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( September 1995 )
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THE SUMMER AT THE DIGGORY RESIDENCE WENT QUICKER THAN EXPECTED. Ginger, visiting Cedric's grave every day, slowly began to heal from the traumatic event of seeing her best friend's dead body. She would be attending Hogwarts for her seventh, and final year of schooling which seemed to be a bit unreal without Cedric, but she quickly began to learn to push those thoughts far away.
"Oh, Amos! I'll miss you so!" she dramatically wrapped her arms around the man. He chuckled shaking his head while patting her back. The course of the month had pushed Ginger to try to act as normal as possible as if no one had died in her life. This was her way of coping. Pretending nothing was ever wrong.
"Yes, yes, dear, do stay out of trouble though. I don't want to be expecting a letter from Dumbledore saying her were pushed into a lake again," he chuckled but his smile quickly faded when he saw the expression that had fallen over the girl's face.
It seemed as though part of her was resisting the urge to sob right there on the platform but another part had seemed to be forcing the muscles in her face to appear happy and as though her mind hadn't been replaying that day at the Lake like a broken record.
Amos opened his mouth to speak but Ginger then grew her smile back as if she wasn't on the brink of tears only moments before. Though that isn't meant to say she still wasn't in the moment about to burst into tears.
"Alright, I best be on my way." She finally said with one last hug and pulled her trunk away with her to the Hogwarts express.
The blue zip-up she always wore had been the one thing providing her warmth as she boarded the express by herself. Her favorite train, if it was possible to even have one, had brought her great comfort to be in after so long without any. She gazed around her surroundings, like she always did, noticing the engravings in the off white walls and the humdrum of reuniting students all around gave it the whimsical ambience she so adored about it.
With her eyes trailing the walls of the train, her eyes finally set on one of her favorite familiar faces. Though, he had the saddest of looks on his young features she had ever seen on his face.
They approached each other wordlessly as his mournful expression began to grow. When they became within arm's length of each other, Ginger looked at Alexander with a sad sympathetic smile as tears formed in his eyes and his face contorted into one containing a sob within it. His arms then quickly wrapped around her as a choked out sob escaped his throat.
Moving to an empty compartment and closing it behind them, Ginger sat with her back pressed against the wall closest to the window as Alex sat on the seat with her leaning on her.
Eventually, Alexander's cries became silenced after the train departed from the station and they both soon enough fell asleep in the same position.
Although Ginger had set her mind on pretending she was alright, she couldn't keep up the act. Especially after her and Alex's exchange. Cedric was gone from their lives and she couldn't ignore it forever. Even she knew that.
"WELL IT'S CERTAINLY NOT MY FAULT YOU LOST OUR COMPARTMENT, YOU WERE TOLD TO STAY WHILE WE GO CHANGE." Lee scolded Fred who had rolled his eyes for what seemed like the millionth time since he left their compartment to get found by a group of second years because he chased after the Trolly Lady for a pack of Drooble's while George and Lee were changing into their uniform robes.
"It's not my fault either!" he defended. George and Lee shared a look reading each other's minds before Lee, who was between the twins, harshly shoved Fred into the wall beside them.
"I suppose it may be my fault a bit," he groaned holding his shoulder that was surely going to bruise later. "Well, now we have to find a new compartment."
George looked in each they passed, he scoffed, "you say that as if there are empty ones."
Just as they passed one, Fred retraced his steps walking backwards and gazing at a girl who was fast asleep in a compartment all alone.
His hand reached and grabbed Lee's robe, nearly knocking him off his balance, pulling him along with him. "What the bloody hells gotten into..." he trailed off with his eyes meeting where Freds had fallen.
George, noticing the lack of his two companions, turned on his heel to see the two walking into the compartment. "What are you two..." His words silenced as he followed them and his eyes fell on the sleeping girl. Lovely, Ginger Lunette.
The boys silently took it upon themselves to seat themselves in her empty compartment to keep her company.
Fred and Lee shared the right side of it while George sat himself against the wall closest to the entrance on Ginger's side. Being so close to her is when he noticed the tear stains she held in her pink cheeks but he never verbalized how much it hurt to see her like that.
Eventually, the three boys drifted off to sleep just as Ginger did before, and in her deep sleep, she felt a sudden comfort with their presence being there, not ever waking up to know it, but just feeling it.
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NOTE. hey guys welcome back to my channel 😋 but really it took me forever to stay on task and finish this mf chapter 😐 i just wanted my quality alex and ginger time AND ginger and george time 😩 also question of the chapter: should i start having question of the chapters? just for funsies or something for some interaction with readers cause ik theres bunches of ghost readers here 🧍🏽♀️I KNOW YOURE THERE 🤨
