Ch 2 Kisses, Harry and Hilarity

"We're almost there." Said Mr. Weasley excitedly. He was always enthused by muggles and King's Cross train station was positively packed with them. They arrived at the wall that housed the secret entrance to platform 9 3/4, and took it in turns to run through the barrier. After Ron had gone through and Fred and George had departed, more to annoy Ron than say good bye to him, Harry and Ginny were left. They went through together and as they slid through the barrier, Harry was sure he felt a hand slip into his. They boarded the train and found a compartment to themselves. "I s'pect Ron and Hermione are in the prefects compartment" Ginny said.

An awkward silence fell over the two of them. Harry looked at Ginny and Ginny looked right back. He noticed that she had grown a lot over the summer and was now, well, beautiful. He smiled inwardly at the thought. "What's up?" asked Ginny "You're blushing."

"No I'm not!" Harry said quickly but realized all the same that he was. Ginny quickly went into a joke about a Vampire, a muggle. and a Hippogriff. Harry laughed for a long time at that one, but when he sobered his eyes met hers and felt her soft brown melt with his emerald green. Harry had a strange feeling come over him, it was nothing he had ever felt before and certainly nothing he could describe. As the train continued to weave it's way along the tracks the silence in the compartment grew, but it was no longer awkward. It felt some how right. Harry saw Ginny move slightly and didn't even think, he reached out and grabbed her hand. He moved to the seat directly beside her.

"What was your answer going to be?"

"To what?" she inquired.

"Did you mean it?"

"I did"

"Well then...um, yes." Harry stuttered, unsure how to continue. Suddenly, and without warning, Ginny began to cry.

"What is it?" asked Harry, who was feeling more uncomfortable by the second.

"It's...It's, well I meant it, but you didn't." she finally managed to get it out in-between little sobs.

"Of course I meant it" he said quickly, and having said that, he realized with a shock that it was true. 100 true.

"Of course I meant it", Harry repeated.

Ginny, still sobbing slightly, looked up at him with those beautiful brown eyes of hers and she must have been convinced because she smiled up at him. Neither one of them felt themselves move but nonetheless they were suddenly in a warm and passionate embrace. Then that embrace turned into a kiss, just like the one in the field but neither tried to break apart.

When Harry awoke, it was to laughter. He opened his eyes quickly and saw Ron collapsed on the floor in hysterics. Hermione had retained some dignity but was still leaning on a chair for support. Ginny had woken up beside him, very close beside him. He looked over at the same time as Ginny and saw they had been leaning on each other head to head and hand in hand. They sprang apart as if hit by a Rebounding spell, and Harry quickly went to the other side of the compartment. This only caused Ron to begin rolling on the floor still laughing with glee and Hermione finally lost it and joined Ron on the floor laughing.

"You should've seen your faces!" Ron said about 20 minutes later. It had taken them awhile to calm Ron down "That was the funniest thing I've seen all week."

"Hey guys." said Neville, poking his head into the compartment "How's it going?"

"Pretty good Neville, but Harry..." Ron couldn't finish the sentence because he had started laughing again.

"I gotta move along or I'll be late for, er, nothing." Neville quickly left the compartment. "Wonder what that was about" said Ginny.

"Dunno" said Hermione "but we're here."

They all began collecting there things and began leaving the compartment. At the very last moment before she left, Harry took Ginny's hand and gave it a light squeeze.

A/N: Two chapters in one day? What an amazing betaI have!