Title: The Secret
Author: SweetAsheyPie
Summary: Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley are involved in a serious but secret relationship. A night of passion leads to Ginny becoming pregnant and changing the two lives forever.
Disclaimer: Harry Potter (and associated characters, likenesses, concepts, etc.) belongs to J.K. Rowling, Bloomsbury Publishing, Scholastic, Inc. AOL/Time Warner, Inc., among others. I make no claim, written or implied, upon Harry Potter. No money is being made and no infringement or disrespect to the creators / copyright holders is intended.
Harry didn't wake the next day until 11am. He bolted straight up in bed and looked at the clock on his bedside table.
"Shit!" He exclaimed. "I'm late." He rushed around his apartment getting showered and dressed and rushed out to the gallery. He decided to apparate to the closest apparition point to the gallery and then ran to it.
"Harry, Harry, Harry. Late I see. Tsk, tsk." The owner said from behind him. He slowly turned around to face her and her wrath. "You were supposed to be here two and a half hours ago. I can't believe you! The press was here and wanted to interview you about your artwork. This could have been you big break! I tried to cover for you but I could only do that for so long. They all left about 20 minutes ago. Well? What's your excuse? Why are you late?"
"Look, Robyn, I'm sorry. Something really big happened to me last night and I couldn't get any sleep so I overslept this morning. I'm really sorry. I also have some, uh, bad news?" He sighed and ran his hands through his hair before continuing. "This is really hard. You've helped me so much in the past but, I'm sorry to tell you that I'm moving back to England. For personal reasons."
"Harry, I don't know what to say. You are my best artist in this gallery. Heck you are pretty much the only one that makes us any money. I'm really going to miss you Harry. When are you leaving? Are you taking all of your paintings with you?"
"I'm planning to leave as soon as possible. I have to take care of the apartment and pack and stuff first. I am going to take most of the paintings but I'm going to give you any three you want. I'll keep the paintings here for the next week, though."
"Thank you, Harry. I must tell you, you have been a great friend these past years and we had better stay in touch. That's a threat." They shared a smile. "Now you get your butt outta here and get you affairs in order." Harry gave her a quick hug and turned to leave.
"Wait, Harry!" He turned and gave her a questioning look. "Why are you leaving?"
He flashed her smile. "I'm getting married and I'm going to be a daddy." Then he left leaving a shocked Robyn behind.
"Well I better get an invite to that wedding." She muttered.
When Harry arrived back at his apartment he found an owl from Ginny waiting for him. The note attached told him to apparate to her flat as soon as he got the note. So when he finished reading it, he apparated to her flat.
When he appeared in the living room of her flat he looked around for Ginny but didn't see her.
"Ginny?" He called for her.
She appeared in the doorway to the kitchen. "Oh Harry Thank God you're here. I've been waiting for ages."
"Are you okay? What's going on that I had to come straight over?"
"Oh I'm fine. It's just that I got an owl from mum this morning. She is having a big family dinner because Charlie and Bill are in town."
"So..umm… we're going to tell everyone tonight?"
Ginny nodded. "I thought it'd be best to get it all over with now."
"Are we going to tell them everything? Maybe we should wait a bit before telling them about the pregnancy."
"I think not. It'd be better if we got them both out now. We'd have to tell them eventually about the pregnancy and either way I don't think they'll be happy. We need to get everything out now. Plus, we'll have all of our secrets off our chests. No more hiding anything."
"You're right. I wouldn't want to face the wrath of your mother more than once if I could help it." He chuckled.
"Harry I'm sure my parents will be fine. I am nervous, don't get me wrong, but I am a grown woman and I can do what I want. I'm afraid of what my brothers will do, but don't worry. Mum will handle them, I'm sure. But they still act like I am a 5 year old in pigtails."
Harry couldn't help it and laughed. He had seen how they reacted when a guy looked at Ginny for too long. It was funny.
"Don't you laugh Harry. You don't know how hard it was to get a boyfriend in Hogwarts."
"No, but I'm glad they didn't last long. Then I might not have had you."
"Aww, Harry ever the romantic. We have to be going soon though. You need to get changed and then we will be off. We have to be there in 30 minutes so hurry up."
35 minutes later, they apparated in the front of the Burrow. They heard all kinds of noise coming from the inside. You could tell the whole family was there.
Ginny took hold of Harry's hand before taking a deep breath and walking inside the house. The noise level increased significantly when inside and it was all coming from the living room.
Ginny turned to Harry and spoke to him in a whisper. "I think we should just tell everyone after dessert okay. So we won't act like a couple. We don't want people to start fighting before they eat. Agreed?"
"Agreed," Harry echoed.
A/N: Sorry this is so short and it took so long. I had a lot of school work and that always comes first. My muse told me I had to post whatever was done so far because it has taken me so long. She even physically abused me when I wasn't writing anything! She slapped this chapter out of me lol. Hopefully Ch 4 won't take this long. I should have more free time to write now that school is almost over, but I'm also going on a trip in the end of june so you may not get another chapter until after that. :(
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