular office gossip included, of course, both Cho and Ginny because it was a well-known fact that they were enemies. Therefore whenever something bad happened to one of them everyone who automatically thinks that the other one was behind it. This time they were wrong.
"Well that was enough drama for the day," Sarah commented with sigh and began to start writing with her quill again.
Ginny smiled triumphantly and replied, "But life would be so dull without drama, don't you think?"
Sarah gave her a smile and a nod in reply. She was once again focused on her work while Ginny walked off to her office. After she closed the door behind her she did a little victory dance before returning to her desk. It was mean to take pleasure in other people's misery, but this was different. Cho had gone out of her way to try to get Ginny fired; therefore it was reasonable that Ginny would be happy. Plus, Cho was a bitch.
There were many times that Ginny imagined scenes where Cho would be humiliated, ridiculed, or injured, but none of them compared to what had just happened. It was extremely hard for anyone to not see the humor of it all. Cho was flipping out, and on Mr. Hillman no less. No one would have thought she had the guts for that, considering she was always sucking up to him. Things tend to change quickly when you are least expecting it.
This incident proved to be very beneficial to the redhead. Since it put her in a good mood, she was less reluctant to return to her work, and she was able to actually get a fair amount of work accomplished it the time that followed.
Eventually, it was time for her to go home. She left the office, still high with happiness from earlier, and absent-mindedly made her way to her apartment. She set down her bag, plopped on her couch, and then flipped on the television. There was a news report on about the topic of her article that gave her the promotion, which had been the talk of the wizarding community for days. This brought an even bigger smile to her face as she sat there watching,
Getting bored with the news, she flipped through some stations and somehow landed on the romance channel without even realizing it. Watching as the star couple went through a break-up then make-up, the show began to make her angry. She immediately changed over to the sports channel, cursing herself for even looking at the previous channel.
There was a special on the Vociferous Vultures on. She watched as two people discussed each team member and how many wins and losses the team had obtained over the past several months. This show, of course, made Ginny think back to when she went to a Quidditch game they lost. She went to that game with Draco on a 'date', so it made sense that this would make her think about him. Why did everything she watch have to remind her of him? Was the television conspiring against her? Was the entire world living just to make her life miserable?
She turned off the television just as she heard her phone ring. Already knowing whom it would be, she picked up the phone and said, "Hi Hermione."
"Hi. How did you know it was me?"
"Well, seeing as you are the only person who ever calls me, it would make sense, don't you think?" she replied.
Hermione laughed. "Yes, I suppose so. How is everything?"
"Ok," Ginny answered. "And the funniest thing happened today."
"Oh no, Ron didn't send you that hideous lamp, did he?" her friend asked.
"Huh?" She had no clue as to what Hermione was referring, but it did sound like something Ron would do. He refused to believe how bad his taste really was.
"Thank Merlin! I was begging not to, it really is a hideous lamp. He bought it at some Muggle store that he went to with your father the other day, and you know how your brother is. He came home with a bunch of things, one of them being a lamp that he insisted on giving to you."
"What did it look like?" Ginny asked, purely out of curiosity as to what caught her brother's fancy this time.
"It is a girl in a hula skirt that shakes her hips when it is turned on."
"Hula skirt?" she asked, not knowing the term.
"It is basically just a skirt made of grass."
"Oh," she replied, trying to picture what the lamp looks like in her head and not succeeding very well. "Muggles sure are strange, no offense."
"Believe me I know," Hermione responded. "So, what was it that happened today?"
"Right," she said, remembering that she was going to tell her something. "Cho got fired."
"Really? What for?"
"Something about having someone else write her article for her."
"Interesting."
"Yeah," Ginny said, and then decided to change the subject. "I can't wait to see you. I'm so excited about the wedding."
"Me too. It is all happening so soon, but I just can't wait for it to be all over with and to be Mrs. Hermione Weasley."
"And we will be sisters," she replied cheerily. They talked for a bit more, until Hermione had to go, and Ginny was left with a feeling akin to excitement yet at the same time a small bit of jealousy. When was her happy ending?
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