My mind forgets to remind me

You're a bad idea

You touch me once and it's really something,

You find I'm even better than you imagined I would be.

I'm on my guard for the rest of the world

But with you I know it's no good

And I could wait patiently but I really wish you would...

Drop everything now

Meet me in the pouring rain

Kiss me on the sidewalk

Take away the pain

'Cause I see sparks fly whenever you smile

-Taylor Swift Sparks Fly


Chapter 9: Complications

Luna calmly sipped her tea as she watched a frantic and frazzled Ginny pace back and forth in her dorm room.

She had been very much startled with the sudden intrusion of her red headed best friend looking as if she had been thoroughly snogged and hated herself for it. Ginny had came into the room yelling about how much she hated Luna, and that the situation she was in was all her fault. Her and her stupid soulmate visions.

Luna didn't take any of it to heart. She knew that Ginny really didn't hate her. She was just angry at herself and her new feelings. Which is exactly what Luna told her.

"There aren't any feelings, Lovegood!" shouted Ginny. "There shouldn't be any feelings at all! I'm a Weasley! I shouldn't be snogging a Malfoy!"

Luna giggled. "Why not? Sure you two have had a horrid past, but people can change."

Ginny shook her head. "Malfoys don't change. He's still an arrogant prat! He's insufferable. He's a spoiled entitled rich boy that thinks he can get everything that he wants!"

"And he's your soulmate, Gin." said Luna in a cheery voice that made Ginny want to rip her own hair out.

"I don't believe it. I refuse to Luna. I cannot do this. He can't be my soulmate. There is too much at stake. My family. What would they think? They would say I've gone off the bend. That I'm completely mental or that Draco has me under some powerful love spell or something. This isn't right, you need to try this again."

Luna looked at her frazzled friend. She sighed and placed a gentle hand on Ginny's shoulder.

"Ginevra, you need to just admit your feelings." began Luna. "You are only going to make this harder on yourself as well as him. Look, I know 100% that you and Draco really like each other. It wasn't about just snogging earlier."

"How do you know this and don't say because you're a seer and you have seen it." scoffed Ginny.

"No Gin. I've seen the way Draco watches you. Especially in the great hall. He can't keep his eyes off of you and when you walk in, his whole face lights up, and he looks happy, despite trying to hide it. When I would study with you four sometimes, I see how he sits as close to you as he can without you realizing that it's what he is doing. And even though half the time you two argue, he looks as if he enjoys being around you. Like your brother and Hermione used to be. It's quite amusing actually." said Luna, smiling.

Ginny sat on the end of Luna's bed. She felt conflicted with herself. She knew that she was supposed to hate him, and a huge part of her did. But she couldn't help that in a lot of ways, the things he did that used to drive her crazy were starting to excite her. And earlier, when they had almost snogged each other senseless, it didn't feel like two people just letting out sexual frustration. It felt like so much deeper than that.

The more she thought about how Draco made her feel, the more she started to realize that she really did have feelings for him. Strong feelings. And they were only going to increase.

"Luna what am I going to do? It truly doesn't matter if we like each other or not. Our families would never allow it." and as she said those words, she felt tears forming in her eyes.

Luna sat beside her and handed her a tissue. "Your family loves you, Ginny. Though they will be terribly angry at first, you know that they will still be there for you no matter what."

"But the Malfoys. They would never accept their precious pureblood son being with a blood traitor. Especially a Weasley blood traitor. Shit, they would probably kill him for it."

Luna sighed. "That does pose a problem. But if he says he doesn't care would you?"

"I.. I really don't know.." said Ginny.

"I think you and Draco need to have a talk." said Luna sweetly.


Draco sat in front of the fire in Ginny and Harry's common room. He hadn't moved from the spot since Ginny had ran out of it earlier. He felt as if he was literally stuck to the sofa. All he could do was blank stare at the fire, which reminded him of Ginny's hair.

Blaise and Harry looked at Draco. Harry found himself strangely concerned. He then mentally smacked himself. Since when has he ever felt sorry or cared about how the great tosser felt about anything?

'I'm growing soft.' he thought to himself.

"Sooooooo..." said Blaise hesitantly. "Am I missing something important?"

Draco's concentration broke and he turned and gave Blaise the ultimate death stare. His look then softened as he rolled his eyes and sighed.

"First things first, fuck the both of you." he growled.

Harry looked at him confused and annoyed while Blaise snickered. "Ahhhh so something did happen. Out with it. Let's go." said Blaise pulling up a chair in front of Draco, looking at him as if it was story time.

"I told her I hated her."

Harry scoffed. "Aren't you such a fucking gentleman." he said.

Draco ignored him. "Then, I kissed her."

Both Blaise and Harry looked at Draco in disbelief. They didn't actually think it would happen. At least, not that fast.

"She bloody kissed me back. Next thing I know we are snogging like our lives depended on it laid out on the sofa, and then you sods interrupted us."

Harry chuckled while Blaise kept his expression of disbelief on his face.

Draco looked at Blaise as if he was hopeless. For the first time since the war, he felt fear. Genuine fear.

"Is falling for Ginny that bad?" said Harry defensively.

"Uh, YES!" said Draco. "Our families fucking hate each other. And frankly, I don't wish to get my ass kicked by her herd of brothers. You must be insane." said Draco.

"Would she be worth it?" asked Blaise. "And be honest mate."

Before Draco could answer the door opened and a very irate Ginny stormed in. She went over to Draco, grabbed his arm, dragged him into her room, and slammed the door.


"We need to talk." said Ginny letting go of Draco.

"We do. You almost pulled my damn arm out of its socket!" said Draco rubbing his shoulder.

"Oh shut up you big baby, I didn't pull you that hard." snickered Ginny even though she was trying her very best to be angry.

"I'm not a baby, I'm fragile. You're so bloody rough."

"You're one to talk, dropping me onto a sofa as if I were a doll." said Ginny.

"Speaking of that..."

"Yes. What the hell was that Draco? Why did you put your disgusting lips on me?" asked Ginny trying even harder to be disgusted by the memory of the kissing that blew her mind.

"I'm the disgusting one?! You were all over me with your muggle loving body. You assaulted me!"

"Oh yeah I sure did. This coming from the boy who tried to rip my shirt open."

"And you weren't trying to claw mine off of me?!"

The two of them glares at each other. Each not wanting to back down.

Draco sighed. "Whatever. It was the both of us. The question is, what do we do about this little situation."

"Right. I can't be seen snogging you. What would my parents say?"

"Your parents? Shit yours would probably just yell. My father would try and kill me if this got out." said Draco with a small shiver.

"You mean before or after my 6 brothers and my father kill you?" said Ginny looking deathly serious. Draco shivered even more.

"You're right. The point is, what we did does not leave this room."

"Uh, you think? I'm not getting howlers over your ferret ass." said Ginny.

"This coming from the witch that had no problem being under my ferret ass not too long ago." said Draco with a smug look on his face.

"Oh really?" said Ginny amused. "Who was the one who picked me up while-"

"Okay okay, fine. Whatever. It looks as if we both wanted something." said Draco.

"Yeah. Keyword 'wanted'. It's totally out of my system now." said Ginny quietly.

Draco looked disappointed for a second. Then he quickly forced his face into indifference. "Yeah. Totally out of mine as well. I just had a moment of weakness. Change of season I guess."

"Yeah." said Ginny looking down not hiding her disappointment. "Change of season."

They found themselves in an awkward moment. Neither of them could look at one another, yet neither of them wanted to leave each other.

Finally Ginny spoke up. "Can we at least be friends? Sometimes, you're not a total prat."

Draco grinned. "I guess. You're a little more tolerable than you used to be."

Ginny smiled and shook her head.