Title: True to Life

Chapter 3: Admittance and a devious plan

Author: Lady Rex with the help of Atea for editing, and Andi and Nehal for ideas.

A.N. ~ Hey guys, this is a pretty long chapter (6 pages go me! Lol) I hope you like it, it's not much but my muse has gone to Hawaii for vacation and left me with no ideas. Well without further ado here's chapter 3!

P.S. ~ hey I still don't know how to put indents, italics, underline's, ect. Into my writing so please if you know e-mail me at hannavas96@comcast.net Thanks!

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The kiss was as light as a feather but it still sent a shiver down Ginny's spine and Draco could feel a warm tingle all the way down to his toes. But before he could respond, she was gone. He stood; staring at the portrait hole for a moment, then turned and walked away.

The next day Ginny awoke to Laura's melodic voice humming the tune to jingle bells. She rolled over and threw her pillow at Laura's head.

"Mmpfh, Laura what're you doin' here?" She whined as she buried herself further into the cocoon of warmth and pulled the covers over her head to block the warm winter sunlight streaming through her window.

"Oh, Hermione let me in; now get up you lazy ass! What is up with you people today?" She asked as she pulled the covers off of Ginny's small frame. "First it was Draco being all pissy and now you! Gin, it's almost noon!"

Ginny sat bolt upright in bed remembering what had happened the night before. "Oh my god, I can't believe I did that! How stupid am I? He's never going to talk to me again." She put her head in her hands and began muttering to herself.

"Ginny! GINNY! Calm down hun, or you're going to start hyper-ventilating. Now wait just a minute, what did you do? And why did Hermione come rushing up to me this morning demanding to know where you were last night?"

Ginny looked up at her friend from underneath her dark lashes. "You can't tell anyone about this, do you promise?" Laura nodded her head in consent. Ginny then told her the story of what had happened the previous night.

"So you like my cousin." Laura commented to Ginny after she had finished. A slight blush in Ginny's cheeks was all the proof Laura needed. "I can't blame you, he's the hottest guy in the school, who wouldn't want that tight ass of his?" she joked, but she could tell the feelings her friend harbored were deep. "It's ok, I promise I wont leak a word to anyone, scouts honor," she then raised her hand in some sort of salute Ginny had seen a group of girls do, when they were camping in a muggle campground.

~~~~~~~~Meanwhile down in the Dungeons~~~~~~~~~

Draco was sulking around his room as Blaise walked in.

"Hey man, what's up?" He asked as he gracefully plopped himself into one of the high backed chairs in front of the fireplace.

"Go away and leave me alone." Draco growled. He wasn't in the best of moods this fine winter morning. Ginny had stirred up more emotion with one kiss than anything any other girl he had (or hadn't) dated ever could, and that kiss wasn't anything compared to what some of those other girls had done to him! That and the lack of sleep had greatly affected Draco's ability to be nice.

"Hey, just tryin' to be friendly man, so what's up with you? You've been acting weird this morning." Draco gave Blaise a look that clearly said "Get the fuck out of my sight you asshole" but Blaise persisted.

"Good lord, must you people know every little detail of my god forsaken life?!" he ranted "ok, yes I am in a bad mood today, you wanna know why, of course you do because you care soooo much about me, well too bad cuz I'm gonna tell you anyways! The reason I am in such a piss ass mood is because of your girlfriend's sniveling, sleazy little redheaded friend. I was on my duty patrolling the halls last night, minding my own business I might add, when the little red-haired vixen came crashing into me out of no where and out of the goodness of my heart I went with her to the kitchens to get her frosting and when we were done I walked her back to her room and then yes the little bitch kissed me and YES I LIKED IT DAMN IT AND IT'S DRIVING ME CRAZY BECAUSE I WANT HER!" By this time Draco was storming around his room in a fit of fury, flailing his arms and screaming at Blaise.

Blaise was shocked; he had no idea that Draco was that passionate about Ginny. He had guessed that his friend had a crush on the petite redhead but he never knew Draco cared that much. He knew Draco cared because in all the time that they had been friends Blaise had never seen Draco raise his voice none the less scream. Even when his father was beating him, Draco always kept a calm exterior, no matter what.

"Wow man you really care about her don't you?" Draco walked over to his bed and sat down with his head in his hands. Blaise had never seen Draco this unstrung, and it was kind of unnerving. Finally Draco spoke

"Yeah I do" he replied. In truth he couldn't get the little red- haired vixen off of his mind. He had been longing for her to notice him ever since their first encounter of the year in the north tower.

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In the weeks that followed Draco and Ginny avoided each other at all costs. Whenever it was mandatory that they were in the same room, they would sit as far apart as humanly possible and avoid all eye contact.

At first Laura and Blaise thought it was funny, but once it started to cut into their together time they figured they better put an end to it.

One Saturday night Laura and Ginny were having a "girl's night in" party just for themselves in the north tower.

"So Gin, you and Draco still aren't talking to each other?" Laura asked as she sat down on the large overstuffed sofa with a cup of hot chocolate.

"Yeah, I guess. I was so stupid for kissing him, I just wasn't thinking, and now I'll never get a chance with him."

"Hey, don't be so down on yourself." Laura scolded. "Draco wants you just as much as you want him, I can tell. Ever since you kissed him that night, he's been sulking around and he hasn't been on a date for months! He totally wants you" she reassured. Laura hated seeing her best friend so sad because of her cousin and visa versa, especially because they were both wrong in their assumptions. Then an idea came to her. She jumped off the couch and Ginny looked at her in surprise.

"Hey Gin, oh my gosh I'm so sorry, I just remembered I have to uh.oh yea I have to write a potions essay that's due tomorrow!" She said while scurrying out of the room.

Ginny sat in silence for a moment knowing full well that there was no potions essay, for one thing tomorrow was Sunday and both Laura and Ginny had done their homework together the day before. She figured whatever Laura was doing was important and she trusted her friend not to desert her without a good reason.

Meanwhile, Laura was hurrying down a dark hallway in the dungeons. Stopping in front of a large statue of a falcon, she muttered the password and the falcon hopped aside and a door appeared. Just as she was about to enter, the door swung open and Blaise stood watching her.

"Hey hun, what are you doing here? I thought you and Ginny were hanging out tonight."

"Yea I was but I have this ingenious plan to get Draco and Ginny together. Now come here" she said as she grabbed his arm and pulled him backwards into the room. It was a fairly large space well lit with a large stone fireplace off to the side, a sizeable chandelier hanging from the ceiling, hardwood floors, (adorned with lush rugs) plush furniture, and tasteful art decorated the walls.

"Sit" Laura commanded Blaise. He did as told, and once he was situated on the couch, pulled her down onto his lap.

"Now what is it that has your panties all in a bunch? Tell me all about this clever little plan of yours" he demanded. She smiled and leaned back against his chest and proceeded to tell him her plan.

Two hours later they had worked it all out. Over the Christmas holidays Laura would get Ginny to agree to help her wrap Christmas presents in the north tower. She would take Ginny to the room in the north tower and then leave again because she "forgot Blaze's present." In truth, she would be hidden around the corner waiting for Draco to arrive. Meanwhile Draco and Blaise would be planning on wrapping presents in the north tower as well, but before they got there Blaise would double back to "get Laura's present." He in truth would be waiting for Laura in his dorm. Once Draco entered the room in the north tower, Laura would sneak out of her hiding place and lock the door. They didn't have to worry about Draco and Ginny using their wands because no one carried their wands around on the holidays and even if one or the other of them did Laura or Blaise would take it claiming they needed to use it. After a few hours locked up together the couple figured they will have made up. Once they were certain Draco and Ginny were talking to each other again, they would let them out of the room.

They had it planned down to the very last detail. Once they were finished playing cupid, they fell asleep in each others arms.

~~~~TBC~~~~~

A.N.~ Ok I never thought I would be this mean but this fic just doesn't inspire me anymore and if I don't get 5 or more reviews for this chapter I'm not gonna continue writing it, so if ya like it then review or it will end here!