Ginny ran up the stairs of the Burrow and into her room. She collapsed on her bed and screamed into her pillow. Why the hell couldn't her family just leave her alone? She took out her journal and her purple gel pen. She wrote down the date.
Why can't they just leave me alone?! I'm perfectly capable of handling myself just as well as any of my brothers, if not better! Okay, so I accidentally used magic outside of school once. They let me off the hook! It wasn't even that bad... I wasn't really thinking about it... And then after that I'm the bad girl who can't be trusted. Apparently muggle parents do this weird thing to their children, called 'grounding'. It's when you do something wrong and instead of getting a howler or something, they don't let you out of the house and you can't do anything until they say you can. And when my dad found out about it, he was just loooking for an excuse to use it. And then I use magic just one time, but I honestly thought I was in danger! I couldn't sleep one night, and so I got up to go for a walk, and I heard a noise, and then I heard it again, and I got really freaked out, and so I shot a curse into the air, and then another one and then I ran away before I could see what it was. I think I'm going to go for a walk now... even though it's pretty late... oh well. I'll be back soon... buhbye!
Ginny
She snuck silently down the stairs, and out the door. She took out her 'i-Pod' (some weird muggle invention her dad got from work, which he thought was the most amazing thing in the world) and put the 'headphones' in her ears. She walked slowly around her house and through the garden, then around the woods, and then into the small woods near her house. She knew knew her way through the woods pretty well, even in the dark. She kept walking for what seemed like forever. She didn't know the woods went on this long. She heard something, but she reassured herself that it was just an animal. She kept walking and sat down on the cold wet ground and closed her eyes. She rested for a little bit and decided that she would start heading back. She heard another noise, but decided to ignore it. She heard another noise, closer. She freaked out a bit, and sped up her pace. The rustling noise sounded even closer now and after a while she was running quickly through the woods, but she hadn't found her way out. She paused for a breath and crouched down to hide in the bushes. The noise was getting closer and closer. It sounded so close it could have been right next to her. She saw feet next to the bush and a hand reaching slowly down to the bush. Any moment now and he would push away enough branches to reveal her completely. She had no choice. She slowly moved her hand to the back of her jacket and pulled out her wand. She slowly moved to the other side of the bush and wiggled her way out.
She stood up and before realizing who the other person was screamed "IMPEDIMENTA!"
The other person blocked the curse. She screamed several curses, but the strange person blocked them all.
"Ginevra Weasley!" An older female voice yelled. "Stop that right now!"
"Mum? What are you doing here?" Ginny asked suspiciously.
"I heard you leave, and I went to see where you were going. Why did you leave? Do you know how I would have felt if I had woken up and checked on you and you weren't there?!"
"Sorry, Mum..." Ginny mumbled.
"We'll talk about this when we get home. Let's go." Ginny's mother said. She was not yelling, but you practically smell the anger in her voice.
She had been outside for a while, and by the time they got home, Ginny was freezing. Her teeth were chattering, and her mother's angry glares did not make her feel any warmer.
"Ginevra Molly Weasley, do you know what you have done?!" her mother yelled angrily. Ginny took a seat at the table.
"I know, I left the house, I didn't tell anyone, bad bad bad. I know."
"Ginny, I don't think you understand! You used magic outside of school again! School is starting so shortly! You're going into your fourth year of Hogwarts, and look at the trouble you've gotten yourself into already! I bet that they've already noticed that you used magic! What do you plan to do now?!" She's yelling now, and George and Charlie, who are the other light sleepers in the house, have already woken up and come downstairs to see what all the yelling is about.
"Mum, please calm down, we'll sort this all out in the morning..." Ginny mumbled, rubbing her tired eyes with her knuckles.
"Sort this all out?! SORT THIS ALL OUT?! Are you kidding me?! Damn straight we are going to sort this all out!"
'Oh crap.' Ginny thought. 'Mum only swears when she's extremely angry.'
"Mum, please, let's just go back to bed." Ginny groaned. Mr. Weasley walked down the stairs and into the kitchen, where the giant scene was taking place.
"Molly? What's going on?" He asked in a worried tone.
"Dad, please calm her down and tell her we can deal with this in the morning..." Ginny complained.
"Deal with what in the morning? What's going on?" Arthur asked.
" Ginny left the house in the middle of the night, and used magic outside of school, again!" Molly yelled.
"What?!" Mr. Weasley yelled, and he's usually the calmer of the two.
"Dad, please, morning..." Ginny sighed.
Mr. Weasley took a deep breath. "Everyone go back to bed, we are going to deal with this first thing in the morning." Ginny quickly walked out of the kitchen, hurrying to the stairs and into her bedroom. She flopped down on her bed and feel asleep immediately. The suns rays gently shining through the purple curtains over her windows was a pleasant way to wake up to a day that Ginny knew would be terrible. She walked downstairs without changing or brushing her teeth or hair, even though she knew Harry would be there. She honestly didn't care what she looked like, or what anybody thought of what she looked like, especially in the morning. She sat down at the table and ate the large breakfast that her mother had prepared. She thought as she ate, about how her day would go, if the ministry had found out about her using magic, if there would be a hearing, if she would be expelled. That was not an option. Beauxbaton might work for some girls, but definitely not Ginny. She was strong and fiery and spunky, and an all girls school was just not for her. Ms. Weasley and Ginny ate silently, and the only real conversation going on was Mr. Weasley asking Harry about exactly how a bath loofa worked. Everyone finished breakfast and Ginny silently cleared the table, as she did on most mornings.
"Ginny..." Her mother said quietly, as she went to go put the dishes in the sink. "Your father talked to the ministry yesterday, and you have a hearing tomorrow at noon."
Ginny sighed. She knew this was coming sooner or later. "Okay. Mum... I'm sorry about last night. Leaving and all, I just couldn't sleep and I wanted to go for a walk-"
Her mother cut her off. "Please, Ginevra, excuses aren't necessary. I understand. It's alright." Her voice sounded so dead and lacking emotion that Ginny knew she was upset. If Ginny did anything else, it would take more than the whole British army to calm her down. She had to be less careless, and deal with this like an adult.
A/N: I hope you enjoyed it! It's a Draco/ Ginny story but I'm trying to make it with as little OOC as I can. Please review! It would be amazingly awesome of you! Constructive criticism is always welcome, because I just want to improve... aaannnddd... I think that's it... okay, well thanks for reading!
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