A/n: here's the second chapter for all those who wanted me to continue!
Hope you guys like it coz I feel it's kinda 'tweaky' :P o well, enjoy! O,
and Draco's thoughts take place the same time as Ginny's.
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" Being held a foe, he may not have access to breathe such vows as lovers us'd to swear; and she as much in love, her means less to meet her new- beloved any where " - Romeo & Juliet
~**~**~
**~Ignorance is Bliss~**
CHAPTER 2
The dark and gloomy Slytherin common room wasn't Draco favourite place to be but this was the best he could do for now. Even though he was a prefect and had his own room, Crabbe and Goyle's snores were monstrous enough to pass through walls, stirring Draco from his dreamless sleep. He couldn't go outside because it was freezing cold - winter was approaching.
As the skin on Draco's came in contact with the cold hard floor he knew immediately that perhaps he should have stayed in his room to endure the torturing snores. He wondered why everyone could sleep so damn soundly. Freaks. Draco quickly drew out his wand from his pocket and cast 'Incendio' at the fireplace. Feeling a lot better, he flopped himself down into a large old armchair. It was His chair. As he stared at the flames dancing about in the old fireplace he smiled ever so slightly. The flames were like fine curls against the face of the most beautiful angel he had ever seen - Virginia Weasley.
Perhaps he wanted to be called insane, mad, plain downright stupid because these comments just made him happier. They were different from the usually, slimy git, bloody ferret and all the other rude names. However he knew that while he was happily enjoying the fresh breath of air he thought of his little angel. Usually when he looked into her eyes, he saw warmth, mirth, purity and...love. It was only until one fine day that he saw something else; sadness, hurt, confusion and listlessness.
It was right in front of his face but he was too blinded to see it. At first he thought it was ridiculous but after much conflict between his heart and mind he realised that his Angel was afraid. She was afraid of being hurt, of being forgotten and only a fool could not tell that she was overshadowed. However when Draco asked her about it, she denied anything and everything. She never once asked anything from him nor did she whine or complain about piety things. But why wouldn't she tell him about it? It was this buzzing question that probably gave him an uneasy sleep. Was it because she didn't trust him enough?
Draco shifted in the large armchair uncomfortably, trying to solve the puzzle in his mind. Draco ruled out all chances that Ginny didn't love him enough or she had another because he trusted her completely; the question was did she? Why couldn't she just tell him about her fears and expectations? Draco's head was about to burst with frustration. Maybe he was just being over paranoid and there was really nothing wrong at all.
His mind was like a big map now, where he's at a crossroad and the different paths he can choose are all the bloody questions in his head. Great. Now he was confusing himself as well. This was sheer madness. Draco gave out a loud sigh wondering why it was his ill fate to find out about Ginny's insecurities in such an unfavourable way.
**~Flashback~**
" Well well well, lookie what we have here, Pansy " Blaise mocked in her whiney high-pitched voice.
" The Gryffindor whore! What a surprise!" Pansy screeched with fake excitement.
It was Ginny's unlucky day to encounter the school bitches in narrow corridor. Ginny didn't really feel like dealing with them after a long day of school so she tried to just ignore them. They're claims were always the same anyway.
" What? Lost your voice? You think you're too good for us now, don't you?" Pansy taunted.
" Yeah, just cause you're Draco's 'girlfriend' you think you're something? Please Weasley, you're nothing. Worthless, penniless, ugly and just a plain muggle lover too." Blaise said following suite. The two bitches now had moved closer towards Ginny, toying with her hair and tugging at her robes.
" Look at this, Blaise!" said Pansy, pinching a portion of Ginny's robes.
" It's probably never been washed in months!" and both girls laughed stupidly. Still, Ginny just stood quietly, silently praying that this ordeal could be over soon.
" You'll never be good enough for Draco, Weasley. Look at him then look at yourself! He's rich, handsome, star Quidditch player and who knows what more but YOU.filth is the only word." Blaise said, jabbing a finger at Ginny's torso. Ginny tried to be strong not let them see her cry so she held her ground and remained silent.
" Hmph, do you actually think he really loves you? O please, Weasley, you're probably the hundredth or so girl he has duped to sleep with him. It's always been the same process. He pretends to shower with you with so much love, care and concern and pretends like he has change for the better but all these are just ruthless lies!"
" He's a Slytherin for god's sake. Not some goody-two-shoes Gryffindor crap. Besides, true love and romance are dead, all's left is sex and lust. Grow up, Weasley."
" Yeah and in the meantime, I suggest you dump Draco before he dumps you. We wouldn't want to see her cry, now would we, Pansy?"
" Of course not! Because we just want Draco for ourselves! Because we're worthy of him and Weasley, you are not. The whole school hates you for taking away our beloved Draco. Why couldn't you just stick to pining after Potter?"
" Yeah, you two were so compatible! And after that absolutely rich episode with the Valentine's Day card I would've thought he'd be all eyes for you!"
By now, Ginny's tears were too hard to barricade. They were already overflowing and streaming down her fair cheeks. She didn't want to listen to a single word they were saying but she found it so hard to block out their voices. She didn't want to believe all the terrible the things about Draco they had just told her. Draco loved her and now she wanted to believe it so badly. Now she wished he could be there to protect her, like he promised he would but no, he was off at Quidditch training. How unfair life was and how bad timing it had.
Ginny ran past the two, still hysterical Slytherin girls who hurled more rude comments at her. As she ran she tried to wipe away her tears in case she ran into of her friends but it was hopeless, the tears just kept flowing down like a broken tap.
Unknown to her, Draco had been there all along, watching and listening. Many times he felt like casting a killing spell on the two sluts but decided better to keep his peace in a dark corner. He had been on his way back to find Ginny because Quidditch training had been cancelled due to the terrible weather. Never had he expected to come across such a scene. Once the girls had gone, he flew after Ginny, hoping to catch her before she did anything stupid.
He searched and searched but he still couldn't find her. He was beginning to feel a little worried until he heard a faint crying noise coming from a nearby girls toilet. He hesitated for a moment before deciding that Ginny was more important. Sucking in a deep breath of air, he pushed open the door gingerly with his eyes closed, expecting lots of squeals from girls but instead he heard nothing, an eerie silence in fact. It looked...deserted.
" Hello...Ginny...?" His voice echoed throughout the room, making it even more eerie that Draco's hair was beginning to stand on it's ends.
" Ginny...Are you in here? Please come-"
" AHHH!!!!! A BOY in a GIRLS lavatory!!!!! HOW DARE YOU!!!!!" screamed a ghostly figure sitting on top of one of the cubicle doors. Moaning Myrtle.
Draco gave out a sigh of relief. He had expected worse.
" Oh. It's only YOU Myrtle." Draco said in a bored voice.
" YES. It's JUST me. Ugly, four-eyed, Moaning Myrtle. Who'd you expect? VoldieMorty?" she yelled.
" Cute. What are you doing here, Myrtle? Aren't you suppose to be wallowing in self pity in the other tower? I see you haven't aged one bit since our last encounter, just how do you do it!?" said Draco with fake enthusiasm.
Myrtle glided down in front of Draco and screamed in his face like a Banshee, almost blowing him away. When she finished, she calmly went to sit on a toilet seat, leaving Draco fiddling with his ears.
" Why'd you do that for?!" Draco yelled, he couldn't hear himself very well.
" A girl has the right to change her mind, Malfoy. I see you haven't changed a bit at all, still the same old smart mouthed, hateful git that you are. How in the world did you get such a sweet girl as Ginny Weasley to be your girlfriend? Tsk tsk tsk..." she mumbled.
Draco's ears perked up immediately. Did she just say Ginny Weasley?
" Did you say Ginny? Ginny Weasley? What do you know about her? How DO you know her? And who told you about her and me? Have you been nosing-"
"O shut up already, will you? Since when have you ever cared about anyone else but yourself anyway? Bugger off, let me have some peace."
" This is important, Myrtle! Don't play games with me!"
" O! so now I'm playing games? Well, look who's talking? Why in the world should I tell you a damn thing? But I can tell you that you're a terrible terrible 'boyfriend' if that's what you even dare to call yourself."
" Really? And who are you to judge me Moaning Myrtle? At least I have a love life, no wait; at least I have a life! You're DEAD." Draco smirked, extremely pleased with himself.
" FINE. I'm dead. You never learn Draco Malfoy, and now you'll never learn about what I know about you and Ginny. And believe me Draco Malfoy, I know tons, things she would most probably never even tell YOU. All those feelings and emotions locked in ME. But it looks like you're never gonna get them because like you said, Malfoy, I'm DEAD!" Myrtle screamed and in a whirlwind drove Draco out the entrance, locking the door as well. Draco landed in a heap on the ground and he cursed himself as well as Myrtle.
**~End of Flashback~**
What exactly did Myrtle know? Was it really vital? Part of him wanted to think that Myrtle was just lying and trying to get attention but then again why would she make such claims about Ginny to him for no particular reason? It wasn't like she had much to gain from it.
Draco scratched his head irritably as his eyes wondered towards the nearby window. He didn't even realise it but it was going to be dawn soon. The shades of the sky were already becoming a slightly greyish colour. Damn, Draco wondered how much sleep he had gotten anyway, not much, he was sure. He sighed as he thought about what his mother's constant reminders: " Sleep early, Draco!" "Have enough sleep, Draco! We don't want puffy eyes, now do we?" he sighed as he thought of his beautiful mother, how he missed her. But he knew his father wouldn't want him coming back during the Christmas holidays. Perhaps this year wouldn't be so bad, after all, there was Ginny. The downside was that her dreadful brother would also stay behind to watch his dear sister and that would mean the rest of the Dream Team as well.
" Hmm...Ginny...Weasley...Potter...Granger...and a Malfoy..." Draco snickered madly to himself as he thought of something fairly nasty. Glee was all over his face as he snuck back to bed to try to get a few hours of rest. It was a Saturday anyway. Oh joyful Saturdays.
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A/n: Ah...what exactly does Draco have in mind? I would think it's pretty obvious. Well, I really have bad plot ideas so please review and give me some suggestions! Yes, this is YOUR *holding a microphone and pointing to all the reviewers in a very game show host way* story! So tell me what you'd like to see happening in the next few chapters! Ok, enough of me, tell me what you think and I'll love you forever!!!!
THANK YOU:
AirliaStar - thank u sooooo much! 1) for being my first reviewer and 2) giving me a great suggestion!
Sabacat - ;)
Duckchick - ;)
NA - I'm writing more!
Katy - well, it wasn't really an engagement but more like a pre-engagement thingy. O never mind :P thx for the review anyway!
Darcel - I'll try!
Raven Black - AH!!! I love your fic soooo much!!! Everyone should check out The Seven Deadly Sins!!!!! YAY! Thank you!!!!!!
Kitten - ;)
Delta2002 The Vampiress - Thanks!
Janet - here it is!
Sony Lewison - Really? Aw...Thanks...
Supergirl - Thanks! I had to go with the majority, since so many people wanted me to continue ;)
Cherrystargoddess - Thanks and cool nick!
GoldenRed Phoenix - sorry, but I was in a happy mood so I wrote a sorta happy ending! Hehe, well, hope you're ok with it!
Azalai - I surrender! Here's your second chapter!
Nessa - here it is!
Aly - ;)
~**~**~
" Being held a foe, he may not have access to breathe such vows as lovers us'd to swear; and she as much in love, her means less to meet her new- beloved any where " - Romeo & Juliet
~**~**~
**~Ignorance is Bliss~**
CHAPTER 2
The dark and gloomy Slytherin common room wasn't Draco favourite place to be but this was the best he could do for now. Even though he was a prefect and had his own room, Crabbe and Goyle's snores were monstrous enough to pass through walls, stirring Draco from his dreamless sleep. He couldn't go outside because it was freezing cold - winter was approaching.
As the skin on Draco's came in contact with the cold hard floor he knew immediately that perhaps he should have stayed in his room to endure the torturing snores. He wondered why everyone could sleep so damn soundly. Freaks. Draco quickly drew out his wand from his pocket and cast 'Incendio' at the fireplace. Feeling a lot better, he flopped himself down into a large old armchair. It was His chair. As he stared at the flames dancing about in the old fireplace he smiled ever so slightly. The flames were like fine curls against the face of the most beautiful angel he had ever seen - Virginia Weasley.
Perhaps he wanted to be called insane, mad, plain downright stupid because these comments just made him happier. They were different from the usually, slimy git, bloody ferret and all the other rude names. However he knew that while he was happily enjoying the fresh breath of air he thought of his little angel. Usually when he looked into her eyes, he saw warmth, mirth, purity and...love. It was only until one fine day that he saw something else; sadness, hurt, confusion and listlessness.
It was right in front of his face but he was too blinded to see it. At first he thought it was ridiculous but after much conflict between his heart and mind he realised that his Angel was afraid. She was afraid of being hurt, of being forgotten and only a fool could not tell that she was overshadowed. However when Draco asked her about it, she denied anything and everything. She never once asked anything from him nor did she whine or complain about piety things. But why wouldn't she tell him about it? It was this buzzing question that probably gave him an uneasy sleep. Was it because she didn't trust him enough?
Draco shifted in the large armchair uncomfortably, trying to solve the puzzle in his mind. Draco ruled out all chances that Ginny didn't love him enough or she had another because he trusted her completely; the question was did she? Why couldn't she just tell him about her fears and expectations? Draco's head was about to burst with frustration. Maybe he was just being over paranoid and there was really nothing wrong at all.
His mind was like a big map now, where he's at a crossroad and the different paths he can choose are all the bloody questions in his head. Great. Now he was confusing himself as well. This was sheer madness. Draco gave out a loud sigh wondering why it was his ill fate to find out about Ginny's insecurities in such an unfavourable way.
**~Flashback~**
" Well well well, lookie what we have here, Pansy " Blaise mocked in her whiney high-pitched voice.
" The Gryffindor whore! What a surprise!" Pansy screeched with fake excitement.
It was Ginny's unlucky day to encounter the school bitches in narrow corridor. Ginny didn't really feel like dealing with them after a long day of school so she tried to just ignore them. They're claims were always the same anyway.
" What? Lost your voice? You think you're too good for us now, don't you?" Pansy taunted.
" Yeah, just cause you're Draco's 'girlfriend' you think you're something? Please Weasley, you're nothing. Worthless, penniless, ugly and just a plain muggle lover too." Blaise said following suite. The two bitches now had moved closer towards Ginny, toying with her hair and tugging at her robes.
" Look at this, Blaise!" said Pansy, pinching a portion of Ginny's robes.
" It's probably never been washed in months!" and both girls laughed stupidly. Still, Ginny just stood quietly, silently praying that this ordeal could be over soon.
" You'll never be good enough for Draco, Weasley. Look at him then look at yourself! He's rich, handsome, star Quidditch player and who knows what more but YOU.filth is the only word." Blaise said, jabbing a finger at Ginny's torso. Ginny tried to be strong not let them see her cry so she held her ground and remained silent.
" Hmph, do you actually think he really loves you? O please, Weasley, you're probably the hundredth or so girl he has duped to sleep with him. It's always been the same process. He pretends to shower with you with so much love, care and concern and pretends like he has change for the better but all these are just ruthless lies!"
" He's a Slytherin for god's sake. Not some goody-two-shoes Gryffindor crap. Besides, true love and romance are dead, all's left is sex and lust. Grow up, Weasley."
" Yeah and in the meantime, I suggest you dump Draco before he dumps you. We wouldn't want to see her cry, now would we, Pansy?"
" Of course not! Because we just want Draco for ourselves! Because we're worthy of him and Weasley, you are not. The whole school hates you for taking away our beloved Draco. Why couldn't you just stick to pining after Potter?"
" Yeah, you two were so compatible! And after that absolutely rich episode with the Valentine's Day card I would've thought he'd be all eyes for you!"
By now, Ginny's tears were too hard to barricade. They were already overflowing and streaming down her fair cheeks. She didn't want to listen to a single word they were saying but she found it so hard to block out their voices. She didn't want to believe all the terrible the things about Draco they had just told her. Draco loved her and now she wanted to believe it so badly. Now she wished he could be there to protect her, like he promised he would but no, he was off at Quidditch training. How unfair life was and how bad timing it had.
Ginny ran past the two, still hysterical Slytherin girls who hurled more rude comments at her. As she ran she tried to wipe away her tears in case she ran into of her friends but it was hopeless, the tears just kept flowing down like a broken tap.
Unknown to her, Draco had been there all along, watching and listening. Many times he felt like casting a killing spell on the two sluts but decided better to keep his peace in a dark corner. He had been on his way back to find Ginny because Quidditch training had been cancelled due to the terrible weather. Never had he expected to come across such a scene. Once the girls had gone, he flew after Ginny, hoping to catch her before she did anything stupid.
He searched and searched but he still couldn't find her. He was beginning to feel a little worried until he heard a faint crying noise coming from a nearby girls toilet. He hesitated for a moment before deciding that Ginny was more important. Sucking in a deep breath of air, he pushed open the door gingerly with his eyes closed, expecting lots of squeals from girls but instead he heard nothing, an eerie silence in fact. It looked...deserted.
" Hello...Ginny...?" His voice echoed throughout the room, making it even more eerie that Draco's hair was beginning to stand on it's ends.
" Ginny...Are you in here? Please come-"
" AHHH!!!!! A BOY in a GIRLS lavatory!!!!! HOW DARE YOU!!!!!" screamed a ghostly figure sitting on top of one of the cubicle doors. Moaning Myrtle.
Draco gave out a sigh of relief. He had expected worse.
" Oh. It's only YOU Myrtle." Draco said in a bored voice.
" YES. It's JUST me. Ugly, four-eyed, Moaning Myrtle. Who'd you expect? VoldieMorty?" she yelled.
" Cute. What are you doing here, Myrtle? Aren't you suppose to be wallowing in self pity in the other tower? I see you haven't aged one bit since our last encounter, just how do you do it!?" said Draco with fake enthusiasm.
Myrtle glided down in front of Draco and screamed in his face like a Banshee, almost blowing him away. When she finished, she calmly went to sit on a toilet seat, leaving Draco fiddling with his ears.
" Why'd you do that for?!" Draco yelled, he couldn't hear himself very well.
" A girl has the right to change her mind, Malfoy. I see you haven't changed a bit at all, still the same old smart mouthed, hateful git that you are. How in the world did you get such a sweet girl as Ginny Weasley to be your girlfriend? Tsk tsk tsk..." she mumbled.
Draco's ears perked up immediately. Did she just say Ginny Weasley?
" Did you say Ginny? Ginny Weasley? What do you know about her? How DO you know her? And who told you about her and me? Have you been nosing-"
"O shut up already, will you? Since when have you ever cared about anyone else but yourself anyway? Bugger off, let me have some peace."
" This is important, Myrtle! Don't play games with me!"
" O! so now I'm playing games? Well, look who's talking? Why in the world should I tell you a damn thing? But I can tell you that you're a terrible terrible 'boyfriend' if that's what you even dare to call yourself."
" Really? And who are you to judge me Moaning Myrtle? At least I have a love life, no wait; at least I have a life! You're DEAD." Draco smirked, extremely pleased with himself.
" FINE. I'm dead. You never learn Draco Malfoy, and now you'll never learn about what I know about you and Ginny. And believe me Draco Malfoy, I know tons, things she would most probably never even tell YOU. All those feelings and emotions locked in ME. But it looks like you're never gonna get them because like you said, Malfoy, I'm DEAD!" Myrtle screamed and in a whirlwind drove Draco out the entrance, locking the door as well. Draco landed in a heap on the ground and he cursed himself as well as Myrtle.
**~End of Flashback~**
What exactly did Myrtle know? Was it really vital? Part of him wanted to think that Myrtle was just lying and trying to get attention but then again why would she make such claims about Ginny to him for no particular reason? It wasn't like she had much to gain from it.
Draco scratched his head irritably as his eyes wondered towards the nearby window. He didn't even realise it but it was going to be dawn soon. The shades of the sky were already becoming a slightly greyish colour. Damn, Draco wondered how much sleep he had gotten anyway, not much, he was sure. He sighed as he thought about what his mother's constant reminders: " Sleep early, Draco!" "Have enough sleep, Draco! We don't want puffy eyes, now do we?" he sighed as he thought of his beautiful mother, how he missed her. But he knew his father wouldn't want him coming back during the Christmas holidays. Perhaps this year wouldn't be so bad, after all, there was Ginny. The downside was that her dreadful brother would also stay behind to watch his dear sister and that would mean the rest of the Dream Team as well.
" Hmm...Ginny...Weasley...Potter...Granger...and a Malfoy..." Draco snickered madly to himself as he thought of something fairly nasty. Glee was all over his face as he snuck back to bed to try to get a few hours of rest. It was a Saturday anyway. Oh joyful Saturdays.
~**~**~
A/n: Ah...what exactly does Draco have in mind? I would think it's pretty obvious. Well, I really have bad plot ideas so please review and give me some suggestions! Yes, this is YOUR *holding a microphone and pointing to all the reviewers in a very game show host way* story! So tell me what you'd like to see happening in the next few chapters! Ok, enough of me, tell me what you think and I'll love you forever!!!!
THANK YOU:
AirliaStar - thank u sooooo much! 1) for being my first reviewer and 2) giving me a great suggestion!
Sabacat - ;)
Duckchick - ;)
NA - I'm writing more!
Katy - well, it wasn't really an engagement but more like a pre-engagement thingy. O never mind :P thx for the review anyway!
Darcel - I'll try!
Raven Black - AH!!! I love your fic soooo much!!! Everyone should check out The Seven Deadly Sins!!!!! YAY! Thank you!!!!!!
Kitten - ;)
Delta2002 The Vampiress - Thanks!
Janet - here it is!
Sony Lewison - Really? Aw...Thanks...
Supergirl - Thanks! I had to go with the majority, since so many people wanted me to continue ;)
Cherrystargoddess - Thanks and cool nick!
GoldenRed Phoenix - sorry, but I was in a happy mood so I wrote a sorta happy ending! Hehe, well, hope you're ok with it!
Azalai - I surrender! Here's your second chapter!
Nessa - here it is!
Aly - ;)