Ginny had tried as hard as she could to avoid Draco at all means necessary. She would sit on the other side of the room in Geometry, she would skip meals so as not to see him in the cafeteria, and she would even take the long ways to class to avoid confrontation in the hallway. But the more she tried to avoid him, the more she would think about him. Where is Draco? What is he doing? Why did he kiss me? Why is he so gorgeous? As much as she tried to block out all thoughts off him, he would always be on her mind. She had gone a good three days without any form of communication, but the luck stopped there.
Ginny quietly walked into geometry and slipped into her seat. She was the first one there. The class slowly filled up, and Draco was the last one to walk in.
"Alright class." The teacher announced. "We have a test tomorrow, so in order for us to get ready I'm going to pair up the better students in this class with the people who seem to be struggling."
Ginny got worried. What if I'm paired with Draco? What am I going to do?
"Valerie Elkins and James Shaw please pair up. Rebecca Wimbleton and Alicia Bernstein. Jessica Patterson and George Bleakley. Joseph Miller and Ginevra Weasley." Ginny stopped listening for her name and stood up to sit next to Joe. She had talked to him a few times before and he seemed pretty nice. She dropped her books down at the desk next to him.
"Okay, so..." She started, but before she knew it, all of his lunch came spewing out and onto the desk, narrowly missing her. Ginny quickly stood up, and tried hard to hold down her own lunch.
"I need two people to volunteer to walk him down to the nurse's." The teacher said, picking up the classroom phone, most likely to call the janitor.
"I will..." Ginny volunteered.
"Me too." She heard Draco say. She got up and helped Joe to his feet.
"Come on, Joe." She said in a quiet voice.
They walked out of the room and she heard Draco following quickly behind them. On the way down to the nurse's, they were silent. Ginny knocked on the infirmary door.
"Come in!" The nurse yelled from the other side of the door. Ginny twisted the knob and helped Joe inside.
"He threw up in math class." Ginny informed the nurse. The awkward situation made everything she said sound stupid.
"Okay darling. Thank you for bringing him here." The nurse smiled. She was old and small, with white hair. Ginny walked out and closed the door behind her. Draco was nowhere to be found, and honestly, Ginny was grateful.
She felt a pair of arms snake around her waist. She stopped moving completely and didn't even bother to look up. She knew who it was.
"Come on Gin." He whispered in her ear. It sent shivers up and down her spine. She didn't reply. "Stop avoiding me."
Ginny recollected herself. "I'm not avoiding you." She said, trying to ignore the feeling of his breath on her neck.
"Really? I think you are. I think you're avoiding me because you're afraid you might have feelings for me. Am I right Ginevra?" She let out a breath she didn't even know she was holding.
She wiggled away from him. "No, Malfoy. You're not right." She said coldly, and continued walking down the hall. He followed her.
"Well you have no other reason for avoiding me. You were fine until I kissed you. And I know you. If you didn't like it you would've said something." He said all-knowingly.
Ginny had absolutely no response to that, mostly because it was all true. She thought for a moment. And then another moment. And then just one more...
He smirked. "I'm right, am I not?"
Ginny ignored him continued to walk down the hall, but he stood in front of her.
"Malfoy, would you please-" He kissed her passionately, for what seemed like forever. Ginny was paralyzed. The kiss ended and for a quick second, she wished it hadn't. But then all of those feelings went away. Her cheeks turned bright red (the curse of having red hair and freckles).
"I- I-" She stuttered as she tried to find words. Draco smirked and walked off before she had the nerve to say anything at all. She continued down the hallway on her back way to Geometry. This was one hell of a day...
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Ginny was in her room Friday night, with Julia, Jess, and Jenny.
"I'm glad we don't have school tomorrow..." Ginny smiled. After this long week, there was nothing that she needed more than this week off.
"You know, Gin. I'm surprised they didn't have weekends at your old school. I've never heard of that before." Jess said.
"Yeah, that's like totally bunk. I would just like die without weekends." Jenny smiled.
"My cousin lives in Britain and she has weekends." Julia peeked her head up from her history text book.
"Yeah..." Ginny quickly thought up a lie. "It was just our school. But we got extra breaks. So it evened out. What do you do on weekends anyway?"
"We could go to the mall..." Jess suggested, playing with the bracelets on her wrist.
"Oh my god! That would be sooo awesome!" Jenny got excited. "Gin, I've been just dying to go shopping with you. I mean, all of your clothes are so old."
"Yeah, I know." Ginny replied. "My family doesn't have all that much money."
"Aww! I'm sorry sweetie. I didn't mean to offend." Jenny smiled.
"No, it's okay. I just can't really afford to buy a whole new wardrobe."
"No problem. I'll pay!" Jenny offered.
"Thanks Jenny, but I could never accept that."
"Really, my parents are like, millionaires. When's your birthday?" Julia asked.
"August eleventh." Ginny replied.
"It'll be like a really really late birthday present!" She exclaimed.
"Yeah, I can pitch in too." Jess said. "My family's got shit loads of money."
"Ooh! This'll be so much fun! Tomorrow, we go shopping!" She grinned and dozed off to sleep in her silky pink pajamas.
Ginny woke up that morning with a great attitude. She pulled on a pair of old jeans and a dark red long sleeved shirt that was a hand-me-down from Ron.
"Yeah, this trip is like, definitely necessary." Jenny said, looking Ginny up and down and giggling a little.
Ginny had never seen anything like the mall before. It was full of people and it was loud and a bit overwhelming. The last time she had seen this many people crowded into one space was at Gilderoy Lockhart's book signing, and she almost died because of that. Thinking of this made her mind float to Harry, which made her mind float to Draco, which made her not want to think at all.
"Okay, I think we should start at the food court." Jess suggested.
"Ooh, good idea." Jenny smiled. Julia simply nodded.
Ginny got french fries and a hamburger from Burger King and sat down at a table with Julia, Jess, and Jenny.
"So where are we gonna go first?" Ginny asked.
"Hmm... American Eagle. Hollister..." Jenny began to name several stores.
"Nooo way. I don't think so." Jess gave Jenny a look. "How about Hot Topic and Zumiez?" She suggested. She named a few others.
"I have never heard of any of these stores..." Ginny laughed a little bit. "Why don't we go to one of Jenny's stores, and then one of Jess' stores, and you'll keep switching."
Jenny and Jess reluctantly nodded. They headed off to one of Jenny's stores first.
"Ooh, Gin! What about this?" She asked, holding up an extremely short plaid miniskirt.
"Okay..." Ginny looked curiously at the small skirt.
"Go try it on!" She smiled and pushed Ginny to the dressing rooms. Ginny pulled on the skirt, and looked down. The skirt barely reached mid thigh.
"It's a bit short!" Ginny shouted from the dressing room.
"Come out here and let me see." Jenny said.
"Uh, no thank you." Ginny replied.
"Come on, please?" Jenny begged. Ginny sighed and stepped out of the dressing room. A huge smile formed on Jenny's face.
"Jess, Julia! Come here!" She shouted excitedly. Julia gave a little smile. Even Jess smiled a bit.
"Gin, you look amazing!" Jenny exclaimed. They bought two miniskirts, and left the store. Ginny still felt weird that the girls were paying for her clothes. Next they went to one of Jess' stores. Ginny bought three teeshirts and a pair of black jeans, which all the girls agreed flattered her barely existent butt. Ginny laughed at that a bit. They switched back and forth and by the end of the shopping trip she had about six pairs of jeans, three miniskirts, four teeshirts, two hoodies, two sweaters, two long sleeved shirts, and three new pairs of shoes.
"Are we done yet?!" Ginny asked.
"Almost." Jess smiled. "We just have one more little thing to do." Jess made Ginny close her eyes, and when she was finally aloud to open them, she saw a large amount of bras and underwear.
"Uh..." Ginny replied awkwardly. "Is this necessary?"
"Yes!" Jess and Jenny simultaneously.
"Here try this on." Jenny said, throwing Ginny a bright pink bra with yellow polka dots.
"And this!" Jess threw her a black one with red skulls.
Julia was standing there silently, and Ginny didn't think she was having too much fun.
Someone threw Ginny a yellow one with orange flowers. Ginny tried it on and looked in the mirror.
"Gin, come out here!" Jess yelled from outside the door.
Ginny sighed, and walked out of the dressing room. Jess and Jenny smiled.
"Gin you look great! What the hell were you wearing before?" Jess asked. Ginny pulled out a ratty grey sports bra.
Jess laughed. "No wonder you had no curves."
It wasn't exactly Ginny's best day ever, but it sure did help take her mind off of Draco Malfoy...
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Draco Malfoy was NOT stalking Ginevra Weasley. He just happened to overhear her talking about going to the mall, and decided that it sounded like a good idea. And when he happened to see her walk into Victoria's Secret, he couldn't help but go look and see what they were up to... and when he happened to see her walk out in very revealing very flattering apparel, it was only just a funny coincidence. Although, Ginny didn't seem to think so.
"Draco!" She yelled, running into the dressing room. She came back out fully dressed, and angrier than ever. "Malfoy what the hell is your problem!"
Even, though he knew this wasn't the time, Draco couldn't help but smirk. "I don't seem to be the one with the problem, Ginevra. You're the one who was almost naked in the middle of a store full of strangers."
She blushed a bit. "What are you doing here anyway, stalking me?"
Draco paused, thinking of a response. "Don't think so highly of yourself Weaslette. Why would I waste my time following you around?"
Ginny rolled her eyes and grunted, clearly annoyed with the current conversation. With that Ginny grabbed the bras and underwear and walked over to the counter. Jess and Jenny paid, and they quickly left the store.
Draco thought about what his next move would be. Then, as if on impulse alone, he chased through the crowd of people to find Ginny. He ran up behind her, and spun her around to face him. He pulled her into him and kissed her passionately. The kiss was intense and spoke better than words, saying he was sorry and wrong and confused and most of all it said that he truly and honestly cared about her. And finally, she kissed him back in front of Jess, Jenny, Julia, and everyone else in the mall that wanted to see (or didn't want to for that matter, Draco and Ginny could really care less).
A/N- I don't know if I like this chapter or not sooo maybe you should tell me what you think of it... by oh I don't know... reviewing?! ) Pleeeeease? Okay... well... there it is. ) So review if you want me to be happy. Sorry, I know that one took a little while, so I made it longer than usual.