A/N: See bottom! Bb27 P.S. this is a continuation of last chap! And I don't know what was up with that. I posted and it didn't show up until the next day. I have no idea what happened!

Draco sighed, by the sound of Ginny's breathing, she'd obviously fallen asleep. Her head lay in his lap, as he reclined in one of the sofa's, his feet propped on the table. They'd been watching the telly for the last hour, Hermione and Blaise were holed up in his room, and Ron, Harry, and Kayla were still in the kitchen.

At that point, Ron walked into the room. At seeing his sister in the position she was in with his enemy, mind you it wasn't at all inappropriate, he went off. "Malfoy! What is Ginny's head doing in your fucking lap! Get it off!"

Draco rolled his eyes, but looked at Ginny to make sure she hadn't woken up. "Listen Weasel, you better shut up or she'll wake up." he hissed.

Ron sighed. "Fine." he said before stomping off.

Draco smiled, and began to play with Ginny's hair as he watched an Austin Power's movie that was on.

Ginny slowly opened her eyes, and watched as Draco absently ran his hand through her hair. He had no idea she'd woken up, and she liked the time to learn about him, deciding if this relationship would really work out.

Finally, as if knowing she was staring at him, he looked down at her. He jumped a little. "You're up."

Ginny nodded, "My brother isn't the most quiet person you know."

With a smile Draco too nodded. "I was just going to carry you up to your room."

"Trying to get rid of me are you?" Ginny questioned as she sat up. Laying her head on his shoulder, she looked at the telly. "What are we watching?"

"Austin Powers, and no I wasn't trying to get rid of you, I could go on for hours just having you with me, even if you were asleep. You just didn't look very comfortable."

"With you as my human pillow, I was very comfortable." Ginny whispered, throwing her leg over his lap so she straddled him. With a seductive smile she kissed him.

XOXOXOXOXO

"Do you ever feel like, everyone thinks of you a certain way, and try as you might to change yourself, and to differ their idea of you, they stay stuck on it. Almost like they can never view you as what you have changed into, but always as how you were?"

Blaise smiled at his girlfriends comment. "Sure, I mean even you two months ago on the train thought that I was just another pure-blood, Slytherin, bastard. But I'm not, and even though I am not like I was when I started at Hogwarts, that is still how people see me. Look at Draco. Is he anything like he was five years ago? If you hadn't seen that for yourself, would you believe it?"

Hermione shook her head. "Probably not. But even though I have to admit I've seen a much more calm, nicer Draco, doesn't mean I totally believe this whole thing isn't a charade."

"He loves her 'Mione. I mean really, even back in September he wasn't like this. She's changed him."

"So much has changed, everyone, everything. Safety, ranking, friendships. Nothing is what it was. It scares me sometimes.

Blaise nodded. "Yeah, it does, but there isn't anything to be afraid of. Embrace change. Weren't you the one who just said that you had changed, and wanted people to see it"

"I don't think it's fair."

"Life's not fair."

XOXOXOXOXO

"You freaked out, because Ginny's head was in Draco's lap, am I right?" Kayla asked as she, Harry, and Ron played Monopoly in the kitchen.

"Yeah, but what was her head doing there!" Ron asked. "You rolled doubles, go again."

Kayla picked up the dice and tossed them again. "I don't think it's that big of a deal Ron. I mean she was cranky, and maybe she just fell asleep like that." she said moving his eight spaces.

Ron shook his head. "It shouldn't have been there. She shouldn't be touching him!"

"You should see them now. They're in the middle of a heavy snogging session, and I do believe her whole body is in his lap this time." Harry said walking through the door, coming back from the loo.

Ron's eyes went wide and he flew out of the kitchen.

"Nice job Potter." Kayla complimented sarcastically as she smacked him upside the head, then stole several hundred dollar bills from Ron's place.

Harry shrugged.

"GINEVRA MOLLY WEASLEY!" Ron's voice roared from the living room.

Ginny jumped backwards out of Draco's lap, and landed with a thud on the coffee table that sat in front of the couch. Eye wide with horror, she glanced between Draco and Ron. Her lips were parted, as she drew in heavy breaths, both from the scare and lack of air.

Draco on the other hand had his eyes shut, slowly shaking his head back and forth. Opening them he looked at Ginny, then at Ron. Both were bright red, Ron with anger, Ginny with embarrassment. "Weasley, will you butt out?" he asked calmly.

"NO I WILL BLOODY NOT! Ginny what's gotten into you, he's a MALFOY! And you! I said HANDS OFF!" Ron yelled.

Hermione and Blaise came running down the steps at this point. "WHAT'S GOING ON DOWN HERE? Merlin you'd think everyone would be hoarse with the amount of yelling going on!" Blaise hollered.

"Your bloody mate here was touching my sister!" Ron said as if it was the most obvious, horrible crime that could be committed.

Hermione allowed one perfectly arched eyebrow to raise. "Ron, he is allowed to do that, he's her BOYFRIEND!"

Ron shook his head. "NO HE IS NOT! Who gave him permission to be her boyfriend?"

"I DID!" Ginny cried, seemingly over her shock. "God you act like I'm a chid and can't take care of myself sometimes!"

"YOU ARE A CHILD!" Ron bellowed.

"SHE IS NOT!" Harry chimed in. "By sixteen I remember you and Lavender were going to town up in the common room!"

"Piss off Harry!" Ron yelled.

"Don't yell at him RON!" Kayla shouted.

"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!" An eighth voice roared. All went silent and turned to look at their potions teacher. "I thought that I could trust the seven of you together, but perhaps I was WRONG! I leave you alone for eight hours, and this is what I get when I return?" No one answered. "I asked a question, I want an answer. Weasley what is going on here?"

Ginny looked from her brother to her potions teacher. "Which one?" she asked quietly.

Severus glared at the teen. "Your brother Ginevra." he answered looking at her as if she was an idiot..

"Oh." Ginny nodded, "kay."

"Well, everything was fine. Until Malfoy touched Ginny." Ron declared.

Snape rolled his eyes. "Weasley, I do not want to hear about Draco's love life. In my opinion I think that you need to grow up. I'm going to return in an hour, it will be noon, this house better be straightened up. I want all of you showered and dressed, and submerged in one activity or another."

All nodded, and watched the professor leave the room.

"Thanks Ron, you got us all in trouble!" Ginny said accusingly to her brother before heading upstairs. "I'm going to take a shower. I suggest the rest of you do the same. Snape isn't going to be happy if he comes back and finds all of you standing around in your pajamas."

Hermione nodded, and walked towards the main floor bathroom.

This left Kayla looking around at all the guys. Here she stood one girl to four of them. Scarily enough, they were the four boys with the worst tempers at all of Hogwarts. "Right, Monopoly anyone?"

XOXOXOXOXO

Hermione sighed. There was obviously something about her relationship with Blaise that was a bad omen. Every time they started getting along, something would interrupt them, and then both would stomp off ill tempered with each other. As she let the hot water beat on her, she thought of what had just happened. Not a lot really. As far as she gathered, Draco had in someway or another "touched" Ginny in a way that Ron didn't approve. However, knowing Ginny it was probably her that got him into that predicament. And knowing Ginny, that was her payback to Draco about the night before. 'Good payback.' Hermione thought as she shaved her leg. 'But what am I going to do to get back at Blaise?'

A knock at the door brought her out of her thoughts. "Come on Hermione, there are five other people that need to take showers!" Blaise called through the door.

"Go bang on Ginny's door, I'm not done yet!" she called back, surprising herself at her attitude towards him.

"Hermione, get off my ass. Snape's not going to be happy if he comes and finds you brooding.

"GO TO HELL ZABINI!"

Blaise stood shocked at his girlfriends worlds. "Hermione GRANGER!"

"WHAT!"

"IT'S OVER!" He yelled, letting his mouth form the words that popped into his head. He didn't mean it, but it was out there now and he couldn't take it back. Stalking away, he plopped on the couch in the living room to await his turn.

Hermione on the other hand now stood in the shower. Her leg propped up on the side, razor in one hand and shaving cream in the other. 'It's over?' she thought to herself. 'No, that's not what he said. Well maybe he did, but it's not what he meant. Dear God.'

She hastily finished her shower, and wrapping a towel around her crept out of the bathroom and flew up the stairs in the kitchen, completely avoiding the living room where she knew Blaise was. When she heard the door slam below, she knew he'd taken the advantage to take his shower. Entering the room, she bumped into Ginny who had her head tipped upside down, and was applying a large amount of hair spray to it. Dressed in jeans and a Boston Red Sox t-shirt, she looked comfortable, yet still stylish. Upon flipping her head up, she saw Hermione.

"Hey, you don't look too happy." she said, grabbing her make-up and walking to the armoire which had a full length mirror on each door.

Hermione shook her head. "I'm not. Could you like scooch for two minutes while I get dressed?"

Ginny looked up from her eyeshadow. "Huh? I -yeah sorry, just open the door and let me back in when you're done."

Hermione nodded. 'At least she seems in a better mood.' Opening the wardrobe, she pulled out white sweat pants and a New York Yankees t-shirt. Throwing them on quickly, (obviously with her other under clothing) she opened the door. Ginny stood impatiently in the hall way.

"Are you going to tell me what's wrong?" Ginny asked, repositioning herself in front of the mirror. "Come on Kayla is in the shower, hurry before she comes in too."

Hermione glanced at her teddy bear that Blaise had given her. He sat on her bed, perfectly happy, unbeknownst that his buyer had just broken up with his owner. "Blaise said it's over."

Ginny's mouth fell open, and her head slowly turned to look at her friend. "WHAT!"

Hermione nodded, "Yeah." she replied, grabbing her hair gel and combing some thru her much calmer hair. Using a brush she put her hair up in a pony tail. Screw getting fancy, what was the point of dressing up today.

"What did you say?" Ginny asked, looking back in the mirror to apply her mascara.

Hermione shrugged. "I didn't. He left before I could say anything. I have to talk to him about it, but I don't want to. You know what I mean?"

Ginny nodded, and moved to the bed to put her trainers on. Perfect shoes they were, Nike, Grey and orange. Her favorite colors. And her jeans were the perfect length to cover then just so you could see the air shocks and the tips of her toes. "Do you want me to?" she asked as she tied the laces.

"Nah, you have enough issues right now with Draco and your brother, it's fine." Hermione said placing her own shoed feet on the floor. Her matching Nike trainers were hot pink and white.

"Everything is going to be okay. I mean all the drama and everything that's been going on, after last night, there's so much emotion, and the only way that we can get it out right now is through anger. Think that the world isn't fair, you know?" Ginny reassured her.

"Isn't your perspective better now?" Hermione asked as she added some eyeliner to under her eyes.

Ginny shrugged. "I had a little visitor in the shower."

Hermione stared at her best friend. "YOU WHAT!"

Ginny grinned sheepishly. "We didn't do anything. He was just there."

Hermione closed her eyes, shaking her head. "I don't want to be there when your brother finds out."

Ginny smiled.

Flashback:

'Ron is such an arsehole! God I hate him sometimes,' Ginny thought to herself. The sound of the door opening caused her to stop in the middle of shampooing her hair. "Ron?" It wasn't a big deal to have her brother going into the bathroom when she was in the shower. At the Burrow there was seven kids and two parents with one bathroom.

"No." Draco's voice replied.

"Draco what are you doing in here? Ron's going to flip!" Ginny cried.

At that precise moment, Ron decided that he had to pee. Knocking on the door, he called through. "Gin I have to go, and Hermione's downstairs, can I come in?"

"Uh, hang on!" Ginny stammered. "Draco get in here!"

Draco stopped. "What!"

"Get in here! He can't find you in here!"

Draco did as he was told, stripping down, he threw his cloths in the laundry basket and stepped into the shower.

"Okay, you can come in now!" Ginny called, facing away from Draco. "Shit, he's going to see two shadows!" she thought out loud, and turning around she hugged herself tight to Draco.

His eyes grew wide, and they heard Ron enter the bathroom.

Ginny looked up to meet Draco's eyes, and he smiled devilishly at her. However when Ron decided that he should flush the toilet and the water got hot, Draco was fast enough to cover her mouth with his, and reach across to turn the water temperature back down.

"Thanks Gin." Ron said and left the room.

"That was so close!" Ginny said, breaking the kiss. "What were you doing in the bathroom?"

Draco shrugged, "I had to ask you something." he answered simply.

"I see. And that was?"

Draco blinked. "I forgot."

"Hm, well, could you let go of me so you can get out and I can finish my shower?" Ginny asked sweetly.

Draco shook his head. "Nope sorry I can't. I have wet hair now, they'll know I was in the shower with you. Besides, why waste water. If we shower together, then we can conserve, and it's killing two showers for one."

Ginny couldn't argue that. "Fine. But, no hanky panky, I'm not ready for that." she answered truthfully.

"No means no." Draco told her softly. "What ever you want."

Ginny smiled, as his hand reached for her wet hair, and he kissed her. She didn't care that she was seeing him, the real true him for the first time. She didn't care that she was standing there, the now cold water beating on her, butt naked. It was them, and though she hadn't anticipated it, they'd gone past that boundary and there was no going back.

End flashback

Ginny nodded. "I'm lucky he's oblivious, because he would have noticed that Draco was missing and realized that he was with me.

Hermione smiled. "Good for you, at least one of us can be happy."

"HERMIONE! Go talk to him!"

Hermione shook her head. "He's in the shower."

Footsteps brought a towel draped Blaise down the hall. "Go talk to him 'Mione." Ginny told her softly.

Hermione nodded and headed for the door, bypassing Draco on the way out. He smiled at Ginny.

"Hey babe." Draco greeted her with a kiss.

"Hi." She said viewing his outfit. Loose jeans and a Boston Red Sox jersey, with his own black and red Nikes on his feet. "Nice choice of clothing." she said cheekily.

Draco smiled. "Legimence my dear." he said, revealing his secret. "I prefer the way you were before in the-

"Pajamas, yeah I figured." Ginny cut in quickly.

Draco gave her a confused look, but realized she was gesturing to something behind him. Turning around he found Kayla in the door way.

"Can I get dressed?" she asked, holding a towel to herself. It must be pretty interesting there, all the people walking around in towels...

"Yeah, come on Draco, lets get outta here." Ginny said grabbing his hand.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S OVER!" Hermione shrieked.

Draco looked at Ginny, who was listening intently as they stood in the middle of the hall way.

"IT IS OVER HERMIONE! I'M DONE, I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!" Blaise shouted back at her.

"What the fuck is going on?" Draco asked, watching his bedroom door.

"Blaise is being bipolar." Ginny answered, watching as Hermione threw open the door and ran down the stairs.

Draco sighed, and quickly kissing Ginny moved towards his room. It of course was locked. "Alohamora." he muttered and flung open the door.

"Get out of here Malfoy!" Blaise spat the minute he saw his friend in the door way.

"NO! You are going to tell me what's going on. Just this morning you two were all-

"All what? Huh Draco? All like you and Ginny? Well guess what we aren't! It's obvious that Slytherins and Gryffindors aren't meant to be together! You and Gin aren't going to last either!"

Draco looked at his friend. "Excuse me? I don't know what goes on behind the scenes with you guys, but up front you look like the happy couple!"

"Yeah well, that's where you're wrong. Very VERY wrong."

Draco sat on the bed beside Blaise. Dressed in jeans and an Abercrombie polo, his wet hair clung to his head. "Look mate. I don't think that right now is a good time to be making these important decisions about yourself. A lot has happened in twenty four hours. With the battle, and little sleep, and there is so much crap going on right now. Everyone is so angry. I don't get it."

"How can you not be angry? Weasley's been on your ass since we got here!" Blaise exclaimed.

"True," Draco responded. "But like I said, all that he is saying is bullshit, it's not going to be like this. The first day is always the hardest, we'll get through it. You and Hermione can't be exs to each other now. It'll make things to uncomfortable."

Blaise rolled his eyes. "Draco, that's like me saying you can't be with Ginny right now, it's too uncomfortable. God could you imagine if you guys were like doing something and someone walked in!"

Draco blushed. "Yeah that'd be odd..., but listen, you and Hermione going around completely ignoring each other is going to make things difficult for the rest of us. Think about it, talk to her. What ever you two are squabbling about, resolve it!"

"When did you get so into giving advice Draco? Or should I say what did you do with Draco Malfoy?"

"I locked him in a closet when I fell in love."

XOXOXOXOXOXO

All were in the living room watching The Breakfast Club, when Snape arrived at one thirty, an hour and a half late.

"Very good children. You listened to directions." He said glancing around, and looking at all the dressed kids. Harry as usual was in his jeans, a black t-shirt, and high tops. Ron had on khaki cargo pants and a dark blue Nike hoody with his white and brown Etnies. Kayla had on a mini skirt and pink sweater with her Ralph Lauren track style shoes, and the other four still had on their clothes from before.

"We have been able to arrange with the local highschool to have you attend classes. Everyone except Ginny is a senior and she is a junior. You are going today to speak with your guidance counselors about schedules. We will go in pairs, so Potter that makes you my "buddy"." Snape said in a voice that said he wasn't very happy about that arrangement.

Ginny looked at Draco. "Highschool?" she asked her professor. "We don't know muggle things.

"Math, science, history, english, and a foreign language is all you have to take academically. You are given a gym class and study hall, and art is optional."

Blaise stared at his head of house. "Muggles? We have to go to school with muggles?" he asked.

"Does that mean I will be going to school with Dudley again?" Harry asked.

Snape smiled evilly. "Yes it does."

Harry groaned. "This is going to suck."

Ron smiled. "Isn't your cousin afraid of wizards. He'll freak when he finds out that seven are going to be in his school. Six of them hovering around you."

Harry smiled. "Yeah, that's true."

XOXOXOXOXOXO

"Mr. Zabini? You are going to be a senior here correct?" Mrs. Mabole his guidance counselor asked. Blaise nodded. "And you as well Mr. Weasley." she got a nod from his as well. "Now Miss Weasley, you are of the age of a junior, however your scores here are outstanding, and it seems that you would be better off as a senior, that way there is the possibility of having classes with your friends or brother."

Ginny looked at the middle aged woman. "Um, yeah that would be great. At Hog- my old school I was taking some senior level courses just because my own were too easy."

Mrs. Mabole nodded. "Alright, I'll get your schedules worked out then."

Blaise rolled his eyes and left the room. "That's all we need, Ginny in our classes." he said as the three waited in the Guidance office for their friends.

"Oh come on Zabini, you're just made because you have to go to a muggle school." Ron threw back.

Ginny shook her head. "He's mad because he broke up with Hermione."

Ron looked at Blaise. "You did? Thank the good Lord in Heaven. I mean it sucks for her to be unhappy, but I was wondering when she was going to give up on you."

Ginny glared at her brother. "Ron! How do you think Blaise feels that his friend Kayla is dating a Gryffindor? Maybe he doesn't want it to work out between you guys either! Look this is highschool, it isn't like Hogwarts. We aren't going to be going to classes in groups like we did back at school. Here we fend for ourselves." she told them. "That's just how it is."

"I don't care how it is! I want to go back to Hogwarts, I don't know why I ever helped you guys kill Voldemort."

"Even if we were still at Hogwarts you would see Hermione a lot more than you'll see her here. And at least you aren't at the house cooped up with her all day!"

"If I was still at Hogwarts I wouldn't have broken up with her!" Blaise cried. His face was overcome by emotions Ginny didn't know he had. "If we were still at Hogwarts you and Draco wouldn't be together like you are now either. I know about this morning."

Ginny stared at her friend. "You don't know anything." she said before standing up and stalking away.

XOXOXOXOXOXO

The rest of the day went on in silence. No one spoke, and come nine thirty, everyone was exhausted and headed off to bed.

The next morning, Hermione again found herself up first. They were starting school again today, and she was going to take advantage of the alone time to get ready. After showering and getting dressed in jeans, and a cami with a light sweatshirt, she did her hair and headed down to the kitchen. Still she found herself alone, but unlike yesterday she was in a much better mood.

After sitting down with the paper, she was joined by a clean Draco, he had on jeans and a dark green hoody. "Morning Granger." he said before grabbing a bowl and filling it with Cocoa Puffs.

"Morning Malfoy." she replied, scanning the paper for articles about them. Looking up, she saw him watching her. "What?"

"You need to talk to Blaise today, already I can tell that you are in a much better mood, and he should be more easy to talk to today. Everyone was really out of it yesterday, going at each other and everything. Today should be better."

Hermione smiled. "I hope so."

Soon everyone was in the kitchen eating, and getting ready for school. Ten minutes before they were supposed to head out to catch the school bus, Ginny ran down the stairs, her shoes in her hand. Dropping them on the floor, she grabbed a bite of Ron's Raisin Bran and sat herself beside Draco to put on her shoes. For the fifteen minutes it took her to get ready she looked good. Beige pants and a green cashmere sweater were set off nicely with her leather shoes.

"Oh my God, I'm so late!" she cried as she quickly threw her hair up in a pony tail. Standing up as she put the elastic around her red hair, she grabbed a breakfast bar out of the cupboard and turned to the other people in the kitchen. "Ready?"

Ron shook his head. His light colored jeans and Patriots football jersey made him look like an American muggle. "I am one bit short of my breakfast."

"Ron!" Kayla sighed, she moved from the corner to sit on his lap. In Hollister sweat pants and a matching Hollister t-shirt, she looked sporty this morning. Ready to look like a muggle.

With a smile, Harry stood and walked his cereal bowl to the sink. "Well it seems that everyone is much more happy this morning." he said, leaning against the counter in his jeans and gray hoody.

Ginny nodded. "It does... Where's Blaise?"

"He's in the living room. Said it was too cheerful in here." Hermione answered. "He's the only one who hasn't caught the happy bug." Ginny nodded, silently asking if her friend was okay. Hermione shrugged.

"Well we better get out there. The school said the bus should be here at like six thirty." Draco said, and grabbing his back pack and Ginny's hand headed for the door.

A/N: Hey this was supposed to be up Thursday night, but I lost my DSL for some reason, and by the time it kicked on Friday, I had to leave to go to a foot ball game, then I went to bed when I got home and had to get up and go to work and then went to chill at a campground with some friends. Now I am home and posting!

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