Chapter 4
A few weeks later Harry and Ginny found themselves struggling to find time for the other what with Harry's birthday coming up in a few days. All the Weasley's were busy with errands to run for the party, they decided to throw him one this year as they weren't able to last year when Voldemort was out there. Breakfast was the only time in the day they got to speak to each other, as Ginny was never home before dinner anymore because of all the things she was preparing and because Ginny's nightmares had stopped, they were no longer sharing a bed. The only interaction they got was a "Can you pass me the salt?" or "Morning." Not having much time for each other put a lot of strain on their relationship but it did mean that Harry could now spend time with his best mate.
Harry's birthday finally came. Ginny woke up at around 6 that day, she reached under her bed to retrieve her present for Harry, a penknife with his name engraved into it, she then carefully wrapped it and went into the bathroom to have a shower. Ginny was excited about the day, she had a lot of things planned as they had not spent that much time together over the last few weeks. Whilst Ginny was showering her thoughts kept drifting to Harry and his perfect body. Once Ginny was showered she walked into her room and changed into a simple white t-shirt and blue jeans. Ginny started cooking breakfast for Harry and her, waffles. In the mean time all of her family and Hermione had eaten and disappeared to go finish the rest of the birthday arrangements. Ginny put two plates of waffles and two glasses of orange juice on a tray along with her present for Harry. She walked up the stairs with so much spring in her step that she almost bumped into Harry's door. Ginny turned the handle and stepped inside, she found harry propped up in bed reading a book. "You're awake!" Ginny said, obviously surprised.
"Are those for me ?" He asked hungrily, Ginny walked to the bed and placed the tray on the end of his bed and passed him one of the glasses of orange juice, which he put on his bedside table, and a plate of waffles. they both sat there eating their breakfast in silence, things were slightly awkward between them as they haven't said as much as two sentences to each other for a few weeks. Ginny then decided to break the silence, "I have a lot of things planned today!"
"Of course you do"
"What's that supposed to mean!" she said defensively, she was hurt by his response.
"Nothing" he said trying to not make his hole any deeper.
"You wouldn't say it if it didn't mean something!" she replied angrily.
"HONESTLY, IT MEANT NOTHING!" he shouted, not wanting to get into that convocation.
"YOU TELL ME WHAT IT MEANT POTTER!"
"NO!"
"TELL ME NOW!"
"FINE, YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY I SAID WHAT I DID GINNY. YOU HAVENT SAID THREE WORDS TO ME OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS THEN JUST WALK ON IN LIKE NOTHING HAS CHANGED" Both their faces were now burning red and they were stood either side of Harry's bed.
"NOTHING HAS CHANGED" Ginny shrieked
"MAYBE NOT FOR YOU BUT IT HAS FOR ME BECAUSE YOUR'E NOT THE PERSON I THOUGHT YOU WERE!" At this Ginny stormed out of Harry's room, slamming the door behind her. Once she had done this she immediately regretted it, she slid down Harry's door whilst Harry did the same but on the other side. Ginny felt tears rolling down her face and before long she was balling her eyes out, her knees were tucked under her chin with her arms around them. She heard a 'crack' from behind her and thought "Harry must have apparated somewhere to get away from me and this place"
Just a short while later Ginny realised she had left Harry's present on his bed so she retrieved it and walked down to her room passing the bathroom as she went, she heard the shower running and stopped wondering who it could be because, as far as she knew everyone was out. She voiced her question, "Who's in there?".
"Harry" came a voice back. Ginny's heart stopped, "he had only apparated to get to the bathroom, not run away"
"Okay," she said through gritted teeth. Harry sensed that she wasn't okay so he turned of the shower and wrapped a towel over his lower half. He stepped outside only to find Ginny gone, he looked down, a note had been scribbled before she left.
Harry,
I'm sorry I had so much planned, It was only because we're not going to have much free time again until we go back to school, I wanted to make today special. Due to what you said earlier, I don't think this is working right now so can we just forget anything ever happened between us.
Yours truly,
Ginny xx
Harry had trouble understanding some of the words and there were wet splodges all over the paper, Harry suspected that she had been crying. Harry re-read the letter a few times until the words sunk in, he ran down to Ginny's room and knocked on the door frantically, there was no answer so he just walked in, she was gone. Harry scribbled on the back of Ginny's note:
Ginny,
You're the best thing that's ever happened to me, please forgive me. I'm going to forget what it says on the other side of the note.
All my love,
Harry xx
He then left the note on her pillow and left her room to shower. As he was showering his vision went blurry, he was crying, he longed for Ginny to be with him, to hold her.