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Chapter 10: In The Library

Stephanie walked into the library and spotted Ginny's red hair at the far back. She had to tell her friend that she just couldn't talk to Harry anymore. He seemed to nice for her liking and it made her situation harder than ever. She had never gone out of her way to be nice to anyone in Gryffindor, especially him, and this was only for Ginny's sake. Being attracted to him was normal, he was gorgeous, and a teenage girl would be blind if she didn't think so. Although, it didn't hurt to see him smile at her once in a while, or getting to see his beautiful emerald eyes sparkling with laughter at one of Ron's antics... See, those feelings were not normal at all! This time it was different for her. A Slytherin liking a Gryffindor...that was something that could get you thrown in an insane asylum! Insane asylum or not, these feelings had to be squashed. No stupid little boy was going to make her feel this way. Forgetting about him was not going to be hard at all..all she had to do was...oh she just needed to talk to Ginny about this. Reaching the back table, Stephanie pulled up a chair and started to talk, not even bothering to glance at her friend.

"Ginny, you told me that if I ever needed to talk to you about anything that I could... and no matter what it was about, you wouldn't ever judge me." Looking at her hands she sighed. "I'm having these feelings that aren't normal, and in our world are probably claimed as insane, but I just can't help feeling this way. I thought that I could come to you since one of your situations are similar to what I'm going through right now and I knew that you would understand." She paused to take a deep breath, before going on, "Its about Harry. I think that I like Harry, as in more than a friend... and you say 'how can that even be possible when I have never even liked him as a friend?' All I know is that I really want to give him an actual hug, which is disgusting I might add," Stephanie scowled, "You would think I could jump his bones to get rid of these stupid feelings. I mean that is what I usually do, I just sleep with the guy that I am attracted to and it's over after that," she whined. "Poof, magical, no more feelings." She waved her hand in the air to indicate the poof. Finally looking up to her friend she asked the obvious, "Gin, what am I going to do?"

"I think that you should tell him how you feel." Ginny looked up from her parchment and gave Steph a small smile. She wasn't suprised about this at all. Ginny had known for the past month that Stephanie liked Harry.

"Are you kidding me? This is the boy who lived that we are talking about here. A Slytherin going up to him to say 'oh Harry I have feelings for you and.." She stopped when she noticed Ginny had dark circles under her eyes. "Wow, Ginny, you look like shit." She paused, then raised a perfectly waxed eyebrow, "Why do you look like shit?"

"No reason," she lied.

"Uh huh...like I would ever believe that," Stephanie exclaimed, seeing right through her friend's lie.

Ginny sighed. "I just didn't get alot of sleep last night."

"And why is that?" asked Stephanie.

"Because I couldn't go to sleep."

"Why?"

"Because."

"Ginny Weasley!" Stephanie whispered loudly, acting angry, but she was really just concerned. "If you don't tell me what the hell is going on with you, I am going to scream. And I don't think that people in the library would like that so much," she pointed out sweetly.

"Its nothing. I promise," Ginny lied again.

"Why do you insist on lying to me Gin? I know that something is bothering you," Stephanie insisted.

"You don't have to worry about me," said Ginny, cursing herself for having a best friend that was a Slytherin.

"Is this about Draco? Did he do something to you?" Stephanie's eyes widened in horror. "Oh my God, he did, didn't he? What did that idiot do?"

"Nothing..it was nothing."

"Yes, it was something." Stephanie said, annoyed.

"Why don't we talk about Harry?" Ginny suggested innocently.

"Oh no, that doesn't work with me and you know it. You might as well tell me what he did, I'll just find out from him anyway...that is if you don't tell me."

She did have a point there. "Ok...we...well he and I..."

"Spit it out, Ginny," Stephanie said, getting impatient.

"We kissed," she murmured.

"You what?" yelled Stephanie. "Ginny, how could you do that?" she demanded hysterically. "You know, I think that both of us may need to be put in an insane asylum." she said, shaking her head of mixed colored hair wildly. "What did he do?"

"What? You want details now?" Ginny scoffed.

"No." She stuck her tongue out. "He is my cousin after all. But why would he do something like that?" Stephanie asked herself.

"It was part of his revenge," Ginny spat out.

Stephanie gave her a sympathetic look. "I'm sorry, Gin. I know how you used to feel about him or even still do. I still don't see how you could feel that way about him though. He is the biggest prick alive."

"Yeah, I completely agree with you on that." Ginny sighed wearily. "I don't know why I feel this way...it's so confusing. But I guess it isn't all that weird, I mean," she smiled wickedly, "I'm not the only one who has feelings for the wrong someone."

Stephanie scowled. "That is something that I don't want to talk about right now."

Ginny gave her a knowing look.

"Ok, so maybe I do wanna talk about it."

Ginny let out a small laugh. "Well come on, Steph, spill it. When do you realize you had feelings other than hate for Harry?"

"I don't know. Like you said, this is so damned confusing," Stephanie groaned. "You think that if I sleep with him all the feelings will go away?" she asked ditzily.

Ginny glared at her. "No. If people could do that, don't you think I would be over a certain someone by now?"

Stephanie pouted. "Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that. That might not be relevant on the count of he was pretty drunk."

"Who was drunk?"

Ginny and Stephanie jumped at the sound of Hermione's voice. She and Ron had come up behind them and were now taking a seat at the table.

"Hey, Ginny," Rongreeted and then nodded curtly in Stephanie's direction. "Anderson."

"Weasley," she said.

Ginny and Hermione rolled their eyes at their immature display.

"Ginny, you look like shit."

"Ron!" Hermione yelled at him in dissaproval. "That is no way to talk to a girl, especially if its your sister."

He shrugged. "Just stating the obvious."

"Thank you, oh dear brother of mine," said Ginny, sarcastically.

"Hey guys, whats up?" Harry asked, sitting next to Ron.

Stephanie started to feel very uncomfortable at the fact that Harry chose to sit next to her. She tried to scoot away without anyone noticing.

"Oh, nothing much," Ginny said, answering Harry's question. "Just enjoying the fact that everyone here thinks I look like shit today. Want to put in your two cents as well?"

Harry looked her over. "You do look like you could use a bit of sleep," he offered.

"At least you put it into nicer terms. My brother and my best friend don't seem to care about my feelings getting hurt," she stated dryly.

"Hey!" Ron and Stephanie cried in unison.

Ginny smirked at them. "Sorry...just kidding."

Stephanie scowled.

Hermione looked over at her boyfriend. "Ron, don't you and Harry have quidditch practice?"

Harry jumped up. "Bugger, I completely forgot about that. We have our first match tomorrow against Slytherin, but of course everyone knows they can't play worth a damn. Especially with Malfoy as the seeker."

"Ahem," Stephanie cleared her throat.

Harry looked at her sheepishly. "Sorry...sometimes I forget you're a Slytherin."

She laughed. "That's ok. I totally agree with you about Draco, he sucks as a seeker." She looked thoughtful. "He should definitely try out for beater."

The dream team looked at her confused. "Then why doesn't he?" Hermione spoke up.

"Well because of his father, obviously," Stephanie replied. She also remembered who she was talking to. "And I have said too much already, so lets just go back and rewind that conversation."

"Sure, we can forget about it," Harry said. "You know, you don't act like a Slytherin at all."

"Why, Potter, coming from you that's almost like a compliment." Stephanie smiled. "Anyway, just because I am of the Malfoy blood line, doesn't mean that I'm evil or anything. It's mostly the men in the family that you have to watch out for."

Harry smiled back at her. "Well you obviously proved that."

Stephanie's heart jumped a little at his smile. "Oh really?"

"Really," he replied, sticking his hands into his pockets.

The others seemed shocked at the pair. Were a Slytherin and a Gryffindor, flirting?

"Well," Ginny spoke up for the first time in ten minutes, "don't you and Harry have to go to practice now?" she asked her brother.

"Wha...huh?" He was shaken out of his shock by his sister's voice. "Oh yeah. Harry, mate, we need to go."

"Right," he agreed, then turned back to Stephanie. "So, we'll see you at the quidditch match tomorrow?"

"Of course. Wouldn't want to let my house down, now would I?" she teased.

"Of course not." Harry grinned. "See you later then, Ginny...Stephanie." He nodded at the girls, his eyes lingering on Stephanie a bit longer than nessecary.

"Bye, guys." Ginny waved.

"Bye," said Stephanie, smiling at Harry.

"So.." Ginny grinned at her best friend evilly after the trio had left.

"What?" Stephanie asked warily.

"Oh, nothing."

"What are you thinking about doing, Ginny?"

"Me? Now what exactly would I be thinking of doing?" Ginny asked in her innocent voice. 'I seem to be using that tactic alot lately.'

"What-ev-er." Stephanie rolled her eyes.

Ginny smiled. At least one of them could be happy... Harry wouldn't even think about her now that Stephanie was finally in the picture. She couldn't believe that her plan was actually working. Now came the hard part... getting them to actually admit they had feelings for each other.

I know there wasn't any D/G in this chapter, but there will be some more soon. So, how do you people feel about the Stephanie/Harry thing? I hope you liked this chapter enough to review.

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