Disclaimer-J.K. Rowlings owns Hogwarts, the characters, and everything in this fic. I only own the people I made up and the plot.
Turmoil at Hogwarts
Chapter 8-Mistakes
When Ginny woke up the first thought that came into her head was "What have I done?" She sat in her bed for at least a half an hour and thought, "How can I fix this? I kissed Draco Malfoy and I liked it! That's not right. That's completely wrong. I can't have anything to do with a Malfoy. My family would kill me. Oh, come on, think hard. How can I fix this? I could just completely ignore him, but that would be cowardly. I'll just have to tell him that I don't know what came over me yesterday and that I don't want to have anything to do with him. But that's not true. No, it has to be true. I can not fall for Draco Malfoy. And I have to make sure that he doesn't fall for me."
Ginny got out of her bed, took a shower, and got dressed. Then she went down to breakfast. She ate a quick breakfast by herself and then went up to her room again. She read a book until she heard a knock on the door.
"Come in," Ginny said.
Draco walked into the room and said, "We need to go put up our decorations."
"Okay, I'll meet you outside in five minutes," Ginny said.
"See you, then." Draco said and didn't even give her a smile.
Ginny wonder if he thought that they should stop doing, well, whatever they were doing. From the look on his face, she figured that he felt the same way that she did.
Ginny walked outside and the two students quickly began working on the decorations. The day went by pretty quickly because Draco and Ginny spent almost all day putting up the decorations. They didn't talk much and there was a strange tension between them. The only time they actually spoke to one another was when they were talking about where to put the decorations. Actually Ginny just told Draco where to put the lights because he had no idea what to do with them. Ginny knew how she wanted the lights to look and she was determined to make them look the way that she had imagined them.
It was almost dinnertime when Ginny decided that she liked the way the decorations looked. Ginny and Draco both went inside and up to their rooms, but they didn't even say a word to each other. It was obvious that both students regretted what had happened the night before.
The students had dinner at 6:00 and after they finished eating they went outside to look at Draco and Ginny's decorations. Ginny was happy with the way their decorations looked. They looked exactly like she had imagined.
White lights outlined all of the sidewalks and the porch. The whole outside of the three story house was outlined in white lights and so were all of the doors and windows. The room was outlined in icicles and so was the balcony. The columns on the porch had lights sprialing up them and a simple wreath was hung on the front door. One side of the yard had a small forest of trees that were made out of spiraling lights and they were next to some lights that were made to look like the outsides of a small pond. Three electronic reindeer, that bent their heads down and then lifted them back up, were located on the outsides of the fake pond. When the reindeer bent their heads, it looked like they were getting a drink from a pond. On the other side of the front yard there was a Santa Clause sitting in his sleigh with his reindeer pulling him.
"So what do you think," Ginny asked the person who was standing next to her. That person just happened to be Draco Malfoy.
"I think taht it would have been a lot easier if we could have used magic. I don't see why muggles work so hard to put up decorations for Christmas if they just end up taking them down." Draco said.
"The put them up because it's a Christmas tradition. It helps them to get into the Christmas spirit," Ginny said. "And it's fun."
"Maybe it was fun for you but it wasn't fun for me." Draco said. "I'm the one who had to put up all of the lights on the roof and on the top two stories of the house. All you did was tell me what to do."
"Sorry. I didn't think that you'd mind. I didn't want to put the lights on the house because I'm scared of heights." Ginny said.
"You could have told me you were scared of heights." Draco said.
"You never asked." Ginny said and then she walked over to where the other students and Mrs. Gallagher were standing. The others were very impressed with the lights.
"You and Draco did a wonderful job on your decorations," Mrs. Gallagher told Ginny, "I can tell that you put a lot of work into this."
"Wow, Ginny! I love the way you set up the reindeer by the trees and the pond." Lavender said.
Ginny smiled and replied, "Thanks Lavender."
After a while Mrs. Gallagher said, "Well, let's go inside. It's freezing out here. I'll make you all some hot chocolate before you go to bed."
The students drank their hot chocolate and then went to bed. After a little while Ginny got up because she couldn't sleep, but when she stepped out of her room she heard another door open.
"Hello, Draco." She said.
"Hello, Ginny." He said.
"We need to talk," Ginny told him.
"Yes, we do," Draco replied.
"I think that we are thinking the same thing right now," Ginny said. "I think we are both thinking that we shouldn't see each other anymore."
"That's right." Draco said.
"Yesterday was just a big mistake," Ginny said.
"Yes, it was a big mistake. Let's not make the same mistake twice," Draco said.
"Let's just forget that yesterday ever happened." Ginny said.
"Draco said, "That sounds fine," Then he walked back into his room without even saying goodbye to Ginny.
Ginny walked around for a little bit and when she got back to her room she laid in her bed. She didn't find sleep for quite sometime because somehow she couldn't forget about the kiss that she and Draco had shared or about all of the things that he had told her the previous night.
A/N-I think that this chapter is a lot better than the last one. Tell me what you think. I haven't really felt like writing on this story much lately, but yesterday I just got inspired. I'm in a really good mood right now because it's snowing!!! I love snow! Hope you all had a good Christmas. Happy New Year!
Thanks to all of my reviewers.
Bunny, I know that the confession went to fast, I just got tired of Ginny and Draco not being together.
Krissy, thanks for being so reassuring. I thought about rewriting the last chapter but I decided against it.
Oonagh, your name is really hard to spell, I had to check the list twice to make sure I got it right. Is this what you thought was going to happen?
Moondragon, sorry I made you wait so long for the next chapter, thanks for reviewing.
Cthottie482, Oh, you flatter me! Thanks for the encouragement!
Misty, do you really think that my story is perfect? Thanks for the wonderful compliment.
FairMaiden, I know they got to close too fast. I always promised myself that I would never do that, but I did. Oh, well. Thanks for your opinion, It really helped me when I was writing this chapter.
Professor Vector, I read your story, it was very cute. Thanks reviewing!
Silver Wolf, big thanks for reading all of my stories. You made me so happy! Oh, and you could never annoy me.
Katie, I didn't make him sappy in this chapter just for you. Are you happy?
LilyAyl, Geez! That was a lot of questions and most of them I can't answer now. I answered the lights question and the rest of the questions will be answered later, okay.
Nice, I will be sure to throw Aidan into the mix. Thanks for reviewing my fic again.
Jily anne, your review cracked me up. Yes, he was trying to teach her Irish dancing. I haven't watched Riverdance but I can see Draco and Ginny wearing the clothes that you said. But I don't think that I can fit that into my story. But I'll try.
Satan's Little Princess, do you think that I should make Lee good in the next chapters?
Luna, I'm glad you liked the chapter. Thanks for the review!
Dorthey Star, I'm glad you like my story. I don't think that I've read We'll Always Have Paris. I might have, thought. Who is the author? I like D/H stories too.
Mionee, I thought about writing stories about the other houses but I don't know if I have time to right now. I want to write some kind of H/G fic, though.
Katie Crow****, I know that this chapter wasn't the best. Thanks for your opinion, I tried to make this chapter a little slower paced. I'm glad you liked the chapters before chapter 7. Thanks for the review.
Another thing, I wrote a new fic called Only You, it's about Hermione and Seamus, and I update my story Sarah Grant.
