(A/N): oh my god it has taken me ages to update and I am so sorry but its not easy to write when you're babysitting 25 kids every day when they're all under 9! Not an easy job! Anywho, again I'm really sorry and i hope this chapter is alright because it took me ages to actually write it. I knew what I wanted to do I just didn't know how I would write it! Thanks so much to everyone who read my story and reviewed it, added it to their fav.stories page or to their story alert page! It was all very much appreciated! xxx ;-)
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Chapter 2- Annoying Noises
It was some time before Ron and Hermione finally (and quite reluctantly on Ron's part) broke apart. Both of them were flushing furiously and grinning stupidly. They glanced nervously at each other before Hermione spoke.
"Do you…do you…know when Harry is planning on leaving?"
"Ya, last night he said in about three days, so I guess now it would be two. Hey did you hear that?".He turned towards the door looking for the source of the noise.
"Hear what?"
"That noise…it was weird…?
" Ron said uncertainly.
"It was probably just nothing." Hermione said impatiently. "So…are you still sure about leaving? I mean…" she added hastily at the look on Ron's face, "…I'd follow Harry anywhere, but…but…what about my parents and Ginny and your family and…and…oh everyone…what will they all think? I mean Ginny will be furious when she finds out, surely Harry knows that…doesn't he?
"Hey speaking of Ginny, have you talked to her lately? I mean, she hasn't been as annoying as she usually is, she's actually been very quiet since her and Harry broke up. You don't think she'd do anything stupid do you?" Hermione knew that he was changing the subject on purpose but she had to agree with him, Ginny really wasn't herself the past few weeks.
"I'm not really sure what she'd do?" she added tentatively, as she didn't want to voice her opinions of what Ginny would do to keep Harry. "Harry seems pretty weird about the whole thing too. He's constantly glancing over at her when she's not looking. It's really killing him. Have you noticed how he acts around us now? He seems very distant, well I guess he would be after what just happened at school but he knows he can talk to…" Hermione stopped talking suddenly and looked over towards the slightly open door. Someone had just sneezed from behind it which meant that they had been listening in on the entire conversation.
"Ok you can't say you didn't hear that because it was definitely something." Ron said in a loud whisper. Hermione walked over to the door but when she looked out into the narrow hallway there was no one around. She went back in and sat back down beside Ron with an anxious look on her face.
"If anyone knows that we're leaving they'll try and stop us Ron!"
The morning after Bill and Fleur's wedding dawned bright and cool. It was well past midday before Harry decided to drag himself out from under the warm covers to walk into the bathroom to take a shower. This woke him up fully and when he went down to the kitchen half an hour later he was in a good mood. Ginny smiled at him as he sat down to eat his breakfast but it looked forced. She looked as though she had been crying, or maybe she was just tired, either way her eyes were red and puffy.
"Morning Harry. Do you want to go for a walk or something after this? It's just that I need to tell you something. And its kind of important."
"Sure Ginny. Is something wrong?" Harry said. Harry was still unsure whether or not he wanted to tell Ginny about them leaving. He knew that she would try everything in her power to go with them if she knew, but Harry still felt guilty about the thought of leaving her without saying goodbye.
They finished their breakfast in silence and then walked, side by side out into the garden, through the crooked red gate at the end and down the winding road that led to the small village of Ottery St. Catchpole. The previous year Harry had made a promise to Dumbledore that he wouldn't wander off while at The Burrow, but he was just going for a walk with Ginny so it couldn't be counted as wandering off. Could it?
They walked in silence all the way down to the village and Harry (who had never been there before) let Ginny lead the way. He wasn't quite sure where she was walking to, but he found out a few seconds later. She had brought him to a small park on the edge of the village which had a tiny pond in the middle. The red paint was peeling off the park benches scattered around it. There was an old fashioned rusting bridge going across the length of the pond, which had ivy and moss crawling along the bars that held it up. The few ducks that were swimming in the pond eyed them warily for a minute before choosing to ignore them completely. They walked over to a bench that was right in front of the pond and sat down.
They sat in silence for a few minutes, neither of them eager to break the awkward silence. It was Ginny who spoke first though her voice was barely audible and shaking as she did so. Harry was really starting to worry about what was coming.
"Ok Harry, I know you told me it was over between us because you think…Vol…You Know Who might try and use me or hurt me but, well, the thing is…"Ginny was steadily turning redder and purposefully avoiding Harry's gaze. Harry couldn't help but notice the way that the sun reflected off her hair turning it all different colours every time she moved her head.
"…the thing is Harry…I…I..." her voiced dropped to just above a whisper and Harry had to lean in to hear her. As he leaned in he could smell that faint smell of flowers that was forever present around Ginny. It was one of the things he loved about her. The smell that reminded him of The Burrow. The place he had begun to think of as 'home'.
"I love you Ginny," he had said suddenly without thinking. He glanced at Ginny's face and saw that it was frozen in shock.
"Wha-what did you say?" she managed to say back to him, her face still glazed over.
"I said I love you Ginevra Weasley. Even if we can't be together you still have to know that I really do love you more than anything else. There are a lot of things I haven't told you that I should have told you ages ago, but I s'pose now is as good a time as any."
"Harry the reason I asked you to go for a walk was to tell you that last night I heard Ron and Hermione talking…and…and they were saying that…"
"What were they saying Ginny?" Harry asked gently though he thought he had a faint idea what was coming by the look of pale determination on Ginny's face.
"They said you would be leaving..." The words tumbled out of her mouth as she continued. "…and Harry, I don't care what you say, but I'm going with you. You should have realised by now Harry that you're not escaping from me that easily because…because…I love you too Harry…and if anything were to happen to you I…i…" she stopped, not knowing what to say to Harry next. So instead she just she just leaned over to him and kissed him softly on the lips, unsure of how he would react to it after all that had happened. But to her delight he put his arm around her waist and pulled her closer to him to continue what she had started. For the first time since Dumbledore's murder, Harry felt happy.
Suddenly, from somewhere just behind them came a loud popping noise causing both of them to jump around in alarm. Harry reached instinctively to his pocket for his invisibility cloak but it wasn't there. He had left it in his trunk back at the Burrow.
"Did someone just disapparate from behind us?" said Ginny's worried voice to Harry.
Then a woman's voice spoke.
"No you stupid little girl, they apparated right behind you!"
The voice sent shivers down Ginny's back. It sounded just as cold as ice felt. Harry pulled her to her feet as they turned around to face the source of the voice. Her knees went weak when she saw who was standing there…
A/N: ok so I finally finished it (even though it isn't very long). Sorry about the cliff hanger. Guess who was standing behind Please tell me what you thought about it. And thank you soooooo much to all my wonderful reviewers. I'm so sorry about any spelling mistakes that I had in the last chapter. I wanted to fix them but I couldn't figure out how! Anyway, please read and review "Plumdark Sky" by garylovespickles because it's a brilliant story! Thanks again and until next time REVIEWREVIEWREVIEWREVIEWREVIEWREVIEWREVIEWREVIEWPLEASE!
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