Chapter 1

Harry was nowhere to be found. She was looking everywhere. She could not handle thinking about what he could have done to himself.
This wasn't a first time this happened since Sirius died in March. He would dissapear for a few hours and then came back with some dumb excuse. But she was really scared for him. He was really unstable. He was failling classes, he was shouting on everybody and, to top everything, he wasn't allowed to play quiditch and there was no DA anymore. That was really sad. She really loved those meetings. She learned a lot. Harry is probably the best teacher she ever had.
She went to astronomy tower. It was the last place she didn't checked. If he is not here she is going to look for professor McGonagal.
She climbed the stairs. To her relief, he was there. He was sitting by one of the openings, looking at the sunset. She couldn't help herself. She just stopped there and starred at him. He was so gorgeous. His messy dark hair, perfectly shaped lips, perfect jaw line, the most beautiful pair of green eyes she ever saw… But there was something wrong about those eyes. They didn't have that spark that he had after a good quidditch game, during teaching them, when he was laughing with Ron and Hermione… They were broken. She could see the pain in his eyes.
She approached him.
"Alone watching sunset… It would be romantic if you were with a girl. But this is just pathetic." She said and immediately regret those words. That was probably too harsh. He didn't need her sarcasm right now.
He looked at her.
"Go away, Ginny." He said. There was no emotion in his voice.
"You shouldn't be disappearing like this. You are making us worry." She continued.
"Oh, really… That is new." She couldn't see if he really meant that or was just looking for a way to make her angry.
"What is that supposed to mean?" she asked.
"Nothing…" he said, sounding careless. "Just that, since beginning of the year, everybody abandoned me. Harry Attention Seeking Potter… Poor little Potter, who lost his parents, has a scar and now wants of everybody to love him… Nobody is here for me. Nobody wants to hear what I have to say. And I had this one person who cared for me and who wanted to hear me out and I lost that because of my stupidity! So don't pretend that you care for me or that you understand, because you don't! Just leave me the hell alone!" She felt tears in her eyes. How could he say that?
"Okay." She said. "I will leave you alone." She turned around and started walk to the stairs.
"Ginny…" he said. She turned her head. "Sorry. I shouldn't have said that. Now I just sound like Hagrid." She laughed at that.
"Do you want of me to stay?" she asked. There was silence for a few seconds. He nodded. She walked to him. She sat down beside him.
"This year… This is the worst year ever." He started. "I lost everything. I lost one of the important people in my life. I can't play quidditch, which is my favorite thing in the world. I was just a replacement to girl of my dreams. Thank God, I realized that she was using me and saw what is she actually like." She never felt such a relief. He was talking about Cho, a girl he had a huge crush on. Cedric was her boyfriend. When he died, she tried to date Harry, but it did not work out. From what she heard from Hermione, it was disaster.
"I fell like… Like nobody wants me. Like nobody cares for me." He said and looked at his feet.

"That is not true." She said. She wanted to shout that she wants to be with him more than anything. Yes, she broke up with Michael, but Harry thought that she doesn't have any feelings for him anymore. "There are so many people that love you and care about you." She was never this patient with someone. If it was someone else, she will probably tell them to get their head out of their arse. But, Harry was different. He was always different.
"Like who?" He asked.
"Ron, Hermione, professor Dumbledore, professor McGonagal, Remus, Tonks, Neville, Luna, my whole family…" She started.
"That is a lot of people." He interrupted her, with a precious smirk on his face. "What about you?"
"What about me?" she asked, kind of confused.
"Do you care about me?" he asked. He sounded like it was obvious.
"Yes." She said. "I do care about you, Harry. And I, along with so many others, hate seeing you so miserable. I understand, you lost Sirius and I know you love him, but you can't always act like this. You are making us really worried. You need to get your life together. O.W.L's are coming and you need to study. In the summer you will come to us, like you always do, and we will play the crap out of quidditch. And you always have us if you need anything."
"I don't like being a burden." He said.
"You are not a burden. We all care about you and there is not anything we will not do for you. And I know that you will do anything for us too. You proved that." He looked at her.
"Wow." He said. His eyes… There was that spark in them. Spark that she missed so much.
"What?" she asked, confused again.
"How I never saw it?" he said with something different in his voice.
"What?" she asked again. She was curious.
"You are gorgeous." He said, leaving her speechless. Even if she got something to say, she couldn't speak. Her voice was gone for those few seconds. They were just looking in each other's eyes, appreciating silence and a sunset.
Through life, people were telling her that she is pretty. But she never wanted to be just this pretty girl. She was great in her classes, she had a lot of friends and now she is even playing quidditch. She never thought that someone will use such a strong word to describe her. And that was Harry of all people. Somebody that she always had such strong feelings for. Not just because he is The Boy Who Lived. Because he is smart, loyal, brave, talented, passionate, funny, bold, handsome… He is even more that she could ever ask for.
"You really think that?" she asked him, when she finally got her voice again.
"Ginny…" he said through a laugh. She hasn't heard him laugh in so long. She missed it. And his smile… "Have you ever looked in a mirror? God… I thought Cho is pretty?" She felt her cheeks burning and butterflies in her stomach.
"Well, you are also pretty good looking." She said. He just compared her to one of the most popular and prettiest girls in school. That is the least she could say.
"We should probably go back, shouldn't we?" he said.
"Yes." She answered. They stood up and went downstairs. She was kind of sad. Because this was beautiful. She comforted Harry. He opened himself to her. She watched sunset with him. He called her gorgeous.
They were walking to Gryffindor common room in silence. In a moment they were in front of Fat Lady.
"Umbridge sucks." Harry said. That was a common room password.
"She really does." Lady said and moved to the side. They entered in a warm common room that

was full of fifth years studying, couples snoging and kids fooling around with some toy that Fred and George gave them. They were forbidden by principal Bitch Umbridge. But Fred and George with Hermione's help figured out the way to make fake images when Umbridge is checking through the fire pit. They were doing whatever they wanted. And professor McGonagal was supporting them in breaking rules. Nobody hates Umbridge more than McGonagal.
"Thank you, Ginny." He said.
"For what?" She asked. She didn't do anything special.
"I haven't talked like this with someone in a while. I appreciate it." He said.
"I will always help a friend in need." She said.
"You are the best." He said, with that smirk again. He did not had any clue how much those words meant to her.
"Harry!" somebody shouted across the room. Ron and Hermione where walking towards them.
"Where, the bloody hell, were you?" Ron said.
"I was on the astronomy tower. Ginny found me. Right?" Harry said and looked at her.
"Yes." She confirmed.
"What were you doing there with him?" Ron asked.
"Making your future nephew." She said. She couldn't help herself. It was Ron. She was born to annoy him.
Ron looked like he just saw a ghost. Harry was laughing. Along with Hermione.
"What?" he shouted.
"You are so stupid, you know that, Ron?" she said. "I am messing with you. We talked. Talked like two friends."
"Better for both of you." Ron said and walked away. Hermione followed him.
Harry and Ginny looked at each other and burst in giggles.
"Thank you, now he will watch me like a hawk." He said.
"My work here is done." She said.
"See you later." He said. "And thank you. For making me laugh."
"Any time." She said. And he walked away.