Change is Everything
By: Sporkchild
Chapter Twelve: When Everything Goes Wrong
It was almost Christmas, in fact, it was two days before the joyous holiday. The two Weasley children left had decided to spend the holiday at Hogwarts. More like Ron told Harry to tell Hermione to tell Ginny that they were to stay there, and Ginny complied, rather than start another fight.
Ginny still hadn't worked up enough courage to say anything to Hermione about how moody and defensive she'd been since school started, but she could feel yet another fight brewing in the room between all the roommates.
"Hermione." Ginny sat on the bed, crossing her legs nervously, waiting for her friend to reply.
"Yeah?"
"Where'd you get that ring?"
"Ginny…you're going to kill me, but…I'm engaged."
Ginny gawked at the girl. 'How do you get engaged without telling your best friend?!' "Engaged?"
"And…pregnant…possibly…"
"Who are you? I don't even know you anymore! I don't even want anything to do with you. I can't believe you'd stoop to this!" Ginny screamed. Taking one last look at her so-called friend, she took off.
"Ginny, come back, I planned to tell you, I swear I did!"
"Then why didn't you? When you get engaged, you normally tell your best friend! When you think you're pregnant, you confide in your best friend!" Ginny huffed, stopping only momentarily.
"I'm not pregnant, I know I'm not…"
"You just said you were." Ginny walked back and stood directly in front of Hermione.
"At the beginning of winter vacation, when Connor took me out, we went to a muggle doctor and I got an abortion."
Shock absorbed Ginny, leaving her helpless and unknowing. She didn't know how muggle doctors did abortions, but un-needed abortions were painful in the wizarding world.
"What?" She stuttered, not sure she was hearing right.
"It was a last resort, Gin. I was confused, Connor was scared, I did the wrong thing and I know it." Hermione's voice cracked, but yet, she didn't cry.
"I hate you…" With that, Ginny lunged at Hermione, knocking both of them to the ground.
"What the hell are you two doing?" Demi snapped, leaning up as the two fighting girls bumped against her bed.
"Stay out of it!" Ginny managed to yelp as Hermione started flailing, swinging her arms and legs everywhere, since she had no clue how to fight.
Audrey jumped up, peering through the meager early morning light, and drug her new boyfriend, some second year named Duran Linch, down to the common room.
"Hey!" Jayden yelled, "There aren't supposed to be any boys in the room unless we all agree on it!" She took off after Audrey.
Ginny finally got an edge on Hermione, pinning her legs down, and began swinging at anything she could hit. Hermione's hands flew up to shield her face, but it was no use, because Ginny's swings didn't stop.
Jayden came back and pulled Ginny off Hermione, and strings of "I hate you!" rang out through the morning.
Two days later, on Christmas day, the bedroom was still full of stunned silence. Even all the packages by the beds only did little to lighten the mood.
Ginny dully took the packages by her bed and set them in her lap. The first one she opened was from her mother. It turned out to be a deep maroon sweater, which was exactly like the one Harry got every year. She blushed, but them grew angry and threw the sweater to the side, where it toppled off the bed. The next package was from Jayden, and it contained two chocolate frogs and a pair of hot pink fishnets.
"Jayden!" Ginny was shocked that the young girl would ever think of giving a gift like that.
"I thought they were cute! I bought everyone a pair." The girl shrugged as each girl, even Audrey, pulled out a blue package that was from her and ripped it open. Ginny noted that she was the only one who got the extra gift of chocolate frogs.
The next package was from Demi, and it contained two inkwells and a new quill. 'How conservative, just like Hermione used to be,' Ginny thought bitterly. Taking a glance at Hermione, she watched as her maybe friend opened her packages and laughed with their roommates. Oddly enough, Ginny felt left out.
Instead of dwelling on this new feeling, she picked up another package, this one wrapped in brown paper. 'Love Luna' was scrawled in the corner…
Sparky jumped onto Ginny's lap. Looking down at the cat, Ginny was instantly reminded of her friend.
"Ginny," a familiar male voice called out.
She looked up and saw Connor, walking briskly toward her. Considering she was outside, she didn't think anyone would find her. It was already mid-April and she still had not talked to Hermione. Still, she felt bad about how harsh she had been. It was, in fact, Hermione's decision, not her own, to get an abortion. She should've been supportive in her best friend's time of need.
"Yes?"
"Don't you think you should just make up with Herms? What's done is done. You shouldn't bust up such a good friendship for something like this," Connor didn't say this arrogantly, because it was just as much his fault.
"I know, Connor…"
"She really misses you, you know? Almost as much as you miss her, I bet." With that, Connor made his way back across the front lawn, towards the castle.
"You know what Sparky, I think he may be right," Ginny said as she held the lavender cat close and snuggled him.
Little did she know, Draco watched from the castle doors, wondering how wrong he could've been about what he said to her.
Yes, interesting chapter, huh? Two more to go and then we're done!
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