"Oh, my darling girl, thank goodness you're home!" Mum squealed as we walked into the house. She pulled me into a hug so tight I couldn't breathe.

"Mum," Ron said. "Mum, she's turning blue. Let go!"

Mum let go of me and I breathed in deeply. I looked around the kitchen. For the most part, it looked the same, although one of the walls was now covered in pictures. I walked over to the wall.

"I like the collage," I said. Some of the pictures were of my brothers and me when we were younger. It was hard to look at at first, because of all of the movement. I looked closer and saw pictures of Bill's wedding, Charile's wedding, and pictures of Bill's son Jeff and Charlie's daughter Angela.

"So, Ginny, what are your plans for the summer?" my father asked as he walked into the kitchen and sat down with the rest of us at the table. Mum was busy making us dinner.

"Um, you know, I haven't really thought of anything yet." Actually, I had thought a lot of things over. But I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life yet. The only thing I did know was that I wanted to snog Harry. A lot. Every single day for the rest of my life. But I definitely couldn't say that to dad.

"Well, what about once the summer is over? Any ideas on what you want to do with your life?"

I sighed. Here's the thing. All of my brothers, even Harry and Hermione, knew what they wanted to do with their lives. I seemed to be the one lacking direction.

"Not really. I figured maybe I could take some time off, figure out what I want to do."

This seemed to make my father angry. "Ginevra Weasley! Life is not about taking time off to figure out what you want to do! You need to pick a direction! Be a housewife for all I care! But you need to decide what you want to do." He slammed his fist on the table. The kitchen was quiet. Even my mum had stopped peeling the potatoes.

I stood up angrily. Ron, Hermione, and Harry looked down at their plates, trying to stay out of the conversation.

"Fine. I'll pick a career. Thanks for welcoming me home, dad." With that, I grabbed my trunk and stormed upstairs.

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"Ginny?" a soft voice said outside of my room.

"Go away!" I yelled, throwing a book at the door and covering my face with a pillow.

The door opened and I saw my dad come in.
"Honey, I'm sorry. I've just had a rough day," he said quietly.

Tears started to form in my eyes. "I've never seen you act like this, dad."

He sighed, sat on my bed, and took my hand. "I know. I want to tell you a story."

"Okay."

"I was at work today, and one of my colleagues came into my office. Said he needed to talk to me. Do you remember Mr. Perkins?"

"Yeah."

"Well, his daughter graduated last year from Hogwarts. She was a good daughter, came home at respectable hours of the night, didn't smoke or drink. But then she made some friends over the summer, and her life went in a downward spiral."

"I wouldn't do that, dad." I felt a few tears slide down my cheek.

"I know, I know. And I'm sorry for yelling at you. But let me finish the story."

I put my head on his shoulder and closed my eyes. I had stopped crying at this point but now my eyes were hurting from crying.

"Last night she was admitted into St. Mungo's. Apparently she was doing some sort of muggle drugs. She overdosed and died this morning. That's not all. She was also four months pregnant."

I opened my eyes. "Oh, dad, I'm so sorry."

He patted my head. "I know. I was just so worried. I don't want anything like that to happen to you. I don't want to lose my only daughter."

"Don't worry dad. You won't lose me."

He smiled. "I'm sorry for yelling."

"Me too. I'll pick a career soon, don't worry."

"You don't need to do that. I just want to make sure that you're happy."

He got off of my bed and walked out of the room.

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I spent the next few days at home, helping my mum clean house. It looked as if Percy was never going to come back home, much less reconcile with my dad, so my parents had decided to let George move into his room.

"About time," he said as I helped him move his stuff into Percy's old room. "I mean, come on, we're twenty one. We need our own rooms."

I laughed. "You're twenty one. Shouldn't you have moved out by now?"

"Nah. I like it here."

"You guys have an apartment over the store," I pointed out as I carried a box labeled "Highly explosive" into his room.

"Yeah, not anymore. The guy who owns the building gave the apartment to his nephew, so we had to get out."

We spent the afternoon working on his room. I performed a color charm to change the color of his walls from the boring gray that Percy had to a nice green that suited his personality.

"So, how's it going with Harry?"

My face went pale. "I don't know what you're talking about," I said as I put some clothes into his dresser.

"Oh please. I know you like him. In fact, I know you love him," George teased.

I threw a sock at him and it bounced off of his head. "Shut up."

"You love him! You do! Oh my gosh."

"She loves who?" Ron said as he walked in, holding a sandwich in his hand.

I glared at George. He looked at me and must have known what I was thinking.

"Percy. She still loves him even though we know he's an idiot."

"Oh. Gin, you have to forget about him. He's not part of our family anymore."

I didn't say anything, but George was right. Even though everyone else had disowned Percy from the family, I still had hope that one day, we would see him again and he would come back to our family.

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"So what kind of party is this again?" I asked Luna. I was sitting on her bed, getting ready for a party that she had invited me to that night. We'd been out of school for two weeks, and I was bored at home. I wrote to Luna, seeing what she was up to, and she had owled me back, inviting me to a party that some people she knew in London were having.

"Just a party, I think. Cho was excited because her quidditch team made the World Cup semi-finals."

The World Cup was going to be held in Wales this year, and I was hoping that Ron was going to be able to get tickets through his work. He was working in the accounting department for the Canons. I didn't really like Cho Chang very much, we just didn't get along, but Luna said that it was going to be a huge party, and so I probably wouldn't have to see Cho anyway.

"Cool. I didn't know Cho was playing quidditch."

"Oh yeah, she's a backup for England."

"Huh, I thought she kind of sucked when I played against her in my fourth year."

Luna laughed. "I dunno, maybe she does. But she's really nice, I don't see why you don't like her."

I looked in the mirror and put on some make up. "Hmm. Well, we'll see."

"Luna, Ginny," Mr. Lovegood yelled from the living room. Luna and her dad lived in a relatively small apartment, so it wasn't necessary for him to yell. "Colin's here."

"Hey, how'd that go anyway?" I asked as we quickly put on our shoes.

"You mean him meeting daddy? Fine, he really likes Colin. Which is good for me, I suppose."

We went into the living room, said our goodbyes to Mr. Lovegood, and apparated to London.

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"Wow, that's really loud music," I said as we walked up to Cho's house. She and her two sisters owned a house near Diagon Alley.

"Then it's going to be an excellent party!" Colin yelled. We went into the house and were immediately overcome with the sight that met us. Over a hundred people were at the party. A guy with a four foot afro was the DJ, and as we walked into the house, we passed a few guys doing a beer bong and a couple making out on the floor.

I turned to ask Colin if he knew what song was playing, but he and Luna had made their way over to the table and were getting some drinks. Firewhiskey, from the look of it. He was going to have a fun night tonight. Luna gets hyper when she drinks. Me, I don't really like the taste of alcohol, so I was always the sober one whenever we snuck out of the castle to go to parties in Hogsmeade.

I wandered around for awhile, running into people that I knew.

"Ginny!" Seamus yelled over the music. I walked over to him and saw him on the couch next to Susan Bones. Seamus was in Gryffindor with me, and Susan and I were in the Charms club together.

"Hey, Seamus, Susan," I greeted. "How goes it?"

"We're engaged!" Susan said happily as she tried to scoot away from a guy who had decided to dance on the back of the couch.

"Oh my god!" I shrieked. "Congratulations! When did this happen?"

"Back in February!" Susan replied. "We're getting married in a month. You will come, won't you?"

"Of course! Just send me an invitation!"

Seamus grinned. "We will, don't worry!"

I left them on the couch because they had started making out, and walked around some more. I needed to go to the bathroom, so I opened a door that I assumed would lead to the bathroom, and saw the event that changed my life.

Percy and Cho were on a bed, snorting cocaine. Percy and Cho then stopped, and Percy crawled on top of her. They started to kiss passionately.

I closed the door quietly, tears pouring down my face. My brother, the one I had so much faith in, was doing drugs and probably sleeping with that whore Cho Chang. I walked back out to the living room where the drinks were.

"Ginny, what are you doing here?" Ron yelled.

I pushed him away. "Leave me alone!" I yelled. I walked over to a table, grabbed a bottle, and drank out of it. Firewhiskey. I grimaced.

"There's nothing left in this!" I yelled when I went to take another sip. Zacharias Smith turned around.

"You want a drink?" he asked.

I nodded my head. He gave me a drink and I gulped it down. It tasted like vodka.

"More!" I yelled. He grabbed the bottle and gave me more to drink. One cup turned into four, and I very quickly became drunk.

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A/N: Okay, third time's the charm-I hope. First off, please leave a review! One review would make me really happy. This story is posted at another site, but this version is better (excluding the line breaks which I don't know how to do) because I've edited it and added a few things. My last note is that I really hope you guys like my story, and things will get tumultuous for Ginny in future chapters!