first date


Sassy, spunky, fighting Ginny Weasley was nervous. She wasn't used to being nervous, it simply wasn't her cup of tea. But when one had a date with one's crush of, well, one's entire life, one simply did not take it lightly.

She brushed her hair again, desperate just to be doing something other than staring at herself in the mirror and criticizing every detail of herself. But as her comb worked, her eyes drifted across her outfit and her face went pale.

Her mum, of course, chose that moment of crisis to walk in.

"Ginny? What's wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost."

"Mum," she said, horrified. "How did I not notice I'm wearing a navy top and black bottoms?"

"Dear, your top is more blue."

"No, it's navy." Ginny set down her brush and began to go through the shirts in her closet. "Too dressy. Too pretentious. Too casual. Too stained. Too small." She turned around. "Mum, I have nothing to wear."

Molly laughed silently, but on the outside stayed very serious about her daughter's plight. Usually, Ginny was the headstrong young woman she always was, but leave it to a simple date to make her emotions fall to pieces.

"I have something for you, dear. I was saving it for your seventeenth birthday, but…it's only a week away, and I think you can use it now."

Molly disappeared for a moment, and reappeared with what looked like a dress bag.

"Mum, is that…?"

She unzipped the bag to reveal a dark blue dress. It wasn't too dressy, or too pretentious, or too casual. It was perfect, and it was Ginny.

"Mum, thank you." Ginny wrapped her arms around her mother—the woman who singlehandedly saved her life—and squeezed. "I love you."

"I love you, too. Now quick, or you'll be late!"

Ginny changed into her dress, rebrushed her hair, touched up her makeup (although Molly said she didn't need any), and then walked downstairs to find Harry in the kitchen with her father.

"Really?" her father was saying. "You just plug it in?"

"Yeah. You have to add the coffee grounds, though."

"Muggles. They never fail to amaze me…"

Both men stopped talking when Ginny entered the room. The two men standing in front of her were the two men that had been the center of her life—brothers excluded, of course.

"Ginny," Harry said. "You look beautiful." He smiled and took her hand. "Thank you for letting me take your daughter out tonight."

Arthur winked at the couple. "Have a good time."

Molly bustled down the stairs. "Harry!" she greeted him, taking his head in her hands and kissing both cheeks. "So nice to see you dear."

"Come on, mum. We have to go," Ginny said, tugging Harry towards the door. "Goodbye!"

Arthur and Molly stood in the doorway and watched their daughter Apparate away with the love of her life for the first time. The children that lived, together in love. They wanted nothing more for their daughter.


A/N: For The Jigsaw Challenge, #2. Wordcount: 504 (one word short of the limit!)

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