Chapter Four
Though Harry did yes understand why Ginny left him and he was okay with it for the most part it still hurt him and pissed him off severely and now he'd gone searching for the object of his new found fury, one Miss Hermione Granger, who had unknowingly stolen the girl of his dreams heart.
He eventually found her out by the pond soaking her feet and looking out to the valley beyond, if he'd taken the care to notice she looked really peaceful at that moment. But right now Harry didn't care about anything but relieving the anger that had taken hold of him. He continued to storm toward her.
Hermione heard him coming and stood up getting ready to hug him in greeting when his hand went flying towards her face, she didn't react quickly enough and the slap hit its target on her face knocking her back into the water. "I can't see how she could play me like that, make it seem like she loved me when the only thing she was truly hoping for was a relationship with you, yeah I'm fine with it, but I can't stand the thought that she never truly loved me and it's all your fault you always had to be there and stick up for her," Harry began yelling at a rather scared looking Hermione. "You always had to be there, always being nice to her helping her, getting close to her yet to afraid to do anything about your own feelings giving her the chance to tear my heart out as though it didn't matter to either one of you."
"Harry I don't know what you're talking about who hurt you what's going on why did you hit me, you've never hit anyone before, no matter how mad you got at me or Ron never once have you hit one of us." Hermione said half-hysterically.
Harry glared at her, "Ginny loves you not me she's always loved you never me and because you didn't step up to her you gave her the chance to rip out my heart, she just broke up with me because she was sick of living the lie, she wants to pursue you all over again." He shrieked at her now completely engulfed in his madness. "And maybe Hermione I never hit anyone before because I was restraining myself from doing so because you were my friends, and maybe just maybe, I'm sick of being the perfect little boy who wouldn't do a damned thing to hurt anyone else. Because I don't know if you know or not but having your heart ripped out of your chest and sliced into a million pieces is not fun." Harry finished storming away from her before he decided to do anything more drastic than he already had in the process of striking her.
Hermione stood there completely soaked from flying back into the pond she was shocked sad and happy all at once, she had just found out that Ginny loved her through the sadly angered form of Harry who'd done all he could to get Ginny to love him, and everything he could to make it last. She felt sorry for him yes but she also felt as though her life was finally beginning to look up because her love was returned, but how was she going to tell Ginny about her feelings for her, knowing what she did now Hermione didn't think she could last another day without the beautiful red-headed goddess who was much sought after by an array of men and women alike. And how were they going to tell Ginny's family later about the relationship would they be as understanding as her best friends or would they scorn both her and Ginny for life.
A dozen thoughts started racing through Hermione's head the first and most important of which was how to comfort Harry and make him feel better about the situation and Hermione thought she had just the girl for the job…but how to get her down e soon and efficiently enough to surprise Harry was the question…….