Punnet Squares
By: SingingShooter
Authors Note: I do not own Harry Potter; I just play with the characters.
Chapter 4: Oh Dear!
"LUNA!" called out Ginny.
"Yes Ginny." She replied.
"Have you seen Hermione at all this week?"
"No I have not," said Luna. "I think she said something about the stomach flu or something." When Luna said that Ginny caught the whiff of the Hospital coffee and food,
She ran to the bathroom to throw up again, Luna caught up to her and said "you should go home Ginny you have been sick to this week and it will only get worse."
"But I can't use up all my sick days; I have only been working here for almost a month." A month…that reminded her of something, but what was it? "Crap!" said Ginny.
"What is it Ginny?" asked Luna
"Ron's party is to day! That might be why Hermione has been out, she has been preparing for the party, and I'm going to swing by on my way home." Ginny looked at the clock, "I am going to go check on Kyle and then check up on Hermione."
"Okay Ginny." Said Luna, Ginny quickly checked herself and fast walked down to Kyle's room.
"Hey Kyle!" stopping in her tracks, there was Malfoy going over the charts.
"You are late Weasley," said Malfoy, Ginny looked at the clock, 'crap I'm five minutes late!'
"I hear you are not fairing well,"
"Well I-" she was about to say fine when she smelled the hospital food again, she grabbed the garbage can and threw up.
"Weasley you are sick, you will get everyone sick, or sicker than they already are, now leave." Malfoy said curtly. Realizing there was no way that Malfoy would let her stay she put the trash can down and turned to leave.
"She has got to take care of them." Said Kyle but when Ginny turned to ask him what he meant but he was asleep.
"Weasley go home." Came Malfoy's firm curt voice, "And do not come back until you are well." Ginny left the room, winding down hallways and stairs and made it to the parking lot; she unlocked the door to her car and got in.
'What did he mean "She has got to take care of them"?' Kyle's voice ran threw her mind as she arrived at Hermione's house. Stepping out of the car she locked it and made her way up the stairs. She knocked on the door and waited for Hermione to come to the door. No one. She turned and saw Hermione's car in the driveway, so she was home. She knocked again and this time the sound of feet on a wood floor came and opened the door. What Ginny saw was not what she was expecting.
It was Hermione but she looked, different. She wore plaid pajama bottoms and a tank-top, her hair was in a messy ponytail and a faint stench of barf came threw.
"Ginny thank goodness I need you to do something for me, okay well not for me but with me please!" said Hermione, sounding desperate.
"Hermione let me in then we can talk, alright." Ginny said calmly. Hermione led her into the house turned and locked her door and brought her up to the bed room floor.
"Okay Hermione start from the beginning," said Ginny.
It did not help. Hermione instantly started sobbing and all Ginny could make out was 'late', 'CVS', 'tests', and 'scared'.
"Okay Hermione calm down, take a few deep breaths." Hermione did as she was told. It almost made Ginny cry seeing someone she would consider a friend so torn up about something.
Breathing again Hermione managed to calm herself down. "Okay." She said. "Ginny I'm late." Ginny really could not believe what she was hearing.
"As in period late?" said Ginny. Hermione managed a weak nod. "I didn't think you and Ron where-"
"We are not, Ron hardly even kisses me, that is why I am so confused." Ginny took a moment and then went on.
"What is this about CVS?" asked Ginny. "God you didn't have sex with that guy that works at CVS! What is his name Neville?"
Hermione managed a weak chuckle, "No, I got some pregnancy tests from CVS,"
"Have you taken it yet?" asked Ginny.
"No I keep trying but I just can't, I bought two incase the first was faulty but Ginny," Ginny had a feeling she knew what Hermione was going to ask her. "Could you take it with me?" with how pathetic Hermione looked…
"Yeah sure Hermione." said Ginny, 'what it isn't like I'm going to be pregnant!' thought Ginny. "We will just have to make sure we have a label or something so that they don't get mixed up."
"Alright now we have to wait fifteen minutes." Read Hermione. Placing her test down on the napkin that said 'Hermione', Ginny put hers down on the one that said 'Ginny' they set the timer and set it on the counter behind the tests.
"Now to kill some time." Said Ginny as they turned out of the master bathroom into the master bedroom, Hermione just sat down on the bed and curled up into a ball. Ginny took the side next to her. A few minutes went by, silent minutes, Ginny was restless, she was not pregnant, and there was no way, so she ventured a comment.
"You know that spot by the dresser?" Ginny said.
"Yeah," said Hermione
"That will be perfect for the baby's cradle." Hermione grabbed her pillow and hit Ginny with it.
"This is not funny Ginny," Hermione managed to get out threw giggles. Then came a cough and she threw up in a trash can near by. Managing to spit the rest of it out she walked up and walked into the bathroom and gargled. She walked in and sat back down on the bed.
"Results come up yet?" asked Ginny.
"We have another ten or so minutes." Said Hermione.
"How will your family react if you are pregnant?" Ginny asked.
"Ha my parents are probably going to freak out," said Hermione, "but it would mostly be because the wedding did not come first."
"Yeah, I could see my parents doing the same thing it this happened to me," said Ginny. Then Ginny felt another stomach ache coming
"Excuse me while I go throw up again," Ginny said.
"What do you have?" asked Hermione.
"I think it is the stomach flu," said Ginny
"Are you sure about that Ginny?" asked Hermione. "Because that is what I though I had but then-" the sounds off throwing up came form the bath room. "But then I started craving foods, and some foods made me nauseous."
Ginny threw up again, and she took what Hermione said and thought about it. That was true; she had had a strange craving for sushi on Monday around midnight and had eaten some that she had taken after her date with Harry. And now a strawberry pineapple smoothie sounded really good. Then as she thought about it,
"Shit!" said Ginny, she had been so preoccupied with her job she had not realized that she to had not had her period. "Shit!"
DING DING DING went the timer.
'Okay the moment of truth.' Ginny thought. Washing her mouth out her went over to the far corner cabinet and stopped the timer and looked at the results. Hermione came into the bathroom.
"I don't think I can look," said Hermione but she came over anyway.
"So which one is mine?" she asked.
"It does not matter Hermione," said Ginny
"Why Ginny?" said Hermione.
"Because they are both positive." Ginny said picking up the pregnancy tests she held them up, and so indeed they both read as clear as anything:
Pregnant
