A/N: This is a bit of a lighter chapter compared to the others. I hope you like it.

Harry and Ginny had made it down to the lake without speaking to each other at all and Harry began to worry that their walk would turn out to be a bit of an awkward silence if he didn't do something fast.

"Um- do you- do you want to sit down-er- here?" Harry gestured towards a soft grassy spot on the edge of the lake. Ginny smiled.

"Sure," she sat down and Harry sat down beside her.

"Ginny, erm, I'm glad you came with me. I wanted to apologize for kissing you because I know it bothered you." Harry took a deep breath. That was really hard to say.

"Oh no, Harry, you don't understand," Ginny said, turning to him. Harry looked at her confused. "It's not that it bothered me, it's just..." she paused. "I was afraid that it wasn't real. Or that you were pretending, or something."

"What? Why would I pretend?" Harry said tensing up.

"Well, I don't know. I guess since I've... liked you for five years and then all of a sudden you like me too... it just seems, surreal." Ginny turned to him and met his sharp green eyes to hers. She touched his face.

"But I really do like you Ginny. It isn't a lie," Harry said, a sound of compassion in his voice.

"I know. I didn't mean to hurt you, Harry." Harry didn't know what to think as Ginny drew closer. Was she really going to kiss him again? Yes she was. Her lips met his in a soft tender kiss that Harry would treasure forever. She kissed him again only this time more passionately. Harry closed his eyes and kissed her back. This couldn't be happening. Good things never happen to him... this couldn't be real... but it was. Ginny wrapped her arms around him and kissed him again and again. Harry was nervous but he decided to put his hand on her cheek. It was just getting wonderful when...

"Oy! You two! Blimey... I never would have suspected it. How 'bout you George?" Fred and George Weasley were walking down the hill beside Harry and Ginny and Fred sat right in between them. George sat on the other side of Harry.

"No, not I dear brother. My oh my, if it isn't our little Ginny. Goodness she is growing up so fast isn't she Fred?"

"Yes, it seems like just yesterday she was sending love letters to Harry and praying he would do just this some day..." Fred put the back of his hand up to his forehead to imitate Ginny's drama. George laughed and Ginny was turning redder by the second. Harry was fidgeting with his hands nervously and George put an arm around him.

"That's right, Fred. Now don't you worry, Harry. Anything you need to know about... erm... that, feel free to ask us. And anything you need to know about our little Ginny here..." George reached over and pinched Ginny's reddening cheek and she slapped it away, "...we'll let you know. For starters, she wet the bed until she was seven..."

"would you two shut up?" Ginny yelled. George and Fred raised their arms up in a sort of mock surrender.

"Hey, it's a perfectly normal thing for a brother to do when he sees he baby sister snogging a school celebrity in a public place, tsk, tsk, tsk," Fred waved a scolding finger at Ginny and winked at Harry.

"Yeah, who are you to blame? We were just minding our own business over there with Lee and some joke shop testers, when we hear you two making all these noises and things... you don't actually expect us to ignore you do you? Now don't you two get too rowdy..." at that the twins left and Ginny and Harry were left to occupy each others presence in pure humiliation.

"Erm..." Harry said finally, after nearly five minutes. Ginny looked up quickly, almost as though she hadn't expected Harry to speak so soon. "Maybe we ought to, head back to the commonroom." Harry was now nearly a foot away from Ginny and fidgeting like mad; he had suddenly taken a strong interest in his thumbnails. Ginny nodded.

"Yeah, guess so."

That was the last Harry had heard of her that night. He went to bed early because he had nothing better to do. When Ron finally came up he went straight up to Harry's ear and whispered something.

"Harry? How far did you get? You didn't... erm..." Harry sat up quickly before Ron could finish his sentence, almost knocking him over.

"NO of course not! Who do you think I am?"

"Sorry... I was just wondering." Ron got into bed next to Harry and began snoring before Harry could say another word. Harry fell asleep a few moments after that and dreamed of Ginny.