2. Her Version

Ginny Weasley stared out the window of the Hogwarts Express gloomily. As she watched the rain pelt the windows she couldn't help but think about that day. That day must've been the second worst day in her live - the final battle being the first. The day had been almost three months ago but she still remembered it like yesterday.

It had started like a perfectly normal day. She had gotten up, gotten ready, and had met her friends in the common room so they could go down to breakfast. "Thank God for the weekends!" she proclaimed. They all laughed as they entered the Great Hall

Her eyes automaticly swept the Hall for a certain raven haired boy. She was curious as to why he wasn't sitting in his usual spot, but instead he was sitting further down the table. Her stomach clenched when he looked up at her with his beautiful emerald eyes.

'Get a grip Weasley,' she scolded herself. 'he doesn't think of you that way, and he never will.' She smiled at him so she wouldn't seem stupid, and sat down with her friends. She thought she saw him blush, but thought better of it. 'Why would the Famous Harry Potter blush?'

As she piled food onto her plate she saw Harry's beautiful snowy owl, Hedwig, swoop down over the Gryffendor table. She expected her to land in front of Harry, but instead she flew right over his head and landed in front of her.

Only a few people noticed the snowy owl, and even fewer seemed to find it weird that it would land in front of Ginny.

As soon as Hedwig lifted up her left, leg Ginny took the letter. She patted her affectionately and then she was off again. Ginny stole a look at Harry, who now seemed very interested in his pancakes.

With trembling fingers Ginny slowly opened the letter. She gasped when she read what was in it. It read…

Dear Ginny,

I know you're probably wondering why I'm

writing to you, but I just couldn't tell you this

face-to-face. The truth is that I really like you,

and I am almost positive you feel the same way.

If you don't still like me like that, then I understand.

I had to tell you because it has been nagging at me

for months. I didn't want to not tell you and then

regret it for the rest of my life. If you just want to

be friends that's fine, because I don't want this to ruin our friendship.

I'll talk to you later,

Love,

Harry

When Ginny finished reading she looked up so quickly that her neck cracked. Harry was looking at her. A searching look that made her feel completely vulnerable.

She was unable to break his gaze for a while, until one of her friends called her name, and her thought process was broken.

"Anyway, like I was saying. . ." but Ginny didn't hear a word of it. Her mind was on more important things.

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Ginny laid on her bed, thinking about breakfast. 'Why?' was the question she kept asking herself. Why her? Why now?Why did he have to tell her this just when she thought was getting over him.

She thought of all the times he had hurt her because of her stupid crush. Even though they were unentional, how did he think she felt when he was dating other girls. Over the past year he had dated three different girls. Cho who just made her gag, Susan who took advantage of him being a celeberty, and Hannah who expected him to be a hero at everything.

She thought about this for a long time. He went out with the three most fake and demanding girls, and he hadn't even given her a second glance during the time that he was dating them.

After another 30 minutes of thinking she finally came to a conclusion, 'There's now way on this earth that he's going to hurt me again.'.

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Later that day Harry had been studying for his N.E.W.T.S. when Ginny slowly approached him. She took a deep breath.

"Hi." She said sheepishly

He looked up from his studies to look at her. "Hey." He said back.

Harry watched as she sat down on the chair next to him, and began to twirl a lock of her fiery red hair around her finger.

"Harry-"

"Gin-"

They both started speaking at the same time.

Ginny gave a nervous giggle. She took another deep breath and said,

"Harry, about the letter-"

But, she was silenced as Harry stood up, pulled her to him and gave her a searing kiss. Everything Ginny was going to say just flew out of her mind. The only thing that mattered at that moment was Harry. Ginny wrapped her hands into his hair and he deepened the kiss. After a few minutes of pure bliss, Ginny's eyes flew open wide, finally realizing what she was doing. She put her hands on his chest and pushed away abruptly.

"Gin what's-"

"Stay away from me!" she shouted. and with that she wheeled around and bolted from the library, leaving Harry with a confused and hurt look on his face.

Ginny completely avoided Harry until term got out, on the train, and over summer when he was at the BurrowIn fact, He hadn't even seen Ginny until earlier that morning on platform 9 3/4.

Ginny felt horrible about what she did to him. Seeing that look on his face whe she pushed him away was torchure. Ginny knew she was hurting him but she didn't want to talk to him about what happened last year. A voice in the back of her head started screaming at her- to her amusment,the voice sounded alot like her mum.

'Ginny Weasley, how can you do this to Harry? He had never been anything but nice to you and you go and rip his heart out of his chest like that! You are so shallow. Harry may have hurt you, but he didn't do it on purpose! He's been moping around in a slump ALL SUMMER and it's all because of you, AND YOU KNOW IT! You know it took alot of his Gryffendor courage to tell you how he felt, now put the boy out of his misery and talk to him."

Even though she didn't want to admit it the voice had a point. Hermione had told her repeatedly that Harry had been in a bad mood all summer, and since when did Harry talk about how he felt?

Gathering her Gryffendor courage she stood up, opened her compartment door, and went to find Harry.

AN: Just so that you know, the reason that they're in compartments by themselfs is that Ron and Hermione are at the prefects meeting, since they're Head Boy and Girl, and Ginny's friends are either prefects or in one case her friend wanted "alone time" with her boyfriend. I will be mentioning this in either the next chapter or the one after the next. Updating this fast probably wont happen again. The only reason it happened this time is because I had prewritten this chapter before I submitted the story. Usally I'll only update 2 times a week maximum. Thanks for reviewing last chapter, I really like to hear your comments. Truth be told I was pretty nervous about what you would say, but thanks for reviewing. Please review again. Go Cardinals!

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Emeralds and Rubies