Chapter Ten

"Ever feel like the whole world is conspiring against you?"

Harry looked up from his Potions essay as Ginny sat down opposite.

"Sorry, Gin, I'm a little busy. Talk to Malfoy."

She narrowed her eyes at him. Brown eyes were always supposed to be warm but Ginny's were hard and cold as petrified wood. He flashed her a smile and her expression softened.

"This is exactly what I'm talking about," she said, sounding disgusted.

"What do you mean?"

"Ever since that whole thing where I slapped Malfoy, everyone and their sister has tried to hook me up with that narcissistic jack ass. And I swear to Merlin if you even think of saying anything, I will burn that essay and make you start from scratch."

"Touchy, aren't you? Ginny, I think you and Malfoy would be a bad idea. But he hasn't gotten that through his skull yet. I'm pretty sure you can do a great job of convincing him."

"I will!" she announced. She exploded to her feet and stormed out of the room. Harry waited until she was out of hearing range and pulled out his wand. He tapped it to his jaw.

"Ginny is on her way to see Malfoy," he said.

In his ear he heard a crackle of static as the spell took hold then Pansy's voice in his ear.

"Excellent! I will go cover them. You should sign off."

"Why?"

"Don't you have a Potions essay due?"

"I'm almost done." A lie.

"Uh huh." She did not sound convinced. "Well if you can multitask, then I won't feel bad about distracting you. Just try not to write about what we're talking about. Pretty sure Snape doesn't care."

"You're probably right."

"Okay, I'm in the corner behind Draco. Thanks for lending me this cloak."

"No problem. JUst remember, it doesn't mask sound."

"If you or Granger remind me of that one more time, I'll scream."

He chuckled and wrote another sentence on his parchment. "I just don't imagine that Malfoy would be super happy to find us spying on him."

"It's your cloak. If he can't get it off me, how will he know who's under here?"

"I don't imagine he'll think it's me. I don't sound that feminine."

"Look at you being so logical today. Now be quiet. The show's about to start."

"Your wish is my command," he said.

There was a crackle, like static then Ginny's voice came over the spell.

"...and if you think that this relationship is going to work, you have another thing coming, Mr. Malfoy. No way in hell. So just leave me alone."

"You're the one who came after me," Malfoy said through the spell.

"To tell you to stay away from me."

"Oh, I can stay away from you. The question is, can you stay away from me?"

"He's going to try to kiss her," Pansy whispered.

Pansy watched from under the cloak with bated breath as Draco took Ginny's chin in his hand. She'd seen him do that many times and she knew what it meant. Almost any girl in the world would melt under that touch. And Ginny almost did. Her shoulders dropped and she leaned into the touch for a moment.

Then Draco had to open his stupid, fat, everlasting mouth.

"You're mine," he sighed.

Ginny went hard like a diamond. She brought her right hand up and captured his hand in hers. She put her left hand to his elbow and the next thing Pansy knew, Draco was on the ground, face down, Ginny kneeling on his back. She still had his arm in her grasp.

"I belong to no one," Ginny said succintly. "Least of all you."

She released him and stormed off.

Draco slowly got up. He had a fanatic look about him but he was grinning. "I'm gonna marry that girl," he said, so softly Pansy almost didn't hear.

(A/N: Oh, Draco, you handsome idiot. Ginny's move at the end is actually a really easy one to learn. The trick is to put your hand on the outside of the elbow so that when you apply pressure, the elbow snaps into a straight position. Got it?

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