The water was refreshing, her body had so craved to be cleansed after everything that had happened. She was looking forward to a day a lounging on the sofa letting Hermione run her finger through her red mane as she pretended to concentrate on her homework. She was disappointed when she stepped into her dorm room however, and she found not Hermione but a little crane flying sheet of paper pecking at her to be read. She sighed frustratedly, a chill moving down her spine that she couldn't decide weither it was from the inpending letter or her hair being wet and it being even colder in her dorm.

Dear Ginny

Don't worry I'v not run off, I've simply got some things i need to attend to.

Know that everything I've told you is true, that my heart is yours and always will be.

You'll see me tonight I promise.

Sincerly, Hermione.

Ginny was smiling as she brought the bit of parchment up to her lips, and placed a gentle kiss to the scrawled lettering. Outside the world seemed to beckon to her, brightly colored leaves fell to the dew covered grass in waves of orange, red and yellow, the wind hummed a seductive lulluby that Ginny could simply not ignore. She grabbed her robs and broom, making a what she hoped would be a fast journey to the quidditch pitch. The sun was setting, and the light that was cast on the forbidden forest seemed to make come to life in a blaze of engery. She was happy the she wasn't stopped by some annoyance, as things had a way of going for the poor girl. She stopped at the entrance to the pitch a small smile making its way to her lips, she loved to fly, to play quidditch, the thrill that open sky provided for her. Her hand skimmed across the worn wooden beams of one of the towering stands, a pleasent sigh escaping her as she finally stood in the center of the pitch, flicking her sunglasses on, she much prefered wearing her shades rather then some bothersome pair of goggles.

She asended into the air, the worn wood of her broom in her hand, the cooling wind rustling through her hair as it did with the trees. When she was up high above the ground, she felt more then at peace, she felt as if she was one with earth, with the sky, as if she was one of her brother Charlie's dragons, unhindered by the world underneath. As she circled around the pitch her mind wandered to Hermione, to the future, Hermione would be graduating soon, she would leave and then Ginny would be on her own again. She supposed that she could handle it, Hermione was her's now, surely they could live a happy existence with each other. Or so Ginny hoped, still the future was shakey, and Ginny wanted to desperatly to make it stable. She would make Hermione happy, happier then she ever had been, Ginny was sure of it. Ginny had been lost in her own mind that she nearly had fallen off her broom when a paper crane crashed into the side of her face.

Ginny turned her broom around, ready to teach the annoying person who had brought her out of her deep thoughts, and then sighed once she recoganized the bobbing blonde head sitting in one of the Ravenclaw bleachers. She flew over, her anger leaving her, that happend with Luna, Ginny could simply not stay made at the loopy girl. "Well its about time, I was calling your name in this biting cold for twenty minutes," Luna said, her mouth and her nose concealed behind her blue scarf, "Sorry, you know how I get sometimes.." Ginny said flopping down next to her best friend. The two girls sat back, Ginny instinctivly wraped one arm around Luna, it was a habit she had whenever they were alone. The two of them were just so comfortable with each other that actions like that were never taken to seriously. They gazed up at the inking sky, the stars opening their own sleepy eyes to cast down at the rest of existance. "So, you and Hermione make it offical yet?" Luna asked out of the blue, the questioned startled Ginny, because she hadn't even told herself that it was offical, "how do you..nope I decided long ago that I don't want to know how you know what you know." A sigh escaped her, her eyes cast up at the sky once more "not yet but it's getting there."

Ginny felt Luna's hand ontop of her head, which made a slow smile cross her lips "you'll be fine muppet," They both enjoyed each others company, Luna always had a way about her that made Ginny calm, she supposed that was a good thing considering how tense she always was. Then a light bulb went off in Ginny head, "Oh shit, I totally forgot I was supposed to meet Hermione, I'll see you tomorrow Luna!" She took a running leap off the tall Ravenclaw bleachers and nose dived, the thrill normally would have given her an adreneline rush, but she was too worried about how angry Hermione was going to be. Which brought her back to the letter, 'what did Hermione have to do that she rushed out so quickly.'

The moment Hermione walked down the stair well to the girls dormatory, she had a purpose in her step. She knew Ron would most likely be steaped into a game of wizard chess with Harry. She was still a little anxiouse about telling him, but it was something that just needed to be done. She saw them, sitting by the fire place, Harry with his brow nit together in overt concentration while trying and failing to stop Ron's awnslaute. She walked up behind him just as Ron's knight bashed in the kings white face declairing chessmate. She rested her hand tenderly on his shoulder, her eyes cloaked by firelight. "Ronald, can we go for a walk?" She stated more then asked as he rose "Sure, aye mate sorry but I'm going to have to leave ya for a bit, don't go eating all those chocolate frogs!" Hermione half snorted, Harry couldn't even make it past one frog, let alone five. Ron grabbed her hand, and she let him, his hand was warm and sweaty and rough. It was something she had grown used to feeling, but now her mind craved for another sensation to touch her.

They walked along the garden, and Hermione stopped under one of the many swaying trees, looking down slightly as she spoke "Ron..we can't be together anymore." Hermione was trying to be straight to the point, she would hurt him no matter which way she went about it. Her let go of her hand suddenly a small gulping sound coming from the tall boy infront of her. "What! Why! Is it someone else?" Ron's voice was starting to sound close to shrieky, as a more then hurt look crossed his eyes. "In a way..yes.." Hermione said, her voice just above a whisper as she dared look up at him. His face had changed, his eyes seemed darker, and his lips were curling into a deep snarl. "Who the hell is so I can go and beat his face in!" Ron was yelling now, and it took everything Hermione had to keep cool and not bop him one in the head, she never liked being yelled at. "I can't tell you right now Ron, your getting to worked up," She didn't trust Ron if she told him that it was his own sister that she had fallen for. Ron may not have been very good when it came to magic, But with his height and muscle he could hurt Ginny. "It's over Ron, just deal with it and move on," as Hermione turned to leave she felt a hard grinp on her arm pulling her back to face her now angrier ex boyfriend "don't just walk away from me! Who the bloody hell is it!" The grip on Hermiones arm grew tighter, and she knew it was going to bruise, and she wasn't about to have any of that. Her free arm swung straight out infront her, colliding with Ron's eye, which sent him sprawling back onto the grass. "It's Ginny Ronald, I'm in love with your sister and there's nothing you can do to change it." With that she turned on her heal and headed off back into the corridors, silently checking off in her mind one of two things she meant to do that day.

Hermione didn't really know where she was heading in the corridors, but she knew her best bet at finding Pavarti would be the Room of Requirement, where she had seen Pavarti throwing Ginny and many other girls either out of or into. Her hand hurt and she was getting irritated, until finally she stummbled upon the Room of Requirment, and a certain some stummbling out of it. She didn't recoganize the small frail looking Slytherin girl, she did notice that the girl was pale, and bruised, and her robes were rummpled as her small form scammpered to her feet, running away into the nearest corridor. Hermione made her presence known when Pavarti stepped out, dusting off her neat robes, a sinister smirk on her face. "Pavarti!" Hermione pinned the other girl against the now plain walled corridor wall. "Leave Ginny alone, I know what your doing, and if you touch her again, I'll take you straight to the headmaster." Her grip tightend on the still smirking Pavarti who hadn't said anything "no matter what you may think your going to do Mudblood, the truth is, Ginny will always come back to me, I'm apart of the darker side that lives in Ginny's heart, so take me to the headmaster, I assure you it still won't change anything." Pavarti's hand came up and Hermione tensed, but the other girl simply pushed Hermione off her."I'll leave Ginny alone for now, but just to prove a point, I hope you enjoy her while it lasts, and trust me, it won't last long." With that Pavarti made her exit, and left a very perplexed Hermione standing in her wake.

Ginny was propped against her window sill, looking out into the now starlite sky. The Womping Willow could be seen from her window, and the sight of the ancient tree set against the back drop of the full moon always took her breath away. It was a haunting beauty, a beauty that was dangerous to anyone who got to close. A sigh escaped her, she guessed she had been like, or so everyone said, but it was only because her heart had always belonged to one person, everyone else was a mild distraction. She had gotten back to the dorm before Hermione had, which surprised her some, had Hermione gotten frightend and was too afraid to approach Ginny after everything that had happend. She was so consumed with her thoughts that she didn't hear the door open, she only tensed when she felt the familiar warm embrace of Hermione, and a small content sigh escaped her lips. "I thought you weren't going to show for a moment," Ginny said, just below a whisper. She turned to face Hermione, a new smile splayed on her lips as she leaned in to capture the older girls lips with her own. It felt so good to finally steal a kiss from Hermione with no drama attached to it.

Hermione's lips felt heavenly, her touch was enticing yet gentle at the same time. As they pulled back, Ginny scanned Hermione, and noticed the dark mark around her wrist and frowned "What happend?" Ginny led the other to her bed where she took out a small healing kit from her her night table, removing the healing cream she had made for those more brutal quidditch matches and wrappings. Ginny went to work, wating for Hermione to begin, frowing more when she noticed the other girl flinching. "I broke it off with Ron...he got angry, he grabbed me and I punched him and then told him that I'm in love with his sister." Hermione blushed as she said the last part, Ginny's head shooting up from her work on Hermione wrist "He grabbed you! That bloody...I'm going to get him for this..wait..you told him your in love with me?" The fact that Hermione was openly admitting her feelings for Ginny was something that Ginny herself did not see coming. Hermione looked away slightly "I also went to confront Pavarti.." As Hermione said it, she with held the little speach that Pavarti had given her about Ginny, mainly becuase she just couldn't believe it. "You did what!" Ginny thought she just might have a heart attack at the moment from her stress level shooting up again "Hermione I told you not to do.." But Ginny couldn't finish, Hermione placed her lips against Ginny's this kiss was more passionate then the other one they had just shared.

Hermione pushed Ginny onto the bed resting ontop of the other girl. They seemed to meld together, lips moving in a dance as hands searched and touched and caressed. Hermione was the first to pull back "Tomorrow is a new day Ginny, a tomorrow I'm not afraid of because I know I'll be waking up to it with you.." With that both girls soon fell off the edge into a deep sleep, holding each other much like they had the other night. Both were loving the moment, and were looking foward to everyone after that.

Authors Note: Sorry this one took soo long guys! been busy with work and stuff, so please RNR!