Chapter Two

Authors Note: Second chapter! How exiting. Not really, but oh well. Again, I cannot spell check, so please forgive me and my stupid word prosessor. Hope you like the story so far, and if you have any idea's for the future of this peice, please inform me, I would love to have some new thoughts! Thanks, and enjoy.

About a week later, Ginny stood outside the castle grounds, waiting despratly for Harry to Apparate. She looked at herself, and frowned. Hermione had urged her into wearing a pair of tight, sexy, yet casual pair of jeans, very uncomefortabe sneakers that were a size to small, to make her feet look smaller, a tight tanktop, that reavealed way to much in Ginny's opinion, and also, WAY too much makeup than was needed to greet an old 'friend'.

But Hermione had insisted, and while it was the middle of summer, she had to wear something light anyway, so why not let Harry enjoy seeing Ginny agian. She smiled nerviously, as she waited to hear the slight 'pop' that would tell her when Harry had arrived. She looked down at herself, and subconsiously fixed her hair, and smoothed her shirt.

A small 'pop' let her know that Harry had arrived, and she turned to look behind her. Nothing was there, so she looked around, wondering if it had been her imagination. Then she remebered. Harry's invisability cloak, he must be trying to sneak up on her, so she preteded not to know where he was and looked stumped. She heard a tiny branch snap besider, and lunged in that direction, and knocked and invisible form to the the ground.

"Shit Ginny! I was TRYING to sneak up on you!" Harry's voice came from underneith her, and she rolled off him, grinning happily.

"Shit Harry! Dont swear, or I might tell Mum, and then you will be in so much trouble!" But she laughed, laying on the soft green grass, next to Harry, looking up at the sky. He took off his invisibilty cloak, and she looked over at him, her smile fading when she saw a long scar, running from his temple, to somewere below the line of his shirt.

Harry grinned at her, ignoring her look of concern, and rolled over her, pinning her to the ground in a friendly way. She looked up at him, he wasnt pale anymore, he had tanned from when she had last seen him in the hospital, but under his eyes, there where dark lines of worry. He grinned even bigger, and made her forget that he had suffered so much, all she knew was that his eyes were green, so green.

He leaned down to her, way to close, but neither seemed to notice, or mind. "So Ginny, hows your boyfriend?" Harry asked tenitively, wondering if she had one.

Ginny didnt take her eyes away from his. "What boyfriend? Didnt anyone tell you Im single?" She couldnt help it, he was too close, and he was so different, he had so much pain, but he was forgeting it for the moment, and she couldnt let him remember it, not even for a second.

Harry's grin faded, but not because he was unhappy. His eyes strayed from Ginny's eyes to her lips, and then back to her eyes, and he sent a mute question. She answed it without saying anything, but closed her eyes, and waited for him to kiss her. He didnt keep her waiting long, but kissed her almost instantly. It was a soft, gentil kiss, as if she was going to break. She didnt move, and let him kiss her, until she finally kissed him back, just as softly, just as gentily.

Suddenly they broke apart, as if they had been caught my someone. He looked away as he rolled off her, as if he had done something that he shouldnt have, and looked extrealmly embarresed. She looked over at him, seeing the long scar again, and reached out, and touched it. Ever so lightly, her fingers traveled down it, so lightly that he could hardly feel her touch. As she reached his shirt, and the scar dissapered beneith it, Harry took her hand, and helped her up.

They walked silently away, twardes the castle, and after a few minutes, Ginny had to stop. The shoes Hermionine had given her were killing her feet, and she had to take them off. "Wait just a sec Harry, my feet are dying in thease shoes!"

Harry stopped quickly, and walked back to her. Ginny put her hand on his shoulder to steady herself, and removed one shoe, then switched hands, and removed the other. Harry looked at her, amazed that she had been walking for so long in shoes that were way to small to fit her. She looked up at him for a second, and grinned, tied the shoe laces together, and slung them over her shoulder. They again walked on, but now her feet were bare to the soft grass.

But her feet has suffered too long in the too small shoes, and she had to steady herself on Harry again as she limped painfully on. Harry grinned to himself at the amazing way that she had been acting, first letting him kiss her, then using him to support herself as she limped quietly beside him, without making a sound. He slid his arm around her, and she didnt protest, and leaned more fully into him, using him to help herself walk.

For another moment, Harry let himself forget the worry he had been feeling for the last few months, and let himself think about the beutiful woman that was walking beside him. He had always thought she was pretty, but her total acceptance of him as a good friend, blew him away. Her clothes blew him away, he had never seen Ginny like this before, she had always had her school robes on, and was never exposed. But now, in her tight jeans and tiny tank top, she was more than enough to take his mind of any worries that he had.

Ginny was thinking too, she had never thought of Harry as someone that would pin her to the ground and kiss her so softly that she didnt know why he was holding back. She had always seen him as someone that was too good for her, and would never notice her. But he had changed, totaly in her mind, he was ovioulsly interested in her, but she couldnet stop thinking of him as her big brothers best friend.

They walked back to the school without a word, but Harry kept his arm around her the whole time, and would occasionally pull her a tiny bit closer to her if she got more than an inch or two away. He made sure she was leaning against him at all times, and that she wasnt limping too hard. He liked the feel of her against him, leaning oh him, depending on him for support.

Ginny couldnt help but notice that Harry was holding her at his side, making sure that she was leaning against him, so she decided to lean her total weight into him, to see if that would make him stop holding her as close. As she gave all her weight over to him, to her surprise, he took it gladly, and seemed to stand taller, knowing that she was trusting him with herself. Ginny smiled to herself, and then slumped to the ground.

Harry, who had been busy thinking how great it was to have Ginny leaning even closer to him, hadnt noticed her slight movement until she was on the ground. Harry was pulled off balence, and dropped to the ground like a stone, Ginny stood up, and walked a few steps away, grinning down at him, and started laughing at the surprised look on his face.

She held out her hand to him, and he grasped it and she helped in to his feet, again, surprising him, this time with her strenth. He slid his arm around her again, but didnt let her lean her full weight against him again. He had to have a plan, he had to surprise her, and make her feel confused, and he wanted to make her laugh again.

Ginny expected him to try something to surprise her back, but what he did was something she couldnt have ever thought of him doing. Harry pulled her against him again, and then grabbed her around her waist, picked her up. She gasped, and grabbed him around his neck, as he jogged easily for a little while, before stopping.

He looked into her eyes for the second time in one day, but this time, she had been starteled enought to wrap her arms around his neck, and he held her full weight in his arms. She had reasted her head against his neck, but now that he had stopped moving, her head was up agian. She stared into his eyes again, but this time she knew what he was about to do.

Before he could again kiss her, she had moved her hands to either side of his face, and slowly brought her head down to his, and their lips touched for the second time. But instead of the soft gentil kiss that they had shared earlier, this was much different. Harry became more demanding, and she gave him as much as she could, while still in the prosses of kissing him back. Harry also gave her everything her mouth asked for, and they stood there for a few minutes, making out, forgetting everything around them, they only were involved with each other.

A low snort broke them apart. In his surprise, Harry dropped Ginny, but she landed on her feet, and Harry sliped his arm around her again, not for support, but for comfort. A great horselike beast stood before them. It was a strange silver color, and it looked like it was rotting, but they new better, it was a Thestral, and an old one. It looked like it wanted them to climb aboared, so they did.

Ginny rode in front, and Harry leaned close to her, and wrapped both his arms around her, even though he was quite experinced in riding Thestrals, and really didnt need to. As they flew through the air, Ginny filled him in on what her job was like so far, teaching students that had once been her fellow classmates, and how she hoped to stay in the position of Defese Against the Dark Arts for more than a year.