Chapter 11

One Year Later
"HARRY! HARRY!" Ginny yelled with a look of pure terror in her eyes.

Harry ran from the kitchen, where he had been eating breakfast, and into their room.
"Where are you?" he asked, sounding extremely worried.
It was early on a Saturday morning, and they had been planning to go to the amusement park that day.
"I'm in the bathroom! It's okay though. I just got a little sick. I must have caught that bug you had last week. Can you grab me a wash cloth?" she asked calming down.
"Sure babe. I thought you'd met Voldermort or something! Don't scare me like that!" Harry said with a quick laugh. He then left the room, and Ginny was left to sit in the floor, tasting a horrible taste.
"Harry?" she called again.
"Yeah?" he said walking around the corner, towel and wash cloth in hand.
"Sorry I scared you. For a moment, I thought I might be pregnant!" she said. "And then, I remembered that you were sick on Wednesday with the same thing."
Harry sat next to her in the floor and cleaned her up before smothering her with a hug. She laid her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes.
"I think I want a baby." she said softly.
Harry immediately stiffened.
"What?" he asked with as much panic as she had shown when she first thought of that idea.
"Well, today is our anniversary, and I'm 19. I think I can handle it. We could turn the third guest room into a nursery and hire someone to baby proof the house... Harry? Are you okay?" she said laughing at his shocked expression.
"What do you want one of those things for?" he said still showing just as much panic.
"Well, I think I'm ready. I would love to have a baby Harry, or a little Lily, or even twins! That would be so much fun! And, I could take a year off of work to stay home with it. I mean! Wouldn't that just be awesome?" she said with an unfamiliar glow.
"My coffee's getting hot... I mean cold... I gotta go and drink it... fast. I'll see you in a minute..." he said with a very blank look on his face as though he were thinking hard.
He turned and slowly walked down the stairs, back to the kitchen, where he sat sipping his already cold coffee, absentmindedly.
"Well... he never said no." Ginny said to her husky puppy with a shrug after he'd left the room.
The puppy, who she'd named Fluff, curled up in her lap and gave her puppy eyes. Ginny smiled and patted Fluff's head.
Ginny got up shortly and got ready to go. She was feeling better and thought that she could handle going with Ron and Hermione.
She walked downstairs to find Harry still sitting, sipping an empty cup.
"Harry? It's almost time to go babe. Are you ready?" she asked taking his coffee cup and plate to the sink.
"Uh huh."
" Okay..." Ginny said thinking, "Let's forget about this for now, and we'll talk about it tonight. You can't possibly be thinking straight while you're still in shock!" she said laughing. She put her arms around his neck and kissed him on the cheek.
Just then the doorbell rang. Ginny ran to it and opened it wide, greeting Hermione with a huge hug.
"Hi!" Ginny said. "Oh yeah, don't bug Harry. He's kind of in a daze, 'cause I told him I wanted kids." she added in a whisper.
Ron dropped the tickets he was holding.
"You... what! You should have talked to me first! I am after all, your big brother!"
"Okay, Ron. It won't happen again. When I start skipping periods, you'll be the first one I go to to talk about missing them. And when my boobs start swelling-"
"OKAY! Okay! You don't have to tell me everything! Sorry!" Ron said covering his ears and shaking his head as if to forget what he'd just heard. His ears were scarlet. Ginny and Hermione just laughed.
Ginny heard a small chuckle from the kitchen and took it as a good sign that Harry was coming around. She headed that way, while Ron and Hermione played with Fluff. They were next door neighbors and Fluff was as close to them as she was to Harry and Ginny.
"We should bring Crookshanks over! He could watch Fluff for you!" Hermione said.
"Okay." Ginny pulled out her wand. "Accio, Crookshanks!" she said.
"Crookshanks came flying through the open window hissing and screaming.
"Ginny!" Hermione said.
"Well it worked!" Ginny said suddenly angry.
"Geez! What's with you?" Ron said.
"PMS." Ginny said stalking off to her room to grab her purse. She shrunk it, stuck it in her pocket, and went downstairs.
"I'm so sorry! I shouldn't have been so rude!" Ginny said starting to cry.
"Got that right!" Ron said.
"RON!" Hermione said looking livid.
"What?" he asked stupidly.
Harry stood up and put an arm around her.
Ginny hugged him back, suddenly happy.
"Yay! You're back to normal!" she said.
"Mood swings, much?" Ron said under his breath to Hermione.
Hermione just laughed and kissed Ron on the cheek.
"Okay! Let's go!" Ginny said. Poor Crookshanks was hiding in the closet waiting for the scary girl to leave. He immediately began babysitting Fluff.