- Rating:
- PG-13
- House:
- Astronomy Tower
- Characters:
- Cho Chang Ginny Weasley
- Genres:
- Romance Slash
- Era:
- Multiple Eras
- Spoilers:
- Philosopher's Stone Chamber of Secrets Prizoner of Azkaban Goblet of Fire
- Stats:
-
Published: 11/05/2002Updated: 01/29/2003Words: 14,266Chapters: 9Hits: 9,898
For Play
Anisky
- Story Summary:
- When a common interest brings Cho and Ginny together, they find they have a lot in common and become great friends. But that's all they are, right? Just keep telling yourself that, Harry.
Chapter 01
- Posted:
- 11/05/2002
- Hits:
- 3,142
- Author's Note:
- I'd like to dedicate this fic to my wonderful girlfriend, Merry, also known as "MerrytheMarvelous" or on Fandomination.net, "MagicalMe"
Title: For
Play
Author: Anisky and Merry the Marvelous
Archiving: Just ask! [email protected] (Anisky) and [email protected] (Merry the Marvelous)
WARNING: This
will soon be a romance between two girls.
If you have a problem with that, press the back button. You have been warned; any flames received
because of that situation will be sad proof that there is still bigotry. Oh well.
Otherwise, enjoy!
Chapter 1
Ginny peaked out from behind the door, watching as Harry held Cho´s hand, both
of them sharing a butterbeer. Harry put his arm around Cho and they
smiled at each other. Cho said something and Harry laughed
heartily. They looked so happy together.
Ginny felt like crying as she watched Harry murmur something, leaning towards
Cho. He pressed his lips against Cho´s,
and tightened his arms around her. Cho
pulled back and wiped off her lips with a sort of tentative smile, saying
something else as Harry´s face fell slightly.
`What´s wrong with me? Why can´t he like me?´ she wondered as she snuck closer
to them. She could vaguely hear what they were saying, and strained to
catch their words.
"People always think that quidditch is my life," Cho was saying. "But
really, I like to act. I´d like to put on a play at Hogwarts, or
something like that."
Harry was nodding, with `clunk, clunk, clunk´ heard from his foot tapping
against the table leg he leaned towards Cho, causing the table to slightly
upset itself. Cho´s butterbeer spilled
slightly, and she pulled away from him to clean it up, with a look that oddly
enough seemed rather... relieved... to Ginny. "Yeah, well, I agree about the
quidditch, but I don´t have time to do anything like acting," Harry replied.
"Too busy saying the world?" Cho smiled at Harry again as he blushed. She
finished wiping up the spill and walked over to the trashcan to throw out the
paper towels.
Ginny was fascinated. She liked to act too, but was too shy to want to be
in a play. Maybe she could ask Cho for some tips. She certainly
know how to move well, Ginny noted as she watched Cho´s graceful glide across
the room. `Wow, she´s even graceful
when she´s throwing away messes. No
wonder Harry is going out with her. I
wish I was like Cho!´
Ginny was so lost in her thoughts that she didn´t notice getting up to follow
Cho out--and to leave the Three Broomsticks, they were heading straight towards
her!
She squealed and scrambled out of her hiding place--and tripped, sprawling on
the ground right in front of Harry and Cho.
"Erm, um," Ginny was redder than her hair as she stood up and brushed the dirt
off her robes. "Hello."
"Hi, who are you?" Cho blinked innocently, tucking some of her long,
silky black hair behind her ear.
"Um, yeah, hi, I'm Ginny," the girl stuttered. "I just
tripped... I'm... sorry." She lifted her eyes and looked into Cho´s deep
brown ones, and suddenly a smile crept onto her face. She was actually starting
to feel comfortable.
"Oh, that's OK Ginny... um..."
"Weasley. Ginny Weasley." Ginny reached out to shake Cho's
hand.
"She´s Ron´s little sister," Harry explained.
Ginny pulled her hand back and looked at the floor as Cho continued.
"I didn't see you anywhere..."
"OH, well, I was here!" Ginny laughed, nervously, trying to keep the
tone light, the moment of comfort broken. "Um, yeah."
Harry gave Ginny a pitying look. "Well, we'll see you around,"
he said.
"Nice to meet you Ginny!" smiled Cho.
"Likewise, Cho," Ginny returned the smile.
*****
Ginny sat in the common room, studying.
She rubbed her eyes. `How
does Hermione do this all the time?´ Studying was one of those things that Ginny does not like.
She eventually gave up, throwing her books onto the floor and walking up to the
dorm room.
"Hey, Ginny," Sadie waved. "What´s up?"
"Not much. Just studying for the Charms
test." Ginny turned around to peal off
her robes and slip on her pajamas, a soft flannel nightgown.
"Were you in Hogsmede today?" asked Sadie, who was brushing her long, auburn
hair.
"I was," said Ginny shortly, magicking her robes into the laundry basket..
"Stalking Harry again, huh?" Sadie honestly didn´t mean to upset Ginny... it just
slipped out.
"Shut up!!" Ginny turned to glare at Sadie.
"None of your business."
"Ginny, I wasn´t trying to be mean!"
"Well, you´re doing a good job of hiding that fact!" Ginny grabbed her
toothbrush and toothpaste, stalking into the bathroom.
Sadie sighed.
When Ginny got back, Sadie was already asleep.
Ginny got into her bed and just laid there, thinking of Harry. The last image she saw before she finally
slipped into a quiet sleep was Cho´s beautiful face...
*****
Ginny walked into the Great Hall and searched for a place to sit. Cho was sitting at the Gryffindor table with
Harry yet again, and Ginny slipped into a seat next to her. It was the closest she could get to sitting
next to Harry.
"Hi, Ginny," Cho turned and smiled.
"Hey, Cho, how are you?" Ginny couldn´t believe it; someone
had actually noticed her. Even Ron
never noticed her!
"I´m good... hey, I´m trying to put together a school play here, are you
interested?"
"She´s asking everyone that," laughed Harry.
"Can´t seem to get enough people!"
Cho hit him. "Come on, I haven´t asked
many people yet. So, Gin, are you
interested?" Cho turned back to Ginny, an intent look on her face.
Ginny didn´t get a chance to answer. "Oh, she´s too shy to want to do a play,"
laughed Ron. "No way."
"Yeah," Harry added, "you´re asking the wrong person."
Cho turned again to glare at her boyfriend and his best friend. "Excuse me, but
can you let her speak for herself? GINNY," she continued, turning back to the
shy, red-haired girl, "are you interested?"
"Well, I am too shy," replied Ginny uncertainly. Cho was actually making her feel rather comfortable.
Strange, it was like the opposite of the way Harry made her feel: frazzled,
nervous. "But I really like to act.
Maybe I could be a techie?" Ginny smiled hesitantly at Cho, who
laughed.
"Aww, come on, if you like to act you should!" Cho tucked her black hair behind
one year and winked at Ginny. "I can
help you get over your shyness, if you want."
"Ginny, since when do you like to act?" Ron rolled his eyes. "She´s just saying that."
"I´ve known you a while," added Harry, "and you´ve never mentioned you like
acting."
"My lord, you guys really do just ignore her and talk for her, don´t you!" Cho
stood up and glared for a long time at Harry and Ron. "Neither of you seem to know that much about her, anyway!"
Cho´s defiance gave Ginny more courage, and she took a breath to speak up. "What did you think I DID all that time I
spent in the West End over summer break?"
Cho turned to Ginny, excited. "You
acted on the WEST END?"
"No, of course not, but I saw tons of plays."
"So did I!" Cho grinned. "Did you see
`Anything Goes´?"
"Yeah! Wasn´t Sally Ann Triplett wonderful in it??" Ginny grinned, suddenly in
her element as Cho sat down. "I wish I
got to see her as Rizzo in Grease!"
"Yeah, and how about 125th--"
"Ginny, how do you know all that stuff?"
Ron was staring at his sister, bug-eyed. Cho and Ginny both looked at him, then rolled their eyes.
"Hey, how about we get together to work on some acting techniques and ideas for
the play?" grinned Cho. "If I can´t get you to act--which I won´t give up on,
mind you!!--then I can still get you to be manager or something."
"That´d be great!" Ginny sat up and took a bite of her toast. "Are you sure you have the time?"
"Definitely!" Cho enthused. "Tomorrow
after class?"
Harry gulped, nervous to interrupt his girlfriend again after her last two
reactions. "Um, Cho, hun, weren´t we
going to go out then?"
Cho waved a hand, dismissing him. Ginny
was amazed at the way she could just wave him off. How did she do that?
"We´ll reschedule. OK, Ginny?"
"Sure, Cho!" Ginny took another bite of her toast and stood up. "I have to go to class now, though."
"Me too," said Cho, staking up and grabbing her books. "Bye guys!" she barely glanced at the rest
of them at the table as she and Ginny walked off.
"Um..." Harry looked back and forth between Cho and his friends. "What just happened?"
Ron shrugged. "Girls," he said. "They´re crazy."
Hermione didn´t yell at him. She just
bit her lip, looking thoughtful.
TO BE CONTINUED...