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~*~*~ The Dark Side of the Moon~*~*~
getting down to the core, here's chapter four.
"Here is your room Ginny. If you want we can go to Diagon Alley tomorrow and get your school things and do some other shopping. Dinner will be at seven; do you have any food preferences?" Narcissa was trying to make Ginny feel welcome but was very out of practice.
Ginny simply stated, "Anything would be good, thank you." And walked into her room with her belongings from home.
Narcissa turned away from the door and shook her head. Ginny was so much like her mother in so many ways. She walked off to get the house elves started on dinner.
Still in her new room Ginny walked around placing and putting away her belongings. Sure she was devastated that her family had been ripped away from her, but she also knew that they couldn't come back and the sooner she accepted that, the sooner she could move on with her life.
"Knock Knock," someone from the doorway said. Draco poked his head into the room and asked, "Can I come in?"
Ginny turned around and said, "If you want."
Draco staggered back a few steps before regaining her composure. Draco was not often surprised but this girl had shocked him no less than three times in merely seconds. He had expected to find her crying over her loss and having red puffy eyes, he had come to comfort her after all. But no here she stood with clear bright eyes that were entirely dry and tear-free. He recognized her young face as being that of the girl he had encountered in the forest of Bulgaria. Quite possibly for the first time in years, he was left speechless by how perfect and beautiful she was in his eyes.
"Well if you aren't going to come in then I'll just get back to my unpacking," Ginny said slowly and evenly.
Draco simply nodded and fled.
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The next few weeks passed relatively uneventfully. Ginny grew to know the manor and it's inhabitants, Draco got over referring to Ginny as SHE every time he talked of her, and Narcissa came to love Ginny as a daughter. As Ginny was adjusting to her new home, she and Draco became friends. Although, just as brother and sister would, they bickered quite often.
Their family was officially invited to the End of Summer Ball, where anyone who was anyone in the wizarding world went to celebrate the coming of the end of summer. All of the richest and most well off wizarding families were expected to attend.
Ginny got the chance to wear her new dress robes she had gotten when she and 'Aunt Narcissa', as Ginny now called her, had gone to Diagon Alley. Her robes were a deep forest green with a tight low-cut bodice and sleeves made of a gauzy see-through material. The robes were form fitting down to her waist and then widened at her hips to fall elegantly down her legs. The robes were long enough to brush the ground when she wore the strapped black 1-inch heel shoes that went with them.
Draco was attired in a new set of robes made of black satin with a green trim around the sleeves and collar. Draco and Ginny walked into the hall where the ball was side-by-side at Narcissa's insistence. They were of an equal height at 5'6" for Draco had not yet gone through his final growth spurt.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Narcissa's view of the Ball~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
I have always enjoyed watching other humans interact, I find it most fascinating. This will explain why I was sitting at the side of the hall roughly halfway through the evening. In barely the time of a month, I had already come to think of Ginny as a daughter. It is difficult to deal with a girl on the threshold of woman-hood. I'll be the first to admit my mothering skills have faded with trying to raise Draco, he was always getting in trouble. I was pleased when Draco began to warm up to Ginny. They walked into the ball together but now I see Draco is talking to a boy who must be close to his age though I don't recognize him. I turned my gaze from them to look for Ginny. After a few moments I spotted her talking to that man, Marcus Flint. They were talking animatedly when Marcus extended an arm gesture that could only mean he had asked her to dance. I was about to rise and head over to them, Ginny was, in my opinion, far to young to be dancing with him, especially to the slow waltz which had just begun playing. Just then I noticed Draco slip up next to Ginny and drag her off to the dance floor. Marcus did not appear to be interested in leaving his pray as most others would in his situation but continued to watch Ginny hungrily. Contented that Ginny was in safe hands, I let my eyes wander, observing the others attending the dance. When the waltz ended Ginny came storming up to me, amber eyes blazing.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ End Narcissa's View~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Aunt Narcissa!" Ginny started, using her common title for Narcissa, "Did you see what Draco had the impertinence to do?" She didn't wait for an answer but continued in the same vein. "He dragged me away from the perfectly nice man I was about to dance with! He has no manners what-so-ever. I can't believe him!" Ginny began to simmer down and Draco started up in a calm calculated voice.
"He's not a nice man mama, I know it. She is too young to be dancing with him anyways."
"Well, that didn't stop you from dancing with me. If I were too young to dance with him than wouldn't I be too young to dance at all? Besides I wanted him to ask me to dance. You're being just like Ron was the stupid over-protective brother!"
"Ginny," Narcissa said breaking up Ginny and Draco's argument which had been increasing in volume, "I do agree with Draco on the point that you are to young to be dancing with that man. However, I don't agree that that makes you too young to dance with anyone."
"Furthermore," Her piercing gaze shifted to Draco, "I don't condone his way of going about letting you know of his opinion. I agree with you that it was a rather impertinent thing to do. But, no matter, it is late and we best be going."
Ginny turned on her heel and flounced out of the doorway, Draco and Narcissa trailing behind her. When the trio reached the manor, they went to their respective bedrooms and went to sleep.
Ginny awoke with a start and sat bolt upright in her queen sized bed. She knew something was wrong. In the dream she had just had all she could remember was that Draco had been in trouble. She used to have dreams like that about her brothers when they were in trouble or sad so she decided to investigate. Draco had become as much of a brother to her as anyone of the one's she had lost. She knew her dream wasn't just a figment of her imagination.
She threw off her forest green comforter and padded silently out of her room. Traversing the maze of corridors, which a few weeks ago she would have been lost in, she made it to the door of Draco's room. She hesitated at the door; she had never intruded as far on his privacy as to go into his room. Hearing muffled noises from underneath the door she flung it open, only to be grasped by a pair of strong hard hands and dragged towards the open window...
A/N: OMG, I'm so sorry for the cliffhanger. Actually I'm really not, no point in denying it *grins wickedly* Anyways, sorry it took me so long to get this chapter out, I haven't had much time to write, stupid professors, they have taken it upon themselves to become the bane of my existence. LOL, seriously, they have been piling on the homework. I can't do shout-outs tonight cuz I have two essays to write for tomorrow and 25 pages to read and take notes on for my AP world history class. I promise to get the next chapter out this weekend and I'll try to make it extra long. Ta for now my faithful readers! O yea, here's a funny, my spell checker keeps trying to change 'Draco' into 'Drano'. Hahaha, o well, at least I thought it was funny...
