Chapter 9
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Ginny's POV
Monday came quickly as always and Ginny was once again walking the all too familiar path to the dungeons. It was time for her detentions, although she knew she should hate this, the detentions, the dungeons .. Draco. She just couldn't bring herself to do it. Secretly she had begun looking forward to seeing Draco, she had hoped that they could be friends if nothing else. She felt honoured that he had shown her a little bit of who he was. The real Draco not the one the school saw, the hard cold exterior she had seen him laugh and smile and she found it addictive.
"Ah Miss Weasley there you are, prompt as usual." Professor Snape's head pooped up from behind his book as she walked in. Ginny just nodded at him and walked into the closet, and as usual Draco was sat there tailor fashioned working away.
Ginny looked around and took stock of the room, when she first entered it was a complete mess now only one shelf was left. She felt the disappointment ripple through her body. As they were nearly finished, it would mean they wouldn't be working in close quarters again, she knew Snape didn't have any more cupboards to sort.
"Hey Draco." she said finally pulling herself together and sat down next to him. Draco looked over to her and smiled at her, a honest genuine smile. It made her heart flutter.
"Ginny, hi. Looks like were nearly done in here huh?" He said whilst carrying on with his work, Ginny couldn't help but notice the skilful way his hands moved as he wrote down the contents of his latest jar. Ginny knew she was being stupid, she barely knew the guy. Her family, her brothers had spent the last 6 years trying to convince her that the Malfoy's were the most evil, hateful wizards ever to grace the world. However this didn't stop the attraction she felt for him, it didn't stop her thinking about him and wanting to get to know him in the ways that only the other Hogwarts girls could dream off.
"Yeah looks it. I wonder what Snape has planned for us next?" She asked picking up the next jar and began to fill it with what could only be described as slop.
"I have no clue what so ever but I hope its better than this, its boring me out of my brains." Just as he said that he shook his head and a few tendrils of his hair slipped out of his perfect slicked back do. When he didn't push them back Ginny found herself lifting her hand to do it for him, only stopping herself when she felt him shift. She put her hand down feeling shamed off her self, she wasn't any better than the other Hogwarts sluts. Only a few conversations with him and she was already falling all over herself. She shook her thoughts and remembered Luci, she had to get info for her.
"So Draco what you up to tonight after detention?" Draco looked up at her quizzically, she realised why. She had never asked a direct personal question to him before.
"I am just wondering, I am not ambling for an invite if that's what you think. I already have plans I was just making conversation." She added, she didn't want him to think that she was one of the normal girls who ask that question then invite themselves along. Apparently he accepted this without further explanation and shrugged.
"Not much I have to catch up on my Charms homework I had Quidditch practice earlier and I have to get it done before class in the morning. Father would have a fit if I got less than an O in any of my classes. No matter what he thinks of the teachers or the school." He added and carried on working.
"I know the feeling between detentions and practice I feel I have no time for myself what so ever. The only day I get to myself is Sunday, which is most possibly the most boring day of the week where everyone just stays in or walks around the grounds."
Ginny was wracking her brains, trying to find a way to bring up Blaise and where he hangs out but she just couldn't figure out a way of doing it without arousing suspicion.
"Well I heard there is always a party in the Room of Requirement on a Sunday night, you could always go there if your bored." Draco advised with a non committal shrug.
"Oh right who goes there? Anyone I know?" She asked, thanking the gods for helping her it may just be the way to get info on Blaise after all.
"I wouldn't know, I never go. I hear its fun though." After putting his jar back on the shelf he looked at her.
"How come? If you hear its fun why not go? And how do you know about it if you don't go?" She asked, genuinely interested in hearing his response.
"Well I did go once, but I found that there was too much hormones being thrown around. There were so many girls ready to launch themselves at me or the next available guy. I don't like my girls easy so I don't go. And as for how I know about them Blaise goes." He added as he looked away back to the last row only two jars left to be done.
Ginny didn't know whether to cheer or cry. Cheer for the fact that he had bought Blaise up or cry because he thought only easy girls go to that party and he had told her to go.
"I thought you said Blaise doesn't like easy girls either?" She decided to ignore the sinking feeling in her stomach at him advising her to go as one of those girls. Again he looked up at her, as if searching her brain for an answer to the question in his mind.
"He doesn't" He said finally looking away "He likes to watch the idiots that do go for the easy girls and laugh at them the day after for sleeping with them" He seemed a little down she thought but tried to push that thought way.
Again an uneasy silence filled the room but neither occupant wanted to break the silence. At last they finally finished the last two jars, they just stood staring at the now perfectly ordered closet. Draco took a pocket watch out of his pocket and looked at the time.
"Only 10 minutes left to the end of the detention. Lets go out he might let us go out early." He immediately started for the door. Ginny nodded and followed although she would have loved to have stayed in the closet and spent ten minutes with him just talking.
"We have finished in there now. What do you want us on next?" Draco asked as he walked up to Snape's desk it took all of her might to stop herself from watching him sway. Snape looked up at them a little surprised and checked his pocket watch too.
"Well there is only 9 minutes left of the detention you might as well leave, I cant have you starting a new task only to stop within minutes. Don't tell anyone I let you go early for heavens sake I will never hear the end of it."
Both Draco and Ginny agreed to keep quiet and said their goodbyes and left.
Draco's POV
Walking back to the common room Draco's thoughts were drifting back to the room in which he had spent the better part of the last 2 hours with Ginny Weasley.
He had heard his parents talking about the Weasley's for years. Ingraining into him that they were nothing but filthy, poor muggle lovers and that he should avoid them at all costs. It wasn't up until his 2nd year he had thought this to be the absolute truth, until he had seen Ginny in Flourish and Blotts. He looked at her and saw nothing but innocence and beauty. Little had he known at that point what his father had planned for her, what would have inevitably made Ginny loose her innocence and became darkened by the diary of the Dark Lord.
He had always looked up at his father until he had found out what he had done to her. He could understand doing it to Potter or his golden trio but her? She was innocent, untainted by the cruelty of the war she had such a beauty that even at 12 years old Draco had felt that he was momentarily blinded. Of course she was no longer innocent she had been touched by the Dark Lord mentally that alone would have scarred her, but on top of that she had had to endure years of following around the trio and being ignored by the one person she craved attention from, Potter.
He never could understand how Potter had walked around with her by his and not looked at her, really looked at her once. Finally after a few years he noticed but at that point it was too late. She had had enough of waiting for him he guessed because it was soon over a fact that Draco had found endlessly amusing.
Draco's eyebrows furrowed together as he rounded the corned and saw Ginny talking to Blaise.
He stopped dead in his tracks and looked at them together. Ginny was laughing and lightly touching his arm. Blaise looking down at her and laughing heartily at something she had just said.
He stood there for a few minutes before turning around and headed to the grounds. He knew nothing would ever happen between him and her. Neither family would allow it, but that didn't stop the jealousy that had flared up startling even him.
He knew Ginny was interested in Blaise she had asked about him enough to be more than just curiosity, but after his conversation with Blaise he was sure he had understood.
Although he couldn't have Ginny he didn't want anyone else having her either.
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