Chapter Five
Ginny was glad that Harry took the break-up so well and glad that now she was free to pursue the love of her life much longed for. Oh how she couldn't wait to tell Ron would he be happy for her like he was for Hermione? She certainly hoped so. She skipped up the stairs to her brother's room to see him sitting on his bed sorting through his chocolate frog cards like he always does when he was bored.
"Hey Ron, um, can we talk? I got to tell you something." Ginny said sitting on his bed watching him place another Dumbledore onto one of the piles.
Ron looked up at his unusually super happy sister's face. "Sure Ginny what's up?" he asked leaning back into the wall to listen to her.
Ginny took a deep breath and looked at him grinning like a Cheshire cat. "Actually I think you might be a bit surprised but I'm glad to have finally decided to do what I'm going to do." She took another deep breath and stared at him seriously now, "I'm going to pursue Hermione because I've loved her from the moment I fully met her. What do you think of that?"
Ron stared at his sister with at first shock and then joy over what he'd just heard, so his sister really did love Hermione back! "Ginny I think that's wonderful you should definitely go for it, I'm so happy for you!" he hugged his little sister then told her that she ought to start now if she wanted to get anything done or else Hermione might soon be taken by someone else wink, wink.
Ginny jumped up and hugged her brother, "Ron I'm so glad that you support me! Normally you're protective when it comes to me dating people even when I wanted to date Harry you went postal at first. Oh thank you thank you thank you!" Ginny squealed and skipped out of Ron's room and up the stairs to her and Hermione's room. She stopped in her tracks as she thought about this, she was sharing a room with the person she wanted and who wanted her, 'Damn this is going to be awkward!' she confessed to herself.
Hermione was sitting on her bed in Ginny's room contemplating how the sleeping arrangement would work knowing that she's finally fully accepted her love for the girl in who's room she was sleeping when the object of her affection just happened to walk in and go over to her own bed to stare out of the window. "Ginny are you feeling alright?" Hermione asked walking over to and sitting behind Ginny on the younger girl's bed and touching her shoulder lightly.
"Yeah I'm okay Hermione it's just a small headache I had a very confusing and eventful day." Ginny said leaning back into the older girl instinctively and continued to stare out the window at the pond in the distance.
Hermione began to rub Ginny's temples looking out at the pond too, into the tranquility of the hectic world they lived in. Ginny sighed and relaxed against Hermione closing her eyes drifting off slowly as Hermione made the throbbing pain in her head disappear with her wonderfully skillful hands, those beautiful hands with their long gentle and soft fingers… Ginny finally fell asleep in Hermione's arms.
Hermione got up and place Ginny neatly under her covers and went back to her own bed to compose a letter to one of the only other girls Harry had ever been interested in, none other than the eccentric and lovely Luna Lovegood…..