Chapter 14

Not here...

After dinner the whole family moved into the den to give and receive gifts from their parents.

Everyone was shocked to see that Ginny received a puppy as her Christmas gift. "Well, you're mum and I figured that we can not stop you from having one anymore since you have your own apartment now and all." And this was true, her parents never let her have a puppy when she lived at home because then they would have to take care of it.

She took it out of the basket it was in and went back and sat on the couch with Draco. It was a Husky puppy with white and gray fur, and icy blue eyes, and her parents tied and green velvet bow around its neck. While the rest of the family continued with their gift exchange, Ginny and Draco sat on the couch and played with the puppy.

They had just decided on the name Mistletoe, when Fred came and sat on the other side of Ginny on the couch. He just gave a nervous look to Ginny and she grinned. Draco just raised a confused eyebrow.

"Are you ready?" Ginny asked Fred quietly but excitedly.

"I think so..."

"Then go, and don't worry! You'll be fine!" She smiled pushing Fred off the couch. They watched as Fred walked over to Parvati who was sitting on the floor next to the tree and whispered in her ear. She stood up, and with their hands linked they walked out of the room.

Ginny grabbed Draco's hand and they followed them out moments later. Fred and Parvati had turned down the hall leading to the front door but Ginny was running up the stairs, the puppy in one arm and Draco was being dragged behind her.

They ran up into the master bedroom and Ginny put the puppy down on the bed. She let go of Draco's hand and pulled out her wand. She opened the glass doors to the small balcony that came off the room. Draco followed her and watched as she hurriedly lit dozens of silver candles that were floating in the air above the snow covered front lawn. Ginny finished lighting the candles and went back into the room to get Mistletoe (the puppy) off the bed, then went back with Draco on the balcony. Just as they knelt down to be out of sight, they saw Fred leading Parvati out of the house.

"Where are you taking me?" She laughed.

Draco realized that she had her eyes closed.

"Fred! Why are we in the snow?" Fred had led her under the ceiling of floating candles that they had lit which cast a soft glow over them.

"You can open your eyes," Fred said softly. Parvati opened her eyes and stared at Fred for a second before she looked up and saw all of the silver candles.

"It's so beautiful..." She whispered staring up over them. While she was doing so Fred lowered himself down onto one knee, and Draco finally figured out what was going on. Parvati looked back down and saw Fred on his knee. Her eyes filled with tears as he began to speak.

"You have made our past three years together the happiest times of my life so far. You are the most amazing woman and when I fell in love with you I knew that I could never live another day without you by my side. I love you more than life itself..." He pulled the ring out of his jacket pocket, "Parvati, Will you marry me?"

Parvati, with two sparkling tears on her cheeks, nodded and said sincerely, "Yes" He slipped a beautiful diamond ring on her finger and she whispered, "I love you too." He pulled her into a passionate kiss and the moment was absolutely perfect.

Ginny couldn't hold back an, "Awwww" and Fred and Parvati pulled apart when they heard it and looked up. Ginny and Draco stood up (Draco was now holding the puppy) and looked over the banister of the balcony at the new engaged couple. Fred laughed as Ginny gave him two thumbs up and Ginny and Draco went back inside to give Parvati and Fred some privacy.

"That was too cute," Ginny giggled as she sat down on the bed. Draco sat next to her and she took Mistletoe back from him.

"Is that what you have been so secretive about the past two days?" Draco asked

"Yup," Ginny laughed as Mistletoe licked her face. "He was really nervous. He thought she would say no because they are so young to get married. I'm glad it all worked out."

Mistletoe jumped off Ginny's lap and onto Draco's. He picked her up and within a minute she had fallen asleep.

"That's so cute," Ginny gushed at the sight of such a little puppy curled up in Draco's strong arms.

"I think she likes me," Draco said placing Mistletoe against a pillow on the bed.

"I think so too," Ginny smiled sweetly, "And I like you too."

Draco cupped her face with his hand and pulled her in for a kiss. It was soft at first, and progressed into a deeper kiss. His tongue parted her lips and she wrapped her arms around his neck. After a while they pulled apart and Draco trailed soft kisses down her neck and along her collar bone as Ginny giggled playfully.

"You don't know how glad I am that everything worked with my parents," Ginny sighed sitting on Draco's lap.

He leaned his cheek against hers and said, "Me too, now we won't have to keep it a secret, we can just... be together." He hesitated for a moment and looked down, almost nervously. "Ginny, I know we've only really met on Christmas eve, but I've never felt this way about anyone before. You have cared about me more these past two days than practically anyone has the past few years."

Ginny looked at him with wide eyes.

"Do you... um uh... will you be my girlfriend?" He asked timidly.

Ginny smiled at him. The shy way he asked her made her feel like she was back in her Hogwarts days. She leaned in and whispered, "Yes" in his ear.

Her warm breath and the sound of her voice in his ear sent shivers up his spine. He kissed her, putting his arms around her waist to pull her closer to him. He laid her down on the bed, as the kiss began to become more and more passionate. He took in the scent of her hair and explored every inch of her mouth. She gasped softly as he ran his hands along the curves of her body. He began to slide his hand under then hem of her red velvet dress and up her thigh when she said, very short of breathe, "We can't do this..."

He reluctantly sat up, though he understood where she was coming from.

"Not here right now, we're in Angelina's bedroom..." She said sitting up and fixing her dress back to normal.

"You're right," Draco ran a hand through his now untidy hair. And Ginny reached up to straighten his tie, she grabbed onto it and pulled him to her for a kiss before standing up. She scooped up the sleeping puppy, which stirred in her arms.

"We need to think of a nickname for her," Ginny said thoughtfully. "Mistletoe is too long to say all the time. Maybe we could call her Missie."

"That would probably be good, the only other thing you could really shorten out of her name is 'Toe' ..."

"We are NOT calling her Toe..." Ginny said sternly.

"I know that I was just saying..."

Ginny giggled and suggested that they go downstairs, "People will begin to wonder where we went."

He took her hand in his and they walked downstairs. Just as they passed the front door, Fred and Parvati came inside. Ginny squealed and gave them both hugs.

And as Ginny was looking at Parvati's engagement ring, she heard Fred ask Draco, "So did you ask?"

Draco nodded and gave him a thumbs up.

"Brilliant," Fred grinned.

Ginny narrowed her eyebrows at Fred, "You knew he was going to ask me?"

He nodded.

"That's not fair!"

He stuck out his tongue and shook Draco's hand, "Welcome to the family, Brother in law..." Fred joked slapping him on the back.

Both Ginny and Draco's eyes widened and Draco said, "One day at a time Fred... One day at a time...."

(A/n- OOOOh it took so long to write that, I'm so so so so sorry. I just had my sweet-16 party and It was huuuuge! What a blast! But it kept me busy, so I apalogize again. So that chap almost got alittle smutty there for a moment! But I'm really not good at that so I stopped it. Well I hope you enjoyed it and thanks to all who didn't give up on me!!!!)

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