Author's Note: Uhm...can't think of what else to say except that hopefully you liked the previous chapter and...well, enjoy this chapter? :::sheepish grin:::

Disclaimer: I must've written this numerous times as it is and you know what? NOT MINE!!!

Summary: Ginny Weasley received the shocker of a lifetime when she entered her sixth year at Hogwarts. She fell in love with the last person on earth she thought she'd fall for. Now she has to do everything in her power to grab his attention and make him hers--even if she have to face the wrath of her six brothers and her parents, not to mention the wrath of Hermione and Harry when they find out what she was planning to do.

Setting: Ginny is in her 6th year; Draco is in his 7th year

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XVII. Saturday Morning

Ginny woke up with a start, slightly disoriented about her surroundings. She let her eyes adjust to the dimly lit room, slowly she was awakening, but she didn't want to yet. It was Saturday morning, she can sleep in all she wants and skip breakfast all together. But a nagging voice at the back of her head told her she had to for she wasn't in her room, let alone sleeping in her own bed! Stretching her arms over her head, she let out a somewhat content sigh, a smile plastered on her face until she felt her back press against something hard...and breathing!

She quickly snapped her eyes open and ever so slowly turned her head to look at whomever was sleeping beside her. She sucked in a deep, audible breath when her eyes locked gazes with Draco Malfoy's gray ones. He looked like he has been awake for quite some time now and has been watching her since God knows when.

"'Morning." he greeted, breaking into a warm smile Ginny has never seen on grace his face before.

"G-good morning." she stammered, her shock after waking up beside Draco Malfoy in what she could only assume was his bed and his bedroom hasn't sunk in yet. "D-did I just spend the night here with you?"

"Why? Worried, Red?" he asked teasingly.

"Uhm...you can probably say that."

He chuckled and planted a kiss softly on her forehead before pulling back to look at her face once again, "Don't worry, Red. Your virtue is safely intact." he assured her, a shadow of a grin hovering on the sides of his mouth.

Ginny raised an eyebrow, "So we didn't do much last night except--"

"Except make out and...well, make me feel so damn uncomfortable!" he frowned, remembering the events of the previous evening when he was close to exploding from want of having the feisty redhead, but he knew she wasn't ready yet, and he'd be damned if he forced himself on her.

A couple of pink stains appeared on Ginny's cheeks. She quickly looked away from him and suppressed a giggle. She remembered just how close they were to making love last night, but she remembered Draco pulling away from her before things got out of hand. She have to admit she was disappointed when he did, but a part of her was glad that he has more self-control than she does.

"If you were uncomfortable you should've said something and I would've gone back to my room and my own bed." she decided to play it cool and act casual about what almost happened the night before. She can't afford to be walking around with a permanent blush on her face the whole day today without raising any questions from people.

"Hmm...I suppose I could've done that." he mused, "But then again if I did tell you that you were making me feel uncomfortable and made you leave, then I would've missed out on the chance of a lifetime."

"Chance of a lifetime?" she glanced over her shoulder at him again, an eyebrow raised questioningly at his choice of words.

Draco grinned, "Yeah. I mean, if you went back to your dorm last night and slept there, then I wouldn't have the pleasure of waking up in the presence of your lovely company." he confessed.

Ginny was touched. Who would've thought Ice Prince Draco Malfoy would be such a softie? And so corny too! her conscience sniggered making Ginny giggle in agreement. Yeah, he did sound quite cheesy, but cute nevertheless.

"Now what are you giggling about, hm?" he questioned, an eyebrow raised as he looked down at the redhead lying beside him in bed.

"Nothing." she shook her head as she tried to swallow her giggle, but to no avail.

"You are laughing at my expense, Ms. Weasley." he said in a stern voice, "And you know the price for laughing at a Malfoy?"

Ginny tried to look frightened, but she couldn't help herself from laughing. Draco trying to be overbearing towards her at this time of the morning was just too much for her to bear. It was too hilarious to say the least and he was doing a very poor job at keeping a stern face.

"That's it! You asked for it, Red. I did try to warn you there's a hell of a price to pay for laughing at a Malfoy." and without giving her much time to decipher what he had in mind, Draco quickly grabbed Ginny's sides and startled tickling her, causing the petite redhead in bed with him to squeal in surprise. She tried ducking away from him, swat his hands away, kick him away so she could be free off his tormenting tickling, but to no avail.

"Stop." she gasped out when she had a couple of seconds' rest from Draco's torment, but he chose to ignore her and continued to torment her with his fingers. "Stop!" she squeaked when Draco's fingers seemed to be everywhere.

"Not until you say 'uncle.'" he taunted.

"No way!"

"Then so be it." he grinned and continued tickling her.

The seventh year Slytherin boys' dorm room rang with Ginny's squeal as Draco continued to torture her with his fingers, tickling her sides, the back of her neck and even seized her legs and tickled her feet.

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Heads turned and voices were soon lowered to mere whispers as soon as Draco and Ginny made an appearance during the lunch hour that same day. Of course they didn't appear in the Great Hall together; Draco told Ginny to go in before him and gave himself a couple of minutes before he too appeared. Both Ginny and Draco were aware that they were the ones being talked about by their schoolmates. Whether or not they appear together in the Great Hall, the rosy flush on Ginny's cheeks was a tell-tale sign that they were together doing something that would cause them to be late for lunch.

Ginny didn't have time to go back to Gryffindor Tower to change from her previous evening's clothing because by the time she succumbed to Draco's torture the lunch bell (a/n: not sure if they have any bells sounding off to indicate if it's meal time or not, but just to make it easier I decided that even on weekends bells signaling lunch and dinner will sound off) already sounded off, giving them only a couple of minutes to spare before scrambling downstairs into the Great Hall. She looked down at her top and obviously it looked very much like it was slept in; she didn't want to appear down in the Great Hall looking like that! So it took Draco and her a few more minutes while he looked through his trunk for any possible T-shirt she could borrow that would actually fit her, but she was always two sizes smaller than him, making all his shirt look like it was going to eat her alive. After missing out the first five minutes after the bell rang Draco dug a shirt given to him by Pansy last Christmas, but the silly prat didn't know his actual size hence it was a size smaller than his normal ones.

Ginny gave it a cursory look, deciding whether or not the V-necked ribbed short-sleeve black shirt would fit her or not. It still looked big on her, but the size was a bit better compared to Draco's other shirts! Without further arguing with him she snatched the T-shirt from his hands and hid herself behind the curtains of his four-poster bed while he too changed.

"Malfoy, I still say this shirt looks big on me!" Ginny complained after she put on the T-shirt he lent her.

"What are you talking about? That shirt's not that big." he argued.

"Oh really?" she challenged and pulled the curtain apart and jumped off the bed, "Look!" she ordered and spread her arms wide on either side of her, but the T-shirt was just a perfect fit for her; it was neither too tight nor too loose, it just fitted her perfectly.

Draco was looking at her appreciatively, his eyes moving from her well-round chest being hugged by the shirt down to her slim-fit jeans that hugged her shapely legs. Ginny whipped her head up and caught Draco ogling at her.

"Malfoy, I didn't ask for you to gawk. I asked you to look at how big this shirt is on me!"

"What are you talking about, Weasley? That shirt looks just fine on you."

"Yeah, yeah, whatever." she grumbled and put her arms down, "Anyway, no time to argue since we're already late as it is for lunch. Now hurry up and lets get out of here."

"Aye, aye, madam." Draco gave her an over exaggerated bow then went on his business of combing his hair and checking himself in the mirror before Ginny disappeared under the cloak.

They walked out of the Slytherin dorm without running into anyone. Seems like everyone's hungry and are already in the Great Hall. When they were already a few feet away from the Slytherin dorm Ginny removed the cloak and put a shrinking spell to it. She was already starving to run up to Gryffindor Tower and deposit the cloak then run back down again to join the others for lunch. Outside the Great Hall they paused and quickly thought of a plan on how they would go about entering the hall without causing much speculation from other students. Draco came up with the idea of letting Ginny on in before him, reminding her to go straight to the Gryffindor table and don't look over her shoulder to check if he followed her or not.

Their plan would've worked, but seems like the rest of the student body already guessed what was going on. And upon reaching the Gryffindor table Ginny was greeted by a couple of sour-faced seventh year Gryffindors, one being her brother and the other being her brother's best friend, whose eyes were shooting daggers at the Slytherin blond haired boy that followed her into the hall.

Ginny took her seat beside Hermione and gave her friend a warm smile, "Hello, Hermione." she avoided looking at her brother's direction, she knew very well that Ron's face was as red as his hair--and it wasn't from embarrassment that his face was red; he was fuming mad and she knew all too well why her brother was mad right now.

"Where were you last night, Ginny?" Ron demanded soon after Ginny took her first taste of the food on her plate. She was glad her brother let her put something into her stomach before he started questioning her.

"In my bed fast asleep. Where else would I be?" she replied calmly although her gaze remained averted from her brother's. She wasn't a good liar and if she met her brother's gaze she knew Ron would see right through her.

"I checked your bed last night, Virginia." Ron snarled, "I checked your bed three damn times before I went to sleep and again when I woke up this morning. You weren't asleep in your bed."

"I bunked with somebody else." she shrugged, putting another morsel of food into her mouth.

"And would that somebody else be Malfoy?" Harry questioned.

At the mention of Draco's name Ginny's back stiffened. How the hell could he possibly jump to that conclusion? Not that Harry was wrong. Hell, didn't she just wake up wrapped in Draco Malfoy's arms this morning? And wasn't she wearing a shirt that belonged to him as well?

Ginny slowly lifted her head from the food she was wolfing down and looked over at Harry, meeting the unruly dark haired boy's green eyes hidden behind his round specs. She took in an audible surprised gasp when she saw that Harry wasn't just guessing; he knows.

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to be continued...

A/N: I know, I know, I'm sorry people if it took me so long to update this. For a while there I was struck with writer's block then with too much workload and finally, I couldn't use our comp here at home because it was messing up. Anyways, I know this chappie's another cliffhanger and hopefully I get to upload the next chapter this weekend. As always, read, enjoy & review!

Crystal: well I updated as soon as I can, hope this chappie's enough to sustain you until the next installment :::winks:::

MYSTIQUE: I dunno where I get to make him so damn bonkable...it just happens! :::laughs:::

Angel-Hiragizawa32: here's what happened to Draco and Ginny :::grins:::

Sharlene: the answer to your question is in this chapter...

Eclipse2003: I do thank you for waiting patiently for this next chapter...and some complications in Ginny's life...uhm...hehehe, I dunno how to further complicate an already complicated life :::grins:::

Rebuky: I hope I didn't leave you hanging way too long...here's the next chapter

Dark Fairy: well I'm glad you get to enjoy a D/G fic even though you're a die-hard H/G fan :::smiles:::

just a girl: awww...thanks and I hope you enjoy the rest of the fic :::smiles:::

hasapi: uhm...I think right now Draco & Ginny are under the "acquaintances-slash-enemies-slash-who- makes-out" category :::laughs:::

Ari, the Felton Lover: hehehe, well did you guess right about what you thought happened between Ginny & Draco?

Dracos gal: uhm...hehehehe, Ginny's in Draco's room alright and sharing Draco's bed alright, but as for what happened between them while they were in bed....NOTHING! :::grins:::

MelissaAdams: uhm...what's that little advice you need? sorry it took me a while to update this fic, but I'm all ears so just email me regarding that advice you're needing or did you already email me about that?! :::laughs::: I can't remember anymore :-/

Hells-lil-Angels: uhm...you think so? :::grins:::

(Fire&Ice): hmm...everybody wants Draco, and you like this Ginny? why thank you!

skyblusilver: thanks for noticing those, and yeah, some are typos & some are...well, some are honest mistakes. when I type things up I get distracted sometimes that I would lose my train of thought and just type "him" instead of "her." sometimes I will catch it sometimes I won't so that's why there were those mistakes

Nobodysbitch: you're right, Ginny didn't do the deed with Draco...hehehe

kellyanne: :::gasp::: you stole Draco's boxers?! :::laughs::: uhm...are you even going to return it back? :p and here's the next chappie

Starry: yep, he's suppose to growl out of frustration because Ginny was sending him mixed signals, hehehehe

Kitycat87: I dunno what else our brazen heroine hides up her sleeve, but sooner or later we'll find out

Carla: thanks for liking Ginny, and I'm still working on when and how Draco will confess his love for our feisty redhead seducer :::winks:::

*karly*: sorry for being a meanie, but I love being a meanie...besides, it's more "intriguing" to end a chapter like that, but then again the answer to the cliffhanger from the previous chapter is in this chapter

[anonymous 1, 2, 3 & 4] I'll get those questions answered as soon as I can--if I can remember what those questions were that I asked :::laughs::: and I'm trying to update as fast as I can

Risquer: is that all you can say?! "OH MY GOD!"? hehehehehe

OpalKoboi: yep, confrontation scenes are awesome...and I think there's going to be one in the near future

Miss Marauder: :::laughs::: sorry to leave you hanging for so long, but here's the next chapter

Daemon Sorceress: where else would Ginny & Draco sneak-off to but Draco's room?! hehehehe, and yeah, I think Ron & Harry needs to get some to stop them from breathing down Ginny's back :::laughs:::

Junebug: thanks for following the story from the start, and here's the latest update

tigereyes320: :::laughs::: thanks for saying that this still makes you laugh, and why is that line in the song stuck on your head when you're reading this? I'm just curious

Cassandra Sisenta or Krey-Zey: yep, I'm trying to update as fast as I can and hopefully I can update another chapter this weekend

Blu Misterie: here's the next chapter and once you have figured out what is it about this Ginny that annoys you, let me know, aight? :::laughs:::

Evil Slytherin Child: who doesn't love Draco? I think we all love that smirking Slytherin blond! :::laughs:::

Jenna: *lol* thanks and here's the next chapter

pheonixfire123: thanks for bringing that to my attention, and yeah, Draco is just one helluva fine specimen! :::laughs:::

demented weesil: wow you sound so darn hyper! and here's the next chapter...as for the one after this...hopefully I get to post it ASAP

BasketCase33: :::laughs::: uh-oh, you like being in a room with padded walls? hmm....well, hehehe, hopefully you do get better and thanks for the review!