Chapter Four
Ginny hid behind a sturdy pillar and eavesdropped on the conversation between her brother and the boy she loved with all her heart.
"Ron, don't be silly! I mean, yea, she's pretty and sweet and all, but she's Ginny Weasley! She's like the little sister I never had! There could never be anything between us,"
Ginny heard Harry's deep voice say, her heart aching with pain and rejection. She heard her own brother's laughter mingled with Harry's, as the laughs grew softer and softer. Ginny's head spun as she reeled from the shock.
No, she thought, Harry would never say things like that to me! It can't be true!
Ginny felt her head getting heavier and heavier, as her world spun out of control. Over and over, she heard Harry's words being replayed and Ron's laughter, just like a tape that was stuck in its player. Ginny's world spun and mixed into a rainbow of a thousand colors as it faded to black...
Ginny awoke with a start, cold sweat dotting her clear peaches and cream complexion. She sat up and raked her hand through her flaming red hair. Ginny cradled her head in her hands as she sobbed gently. The sunlight illuminated the room and most of the students had evacuated the dormitory for breakfast, or that was what she thought.
Suddenly, Alexandria, Ginny's closest and dearest friend came into the room. At the sight of a frail thin figure crying uncontrollably on the bed with red hair covering her face, Alexandria rushed towards Ginny's bed.
"Gin! What's wrong?" Alexandria's damp honey-blonde hair hung around her face as her bright blue eyes shone with concern for Ginny. Ginny looked up and into her friend's face.
"Lex, it was terrible," Ginny said before launching into the whole story, from her encounter with her sleeping prince to the terrible nightmare.
Alexandria put a warm hand on Ginny's freezing arm as she comforted her crying friend. After about ten minutes, Ginny finally calmed down and went to freshen up. Throwing on her school uniform, Ginny went back to the common room to meet Alexandria and together, they walked to their classes (it was too late for breakfast).
Ginny and Alexandria walked leisurely towards the dungeons for their first- period potions with Ravenclaw. As they entered the Potions classroom, they took a seat beside each other in the still half-empty classroom. The students chattered happily away as more and more students entered the classroom. But when Professor Snape swept into the classroom with his usual black cloak, all the chattering stopped at once. Snape whisked around to face his classroom of silent students. Ginny faced him with a serious face as he began the lesson.
Alexandria, being the straight-A student she was, paid full attention during class. Ginny however, couldn't concentrate. She propped her head up with her hand as her thoughts strayed to a certain topic about a raven-haired boy with a lightning bolt scar on his forehead and piercing emerald green eyes. Immediately, Ginny forced herself to snap out of it and willed herself to concentrate and not think about him. Ginny knew she wouldn't let herself think about him ever again.
A/N: thanks to all the WONDERFUL AND OH-SO LOVELAYY REVIEWERS! and just to clarify things, Ginny's name is Ginvera, but it kinda makes me think of aloe vera, i have no idea why. but i thought that Virginia would be nicer, ehh? So review please!