Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Harry Potter characters. They all belong to J.K. Rowling! Only a select few characters I have made up, but none of them are major characters in this story.

A/N: This is a very sweet fic with many twists and turns and believe me...the plot thickens towards the end! There are some funny parts so please--laugh! The pairings get mixed up a bit, so right now there are no "concrete pairings" that I am sticking to. thnx!

Diana

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Chapter 1: Eyeshadow Isn't All That Bad

"Virginia Weasley, what on earth are you wearing?!" cried out a very distressed Mrs. Weasley. She had on her apron and was wiping some grease off her hands on it.

"Ummmmmm...," Ginny said as she bit her lip and poked at her breakfast with her fork which consisted of greasy bacon and buttered toast.

She had worn make-up for the first time ever that morning and had eyeliner smudged beneath her eyes, messy eyeshadow, and loads of mascara on her eyelashes. Even she thought it looked very unprofessionally done, but she thought it would "pass for a first try."

She blinked a couple of times blankly as if she was thinking of something to say. Her brothers were all at the table snickering at her and whispering foul things about her to each other. All Ginny did was pause her poking-of-her-breakfast and gave them a glare.

"Well?" demanded Mrs. Weasley placing her hands on her hips in an I-want-an-answer-young-lady sort of way.

"Mum, I'm in sixth year and I'm already 16 years old, so why can't I have just a bit of make up on for once?" Ginny complained, putting her fork down. She thought it was completely unfair that the other girls in her year wore make up but she couldn't. After all, she was 16, a very mature age that deserves to wear make up.

"Even Hermione started wearing make up when she was 16. Think about it, Mum--HERMIONE!!"

"Hermione does not have the same parents you do," Mrs. Weasley said flatly. "I want you to go straight to your bathroom and wash that rubbish off your face immediately." She took up all the plates on the table as Ginny's brothers continued to snicker at her.

"Oh, come on Mum! Ginny's right, she should be able to wear make up!" Fred spoke up in an almost joking way, "to cover up that hideous face from all her boyfriends!" he added as a roar of laughter arose from the table of red-headed Weasleys.

Mrs. Weasley ignored this cruel joke and looked completely shocked at the thought of Ginny having a boyfriend.

"Is this true, Ginny? You're...dating?"

Ginny gave the most threatening look she could at Fred and her brothers.

"Of course I'm dating Mum, where have you been for the past three years of my life!"

"Oh yes, Mum, let me see...there was Michael, Colin, Derrick, Adam, Steven...," Ron teased counting off all the boyfriends Ginny had ever had on his fingers, "...and the list goes on!"

"Virginia Molly Weasley! Since when have I said you were allowed to date?" Mrs. Weasley said frowning. Ginny hated it when her mother used her full name like that. All it meant was that she was in big trouble.

"Oh come now, Molly, you were dating by Ginny's age weren't you?" asked Mr. Weasley looking up from his Daily Prophet he had been reading. "Come to think of it, I think we were dating each other our sixth year!" he said giving a playful grin. Mrs. Weasley blushed as she narrowed her eyes towards her husband.

"Well, that doesn't matter," she said quickly. "but I guess since you are now 16 years of age you are allowed to date."

Ginny let out a sigh of relief.

"But without that hideous eyeshadow," Mrs. Weasley added. Ginny let out a groan.

"Okay fine, Mum, whatever you say," she muttered getting up from the table to go upstairs to her bathroom and wash off the eyeshadow she had so carefully applied.

Ginny walked into the bathroom and looked at herself intently in the mirror. She was wearing a red tank top with capris and matching red flip flops. Her shirt was rather tight-fitting but she liked it like that since she had finally "developed". She wouldn't have dare worn such a thing in her previous years when all the other girls had actual boobs that the guys like to ogle at, and she was well...a pancake. A very flat one.

But still, she didn't know why she did it. She knew she didn't wear make up just to look pretty. Her appearance never really bothered her. But now, it was the beginning of her sixth year and like she said--nearly all the girls in sixth year wore make up. But why? she asked herself. She wasn't doing it for herself, but for someone else. Someone who made her feel warm and fuzzy inside. Someone who had always been there whenever she needed him. Someone who she had a crush on since first year. Someone who she couldn't forget. Someone like...

"Harry Potter," she said quietly, looking at herself in the mirror of her bathroom.

"Harry-Bloody-Potter," she said again quietly.

She somehow hated him and loved him all at the same time. Ever since Cho-Bloody-Chang ever showed up into his life and stole her Harry away from him. Cho had stolen the only thing Ginny had ever loved that way before. But now she had heard from Ron that Cho and Harry had broken up over the summer...

She let out a sigh as she wiped the eyeshadow from her eyelids.

"Come on, Ginny, you're going to be late for the train!" called her mom from downstairs.

"I'm coming already!" Ginny called back. She patted on some blush to her cheeks before grabbing her luggage and running down the stairs quickly. Hopefully her mum wouldn't notice.

She arrived downstairs with all her things and saw her dad and Ron by the door ready to leave. Her brothers were still at the table discussing some business-like things. Fred and George were still in the joke-shop business while Bill and Charlie were always out and about somewhere doing top secret things sometimes for the Order. Ginny was the youngest and she and Ron were the only Weasleys left now who attended Hogwarts.

"Don't forget, Dad, we have to pick Harry up on our way to the station," Ron said, hauling his suitcase to the front door.

"Oh, that's right! Get into the car then, and we'll be off," Mr. Weasley said cheerfully as he muttered "Accio keys." A jingling ring of keys floated towards him and he took a minute to pick out the right one for the car.

Ginny and Ron gave their mom a big hug and said their goodbyes as Fred, George, Bill, and Charlie all waved with last-minute shouts of "Behave at Hogwarts!" and "Tell Dumbledore I said hey!"

Soon the door closed behind the three of them and they all piled into Mr. Weasley's new red car he had bought from an old Muggle "used-cars" shop.

"It's nice to see you again, Harry!" exclaimed Mr. Weasley as he honked the horn in front of the Dursleys' home on Privet Drive.

Harry rushed out of the house struggling with all his luggage and not to mention Hedwig's cage and almost slammed the door shut, happy to leave the house that was hell for him. He waved when he saw Ron and Ginny in the car which made Ginny smile shyly.

"God, he's gorgeous," she thought to herself. "What was I thinking going out with people like Michael Corner?!"

Mr. Weasley got out of the car to help load all of Harry's stuff into the trunk. Harry opened the back door and climbed in the car and sat opposite of Ginny.

"Hey, Ginny! I haven't seen you in a while," Harry said as he smiled warmly at her. "You look nice today."

Ginny blushed madly. "Thanks," she said quietly. She wanted to hit herself hard in the head with a very heavy rock. She sounded and was acting just like she was when she first saw Harry in her first year! She moved her eyes from him down to her hands, embarassed that she acted like a six-year-old near him.

"'Ey Harry, do you want a Chocolate Frog? Compliments of Fred and George," Ron said as he passed some Chocolate Frogs back to Harry.

Ginny was staring at Harry without even knowing it. She saw the way his messy black hair complimented his warm green eyes. She saw his muscles and almost fainted....

"So hot...," she said out loud without thinking. Harry looked at her with one raised eyebrow as Ginny was quickly thinking of something to say to cover up.

"I mean...it's so hot for August! I'm burning up here, Dad! Turn on that thing that Muggles use that makes the car all nice and cool in the summer," Ginny said relieved when Harry turned his attention back to his Chocolate Frog.

"Ignatia Wildsmith, the witch who invented Floo powder," Harry read to himself off his Chocolate Frog Card. "This is the first time I've ever heard of her. What about you, Ron?"

"Yeh, I've got three of her at my house!"

"Of course you do, Ron," Ginny said rolling her eyes. "You've bugged Fred and George to send you all the Chocolate Frog Cards you don't have from their joke shop!"

"It's not just a joke shop, Ginny, it's also a candy shop," said Ron smugly.

"Ugh whatever," Ginny said quite annoyed by her brother. "Anyway. Harry, I've heard that you were this close to becoming the Head Boy this year!"

"Oh...yeah," Harry said quietly.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it that way! I mean...Draco's dad probably bribed McGonagall or Dumbledore into letting him be the Head Boy. It makes me want to gag," said Ginny.

"Haha, yeah he probably did bribe..." Harry said laughing at what Ginny said. "The filthy git."

"Well, Hermione is quite ecstatic about being the Head Girl, I'm sure," added Ginny.

"Yeah," said Ron, "and she only sent me 17 owls in total explaining her bliss! Not so bad after the 19 owls I got from her in our 5th year when we were made prefects!" he added sarcastically. Ron and Hermione had been dating each other since their 6th year and Hermione had flooded Ron with owls explaining every single detail of her summer vacation.

"Haha, yup, that's our 'Mione all right," Harry said laughing.

"Hey, I'm the only one that's allowed to call her that!" Ron said defendantly. "She even said so herself."

"Oh, and so I suppose she calls you Ronniekins then?" Harry asked. Ron's ears turned pink and he turned the other way towards the window.

Ginny leaned over towards Harry and whispered, "Yeah, she does call him that sometimes." Harry and Ginny shared a small chuckle as Ron looked back at them rather menacingly.

With Hermione as Head Girl, and Draco as Head Boy, Ginny, Harry, and Ron all knew that it was going to be a very, very interesting year.

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