Change of Heart
Chapter Twenty Five:
Blaise was still wondering why he had decided to go along with this crazy plan of Draco's while he made his way to the quidditch pitch in hopes of catching Ginny before she made her way back to the castle. He saw her in the air when he finally made it to the pitch so he sat and waited on her to finish trying to get himself together in order to do what he had to do. She landed and made her way to the changing room and he followed her. Some time later she finally came out clean from the all the grime she had gathered while practicing and was shocked to see Blaise standing there. She stood there for a bit before speaking to him.
"Blaise what are you doing here?" she asked him trying to avoid eye contact with him.
"I wanted to speak to you Gin," he said feeling nervous about the whole thing.
"About what?" she asked him hesitant about what he would have to say to her.
"Well I was wondering if.." he trailed off having a hard time getting the words out.
"I was wondering if you wanted to go back out with me Gin!" he all but yelled out at her.
Ginny was taken aback one, because he had asked her out again and two, because of how he almost sounded like Ron had when he had asked Fleur Delacour to the Yule ball in her third year. It was just as scary as she had imagined it had been for Fleur to have someone yell at you while asking you out.
"Why...Why...Why do you want to date again just after we broke up?" she asked him hating how her voice quivered while asking the question.
"Well I realized how jealous I had been acting, and I knew that you would have been the same way with any of your friends that had been hurt like that." he said hoping she believed him.
"I'm glad you realized that Blaise," she said smiling up at him.
"But, do you think it would be a good idea?" she said a little more quietly.
"Please Gin I promise I will be more considerate this time if you give me another chance," he asked hoping he wouldn't have to beg much longer. Now he knew why Malfoy's never begged it was rather annoying not to mention tiresome.
"Alright Blaise," Ginny said smiling, and pushing her hair behind her ear where it had fallen into her face.
At that Blaise let the breath out he had been holding, and smiled thinking that Draco owed him his first born at least for this. Maybe an arm or a leg they would decide on payment after all of this was over and done with though. He took Ginny's hand in his, and they walked back up to the castle making there way in through the main doors.
As it was nearing dinner they made there way into the Great Hall. When they entered it seemed people were stopping what they we're doing to look at them. Ginny saw Hermione look at them with questioning look. She made her way to sit down beside the girl shaking her head saying that she didn't want to discuss it at the time. She felt someone looking at her while she was putting food on her plate. Looking up she saw Draco staring at her with a raised eyebrow, and looked away from him. She had been ignoring him since the night they had gotten back and planed to continue to do so.
Blaise sat down across from Draco which broke his gaze from Ginny. Draco looked at him waiting for him to say something.
"Phase One is a go," Blaise told him while piling food onto his own plate.
"Now all we need to do is wait a bit before moving on to Phase Two," Blaise said after chewing and swallowing a bite of dinner.
Draco nodded not without saying anything not wanting others that were sitting around them to over hear there plan. When they we're finished the two made there way to Draco's room to talk over the next phase of the plan.
"I was thinking maybe we should date a few weeks, and then have you act jealous about it," Blaise said while they were sitting on the sofa drawing up the game plan.
"Do you think that would work though?" "I mean you know how well that went when you became all jealous the first time." Draco said rubbing his chin thinking.
"You have a point," Blaise said rubbing the back of his head.
Ian sat there shaking his head at the two young men. Boys today had no idea how to woo a girl which was rather sad really. Everything was over done or to generic it seemed.
"If I may?" Ian asked them gaining there attention.
"By all means go ahead we have no clue," Draco said irritably at not having come up with anything on his own.
"I think the simplest way would to be is take what you know about her, and what you know she would like." that always seems to be the best course of action when one finds themselves in a mix like this.
"Yes I do believe Ian has a point," Adena said piping up for the first time that evening.
"You know your right!" Draco said standing up and began to make a hole in the floor from the pacing he was doing.
The three other occupants in the room watched him for awhile before getting dizzy from all the movement. It was reaching curfew and he had still not come up with anything.
He turned to Blaise and told him "if I figure something out I'll let you know later on."
"Alright I'll see you tomorrow then," Blaise said making his way back to the Slytherin dormitories.
The next day proved to be sunny, but not enough to melt the snow still littering the ground around the castle. It crunched under Ginny's foot as she made her way to Herbology for her last class of the day wishing more then anything that it was held inside instead of at the greenhouse. She knew they we're going to learn to plant something, but for the life of her she couldn't remember what it was. Herbology was about her least favorite subject next to Devinations. It didn't help that half of the plants were just as dangerous it seemed as some of Hagrids animals. So as she sat down on one of the benches she began counting the time until the class was over. She made it look like she was working on the ugly plant that sat in front of her, but it was proving to be difficult when she would flashback to yesterday. She still didn't fully understand why Blaise wanted another chance after all the things he had said. She didn't blame him for saying them though he was right to a point. Because, she doubted that if it had been him in the place of Draco she would have been as of attentive. It wasn't that she didn't care for him. It was just that she didn't care for him as much as she did for the blond. Which was the whole problem in and of its self. As the bell rang she gathered her books and walked out of the greenhouse only to be stopped by said blond.
"Fancy meeting you here love," he said blocking her as she tried to get around him.
She didn't say anything to him and avoided looking at him at all, but he was persistent in getting her attention.
"Could you move please," she asked him sighing at his non since.
"Gin come on you've been avoiding me like the plague," he said huffing.
She stood there not saying anything. Instead of actually looking at him she stared at a spot on his forehead. He realized that she was cutting herself off from him and he didn't like it one bit.
"Gin this is getting ridiculous," he said getting annoyed with her.
"You have to talk to me at some point," he said grabbing her arms gently.
"Do you mind letting me go," she asked him.
Sighing he let her go watching her walk off and couldn't help but feel a little upset over the whole situation. She wouldn't give him a chance to talk about what he had tried to tell her that night. She assumed that was his feelings for her without even hearing what he had to say. He really didn't understand why she felt the need to do this but she was, and he missed her. He missed her more then he ever thought he would miss someone. Missed her laugh, her smile, the way she would use the quick witted sarcasm when it came to his overly sized ego. After the last of the students had left the greenhouse some of which stared at him wondering why he was just standing there looking out towards the castle he slowly made his way back himself. Not having the energy to sit with his house, and pretend to be interested in what was going on around him he made his way to the kitchens.
Ginny was making her way to the tower when Hermione stopped her on the fourth floor.
"Ginny, wait a second," she called out to her.
"She might as well get this over with," she thought turning around, and was grateful to see that Hermione was by herself.
"You looked cozy with Blaise again tonight," Hermione said walking up beside her.
"He asked me out again, and I decided to give it another chance," she told her.
Hermione stood there a bit without saying anything which was a feet in its self.
"Draco didn't talk to you?"Hermione asked sounding slightly confused considering she had told Draco to talk to Ginny before they got back.
"He tried to the first night back, but I really didn't give him a chance to talk," Ginny told her.
"What?" "Why didn't you?" I just thought it best if he didn't say anything. "Besides you told me to go on with my life when I was pining over Harry." "So I thought I would do the same with Draco."
Ginny having realized what she just told Hermione started to feel panicked and she felt her face turn red.
"Hermione, I didn't mean to tell you that," she said not daring to look at the other girl.
"Its alright Ginny," Hermione said placing her hand on the girls shoulder. "I think I knew you had feelings for him even when we started dating."
"You're not mad then?" Ginny asked still somewhat fearful that she would change her mind.
"I wont lie to you." "I was jealous of the closeness the two of you have that we didn't, but I couldn't hold that against you though."
At that point Ginny hugged the girl she considered a sister showing how grateful she was that there were no hard feelings between them.
"What I don't understand though is why you didn't let Draco say anything?"
"Monie what would be the purpose in it?" I know he wouldn't feel the same way, and even if he did we couldn't do anything about."
"Gin are you forgetting that he dated me a 'mudblood'." "I think its safe to say that he would date you regardless of everything else." Hermione told her trying to get her to see that Draco did care about her.
"I have to get going Hermione," Ginny said not liking where the conversation was heading.
"Gin just think about it!" Hermione called out to the other girl as she walked away from her.