Hi, I have to say now that I am really sorry about how long it took for me
to get this chapter out. My computer completely shat itself. I had no
computer for a week and a half, and then, I had a mild case of writers
block and school.
I am really sorry and I hope you can forgive me and review for this chapter.
And I just want to tell you that this is the second last chapter, after this one, there is only one more.
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He shifted her weight on his lap and allowed his daughter to become more comfortable. His hand wrapped around her tiny little waist as she rested back against his chest and took in the large room with big, bright eyes.
Today had been a day of firsts for Kayla, and now she finally had a few moments to sit, and just watch the things around her. It also gave Draco time to just sit, and think about his life.
His life had been moving so quickly. Days had evolved into weeks, weeks into months, and now, it was almost hard to believe that it had been a year since he had taken custody of his beautiful little girl.
Kayla was now a little over two years old, and she had been living with him for a year, she had grown up so much. Everyday was filled with knew things, everyday she said or did something new or exciting, Draco knew he would never grow tired of watching his little girl grow and learn.
After the conclusion of the court case, Draco and Ginny had to wait a week before they could take Kayla home. One week they had to wait, but with all of the preparation that they had to do, the week seemed to go so quickly. Draco had had the great idea to paint Kayla's room, and jokingly Ginny had told him that they should paint it the muggle way, with paintbrushes and rollers.
So the next day, they muggle painted Kayla's bedroom. The rest of the week had been filled with buying anything that Draco decided he did not want his daughter living with out. Within hours, Kayla had every available stuffed animal and dress that Draco could lay his hands on.
The following Saturday, they had driven to The Warners house. Draco sat in the car outside the house for ten minutes before finally finding the courage to walk up the path to the front door where he knew his future was. Draco had been scared numerous times over the months, but he had to admit that never before had he been as scared as he was that day.
As he walked up the driveway to the Warners front door, he heard Ginny's voice in his head, telling him not to think of the what if's, but to think of the what will be's. But he could not help it.
What if he could not be the father he had promised he would be? What if he wasn't strong enough to be the man that his daughter needed? What if he was just setting himself up to let everyone down? There were a lot of people in the world who counted on him; people who would be disappointed and let down if he didn't succeed. He owed it to every one to be the best father he could, but what if he didn't have what it took?
But he also remembered that there were people who wanted to see him fail. It was that day, as he stood on the Warner's doorstep, that he promised himself that he would never give his father the satisfaction of being right. He would never let his father know that he himself had failed at providing a life for his daughter.
With all the confidence he had in him, Draco knocked on the door that day, and entered the Warners home, knowing for a fact that he would be leaving the house with his gorgeous daughter.
A funeral like silence had been cast upon the house as he entered, and the silence was highly awkward. Draco didn't know what he could say to make the situation any better for the Warners, he was there to take away their granddaughter, so there was really nothing that he could say, and even if there was, he knew that Jacob and Evelyn would not want to hear it.
Evelyn had brought a box of Kayla's things down the stairs, she was silent and her eyes were puffy and red, she had obviously been crying all night. Behind her, Kayla slowly made her way down the stairs.
Kayla had seemed excited, and Draco realized that in her own way, she completely understood that she was leaving her home to move in with Draco. At the bottom of the stairs, Kayla hugged her grand father and grand mother, and then, threw herself at Draco, who lifted his daughter into his arms.
Still silently, Draco turned to leave the house, but he knew that he could not lave with out saying something, he knew he had to offer them something, anything to make the situation seem a little less brutal to them.
So he turned, and offered them a job babysitting. Evelyn smiled, and accepted the job.
With that out of the way, Draco carried Kayla out of the house, and over to Ginny who was sitting on the front of the car. Kayla was happy to see Ginny, and Ginny was happy to see Kayla.
They returned to Draco's house, and Kayla had immediately ran around, familiarizing herself with her new house, she loved it, and she had spent hours in her knew room, exploring her new things.
Ginny stayed for diner that night, and as they sat around the table, eating the meal that Draco had made (and it wasn't burnt or caked onto the bottoms of pots and pans) Kayla looked between her father and Ginny, and said one simple word.
"Family"
Draco liked that, he liked the fact that his daughter was acknowledging the three of them as a family. He was glad that Kayla was happy that the three of them were almost like a family now.
Ginny had stayed and helped Draco put Kayla to bed, and then the two of them had coffee in the living room. Ginny had snuggled herself comfortably into Draco's side, and he had tightened his grip on her. That was exactly the way he had wanted his life to be.
Over the next few days, everything in his world had been a blur. Ginny spent long days at his house looking after Kayla and taking her to the burrow while Draco started his new jobs, and then afternoons, he spent his time playing with Kayla, every night after Kayla went to bed, he would just sit with Ginny.
It took a few days, but they finally started talking about the new thing they could move onto in their life together. Their future as a couple. Ginny was still hesitant to start a real relationship with Draco and Draco was still worried about his feelings that he was sure he still held somewhere deep inside of him. They just decided that it was better to continue their friendship, and then start the relationship in a year or so when they had settled into their own worlds better.
After a little while, Ginny started taking Kayla to the Warners house everyday while Draco was at work, and he was amazed to find out that after a few days, Evelyn Warner had invited Ginny in for morning tea. Ginny had accepted, knowing that if she was to be a part of Kayla and Draco's life, then she would have to accept the Warners as part of her life to.
The Warners were still apprehensive, but as Ginny explained more and more and more about her world to them, they slowly began to accept the differences, they even allowed Draco to hook their house up to the floo network so that Draco could drop of Kayla before work when he had no car.
The weeks all ran together and before they knew it, Draco and Kayla were escorting Ginny to Platform nine and three quarters so she could return to school. Kayla had cried and clutched at Ginny's neck, unwilling to let go, in the end, they had to get uncle 'red' in to distract Kayla so that Ginny could get onto the train and into a compartment. She had had a few of her conversations with people, leaning out of her compartment window. Ron had taken Kayla for a walk so that Ginny and Draco could say good bye.
After promises of letters everyday and floo calls when she could, Ginny had left for Hogwarts. After that, Draco counted down the days till she would graduate, he counted the minutes till that stupid ball of fluff named Pig (a seventh year present from Ron) would deliver her daily letters (Her letters would arrive just as he was leaving for work, she would write them at night and then send them before she went down to breakfast.)
He kept each of her letters and sent her a reply when ever he could. He would sometimes send her photographs of Kayla and himself. She would right him letters, telling him that a whole section of the wall beside her bed was covered with pictures of her 'family'
Kayla grew more and more each day, and it amazed him to no end. He took each day as it came, and tried to stay relaxed and calm. If he ever needed advice, he had no problem with asking form Evelyn and Molly. He went to lunch with Arthur when he could and hung out with the other Weasley's more than he ever thought he would. He was getting though the single parent transition, all with the help of the others.
Lucius had seen Kayla once, Draco and Kayla had been doing some shopping in diagon alley, and they had just been in Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes visiting Uncle George (Draco had thought it was Fred, but Kayla had informed him that it was George. Turns out Kayla had a real gift when it came to identical twins) when they had bumped into him on the street. Lucius had only said one thing to his son and grandchild "Oh, so that's her then?" he had asked, his voice dripping venom. Draco had nodded proudly, and then stifled a laugh and hollowly reprimanded Kayla when she pulled on Lucius' hair.
Kayla seemed unphased to magic. The first time that she saw Draco using a summoning spell, she just sat and smiled. Most young children were scared of magic the first time they saw it done, Draco remembered that he was scared the first time he realized his father had power, but Kayla would just sit and smile. The first time that she used floo powder, Draco had expected her to be scared, but even then, she just laughed and giggled.
Occasionally, Kayla would ask about Ginny, asking about school and asking when she was coming back. And Draco was now happy, the night before; he could finally sit his daughter down and tell his daughter that Ginny would be coming home today.
Draco woke her early that morning, and Kayla chose her favorite dress to wear to Ginny's graduation ceremony. About an hour later, Arthur picked up Draco and Kayla, and they all made their way to the Hogwarts express.
Kayla had spent to whole day taking in everything around her. Ron had taken her for a walk and showed her around the Gryffindor common room. After the short tour that she was given, Kayla came back and announced to the group that she was going to be a Gryffindor. Draco smiled, anything was better than slytherin.
So now they all sat, waiting patiently for the ceremony to begin. Draco held Kayla on his lap and looked across the room to where Ginny was sitting.
She had grown up in the last year, they all had, but her growth was a physical one, while he was sure that his growth was mainly mental. Ginny was taller, her hair was longer, and when she caught Draco's eye from across the room, he realized that her smile was brighter.
The speeches soon began, and all of the Weasley men settled down to sleep. Draco smiled, remembering his own ceremony that he had slept though; he made himself a promise not to sleep through Ginny's.
McGonagall made her way forward to address the group of family and friends that had gathered to support the graduates. "It is now that I would like to invite this year's valedictorian forward to give her valedictory address."
The crowd cheered and the Weasley's woke up as Ginny made her way forward to the front of the group.
"They told me that I had to make a speech here tonight and I had to admit that I did have some fears. For one thing, I did not know what to talk about." Ginny began; Draco sat up a little straighter and held Kayla a little tighter.
Kayla smiled, pointed, and softly said "Ginny"
"So I sat in the Gryffindor common room and I just looked at what I saw. People. And then I realized it was more than just people, it was family. As you all probable know, I have a big enough family, but I am glad that I can stand here today and tell you all that I have more then one family. I have my real family, I have my...." Ginny stopped and caught Draco's eye across the crowd of people "my boyfriend and his gorgeous daughter Kayla, and then I also have all of you"
"You are my family. Each an every one of you, the gryffindors, the ravenclaws, the hufflepuffs and even the slytherins, you are all my family. We have all been through so much over the last years, whether it be fighting against ourselves, fighting against each other or fighting against Voldemort..." Ginny paused for the gasps of the crowd to fall quiet. "But after all that has been said and done through out the years, I just want you to know that you are my family, I consider you my family, and you, the graduates of Hogwarts school of witchcraft and Wizardry, will always have a special place in my heart."
People cheered again as Ginny sat down. After another half hour of boring speeches and then diplomas were being handed out. When the ceremony drew to a close and people moved to the entrance hall for the small social reception.
Kayla jumped off of her fathers lap and ran through the crowds of people, throwing herself into Ginny's arms. Ginny scooped the little blonde into her arms and hugged her tightly.
"Ginny!" Kayla giggled. Ginny just buried her head into Kayla's hair and smiled. She had no idea how good it would feel to hold the little girl in her arms. She had spent her whole last summer with this little girl, and she had had no idea she would miss her so much.
"Hello Angel" Ginny smiled.
"Are you coming home to live with daddy?" Kayla asked. Ginny smiled and looked away, she wasn't sure what the arrangements were going to be, she wasn't sure if she was going to be moving in with him and Kayla, she had never had the time to discuss it.
"Out of the mouths of babes, hey Ginny?" a voice asked from behind her. Ginny turned to see Charlie standing behind her. Charlie smiled at his sister, and then lifted Kayla from her arms, moving off to where Molly and the others were.
Ginny smiled as she watched Kayla being carried away by her brother.
She jumped as she heard a voice behind her "Boyfriend huh?"
Ginny turned to Draco, who had a bright smile on his face. Ginny laughed "Yeah, Boyfriend ... Unless you've changed your mind"
"Changed my mind, are you kidding?" he smiled, pulling her into his arms and pressing a light kiss to her forehead "I am proud of you Gin"
"I am proud of me to." She laughed; Draco smiled, and wrapped his arms around her shoulders. Both of them looked across the room when they heard Kayla giggle.
"She has grown up so much." Ginny smiled.
"I think we all have" Draco smiled, running a hand through her long hair, watching as the strands run over his fingers. Ginny giggled.
"I missed you" Draco smiled. Ginny grinned and hugged him.
"I missed you to and Kayla" She smiled.
"Move in with me" Draco whispered, Ginny stepped back from him and looked into his eyes. She had not expected Draco to ask her to move in, at least not for a little while yet. Ginny had suspected that they would have some sort of relationship first before they were serious enough to move in together. But then again, they were pretty serious about each other.
"Is that such a good idea?" Ginny asked. Draco shrugged.
"If you don't want to, then I understand" he told her, she raised her hand to his lips, stopping him from saying anything further.
"I did not say that I did not want to, I asked if that was a good idea. I mean, you only have two rooms, I don't think I would be ready to share a bed with you" Ginny replied, sitting on one of the chairs of the now empty great hall. Draco sat in the chair beside her and took her hand in his.
"I missed so much of the beginning of Kayla's life, and I have missed so much of your life, I just want to make sure that I don't miss anything else. I want you by my side everyday. I want to make sure that you don't miss any of Kayla's life, and I want to make sure that she doesn't miss any of yours. I want us to be a family, and I don't want to miss anything about the two special women in my life." Draco explained "That was my biggest fear, that I would miss so much of her life, and now it is my fear that I will miss so much of yours."
"I don't want to miss a thing either Draco" Ginny replied "I want to be there for you and for Kayla because I love you both, so much, it was you and Kayla that got me through this year, with out you, I would have had nothing to work towards, and I would have never have graduated with the marks I did."
"I feel that you are going to turn down my offer" Draco mumbled. Ginny reached out, ran her hands through his hair and pulled Draco's lips to hers. The kiss was passionate, showing all the emotion that they had been bottling up for the last year.
"I am not turning it down, I am just postponing it." Ginny whispered. He smiled and kissed her again. "Plus, I want more time with my mother and father before I have to grow up."
Draco smiled and stood, holding out his hand. Ginny placed her hand in his and together they moved to where the people had gathered outside the door.
Weaving their way through the people, Draco and Ginny stopped when they came to her family. Kayla, who was sitting, talking to Percy, pulled away and ran to Draco, who settled his little girl on his hip. Kayla then reached out, and pulled Ginny to her so they were hugging.
"Daddy" Kayla smiled, patting Draco on the shoulder, she then turned to Ginny. "Mummy?"
Ginny looked From Kayla to Draco, and then once again to Kayla. "Would you like that angel?"
"Yes"
Ginny looked at Kayla, and then smiled, brushing a strand of hair out of Kayla's eyes.
"Then you can call me Mummy"
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I would really like it if you could review, even if you have to tell me it was bad.
I am really sorry and I hope you can forgive me and review for this chapter.
And I just want to tell you that this is the second last chapter, after this one, there is only one more.
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He shifted her weight on his lap and allowed his daughter to become more comfortable. His hand wrapped around her tiny little waist as she rested back against his chest and took in the large room with big, bright eyes.
Today had been a day of firsts for Kayla, and now she finally had a few moments to sit, and just watch the things around her. It also gave Draco time to just sit, and think about his life.
His life had been moving so quickly. Days had evolved into weeks, weeks into months, and now, it was almost hard to believe that it had been a year since he had taken custody of his beautiful little girl.
Kayla was now a little over two years old, and she had been living with him for a year, she had grown up so much. Everyday was filled with knew things, everyday she said or did something new or exciting, Draco knew he would never grow tired of watching his little girl grow and learn.
After the conclusion of the court case, Draco and Ginny had to wait a week before they could take Kayla home. One week they had to wait, but with all of the preparation that they had to do, the week seemed to go so quickly. Draco had had the great idea to paint Kayla's room, and jokingly Ginny had told him that they should paint it the muggle way, with paintbrushes and rollers.
So the next day, they muggle painted Kayla's bedroom. The rest of the week had been filled with buying anything that Draco decided he did not want his daughter living with out. Within hours, Kayla had every available stuffed animal and dress that Draco could lay his hands on.
The following Saturday, they had driven to The Warners house. Draco sat in the car outside the house for ten minutes before finally finding the courage to walk up the path to the front door where he knew his future was. Draco had been scared numerous times over the months, but he had to admit that never before had he been as scared as he was that day.
As he walked up the driveway to the Warners front door, he heard Ginny's voice in his head, telling him not to think of the what if's, but to think of the what will be's. But he could not help it.
What if he could not be the father he had promised he would be? What if he wasn't strong enough to be the man that his daughter needed? What if he was just setting himself up to let everyone down? There were a lot of people in the world who counted on him; people who would be disappointed and let down if he didn't succeed. He owed it to every one to be the best father he could, but what if he didn't have what it took?
But he also remembered that there were people who wanted to see him fail. It was that day, as he stood on the Warner's doorstep, that he promised himself that he would never give his father the satisfaction of being right. He would never let his father know that he himself had failed at providing a life for his daughter.
With all the confidence he had in him, Draco knocked on the door that day, and entered the Warners home, knowing for a fact that he would be leaving the house with his gorgeous daughter.
A funeral like silence had been cast upon the house as he entered, and the silence was highly awkward. Draco didn't know what he could say to make the situation any better for the Warners, he was there to take away their granddaughter, so there was really nothing that he could say, and even if there was, he knew that Jacob and Evelyn would not want to hear it.
Evelyn had brought a box of Kayla's things down the stairs, she was silent and her eyes were puffy and red, she had obviously been crying all night. Behind her, Kayla slowly made her way down the stairs.
Kayla had seemed excited, and Draco realized that in her own way, she completely understood that she was leaving her home to move in with Draco. At the bottom of the stairs, Kayla hugged her grand father and grand mother, and then, threw herself at Draco, who lifted his daughter into his arms.
Still silently, Draco turned to leave the house, but he knew that he could not lave with out saying something, he knew he had to offer them something, anything to make the situation seem a little less brutal to them.
So he turned, and offered them a job babysitting. Evelyn smiled, and accepted the job.
With that out of the way, Draco carried Kayla out of the house, and over to Ginny who was sitting on the front of the car. Kayla was happy to see Ginny, and Ginny was happy to see Kayla.
They returned to Draco's house, and Kayla had immediately ran around, familiarizing herself with her new house, she loved it, and she had spent hours in her knew room, exploring her new things.
Ginny stayed for diner that night, and as they sat around the table, eating the meal that Draco had made (and it wasn't burnt or caked onto the bottoms of pots and pans) Kayla looked between her father and Ginny, and said one simple word.
"Family"
Draco liked that, he liked the fact that his daughter was acknowledging the three of them as a family. He was glad that Kayla was happy that the three of them were almost like a family now.
Ginny had stayed and helped Draco put Kayla to bed, and then the two of them had coffee in the living room. Ginny had snuggled herself comfortably into Draco's side, and he had tightened his grip on her. That was exactly the way he had wanted his life to be.
Over the next few days, everything in his world had been a blur. Ginny spent long days at his house looking after Kayla and taking her to the burrow while Draco started his new jobs, and then afternoons, he spent his time playing with Kayla, every night after Kayla went to bed, he would just sit with Ginny.
It took a few days, but they finally started talking about the new thing they could move onto in their life together. Their future as a couple. Ginny was still hesitant to start a real relationship with Draco and Draco was still worried about his feelings that he was sure he still held somewhere deep inside of him. They just decided that it was better to continue their friendship, and then start the relationship in a year or so when they had settled into their own worlds better.
After a little while, Ginny started taking Kayla to the Warners house everyday while Draco was at work, and he was amazed to find out that after a few days, Evelyn Warner had invited Ginny in for morning tea. Ginny had accepted, knowing that if she was to be a part of Kayla and Draco's life, then she would have to accept the Warners as part of her life to.
The Warners were still apprehensive, but as Ginny explained more and more and more about her world to them, they slowly began to accept the differences, they even allowed Draco to hook their house up to the floo network so that Draco could drop of Kayla before work when he had no car.
The weeks all ran together and before they knew it, Draco and Kayla were escorting Ginny to Platform nine and three quarters so she could return to school. Kayla had cried and clutched at Ginny's neck, unwilling to let go, in the end, they had to get uncle 'red' in to distract Kayla so that Ginny could get onto the train and into a compartment. She had had a few of her conversations with people, leaning out of her compartment window. Ron had taken Kayla for a walk so that Ginny and Draco could say good bye.
After promises of letters everyday and floo calls when she could, Ginny had left for Hogwarts. After that, Draco counted down the days till she would graduate, he counted the minutes till that stupid ball of fluff named Pig (a seventh year present from Ron) would deliver her daily letters (Her letters would arrive just as he was leaving for work, she would write them at night and then send them before she went down to breakfast.)
He kept each of her letters and sent her a reply when ever he could. He would sometimes send her photographs of Kayla and himself. She would right him letters, telling him that a whole section of the wall beside her bed was covered with pictures of her 'family'
Kayla grew more and more each day, and it amazed him to no end. He took each day as it came, and tried to stay relaxed and calm. If he ever needed advice, he had no problem with asking form Evelyn and Molly. He went to lunch with Arthur when he could and hung out with the other Weasley's more than he ever thought he would. He was getting though the single parent transition, all with the help of the others.
Lucius had seen Kayla once, Draco and Kayla had been doing some shopping in diagon alley, and they had just been in Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes visiting Uncle George (Draco had thought it was Fred, but Kayla had informed him that it was George. Turns out Kayla had a real gift when it came to identical twins) when they had bumped into him on the street. Lucius had only said one thing to his son and grandchild "Oh, so that's her then?" he had asked, his voice dripping venom. Draco had nodded proudly, and then stifled a laugh and hollowly reprimanded Kayla when she pulled on Lucius' hair.
Kayla seemed unphased to magic. The first time that she saw Draco using a summoning spell, she just sat and smiled. Most young children were scared of magic the first time they saw it done, Draco remembered that he was scared the first time he realized his father had power, but Kayla would just sit and smile. The first time that she used floo powder, Draco had expected her to be scared, but even then, she just laughed and giggled.
Occasionally, Kayla would ask about Ginny, asking about school and asking when she was coming back. And Draco was now happy, the night before; he could finally sit his daughter down and tell his daughter that Ginny would be coming home today.
Draco woke her early that morning, and Kayla chose her favorite dress to wear to Ginny's graduation ceremony. About an hour later, Arthur picked up Draco and Kayla, and they all made their way to the Hogwarts express.
Kayla had spent to whole day taking in everything around her. Ron had taken her for a walk and showed her around the Gryffindor common room. After the short tour that she was given, Kayla came back and announced to the group that she was going to be a Gryffindor. Draco smiled, anything was better than slytherin.
So now they all sat, waiting patiently for the ceremony to begin. Draco held Kayla on his lap and looked across the room to where Ginny was sitting.
She had grown up in the last year, they all had, but her growth was a physical one, while he was sure that his growth was mainly mental. Ginny was taller, her hair was longer, and when she caught Draco's eye from across the room, he realized that her smile was brighter.
The speeches soon began, and all of the Weasley men settled down to sleep. Draco smiled, remembering his own ceremony that he had slept though; he made himself a promise not to sleep through Ginny's.
McGonagall made her way forward to address the group of family and friends that had gathered to support the graduates. "It is now that I would like to invite this year's valedictorian forward to give her valedictory address."
The crowd cheered and the Weasley's woke up as Ginny made her way forward to the front of the group.
"They told me that I had to make a speech here tonight and I had to admit that I did have some fears. For one thing, I did not know what to talk about." Ginny began; Draco sat up a little straighter and held Kayla a little tighter.
Kayla smiled, pointed, and softly said "Ginny"
"So I sat in the Gryffindor common room and I just looked at what I saw. People. And then I realized it was more than just people, it was family. As you all probable know, I have a big enough family, but I am glad that I can stand here today and tell you all that I have more then one family. I have my real family, I have my...." Ginny stopped and caught Draco's eye across the crowd of people "my boyfriend and his gorgeous daughter Kayla, and then I also have all of you"
"You are my family. Each an every one of you, the gryffindors, the ravenclaws, the hufflepuffs and even the slytherins, you are all my family. We have all been through so much over the last years, whether it be fighting against ourselves, fighting against each other or fighting against Voldemort..." Ginny paused for the gasps of the crowd to fall quiet. "But after all that has been said and done through out the years, I just want you to know that you are my family, I consider you my family, and you, the graduates of Hogwarts school of witchcraft and Wizardry, will always have a special place in my heart."
People cheered again as Ginny sat down. After another half hour of boring speeches and then diplomas were being handed out. When the ceremony drew to a close and people moved to the entrance hall for the small social reception.
Kayla jumped off of her fathers lap and ran through the crowds of people, throwing herself into Ginny's arms. Ginny scooped the little blonde into her arms and hugged her tightly.
"Ginny!" Kayla giggled. Ginny just buried her head into Kayla's hair and smiled. She had no idea how good it would feel to hold the little girl in her arms. She had spent her whole last summer with this little girl, and she had had no idea she would miss her so much.
"Hello Angel" Ginny smiled.
"Are you coming home to live with daddy?" Kayla asked. Ginny smiled and looked away, she wasn't sure what the arrangements were going to be, she wasn't sure if she was going to be moving in with him and Kayla, she had never had the time to discuss it.
"Out of the mouths of babes, hey Ginny?" a voice asked from behind her. Ginny turned to see Charlie standing behind her. Charlie smiled at his sister, and then lifted Kayla from her arms, moving off to where Molly and the others were.
Ginny smiled as she watched Kayla being carried away by her brother.
She jumped as she heard a voice behind her "Boyfriend huh?"
Ginny turned to Draco, who had a bright smile on his face. Ginny laughed "Yeah, Boyfriend ... Unless you've changed your mind"
"Changed my mind, are you kidding?" he smiled, pulling her into his arms and pressing a light kiss to her forehead "I am proud of you Gin"
"I am proud of me to." She laughed; Draco smiled, and wrapped his arms around her shoulders. Both of them looked across the room when they heard Kayla giggle.
"She has grown up so much." Ginny smiled.
"I think we all have" Draco smiled, running a hand through her long hair, watching as the strands run over his fingers. Ginny giggled.
"I missed you" Draco smiled. Ginny grinned and hugged him.
"I missed you to and Kayla" She smiled.
"Move in with me" Draco whispered, Ginny stepped back from him and looked into his eyes. She had not expected Draco to ask her to move in, at least not for a little while yet. Ginny had suspected that they would have some sort of relationship first before they were serious enough to move in together. But then again, they were pretty serious about each other.
"Is that such a good idea?" Ginny asked. Draco shrugged.
"If you don't want to, then I understand" he told her, she raised her hand to his lips, stopping him from saying anything further.
"I did not say that I did not want to, I asked if that was a good idea. I mean, you only have two rooms, I don't think I would be ready to share a bed with you" Ginny replied, sitting on one of the chairs of the now empty great hall. Draco sat in the chair beside her and took her hand in his.
"I missed so much of the beginning of Kayla's life, and I have missed so much of your life, I just want to make sure that I don't miss anything else. I want you by my side everyday. I want to make sure that you don't miss any of Kayla's life, and I want to make sure that she doesn't miss any of yours. I want us to be a family, and I don't want to miss anything about the two special women in my life." Draco explained "That was my biggest fear, that I would miss so much of her life, and now it is my fear that I will miss so much of yours."
"I don't want to miss a thing either Draco" Ginny replied "I want to be there for you and for Kayla because I love you both, so much, it was you and Kayla that got me through this year, with out you, I would have had nothing to work towards, and I would have never have graduated with the marks I did."
"I feel that you are going to turn down my offer" Draco mumbled. Ginny reached out, ran her hands through his hair and pulled Draco's lips to hers. The kiss was passionate, showing all the emotion that they had been bottling up for the last year.
"I am not turning it down, I am just postponing it." Ginny whispered. He smiled and kissed her again. "Plus, I want more time with my mother and father before I have to grow up."
Draco smiled and stood, holding out his hand. Ginny placed her hand in his and together they moved to where the people had gathered outside the door.
Weaving their way through the people, Draco and Ginny stopped when they came to her family. Kayla, who was sitting, talking to Percy, pulled away and ran to Draco, who settled his little girl on his hip. Kayla then reached out, and pulled Ginny to her so they were hugging.
"Daddy" Kayla smiled, patting Draco on the shoulder, she then turned to Ginny. "Mummy?"
Ginny looked From Kayla to Draco, and then once again to Kayla. "Would you like that angel?"
"Yes"
Ginny looked at Kayla, and then smiled, brushing a strand of hair out of Kayla's eyes.
"Then you can call me Mummy"
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