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Summary: A past relationship rekindled, but is it a lasting one or will it be just a passing fancy?

PhoenixRae's Notes: Alright, here's my second attempt (ha! as if!) at working on this story. *grins* I still don't know where it's going. Either I end it on a "happily ever after" note or end it on a somewhat "not-so-happily-ever-after" note, hehehehehe...

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II. Insensitive

How do you numb your skin
After the warmest touch
How do you slow your blood
After the body rush
How do you free your soul
After you've found a friend
How do you teach your heart
It's a crime to fall in love again

Oh, you probably won't remember me
It's probably ancient history
I'm one of the chosen few
Who went ahead and fell for you
I'm out of vogue, I'm out of touch
I fell too fast, I feel too much
I thought that you might have
Some advice to give on how to be
Insensitive
-- Jann Arden, "Insensitive"

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"Draco, I've been thinking," Ginny broke the silence that stretched between them two nights before Christmas holiday. She lay ensconced in the arms of her lover, her head propped on his chest, feeling the rhythmic rise and fall of his chest and the soft beating of his heart.

"Mmm," Draco grunted. He had his arm covering his eyes. He was probably trying to sleep, but Ginny was wide awake and couldn't help herself from wondering where this love affair--if what they were having right now could be termed that--of theirs would go. They had been discreetly meeting during the dead of the night for the past three months now, and yet Ginny doesn't know where she stood in all this.

She may be enjoying the sex (since when did she not enjoy sex with Draco Malfoy?), but if that was all that was expected out of this affair of theirs, she wanted to know now before it was too late. She couldn't risk falling for the man again and in the end nurse yet another broken heart. Once was enough; she didn't need to go around the same block twice.

"Draco..." she began, but then found her voice trailing off. She doesn't know how to broach the subject up. They weren't as close to each other as they once were. They may be having sex, but there was already a barrier erected between them that warned her to tread carefully.

Draco must've sensed her difficulty in voicing out what she had been thinking. He removed his arm from his eyes and looked down at the redhead snugly resting in the crook of his arm.

"What is it, Gin?" he asked softly.

At the sound of his voice, Ginny lifted her head from his chest and looked up to meet his gray eyes. She saw concern and, for the briefest moment, love gleam into those icy eyes of his. Oh Merlin help her, but she was starting to feel those unwanted feelings she learned to push at the very back of her head since she started cavorting with Draco at the beginning of the school year.

"Gin?" he cajoled, his pale gray eyes pleading with her to tell him what was bothering her.

It's now or never, Ginny. Ask him now before you lose your chance, a voice at the back of her head urged. She knew she had to seize this opportunity now or she may never have the same chance to do so in the near future.

"I am just thinking about us. What we have right now. And I guess...well," she gave a slight shrug and rested her head back on his chest. She couldn't ask him her question while looking him straight in the eyes.

"Well what?"

She took another deep breath and waited a couple of heartbeats before continuing, "Do what we have right now mean something to you? Do I mean something to you?"

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Draco's arm tightened around Ginny's slender body. He wasn't expecting her to ask her this. But her questioning their relationship wasn't far from his mind. Draco tried to brace himself time and again for the day when Ginny would come out and ask him what he expected of them, but nothing could prepare him for when he actually had to answer her.

He had two choices here. Either he come out now and tell her the truth that he had been having an illicit extramarital affair with her or he could do it the usual Draco Malfoy style: cold, uncaring SOB.

He chose to do the latter.

"Honestly Weasley, you weren't expecting that we'd pick up where we left off five years ago, did you?" he let out a bitter, sarcastic laugh. Ginny please forgive me for being an ass. It's the only way to spare you from further pain and suffering, he silently pleaded, his arm around her tightening some more, pressing her lithe form against him. Imprinting her softness against the hard contours of his aroused body. "You're just another available body to me, and it's just by sheer dumb luck that we happened to be former lovers."

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That hurt. That really hurt. How the heck he could act this way after what they had been doing the past three months? Of course she was aware that it was more about sex than anything else, but the least she expected was for him to feel something for her other than another fuck-buddy!

But she asked for this. At least for once he was honest with her.

"Well, that sure cleared that itty-bitty part, didn't it?" Ginny hoped she sounded convincing with her carefree attitude about his answer. The last thing she wanted was for Draco Malfoy to find out that she was still the same naive girl he met, loved, bedded, and fooled five years ago. "We know where we stand with each other."

"And where do I stand with you, Ginny?" he questioned, his voice laced with both curiosity and nonchalance that Ginny couldn't point out which one it was.

Lifting her head off his chest once more, Ginny flashed him a big grin. Her biggest, carefree grin she could muster under the circumstance.

"Like what I am to you, Malfoy, you're just another available body for me to while away my time here at Hogwarts."

"Hmmm. Touché, Ginny," he sounded startled at her brazen reply. "The last five years made you grow a backbone. I thought when I ran into you on the train to here you were still the same naive girl with a wee bit of Weasley temper in you."

"Well you assumed wrong, Malfoy. Very wrong." Oh Merlin help me for lying through my teeth! I am still that same naive girl with a wee bit of Weasley temper, Draco. I am just putting on an act here just so you won't see my pain.

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A/N: Alright, it's...well, I dunno. This darn thing is headed towards the recycling bin! *lol* I am trying to make this story as short as possible (as if I'm capable of writing a short story, bwahahahaha) so I just skip some months. Next chapter will be...well, Valentines day? *lol* Nah, I ain't gonna skip that far ahead. Like what I already warned you people, this is a WIP and might soon turn to a PWP, but let's hope not! *screams*

Pudding Speck: Thanks for the compliment (I hope ::winks::). And I'm hoping that this story turns out good too.

killtheposeurs: Thanks. And I hope I get inspired enough by a few songs to actually visualize what the next chapter will look like so I can get it out and posted online! *lol*

hasapi: Not knowing where to go with this one is the challenge. But I sorta know where I'm gonna take this. It's just that fork at the end of their long (or short, depending on how many chapters I decide to write) journey. Should I make theirs a happy ending or not?

Z. M. Synerus: Like what I told hasapi, I am not entirely sure where this story is heading, but we'll just have to wait and see where the songs that inspires me take me. ::winks:: *lol*

lilikins: Nope, I haven't left ff.net yet. I just took a "sabbatical" of some sort. *lol*

Surya: Thanks. I wasn't sure about the plot when I first typed it. I just read the lines from the song I quoted in the first chapter and went on from there. *lol*