A/N: Okay, first off, sorry! This chapter was a pain to write, and I got stuck with a couple paragraphs in the middle, but finally, I pulled out an ending. Alright, since you've all been waiting for so long, I'll just stop right now!

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Forgotten

Chapter Two:

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Ginny hastened her steps as she quickly realized how late the both of them were going to be. Colin, having the more lengthy legs, was at least five paces ahead of her and going at a much swifter speed. Noticing that Ginny was falling behind, he patiently slowed his steps.

It was utterly quiet in the halls, aside from Ginny's slightly labored breathing, and their shoes clicking against the stone. Glancing out the nearest window, Ginny could see the massive lake, and wistfully thought of how cool the water must be. She could just barely make out Hagrid's hut as well, and noticed that his chimney wasn't showing any signs of a fire burning. Obviously, he was out teaching a class.

The pair continued in this fashion, Colin speeding up, as he was nervous about being tardy, and then slowing down to allow Ginny to catch up. So distracted were they that they didn't notice that Ginny's bag was slowly ripping open until it was too late.

"Bloody hell!" Ginny exclaimed, and proceeded to cry out a phrase of colorful curses that would've had even her brothers blushing. Colin, sighing and nervously glancing at his muggle wrist watch, knelt down to help her pick up her things.

"Shush, Gin, cursing worse than a sailor isn't going to get us out of losing house points, though it might impress Gryffindor tower enough to forgive us." He teased, trying to lighten her mood. Ginny tried to grin, but it came out as more of a grimace as she heard footsteps coming around the corner.

Thinking it was a teacher, she hastily crammed the rest of her papers and quills into her tatty, brown bag, while thinking up excuses as to why they were late. She highly doubted they would be pleased with the truth; that both she and Colin had fallen asleep in their last class.

"Dammit." Colin muttered under his breath, and received a bewildered look from Ginny. He gestured with his head down the hall.

"Well, well, well. Look what the cat dragged in," an all too familiar voice sneered. Ginny looked up and glowered at who she saw. Malfoy; and he wasn't alone.

Blaise Zabini accompanied him. He had long, shaggy, ash-colored hair that, curiously enough, matched his ash colored eyes, which had a tinge of dark blue in them if you looked closely enough.

Ginny was not the first to acknowledge this, as she was among the many who found Blaise to be very attractive. The one thing that kept Ginny from openly checking him out in the Great Hall or in the hallways was the fact that his appearance could be said to be exactly the same as that of Tom Riddle's. Shuddering, she pushed all thoughts of that experience out of her mind.

"Sod off, Malfoy!" Colin, standing up, hissed in a low voice, indicating he was trying to retain his anger. Malfoy laughed darkly, while Zabini merely smirked and cast Ginny a long look. This alone was enough to cause her to shiver so she hurriedly averted her eyes to the stone floors instead.

"I do believe that the two of you have already broken two rules." Zabini said, calmly observing Ginny as she angrily stood up.

"What in blazes are you talking about?" she demanded. Without missing a beat,

"Loitering in the corridors and speaking rudely to those of higher superior than you." Malfoy gleefully stated.

"Is that so? And just what do you think you're doing?" Colin quickly countered. The two Slytherins shared a dark look before looking back at Ginny and Colin.

"Are you saying that you, a filthy mudblood," Zabini spat, "Are superior to me?" With this Colin attempted to attack him, and would have succeeded had it not been for Ginny restraining him.

"Oh, Colin, come now, he's not even worth the fight, or the detention for that matter." She soothed, trying in vain to calm him.

"Aw, pretty-boy Creevy needs a pathetic Weasel to save the day. Sounds a lot like Potter, the prat, which would make sense, considering the both of you follow him around like lost puppies." Malfoy said, gesturing with his hands as if to emphasize his point. At this, Ginny tensed and Colin simply glared.

"You know, Weasley, you might as well just sit back down on the ground, Merlin knows that's where you belong; in the dirt." Zabini added, giving her a once over, his face an expression of pure disgust. He turned to Malfoy as the two of them laughed cruelly. Colin once again attempted to intervene, but instead Ginny pushed him aside and lunged for Zabini as his back was turned.

"AHHRRRGG!" he screamed as she jumped onto his back knocking him down to his knees.

"You are the most pig-headed prat I've ever had the misfortune to meet!" she shrieked, pulling at his hair and attempting to slap him. Zabini was shell-shocked. He couldn't find a way to get her off of his back without somehow striking her first, and he was well trained as a boy not to hit ladies.

'Then again, this is a Weasley." He thought ruefully, dodging as he nearly missed one of her punches.

"Draco, little help here?" he cried, purely exasperated. Malfoy, still astonished himself, hesitated before finally jolting forward to try and detangle Ginny, who currently had Blaise face flat on the ground with his arm twisted back as she continued to curse at him.

"Ow! Why you little whore!" he cried, sucking on his hand where Ginny had bitten him. Colin was now doubled up on the ground with laughter, and had tears leaking out of the corners of his eyes. He immediately sobered when Malfoy sent him a harsh glare, but then fell back to the ground snickering as Ginny then cast a binding spell on Blaise and turned to shove Malfoy against the wall.

And this was how Professor Snape found them, with Blaise bound and bruised on the ground. Colin was very near to a heart attack from laughing so hard, and wiping tears from his eyes. Finally, and perhaps the most comical scene of them all, Ginny had Malfoy, who was whimpering, backed up against the wall and was binding his hands together behind his back as she angrily yelled at him for even considering her to be of lower status.

"Miss Weasley," Snape cried aghast, "Just what do you think you are doing?"

Somehow, 'This isn't what it looks like' just didn't seem to quite cover the events that had transpired.

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"Another detention, Gin?" Sighed a girl named Kendra, one of Ginny's roommates and also one of her best friends. Ginny was currently scribbling off the last few sentences to her Transfiguration essay.

"I can't believe McGonagall assigned a two-foot essay due tomorrow!" Ginny exclaimed.

"Don't try to change the subject!" Kendra said, narrowing her crystal-blue eyes and brushing her long, raven-colored locks off her shoulder. "What about Colin? How bad did he have it?"

"Well, when Professor Snape came, Colin wasn't doing anything, the lucky git, so Snape said I could just serve his hour as well as mine." Ginny grumbled. "Colin offered to take his detention anyways, but Snape wouldn't have it. Zabini and Malfoy just smirked while I lost 100 house points for 'attempting to harm two students.' Attempting? If you'd of seen the way Malfoy was whimpering, and the way Zabini was practically licking the dust, you could definitely say that I'd more than attempted!" she said vehemently. Kendra just laughed.

"Well, good on you, then!" she said heartily, before getting an earnest look on her face. "Oi, you ready for dinner yet, I'm half-starved as it is!" That was Kendra for you though, cheerful, but blunt and to the point at the most random moments.

The two then made their way to the Common Room, Ginny now listening to Kendra's story of her uneventful day.

"Gin, can you keep a secret?" Kendra asked quietly just as they neared the bottom of the staircase. Ginny nodded as a sign for her to continue. "Well, it's just that lately, I've-"But was cut off as loud cheers interrupted her.

The whole of Gryffindor stood, gathered round the steps, congratulating Ginny. She looked momentarily confused, and sent a questioning glance towards Kendra as to how they had known. Kendra shook her head, indicating that she hadn't been the one to tell. Then, they both realized the obvious answer; Colin.

Colin, with his tall stature, shaggy blonde hair, and shadowy green eyes seemed to have a lot going for him. Girls used to flock after him as well, before Ginny and Kendra pushed and shoved their ways into his life, making a permanent mark.

The three could rarely be seen without each other, aside from classes. Over the four years that the three had become friends, Ginny and Kendra had learned at lot. One thing was that Colin couldn't keep a secret for the life of him.

"Wow, Gin, what'd Malfoy and Zabini say to make you nearly kill the both of them?" Dean Thomas asked in awe.

"I heard you threw one of them down the main staircase!" Another Gryffindor shouted.

Ginny just grinned sheepishly and slowly, dispersing the crowd, made her way over to the plush, green, leather chair by the fire that was currently being occupied by Colin. Upon seeing her, he quickly stood up, and a look of nervousness passed fleetingly through his shady eyes.

"Colin, is there something you wish to tell me?" she asked in a sugary sweet voice. He blinked. Before he could begin to apologize though, Kendra, finally getting through the already dividing throng of people, came quickly to Colin's defense.

"Oh, come on Gin, you know you liked all that attention as much as Colin did." She said pleadingly. Ginny simply raised her eyebrows but let it slide, not even in the mood for another spat. Colin let out a breath of relief.

"Right, so are you two lovely ladies ready to make our way to the Great Hall?" he said, taking both of their hands and kissing each one in turn. The girls giggled, but gladly accepted, as the three linked arms, gathering envious stares from the jealous girls around them.

"So," he continued casually, "how was your day Kendra." The girl in question seemed to ponder this question before answering.

"Worst day of my life," She said simply. Colin and Ginny shared surprised stares. "I didn't have you two to keep me laughing, and it's absolutely horrid that I missed that show in the corridor! I've been waiting for years to give Zabini and Malfoy a piece of my mind" she said frowning. Colin chuckled, somewhat relieved, and soothed her.

"No worries, I hardly even moved a finger. The rabid canine over there, whom we happen to call our friend, took care of it all. I say, we could start advertising her and make a downright profit!" he cried, winking out of the corner of his eye at Kendra.

"Rabid canine?" Kendra questioned. Colin then quickly explained that Ginny had bitten Malfoy, while Ginny rolled her eyes remembering just why she'd bitten him. He'd pulled her hair out of her ponytail and taken a wand to it, surely prepared to chop it off with a simple cutting charm.

"That's right!" Kendra continued for Colin. "We could say, 'Got an enemy, well we've got a remedy!" she said, taking on an announcer's deep voice. Colin laughed.

"Good, and then we'll say, 'When things get rough, we've got someone tough! It's Ginny the canine!" he finished. Kendra and Colin were now practically rolling with laughter and Ginny flushed at the curious glances around her.

"Shush you two! You've already given me enough attention to put me in the Daily Prophet!" Ginny cried, throwing a rude gesture and a glare to a group of second years pointing and laughing at her.

"Gin!" her two friends both admonished. She turned and gave them an innocent grin.

"Follow my lead." he muttered under his breath to Kendra as they entered the Great Hall. She nodded, and he moved so that Ginny was now in the middle of them. "Everybody, can I have your attention please?" he called loudly, accumulating the Hall's notice. "Kendra and I have an advertisement we'd like to share with you." He said grinning, and looked at Kendra cuing her to say something.

Ginny's jaw dropped in shock and her face quickly flushed as she realized what they were planning on doing. Their grip on her arms tightened as she struggled to get free.

"I'm sure you all heard about what happened today." Kendra carried on, glancing between Ginny and the Slytherin table. This collected a few cheers for Ginny, most from Gryffindor, but also a few glares, generally from the Slytherins.

"For those of you who didn't know, though, Ginny has a side job." Kendra said grinning from ear to ear now. Colin, taking her lead, then deepened his voice to that of an announcer and shouted,

"Have you got an enemy? Well then, my associate Kendra and I have got a remedy!" Ginny once again struggled to get away from the two as people started laughing, and others put down their food and looked on curiously.

"When things get rough, we've got someone tough!" Kendra cried out, gesturing wildly toward Ginny, who was now trying to run, but still being restrained. She glanced around and noticed people gawking. Colin and Kendra then looked at each other, seemingly agreeing on something before belting out,

"It's Ginny, the rabid canine!" They finished now getting down to their knees, with arms wide and looked at Ginny with mock respect. The whole hall roared with laughter, and Ginny, besides being embarrassed, couldn't help but laugh a little herself as they finally sat down for dinner.

'This is going to be one long year.' She decided sighing, not knowing whether that was a good thing or not. One thing she knew for sure, though, was that along as she had Kendra and Colin in her life, it was obvious that there wasn't going to be one dull moment.

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A/N: So sorry it took me this long to get this out! Overall, I really like this chapter. I know it has a lot going on, but I didn't pre-write this, it just came out as I started typing. A big thank you to all those who reviewed! You really encouraged me to get this next chapter out there. This chapter, along with the last two, is not beta-ed.

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