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"Oh, Ginny dear, you are home early."
Ginny picked herself up from where she landed on the floor. Looking around the room, she saw her mother standing in the doorway, a large bowl in her hands, a wooden spoon stirring the batter by itself.
Ginny wiped her hands on her skirt and looked around the room; it was oddly silent, especially considering the number of brothers that were still in the house.
"The boys have gone to Hogsmeade" Molly answered, as though she could read her daughters thoughts. Ginny nodded, and then sighed. "I have made a chocolate cake, would you like a piece before your brothers get home and eat it all"
"No thank you mum, I am not hungry" Ginny replied softly. Molly turned from where she was working at the counter, and looked at her daughter for a few seconds.
"Are you ok Ginny?" Molly asked. Ginny nodded, but then stopped and shook her head.
"I am feeling a little lightheaded, must have been the floo trip, I am just going to go and lay down for a little while" Ginny replied, hoping that her mother would accept that as a believable answer. Molly nodded slightly, and watched as Ginny disappeared up the stairs.
Collapsing onto her bed, Ginny hugged the pillow to her chest. Then, a few seconds later, she had covered her face with the pillow, holding it down over her face and screaming. The scream was luckily muffled by the pillow; otherwise, Ginny knew her mother would be up there in a heartbeat.
Draco had just kissed her, and Ginny didn't know why. He had just reached out and kissed her like it was the most natural thing in the world. Sure, their friendship over the weeks had grown and progressed, but she didn't think it had progressed that far as for it to be no big deal to kiss each other.
Ginny had never even thought of Draco like that. To her, he had always been a friend, one of her best friends, and really nothing more than that. She had never thought of him in a romantic way. It had never occurred to her that their relationship could evolve into more then just being friends.
But he had kissed her; he had made the first move and leapt the wall of being just friends. Now they were in that place of either taking a step forward and turning it into a relationship, or taking a step back, and just remaining friends.
Ginny didn't know what she wanted from him. She had once told her father that she would never be able to date Draco because he had to much emotional baggage, and now she definitely knew it was true.
He had not been thinking of her when they had kissed earlier. Of course, Ginny had no proof that he had been thinking of Jess, but when she accused him, Draco had not denied it, so Ginny guessed it was safe to say that he was. It was not the kiss that had offended her, the kiss they had shared was lovely, but what offended her was that he was not even thinking of her when their lips had been pressed together.
Ginny was not stupid, she knew that Draco still loved Jess. Ginny knew that if she was in his situation, a situation where a lover died, she would more than likely still love the other person, especially if they had had a child together.
Things were getting complicated. With just that one kiss he had given her, her whole world changed. Draco loved Jess, but deep down inside, some where way under the surface of it all, Ginny loved Draco.
Maybe it was just friendly love, the type of love that Ginny felt for Hermione and Harry, or maybe it was some other type of love. Maybe it was real love.
Ginny flattened the pillow over her face and screamed again. It was true, deep down, she loved Draco, and deep down, she loved Kayla. She wanted to be involved in their lives and their lives together, but she didn't know how she wanted to be involved in their lives.
Her mind got carried away with her, and soon, fantasies of being a mother to Kayla and a wife to Draco flooded her senses. Was that really what she wanted, did she really want to be a mother to another girls baby? Did she really want to be living off the second hand love that Draco would provide her with?
He had only kissed her because he had been sad about Jessica; he had only made a move on her because he could not make a move on Jess. Draco was using her as some sort of substitute, and that hurt.
There was a knock at the door, but Ginny didn't move. She was still lying on her bed, her pillow pressed against her face. The knocking continued.
"Come in" She called, her voice muffled against the fabric of the pillow case. Ginny could hear the door open, and then felt some one sit beside her on the bed.
"Mum told me that you were not feeling well, so I brought you this" a voice said, Ginny didn't have to take the pillow off of her face to know that it was Charlie who had just entered, but Ginny did move the pillow to see what he had brought her. It was a large slice of chocolate cake.
"I am not hungry" she mumbled, placing the pillow behind her head. Charlie smiled.
"So, you said you were not feeling well, and chocolate always makes you feel better, and besides, this is Fred's piece, so it will make it a hundred times better" Charlie tempted, waving the plate in front of her. Ginny had to admit that her it was tempting, her mother did make good cake, and if Charlie had really stolen it off one of the boys, it would make it so much better.
"Only if you share it with me, there is no way I would be able to eat all of this" she replied, sitting cross legged on the bed. Charlie smiled and placed the cake on the bed, broke off a piece of the gooey chocolate cake with his fingers, and then popped it into his mouth.
"So, Ginny, tell me about this boy you have been spending all your spare time with" Charlie said casually. Ginny groaned.
"Is this all this was, a chocolate covered interrogation?" She asked. Charlie laughed and had another piece of the cake.
"Not a chocolate covered interrogation, more like chocolate covered brother sister talk. It feels like I haven't spoken to my little sister in a very long time, and you know that you have always been my favorite sister..."
"I am your only little sister" Ginny replied though a mouthful of cake. Charlie smirked.
"Ok true, but we have not had a talk in a long time, you have grown up so much Gin, it feels like I have missed the last ten years!" Charlie replied.
Ginny agreed, it did feel like she had hardly spoken to Charlie in ten years. It was hard to believe that it had in fact been ten years since Charlie had left for the Romanian Dragon Camp. They had only really seen each other a few times in that whole decade, once was when Charlie had been working at the Triwazrd tournament (he had been to busy working to be able to talk to her for more than five minutes), and the other was when they had gone to the quidditch world cup (it was completely impossible to have a conversation with a Weasley male when there was a quiddicth game on somewhere near by.)
"So, what do you want to know?" Ginny asked, taking another small bite of the cake. Charlie reached out and ripped a whole section off of the edge of the cake and stuffed it in his mouth.
"Who is this boyfriend of yours that you keep disappearing to?" Charlie asked.
Ginny didn't know how to answer that. She could just tell the truth, that Draco was not her boyfriend, but she knew that with all of the confusion she was feeling at that time, she was not sure if it would be believable. "He is not my boyfriend"
"You hesitated with your answer, he is your boyfriend" Charlie replied. Ginny shook her head.
"No, it is not like that with Draco and me, we are not dating, we are just friends" Ginny replied.
"Draco?" He questioned. Ginny bowed her head for a few seconds, but then stopped, and looked up into her brothers eyes. She had no reason to be ashamed of her friendship with Draco.
"Yes, Draco Malfoy" Ginny replied. Charlie shrugged.
"I already knew that, dad told me, I just wanted to see if you would be honest with me" Charlie smiled. Ginny slapped her brother on the arm.
"Jerk" She mumbled. Charlie laughed.
"Come on Gin, seriously, what is going on between you and Malfoy, what spell did her put on you to make you want to hang out with him?" He smiled. Ginny just rolled her eyes.
"No spells, just friendship"
"I am proud of you Gin, you were always the one who could see through other people's prejudice to the real person underneath" Charlie replied.
After that there was silence, as they continued to eat the cake. Ginny's mind was racing, again, as she thought of what she could do with her whole Draco situation. She was off in her won little world, that she didn't even notice Charlie staring at her.
"You can ask me anything you know" He interrupted her thoughts. Ginny finally came back to herself, and took a few seconds to try and understand what the hell Charlie was on about.
"What?"
"You can ask me anything, if you are having boy troubles, or you just want help working out what is going on in your life, you can ask me" Charlie replied. Ginny smirked, but then a question popped into her head.
"Do you ever think of some thing else when you are kissing a girl?" She asked. She had no idea why she had asked him that, but she had, and now it looked like he was getting ready to reply.
"Yeah, all the time, I think every guy thinks of something else when they kiss a girl." He began "I mean, if the girl is really boring, and you are only kissing her to be polite, your mind can go to the strangest places, but then again, if the girl is a complete knock out, your mind goes to places that maybe they shouldn't....naughty places"
"Ewww, Charlie, that is disgusting" Ginny groaned.
"You asked, little one"
"No, I meant, do you sometimes think of other people. Like, an ex girlfriend?" She asked softly.
"I thought you said that you and Malfoy were not dating?" Charlie challenged. Ginny sighed. And soon, she found herself explaining the whole situation, telling Charlie everything about Draco and Jessica, about Kayla and then about Draco's health. She told him all about how she had helped him get well, and then how she was helping him with this custody battle to get Kayla back. And then, when she had finished with all of those details, she told him about that afternoon when Draco had kissed her.
"Well, did you give Draco a chance to explain himself and why he kissed you?" Charlie asked when Ginny had finished her story. Ginny sighed and looked down into her lap.
"I was confused, I didn't know what to do, I just left" Ginny admitted.
"Maybe you should have stayed to talk to him. Maybe things are not what you think they are" Charlie began, collecting the crumbs off of the now empty plate. "Maybe it was just a thank you kiss...."
"Not a thank you kiss, thank you kisses usually don't involve tongue do they?" She asked. Charlie laughed.
"Maybe not, but I suggest that you talk to him. From what you say, he needs as many friends as he get. If he meant what ever he meant by kissing you, then you can worry, but if he didn't really mean it, then he needs your friendship." Charlie explained.
"Thanks for the advice Charlie" Ginny smiled, hugging her pillow against her chest.
"You are welcome. And you know you can come to me if you ever need to." Charlie hugged his little sister and then stood, picking up the plate. "And I am sorry for eating all of your cake"
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The fork scraped across the pan that Draco held in his hand, trying hard to break away the remains of the 'food' he had made for dinner. After about ten minutes, he gave up, and just did a cleansing spell.
After cleaning up after dinner. Draco climbed the stairs to his bedroom, but he stopped, and instead of turning right into his room, he turned left into Kayla's.
The room was still bare. Draco knew he would have to go shopping soon and get some things for Kayla, especially if the case continued on as it was going. Maybe he and Ginny could do some shopping....
That was, of course, if Ginny was still talking to him.
He had kissed her. In what could have been the stupidest thing that Draco Malfoy had ever done, he had kissed his best friend. She had pulled away, and she had walked out, and now Draco didn't know if she was coming back.
Ginny had accused him of thinking of Jessica. He had not denied it, but the truth of the matter was, he had not been thinking of Jess when he had kissed Ginny. He had been thinking of her before the kiss, but for the short time that their lips were pressed together, his mind had not been on Jess, his mind had not been anywhere.
He had done it as a test. To see if he could kiss another girl and not think of Jess. He had succeeded, but he had offended Gin in the process.
He had proved to himself that he could move on from Jess if he gave himself enough time. He had shown himself that Jess did not plague her thoughts all of the time, that he could forget about her for long enough to kiss another girl, but he had also shown himself that he was a real jerk.
Kissing Ginny was probably the dumbest thing he had ever done. Sure, it had been a nice kiss, a very nice kiss, but it had compromised their friendship.
He was not ready for a relationship other than a strong friendship, he knew that, because he had to give himself time to get over Jessica, but did he really want a romantic relationship with Ginny.
She was the closest friend that he had ever had, and complications were already beginning to change the dynamic that they had had. Draco knew that no matter how much he liked Ginny, he would rather be her best friend for sixty years, than being her boyfriend for six months, and losing the friendship that they had.
When he thought of the future, he always saw Ginny in it. When Draco would picture his future with his daughter, he would always see Ginny with them, it was almost like he could not have one with out the other.
He wanted her to be involved with him and Kayla, but he didn't know how. Sure, he would throw around the words 'Aunt Ginny' but he sometimes liked to wonder if Kayla would ever grow to call Ginny 'Mum' and most of all, would Ginny be ok with that.
Draco was not surprised that he was ok with that. He didn't mind if Ginny became a mother to Kayla, because he knew there would come a time when the little girl would need a mothers influence.
But would Ginny ever officially be Kayla's mother, (or step mother really, but a mother to her all the same.)
Draco loved her, not the way that he loved Jess, but he loved Ginny. She was special to him. She was kind, loyal, loving, caring, helpful and he had to admit it, very beautiful. She knew what he was going though, and she had made a promise to be by his side no matter what.
But could they ever have that type of relationship? Did he even want that type of relationship, with any one? Did Ginny even think of him like that?
It was all to confusing.
But he knew he had no one else to blame but himself.
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Draco glanced at his watch again, it was 9:16, the Warners, who were sitting with their representative on the other side of the table, were slowly getting more and more restless. At the head of the table, Mr. Weston was tapping his quill on his piece of parchment.
"Did Miss Weasley give you any indication as to why she may be late this morning?" Mr. Weston asked. Draco shook his head slightly.
He knew why she was late, and she was wondering if she would even come at all. Ginny was probably still angry with him, and now she wasn't going to come to the rest of the case, she was leaving him to do it all on his own.
Not that he really blamed her.
"I am sorry sir, maybe it will be best if we just went on with out her. I am not sure if she will be attending today" Draco said softly. Mr. Weston sighed sadly.
"I have to tell you now, Draco, but Miss Weasley not attending today, she will forfeit her chance to testify in this case, and any information that she may have been able to add will have to be left out of the proceedings." Mr. Weston explained, Draco nodded slightly.
"Yes sir, I understand....." Draco began.
"Wait" The door opened and Ginny came in, she rushed to her seat beside Draco, and smiled apologetically at every one else in the room.
"I am very sorry for being late, Sir, I hope I have not set us back to much?" Ginny asked. Mr. Weston smiled.
"No, we were just about to get started actually"
As Mr. Weston arranged his papers in front of him, Draco tried to catch Ginny's eyes. They locked, and then, she smiled nervously.
"You came" he whispered.
"Why would I not? I made you a promise. I am not the type of person who goes back on my word" She replied softly.
"We can talk later right?" He asked.
"You bet your sorry ass that we will be talking later." She smiled. He laughed.
"Are you ready, Miss Weasley?" Mr. Weston asked, taking his list of questions and skimming them quickly. Ginny smiled confidently.
"As I'll ever be"
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This chapter contains a lot of thoughts, as well as some interaction with Charlie.
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"Oh, Ginny dear, you are home early."
Ginny picked herself up from where she landed on the floor. Looking around the room, she saw her mother standing in the doorway, a large bowl in her hands, a wooden spoon stirring the batter by itself.
Ginny wiped her hands on her skirt and looked around the room; it was oddly silent, especially considering the number of brothers that were still in the house.
"The boys have gone to Hogsmeade" Molly answered, as though she could read her daughters thoughts. Ginny nodded, and then sighed. "I have made a chocolate cake, would you like a piece before your brothers get home and eat it all"
"No thank you mum, I am not hungry" Ginny replied softly. Molly turned from where she was working at the counter, and looked at her daughter for a few seconds.
"Are you ok Ginny?" Molly asked. Ginny nodded, but then stopped and shook her head.
"I am feeling a little lightheaded, must have been the floo trip, I am just going to go and lay down for a little while" Ginny replied, hoping that her mother would accept that as a believable answer. Molly nodded slightly, and watched as Ginny disappeared up the stairs.
Collapsing onto her bed, Ginny hugged the pillow to her chest. Then, a few seconds later, she had covered her face with the pillow, holding it down over her face and screaming. The scream was luckily muffled by the pillow; otherwise, Ginny knew her mother would be up there in a heartbeat.
Draco had just kissed her, and Ginny didn't know why. He had just reached out and kissed her like it was the most natural thing in the world. Sure, their friendship over the weeks had grown and progressed, but she didn't think it had progressed that far as for it to be no big deal to kiss each other.
Ginny had never even thought of Draco like that. To her, he had always been a friend, one of her best friends, and really nothing more than that. She had never thought of him in a romantic way. It had never occurred to her that their relationship could evolve into more then just being friends.
But he had kissed her; he had made the first move and leapt the wall of being just friends. Now they were in that place of either taking a step forward and turning it into a relationship, or taking a step back, and just remaining friends.
Ginny didn't know what she wanted from him. She had once told her father that she would never be able to date Draco because he had to much emotional baggage, and now she definitely knew it was true.
He had not been thinking of her when they had kissed earlier. Of course, Ginny had no proof that he had been thinking of Jess, but when she accused him, Draco had not denied it, so Ginny guessed it was safe to say that he was. It was not the kiss that had offended her, the kiss they had shared was lovely, but what offended her was that he was not even thinking of her when their lips had been pressed together.
Ginny was not stupid, she knew that Draco still loved Jess. Ginny knew that if she was in his situation, a situation where a lover died, she would more than likely still love the other person, especially if they had had a child together.
Things were getting complicated. With just that one kiss he had given her, her whole world changed. Draco loved Jess, but deep down inside, some where way under the surface of it all, Ginny loved Draco.
Maybe it was just friendly love, the type of love that Ginny felt for Hermione and Harry, or maybe it was some other type of love. Maybe it was real love.
Ginny flattened the pillow over her face and screamed again. It was true, deep down, she loved Draco, and deep down, she loved Kayla. She wanted to be involved in their lives and their lives together, but she didn't know how she wanted to be involved in their lives.
Her mind got carried away with her, and soon, fantasies of being a mother to Kayla and a wife to Draco flooded her senses. Was that really what she wanted, did she really want to be a mother to another girls baby? Did she really want to be living off the second hand love that Draco would provide her with?
He had only kissed her because he had been sad about Jessica; he had only made a move on her because he could not make a move on Jess. Draco was using her as some sort of substitute, and that hurt.
There was a knock at the door, but Ginny didn't move. She was still lying on her bed, her pillow pressed against her face. The knocking continued.
"Come in" She called, her voice muffled against the fabric of the pillow case. Ginny could hear the door open, and then felt some one sit beside her on the bed.
"Mum told me that you were not feeling well, so I brought you this" a voice said, Ginny didn't have to take the pillow off of her face to know that it was Charlie who had just entered, but Ginny did move the pillow to see what he had brought her. It was a large slice of chocolate cake.
"I am not hungry" she mumbled, placing the pillow behind her head. Charlie smiled.
"So, you said you were not feeling well, and chocolate always makes you feel better, and besides, this is Fred's piece, so it will make it a hundred times better" Charlie tempted, waving the plate in front of her. Ginny had to admit that her it was tempting, her mother did make good cake, and if Charlie had really stolen it off one of the boys, it would make it so much better.
"Only if you share it with me, there is no way I would be able to eat all of this" she replied, sitting cross legged on the bed. Charlie smiled and placed the cake on the bed, broke off a piece of the gooey chocolate cake with his fingers, and then popped it into his mouth.
"So, Ginny, tell me about this boy you have been spending all your spare time with" Charlie said casually. Ginny groaned.
"Is this all this was, a chocolate covered interrogation?" She asked. Charlie laughed and had another piece of the cake.
"Not a chocolate covered interrogation, more like chocolate covered brother sister talk. It feels like I haven't spoken to my little sister in a very long time, and you know that you have always been my favorite sister..."
"I am your only little sister" Ginny replied though a mouthful of cake. Charlie smirked.
"Ok true, but we have not had a talk in a long time, you have grown up so much Gin, it feels like I have missed the last ten years!" Charlie replied.
Ginny agreed, it did feel like she had hardly spoken to Charlie in ten years. It was hard to believe that it had in fact been ten years since Charlie had left for the Romanian Dragon Camp. They had only really seen each other a few times in that whole decade, once was when Charlie had been working at the Triwazrd tournament (he had been to busy working to be able to talk to her for more than five minutes), and the other was when they had gone to the quidditch world cup (it was completely impossible to have a conversation with a Weasley male when there was a quiddicth game on somewhere near by.)
"So, what do you want to know?" Ginny asked, taking another small bite of the cake. Charlie reached out and ripped a whole section off of the edge of the cake and stuffed it in his mouth.
"Who is this boyfriend of yours that you keep disappearing to?" Charlie asked.
Ginny didn't know how to answer that. She could just tell the truth, that Draco was not her boyfriend, but she knew that with all of the confusion she was feeling at that time, she was not sure if it would be believable. "He is not my boyfriend"
"You hesitated with your answer, he is your boyfriend" Charlie replied. Ginny shook her head.
"No, it is not like that with Draco and me, we are not dating, we are just friends" Ginny replied.
"Draco?" He questioned. Ginny bowed her head for a few seconds, but then stopped, and looked up into her brothers eyes. She had no reason to be ashamed of her friendship with Draco.
"Yes, Draco Malfoy" Ginny replied. Charlie shrugged.
"I already knew that, dad told me, I just wanted to see if you would be honest with me" Charlie smiled. Ginny slapped her brother on the arm.
"Jerk" She mumbled. Charlie laughed.
"Come on Gin, seriously, what is going on between you and Malfoy, what spell did her put on you to make you want to hang out with him?" He smiled. Ginny just rolled her eyes.
"No spells, just friendship"
"I am proud of you Gin, you were always the one who could see through other people's prejudice to the real person underneath" Charlie replied.
After that there was silence, as they continued to eat the cake. Ginny's mind was racing, again, as she thought of what she could do with her whole Draco situation. She was off in her won little world, that she didn't even notice Charlie staring at her.
"You can ask me anything you know" He interrupted her thoughts. Ginny finally came back to herself, and took a few seconds to try and understand what the hell Charlie was on about.
"What?"
"You can ask me anything, if you are having boy troubles, or you just want help working out what is going on in your life, you can ask me" Charlie replied. Ginny smirked, but then a question popped into her head.
"Do you ever think of some thing else when you are kissing a girl?" She asked. She had no idea why she had asked him that, but she had, and now it looked like he was getting ready to reply.
"Yeah, all the time, I think every guy thinks of something else when they kiss a girl." He began "I mean, if the girl is really boring, and you are only kissing her to be polite, your mind can go to the strangest places, but then again, if the girl is a complete knock out, your mind goes to places that maybe they shouldn't....naughty places"
"Ewww, Charlie, that is disgusting" Ginny groaned.
"You asked, little one"
"No, I meant, do you sometimes think of other people. Like, an ex girlfriend?" She asked softly.
"I thought you said that you and Malfoy were not dating?" Charlie challenged. Ginny sighed. And soon, she found herself explaining the whole situation, telling Charlie everything about Draco and Jessica, about Kayla and then about Draco's health. She told him all about how she had helped him get well, and then how she was helping him with this custody battle to get Kayla back. And then, when she had finished with all of those details, she told him about that afternoon when Draco had kissed her.
"Well, did you give Draco a chance to explain himself and why he kissed you?" Charlie asked when Ginny had finished her story. Ginny sighed and looked down into her lap.
"I was confused, I didn't know what to do, I just left" Ginny admitted.
"Maybe you should have stayed to talk to him. Maybe things are not what you think they are" Charlie began, collecting the crumbs off of the now empty plate. "Maybe it was just a thank you kiss...."
"Not a thank you kiss, thank you kisses usually don't involve tongue do they?" She asked. Charlie laughed.
"Maybe not, but I suggest that you talk to him. From what you say, he needs as many friends as he get. If he meant what ever he meant by kissing you, then you can worry, but if he didn't really mean it, then he needs your friendship." Charlie explained.
"Thanks for the advice Charlie" Ginny smiled, hugging her pillow against her chest.
"You are welcome. And you know you can come to me if you ever need to." Charlie hugged his little sister and then stood, picking up the plate. "And I am sorry for eating all of your cake"
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The fork scraped across the pan that Draco held in his hand, trying hard to break away the remains of the 'food' he had made for dinner. After about ten minutes, he gave up, and just did a cleansing spell.
After cleaning up after dinner. Draco climbed the stairs to his bedroom, but he stopped, and instead of turning right into his room, he turned left into Kayla's.
The room was still bare. Draco knew he would have to go shopping soon and get some things for Kayla, especially if the case continued on as it was going. Maybe he and Ginny could do some shopping....
That was, of course, if Ginny was still talking to him.
He had kissed her. In what could have been the stupidest thing that Draco Malfoy had ever done, he had kissed his best friend. She had pulled away, and she had walked out, and now Draco didn't know if she was coming back.
Ginny had accused him of thinking of Jessica. He had not denied it, but the truth of the matter was, he had not been thinking of Jess when he had kissed Ginny. He had been thinking of her before the kiss, but for the short time that their lips were pressed together, his mind had not been on Jess, his mind had not been anywhere.
He had done it as a test. To see if he could kiss another girl and not think of Jess. He had succeeded, but he had offended Gin in the process.
He had proved to himself that he could move on from Jess if he gave himself enough time. He had shown himself that Jess did not plague her thoughts all of the time, that he could forget about her for long enough to kiss another girl, but he had also shown himself that he was a real jerk.
Kissing Ginny was probably the dumbest thing he had ever done. Sure, it had been a nice kiss, a very nice kiss, but it had compromised their friendship.
He was not ready for a relationship other than a strong friendship, he knew that, because he had to give himself time to get over Jessica, but did he really want a romantic relationship with Ginny.
She was the closest friend that he had ever had, and complications were already beginning to change the dynamic that they had had. Draco knew that no matter how much he liked Ginny, he would rather be her best friend for sixty years, than being her boyfriend for six months, and losing the friendship that they had.
When he thought of the future, he always saw Ginny in it. When Draco would picture his future with his daughter, he would always see Ginny with them, it was almost like he could not have one with out the other.
He wanted her to be involved with him and Kayla, but he didn't know how. Sure, he would throw around the words 'Aunt Ginny' but he sometimes liked to wonder if Kayla would ever grow to call Ginny 'Mum' and most of all, would Ginny be ok with that.
Draco was not surprised that he was ok with that. He didn't mind if Ginny became a mother to Kayla, because he knew there would come a time when the little girl would need a mothers influence.
But would Ginny ever officially be Kayla's mother, (or step mother really, but a mother to her all the same.)
Draco loved her, not the way that he loved Jess, but he loved Ginny. She was special to him. She was kind, loyal, loving, caring, helpful and he had to admit it, very beautiful. She knew what he was going though, and she had made a promise to be by his side no matter what.
But could they ever have that type of relationship? Did he even want that type of relationship, with any one? Did Ginny even think of him like that?
It was all to confusing.
But he knew he had no one else to blame but himself.
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Draco glanced at his watch again, it was 9:16, the Warners, who were sitting with their representative on the other side of the table, were slowly getting more and more restless. At the head of the table, Mr. Weston was tapping his quill on his piece of parchment.
"Did Miss Weasley give you any indication as to why she may be late this morning?" Mr. Weston asked. Draco shook his head slightly.
He knew why she was late, and she was wondering if she would even come at all. Ginny was probably still angry with him, and now she wasn't going to come to the rest of the case, she was leaving him to do it all on his own.
Not that he really blamed her.
"I am sorry sir, maybe it will be best if we just went on with out her. I am not sure if she will be attending today" Draco said softly. Mr. Weston sighed sadly.
"I have to tell you now, Draco, but Miss Weasley not attending today, she will forfeit her chance to testify in this case, and any information that she may have been able to add will have to be left out of the proceedings." Mr. Weston explained, Draco nodded slightly.
"Yes sir, I understand....." Draco began.
"Wait" The door opened and Ginny came in, she rushed to her seat beside Draco, and smiled apologetically at every one else in the room.
"I am very sorry for being late, Sir, I hope I have not set us back to much?" Ginny asked. Mr. Weston smiled.
"No, we were just about to get started actually"
As Mr. Weston arranged his papers in front of him, Draco tried to catch Ginny's eyes. They locked, and then, she smiled nervously.
"You came" he whispered.
"Why would I not? I made you a promise. I am not the type of person who goes back on my word" She replied softly.
"We can talk later right?" He asked.
"You bet your sorry ass that we will be talking later." She smiled. He laughed.
"Are you ready, Miss Weasley?" Mr. Weston asked, taking his list of questions and skimming them quickly. Ginny smiled confidently.
"As I'll ever be"
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