Chapter One: Frog

Draco Malfoy can be rather mean at times.

For example, one day during our final year at Hogwarts, my boyfriend (the aforementioned Draco Malfoy) came up to me with a rather mischievous look on his face, and something green and slimy in his hands.

"Hey, love." He said, kissing me lightly before sitting down next to me at the table in the library. I had been attempting to study, but as soon as I saw Draco I knew that it would be impossible to do so. I closed my books, and gave him my undivided attention.

I looked at him skeptically for a moment, and said, "I know that look..." I was referring to that (devilishly handsome) smirk on his face. "What have you done now?"

He gave me a rather poor imitation of a hurt facial expression, "Why do you always think the worst of me? I haven't done anything wrong."

"Oh, shut up. I know you've done something." I said, though I couldn't help smiling a little. This boy was too amazing for his own good. "Now, does it have to do with whatever it is you're holding?"

"What this?" He held up the thing in his hand to show me. And what I saw made me shriek and nearly jump out of my skin. He was holding a frog, or a toad, or... something! But I didn't really care what it was, it was slimy and gross and I wanted nothing to do with it.

"Draco! What the hell-"

"Out." I heard a voice say from behind me. I turned and saw the librarian standing behind us, looking rather annoyed.

"I'm sorry, wha-" I tried to ask, but she just wouldn't let me finish.

"Get out. Both of you! I will not have yelling in my library, and no animals, young man." She said.

I sighed, grabbed my things, and left the library, with Draco following close behind me.

Once we were outside the doors and in the corridor, I turned to Draco and said, "Now, what are you doing with that... that thing?" I asked, still rather disgusted. "Where on earth did you find it?"

He smirked again. "Oh, you know... around."

I raised my eyebrows at him, letting him know that I didn't believe him in the slightest. "Whatever you say. Fine. If you don't want to tell me now, I'll just find out later, and you'll be in even more trouble, mister." I said pointing my finger at him. I swear, sometimes I have to act more like his mother than his girlfriend.

He looked like he was about to respond, but then we heard footsteps coming from behind me. Draco looked over my shoulder to see who it was. His eyes widened, and he quickly shoved the very large frog (well I guess that would be a toad than) into his pocket. Then that stupid (well actually rather sexy) smirk appeared on his face again as he said, "Hello, Neville!"

I stared at Draco in disbelief. I mean sure, we'd been going out for some time, but that still didn't stop Draco from being mean to my friends. Take Neville Longbottom for example. He would pick on Neville mercilessly, no matter how hard I tried to get him to stop. I guess it's hard to get over so many years of hating someone... sometimes I even wonder how we managed to get over it. But that's not the point. The point is he was openly being nice to Neville. Something HAD to be up.

Neville looked to be panicked and in a hurry. "Whoa, Neville, what's wrong?" I asked.

"Oh, I've gone and lost Trevor again." He said rather quickly. "Neither of you happened to have seen a toad, have you?"

And then it clicked. Oh, someone was in big trouble.

But before I could answer, Draco said, "Nope, we haven't. Sorry. But you should go keep looking."

"Right..." Neville muttered before running off. I didn't even have a second to call after him.

I turned and glared as hard as I could at Draco. "Draco Malfoy!"

We had been together long enough for him to know to be scared when I used that tone with him. He physically flinched. "Yes, love."

"Oh, don't you 'love' me, mister." I said putting my hands on my hips. He gulped. As mad as I was, I have to admit, there's just something great about seeing Draco Malfoy scared of a little Weasley girl. But I digress. "You go find Neville right now and tell him you took his toad."

"Oh, come on, Ginny. I just wanted a little fun." He said.

"If you won't tell him, then I will." I threatened.

His eyes widened. The last thing he wanted was to be ratted out by his girlfriend. So he sighed and said, "Fine, lets go." We started walking and looking for Neville. "But just so you know, I didn't technically steal him from Neville, I really did just find him on Neville's desk after class when he had already left. So Neville really did just lose Trevor. I just happened to find him and hold on to him for a little while." He said the last part with his signature smirk on his face.

"I don't care. You still flat out lied to Neville just there. So you're going to give him back Trevor and apologize." I said, but I wasn't as hard on him this time. I heard him mutter 'fine' under his breath. I just giggled.

We eventually found Neville, and, just as I had asked, Draco told him the truth, apologized and gave back Trevor. Then Draco and I decided to go to the Room of Requirement to spend some time together.

Once we were alone, Draco kissed me. At first I kissed him back, until I realized that he was about to touch my face with the hand that had been holding that disgusting, slimy frog. I pulled away, and smacked his hand away. "What's wrong?" He asked.

"Nope. You are NOT touching me with those hands until you wash them. They're probably all full of frog germs and... stuff."

Draco chuckled and walked over to the sink, that had magically appeared. to wash his hands. "You know..." He called over his shoulder to me, "I kinda got used to that thing. I mean, they're kinda cute if you don't think about it too hard. Maybe we should get one at our place someday."

I stood completely still in shock. Had he just said what I think he did? "W-what?" I stuttered.

"Well, maybe not a toad, but a couple of cute frogs. You know the kind that stay tank of water, cause I know you wouldn't want one that you'd have to touch." He said while drying his hands on a towel and walking towards me, smiling lightly.

I shook my head and said, "No... not the frog part, but the whole 'our place someday' comment." I said. We had never really discussed our future together, and I certainly did not expect him to be the one to bring it up first.

"Well, we are going to live together some day, are we not? Once we get out of school." He said, now looking slightly worried.

"Well...but..." I didn't know what to say, I felt like my head was going to explode from happiness.

"Don't you love me, Ginny? Because I already know that I love you, and that I want to spend the rest of my life with you." He said. It was the most straight forward and serious thing I'd ever heard him say.

"Of course I love you, Draco."

"Well, haven't you thought about our future at all?" He asked.

"Yes. I just didn't think you had." I replied, honestly.

He took another step closer to me, and said, "Of course I have. Why wouldn't I?"

I smiled and realized that I had been worrying about this for no reason whatsoever. "Okay, so if you really want to, it's settled. We're getting a couple of frogs for our place, someday."

He grinned. "Excellent." He leaned in to kiss me, but then stopped an inch short. I groaned in frustration. He laughed lightly and whispered, "Just wanted to make sure I could touch you now." He held up his hands for my approval.

I rolled my eyes, grabbed his hands, wrapped them around my waist and said, "Yes. Now kiss me already." And he did exactly as I asked.

A/N: Okay, so as I was writing this I realized that Neville's pet is technically a toad, which isn't the same as a frog, which is what the prompt was, which is why I added that little comment about the cute little frogs that live in water. My friend actually used to own a couple of those, which is where I got the idea. So basically what I'm trying to say is I hope that made sense!!! Well please review! I hope you all liked it! And I will try to have the next little one shot up soon! Thanks guys!!