Chapter 4

Promise

Here's something you probably never knew about Harry Potter: He can run really fast. By the time I turned the corner, he was already out of sight, so I trusted my instinct to find him which I did…after about a half hour of searching, this castle is just too big!

Anyway, I found him out by Hargrid's Cottage. He was sitting under this tree staring into space fingering his pants pocket for some reason. I walked over cautiously as I didn't want to scare him away. I stood in front of him but he gave no sign that he knew I was there. I coughed, but he didn't look up. I asked softly if I could sit down, again nothing. I considered just leaving him alone briefly, but I had just spent 30 minutes trying to find him and was exhausted and I did not want that to be all for nothing, so even though he never actually gave me permission to, I sat down next to him. He still wouldn't acknowledge me in any way, but he didn't try and get me to leave either, so I stayed.

It was probably about ten minutes before he said anything, but what he did say was the last thing I ever expected him to say.

"Did you love him?" he asked.

I looked up at him, surprised and happy he had finally spoken, but unsure of how to answer his question.

"You mean Matt?" I asked stupidly, for lack of anything else to say.

"Yeah him, did you love him?" He reiterated.

"Well…" I began, but then I stop, because I honestly didn't know the answer. I always thought I loved Matt; he seemed to love me to. But maybe he didn't, maybe he was just playing me all along. "Well…"

"Well what?" Harry asked.

"Well, I don't know, I thought I did, I'm just not sure." I answered finally.

Harry sighed and stared in front of him, "Me neither, I mean, part of me wants to go and kill that guy and part of me wants to go and scream at Ginny for a while, and then dump her, I guess we're in the same boat huh?"

"You're telling me" I muttered just loud enough for him to hear.

"Can I show you something?" He asked me suddenly.

"Uh…I guess" I answered.

He reached into the pocket I saw him fingering before and pulled out a small velvet box. He placed it in my hand, "Open it" he urged.

I looked at him, then at the box in my hand. It wasn't very big, and it looked like a jewelry box. I opened it slowly and gasped. Inside was the most beautiful ring I had ever seen. It had a silver band with three red jewels in the middle which seems to gleam with a kind of supernatural glow. All and all, it was definitely something that had cost a pretty penny, and made me believe that Harry had been really serious about Ginny if he was going to give her something like this. "It's beautiful" I said.

"Yeah, I know." Harry said sadly, "That's the reason I was looking for Ginny before, I was going to give it to her, it's a promise ring see. I was going to promise to marry her someday, and give all the wonderful things she deserved."

I felt really bad for Harry then, so bad in fact that I decided not to tell him what I thought Ginny deserved. I just put my hand on his shoulder and tried my best to sound comforting. "Well…at least you didn't get a chance to give it to her right, I mean, after all this, I'm sure that you won't."

"That's for sure" Harry said, and I could hear a trace of bitterness in his voice, and I couldn't say I blamed him for it.

"And I don't know about you, but I am dumping Matt tomorrow, stupid asshole, calling me a tease…" I trailed off, I was getting myself too angry now.

"You aren't a tease" He said.

"Thanks" I said, "so what about you, you going to dump Ginny?"

"Absolutely" Harry answered, "But not yet."

"What do you mean not yet?" I asked confused.

"I mean, I am going to break up with her, but I'm also going to get back at her for trying to use me like that, stupid bitch." He spat.

Okay, I know at that point I didn't know Harry all that well, but from what I did know, that was definitely very Un-Harry Potter like. "What do you mean?" I asked cautiously.

"I mean that I'm not going to let her get away with this, she hurt me, so I'll hurt her back." He responded "Come on Alexis, are you going to sit there and tell me that you honestly don't want to get back at Matt for what he's done to you?"

"What are you proposing?" I asked.

"I think that if we work together, we can get back at those two for doing this, it's not like they don't deserve it, I mean, you thought that he loved you and I thought Ginny was my perfect match, but now we both see that it was all a lie, tell what you would rather have happen, Matt dumps you in front of everyone, or you dump him in front of everyone."

I listened to his whole tirade in complete silence, my head tilted upward a little and resting against the tree bark as I thought about what he had said. He obviously had thought Ginny was the one if he was going to give her that ring and promise to marry her one day. Then I thought about what Matt said 'A stupid tease' he called me. How dare he say that, just because I didn't feel comfortable with the idea of having sex this early in my life didn't make me a tease. And he actually was going to dump her in front of the school, so not only was he cheating on me, he was planning on destroying any future relationship I might one day have. And then there's that little slut Ginny, how could she use someone like that, how heartless was this girl, and to think I was once happy for them, thinking back I couldn't believe that I was. Of course, I was only happy about it because it pissed Romilda off but that was beside the point. Harry had thought that Ginny loved him for him that was easy to see. But Ginny, as it turns out, she didn't love him for his him oh no, she loved him for his bank account.

The more I thought the angrier I got, and the angrier I got, the more appealing Harry's offer seemed. What would I prefer have happen' he asked me, did I prefer Matt dumping me, or me dumping Matt? Well, the answer of course was obvious.

"I'm with you Harry" I said grinning for the first time in a week.

He smiled back and held out his hand for me to shake, which I took without any hesitation at all and we shook.

Matt Taylor and Ginny Weasley were going down.

A/N: I apologize for the shortness of this chapter, the next one will be longer. And if you think that Harry was a bit OOC in this chapter, don't forget that he just found out his 'beloved' girlfriend is nothing more than a lying, cheating, stupid, slutty, bitchy gold digger, so of course he's going to be pretty angry right? Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and don't forget to review! See ya next chap!