Hola! Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. And if you're not a fellow American, I will let you borrow mine. Don't worry, it was a nice holiday you have now had. No, this doesn't make sense to me either, but I enjoy it anyways.

Finals are on their way, so this chapter might be it for a bit of time before I can get back on this. Hope you enjoy, also, very glad to have you read this far. Means the world to me, in all honesty.

Why do I listen to my friends? Why? Why can't I have good sense and make my own decisions? This is a terribly awkward place to be.

"Did I tell you how beautiful you look tonight?"

Three times now.

"You mentioned it," Ginny smiled, coyly, trying not to make it obvious she was completely nervous about what she had to confess.

Upon hearing the story of Chris and his awesome dog from Teddy, Nikki had been adamant that Ginny went out while she still could.

"You think you're going to date while you're a single mom? Go! Go out, have fun! Teddy and I will catch a movie or something while you're out." she had insisted.

Sure enough, Chris had called the that day, and the here she was now, the very next day, uncomfortable in heels she had designed herself, pretending that the Italian food wasn't making her nauseated.

"Chris, look," Ginny started, hoping that what she would say this delicately enough that it wouldn't freak the guy out completely, but clearly enough that this date would come to an complete and total end.

"Oh, boy." Chris breathed out, "This is bad."

"Yeah, a little, but not really for you…"

"Now I'm interested."

"Is that sarcasm?"

"Only if you find sarcasm to be first date appropriate."

"I don't know, it didn't seem too bad…wait, I was saying something."

"You were telling me something that started with 'Chris, look,' but doesn't really affect me."

"Right, right. Chris, look, I'm a bit, okay, quite, pregnant…and obviously it's not yours…so…" Ginny trailed off, trying to gauge his reaction. She winced slightly as he let his jaw fall slack, obviously shocked, then took a deep breath.

"Ginny, that's…" Here we go. Well, might as well get my purse now, "Amazing."

"Amazingly bad?" Ginny asked, taken by surprise. Really, if the guy who got her into trouble wasn't having this great of a time, why would the guy who she was having her first date with be pleased?

"Amazingly amazing. I was going to save my announcement for the third date, but since we're confessing, I'll take part in the confessing, uh, I hope you understood that, but I'm divorced. My wife decided she didn't want to have kids and left me, and all I want is a family."

Ginny stared at the guy, now that she was looking, really looking, there were lines around his eyes, he was older than she had suspected. He was at a family age, a responsible age. He was father material.

"That's--wow. That's just…wow." Ginny breathed out. She was in a fancy restaurant being treated by a handsome guy who not only liked kids but wanted them, and wasn't freaking out about her being pregnant.

"Are you serious?" she asked, just to be sure this was really happening.

"I don't want to freak you out, but after meeting you and spending this short amount of time together, I know that any child you have will be entertaining to say the least." he responded with a wink.

I--I feel all jittery inside, and I'm not even about to vomit. I have a crush!

"Have you always been this charming?" Ginny questioned, more serious than most people would be in her situation.

"No, it took years of practice." Chris responded solemnly, "Before I perfected it I was merely seen as whimsical."

"Oh, how awful." Ginny said, shaking her head slowly.

"I have since recovered, thankfully."

"Thank Merlin." Ginny managed to get half way through the word Merlin before falling into a fit of giggles. She hadn't really wanted to go on this date, but now that she was actually out and about, thanks to Nikki and her threatening to teach Teddy how to belch the ABCs, she was actually enjoying herself.

As the date went on they walked around the park, talking and laughing. He had been a Gryffindor, too, but closer to Bill's age than her own. He had two older brothers, so they traded stories for a bit, comparing tales of torture. They avoided tales of exes after Ginny confessed that while she wasn't divorced, she did come very close to getting married. Chris loved the fact that she ran her own business, he was an executive for a company that sold cauldrons himself, something he assured her was just as dull as it sounded.

"I hate to say I do it for the money," he explained.

"But…" Ginny encouraged, smiling up at him as they walked.

"It's an awful lot of money…and I get to be in charge of people! Boss them around and make them feel obligated to talk to me at holiday parties."

They talked about their pets, Ginny explained how her cat Julio was not only completely insane but a bit mean, too. She couldn't help but crack up at the story of when the kitty had attacked Harry in his sleep while he overtook her couch, causing him to fall over the back of the couch from jumping in his sleep.

Chris responded with the story of the first time he brought his dog, Rufus, home for the first time. His ex was surprised the first time he barked, it was freakishly deep even as a puppy, that she jumped onto a chair and then fell right off, straight onto her butt.

The two walked for so long that they didn't realize how late it was until the local teenagers came out to graffiti the park they were in.

"My goodness, it's well past one." Chris had remarked, looking at his watch.

"That does explain my exhaustion." Ginny responded, yawning. "I can't really seem to stay up late, thanks to the bump I've got going on."

"I can only imagine. I don't suppose this first date has been so third date like that it wouldn't be totally inappropriate for me to invite you over to my place for drinks? Juice?"

"Oh, as much as it would be nice, and I don't exactly have to worry about getting any pregnant-er, Teddy's still staying with me, and he would be traumatized to see me come in in the morning. Poor guy's not taking my break up with his godfather very well as it is, don't really need him having another melt down."

"Another?"

"There was sugar involved in the last one, didn't end so well."

"Gotcha. Well, then I believe it is time for me to walk you home. We could go the magical route, but that would not take nearly long enough and I am not looking forward to the end of this date as it is, so I'm going to make it last as long as possible."

Ginny just giggled, not feeling pregnant at all and enjoying her time being adored by someone who didn't start a fight with her every chance he got. Dating Chris was not what she expected at all, she had thought it'd be strange, that he'd get up and leave at the mere mention of the bun in her oven, instead he seemed kind of excited. It was sweet, made her feel more normal.

As soon as she stepped through her door step, saying goodnight on the stoop with a small, first date appropriate kiss that killed her a little as she really, really wanted to bring him upstairs, Teddy be damned, she had behaved, she let out a content sight.

"So I take it it went well, then?" Nikki asked from where she was sitting in the kitchen. Teddy was knocked out on the couch again, this time from Nikki having him run around a park "playing" a game where she didn't leave the bench.

"It was amazing! He is just so…I don't know! He's great, I told him about the thing in my uterus, and he told me how much he wanted kids. It wasn't at all like I expected, I was hoping he'd be tripping over himself to get away from me, but instead he was so charming." Ginny gushed, feeling like she was back at Hogwarts going on about her latest boyfriend.

"Wow, that's…not what I expected at all. How do you do it, Gin? Attract guys who are either super sweet, super famous, or just all around what you need at the moment?" Nikki questioned, only half serious.

"It's a gift, I tell, a gift." Ginny grinned, rolling her eyes slightly. Nikki had been there before she and Sonny had gotten together, when she went through a slue of guys who were missing a few crucial qualities, such as kindness. "How was your night? What was it like being a babysitter in England? Drastically different than the states?"

"We saw a movie about a pig. Who talked. Quite American. And then I made him run around a park. Just like the states."

"Are you crashing here tonight?" Ginny asked her friend, slightly distracted at this point.

"Well, I am still homeless, so it'd probably be for the best. Since your couch is taken I was planning on crawling into your bed while you slept anyways."

"I won't even make you sneak if you hold back my hair while I go puke for awhile. It seems that the good feeling I got from the date have worn off and the feeling of being pregnant are back in full force."

"That is so gross."

"Thanks, you make me feel so pretty."

"Aw, Gin, you're pretty. Even when you puke. Okay, that was a lie, not when you puke. I think I liked this whole holding your hair back deal when you had the alcohol problem." Nikki chattered as she followed her friend to the bathroom.

"I think I liked being drunk better than bloated, too."

"When you were drunk you were funny, a real laugh. Crawled out of windows a lot, too."

"I don't remember that."

"No, don't suppose you would. The last window was on the second floor…"