--Chapter Four--
"Sorry," Ginny mumbled, and looked down at the floor.
"Uhh, it's okay," Draco said, still with a surprised look on his face, "But what did you do?"
"I got in your way…" Ginny said quietly.
"And you think that's a bad thing?"
Ginny looked up to see Draco's Slytherin smirk on his face. How she just wanted to kiss that smirk……….
"I dunno" Ginny said. Good, she was starting to actually say something in a normal voice.
"Well, it's not." Draco said.
Ginny looked into his eyes, and felt her face getting bright red. So maybe… he still likes me too?! Well, I shouldn't jump to conclusions, I'm not very experienced with boys. Maybe he just wants to be friends. Probably. He probably has a family by now…
"Hey? You okay? You spaced out there for a second…" Draco said.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Ginny replied.
"Soo… what brings you here?"
"Oh, I'm going to be the Gryffindor Head of House."
"Really?! I'm going to be the Slytherin Head of House!" Draco said, trying to conceal his excitement and keep his cool. (It didn't work)
"Yeah." Ginny said with a smile.
"So, I guess what we said on the train came true, eh?" Draco said.
"Yeah, I guess it did."
"Hey, I was wondering… would you want to go to Three Broomsticks tonight? Just to chat?" Draco asked, hopeful.
"Sure, what time?" Ginny answered.
"Tonight at 8 sound good?"
"Sounds good, see you there then." Ginny said as she waved and walked to the Gryffindor common room. Did I leave too early?? I don't dare look back, what if he thought I was weird for doing that?? Oh, my gosh. I accepted his invitation to go out to the Three Broomsticks tonight, didn't I? I was in too much of a daze to even realize what I was doing… Luckily, I don't have anything to do tonight.
When Ginny arrived at the Fat Lady's portrait, she had dreamed up many possibilities of how their date (would it be called a date, she wondered?) would go, most of them good. She was in kind of a trance as she spoke the password and went through the portrait, but then snapped out of it when she saw Minerva McGonnigal sitting on the couch staring at the cozy fire with tears in her eyes.
"Minerva, are you alright?" Ginny asked, timidly.
"Fine, I'm just going to miss Hogwarts."
Ginny sat on the couch next to Minerva, and stared into the fire. While Minerva must have been thinking about the past, Ginny was thinking about the things to come.
--
Chapter Four done! Please review! I'm trying to restrain from making Ginny and Draco's little relationship from moving along too fast, or I might get carried away… sorry that this was short, by the way...