[DISMALIMER]: why do I even bother with this?

March 7, 2003. Hey. The first thing that I saw when I opened my inbox was 20 UNREAD MESSAGES!!!! I was like, wow! Who'd send me 20 messages? And that was like, the day after I put up chapter 13!!! Anyway, when I read it, I had 13 reviews! And that was the day right after I uploaded! YAY!!!! Then the next day I had one. The next after . . . none. =( I'm still so HAPPY!!!!

Mikki mikki: yes, dump her in acid so we could all see her melt away while she screams

Txt-eva: yes!

Delaney: hey =)

Evil Slytherin Child: okay. That bit about being a fellow Slytherin is a little freaky. . .

Missy: I know! I'll just have to hit Pansy on the head now.

CelticGoddess81: the picture. Remember when Ginny and Blaise were in the bathroom, then someone came in running, suddenly taking a picture? Well, that was it. The picture was the one Ginny saw Pansy stuffing into her camera bag when they were in the bathroom.

Anamei Queen: oh. . . maybe I should have done that! Oh well. . . what's done is done

VuruNeno: really? Yay! And about Ginny's favorite word, you guessed it right!

BB-deejay: there's more of you here!!!!!

Lady Godiva: yes, somebody will put the slut in her place. I will! Hah!

Melissa Adams: a lot of people are confused by that! Maybe I should rewrite the chapter? Well anyway, thanks.

Anh D-ao: hey!

Doudou: do you really want to kill off Harry? . . . maybe I could make him gay!

Kisses: yes! Go!!!

Sari: there's this book called 'why it's not natural for us to eat meat'

Ashley: sorry about that. I meant that we didn't have all canine teeth =)

Angelic-pen: hey, thanks =)

Miss Charlet: I agree! As do the rest of us

Goodgirldbadboys: sublunary sphere. The earth. Hehe. . . sorry, didn't want to say they talked about everything under the sun. a bit too verbose, but I wanted a different term for it. sublunary means under the moon, that's here.

Cgrwchick361: sorry about this chapter! I really have to study for my final exams now!

Okay. 11:44 pm.

Warning: extreme OOC characters!

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Draco saw the whole thing . Pansy's hand moved quickly, and the picture she'd been holding blew up and floated above the hall. Gasps were heard all around. He looked at the picture; his heart suddenly felt like a ton of bricks. He saw things in black and white. He looked at Virginia, who was screaming up at Pansy, something about her Ron. Pansy whispered her reply, but the whole school heard it.

Virginia stumbled out of her seat, seemingly disoriented. Draco stood up right away and went over to her. Blaise was making gestures to him, but what, he didn't understand. He watched as she looked around wildly, putting her hands to her ears and tugging at her hair. Then he saw her fall, painfully slow.

Draco caught her just in time. His vision returned to normal, his heart stopped racing, but still felt like as if it was anchored. He held on tightly to her, just in case she might slip and fall to the ground. He shifted her till she was standing somewhat upright, but still unconscious.

"Look, everyone!" Pansy shouted over the noise of the hall. "Draco caught her! Oh, that is just SICK!" she screeched, and cackled like an old witch. The Slytherins joined in, save for Blaise, who was standing there, numb.

"Why are you doing this, Parkinson?" Draco spat out, shooting daggers at her.

Pansy looked at him suddenly with scorn in her eyes. "I told you, you'll pay for what you did to me, didn't I?" she answered.

Draco felt as if he'd been hit by a truck. Pansy Parkinson holding revenge against him? This was not right. He felt Virginia slip a little and carried her with both arms. I have to get her out of here. he thought.

He turned and walked out, but not before meeting Blaise's eye, which quickly looked away, and Parvati's tear filled ones.

The lake. he thought, as he walked out of the castle. He walked briskly towards it, hoping to shrug off the heavy feeling in his chest which nagged him ever since Pansy flashed the picture.

Virginia stirred and was suddenly awake. She looked up at whoever was carrying her. "Dra-"

"Shhhh." He said, as he looked down at her. He held her closer, tighter, as he jogged a little towards the lake.

She looked up at him, confused. Why is he carrying me? She didn't remember anything just yet.

He knelt down and sat her on the grass. He sat beside her, looking at her. He watched as she zoned out for a few minutes, then suddenly sat up straight, all of a sudden remembering what had just happened. Tears started to form in her eyes.

The sick feeling she had a few minutes ago came back. Why doesn't the ground just open up and swallow me? she thought to herself. She stared into the lake with eyes unfocused. She hated Pansy. She hated her with every molecule of her being. She felt guilty about Blaise; she felt guilty about Parvati; guilty about everything. She looked up to stop her tears.

"Don't stop your tears from falling." Draco said softly. He was relieved in a weird sort of way, because Virginia was staring into space. He was afraid that she went catatonic.

Virginia's tears threatened to spill even more. She didn't know how she felt right now. With Draco right beside her, she didn't know what to do, either. She didn't dare look at him, afraid of what she might see. "Why?" she whispered.

There was a short pause. "'cause I'm here to. . . wipe them dry." He replied, trying to ignore the nagging feeling in his chest.

This time, she looked at him, and the tears spilled. Her vision was blurred by the sudden pouring of tears. Draco knelt in front of her, wiping away her tears. "Why?" she asked again, looking him in the eyes. They looked at her with pain.

"'cause I'm here. . . to make sure everything will be alright." He cupped her face and tried to smile at her, but couldn't. The sadness he saw in her eyes reflected his own. So she liked Blaise. . . but I like HER. It was the first time he admitted that to himself. He felt his heart lighten a little.

She looked up questioningly at him, ignoring the river of tears that flowed down her face.

"'cause I'm here. . ." He was whispering now. He felt her move, and he took her in his arms. "Just here."

She buried her face in his chest as sobs racked her body.

"I promise. . ."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" she kept saying, in between sobs. She felt him tighten his arms around her, and strangely enough, she liked the feeling. When she was with Blaise, it didn't feel anything like this.

Draco held her for a long time, until her sobs died down. All the while, trying to control the raging emotions inside him. Blaise and Virginia. . .

When she stopped crying, she looked up at him, having thoroughly soaked his shirt. She saw in his eyes confusion, hurt, and sadness. "Why'd you take me here?" she whispered.

Draco drew back a little from her, to get a better look. He didn't really have a good answer for that, and now he was stuck. He did, actually, but it sounded lame. "I. . . " he began, but was lost for words. What am I going to say? I caught her, then I had to get her out of there? F***. Lame.

Virginia repeated her question slowly, as if talking to an idiot. "I said, 'why'd. . . you. . . take me. . . here?'"

All affection for her drained out of him. Now she was getting on his nerves. He withdrew his arms around her and stood up abruptly, making her lurch forward a little. "Don't talk to me like I'm a moron." He said shortly and walked a few paces away from her, facing the lake.

Her jaw dropped in disbelief. She didn't even mean it that way! "You got me wrong!" she said, and stood up, glaring at his back furiously. "I didn't talk to you like you were a moron!"

"Yes, you did!" Draco started to answer back, but what she said next cut him short.

"Why are you being so defensive anyway?"

He turned around suddenly, looking at her in the eye. She looked back at him haughtily, but he ignored it and walked closer to her. When he was right in front of her, he put his hands on her shoulders. "Because I like you." He said softly, so softly it was almost nothing but air.

Virginia's jaw dropped again in disbelief. She felt an immediate blush rise to her cheeks. Not knowing what to say, she looked down at the ground, staring at her shoes, which weren't very visible in just moonlight.

Draco regretted saying that. He felt like a fool. "Virginia?" he said as he lowered his head, trying to look at her face. "I'm sorry. . . I. . . shouldn't have said that."

She looked up at him now, tears in her eyes again. "I like you, too." She said quickly, and kissed him on the lips before he could react. After a while, she felt him pull back. She was disappointed; she really enjoyed kissing Draco.

"What did you say?" he asked with a little too much curiosity in his voice, but he was still a little breathless

Virginia mumbled.

"What?" Draco asked again, this time tilting her face up to his. He was holding back a smile.

"You heard me." She said shortly, and raised her eyebrows at him.

Draco's heart sank. He just HAD to hear her say it again. "You'll be saying those words again next time." He said to her.

"What words?" she asked innocently, trying to hide her nervousness.

"Oh. . . nothing really. Just something about you liking me too?" he said slyly, and smiled down at her.

"Shut up and kiss me." She ordered him.

And they kissed, under the hazy moon.

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(A/N: okay, fast-forward 3 weeks!)

Parvati sat at her table during Professor Trelawney's class, looking like she was listening, but was not. She had to keep up her status as the best student in Divination, but it really didn't matter now. She was too stressed to think about studying. The past weeks had just been HELL. She and Virginia were not talking to each other; not personally anyway; they just made small talk. Blaise was acting all weird; sometimes he would suddenly talk to her during class, and sometimes totally ignore her when they met in the halls. Draco, well, Draco was his usual self, though he started acting a little different ever since the dinner. He could actually put on a friendly expression.

"Professor Trelawney, Parvati Patil isn't paying attention to the discussion!" said a whiny voice at the side of the classroom.

Upon hearing this, Parvati snapped her head to the direction which the voice came from. She saw Pansy Parkinson smirking at her and felt her jaw clench, like it always did when she was around. She faintly heard Professor Trelawney calling her name in the background.

"Parvati, were you or were you not listening to my lecture?" she asked.

It took some time for Parvati's jaw to unclamp before she was able to answer the teacher's question. She looked at the teacher innocently. "Of course I was listening, Prof. Trelawney."

"Well then, could you explain the theory of the stellar constellations in the 55 Cancri System, as based on muggle studies?"

Parvati smiled devilishly to herself. This is all too easy. She could explain everything about the 55 Cancri. Divination was her favorite subject, Pansy could have forgotten. She had already read and done advanced studies on Divination. "Sure, Prof. Trelawney." She said, and met Pansy's look of hate with hers.

Pansy's jaw dropped. Did Patil swallow the textbooks or something? She might as well replace Trelawney and be the bloody Divination professor! Parvati looked at her smugly, and try as she might, she couldn't shoot her back with another hate glare. She rolled her eyes instead.

Parvati sat back down on her seat, smug smile still on her face. THAT showed her, the little bitch. Her smile faltered, then quickly faded. Bitch. . .

The moment Parvati saw the picture blow up, all she felt was numb. Seeing the picture really hurt. She wanted to believe that Virginia really had nothing with Blaise, but the thought nagged her. Tears prickled in her eyes, and everyone was laughing now. She looked at Blaise, and he looked at her with clouded eyes.

"Virginia?" she said, when she saw her get out of her seat clumsily. She didn't seem to be listening to her. "Virginia?" she said again, and started to get out of her seat as well, but stopped, when she saw Blaise move suddenly. She saw him motion to Draco, mouthing something, though she didn't understand it all. The only thing she got were the words 'bloody f***ing. . . Virginia. . . bathroom.' She kept looking back and forth between the two boys, utterly confused.

The next thing she knew, Virginia was in Draco's arms, unconscious. She saw Draco talking to Pansy, who, thankfully, reversed the Sonorous spell, and Blaise tugging at his spikes. Draco walked past her swiftly, meeting her gaze, but disappeared all of a sudden from the Great Hall.

The people in the hall were eventually quieted down by a silencing charm, an especially powerful one, since all the teachers used it at the same time. About 30 minutes before dinner ended, they took the charm off. Only hushed whispers were heard. Parvati looked at Pansy with contempt the whole time. "Why did you do that, Parkinson?" she spat out.

Pansy looked up from her red talons, arched an eyebrow, and said, "Revenge against Draco."

"Why would you take revenge against him?"

"Oh, nothing. He wasn't paying me enough attention." Pansy smirked at her. "So I decided to have revenge."

"Your revenge doesn't even make sense." Parvati said shortly.

"Oh, it does!" Pansy looked at her maliciously. "You see, when I blow up that picture, he'll feel so hurt that his bloody bitch, Weasley, is with Blaise."

Parvati felt jealous of Virginia again. "She was not with Blaise. And by the way, that bitch you're talking about is my-"

"Best friend?" Pansy snorted. "You call her a best friend? After what she did to you? I think your definition of a 'best friend' is all wrong."

Parvati slapped Pansy on the face as hard as she could. "Don't talk about her that way, Parkinson! If there's anyone to be called a bitch, that's you." She said, and promptly got out of her seat.

When Divination ended, Parvati was already in a bad mood, which wasn't unusual these days. Hermione was acting especially bookish and stayed long hours in the library. The only people she really talked to now were Kisses and Meche; at least they talked to her about something else besides the dreaded dinner.

Dinner came again, and Parvati wanted to go back to the dorm, sleep, and never wake up. She saw Virginia talking to Draco in the Slytherin table, and it somehow elated her that it wasn't Blaise she was talking to. She didn't know what to do about Blaise right now. Sure, she still liked him. A lot. But the way he acted now was just so. . . weird. She passed by the Gryffindor table to say hi to Meche, then went sat down beside Blaise at the Slytherin table. This was their routine now. Pass by friends at Gryff table, sit at Slytherin table, eat, small talk, walk back to dorm, do homework, sleep.

"Parv! I have to talk to you." Virginia said to her as she sat down.

Parvati looked at her skeptically. What would she want to talk about now? Things between them have been tense. They'd talk about everything except the dinner, or Draco and Blaise. If they were talking in a group and someone would mention either name, they'd leave all of a sudden.

"Say it now." She replied, using what she hoped was a civil tone.

Virginia felt taken aback. She was trying to be more than a civil so- called best friend to her. She was tired already of having stunted conversation with her. She wanted to be best friends with her for real. It could happen. Blaise wasn't paying her attention anymore. Well at least not the kind of attention in the bathroom. He still talked to her, but it was small talk. Everybody she talked to these days made small talk. She gave out a loud sigh. "I can't now. Why not later in our room?"

"Fine." Parvati replied. She turned to Draco; she hadn't talked to him for some time. "Hey, what's up?"

After dinner, Parvati and Virginia trudged back up the stairs to the dorms in silence. When the door of their room was shut, they both sat down on their beds, facing each other.

"Well?" Parvati said, removing her cloak and untying her hair.

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Okay, whatever! I wasn't really concentrating when I wrote this chapter. It doesn't make sense. I was talking to my friend about a party tomorrow. Party!!! I'm freeeeeeeeeee!!!!! No school till June! 6 weeks in Shanghai! Well, at least, if my parents still allow me to go on the study tour. They're scared I might get the SARS epidemic thing.

Oh, and I got whatever Draco said to Ginny by the lake from a quote my friend JK sent me thought sms. "Don't stop your tears from falling, cause I'm here to wipe them dry. Cause I'm here t make sure everything will be alright. Cause I'm here, just here. Promise. . ." So thanks to JK! He gave me part of the story!

I also found out where the name Parvati comes from. It's originally Parvathi, from India. Parvathi is the Cosort of Siva, also known as Kali, and other names. I chanced upon it when I was reading The House of Blue Mangoes, by David Davidar.

Hey, war now bet. US and Iraq. How's everyone? I was watching the video taped address to the nation of Saddam Hussein awhile ago. He didn't really make any sense. Something about not scared of the US drawing their swords, about God is Great and all that. Well, review please. Even if this chapter doesn't make any sense.

Kat