Chapter 21: Yes or No?

10th Feburary 2004

Ginny's head spun.

"What?" She asked. She had to put her hands on either side of her head to minimize the spinning.

"Oh, come on Ginny. You remember don't you? I was at a pub and you stumbled in already blind drunk and sat next to me. I brought you a couple of drinks and… well I'm sure you can guess what happened from there." Draco smirked again. Ginny strained to remember that night. She remembered the pub and the blonde haired guy buying her drinks. Slowly more and more came back to her. She remembered taking him back to her hotel room and…

Oh Merlin!

"Ahh, now you remember don't you Ginny?" Draco looked at Ginny's face as it changed to utter shock.

"So… Now that you remember, I have a proposition." Draco sat back in the padded seat.

"Now, I'm fairly sure that you don't want Potter knowing about your little – shall we call it – revelation? So I need you to do something for me. I understand that in the ministry of magic, about Harry's department, there is a file cabinet of all of the Death Eaters and their histories. Yes, well I need you to take a file marked: 'Nakesa Rinalteg'. You will not look at the file. I will get in contact with you to let you know where to take it."

"What if I don't?" Ginny asked.

Draco pulled out his wand and tapped it on the table. A small section in the table acted as a television screen and she say herself panting and romping under a very naked Draco Malfoy.

"Eh." Ginny turned her head away. "Ok, I'll do it." Ginny felt as if she was about to throw up.

"I'll keep in contact Weasley. I'll let you know when I need the job done. But until then, don't go too far." Draco smirked and then disappeared out the door, into the snow that had begun to fall.

Ginny sat silently. Tears fell into her hot chocolate ash she sobbed quietly. She tried telling herself it would be ok but every time she did it only make her want to cry harder.

"Ginny?" Hermione sat down across from Ginny. "What's the matter?" She asked worriedly.

Ginny managed to let out a little laugh. "Oh, nothing, I just got news that… Megan Jones, you know, Theodore's wife, had a still born. I was just thinking about how horrible that would have been for her."

"Oh my, Megan lost the baby? Maybe we should go and see her?"

"NO! – I mean – I think she just wants to be alone with Theodore.

"Hmm, maybe you're right."

"So, how have you been?" Hermione ordered a hot chocolate with extra marshmallows.

"You have no idea." Ginny answered scooping a marshmallow into her mouth

17th March 2003

Anika lay on the couch reading when suddenly an owl flew through the window.

Anika screamed as it landed on the arm of the chair near her head.

"Get off you stupid bird!" Anika grabbed the letter out of the owls claws and shoed it away.

Anika,

Game, Set, Match!

It's all over.

20th March 2003 (a month after the café incident)

Hermione and Ginny wondered around Hogsmeade darting in and out of little stores. Ginny seemed to want to linger in a jewelry store for a little longer so Hermione moved on to the next store. She was surprised to run into Theodore Nott.

"Oh Theo, I'm sorry!" Hermione pulled her friend into a hug. "It must be hard…" Hermione pulled away and looked into Theodore's face, she was surprised to see an expression of utter confusion plastered across it.

"Sorry?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I heard about the baby."

"What about the baby?"

"That Megan had a still born." Hermione was utterly confused and by the look on Theodore's face so was he.

"Hermione, I don't know what you're talking about… Megan hasn't had her baby yet." And Theodore turned around and headed out of the store.

Hermione counted to five to make sure she wouldn't run into him again and then she left the store as well.

She found Ginny in the jewelry store and dragged her out of it.
"Hermione, what's going on?" Ginny asked as she was dragged into the frost bitten air outside the store.

"You are such a liar Ginny!" Hermione yelled. Ginny opened her mouth to ask what Hermione was talking about but Hermione cut her off.

"I just ran into Theodore, Megan hasn't LOST the baby! She hasn't even had it yet. Why would you lie to me?" Ginny sighed.

"Follow me." Ginny pulled Hermione into a small café, sat her down and explained to her about how she had slept with Draco. She decided not to add in Draco requests though.

"Oh Ginny…" Hermione looked pitifully at Ginny. "How could this have happened?" Ginny looked up at Hermione, tears streaming down her face.

"I don't know Hermione… All I know is that if I tell Harry he'll never forgive me."

"You can't keep this from him forever. He's gunna find out…"

Ginny put her face in her hands for a few seconds then ran them up to her head so that they were pulling her hair back tightly. She sighed.

"I know Hermione, but I don't know what else to do."

15th May 2003

The months past and Ginny heard nothing from Draco. But the guilt of what she had done ate away at her. Soon enough she found herself out to dinner with Harry. She didn't even remember accepting the invitation. She had been passing the months in a blur.

"Do you want to take a walk?" Harry asked after they had finished their dinner.

"Huh? Sure." Ginny smiled and put on her jacket.

Once outside Ginny realized how nice the night was. There was hardly any wind and the snow was falling gently. It had littered the ground and buildings covering them in white.

Once in a park Harry sat down on a bench and Ginny sat next to him. She looked around at the white covered shrubs and grass and trees. Then she realized that she and Harry were sitting on the exact bench that Hermione and Ron had shared their kiss on. She couldn't help but smile.

"That's what I like to see." Ginny jumped at Harry's voice. She hadn't noticed that Harry had been looking at her.

"Huh?" Ginny was confused.

"Your smile; I haven't seen it in a while. You seem to be rather down lately." Ginny let out a little laugh.

"Oh that."

"Look Ginny, I know that the past eight months have been hard for you, and that it isn't over yet but I think we can do this, no I know we can do this. All we need is love and trust," Something deep down hit Ginny when Harry mentioned trust and she wondered where Harry was going with this. "And I believe we have that." Ginny raised an eyebrow at Harry.

Then the unthinkable happened.

Harry got off the park bench and kneeled on one knee in front of Ginny.

'Oh CRAP!' Her head screamed as Harry took a hold of her hand.

"Ginny Weasley, I love you and want to spend the rest of my life with you,"

'Oh SH!T He's proposing! What do I do?'

'Say NO!'

'No say YES!'

'You can't say yes.'

'I can't say no!'

'Tell him the truth!'

"Ginny will you marry me?" Harry smiled up at Ginny. Her head was still screaming and her thoughts were fighting with each other.

'Tell him!'

"Harry, I SLEPT WITH DRACO!" Ginny screamed at Harry. She pulled her hand out of Harry's and slapped both of them over her mouth.

"WHAT?!"