Chapter 4

By Crystal

*Screw the disclaimers ^^;;*

~*~ Ginny ~*~

I almost wanted to laugh out loud.  I was in the Great Hall right now, for breakfast, waiting very patiently for Malfoy to come down.  I felt my mouth curve into an evil smile and Harry suddenly looked at me, "Ginny?  Are you okay?  You look..."

"Evil?"  I asked innocently, he nodded.  I grinned innocently, "Well, you see...  When Malfoy comes walking pass here..."  The door suddenly opened and there entered the stupid, ugly, moronic Draco Malfoy.  He was walking past the Gryffindor table, doing near his own seat at the Slytherin table.  While he was looking the other way, I poured some orange juice on the floor and...

Slip!  Thunk!

He was glaring at me while I was trying to hold my laughter in.  The whole Hall erupted into laughter at the sight of Malfoy falling flat on his ass.  Finally, I couldn't hold it in and started cracking up.

His rear was soaked in orange juice and he stood up, then whispered in my ears, "Weasley, this is war."

I grinned, "It wasn't my problem you took the book away from me...  You still have it.  Now give it to me."  I whispered back to his ears.  He smirked, took one glance at me and left the Great Hall.  That...  that...  Git!

Ron was still laughing, "Oh Gin...  That was priceless."

"Thanks..."  I mumbled, clearly not happy about the results.  He was suppose to be embarrassed and blush about the whole thing, even shy away.  But all I did was start a war, not that I minded.  Ah well, it was good enough.

The day flew by uneventfully...  Actually, that was a lie.  Malfoy had annoyed me in Potions by getting Professor Snape to pair me up with him, how, I don't know.  But it just happened, then he made me do all the cutting and working on the potions, and if I didn't, Professor Snape would take points off, which meant I had to do it.  Then there was how he was telling the whole class about my cutting skills.  Argh!

That stupid git, I hate him, I hate him, I hate him!  I growled as I slammed the library door open, making Madam Pince look at me disapprovingly.  Taking out my Potions book, I slammed it on the table, receiving yet another glare from Madam Pince.  I sat down in rage and started reading the Potions book, flipping the pages every few minutes.

Truth to be told, I was actually planning how to get Malfoy tomorrow...  Perhaps pour another orange juice on him?  Nah, too unoriginal.  Hmm...  Damn it!  I sighed as I pillowed my head with my arms, lying on the table and closing my eyes, feeling my anger slowly disappear.  My head snapped up at a book slamming on the table I was sitting on.

"Hey Weasley."

Uh oh...  My anger was coming back fast, "What do you want, Malfoy?"  I spat out his name with venom.  He shifted his feet, uncomfortable for a moment and I felt my own eyes soften.  He looked so...  adorable.  Like, as a child.  He cleared his throat as he was about to talk, but I beat him to it, "Don't apologize...  It isn't the Malfoy I know."

He scratched the back of his head, "Actually, that's not what I was about to ask you...  I was going to ask you about borrowing the Potions book..."  Then he smirked, "But if you insist that I shouldn't apologize, I won't."  Then taking her book, he started piling it up on his pile of books.

I looked on in disbelief, "Malfoy.  You are not going to take my books away and unless you apologize, I won't ever talk to you again!"

He grinned, then for the first time, I saw amusement dancing around in his eyes, "You don't think I would care, do you?"

I growled in frustration, and for some reason, I wanted a truce.  I held out my hand, "Truce?"  I asked, then finally noticing what I had just done, my eyes widened in shock and I took my hands away, "I mean, Malfoy you git!"

Before I knew what had happened, he had held my hand in a strong hold, and I couldn't break it.  "Truce, Weasley."

Inwardly, I sighed in relief, but I did not know why.  "Who said I wanted a truce?!"  I said, furious.

"You did."

I closed my eyes tightly, then counted up to ten...  no, make that twenty and opened my eyes calmly, "Do you find entertainment in teasing me and pissing me off, Draco Malfoy?"  I asked.

He looked thoughtful for a second, "Half...  the other half...  well, that's personal."  Now that perked my interest.  I lifted my brow up, "I said it was personal, Weasley."

"Have you noticed that you're out of character, Malfoy?  You're suppose to be the 'I-am-so-good-looking-that-absolutely-hates-Weasleys'."  I said, lifting up my brow up again.

He shrugged, "I'm on a break."  I had to laugh at that one.

Then without absolutely any idea what I was doing, I shook his hand, "Truce."

* * * * *

The next morning at the Great Hall, the second Draco Malfoy walked in, the whole Hall fell into silence.  When Malfoy was about to walk past me, I heard Ron snigger.  He probably thought I was going to make fun of Malfoy.  Ah well, he was wrong.  When he passed by me, he looked at me, "G'morning, Weasley."  Then he winked.

I was shocked for a moment, yes, but I then smiled, "Good morning, Malfoy."  Then he walked passed the Gryffindor table and towards the Slytherin table.  The second he sat down, voices erupted from everyone's mouth as they started talking about my 'relationship' with Malfoy.

"Ginny, what the hell do you think you were doing?!"  Ron yelled.

I turned to look at him, "Well, it seems like I was saying 'good morning' to him...  Didn't you hear it?  I'm sure you did, I mean, you were right beside me, weren't you?  I'm sure Harry and Hermione heard."

The three of them were flabbergasted, and stared at me, then Ron talked again.  "You are talking with a Malfoy of all people!  What has gotten into you, Gin?!"

I stood up abruptly, slamming my palm on the table and hissed quietly, yet coldly, "Look, Ronald Weasley.  I don't care who I am saying 'good morning' to.  I don't give a damn.  All right?  All right.  Now, you shouldn't care either because Malfoy is my friend now and I could care less about what you think.  Okay?  Okay.  Now that I've lost my appetite because of you, I'll be leaving.  Good day."  Then without a second thought, I took my bag with me and walked out the Great Hall, my head in the air, huffing.  Damn Ronald.

~*~ Draco ~*~

I sat down in my seat comfortably and saw Blaise cast me a glance which I returned with a smirk.  He rolled his eyes at me and we ate in silence as I heard everyone around us talk about Ginny and my 'relationship'.  I almost wanted to laugh at that.  I was eating peacefully until I heard a slam on the table and my eyes carried themselves to the Gryffindor table where a certain auburn haired girl was standing.

I saw her eyes enraged and I saw her hiss something at her stupid brother.  And after two minutes, she took her bag up and walked out the Great Hall, her head in the air and she slammed the door of the Great Hall shut, making everyone, including the ones that did not hear her hands slam on the table look up.

I stuffed the rest of my breakfast in my mouth, then not knowing why, I followed her...  Wherever she went.

As I walked quickly out of the Great Hall, I saw her auburn hair swishing back and forth at the back, "Hey Weasley!"

She turned around, and stood there until I caught up to her, "Yes, Malfoy?"

"You all right?  You didn't look too happy back there."

She glared at me, "Do I look all right to you, Malfoy?  I am pissed off at Ronald trying to tell me everything.  It's so god damn frustrating!"  She breathed heavily, then she finally calmed down.  I stood there, watching her, and she smiled, "How about this, Malfoy...  I told Ronald we were friends...  How about we piss him off..."

I lifted my brow, "Why would I do something so stupid?"

"Well, you see...  After that running after me show you did just back then, everyone's bound to think you're my friend or boyfriend or whatever...  You get to act all you want, you can just be my friend or my boyfriend, I don't care.  And you get to piss off the 'Dream Team'."

"I thought you liked them."

She nodded, "I still like them, but they just need a lesson to be taught."  Then a silent pause and she held out her hand, "So...  Deal Malfoy?"

"Deal."

* * * * *

Had he known what he had gotten in that day and what that a turn his life would take with that simple word, he would not have uttered it...  Yet, he did not know, and from then on, his life took a turn...  For the worst or the best, you would not know until the end...

* * * * *

I was walking by Virginia when I saw her carrying a very uncomfortable amount of books and I saw the 'Dream Team' beside them, chatting away, not having a single care of Weasley's little sister.  She had insisted I call her Ginny, but I had insisted that I call her Virginia, to be more special...  And I won.

"Hey Virginia, need help with the books?"  I asked.  I saw the trio's face, mostly Weasley's face fill with disgust at the thought of the youngest Weasley being friends with me.

"Malfoy, I will carry her books for her, there's no need for you to bother."  Weasley snapped.

Virginia glared at him, "Yes, I'm sure you will carry my books for me, Ronald.  I have been carrying them for so many minutes and the only reason why you're offering to help is because Draco here offered to.  You're so stupid, Ronald."  Weasley still winced at the sound of Virginia calling me by my name.

"Ginny, you're suppose to be on my side!"

She huffed, "And you're suppose to be on my side!  By carrying my books instead of Hermione's of course."  He turned red at the comment and without another word, I took the stack of books Virginia was carrying.  She smiled at me, "Thanks Draco."

Together, we walked ahead of the 'Dream Team' and talked between ourselves and arguing once in a while...  But usually, we ended up as friends again.  During the past few weeks, I had learnt that Gryffindors weren't that bad.  Well, that was a lie.  Virginia wasn't that bad.  From other Gryffindors, I either stayed away or I insulted them.

Surprisingly, Blaise had also welcomed Virginia, yet not so happy at first.  Blaise was my only friend, if you knew what I meant.  I mean, Crabbe and Goyle?  They're morons.  At least Blaise was smart and always got near the top ten of the year.  Meanwhile, Crabbe and Goyle probably got the last ten.  Or last two.

Talking with Virginia was fun sometimes, but she did have her mood swings once or twice.  She was fun, animated and made funny faces.  I think she really has changed me, somewhat.  At least what my reaction was to her.  I would say greetings whenever I saw her, instead of insulting and whenever I saw her in the halls, I would give her a grin instead of a smirk.  Lunch for us wasn't in the Great Hall anymore, it was rather in the kitchen or by the lake.  Sometimes being joined by Blaise.

Of course, the Slytherins thought I befriended Virginia to piss Potter off, and I let them keep on thinking like that.  The only person who knew that I really liked Virginia for her personality was probably Blaise and Virginia...  Perhaps Virginia didn't know either.  We were both nice to each other and well, I never did act like I liked her as my friend.  Never.  Weird huh?

As we reached the Potions classroom, together, we walked to the last row in the room, sitting down.  Blaise joined us later, squishing Virginia between us, not that she cared at all.  I was starting to think that she was also enjoying our friendship...  Yeah, friendship.  Nothing more, nothing less.

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hitomi – One of the best?  Whoa...  Thanks!

KrystyWroth – Yeah...  1st Chinese, 2nd French, 3rd English, 4th Mandarin, 5th Japanese...  At least I'm planning on taking it soon...  Japanese, I mean.  Go LOTR!  *grins*

frananddragon – You don't share?!  Lol... meany!  Ah well, Legolas is still mine too ^^  They love fighting, especially Draco and Ginny for no reason at all.  Probably because they're bored =p  The word 'damn'?  I don't like it that much, but I don't want to use 'fuck' too much, or I'll have to change the rating, lol.  Sad stories make the stories memorable like 'Crimson Stains'.  If you haven't read it, you should.  Though I'm pretty sure you have ^^  I didn't think your email worked last time, but I'll try again this time ^^

Miss. Charlet – Appealing?  Perhaps =p  I will continue ^^

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sadie (say-dee – Draco's a git...  for now.  And they are far from loving each other right now.  I don't even think they like each other as crush right now, lol.

ash – LoL!  I'll keep that in mind for one scene.  Lol...  Great suggestion though ^^  More reviews than 'Crimson Stains'?  I don't know, this probably doesn't seem as sad or anything, so I haven't had as much reviews, but that's all fine ^^  I'm getting pretty much and I'm glad.

Rivenloe – I love writing them, fun.  But they can be a challenge sometimes.

torlin kerru – Yep, trilogy if nothing in my story changes.  I'll update once a week, hopefully.  Lol, my friend decorated my locker with Orlando Bloom (Legolas if you don't know) since she knew I'm obsessed with her.  I have a Tom Felton picture, but it just isn't as nice as the Orlando Bloom ones =p  He's hot too though.  Yeah, English is my third...  And I'm proud of my *Engrish* too =p

Author's Notes: For those of you who want an email for the update, leave your email address in the review!  Draco's definitely OOC.  Hopefully, you'll enjoy it!