Ok I can finally start my new chapter! Yayness! Thank you to all who reviewed, with the exception of one person. To those of you who plan to leave reviews bashing my story- save it. You don't like the way I write my stories? Tough. And a special thank you to LWC Girl for pointing out my mistake- sorry about that! Well happy reading!

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Ginny was afraid to turn around and see who had spoken to her, although she was sure she already knew who it was. The way his voice sounded surprised her- she thought he might be angry about the girls (even though she was sure he didn't know they were his), or that he would want nothing to do with her. She was certain that he had found someone else, too. Maybe I should just pretend I don't know him, she thought sadly. NO, she told herself, you must tell him sometime.

She turned around slowly to face him.

"H-H-Harry?"

"Hello Ginny. How have you been?"

"Um." Speak! She commanded herself.

He raised an eyebrow questioningly.

"Pretty good, I guess. How about you?"

"Oh, not too bad. I've been enjoying myself, just keeping it simple."

She smiled and nodded politely.

"So, who are these 2 wonderful young girls?" he asked, nodding to the girls who had come to stand by her side and admire the stranger towering over them.

"Oh, these two girls are Tristan and Maribeth."

At the mention of their names, the girls smiled politely and curtsied, mumbling in unison, "How do you do?"

With a polite nod in their direction, he turned back to Ginny. At this, Ginny looked at her girls and said "Girls, why don't you occupy yourselves in the sandbox or something while Mr. Potter and I get re-accqu-"

"Please, Ginny, don't feel as though you have to call me by my last name for the girls sake. In fact-"he winked, "You can all call me Harry."

The way he was talking was driving her crazy, and somehow she had a sense that he knew it. Maybe he was trying to taunt her, trying to drive her crazy, maybe more-

NO! she yelled at herself silently. NO way. There was no way. He had to have someone else by now. She had hoped maybe he hadn't, but after seeing how handsome he was now, well, that thought had vanished completely from her mind. His velvety voice interrupted her thoughts.

"Are they yours?" He nodded his head to the girls, who were walking around the swings, waiting to get on.

"Oh. Um, yea, they are". . . .

"I see." His voice was cold and yet surprised. He seemed to think the same thing she had! She realized immediately. He had been hoping she was single. Which meant what she had been trying to avoid was sitting right in front of them- a lie.

"Are you- are you involved Gin? Is there someone else?" That was the look in his eyes. And it was killing her to tell him, since now seemed like the perfect chance. Unfortunately, he didn't ask this question because he was a perfect gentleman. No, she wasn't, but she could tell as far as he was concerned she was and the girls weren't his.

"Ahh-um, well I-"

"Oh I see, whoever the bloody hell you were seeing left you-pregnant too! Well. Ginny, how could you not tell me? Or Ron? Or your Mum? I thought you knew better!"

Oh dear, thought Ginny with despair. She knew she had better tell him the truth, before things got out of hand, but yet something else was telling her not to.

"Oh Harry, please, I can explain-"

"Ginny, there IS nothing to explain. I mean, you got pregnant off of some guy, you have twins, and you live life. And speaking of living, how are things? You must be living in a small house, in some run down-"

"HOLD IT!" she shouted at him, knowing he had gone WAY too far. "I do NOT live in a small run down building in some awful part of town. In fact," she looked him directly in the eyes, "I live in the very nice part of town in a 3 story house with plumbing, running water and a basement".

He looked taken aback. She saw his face go red, but she was relieved that they had gone from the topic of the girls to this.

"Oh, and about Ron and Mum? Mum's too busy lately, getting things ready for some big event of Ron's. And Ron is busy at his job, along with raising his children. So no, I didn't tell them. And I thought Ron would-"

She shut her mouth abruptly, not wanting to tell him that Ron would have told him and he would have jumped to the wrong conclusion- which had already happened. Go figure.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have assumed that about how you live. It's just that, oh Gin, I don't know, I'm not one that sees women, er, working."

She smiled. Shocking, she knew, because most of the women that she knew didn't work either, but she had needed to, or the worst could have happened. But there was still one thing she needed to know.

"Well Harry, since I answered your question, I think it's high time you answered a question of mine. Are you seeing anyone?"

He looked a little surprised, but a warm smile came over his face.

"No Ginny."

She looked stunned too, but didn't say anything.

"But I do have one more question, and then I must get back to my job. Will you go out to dinner with me tonight? Say around 7:30ish?"

she couldn't have been more stunned as old feelings that she had long since buried stirred within her. She wanted to say yes, and yet another part wanted her to say no way, not after what I just went through.

"Alright, I will, but I have to find someone to watch the girls. And I have to find something nice to wear."

He smiled, and then kissed the top of her forehead gently.

"See you tonight Gin." And with a lingering smile, he walked away.

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Ginny sighed as he walked away, leaving her only filled with shock, outrage and a little bit of. . . fear?

Hmm, she thought. The twins, seeing that Harry had left, came running over wanting to know every detail.

"Who is he Mum? Where did you meet him?"

"Mum, are you going to visit him? Where is he from?"

"Is he your boyfriend?"

Ginny couldn't help but laugh as she answered the questions.

"He is an old friend of mine from when I went to school, the same school you go to. I met him when it was his first year there, and I had one more year to go before I started school there. I'm not going to visit him, I'm going to go and catch up on things with him tonight though, and he is from England."

"No, he is not my boyfriend, although I'm quite sure he has the idea that that option is available to him in his head. Maybe someday. But what else you don't know is that he is your father, the same man I was dating back in my time at Hogwarts."

She wondered how the girls would react if she were to actually say this, but since it seemed MOST of their questions had been asked for now, she took both their hands in hers and began to walk them home with her, to see if her neighbor could baby-sit and to find something to wear.

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Sooooo? How do you think it was? I hoped you all liked it, I'm sorry it's not longer, I ran out of time. But again, if any of you plan to leave bad reviews, don't. If you don't like the way I write my story, or my format, GET OVER IT. I'd like to see you be me for a day. Hah. Anyways, thank you to the rest of those who reviewed! Rae