A/N:

Hi guys! I guess I should introduce myself, kinda. This is my first story on ff, so I'm nervous! I welcome all comments and criticism, but please don't flame me. I hope you guys enjoy, and please review!

For those of you wanting more Drinny action, it's not in this chapter. But the next chapter... ;)

Disclaimer: I don't own anything except for Cam and the plot!

"Why is she coming with us?" Cameron whispered.

"She doesn't really have any female friends. Not good ones, except for me."

"So? We're bringing Colin dress shopping, why can't Hermione Granger go with Harry Potter and your brother?"

"Colin volunteered, and I invited her so she's coming with us. She didn't want my brother to see her dress and I'm not in the mood to be around Harry."

She humphed and turned back around, crossing her arms to pull her coat tighter around her.

It wasn't winter yet, but October was certainly cold. I had a green knit hat and matching scarf on, but the chill still caught me as we walked quickly to Hogsmeade. I was slightly worried about dress shopping. My family as a whole didn't have much money and never had, and nice dresses were expensive. I had the five galleons Hermione had given me when I won our bet, but I still felt apprehensive.

The dress shop was so tiny on the outside that it didn't even have a sign. It was just a little shed, like a one room house, out towards the Shrieking Shack. On the inside, it never ended. It sold everything a girl could need, from lingerie to ball gowns, tiaras to shoes. Colin immediately sought out a seat by the dressing rooms. They had plush chairs, and he knew it would take a while, but he was in on the Malfoy plot, and seeing as he was our "only guy friend who would support this crazy plan" he felt obligated to give a male's opinion on our options.

Another way the shop was interesting was that the salesgirls picked the dresses for you. They used a spell to take your measurements with their wand, and then their wand would lead them to dresses that would fit you. The majority of these women were part Veela, so they would expertly pick out dresses (or anything else you needed) that looked perfect once on.

Hermione went first, and we chatted and snacked on the store's candies while we waited, until Hermione came out again to show us her best fitting gown. It was a deep purple color, long satin, with a wide halter top. The bust was covered in fake diamonds, it had a satin belt just below her breasts that tied across the open back in a perfect bow. The back of the dress itself dipped very low, lower than I would've thought possible on Hermione Granger.

Cameron went next, as Hermione was getting changed, and while it was just the two of us I whispered to Colin, "You know, Cam would say yes if you'd grow a set and ask her to the dance."

He looked at me sideways and started to reply, and then Hermione was back with her purchase and we were waiting on Cam.

Cam's dress was yellow, with a tightly fitted bodice that flared out to the ground at her mid thigh. The single strap went from the top of her right breast to her left shoulder, and there were some fake diamonds covering her strap. I had to nudge Colin, because he was staring so intently I thought he might start drooling.

Cam took her dress off incredibly quickly, and then all three of them forced me into the other room, where I was to get measured.

A blonde woman, very young, definitely part Veela, with a very large chest, took my measurements and ushered me into a changing room. I had been here only once before, for the Yule Ball, and I remembered now that the woman would help me into the dress as well. I stripped down to my bra and underwear, sat on the bench, and waited.

The curtain was pushed slightly aside, and the woman came back in burdened with four dresses. I saw gold, green, pink, and blue.

She dressed me in the blue dress first, which was a simple mid-thigh fitted piece that I didn't mind. She clucked her tongue without saying anything though, and stripped me again. The pink one got up to my hips before she stepped back, laughed, and shook her head.

"Not with your hair." She giggled through a thick accent. I smiled at her good humor.

The gold went over my head third, a simple halter dress with a plunge down to my belly button and a loose flowing skirt. She tilted her head.

"I like this one, but we ought to try the last one first." I nodded my approval, there wasn't a mirror so it wasn't like I could give my opinion.

After hanging the gold, she slipped the green over my head. She tugged on it some, clucked her tongue, and said "Stay." Then she left the dressing room.

The green dress fit snugly. It hugged my body, though I couldn't see it, I could feel it. The material was like liquid was floor length, gorgeous, and I quickly realized that it was the most risque thing I had ever slipped over my head.

It was a halter top, with a small plunge in between my breasts. The dress hugged me tightly, down to my waist, where it loosened but still fell straight to the floor. It was backless, curving lower than Hermione's, and to top it off, there was a slit in the right side of the skirt that went all the way to my hip bone.

She bustled back in with a plunge bra and matching- could you even call those little things underwear? - for me to put on underneath the dress, and smiled after I did.

"Black heels and a black manicure for you, and you'll be set."

She waved her wand, and a mirror appeared. I jumped a bit in surprise. The dress didn't look at all risky until I moved, and you could she the slit in the side, or when I turned. My hair brushed my lower back and I started, laughing. She laughed with me.

"This dress is normally seven galleons. However, there is a very nice young man sitting out there that pulled me aside and gave me five, because he seemed to worry that you wouldn't have enough. That leaves us with two for the dress- and I'll let you have the underthings for free. Like I told the other girls, every time you buy shoes and a dress, you'll get your nails done free. Both sets."

Colin had paid for my dress? My heart melted. He was obnoxiously sweet. Now I knew why he insisted on coming with us. I was nearly tearing up with gratitude.

"Let's go show your friends!" She said, after I had fished out two galleons for her.

I walked carefully out to the waiting area and quickly stopped moving. Colin saw me first, and he smiled, and then it was like his brain registered and his head jerked back slightly in surprise. Cam, who he had been talking to, looked up, and then reached over slowly, apparently in shock, to smack the reading Hermione's shoulder.

"Oh, Gin." Hermione breathed.

I grinned and stepped forward, feeling the edge of the dress slip past my thigh. Cam gasped once, and then twice when I turned around.

"Merlin Ginny that's perfect."

I looked at Colin. "What is your opinion, Mr. Man?"

He blinked. "If Malfoy doesn't get hard when you show up in this, he's not a man."

I laughed. "What does that make you?"

"Taken," He smiled, lacing his fingers with Cam's. She blushed.

It took me all of four seconds to register, and then I made a very strange sound somewhere between a squeal and a scream and jumped in the air. "I SO KNEW IT. How long have you guys been dating behind my back?"

Colin laughed loudly. "Just a week Gin. Just a week."

I ran over and slapped Cam on the arm a few times. "You are such a horrible best friend. Both of you! How dare you not tell me for seven days?" I wasn't really angry, and they knew it.

I returned to the dressing room to strip down. We all picked out our shoes, and got our nails done. They were charmed with a two week spell to prevent damage or chipping. I stopped by a display case as we headed out the door, seeing a simple black face mask and realizing, "You guys, this is the Halloween dance! We're supposed to have eye masks."

Even Colin couldn't get out of that one, so they crowded around the counter with me. I ended up paying the few Sickles for the first one I had seen, plain black. Hermione's was also black, though more extravagant, with a gem holding a feather in place on the right side. Colin also went black, but Cam's mask was white.

When we finally left the store, we were all chattering happily, even Cam and Mione. There was a lasting happiness, even when we realized we had no time left and had to make a mad dash to get back to the castle.

"How much was that dress, Ginny? It's gorgeous."

We were all sitting around the fire in the common room drinking hot chocolates that I had convinced Dobby to bring us. It was Hermione who had asked, from the closest end of the couch. I was curled in an armchair closer to the fire, while Colin and Cam were curled up together on the other end of the couch, and Cam appeared to have fallen asleep against him.

I locked eyes with Colin. "Not as much as I expected it to be."

He winked, and looked down at Cam, murmuring to her. She shook her head and tightened her grip on his hand, and he smiled. He looked at her like...

Like Harry used to look at me.

Hermione looked up and saw my face, as I looked at them. She abruptly stood. "Ginny, will you come with me? I need your help."

I nodded blankly, getting to my feet and following her. I doubted that they even noticed I was gone.

Hermione knew me well. She had rounds tonight, with one of the other prefects, but left me in the Head's Dorm to cry. I only let myself cry when I was alone. I didn't spare a thought for Malfoy.