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"Thanks."

"No problem." Ginny replied.

They sat there in awkward silence for a while before either of them spoke. Ginny broke the silence.

"Hey you wanna get outta here?"

Jen just looked at her friend and nodded. They headed up towards the girls dormitory when a brightly flashing piece of parchment caught the girls attention, it read:

Winter Ball CHRISTMAS NIGHT.

Formal dress. Go single.

"That's strange." Ginny inquired, "They usually give you more details." Then she gasped.

"Oh my gosh! Jen! Isn't that tonight? But, Dumbledore didn't even announce it did he? Don't we need to go dress shopping now?"

Jennifer raised her eyebrows in amusement at her red haired friend's franticness. "Yes Gin it is tonight and yes, Dumbledore did announce it, right as we were leaving in fact, and YES Gin we need to go dress shopping."

Ginny ignored her friends' sarcastic response and looked again at the parchment. "Go single."

'Hmmm Ginny thought, I wonder why it says to go single.'





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"Ginny hurry up!" Chris yelled over the drifts of snow. Through the slur of Hogwarts students and the blur of snow, Chris could barely see the flash of red through the snow-infested air.

Ginny hurriedly scrambled over to her friends in front of the Leaky Cauldron.

"Sorry guys got stuck in the crowd." Ginny said hastily lifting her skirts from the slushy snow.

"Hurry! I'm freezing!" Kim yelled over the wind.

"Okay, okay I'm coming!"

When all the girls were seated with steaming mugs of butterbeer or hot chocolate they finally relaxed.

"Phew, man who new getting into the Leaky Cauldron would be this tiring ey Gin? Gin?" Chris asked. But Ginny's gaze was else where, staring into the steel grey orbs that, at the moment belonged to a certain Draco Malfoy.

Chris followed her gaze and sighed. "Ginny, it was just a one night stand, can't you just forgive the gorgeous bastard?"

It was a rhetorical question, but to the girls immense surprise Ginny heaved a great sigh and looked at her friends with a forlorn look.

"I wish I could guys, but just the thought him with, with, that SLUT makes my skin crawl." And before Ginny knew what she was saying she sighed again and breathed, "I love him so much." It was so quiet that it was barely audible, but it was still audible all the same and the three girls just stared at their friend, in dismay and shock.

"Ginny?" Kim replied quietly.

"Hmm?" Ginny responded with a dreamy look on her face.

"Ummm." Kim couldn't say anything at the moment. Luckily Christina jumped in.

"What did you just say?"

Right then Ginny seemed to drop out of her trance like state. And stared at her friends like she had just realized they were there.

"I'm sorry, what did you say?"

Her friends just sighed and gave each other knowing looks. Then after that looks of dawning and understanding spread across them. They would need to have a talk later. Then the three girls whirled on their friend.

"Well we're wasting time! Lets go dress shopping!"

Ginny just grinned.


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"I still can't choose between the red or black one!" Ginny cried indignantly an hour later at Madam Malkins.

She was standing in front of large elaborately designed mirror wearing a shimmery black, spaghetti strapped dress, that hung just above her knees and was tight around the waist, ending in a sloping back.

"I say go with that one," Jenny said through a mouth full of droobles best blowing gum. All the girls had chosen their dresses except Ginny who had finally narrowed it down to two.

"I say try the red one on again and then decide." Kim piped in.

"Good idea." Ginny went back into the dressing room and slipped into the other dress. It was a beautiful red dress that hung to the floor in slight waves with no straps and criss- crossing ribbon holding it in place in the back, showing off her tan shoulders.

When Ginny stepped out, Jen stopped blowing her gum in mid-bubble and the rest of them just stared.

"Hmm I still don't know." Jen was about to finish her sentence when her eyes turned the size of saucers. Ginny was about to ask what was wrong when a soft husky voice tickled her ear.

"I say go with the red one." Then without another word he stepped out into the snow covered streets, a black bag slung over his shoulder.

Jenny's gum finally cracked but her face remained frozen.

"SO! The red one it is!" Christina clapped her hands together breaking the awkward silence.

But Ginny wasn't listening. Her face was flushed with her eyes shut and her hands were clenched tight in balls at her sides.

'Oh my god. All the memories, why? Why? Did it have to feel so GOOD when he did that? It felt so familiar so fresh so overwhelming.'

Ginny shook herself.

'I shouldn't he thinking about that now. He betrayed me with that whore, nothing can make up for what he did to me.'


No matter how irresistible he is.