First off I'm very very very sorry that I haven't updated in such a long time, but I've got a good reason for it. With Christmas we had a burglary and all of our computers were stolen. So I was cut off from the Internet and I couldn't update. But now we've got new computers and I'm back again. While I couldn't post anything I kept writing the old-fashioned way, so I have finished a couple of new chapters, I just have to type and post them.

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Chapter 7 - I don't know

Over the following days Ginny couldn't help but thinking about one particular boy. It was not as if she wanted to think about him on purpose, it just happened. She had tried everything to get him off her mind, but nothing had helped. Well almost nothing. Tonight's Quidditch practice was so intense that she couldn't allow her mind to wander over other things. She had made the house team this year, she was a Gryffindor Chaser. Quidditch had become quite the family affair now as Fred and George (who were forced to finish their last year by their mother) were Beaters once again and Ron had been the best at the Keeper try-outs.

'What's this?' Ginny looked around to see Harry, the new Gryffindor Captain, shout at a figure in green robes that had appeared on the pitch.
'Professor Snape has given us permission to practice tonight,' he said as he held up a note. 'So you and your lousy team better get lost.'
As Ginny landed to stand by her team she saw that the new Slytherin Captain was followed by five other students wearing robes in their house colours. She immediately realized that someone wasn't there, because a Quidditch team consisted of seven players. Though, as fast as that conclusion came it took her some time to realise who it was that wasn't there. She was pulled out of her thoughts by Harry's voice that said: 'You're lucky we're done here, but I am going to report this!'

Ginny stood there for a minute staring up at the Slytherins, before she came to her senses and rushed to the changing room.
'Hey, Gins! What took you so long?'
'My name is Ginny, not Gins!' she responded irritated and she started to loosen her robe.
'What's wrong with you?' Fred asked.
'What do you think? It's that bloody name that you guys keep calling me! Maybe you haven't noticed, but I'm not a little girl anymore!' she pulled her robe over her head that she knew had become red of anger.
'You will always be our little sister, we'll always be there to look after you,' George backed his brother up.
'I don't need to be looked after! I'm not your bloody pet!' she turned around and left the changing room.

Her mood didn't change that night although her friends tried to cheer her up. Nobody succeeded and unfortunately for them they only raised her Weasley-temper. It was not long before she got up angrily and went for bed, leaving her friends behind with the question of what was causing her temper. None knew, not even Melissa, though she had her ideas. Ginny dropped herself on her bed, she didn't bother to change into her pyjamas, she even kept her shoes on. Sleep just didn't come, her mind didn't leave her alone. She kept thinking about the boy that had been missing in the Slytherin team. She couldn't believe that it was Malfoy underneath the mask. That this sweet guy had been him all the time, she simply couldn't believe it. She lay wide awake for a couple of hours. She had heard all of her roommates come up and drift off to an easy sleep.

There she stood, in a long, dark corridor. Before her was a boy. She walked towards him and saw that he was wearing a black mask. He took it off and she recognized him as Malfoy. Suddenly he turned into Tom. She panicked when she saw him, memories of her first year rushing through her mind. Ginny turned on her heels and started running through the corridor, away from him. After what seemed like ages she finally saw a tiny spot of light. She sped up to reach it. The light in front of her became bigger and bigger, but when she had almost reached it a door slammed shut in front of it and the only exit in her sight disappeared. Ginny stopped just in time to prevent herself from crashing into it and then Malfoy appeared right before her. Her panic rose to an even higher level as she turned around only to see Tom emerging in front of her. He pushed his black hair out of his face and smirked at her. At the edge of a nervebreak she looked at the two of them, both coming from a different side of her. Desperate, she searched for a way out of this. She started screaming.

Screaming and panting heavily Ginny Weasley finally woke up, leaving her nightmare behind her.

'Ginny!'
The girl didn't respond.
'What's going on?'
Someone got out of her bed and walked over to her.
'Are you allright?'
The curtains around her bed were dawn away.
'Why don't you say something?'
Melissa's face appeared in the girls' sight.
'Bloody hell, Ginny!' she said, when she saw her face. 'What happened?'
Finally being able to say something Ginny replied: 'He's back...'
'Who is? What are you talking about?'
'I dreamt about him again,' she clutched the other girls' pyjamas in her fists, panic spreading across her face again. She saw Melissa's eyes widen in shock and confusion.
'You sure it was him?'
Ginny nodded.
'I'll go get you some water and-' she was cut off.
'Don't go,' Ginny grabbed her pyjamas tighter. 'I'm scared.'
'Okay, but you can let go of my pyjamas then,' was all she got as a reply when the other girl sat down on her bedside. They remained silent for some time. It could have been a few second, a couple of minutes or even an hour, Ginny had lost all track of time.

'I was in a corridor,' she said without being asked. 'I was in a corridor and there also was a boy. He was wearing a mask. He took it off and turned out to be Draco. When I was looking at him he turned into, into-' she couldn't finish it.
'Tom,' Melissa simply stated.
Ginny nodded before she continued: 'I turned and ran away from him, towards the exit. When I reached it it disappeared and Draco turned up in front of it. I backed away from him but they were both coming at me. I started screaming and then I woke up.'

Silence again.
'So both Tom and Malfoy were in this dream?'
A single nod as a confirmation that she was right.
'And they were both threatening you?'
Another nod.
'I thought I was over him! Completely over him!' Ginny suddenly exclaimed. 'And what in Merlin's name was Draco doing in my dream?'
'I don't know, Gin, I don't know.'
'I haven't got anything to do with Draco, nothing at all. So what's he doing in my dream?' she asked again. 'I mean, I've got nothing to do with him, right?'
'Probably.'
'What do you mean by that?'
'Well, you keep calling him Draco,' Melissa said hesitantly.
'Am not!' Ginny nearly screamed.
'Yes you are.'

Another silence.
'Melis, I don't know what's going on with me,' Ginny said looking at her best friend. 'For the past week Draco has been the only thing on my mind. I have been thinking about him all the time. I don't know what to do!'
'Me neither,' Melissa sighed. 'I think you're gonna have to find out your feelings toward Malfoy.'
The red-headed girl burst into tears and started sobbing uncontrolably.
'Will you help me?' she asked.

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