The next day, classes resumed. Every student was back at Hogwarts & depression floated through the hallways since the holidays were over. Ginny woke that day feeling exhausted. She barely slept a wink. She was up, tossing & turning thinking about Harry. She couldn't believe what he said last night or how sincere he looked while he said it. A part of her wanted him still but another part of her knew better. She was having an internal struggle with her mixed feelings for Harry & her feelings for Dean.
Time was running out, she needed to get to Charms with the other fifth years before Flitwick gave her extra homework for being late. She took a quick shower, dressed & dashed out of the portrait.. When she reached Charms, Dean was waiting for her. He normally did this to get a morning kiss. Instead of the feeling happy to see him as she usually was, she groaned.
"Hi Sweetheart" Dean said, kissing Ginny on the lips. "I missed you."
"Oh, I missed you too" said Ginny, feeling guilty. She did miss him but after last night with Harry, she was dreading seeing him.
"I'm going to be late so let's catch up later" Ginny said, rushing past him to get into class. He held her back.
"Is everything okay?" he asked.
"Yeah, fine fine. See you later" she said.
Whew, she didn't know what to say or if she should say anything to him at all. All of Charms, Ginny was trying to figure out what to do & how to make sense of things. By the end of class, she decided that she didn't have to do anything. Harry probably wasn't really serious or realized that she was not going to choose him over Dean. She was just probably blowing the whole thing out of proportion. Yes, that was it, she told herself. How wrong she was.
Once Ginny came to this conclusion, she glanced around & realized she was the last one left in the classroom. Her next class was Herbology & that didn't start until for another forty-five minutes. She was about to leave the classroom with she heard the door open. Harry stepped him. He came alone.
"Hey Ginny" Harry said.
"Hi Harry!" she said, inwardly groaning for replying so loud. "Is this your next class?"
"No, I have a free period. I came to see you" said Harry. "Have you thought about what I said last night?"
"Well, yes I have" Ginny said. She thought he would drop this so she didn't have anything prepared to say. She decided on just telling the truth.
"Look Harry, I'm with Dean now. I don't want to hurt him so nothing can happen between us" she said.
He smirked. "That's interesting. In those whole two sentences I didn't hear you say anything about not wanting me back."
'Well I…" Ginny started but before she could finish, Harry closed the gap between them, grabbed Ginny around the waist & kissed her. It wasn't some little peck, it was a full blown, tongue in the mouth kiss. Ginny was surprised. At first her hands were at her sides but by the middle to end of the kiss, her arms were around his neck, one hand clawing into his hair & one his hands were grabbing her ass. He was the first to pull away.
"Don't bother finishing whatever you were going to say, it's pretty clear that you want me too. I just came here to tell you that I'm not backing down. I'm not asking you to break up with Dean" Harry said.
"Then what do you want?" Ginny asked, her mind was in a daze & her body was tingling like never before.
"I've already told you. You" he said simply.
"But what does that entail?" Ginny probed.
"Whatever you want" he said then he said kissed her again but this time just a simple peck on the lips. He then left.
Ginny stood there for quite some time, reexamining everything that just transpired. She just had one thought in mind. "Wtf?"