Chapter 1-Beginnings
Draco laid in bed, thinking how his fifth year at Hogwarts would have in store for him. Would he and Potter have more confrontations? Would he still have to be stuck with that Pansy Parkinson girl. Because quite frankly he was getting a bit tired of it all. It was all so repetitive.
It was all the same, so predictable. Year in, Year out. The only time Draco's heart felt really alive was his feelings for a certain girl. But of course being the bitch that 'life' is, she did not return his feelings for him and looked upon him as an enemy. Then for the fact that she liked older guys which was good, but she wouldn't go out with a guy who is the complete opposite of her.
It was 4:30 in the morning in the Malfoy mansion, and Draco sat up on his bed fiddling with his broomstick not really paying any attention to it or anything else for that matter, except for the certain girl. Suddenly he pulls a stick out of the tail of his broomstick by mistake.
"Damn it Ginny! Everytime I think of you, you make me do something I don't want to do. Why can't I stop thinking about you and get on with my life? Or better yet, say you love me and will be mine forever and I can play with your long curly ginger hair (Ginny's hair has grown over the year), hold you in my arms tight and never let you go. To kiss your sweet lips and say I have you always. I want to feel your smooth body, lay you down on the bed, take every curve of your beautiful body and trace over your flawless skin with my fingers."
He sighed and took a deep breath.
"Quit it Draco!" he said out loud to himself. "She will never like you, not in a million years, and not for all the money in the world either." He collapsed onto his bed and eventually went to sleep.
Meanwhile in Ginny's room, she also could not get to sleep, she was excited of going back to Hogwarts after their Spring Break of 2 weeks off. She couldn't wait to get back to classes and neither could Hermione. They were both two of a kind. They both had exceptional minds and loved learning anything.
Ginny and Hermione became best friends over the years. It was Ginny who persuaded Hermione to tell her brother Ron her feelings. And it took some juggling from Ginny to find out what was going in her brother's head of his. But with a few pulling strings and some very good deviousness Ginny managed to get them together at last, what they were both pining for.
Although Ginny had many friends of her own now. She was quite popular with both the males and females. She had the looks, the personality and the brains. But nothing could come between her and Hermione and since now they shared a bedroom together, along with another girl called Jade Greenstone who transferred from America and now was part of the gang.
Percy had now left Hogwarts leaving Fred and George in charge. (God help us all!)
The next morning(Sunday-travelling and getting settled into Hogwarts)
"You're mad! Both of you!" Ron shouted.
"Ron, shut up and give our ears some peace" replied Hermione.
"Yeah, come on Ron, give it a break. Even I'm tired from hearing to you." Harry said.
"I just can't believe this is happening to me! First Hermione tells me she's in love with me which takes me right of my broomstick and now we are going out."
"Hey!!"
"Not that I don't love her and all." Ron quickly quips in.
"That's better" Hermione smiles and comes from behind and wraps her arms around Ron giving him a kiss on his cheek.
"and now my little sister is 'wanting' to go back to school tomorrow and learn!!"
"Especially Potions" Ginny puts in.
All three of them look at Ginny.
"What?"
"Why do you like Potions? It has Snape." Harry asked her.
"I really like it." replied Ginny.
"I'm not surprised, if I were good as you at Potions, I would like it too. I even heard once that Snape said you were his best pupil except for Draco Malfoy. I couldn't do that well in Potions like you are Gin. I'm actually jealous!" said Hermione.
Ron, Harry and Ginny looked at Hermione and all laughed and Hermione joined in too.
The next day
There was as usual the normal bustle at the 9 ¾ platform at Kings Cross Train Station. Draco looked upon Ginny getting into her carriage with her friends and had a huge temptation to go up to her, throw everybody else out of the carriage push her down onto the seats and start kissing her. He had to restrain himself not to, her eyes and lips and hair was so appealing to him. She had become the prettiest girl at Hogwarts and every guy knew it. Guys were pouring over her, but Draco liked her from the very first time he laid eyes on her.
Draco had become a Head Boy at Hogwarts along with Harry, and Hermione who was one of the Head Girl's.(Each house has a Head Girl and Head Boy representing their year.A/N They're not prefects yet, that happens only in their last year. Ginny isn't Head Girl yet, because they need to be voted in, and in the beginning of the year they had a vote. Ginny got many votes from the guys, but the girls where slightly jealous and decided to give someone else a chance. But now they know Ginny alot better, that is why she is so popular with both genders and probably be voted Head Girl next year.)
He thought if he did his best and get good marks, he would get Ginny's attention, being intelligent like she was, and a 'Head Boy' title would impress her. But that was another attempt in vain Draco tried that went wrong to get Ginny notice him. He wanted her to know the real Draco, not just to be known as a Deatheaters son, or a bully. He thought Ginny would be different, the special one that he could reach to and confide in.
But with every passing day, his attempts were unproductful and he was beginning to lose hope and faith in Ginny, and in love.
Next day (Monday), 1st day back at school
Ginny just finished her Potions class and was about to leave.
"Miss Weasley, can you stay behind." Snape called to Ginny.
Her friends gave a quizzical look to Ginny and quickly left before they also got under the wrath of Snape too.
"Yes, Professor Snape?" Ginny asked.
"I would like you to be my assistant. You will prepare potions and so on, along with another high academic student, ahh..here he comes now."
Before Ginny could object of being Snape's slave and giving up her free time. Draco walked into the classroom.
Ginny's thoughts *Malfoy is the other highly academic student?!? Well I guess he would be favourite with Snape, being Slytherin and all, but then he is a Head Boy, which he must have earned. Funny, I never thought of him as a swot. That's unfair! he is Head Boy, he has excellent grades and he has a popular authority figure thing going on. Not in a good way though, he got that by being mean and a bully, especially to Ron and Harry. Oh yes, Harry, thank goodness I don't have that stupid crush on Harry, I mean he is a totally bad dresser, his hair is always so scruffy, I mean get some gel boy!! What the heck am I thinking of Harry for?!? Here, I have the most eligible, bad boy, intelligent, popular guy there is! (No, not Snape! lol) Wow Malfoy is really handsome in a sinister kind of way. Oh I don't like that stupid smirk of his, thinking that he is better than anyone else, shame, he is really quite cute, smouldering grey eyes, sun blonde silver hair, tall, dark, mysterious and he has muscles!! ooh yes, I can see them flexing, I wonder if he works out??* Ginny ponders this thought out in her head.
Draco's thoughts *Oh My god!! What the heck is she doing here? okay okay, stay calm, be cool, be confident, act natural, do something you would usually do.*
Automatically his face puts on a smirk.
*oh no, she doesn't like the smirk, I guess I shouldn't be so surprised. But I can't lose the smirk now, otherwise she will know that I'm onto her. What to do? What to do?*
Draco becomes anxious, his muscles starts tensing.
*Wow, she's so beautiful. If only I could touch her. Good god man! Get a hold of yourself. Stay in control!* he shouts inside himself.
"So what do you say, Miss Weasley? Would you like to?" Snape said, snapping Ginny back into reality.
Ginny saw Malfoy's smirk on his face. She despised his as much he despised her. (or so she thought) and working with him would be torture. But Ginny would never back down and let Malfoy win. Besides she always liked new challenges and Malfoy was definitely a new challenge, it would be interesting what she could get out of him.
"Of course I'd like to, Professor Snape." Ginny answered.
Ginny saw Malfoy's smirk drop from his face.
*Ha, I've showed you Malfoy, I'm not going to let you walk over me. That sure got that smirk off your face. You don't like me working with you, but tough luck! You can shove that up where the sun don't shine!* Ginny giggling to herself at that thought.
While in Draco's excited mind *Oh my god, she said yes! (Draco is so surprised, that his smirk vanishes from his face) She's going to be working here. We will be working together. I can't believe this is happening, this is a amazing. Finally things are looking up!*
"Good, you both start tomorrow morning (Tuesday). You will label all my potions and put them into alphabetical order in their separate categories. This will teach you all the substances in existence." Snape leaves the classroom.
Immediately Ginny spouts out, "We get to do his dirty work and take an educational ride along with it..typical."
Draco turns around to face her, but not surprised by her out burst. He loved Ginny since her 1st year (that's a long time to love someone who doesn't love you back! He has been waiting all this time for her....awww) and saw her developing personality, character and spunky attitude, which he loved the most.
"See you tomorrow morning then." And with that being all he said, he turned and went to his next class. Leaving a puzzled Ginny in the empty classroom wondering why he had not insulted her.
Later in the evening
Ginny tossed and turned in her bed unable to sleep. She had woke up in the early hours and could not get back to sleep. Defeated at sleep, and there was no point trying to sleep, she would have had to wake up in a few hours anyway. Ginny grabbed her black school robes and slipped outside in the night clutching her robes around her, little did she know that Draco was looking out of his window at that particular moment and saw the ginger coloured hair.
It was approaching dawn and the colours of the sun where beginning to light the sky with vibrant reds, yellows and oranges picking out the highlights of her hair.
She closed her eyes and took a deep breath by the lake and watched the sunrise, with a sad heavy feeling in her heart that she had no one to share the sunrise with, and her love.
But up in the Slytherin tower, was her silent guardian dragon watching her every move and sharing the sunset with her secretly.