Ginny's Sexy Bachelor
By lovehopefaith
Ooh, I got a crush on you
I hope you feel the way that I do
I get a rush
When I'm with you
Ooh, I've got a crush on you
A crush on you
-"Crush" by Mandy Moore
Ginny Weasley was annoyed, very annoyed. She was pretty sure that she would lose her hearing, sometime in her life, but hadn't expected her time to come so soon. Who knew trying to order: one plate of chicken, cashews and vegetables, one plate of sweet and sour pork, one plate of honey prawns, one plate of Mongolian lamb, one plate of steamed choy sum, one plate of fried tofu balls with dipping sauce, and four butterbeers and two pumpkin juices, could cause such a commotion? Well, actually, it wasn't the food that was causing the screaming, gasping or demands for photographs and autographs, but rather Ginny's so-called very 'hot and yummy' dinner guests. It also didn't help that a busload of Swedish tourists had just entered; prepared to eat at the popularChinese restaurant in Diagon Alley, but found Ginny's guys more appetising for the eye then the steaming bowls of soup before them.
Ginny had, of course, expected the enormous amount of attention, but really, she only wanted to drink some of her pumpkin juice with some peace and quiet. Instead, she found herself being pushed aside (while still sitting on her chair), as a tornado of girls hurled themselves at the five guys. Ginny only hoped that Bec had written in the guy's contracts that they were not allowed to bring girls back to their temporary home.
"Ah, Ginny," said a man with a heavy Chinese accent. "I am glad you brought your friends along. It earns me good business. I must thank you. Imagine theheadlines in tomorrow's Daily Prophet! It will say that five famous people came to my restaurant, and maybe more people will come and eat here."
Ginny turned from her chair (in the corner) to face the chef and owner of 'Yip Chan', Yip Chan. She was a regular customer of Yip's, as she preferred to eat 'easy meals', than waste hours slaving over her stove.
"Hi Yip," said Ginny. "Why don't you keep the guys here, for like the next two months? I'll seriously pay you, if you can keep them here as some sort of attraction."
Yip laughed loudly, while he shook his head.
"I would like to have them here," Yip said, smiling at one of his favourite customers. "But, I'm sure they must have other things to do, then watch a sixty-three year old man cook all day. What are you doing with so many guys tonight, Ginny? Are all of them your boyfriends?"
"You have got to be kidding me," said Ginny, looking quite repulsed at the thought. "No, they're the five guys that were nominated for 'drop dead sexiest bachelors of the year', and Bec thought it would be good if I got stuck with them for two whole months."
"Oh, really? How are Fred and George, by the way? I have yet to visit their joke shop, even though I am so close," said Yip, with a twinkle in his eyes, similar to that of Prof. Dumbledore. "And, what about Bec? Is she beginning to look for her 'Mr. Right' yet?"
Nothing could get past Yip. For some unknown reason, witches and wizards opened up themselves to Yip, who always seemed to have the time to listen to anyone. Bec and Ginny were regular customers, and so, Yip knew of Bec's non-existent love life.
"Fred and George are fine. Mum is still trying to recover from the fact that her twin sons aren't working at the Ministry, but I think she's getting use to the idea," replied Ginny, smiling at the older man. "And, Bec currently has five crushes, namely sitting at my table, at the moment. But, you know her; never gives any guy a second look."
"Well, I believe she'll find love soon," said Yip, giving Ginny a toothy grin. "You pass that on to her, will you, Ginny?"
"Sure," said Ginny.
"Are you going to eat or what, Gin?" asked Harry, turning his head, with a pair of chopsticks in his hand.
"I better leave you to eat, Ginny," said Yip. "But, you come back soon. Alright?"
"Of course," said Ginny, with a big smile on her face. "You'll probably find me here tomorrow night."
Yip laughed a little, before he headed back to the kitchen.
"Finally got rid of your fans, hey?" asked Ginny, who was scooping out rice into her bowl from the rice container, before tightening the lid back on. "Then, eat all the food, why don't you? Thanks, I really appreciate it."
It was true. Nearly half of every dish had disappeared into the guy's stomachs.
"Ve is sorry, Ginny," said Viktor, apologetically, while he grabbed another piece of chicken and a piece of bok choy. "Ve thought you might keep on talking to the old man for a long while, so ve began to eat."
"Look, Weasel," said Draco, who was also grabbing more from the dishes. "We can order more, if it's not enough."
"No need," said Ginny, as she began to pile herself with an extremely large spoonful of every single dish, leaving only a few scraps behind on each plate. "I'm sure this will be fine."
"Jeez, Gin, you've made your own mountain there," said Charlie, who was sipping his Butterbeer.
"Yeah, there's no more food left now," said Harry, who was trying to pick up some of the small scraps with his chopsticks. "I mean, we have to eat too."
"Excuse me? You guys have to eat? What about me?" asked Ginny, as she started to eat quickly from the high mountain of food, just in case, any of the guys grabbed some food from her bowl.
"Slow down, Gin," said Charlie. "You're going to kill yourself eating that quickly."
Ginny instantly slowed down, convinced that no one was going to steal some food from her bowl. She placed some of her food onto her plate, so she could eat some of the rice. Immediately, the guys took the opportunity to help themselves to Ginny's food.
"Hey!" shouted Ginny. "That was my food!"
"Too bad," said Draco, smirking at Ginny, as she watched all of the food from her plate disappear.
"Well, I'm cooking tomorrow night, and I'll make sure that you all get extremely tiny portions," sulked Ginny, who was clearing unimpressed and hungry. "It's no wonder, you guys, aren't married yet. Stealing a girl's food does not make a good impression, unless she gave you permission to eat it."
"Exactly why you're not going out with any one of us here," said Harry, winking at Ginny. 'Why bother making an impression, when there are stomachs to be filled?"
"Pigs," said Ginny, under her breath.
Dinner was soon over and Ginny and the guys decided to head for Florean Fortescue's Ice-Cream Parlour.
"What flavour do you guy's want?" asked Ginny.
"Why? Are you paying for us, Weasel?" asked Draco.
"What? Don't think I have any money or something, Ferret-boy?" retorted Ginny.
"Yeah, pretty much," said Draco, unfazed at Ginny's 'Ferret-boy' name.
"Well, actually, Goss is paying for anything that's reasonable, of course, that you guys want or need," replied Ginny. "So, technically, I'm not really paying."
"Well then, if that's the case, I'll take a triple-scoop of 'Wicked Chocolate', 'Cookies & Cream Delight', and 'Minty Choc Swirl', thanks Gin," said Harry, taking advantage of the fact that he didn't have to pay.
"Of course, Harry," said Ginny, darkly, hoping the guys would at least be considerate of Goss's soon-to- be escalating bills, as she gave Harry the 'evil eye'.
"I think I vill have a double-scoop of 'Rainbow Twirls' and 'Vhite Choc Heaven', please," said Viktor.
"Hmm…I'll have a triple-scoop of 'Very Red Berry', 'Creamy Lemon Sorbet', and 'Mango Delight," said Charlie, peering through the glass.
"Well, I think I'll have a triple-scoop of 'Minty Choc Swirl', 'White Choc Heaven', and 'Strawberrylicious," said Draco.
"I'll just have one-scoop of 'Wicked Chocolate', please, Ginny," said Oliver.
Ginny said the long order, including her own of a one-scoop 'Cookies & Cream Delight'. It wasn't long before the five guys were swamped with similar demands to those at 'Yip Chan'. Leaving the guys alone to their fans, Ginny headed outside for a walk, not noticing that someone was watching her every move.
It was past 9AM, the next morning, and Ginny was still asleep in bed, leaving the guys to decide who would wake her up. Charlie and Harry both knew of Ginny's occasional nasty temper in the morning; Oliver had learnt that you should never get a 'Weasley' up in the mornings, from bad experiences at Hogwarts with Fred and George, and Viktor just followed and agreed with whatever Charlie (who he now thought of, as his mentor) had to say. Therefore, the task was left up to Draco, who ignored the other guys' warnings, believing nothing horrible could possibly happen to him.
Draco gently knocked on Ginny's door, before turning the doorknob, after hearing no movement from inside. He walked into Ginny's bedroom, and started to call her name, hoping that it would wake her up. Draco tried various methods (that did not require him to touch Ginny) to wake up the sound asleep woman, like, opening the curtains to let the sunlight in, whispering her name directly into her ear, but to no avail. So, swallowing his 'Malfoy' pride, he gently shook Ginny, as a last attempt of waking her up. Immediately a wand was directly in front of his face, and a hex was muttered.
"What on earth?" shouted Draco, not expecting to be hexed, as his bogies immediately grew wings, and started attacking his face.
"Oops! Sorry, Ferret-boy," said Ginny, smiling a little, with apologetic eyes. "Didn't see you there. What are you doing in my room, anyway?"
"Would you at least reverse the hex, Weasel?" asked Draco, whose face was now starting to have red patches from the ferocious attack. "I got told to get you up, because it's past 9AM already."
Ginny muttered the spell to reverse the hex that she had placed on Draco.
"Past 9AM?" shrieked Ginny, nearly springing from bed. "Colin's going to kill me, for mucking up his busy schedule. Now, clear out of my room, Ferret-boy. I have to get changed."
"Why? I don't see the problem," said Draco, smirking at the youngest Weasley.
"Ha ha. You're so funny," said Ginny, rolling her eyes, as she grabbed Draco by the arm, and pushed him out. "Now, get out!"
Draco walked back to the dining table, vowing never to wake up Ginny ever again.
"Did she do her famous bat-boogey hex on you, Malfoy?" asked Oliver. "Fred and George say she's awfully good at that one."
Draco just scowled, remembering of a similar hex incident back in his school days, as he got back to eating his second croissant, just as Ginny came out, wearing a nice, working skirt suit.
"Finish up, guys," said Ginny, as if she was a head auror, giving out orders. "We're off to Colin's studio, where you'll do the first professional shots for the magazine. It's the weekend, but Colin is doing us a favour, so we should probably try to arrive on time."
Ginny grabbed the toasted sandwich out of Oliver's hand, earning a cry of protest, deciding that they had had enough time already to eat. She soon took the croissant that Draco was about to eat, and placed it back onto the plate. Seeing Ginny take away the food, Harry and Viktor scoffed down their third pieces of toast. Unfortunately, Charlie was too slow, and Ginny took his toasted sandwich, just before he was to take a bite, and chewed on it.
"Hey! That was mine, Gin," said Charlie.
"We're already late, guys," said Ginny, swallowing the last bite. "We have to apparate to Colin's studio, okay?"
The guys all grumbled about the lack of food, before they all apparated to Colin's studio.
"Ginny Weasley!" shouted Colin, as Ginny suddenly appeared in his studio. "You finally arrive. I believe you're late."
"Sorry, Col," said Ginny, giving Colin a peck on the cheek. "The guys are here for their shots. They're all yours. I think, I'll go take a seat over in that corner, to dosome work, while you do your magic."
"Ok, Gin," said Colin, as he turned to face the guys. "Follow me, guys."
Ginny watched Colin instruct each of the guys the poses that they were required to do. She spun around and around on Colin's chair, like a little girl, occasionally glancing at Colin and the guys. She giggled to herself at some of the ridiculous poses that Colin was making the guys to do, as she continued to spin around. An hour or so later, Ginny was still clueless on how to begin her next article, as she urged the chair to spin faster.
"Guys, we're going to get you out of those robes, and into some muggle leather pants. Once you're changed, I'd like to do a few shots of you shirtless, if you don't mind," said Colin.
Immediately after, a loud 'thud' was heard, and the guys and Colin looked over to see Ginny on the ground.
"Never knew you were so keen to see us shirtless, Gin," said Harry, giving Ginny a wink, with a huge grin on his face.
Ginny's face turned slightly pink, as she tried to argue that she had not fallen on the ground because of Colin's request, but because she was spinning so fast on her chair that she had fallen off.
"Sure, sure," said Oliver, also laughing and grinning at Ginny's pink face.
"It's true!" Ginny protested. "Why on earth would I want to see you guys shirtless, anyway?"
"So, you can tell people how good we look, and encourage them to vote for us," said Charlie, smiling at his little sister.
Ginny was about to reply, but, she heard a female voice, calling her name.
"Hey Gin!" said the pretty, dirty-blonde haired woman, who was walking towards Ginny, making a few of the guy's jaws drop.
"Lu!" cried Ginny, as she went to hug her friend. "What are you doing here?"
"I was thinking that maybe I could get a few photos from Colin about the guysfor The Quibbler," said Luna, returning Ginny's hug.
Luna Lovegood was no longer the young girl with scraggly, waist-length, dirty-blonde hair and protuberant eyes. She still had her pale eyebrows, but now her hair was wavy, and had a few curls. Luna had cut her waist-length hair, and currently had shoulder-length hair. Her eyes were a nice, almond shape. No one dared call Luna Lovegood, 'Loony Luna', ever again, but rather, admired (or drooled over) her looks.
"Col!" shouted Ginny, at Colin, who was trying to get Harry's attention. "Take a few more shots for Lu."
Colin turned around and waved at Luna, before nodding his head, as he got back to work.
"God, they all look good," said Luna, her eyes gazing over the five, now shirtless guys.
"Yeah, especially one of them, hey," said Ginny, winking and nudging her friend, making Luna blush.
"You haven't told him, have you?" asked Luna, carefully.
"No, but I hinted that someone liked him," said Ginny, smiling innocently at Luna.
"I can't believe you did that, Gin!" said Luna, her face, clearly red.
"Don't worry, Harry doesn't know it's you," said Ginny, trying to calm her friend.
"If you say it any louder, Gin, then I'm sure he and the rest of the world will know," said Luna, crossly.
"It wouldn't be too bad if he found out, would it?" asked Ginny.
"Yes, of course it is!" said Luna. "Imagine Harry Potter going out with a tabloid journalist, who people use to call 'Loony Luna'."
"Well, Harry's coming over now, Lu," whispered Ginny, as Luna's face instantly became red, again.
"Hey Gin," said Harry, smiling at Luna. "Who's your pretty friend?"
"Lu, this is Harry Potter," said Ginny, grinning intently at Luna. "Harry, this is my best friend, Lu, also known as Luna Lovegood."
"Luna?" Harry said, not bothering to hide his shock. "Oh my god. You're really Luna Lovegood?"
Luna's head instantly looked down at her high heels, as she walked away, a little upset over Harry's reaction and babbling.
"Great going, you prat!" hissed Ginny, as she punched Harry on the shoulder. "You could have been nice about it. I mean, you could have said, 'Hey Luna, you look great!"
"She does look great," said Harry, who was staring at Luna, who was heading for the door, leading out of Colin's studio. "I just didn't expect to meet Luna again, like an extremely gorgeous Luna, that's all. I mean, I haven't seen her seriously for years now."
"Are you now trying to insult her, Harry?" shouted Ginny, softly, trying to keep her voice down. "So, Luna Lovegood could never look amazing. Is that it?"
"Well…it's…she," said Harry, knowing he had made Ginny mad, which was most definitely not a good thing.
"Luna has had the hots for you for years," said Ginny, before realising what she had just admitted. "And, now I'm sure she must be absolutely crushed, thanks to your great reaction."
Ginny stormed off to find Luna, who was sitting on the cement outside of Colin's studio, and sat down beside her.
"I'm sorry about Harry's reaction," said Ginny, looking at her disappointed friend's face. "He's a complete idiot at times."
"Nah, Gin," said Luna, shaking her head. "I've just always had these silly dreams that when we met, Harry would … oh, never mind. I've just been stupid."
"Any guy would be lucky to have someone like you in their life," said Gin, trying to comfort her down-hearted friend.
"Well, when Col's done, can you tell him to send me those photos?" asked Luna, rising up to her feet. "I better go."
"Of course," said Ginny, getting to her feet, as well, and gave her a hug. "I'll see you later, then. You, Bec and I can go out tomorrow night. Okay?"
"Yeah, okay," said Luna, smiling softly at her friend. "I'll see you at 7PM at Yip's, then, I guess."
"You read my mind, girl," said Ginny, grinning back at Luna.
Ginny waved to her friend, before Luna disappeared with a pop. She went back through the glass doors, to the studio, where the guys were once doing rather ridiculous poses, shirtless. Ginny had to agree that they alldid look good, even Malfoy, in their muggle black leather pants. Not, that she was staring or anything.
"Gin, your boys are finished now," said Colin, turning to face Ginny, who was jotting down more ideas for her article. "I do hope that the next time I see them, they won't be complaining that you stole their breakfast."
"What!? They were the one's who took my dinner, last night," shouted back Ginny, looking up at Colin. "They all deserved it. Humph!"
Colin and the guys all laughed and rolled their eyes at Ginny's childish behaviour.
"Have you seen Brenda yet, Gin?" asked Colin, who was walking towards Ginny, leaving the guys to change into their robes.
Brenda McAllister owned London's Gladrags Wizardwear, where Bec had organised the guys to get their robes from, for the various charity balls and public appearances they were all expected to attend.
"I was thinking we could go there now," replied Ginny.
"Good," said Colin, nodding his head. "Brenda said that she's pretty tied up at the moment, because everyone wants their robes for the ball, which is on the night after tomorrow, right?"
"Yeah," groaned Ginny, not wanting to think about the ball. "The guys are all expected to turn up with their beautiful dates, and I get to baby-sit them, and make sure nothing goes wrong. How fun."
"It won't be too bad, Gin," said Colin, patting Ginny on the arm, reassuring her.
"Oh, of course not," said Ginny sarcastically. "It'll be so good just to sit there and watch them like a mother, when they're all older than me."
"Are you ready yet, Ginny?" asked Viktor, as he pulled out a piece of parchment, vaguely resembling Bec's neatly written schedule for the guys. "Are ve meant to be going to Gladrags Vizardvear, now?"
"I'm coming," said Ginny, as she shuffled her notes together, and gave Colin a peck on the cheek. "See you on…whenever."
"Yep," said Colin. "We'll catch up later, Gin. And, tell Bec that the photos should be owled to her very soon, so the magazine can come out, maybe even this afternoon. Oh, and some for Lu, as well."
"Definitely," said Ginny, as she ran to meet the guys. "Okay, we're going to now go get your dress robes for the ball on Monday night."
The guys grumbled loudly about the dress robes. Occasionally, words like, "stupid, frilly things", "look like an idiot", "why?" were heard.
"Oh, shut up!" shouted Ginny, waving her hands in the air, telling them to be quiet. "It's not like I enjoy going with you guys everywhere, but I have to. But, you don't see me complaining about anything."
A few coughs soon followed Ginny's words, where a few words were inserted in between.
Cough Cough "Complained about dinner" Cough Cough
"Oh, shut up," said Ginny, ignoring the guys. "Let's go."
The six people soon apparated to the very busy Wizardwear store, where many witches and wizards were dashing around.
"Ginny, dear," said a plump, older lady, with the name, "Brenda" pinned onto her blue robes. "These must be the handsome young men!"
"Hi Brenda. Yes, these are the guys," said Ginny, as she started listing out the guy's dress robe requirements. "The guys want no robes with any frills or special trims; no robes that may harm their reputation; no strange or weird colours; just nothing that will make them look like an idiot, in other words."
"Wow, she's good," whispered Oliver.
"Of course," said the always-smiling Brenda. "We wouldn't want out handsome bachelors looking less that that, of course. Must always impress the ladies."
The guys all nodded. Impressing the ladies was always a good thing.
"Come with me," said Brenda, waving them into the back of the shop. "I have some robes that you might like. Ginny, dear, you can come back for your boys in an hour's time, if you like."
"Why does everyone call them 'my boys'," said Ginny, getting rather frustrated. "I'd be so glad if you guys just all disappeared."
"Too bad, Weasel," said Draco. "You're stuck with us for two whole months."
Ginny groaned loudly, as she stomped out of the store, and headed for some ice cream. A really big bucket of 'Cookies & Cream Delight'. Ice cream was always her best friend, in times of frustration, stress and hardship.
Disclaimer:
I don't own any of the characters, places, names, items, etc. from the 'Harry Potter' series. They belong to their rightful owners: Ms. J.K. Rowling, Scholastic Books, Bloomsbury Books, Raincoast Books and Warner Bros. Inc. Any other characters, places, names, items, etc. belong to me. The plot line belongs to me, using the copyrighted characters, places, names, items, etc., and I am in no way trying to make a profit from writing this story. If there is a restaurant called, 'Yip Chan', I do not own it or have any association with it, and it was purely a name I just made up. "Crush" was sung by Mandy Moore, and belongs to its legal owners. I have absolute no claim over "Crush". Any persons, places, names, etc. resembling anyone or anything in life is purely coincidental.
Author's Note:
Thank you so much to the following people for reading chapter one of this story:
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P.S. Holy crap! I didn't realise that this chapter was eleven pages long. Sorry … random fact. Thanks once again for reading and reviewing! : )