A/N: I bet you all thought I had abandoned this story! Well, I'm back. I can't tell you how many times I sat in front of the computer trying to finish this chapter, but nothing whatsoever came to my mind. But it is finally here!
I had asked you whether I should continue this story or not, and to my great surprise and delight most of you told me I should. I can't express what that means to me. However, I've completely lost my inspiration for this, so I'll tell you what. In this chapter I leave this story closed and if my muse ever comes back I'll write a sequel. Is that ok? Anyway, I hope you enjoy this 'cause it cost me blood, sweat and tears to write it! So, on with it… and don't forget to review!
The first summer of the rest of their lives
Chapter XIV: What is well, ends well
Meanwhile, back at Ginny's room, the redhead and Harry were lying on her bed again. She had wanted to hide in the kitchen to listen to what happened between Hermione and Ron, but Harry thought it best to give their friends some privacy.
"Ok Potter, you've ruined my eavesdropping session, you'd better make this worth." Joked Ginny.
"Yeah well, I could make things interesting, but I dread to think what your brothers would do to me if they found us…"
"I was actually talking about a good game of exploding snap, but if you want to go down that path" Ginny grinned sexily at him.
"I'm serious Gin, I rather like my face the way it is now, and I don't need another scar" He answered nervously.
"You are so easy Potter, I'm going to have lots of fun with you." Harry glared at her, but he fully appreciated now that Ginny was also a Weaseley, with all the implications that had. However, two seconds later she was kissing him and he forgot all about her family household.
They broke the kiss some time later but remain in each others arms. The house was pretty quiet, what meant either that Ron and Hermione had worked out things between them or that one (most probably Hermione) had killed the other. In any case, neither of them wanted to let go of the other, and frankly, their friends were the last thing on their minds.
"I don't want this summer to ever be over" Said Ginny resting her head on Harry's chest while he stroked her head slightly.
"Me neither, I'm going to miss you so much Gin."
"Me too. It's going to be weird to go back to Hogwarts with none of my brothers or my best friend."
"And your boyfriend, right?"
"Well… I could always get a new boyfriend; you know I've always liked Colin."
"Oh great! I didn't know we were allowed to do that… Now I can tell Ron to introduce me one of the Tornados female players. I've always had a thing for Cassandra Valla. You know, the tall, blonde one… She has the most beautiful deep blue eyes, and that figure.
"Hey!" Protested Ginny, the tips of her ears turning red.
"I thought I was the easy one hehehe" Ginny punched him playfully in the arm. "I love you when you are jealous. Ginny stopped punching him, astonished.
"But did you just say?"
"I said I love you when you are jealous… What? Are you deaf or so-" He stopped in mid-sentence when he realized what he has just said and why she had reacted like that. He had not thought before saying those words, and yet they felt so right. Yes, of course… He had known it all along, only he had never stopped to think about it. He sat straight and turned to face her, leaned a bit towards her and gently stroked her chick. He looked straight into her eyes.
"Ginevra Weasley, I love you" He muttered softly, but still loud enough so she could hear his words "and I will always love you. This next year is going to be very difficult for me, and I'll be counting off the days until I can have you with me forever. I want you to know that I would never hurt you or betray you.
I promise I'll be waiting for you at the station on every Hogsmeade weekend; I'll even try to convince Dumbledore to allow me to go and visit you… And on you graduation day, I'll be there to take you with me forever.
And that Mrs. Weasley is a solemn vow."
Ginny was speechless, she had never expected this sort of declaration from Harry Potter. Yes, she had dreamt with it a thousand times, but she never thought it would come true. She just stared at him transfixed.
"Hum Gin, I understand if you don't feel the same, but you could at least say something." Harry was starting to get worried now. What if it was too soon to say that? Was he rushing things? Even worst, had he ruined everything? He had gotten carried away by the moment and what he had seen in her eyes, and now he had scared her.
"Harry, of course I feel the same. I've felt it ever since I first met you." She answered, her eyes shinning with tears.
"Why is it that women always have to cry?" Wondered Harry awkwardly.
"And why is it than men always ruin the moment?" Asked Ginny, wiping her eyes.
"Because we have the ability to bring it back." Harry reached for his wand, and with a swift tap he transfigured one of the pillows into a bouquet of red roses matching Ginny's hair.
"That was so cheese!" Whisper the girl, but she couldn't suppress a huge smile at the beautiful flowers.
"I know, but it worked, didn't it?" He ginned as she leaned forward to kiss him again.
"Oh by the way" The redhead cut the kissed and look at Harry seriously "I love you too."
At the living room, Ron and Hermione were busy making up for the lost time, and not exactly telling each other what they had done during the previous days. They were still sitting in the couch. Ron had his arms around her waist and she had lifted hers to hisneck and was playing with his ginger hair. His lips left her mouth and slowly made their way to her neck. She moaned softly as he kissed her soft skin. The heat was rising in the room, both could felt it, and a part of Hermione knew it would be wise to stop there and then. But Ron was very good at what he was doing and she was enjoying the situation too much to listen to her responsible self.
Their lips had made contact again, but now Ron was attentively moving forward, trying to make Hermione lie on her back. She knew what he was doing, he was testing up to where she would allow him to get. The problem was, where did she want him to get? She was confident Ron would never force her to do anything she didn't want to. But if they continued like that…
Hermione took one of her hands out of his hair and placed it in his chest, to signal that he should stop.
"Sorry" He mumbled ashamed.
"There's nothing to be sorry about" She answered simply, it was so cute of him to act like that. He was blushing scarlet by now, what made her laugh. But she stopped almost immediately, because he was looking into her eyes intensely.
"What?" She asked him
"Promise me you'll never leave me, I don't think I could live without you."
"Ron!" Hermione began to complain, but the redhead cut her.
"No, I'm serious 'Mione. I did a lot of thinking these days and although I was very angry- because I'm the biggest prat on earth, I know- I somehow couldn't stop thinking that if we didn't solve this and at least remain friends, my life would never be complete again. And now that I know you are not with Palmer and that you still care about me in spite of me being a jerk, I could never smile or laugh again if you left me."
Hermione was speechless. It seamed as though only Ron had the ability to render her without something to say. But those words were the deepest he had ever told her. In fact, that had to be the sweetest thing anyone had ever told her. The boy, man, in front of her was her best friend, she knew him better than anyone, and thus could tell when he was lying or exaggerating. However, his eyes showed her that he was being one hundred percent honest, and that they come from his heart and soul.
"'Mione? Will you promise me?" His voice interrupted her thoughts.
"No, I won't promise you that… I swear that I will never leave you and that will always be together."
Ron, who had looked down at her first words, grinned so widely that his eyes were reduced to two thinlines. He pulled her into a tight embrace, as if telling her that, even if she wanted to, he would never allow her to leave his side. And they would have remained like that the rest of the night, if Harry's voice hadn't brought them back to reality.
"Are you decent? Can we come down?"
"Harry!" They cried in unison.
"We take that as a yes." This time it was Ginny who spoke. Both of them walked down the stairs hand in hand. "So, are we sisters-in-law again?" She asked grinning at Hermione.
The brunette nodded, as Ron took her hand and kissed it.
"I have to tell you, it was a pretty brilliant plan. Who came up with it?"
"In fact we all did. The general idea occurred to me, but we all came up with the details and all of us help to put it into practice." Answered Ginny.
"I'm impressed."
"Well, you shouldn't underestimate the Weasley's capacity to plot. If we could bring the two of together, when you are about the most stubborn people in the world, we can do anything." The four of them laughed fondly at this.
Sooner that they would have wanted, the end of the summer came. It was the last night before they had to go back to The Burrow from where each of them would have to take a different path.
After dinner, Harry, Ginny, Ron and Hermione went to the beach and sat one next to the other facing the sea.
"So, here we are." Sighted Hermione
"Yeah" Agreed the other three.
All of them had thought that they would give long speeches about what was facing them, how their lives were about to change and would never be the same. However, they found they didn't need to.
It was true that they lives were goingto becompletely different, but that did not mean that they were going to be bad. And as Harry and Ron put a protective arm around Ginny's and Hermione's shoulder respectively and the girls put their heads on the boy's shoulders, the same thought cross the four minds: they would always be together, no matter where they were. And their situations may turn upside, but what they felt for each other would never, ever change.
THE END?
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