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Ginny was dreading the first Hogsmeade weekend. She would have to watch Harry parading around with Parvati and everyone else walking around with their dates. She headed to the Three Broomsticks with Carla and Ryan (her only friends that didn't have dates). They sat down at the pub and Ginny groaned; Harry and Parvati were sitting two tables away, acting perfectly lovey-dovey.
"Why haven't you made a move on him yet?" Carla asked her. "I've tried, but Parvati beat me to the punch," she answered sulkily. "Well you have to be faster! You want to win that bet, right? You've been dieing to get Ron and Hermione together for ages!" Carla advised her. "Yeah, yeah, I will," Ginny grumbled.
Harry and Parvati left a few minutes later, with a quick wave to Ginny. Ryan, Ginny, and Carla left after they had finished their butterbeer. Ryan had been suspiciously quiet, and it was starting to bug Ginny. "What's wrong, Rye?" Ginny finally asked using their pet name for him. "Nothing," he said dejectedly. "You know you can tell us anything," Carla said, giving him a reassuring pat on the back.
Ryan smiled weakly, but didn't say anything. They visited a few shops, but none of them bought that much. At a quarter past five they made their way back to Hogwarts. Dinner was boring, in Ginny's opinion. Colin was ignoring his friends for his new girlfriend, a girl in Ravenclaw, Jules was studying in the common room, Ryan was still being mute, and Carla was too busy eating to talk.
Ginny left in the middle of the meal because she thought that she would die of boredom. She was over three quarters of the way to the Gryffindor Tower, when she was pulled into an empty classroom from behind. "Eek!" she shrieked. "It's just me," Ryan said. "Oh," she heaved a sigh, "you scared me half to death, Rye!" "Sorry, but I have to talk to you alone," he said timidly.
"Um, ok," Ginny said hesitantly. To her surprise Ryan stepped closer and took her hands. "Ginny, I like you...a lot. As more than a friend, a lot more than a friend," he said.
"Ryan-" she was stopped mid sentence by his lips pressed against hers. She stiffened, but then let herself melt into the kiss.
She let him slip his tongue into her mouth, and soon the kiss got more passionate. His hands left hers and went around her waste, while hers went to around his neck. She moaned aloud as his hands dipped lower.
"Ginny!" Ryan pulled away as he heard the shout. "What has gotten into you? You're snogging in an empty classroom!" Harry nearly yelled. "What do you care?" she asked hotly. "You're just a kid, and you're Ron's little-" "Sister, I know!" Ginny interrupted him, "I'm a bloody sixteen years old! And everyone still thinks of me as Ron's sodding little sister!" Ginny practically screamed.
Then she stormed out of the room, leaving behind a dumbstruck Ryan and Harry. She walked down three floors and through many corridors, still fuming. She finally found another empty classroom, sat down and started to bang her head on the desk. What's wrong?" asked a gentle voice from beside her.
"Nothing," Ginny answered, by now her eyes were streaming slightly. She almost cursed when she saw who was sitting next to her. It was Prof. Bell. "Proff-" she started to say. "Call me Elladora, please. And no, I'm not going to give you a detention. Though you are out nearly an hour late," Elladora said with a grin, "So, why don't you tell me what's on your mind."
Ginny couldn't help it, Elladora's voice was so kind and every emotion in her purple-blue eyes was reassuring. Besides, right about now Ginny badly needed someone to talk to. So, Ginny found herself being led into Elladora's office, and telling the older witch everything starting with the bet and up to Harry walking in on her and Ryan kissing.
"Well, you've got yourself into some knot," Elladora said appraisingly after a moment. "What do you mean?" Ginny asked. "Well, Ryan obviously likes you a lot, but you seem to still have feelings for Harry, but Harry's taken and Ryan isn't, and Harry might have acute feelings for you that, with some prodding, could heighten. But Ryan already likes you a lot," Elladora waited for it to sink in.
"Oh Godric, what am I going to do?" Ginny asked despairingly while sipping on the tea Elladora had made them both. "Well, to kill two birds with one stone, you could go out with Ryan, and try to get Harry jealous, trust me it'll work, and if it doesn't work out, break up with him gently, and I'm sure Harry will have realized his feelings for you!" Elladora advised.
"Wow, why didn't I think of that?" Ginny said. "Come on. I'll walk you to the Gryffindor Tower so you don't get in trouble. Hey, if you don't get in trouble getting here, then you can always come to my office after curfew. I'll do whatever I can to help with your bet," Elladora said and they both made their way to the Tower.
Ginny clambered through the portrait hole to find Ryan, Colin, Carla, Jules, Hermione, Ron, and Harry waiting for her in the various armchairs. "Where were you?" everyone asked at once. "You were gone for over three hours!" Ron exclaimed. "I – I'm sorry if what I did upset you," Ryan said, avoiding her eyes. "It didn't," she said and sat down next to him, taking his hand. He grinned at her.
"Huh?" everyone excluding Harry asked. "Ginny and I are going to start going out," Ryan said plainly. Everyone's jaws hit the floor. "Ginny, can we talk to you?" Jules said and all the girls led her up to the sixth year dorm.
Ginny sat down on her bed and held up her hand. "I can explain," she said. So, once again, Ginny was telling the story about Ryan kissing her and Elladora giving her advice. "She is such a cool teacher! Did you know that she just got out of school two years ago?" Hermione asked the younger girls. "Yeah, I heard that she was only nineteen!" Carla replied.
"We should go talk to Colin," Ginny said. "No. Number 1, Ryan probably already told him about Harry walking in on you two, and; number 2, if we told him what Elladora said he would tell Ryan and Ryan would think you were using him," Jules said. "But that's not my intention at all!" Ginny exclaimed. "I know, but it'll seem to him like you are," Jules repeated.
Ginny nodded. "I'm going to bed," Hermione said, and got up and left for her own dorm. The other three girls got into their pajamas and went to bed as well.
At breakfast the next morning Ginny sat down by Ryan and gave him a kiss on the cheek, making sure Harry saw. "What are we going to do today?" Ryan asked her. "I don't know, I don't really want to go into Hogsmeade again," Ginny replied and shrugged. After they had finished their breakfast the group of friends went to the library to study for their charms test.
Ryan and Ginny kept leaning over and kissing each other, so the other three left for fear of becoming diabetic. So, Ginny and Ryan were left in a snogging session (they were new couples, after all). "Um, I don't mean to interrupt, but can we sit here?" Ginny broke away from the kiss to nod at whoever was asking. It turned out, that the people sitting in front of them were Parvati and Harry.
"Oh, hi," Ginny said, taking her arms away from around Ryan's neck. Harry smiled somewhat forcedly. For about an hour they studied in peace, until Parvati and Harry finally left to go back to the common room. The other couple stayed in the library for another two hours and left for lunch. They spent the rest of the day with their friends, playing exploding snap and being unconventionally bored.
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God, what the hell is wrong with me? Every time I look at Ginny and Ryan I feel sick. No, I am not jealous! I have a wonderful girlfriend and I don't have any feelings for Ginny! I can't have feelings for Ginny, she's Ron's little sister! But what's wrong with that? I hate it when that little voice in my head reasons with me! "Where are you going?" Parvati asks me as I start to walk through the portrait hole. "For a walk," I reply and leave.
I walk for a while and come to an empty classroom. I sit at a desk and start banging my head against it. "What's wrong?" a voice asks me. I look up and see Prof. Bell. "Shit-" I start to say. "I'm not going to give you a detention, if that's what you're thinking. So, what's up?" she asks again. So, because I'm such a sap, I let her lead me to her office and I tell her about Ginny.
I rotate my neck; it was now sore with stress and thought. "Here, let me give you a massage," she gets up and I shift on her couch to let her rub my shoulders. "You're very tense," she whispers in my ear. I shiver. And all of a sudden there are lips on mine. I automatically turn completely around and put my arms around her waste.
The kiss deepens, and next thing you know its morning, we're entangled on her couch, and I'm not wearing what I came in here in.
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"Hey, Harry, when'd you get back last night?" Parvati asked Harry as he came into the Great Hall. "Oh, uh, I came back to the dorm about midnight," he replied tiredly. "I don't remember you – oh, um, yeah midnight," Ron said after Harry kicked him under the table. Luckily no one noticed.
"Harry didn't come back at midnight," Ryan told Ginny as they walked to Transfiguration, "I was in the common room studying until one." "He could have been wearing the invisibility cloak," Ginny suggested. "I still would have noticed the portrait hole swing open," he told her. Ginny shrugged and put her arm around his waste.
Surprisingly, Ginny's relationship with Ryan was going very smoothly. Sure, she wanted an excuse to make Hermione ask Ron out, but she also wanted to have a good relationship with a loving guy. That was exactly what she had with Ryan. So the bet was off.....or that was what she thought.
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A/N: Hey Clara, you better not say this chapter was boring! You always say my chapters are boring, so I spiced this one up a bit (or at least I tried : ) ! Review, please!
