Title: Summer of discovery

Author: Joy

A/N: Please forgive the br and p's that were seen scattered in the last chapter's first posting. Br is code for break and P is code for paragraph. Unfortunately the Quick editor wouldn't accept them so I had to manually recode it in the text box before reposting chapter 2. It still didn't turn out quite right. Hopefully by the end of this series I will have leaned how to code for it. I have finally gotten the hang of most of the Live Journal codes but that doesn't help me here too much.

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING NOTE

A/N2: Okay folks this is the beginning of a lengthy angst period. Just be aware that while things won't get solved for a while, several chapters occur on the same day. I am not leaving Harry and Ginny in limbo for a lengthy period of actual time. Also this is the beginning of the racier subject matter.

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Chapter 3: Homeward bound

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After paying for the ride and all, Ginny led Harry to the third level of the bus to the far back corner. No sooner had he sat down and leaned back did Ginny plaster herself on top of him. "Ginny?" he gulped.

She had begun to kiss his jaw lightly as she straddled his lap, the skirt of her dress easily moving to aid the process. "Yes Harry."

"We're...we're in... public," he gasped as she suckled his ear. For Harry's part he was trying not to be a randy soon-to-be seventeen-year-old boy but dear god he had a hot girlfriend that was set on seducing him. The knowledge that her knickers were caressing his denim-covered erection was killing him.

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Ginny smirked to herself, feeling Harry's immediate response to her attention. They had been apart for nearly a month and she had decided to step things up in their relationship. Harry, being the sweetheart that he was, never wanted to pressure her into anything physical so he never...NEVER...took the lead.

Thus being why Ginny had gone through a very thorough conversation with her twin brothers the week before. They ended up at the twins flat because they claimed the only way they could actually fulfill their promise of a 'frank' conversation about sex with their baby sister was with liberal amounts of fire-whiskey. By the end of the night Fred and George were three sheets to the wind and she literally had a notebook full of notes she had taken of little things she had been told. Whenever one of them would stifle what they were about to say, Ginny would give them another shot to loosen their tongues.

Ginny learned about masturbation and the good use for a girl to do it to herself so she learned what she liked before she did anything with a guy. This made Ginny a bit uncomfortable. After her assault she wanted to share things with Harry but still slipped into the lie that she was somehow tainted, like she didn't experience that enough from the whole Tom Riddle thing. The point was she had homework to do with her own body...something that in the end was fair less scary than she thought.

She was also told different ways to touch a guy, how to 'delay' gratification, and eventually with a great amount of whiskey the proper way to give a blowjob. In his drunken state George had also gone into a great deal of detail about making sure to teach Harry to lie back and think of England / the Queen or their fun might be over before it had begun. Fred started to sing 'God save the Queen' causing a huge amount of laughter. It was only then that Ginny was let in on the joke. In a most serious tone George explained that the only time he had ever blackout from getting off was when his delectable girlfriend had been eating him out while humming 'God save the Queen' and playing with his tackle. Ginny nearly vomited from the imagery but took this and tons of other things they told her to heart... And now she was going to begin to seduce 'the boy who lived' and turn him into 'the boy who lived to be a happy, healthy, oversexed teenager meant to destroy Voldemort'.

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Harry knew his lungs were going to explode soon from the lack of oxygen since he couldn't make himself stop kissing Ginny. Eventually Ginny pulled back a bit allowing Harry to gasp for air. "Breathe through your nose," she whispered and flicked the top button of his shirt open so she could explore his collarbone more easily. The rocking motion of the bus was killing him since that meant that his lovely redheaded siren of a girlfriend was rocking back and forth on him.

"Gin...god...Gin," he panted. "I'm...please...oh..."

Ginny smirked to herself. "When we get home, you can sneak into my room tonight and we can have some real fun. I've been wanting to see you out of these clothes." Harry sucked a deep breath. "I can't wait to see your face when I stroke you up and down." Gin's hand snaked between their bodies and headed southward.

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Harry quickly came back to himself and clutched her shoulders moving her away a bit. "Ginny, what are you doing?"

She tried not to let it bother her. "Seducing you, of course," she said with a plastic smile.

"Why?" he gazed on her confused. "We're doing just fine."

Ginny leaned even further back from him, "You don't want to..."

"No. I don't. Not yet," he stated clearly. "What's this about?"

Gin started swallowing convulsively attempting not to cry. Whispers of doubt began to flood her mind. She carefully removed herself from his lap and began to walk away.

Harry was stunned. This was not the way he wanted to start things off with Ginny over the summer. He quickly snagged her arm. "Gin...where are you going?"

She didn't respond.

"Come on luv. Talk to me."

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Harry settled Ginny in his lap but it did little good since she had a thousand yard stare in full effect. "Ginny?"

"What?" she finally said angrily.

"Talk to me."

"What is there to say? You don't want me."

Harry thumped his head on the wall behind him. "You know that isn't true."

"I'm sorry but how many sixteen year old boys do you know that put off their girlfriends when they want to go further?"

"Well we aren't dealing in statistics, are we Gin? You happen to be dating Prophecy Boy. That's a hellova lot of responsibility. I don't do flippant. We are who we are Ginny. We are different than other people and I am not about have our relationship go too far too fast."

"Whatever," she groaned.

"Oh for the love of... you want proof...fine!" Harry snagged her hand and slid it to the front of his jeans. Ginny gave a small gasp. "That is for you. That is always for you." She timidly removed her hand.

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Harry sighed, "Our relationship Ginny...it means everything to me. I don't want to screw it up."

"Neither do I Harry, but it feels like you're shutting me out," Gin whispered.

"Why? Because I don't want to be exhibitionistic on the bus?"

"No... because you always pull away."

Green eyes pierced brown, "Remember how you talked about the deep dark pit you that you didn't want me to see." Ginny nodded. "I...I feel strongly for you. Very strongly... There have been times...in the past...when I have gotten very angry, angry enough that I have hurt people accidentally. I'm terrified of becoming so wrapped up in you that I won't be able to stop... I... Until I get that under control..." Harry looked her dead in the eyes, "I can't lose you...I can't hurt you. I can't scare you."

Ginny petted Harry gently for a minute as they sat quietly.

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"It should happen naturally...our physical relationship... It should change gradually, not forced," Harry fussed.
Ginny clenched her teeth. How dare he pull that crap? She stood up and yelled at him, "But nothing is natural with us, is it Harry? You are always checking and rechecking to make sure every little thing is perfect. Well to hell with perfect. I don't care about perfect."

"Yes but you do care about image. That's what this is really about, isn't it? What other people think?"

No sooner had the words exited his mouth then he wanted to take them back. The hurt and fury in Ginny's eyes were enough to cause him pain. This, of course, was coupled by the sting his check felt from where she slapped him.

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Once again Ginny was walking away from him and once again Harry was reaching out for her. "I'm sorry. That was a stupid thing to say."

"No bloody kidding!" Gin snipped still sitting apart from him.

He took a deep breath and let it out slowly, "Can we talk about this later when we're both less...frustrated?"

Ginny began to pout, "Why bother? You've lost interest in me. Just break up with me now so I can deal with my heartbreak here rather than at school."

The bus pulled to a stop. Harry shook his head, "Stop it Ginny. I have not lost interest in you. I have no intention of breaking up with you... I LOVE YOU!" Harry spun on his heel and exited the bus.

Ginny couldn't help but be a bit giddy even though she was still angry... Harry Potter loved her.

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TBC...

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