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"Woah, that was good Jade! You just have described my entire feelings, I DO like Delta. *Ginny pauses for a moment, as if she just realises she has feelings for Draco.* And how in the hell do you do that?!? You're like reading my mind!"
"I knew you liked Delta. I know you too well! But don't worry I wont say anything at all, not to Hermione, Romeo, Hotel or Delta."
"And its not that hard to read your mind, there wasn't much in there to start with!" Jade continued.
"Oh Ha Ha Ha" Ginny replied sarcastically. "You're gonna become a great psychiatrist one day!" Ginny added and Jade grinned.
At that very moment, not too far away from where Ginny and Jade were standing in the hallway listening to only half the conversation, was Draco.
"Who the hell is Delta?" Draco wondered with slight jealously.
Tuesday,1st day working in Snape's Potions' Lab
Ginny and Draco did not speak a word to each other. Their silence was enough that you could hear a pin drop. Draco was going mad inside, the girl of his dreams was right beside him and he couldn't think of anything to say. He had fantasised what it would be like many times before and what he would like to say to her and do. But when this day had finally come he found himself utterly speechless.
Wednesday,2nd day
Draco and Ginny worked silently at re-labelling bottles. Only speaking to each other when needing to ask one another to pass the labels. Working in the small closet room Ginny and Draco bumped into each other a few times when working and muttering a quiet "sorry" and "excuse me". They're hands touching briefly when passing the labels, both feeling the electric spark between them which shivered all over their body. Sometimes when passing the labels, Draco made sure that he touched her hand briefly and sometimes for slightly longer, but not enough to rouse suspicion.
Thursday,3rd day
"Okay Weasley, I can't take this silence anymore. Tell me something about yourself." Draco asked, breaking the silence, in the small cupboard space in Snape's classroom.
"Why would you want to know anything about a Weasley?" Ginny replied with a question.
"Because I'm so bored of this silence. I need some sound and noise, and since you are here and not just me alone, I don't think you will appreciate my singing if I sang to myself. Its not that I really want to listen to your voice and hear anything about you, but anything is better than this dead silence!"
"Oh since you put it that way Malfoy, how can I refuse you!" Ginny answers sarcastically with spite. "You insult me and then you expect me to talk still, you are such a jerk!" she continues.
Draco sighs in defeat, he knew he shouldn't have said those things, but how else was he going to get to know anything about her, if she found about his true feelings she would laugh in his face and would speak to him less than now. They continued with their work in silence.
Friday,4th day
"Oh c'mon Weasley! Don't be so up-tight! Look I didn't mean it yesterday okay? Just say something!"
"Why are you saying 'sorry' to me? You are a Malfoy, you would never try to make peace with me. And why are you trying to talk to me? I'm too poor to talk to, remember?"
"Look, all I want is some conversation, okay? We are gonna be working together for a while we might as well be civil, unless, you can't manage that?" Draco then wished he hadn't said that part.
"There you go again! Being insultive, why should I talk to someone who insults me?"
"Fine! You give me no other choice other than to sing to amuse myself, you should feel privileged to hear my wonderful voice, you will be one of the very few to hear it."
"I wonder why!!??!!" Ginny said sarcastically. "I'll board the windows so you won't break them, and let me get some ear plugs first."
Draco dismissed her words and began to sing the song 'Stuck in the middle with You' by 'Stealers Wheel'. Ginny heard Draco's smooth voice, it was really good, actually it was brilliant. She wondered how he learnt to sing like that. It was beautiful. It was a catchy song and Ginny started to sing quietly to it. Draco noticed Ginny joining in. Draco quietened his voice so Ginny could be heard more, and then he totally stopped singing while Ginny carried on oblivious that Draco stopped. Draco heard her voice, it was fantastic, she had a great voice, like a nightingale in fact. Ginny then realised she was singing solo and Draco watching her with a smile on his face and not a smirk. She was taken back that he was listening to her, she stopped singing and blushed. She coughed a little and then resumed working in silence.
"Don't stop, your voice is wonderful. I'm not lying, it really is lovely, please continue." Draco said to Ginny without thinking.
Ginny went very pink "You're voice is great too, where did you learn to sing like that?"
"I've always been able to, I sing for fun. Do you want to duet?"
"Urr..okay, what song?"
"Grease, better shape up?"
Before Ginny could object Draco began singing. "I've got chills, they're multiplying. And I'm loosing control. All the power you're supplying, it's electrifying!" Draco did all the actions and even went to his knees in front of Ginny just like Danny did to Sandy in the film.
Before she knew it, Ginny began singing her part, and did all the actions too, which included shoving him back and tempting and teasing him. "You better shape up, cos I need a man, and my heart is set you, you better shape, you gotta understand, to my heart you must be true." They did 'all' the actions which were actually used.
".love for me and you. you're the one I want, one I want, ooh ,ooh, ooh, honey! the one I want , you are the one I want, ooh, ooh ,ooh, oh yes indeed, oh yes indeed." Both Draco and Ginny sang.
By the end of the song, they were in each other's arms, out of breath from the dancing and singing.
Draco's thoughts *Wow! She's a good singer and dancer! She's in my arms, and I would love to kiss her, but god, I can't. She will punch me across the face and I will have lost what we just gained from the song.*
Ginny's thoughts *He is so gorgeous playing a John Travolta. If only he was in leather, I'd be totally hooked. Jeez, this is annoying, here I am in his arms and I want to kiss him but I can't. He will never like me, not a poor Gryffindor Weasley.*
They are both out of breath and smile at each other of how well the song went, they realise they are still in each other's arms and they slowly let go of each other. They sit down apart from each other and wait to get their breath back.
"That was fun!" Ginny says in attempt to make conversation.
"Yeah, it was." Draco replied "Wellwe've nearly finished all the work, we better get going" Draco continued and got up to finish the work.
Ginny was disappointed by his reply but couldn't do anything, she sighed and reluctantly went back to work herself and in a few minutes of silence they quickly finished that day's job and went their separate ways.
"Goodnight Malfoy" Ginny said to Draco as they were both coming out of Snape's classroom at the end of the day.
Draco moved infront of Ginny and stopped infront of her to face her and look down to her. He moved menacingly forward to her, making Ginny back up until her back felt the cold stone wall behind her. Draco was still infront of her, and his left hand was stretched out to the wall just a little away from her shoulder and supported himself on it. Draco moved even closer in and he could see Ginny's surprised look on her face.
"How about you call me Draco instead? And I'll call you Ginny, or Virginia if you like?" Draco said in a dark and deep voice.
Ginny was getting weak in the knees, but she kept her cool. She tried to slip away, where Draco's arm was not blocking her, but Draco stopped her, he put his right arm up on the wall too, close to Ginny, then lowered them both down so she would not slip underneath them until she answered his question. He was so close to Ginny with only like an inch between them.
Ginny's thoughts *Is he coming on to me? What the hell am I thinking? he's Malfoy! Why would he want to come onto an ugly girl like me? Well I might as well have some fun with this!*
And so with that incentive, she slightly spread her legs and pushed her pelvis out to Draco's pelvis area making the inch between them non-existent, not even a strand of hair could get between them or a slight draft. Draco was acutely aware of her movements and was finding it very hard to keep in control. He smelt her perfume of 'wild flowers' from her neck, it was in-toxicating and it certainly was making him wild! She was teasing him extremely, but she was not too obvious, to give him any impression that she like him.
"Well?" Draco said again in a deep voice.
"Okay" Ginny replied very quietly and seductively. Ginny then rose herself from the wall making her go forward but forcefully so that Draco would have to step back, which he did to get out of Ginny's way.
"Goodnight Draco."
"Goodnight Ginny." Answered Draco looking at Ginny.
Ginny walked down the corridor toward the Gryffindor Tower and Draco to the Slytherin Dungeon. As they departed in opposite directions down the hallway, they both went along a little of the way but then they both stopped walking, turned around and walked to one another, looking directly into each others eyes. Their gaze never left each other but as they passed each other.
"Wrong way." Both Ginny and Draco muttered to each other. Both realised they were heading in the wrong direction,(they were too caught up in each other before, that they didn't realise they both headed in the wrong direction) and they carried on down the hallway in the correct direction and left each other for that night. Until they would see each other on Monday after the weekend when they would be on their survival trip.
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A/N. I know this is a boring chapter and needn't to say very very CORNY!! But it will get better on now, this chapter had to show the tension between Draco and Ginny, and their relationship developing, otherwise the rest of the story would not be realistic of them becoming friends. They can't immediately become friends at the click of a finger!! So you have to bare with me how bad this is! Lol.