Title: When you say nothing at all.
Author: Ginny
Summary: Ginny has to tutor Draco and then some really neat things happen, then some sad things happen, and then some happy things happen.
Pairings: H/Hr, R/L, and of course G/D.
Time period: Summer before Draco's 7th year.
Spoilers: I don't think so.
Rating: PG-13
Date: 2/24/03
Okay Disclaimer Author note and Warnings in other chapters.
Disclaimer #2: I do not own the song, "Hit me with your best shot" it is sung by Pat Benster.
A VERY SPECIAL thanks to Becky, my editor/beta-reader. You are the greatest! Maybe, after this story is complete, I may actually learn where to put my commas! Thanks mucho girl!!! :o)
Thank you to all those who have reviewed. You guys always know how to make my day! :)
Author warning: FIRST ATTEMPT AT WRITING ANGST!! ~*~HP~*~S&G~*~D/G~*~HP~*~S&G~*~D/G~*~HP~*~S&G~*~D/G~*~HP~*~S&G~*~D/G~*~
That night Ginny kept on having nightmares of what occurred earlier that day. Over and over again she'd have dreams of him leaving her alone, forever. No more sweet, passionate kisses, no more stolen moments, no more laughter, and everything going back to "Malfoy" and "Weasley".
By two o'clock in the morning, she could not stand it any longer. She didn't want to close her eyes and fall back to sleep. She grabbed a box out from under her bed and opened it up. Inside was every letter he ever sent to her and every rose he ever gave to her. The roses had a spell over them to keep them fresh and alive. She started to cry. She wasn't that naive; she knew that what she had with him was destroyed and never going to come back. Oh how she wished she had taken pictures of them that summer, so that she'd always remember him. She looked at her bracelet, took it off, and turned it over. She read it over and over in her mind, "To Virginia C. Weasley on her 16th birthday. Love Draco C. Malfoy. Miracles can happen in more than one way." Ginny wiped at the tears that fell to her cheeks as she touched the engraved part of her bracelet over and over again. This was all she had left, the last single proof that Draco Malfoy was friends with a Weasley. She put her bracelet back on her wrist as she opened her diary to re-read everything that was in there.
An hour and a half later sleep was calling to her, but she did not respond to it. She took a shower and got dressed for the day.
Meanwhile in another part of the castle...
A Slytherin boy was having the same problems. He couldn't sleep because he kept on having nightmares over and over again. Nightmares about what he believed to have happened Halloween night, even though he still couldn't remember it. Over and over again he saw himself hurting the girl that he loved, seeing those fang marks on her neck, seeing her scream out in pain, seeing her scared and not knowing what to do, begging him for him to stop. As he sprang up in bed he had sweat pouring off his face, soaking his hair, breathing heavily. He ran into his bathroom and took a long shower.
He kept on thinking what *could* of happened if he didn't pass out when he did. What if he had hurt her worse? He didn't want to think about it. He got out of the shower and quickly changed.
He sat on his bed cradling his guitar from her in his hands. He placed a silencing charm and took out the sheet music for the song he was learning for Ginny. He went through a lot to get this for her. He had to get Hermione to get him a muggle magazine and had her help him order it; which means that he had to tell her about his guitar. He remembered how she smiled at him and could swear she mumbled, "You must really like her." He wished he didn't have to go to Hermione for help, because it was very uncommon to find any sheet music in the wizarding world; he was lucky to get what he got for his Bryan Adams music. He sighed and thought, "And now she'll never hear it."
He knew that Ginny had feelings for him; he knew from that summer, because he was feeling them too. He decided, though, that he had to go against his word and get Ginny to stop having those feelings. No matter how much he wanted it or wished for it, she could never be his. She'd be so much safer ending up with someone like that Creevy boy or Longbottom. He looked at his guitar and then at his sheet music; he shrugged his shoulders and practiced till later that morning.
Hermione was awoken that morning by a loud banging on her door. She said, "Come in, Ginny," thinking that it was Ginny. It was always Ginny. But when the door opened it wasn't Ginny; it was Mary a second year student. "What's wrong, Mary?" Hermione asked.
"It's Ginny! She's in the common room and she won't move or say a word! You have to come see her!!"
Hermione didn't say a word; she ran by the little girl and down into the common room. What she saw there made her sad. Ginny was sitting on the couch staring at the fireplace; there were bags under her eyes, and tears were running down her cheeks. Hermione went to sit next to her friend. She grabbed her and shook her. "Ginny! Are you okay?" Hermione didn't get any response. "Ginny please talk to me."
Ginny slowly moved her head to look at her friend and said, "I lost him, Herm. He's gone." Many more tears spilled from her eyes.
Hermione put her arms around the girl and steered her towards her room. On the way, Lavender came out of her room and saw the sight before her.
"What's wrong, Ginny?"
Ginny only cried more. Lavender put her arm around Ginny, and the three of them headed for Hermione's room.
When they got there they sat down on Hermione's bed and Ginny told them everything. She told them about the drug, she showed them the bruises on her arms, told them how she took Draco to the hospital wing, and how he "broke" up with her. "And I have no doubt..." she sniffed and wiped at some more tears, "that by the end of this day, we're going to be back to 'Malfoy' and 'Weasley' again."
The three decided to skip their morning classes.
That afternoon at the Great Hall...
Draco kept on looking over at the Gryffindor table. "Still not there," he said to himself. Hermione, Lavender, and Ginny didn't show up at Breakfast in the morning, nor did they show up for Transfiguration class that morning. Draco was starting to get a little worried; Granger never missed a class in her life.
Suddenly, the doors to the Great Hall opened and his head shot up.
There they were, the three Gryffindors. He couldn't get a good look at Ginny because she was too far away. But as he watched her he noticed that something was wrong. She wouldn't talk to anyone and she kept on picking at her food. He wondered at that moment if she was okay, but a part of him said, "Why are you thinking that? You are a Malfoy, she is a Weasley. You don't love her! It's not that you don't deserve her, it's that she doesn't deserve you."
That night, again, Ginny couldn't sleep. She wished she could just go up to the hospital wing and steal the sleeping potion that wouldn't give her any dreams, but she couldn't. It was already gone by the time she got there.
In a different part of the castle a young boy held a potion, which he stole from the hospital wing, up to his mouth and took a quick sip. He got into his prefect bed and knew that he was going to have a good, dreamless sleep.
The next day for Ginny was just as bad as the previous day. She fell asleep during her Potions class and got 50 points taken away from Gryffindor and a detention with Snape.
She, again, did not feel like eating that night. So instead of heading to the Great Hall, she ran up to her room.
She took out her diary and opened it up.
"Dear Diary,
I guess Draco really didn't have any feelings for me. All day today I've been seeing him flirting with other girls. We've been avoiding each other, too. I don't want to go to Transfiguration class tomorrow because I know I'll be forced to talk to him. And I don't think I'll be able to take it if he starts calling me Weasley again.
Well, I have to go serve my detention with Snape now. So bye."
It was Ginny's first detention with Snape since her first day back, and she knew that Draco wouldn't be helping her out this time.
As she sat in Snape's room with the others who would be serving detention with her, she saw someone come in who put a smile on her face. It was Draco's little 'mini-me.'
Tom came in and sat right next to Ginny. "Hi, Ginny."
"Hi, Tom," Ginny smiled for the first time in two days.
"You don't look too good. Are you okay?"
"I'm fine. Just been having some hard time sleeping at night. How's Draco doing?"
Tom just shrugged his shoulders, "I dunno."
"What do you mean, you 'dunno'?"
"I mean he hasn't spoken to me in two days. I don't know what's wrong with him, but he's changed."
Ginny was shocked; she couldn't believe that Draco would be so ruthless or so cruel to Tom. Before she could say another word, Snape walked into the room and ordered his students to go polish the trophy room. All but Ginny; he told her to go clean the bathrooms. Ginny sighed, and with no complaints, took the muggle cleaning items and headed off to the bathrooms.
When Ginny got back to her room it was way past curfew time. She was so tired that she hoped that she would just have a dreamless sleep. But, alas, her hopes didn't come true. She had nightmares of Draco leaving her just when she needed him the most. She dreamt that they went back to the time before they became "friends".
The next morning...
Draco was walking to his class when a girl grabbed him by his tie and pulled him towards her. Draco immediately thought it was Ginny, but it wasn't; it was Cindi.
"You know, Cindi, when most girls pull me aside like this, it's usually to have a snog session." He hated saying that, but he had to get rid of his feelings for a certain redhead.
"That's exactly why I did this," Cindi said as she pulled his head down and kissed him hard, not passionate like Ginny did.
Draco heard someone gasp and run by them. He pulled away and said, "Remember where we left off." He kissed her again, and with that, he walked into the classroom.
Meanwhile...
Ginny was on her way to Transfiguration Class when she heard someone say, " You know, Cindi, when most girls pull me aside like this, its usually to have a snog session." Ginny frowned at the memory when Draco said that to her and wondered if it was something all guys said. But as she walked by the two who were making out so publicly, she gasped, as she saw that it was Draco and some girl. She so wanted to pull them apart and bitch-slap the girl, but she remembered that Draco wasn't hers anymore. Then a voice told her, "Draco was never yours to begin with."
Ginny walked into class as she held back her tears.
She walked to her desk, took out her things, and just sat there. She was soon greeted by Draco.
"Good Morning, Weasley," Draco said with a forced smile.
"Only for you it is," Ginny said with a hint of disgust in her voice. She noticed that his hair was greased back like it was earlier that summer. "By the way, you have lipstick smeared all over you."
Draco took out a handkerchief and wiped his mouth clean. It was one thing he missed about Ginny. Ginny was one of the very few girls in the school who didn't put make-up on.
Before Draco could say another word to her, Professor McGonagall entered the room.
"Good morning, class," she said with a cheery disposition and went right into her lesson.
Ginny was so tired; she kept on nodding off, but always quickly woke back up.
An hour into class Ginny fell asleep; her head was leaning on her shoulder and she was slightly snoring.
"Miss Weasley, can you answer the question?" McGonagall said, not noticing that her student fell asleep.
Draco nudged Ginny in the side to try to wake her up, but it didn't work.
"Miss Weasley?"
Draco shook her and Ginny's head sprang up, and she screamed out, "No! Don't leave me!"
"Miss Weasley!!" Professor McGonagall said when she realized that her student fell asleep in her class.
All the other students started to laugh and Draco said with an evil tone, "Your parents dropping you off at Kings Cross for the start of this year?"
Some students laughed more; mainly the Slytherins.
Ginny went pale and thought for a moment that Draco's eyes softened up like he was trying to apologize, but as she looked back at him he was chuckling along with everyone else.
"That's enough!" McGonagall said. "Miss Weasley that will be 25 points from Gryffindor! And next time, make sure you do your sleeping in your own bed!"
"Sorry, Professor," Ginny said.
The class was over and everyone ran out of the room, while Draco went over to Cindi and walked hand-in-hand with her to lunch.
Tears started to come from Ginny's eyes as she watched the two, and she ran towards the Gryffindor tower.
"He's killing her little by little every day," Hermione said.
"Do you think we should talk to him?" Lavender asked.
"No, besides, do you really think that he'd talk to us?"
"True. True. So what do we do?"
"Sadly, nothing," Hermione said as Harry and Ron showed up and took their girlfriends to lunch.
Days turned into weeks and weeks finally turned into a month. Before Ginny knew it, it was already December. She couldn't be more excited! She was going home for vacation in a few days. All her brothers were going to be there, and all their girlfriends were coming too. Ginny had no clue how they were going to fit them all into the one house.
Through that one month, a lot had happened. First of all, Ginny decided to change seats and get a new partner for Transfiguration class, much to McGonagall's protest. Draco had a new girl every other day. Ginny wondered if he ever took any of those girls to bed with him, or if he sang to them at any point in their relationship, but most of all she wondered if he still treasured the guitar that she gave to him. Ginny also saw that Tom was starting to get ruder and more evil, and he was no longer with the Creevy girl. Ginny wanted to cry! How could Draco do this to him? She decided that it was time to talk to him; it was one thing to shun her, but another to shun Tom.
Through that one month Draco had been observing a lot too. Ginny was getting thinner; she looked sickly and weak. She was pale and had rather big bags under her eyes. Draco thought that it was because of him that she was like that, but quickly dismissed that thought when his head told him that he was doing the right thing by leaving Ginny Weasley alone. He had finally done a good enough act to make himself believe that Ginny was nothing more than just a poor Weasley who would never be good enough for him. However, he was really upset when he walked in Transfiguration class one day to see a Hufflepuff boy sitting in Ginny's seat, and saw Ginny chattering away with the Hufflepuff boy that was sharing her new seat with. Draco was going through girls like never before. Even though he never had sex with any of them, and never really talked to them like he did with Ginny, he still had fun with them nonetheless.
It was two days before everyone was going to go away for the Christmas Holiday when Draco met up with two other Slytherins, Marcus and Stephen.
"You know, Draco, rumors' going around that the girls have been breaking up with you and not you with them. Now could you tell us why that would be?" Marcus asked.
"None of your bloody business," Draco said and kept on walking.
"Well, most people think it has to do with the Weasley girl," Stephen called out.
Draco turned around and said disgustedly, "The Weasley girl? Oh please!"
"It's true, Draco. People claim to say that they saw the two of you making out at Honeydukes a few months back," Stephen said.
"With that bitch?! I think not! You couldn't even pay me enough to touch that thing!" Marcus and Stephen didn't look convinced though. "Guys, she is a poor Weasley. I am a rich and powerful Malfoy. Do you really think that I would ever go for someone like her? I wouldn't even touch her with a ten foot pole."
Then a voice from behind him said, "Are you sure a ten foot pole is going to be long enough?"
A part of Draco said, "Please don't let that be Ginny, please don't let be Ginny." When he turned around, he saw Ginny. She had her arms crossed over her chest and tears forming in her eyes. She turned and ran away.
Draco, not caring what the others would say, ran after her.
Meanwhile...
Ginny was one her way to find Draco to make him get the old Tom back when she heard him conversing with his friends.
When she heard him say, "With that bitch?! I think not!" Ginny could remember a time when he would hurt anyone who would call her such evil names, and here he was saying them. "You couldn't even pay me enough to touch that thing!" Ginny flinched as she heard what he was saying about her. "Guys, she is a poor Weasley. I am a rich and powerful Malfoy. Do you really think that I would ever go for someone like her? I wouldn't even touch her with a ten foot pole."
This was when Ginny decided that it would be a good idea to let Draco know she was there.
She stepped out from around the corner and said, "Are you sure a ten foot pole is going to be long enough?"
She knew that there were tears in her eyes, but she would not allow them to fall until she got in the safety of her room. She turned around and ran away. She knew that Draco would never follow her.
But Draco did follow her, right up to her tower. He saw her run through the portrait and rushed to quickly enter the tower before the fat lady closed.
He followed her up to her room and heard her say, as she turned towards to him, "Hit me with your best shot, Malfoy!"
"I'm... I'm not going to hit you," he said, a little confused.
"It's a figure of speech, Ferret Boy! Come on! Tell me I was nothing to you. Tell it to my face! You can say it pretty good behind my back."
"Virginia, I..."
"No! You don't have the right to call me that anymore!" she said, throwing more things into her trunk.
"Look, I'm sorry, what was I supposed to say? I was just trying..."
"Trying to what, Malfoy?! To protect your own reputation? To make sure that no one ever found out that you touched a 'poor Weasley' like me? Without a ten foot pole?!"
"Look I..."
"What the hell are you even doing in here? You don't have to explain yourself anymore to me! We're not in a relationship, not even a friend one, even though you promised we would be in one! Just tell me, God damn it! Was I ever anything to you?"
Draco was silent for a moment. He could tell her right now that he used to love her, that a part of him still did, but stupid as he may be, he said, "We were friends?"
"Friends? Is that all we were?"
"Yeah."
"Friends don't tell friends that they love them when they're drunk, and friends don't make out in restaurants and astronomy towers.
"Uh... number one, yeah they do, and two, so we were friends with benefits." He wished he could take that back the moment it came out of his mouth.
Ginny walked up to him and slapped him so hard across the face that it made his head turn. "Leave, Malfoy, and don't come back! I don't want to ever remember you or what I ever thought I had with you!" She took her bracelet off and threw it at his head; he caught it and looked at it. "And take that with you! I don't want it anymore. I don't want anything to remember you by anymore."
He moved towards her and said, "Ginny, please, I'm..."
"I said GET OUT!!!" Her face was getting red.
"Ginny, I'm sor..." before he could utter another syllable, he saw Ginny raise her wand and say a spell. He was pushed back by something, and the next thing he saw was the door slam in front of him and an imprint of his body in the wall behind him.
He walked down to the common room to exit the tower when he saw Hermione and Lavender come up to him.
"You better go check up on her," he told the two.
"Why, what did you do?" Lavender asked.
"I made a huge mistake, and there's no way to fix it. I had the chance to tell her that I loved her, and I blew it!" He walked to the door.
"Then why the masquerade?" Hermione asked.
"She's a lot better off without me in her life!"
"Can't you see that she's not better off?! All you have to do is look at her!" Hermione said. "She hasn't eaten right for weeks, she barely has a night where she's not woken up by nightmares! Can't you see that you make her happy? That you're happy when you're with her!?"
Draco didn't say anything and opened the door. "If you can't see that, maybe you are a cold, heartless bastard who will never find love!" With that, Hermione and Lavender ran up to Ginny's room.
Draco looked down at the bracelet in his hand, the bracelet that never left Virginia's wrist until now. He dropped the bracelet into his pocket and left the tower.
TO BE CONTINUED...
Author: Ginny
Summary: Ginny has to tutor Draco and then some really neat things happen, then some sad things happen, and then some happy things happen.
Pairings: H/Hr, R/L, and of course G/D.
Time period: Summer before Draco's 7th year.
Spoilers: I don't think so.
Rating: PG-13
Date: 2/24/03
Okay Disclaimer Author note and Warnings in other chapters.
Disclaimer #2: I do not own the song, "Hit me with your best shot" it is sung by Pat Benster.
A VERY SPECIAL thanks to Becky, my editor/beta-reader. You are the greatest! Maybe, after this story is complete, I may actually learn where to put my commas! Thanks mucho girl!!! :o)
Thank you to all those who have reviewed. You guys always know how to make my day! :)
Author warning: FIRST ATTEMPT AT WRITING ANGST!! ~*~HP~*~S&G~*~D/G~*~HP~*~S&G~*~D/G~*~HP~*~S&G~*~D/G~*~HP~*~S&G~*~D/G~*~
That night Ginny kept on having nightmares of what occurred earlier that day. Over and over again she'd have dreams of him leaving her alone, forever. No more sweet, passionate kisses, no more stolen moments, no more laughter, and everything going back to "Malfoy" and "Weasley".
By two o'clock in the morning, she could not stand it any longer. She didn't want to close her eyes and fall back to sleep. She grabbed a box out from under her bed and opened it up. Inside was every letter he ever sent to her and every rose he ever gave to her. The roses had a spell over them to keep them fresh and alive. She started to cry. She wasn't that naive; she knew that what she had with him was destroyed and never going to come back. Oh how she wished she had taken pictures of them that summer, so that she'd always remember him. She looked at her bracelet, took it off, and turned it over. She read it over and over in her mind, "To Virginia C. Weasley on her 16th birthday. Love Draco C. Malfoy. Miracles can happen in more than one way." Ginny wiped at the tears that fell to her cheeks as she touched the engraved part of her bracelet over and over again. This was all she had left, the last single proof that Draco Malfoy was friends with a Weasley. She put her bracelet back on her wrist as she opened her diary to re-read everything that was in there.
An hour and a half later sleep was calling to her, but she did not respond to it. She took a shower and got dressed for the day.
Meanwhile in another part of the castle...
A Slytherin boy was having the same problems. He couldn't sleep because he kept on having nightmares over and over again. Nightmares about what he believed to have happened Halloween night, even though he still couldn't remember it. Over and over again he saw himself hurting the girl that he loved, seeing those fang marks on her neck, seeing her scream out in pain, seeing her scared and not knowing what to do, begging him for him to stop. As he sprang up in bed he had sweat pouring off his face, soaking his hair, breathing heavily. He ran into his bathroom and took a long shower.
He kept on thinking what *could* of happened if he didn't pass out when he did. What if he had hurt her worse? He didn't want to think about it. He got out of the shower and quickly changed.
He sat on his bed cradling his guitar from her in his hands. He placed a silencing charm and took out the sheet music for the song he was learning for Ginny. He went through a lot to get this for her. He had to get Hermione to get him a muggle magazine and had her help him order it; which means that he had to tell her about his guitar. He remembered how she smiled at him and could swear she mumbled, "You must really like her." He wished he didn't have to go to Hermione for help, because it was very uncommon to find any sheet music in the wizarding world; he was lucky to get what he got for his Bryan Adams music. He sighed and thought, "And now she'll never hear it."
He knew that Ginny had feelings for him; he knew from that summer, because he was feeling them too. He decided, though, that he had to go against his word and get Ginny to stop having those feelings. No matter how much he wanted it or wished for it, she could never be his. She'd be so much safer ending up with someone like that Creevy boy or Longbottom. He looked at his guitar and then at his sheet music; he shrugged his shoulders and practiced till later that morning.
Hermione was awoken that morning by a loud banging on her door. She said, "Come in, Ginny," thinking that it was Ginny. It was always Ginny. But when the door opened it wasn't Ginny; it was Mary a second year student. "What's wrong, Mary?" Hermione asked.
"It's Ginny! She's in the common room and she won't move or say a word! You have to come see her!!"
Hermione didn't say a word; she ran by the little girl and down into the common room. What she saw there made her sad. Ginny was sitting on the couch staring at the fireplace; there were bags under her eyes, and tears were running down her cheeks. Hermione went to sit next to her friend. She grabbed her and shook her. "Ginny! Are you okay?" Hermione didn't get any response. "Ginny please talk to me."
Ginny slowly moved her head to look at her friend and said, "I lost him, Herm. He's gone." Many more tears spilled from her eyes.
Hermione put her arms around the girl and steered her towards her room. On the way, Lavender came out of her room and saw the sight before her.
"What's wrong, Ginny?"
Ginny only cried more. Lavender put her arm around Ginny, and the three of them headed for Hermione's room.
When they got there they sat down on Hermione's bed and Ginny told them everything. She told them about the drug, she showed them the bruises on her arms, told them how she took Draco to the hospital wing, and how he "broke" up with her. "And I have no doubt..." she sniffed and wiped at some more tears, "that by the end of this day, we're going to be back to 'Malfoy' and 'Weasley' again."
The three decided to skip their morning classes.
That afternoon at the Great Hall...
Draco kept on looking over at the Gryffindor table. "Still not there," he said to himself. Hermione, Lavender, and Ginny didn't show up at Breakfast in the morning, nor did they show up for Transfiguration class that morning. Draco was starting to get a little worried; Granger never missed a class in her life.
Suddenly, the doors to the Great Hall opened and his head shot up.
There they were, the three Gryffindors. He couldn't get a good look at Ginny because she was too far away. But as he watched her he noticed that something was wrong. She wouldn't talk to anyone and she kept on picking at her food. He wondered at that moment if she was okay, but a part of him said, "Why are you thinking that? You are a Malfoy, she is a Weasley. You don't love her! It's not that you don't deserve her, it's that she doesn't deserve you."
That night, again, Ginny couldn't sleep. She wished she could just go up to the hospital wing and steal the sleeping potion that wouldn't give her any dreams, but she couldn't. It was already gone by the time she got there.
In a different part of the castle a young boy held a potion, which he stole from the hospital wing, up to his mouth and took a quick sip. He got into his prefect bed and knew that he was going to have a good, dreamless sleep.
The next day for Ginny was just as bad as the previous day. She fell asleep during her Potions class and got 50 points taken away from Gryffindor and a detention with Snape.
She, again, did not feel like eating that night. So instead of heading to the Great Hall, she ran up to her room.
She took out her diary and opened it up.
"Dear Diary,
I guess Draco really didn't have any feelings for me. All day today I've been seeing him flirting with other girls. We've been avoiding each other, too. I don't want to go to Transfiguration class tomorrow because I know I'll be forced to talk to him. And I don't think I'll be able to take it if he starts calling me Weasley again.
Well, I have to go serve my detention with Snape now. So bye."
It was Ginny's first detention with Snape since her first day back, and she knew that Draco wouldn't be helping her out this time.
As she sat in Snape's room with the others who would be serving detention with her, she saw someone come in who put a smile on her face. It was Draco's little 'mini-me.'
Tom came in and sat right next to Ginny. "Hi, Ginny."
"Hi, Tom," Ginny smiled for the first time in two days.
"You don't look too good. Are you okay?"
"I'm fine. Just been having some hard time sleeping at night. How's Draco doing?"
Tom just shrugged his shoulders, "I dunno."
"What do you mean, you 'dunno'?"
"I mean he hasn't spoken to me in two days. I don't know what's wrong with him, but he's changed."
Ginny was shocked; she couldn't believe that Draco would be so ruthless or so cruel to Tom. Before she could say another word, Snape walked into the room and ordered his students to go polish the trophy room. All but Ginny; he told her to go clean the bathrooms. Ginny sighed, and with no complaints, took the muggle cleaning items and headed off to the bathrooms.
When Ginny got back to her room it was way past curfew time. She was so tired that she hoped that she would just have a dreamless sleep. But, alas, her hopes didn't come true. She had nightmares of Draco leaving her just when she needed him the most. She dreamt that they went back to the time before they became "friends".
The next morning...
Draco was walking to his class when a girl grabbed him by his tie and pulled him towards her. Draco immediately thought it was Ginny, but it wasn't; it was Cindi.
"You know, Cindi, when most girls pull me aside like this, it's usually to have a snog session." He hated saying that, but he had to get rid of his feelings for a certain redhead.
"That's exactly why I did this," Cindi said as she pulled his head down and kissed him hard, not passionate like Ginny did.
Draco heard someone gasp and run by them. He pulled away and said, "Remember where we left off." He kissed her again, and with that, he walked into the classroom.
Meanwhile...
Ginny was on her way to Transfiguration Class when she heard someone say, " You know, Cindi, when most girls pull me aside like this, its usually to have a snog session." Ginny frowned at the memory when Draco said that to her and wondered if it was something all guys said. But as she walked by the two who were making out so publicly, she gasped, as she saw that it was Draco and some girl. She so wanted to pull them apart and bitch-slap the girl, but she remembered that Draco wasn't hers anymore. Then a voice told her, "Draco was never yours to begin with."
Ginny walked into class as she held back her tears.
She walked to her desk, took out her things, and just sat there. She was soon greeted by Draco.
"Good Morning, Weasley," Draco said with a forced smile.
"Only for you it is," Ginny said with a hint of disgust in her voice. She noticed that his hair was greased back like it was earlier that summer. "By the way, you have lipstick smeared all over you."
Draco took out a handkerchief and wiped his mouth clean. It was one thing he missed about Ginny. Ginny was one of the very few girls in the school who didn't put make-up on.
Before Draco could say another word to her, Professor McGonagall entered the room.
"Good morning, class," she said with a cheery disposition and went right into her lesson.
Ginny was so tired; she kept on nodding off, but always quickly woke back up.
An hour into class Ginny fell asleep; her head was leaning on her shoulder and she was slightly snoring.
"Miss Weasley, can you answer the question?" McGonagall said, not noticing that her student fell asleep.
Draco nudged Ginny in the side to try to wake her up, but it didn't work.
"Miss Weasley?"
Draco shook her and Ginny's head sprang up, and she screamed out, "No! Don't leave me!"
"Miss Weasley!!" Professor McGonagall said when she realized that her student fell asleep in her class.
All the other students started to laugh and Draco said with an evil tone, "Your parents dropping you off at Kings Cross for the start of this year?"
Some students laughed more; mainly the Slytherins.
Ginny went pale and thought for a moment that Draco's eyes softened up like he was trying to apologize, but as she looked back at him he was chuckling along with everyone else.
"That's enough!" McGonagall said. "Miss Weasley that will be 25 points from Gryffindor! And next time, make sure you do your sleeping in your own bed!"
"Sorry, Professor," Ginny said.
The class was over and everyone ran out of the room, while Draco went over to Cindi and walked hand-in-hand with her to lunch.
Tears started to come from Ginny's eyes as she watched the two, and she ran towards the Gryffindor tower.
"He's killing her little by little every day," Hermione said.
"Do you think we should talk to him?" Lavender asked.
"No, besides, do you really think that he'd talk to us?"
"True. True. So what do we do?"
"Sadly, nothing," Hermione said as Harry and Ron showed up and took their girlfriends to lunch.
Days turned into weeks and weeks finally turned into a month. Before Ginny knew it, it was already December. She couldn't be more excited! She was going home for vacation in a few days. All her brothers were going to be there, and all their girlfriends were coming too. Ginny had no clue how they were going to fit them all into the one house.
Through that one month, a lot had happened. First of all, Ginny decided to change seats and get a new partner for Transfiguration class, much to McGonagall's protest. Draco had a new girl every other day. Ginny wondered if he ever took any of those girls to bed with him, or if he sang to them at any point in their relationship, but most of all she wondered if he still treasured the guitar that she gave to him. Ginny also saw that Tom was starting to get ruder and more evil, and he was no longer with the Creevy girl. Ginny wanted to cry! How could Draco do this to him? She decided that it was time to talk to him; it was one thing to shun her, but another to shun Tom.
Through that one month Draco had been observing a lot too. Ginny was getting thinner; she looked sickly and weak. She was pale and had rather big bags under her eyes. Draco thought that it was because of him that she was like that, but quickly dismissed that thought when his head told him that he was doing the right thing by leaving Ginny Weasley alone. He had finally done a good enough act to make himself believe that Ginny was nothing more than just a poor Weasley who would never be good enough for him. However, he was really upset when he walked in Transfiguration class one day to see a Hufflepuff boy sitting in Ginny's seat, and saw Ginny chattering away with the Hufflepuff boy that was sharing her new seat with. Draco was going through girls like never before. Even though he never had sex with any of them, and never really talked to them like he did with Ginny, he still had fun with them nonetheless.
It was two days before everyone was going to go away for the Christmas Holiday when Draco met up with two other Slytherins, Marcus and Stephen.
"You know, Draco, rumors' going around that the girls have been breaking up with you and not you with them. Now could you tell us why that would be?" Marcus asked.
"None of your bloody business," Draco said and kept on walking.
"Well, most people think it has to do with the Weasley girl," Stephen called out.
Draco turned around and said disgustedly, "The Weasley girl? Oh please!"
"It's true, Draco. People claim to say that they saw the two of you making out at Honeydukes a few months back," Stephen said.
"With that bitch?! I think not! You couldn't even pay me enough to touch that thing!" Marcus and Stephen didn't look convinced though. "Guys, she is a poor Weasley. I am a rich and powerful Malfoy. Do you really think that I would ever go for someone like her? I wouldn't even touch her with a ten foot pole."
Then a voice from behind him said, "Are you sure a ten foot pole is going to be long enough?"
A part of Draco said, "Please don't let that be Ginny, please don't let be Ginny." When he turned around, he saw Ginny. She had her arms crossed over her chest and tears forming in her eyes. She turned and ran away.
Draco, not caring what the others would say, ran after her.
Meanwhile...
Ginny was one her way to find Draco to make him get the old Tom back when she heard him conversing with his friends.
When she heard him say, "With that bitch?! I think not!" Ginny could remember a time when he would hurt anyone who would call her such evil names, and here he was saying them. "You couldn't even pay me enough to touch that thing!" Ginny flinched as she heard what he was saying about her. "Guys, she is a poor Weasley. I am a rich and powerful Malfoy. Do you really think that I would ever go for someone like her? I wouldn't even touch her with a ten foot pole."
This was when Ginny decided that it would be a good idea to let Draco know she was there.
She stepped out from around the corner and said, "Are you sure a ten foot pole is going to be long enough?"
She knew that there were tears in her eyes, but she would not allow them to fall until she got in the safety of her room. She turned around and ran away. She knew that Draco would never follow her.
But Draco did follow her, right up to her tower. He saw her run through the portrait and rushed to quickly enter the tower before the fat lady closed.
He followed her up to her room and heard her say, as she turned towards to him, "Hit me with your best shot, Malfoy!"
"I'm... I'm not going to hit you," he said, a little confused.
"It's a figure of speech, Ferret Boy! Come on! Tell me I was nothing to you. Tell it to my face! You can say it pretty good behind my back."
"Virginia, I..."
"No! You don't have the right to call me that anymore!" she said, throwing more things into her trunk.
"Look, I'm sorry, what was I supposed to say? I was just trying..."
"Trying to what, Malfoy?! To protect your own reputation? To make sure that no one ever found out that you touched a 'poor Weasley' like me? Without a ten foot pole?!"
"Look I..."
"What the hell are you even doing in here? You don't have to explain yourself anymore to me! We're not in a relationship, not even a friend one, even though you promised we would be in one! Just tell me, God damn it! Was I ever anything to you?"
Draco was silent for a moment. He could tell her right now that he used to love her, that a part of him still did, but stupid as he may be, he said, "We were friends?"
"Friends? Is that all we were?"
"Yeah."
"Friends don't tell friends that they love them when they're drunk, and friends don't make out in restaurants and astronomy towers.
"Uh... number one, yeah they do, and two, so we were friends with benefits." He wished he could take that back the moment it came out of his mouth.
Ginny walked up to him and slapped him so hard across the face that it made his head turn. "Leave, Malfoy, and don't come back! I don't want to ever remember you or what I ever thought I had with you!" She took her bracelet off and threw it at his head; he caught it and looked at it. "And take that with you! I don't want it anymore. I don't want anything to remember you by anymore."
He moved towards her and said, "Ginny, please, I'm..."
"I said GET OUT!!!" Her face was getting red.
"Ginny, I'm sor..." before he could utter another syllable, he saw Ginny raise her wand and say a spell. He was pushed back by something, and the next thing he saw was the door slam in front of him and an imprint of his body in the wall behind him.
He walked down to the common room to exit the tower when he saw Hermione and Lavender come up to him.
"You better go check up on her," he told the two.
"Why, what did you do?" Lavender asked.
"I made a huge mistake, and there's no way to fix it. I had the chance to tell her that I loved her, and I blew it!" He walked to the door.
"Then why the masquerade?" Hermione asked.
"She's a lot better off without me in her life!"
"Can't you see that she's not better off?! All you have to do is look at her!" Hermione said. "She hasn't eaten right for weeks, she barely has a night where she's not woken up by nightmares! Can't you see that you make her happy? That you're happy when you're with her!?"
Draco didn't say anything and opened the door. "If you can't see that, maybe you are a cold, heartless bastard who will never find love!" With that, Hermione and Lavender ran up to Ginny's room.
Draco looked down at the bracelet in his hand, the bracelet that never left Virginia's wrist until now. He dropped the bracelet into his pocket and left the tower.
TO BE CONTINUED...