Hiding the Truth
Ginny was so ashamed of herself. It was Monday morning when she finally got out of her
bed, in her dark room, with all the blinds closed.
She had stayed locked in her room the rest of the weekend after she had been found by Harry and Vanessa in the park. She was extremely embarrassed by the whole situation and them finding her in the park just made matters worse.
Once on Sunday she had thought she heard a knock on her bedroom door, but decided that it was only her imagination. Perhaps some part of her needed a friend to comfort her and wanted to be found in her state of distress.
However it was now Monday and she knew that she had to her on with her life, no matter how depressing it was. It was all just so hard when she longed so much for her life to go back to the way it was before that past Friday. He troubles seemed so far away and distant. It had all just hit her so fast, she wasn't ready for such a drastic change in events.
She arrived at the shop early to check on how the weekend business had went without her. She knew that she no longer needed to go in everyday after all she was doing so well, but she knew that she would be bored without it. Everyone else worked, why shouldn't she.
The first thing she saw when she walked in was a young lady nineteen years of age. She was serving coffee to customers. It was Sarah. Ginny had hired her three months ago to handle the morning shift and her cousin Jake for the afternoon.
Once Sarah had finished serving the current customers she turned smiling to Ginny, "Morning Ginny, how was the weekend?"
"I'll tell you later, but for now if anyone asks to see me say that I'm not here," Ginny sighed.
"That bad huh?" Sarah asked.
Ginny just shrugged before disappearing into her office.
The office was rather comfortable for being an office. There was naturally a desk in which Ginny would sit to fill out order forms and supplies lists. However there was also a small couch, potted plants and flowers, and several photographs of her friends. It was rather enjoyable, not at all stressful.
Ginny sat down on the comfortable couch, tilting back to rest. She didn't feel like working at all. There was a soft knock on the door and Sarah came in. She was young and always cheerful. She had blond hair and blue eyes and had become a good friend if Ginny.
"Jake just arrived, he was bored and decided to drop in, so I put him to work " she laughed.
Ginny sighed, "Good."
"What's wrong?" Sarah questioned.
At first Ginny was apprehensive about telling her story, but it all came out, all the events since she had left the shop on Friday. When she had finished there was a short silence.
Then Sarah bit her bottom lip then began to speak trying to be careful, "Well, this could be a problem, but the only sensible answer that I can come up with is for you to tell Harry the way you feel."
Ginny quickly said, "Oh no I could never do that."
"Sure you could Ginny," encouraged Sarah.
"Yeah maybe," Ginny said more to get Sarah to stop pressing her because she knew that she could never tell Harry the truth.
The two girls were then interrupted by someone entering the office. It was Hermione, "Morning Sarah, Ginny we need to talk."
"Shouldn't you be at work?" Ginny asked.
"This is more important," Hermione said.
Both girls gasped. Nothing was ever so important to Hermione that she would miss work.
"Well, I think that I should get back to work and leave you two to talk," Sarah announced, then glanced at Ginny as though checking if she was okay before disappearing out the door.
Hermione got strait to the point, "What happened the other night? You said that you would come with us, then I leave you alone for a few minutes to talk with Harry and the next thing I know your gone and said you had a "date" honestly Ginny, Ron even saw through that lie." She stopped waiting for Ginny to reply.
"Harry didn't see through it though"
"Harry is just…what did you say?"
"You know when he found me?" Ginny muttered looking closely at her hands.
"Funny, he hasn't mention that, what happened?" Hermione asked looking confused.
"He …didn't tell you?"
"I have no idea what you are talking about?" Hermione said with a bit of inpatients in her voice.
Ginny slowly stood up, with a dazed look on her face.
"I…I…have to go somewhere Hermione," Ginny said in a far off voice.
"What? Where?" Hermione questioned looking at Ginny entirely confused, but it was to late Ginny had already walked out.
Ginny walked the five blocks to the Ministry of Magic, she checked in as a visitor, and was now stepping off the lift onto the floor with the Aurors offices.
As she walked the distance to the cubicles that the Aurors used, people turned their heads to look, wondering what this beautiful red head was doing there. Of course
some of them recognized her because both her father and brother Ron worked on that floor. However Ginny didn't even notice the attention she had drawn to herself. Her mind was set on what she was going to do.
Just then a tall, red haired figure stepped out of the cubicle directly in front of her and said in a rather loud voice, "Ginny?"
"Hello Ron," Ginny muttered, looking at her feet to hide the fact that she was now turning bright pink.
When she looked up again she saw Harry, he had appeared next to her brother, it apparently was his cubicle that Ron had been visiting. He was looking at her with a questioning look.
"What are you doing here?" Ron asked.
Ginny turned to Harry, trying to regain her composer, " I was actually here to talk to you
Harry."
"Fine I see how it is little sister," and with that Ron walked away.
"What's up?" Harry asked.
"Well, I was kind of hopping to talk to you about you know, about what happened on Friday."
"Okay," he said.
"Thank you so much for not telling Hermione. She would have been frantic."
"I just figured that was the last thing that you needed right now," He said with concern in his eyes.
"Believe me it is," Ginny said in a wiry voice.
"Gin?"
"Yes Harry?"
"Why were you in that park?"
"Harry I just…"
But Ginny was saved the trouble of having to explain anything to Harry once again by the arrival of Vanessa.
At first she didn't even acknowledge Ginny's presents, then she turned, not meeting Ginny's eyes and said, " Good to see you Ginny," then turned back to Harry saying, "We should really get going, I don't have a long lunch today."
"Sorry Gin, I guess we'll have to talk later," said Harry with a regretful look.
"Yeah that's fine Harry," Ginny said, she would have been relieved for an interruption, but since it was Vanessa, she would have rather told Harry everything.
And she stood there alone in the middle of the hallway watching Vanessa lead Harry away, with her hands around his waist and his around her shoulders. She sighed before turning and walking back the way she had come, alone…
A/N: and now it is time for the best part! write those reviews so that i can write the next chapter
