Chapter 8 I've Missed You...
Everyone was surprised by Harry's new choice in a companion. Nobody ever thought that they'd see the day when Mr. Harry Potter would show notice to his trusty side-kick's kid sister, but now everyone was clearly proven wrong as they watched the sickeningly happy, new Hogwarts couple walk giddily down the halls together. Ron Weasley himself seemed utterly dismayed by the prospect of his best friend and his little sister becoming a couple and Hermione was constantly grabbing Ron by the collar as he went to strike out at Harry every time he went to give Ginny an innocent kiss. Ginny, however, seemed to be extremely caught up in the moment. She loved the attention she was receiving, not only from everyone in school, but from her long time crush Harry. She was wallowing in the attention of him, not wanting to ever let it go. And then there was Draco, of whom she hadn't spoken to since their confrontation in the hall, which had been only the week before. She wasn't particularly looking forward to the night coming up, either, since it was Thursday and she was coming onto three whole nights of tutoring sessions with Dr-er-Malfoy in Professor Perry's office. Harry didn't seem too happy about it either. Ginny didn't see him as the jealous boyfriend type, however he did seem to become awfully edgy every time she mentioned, even in a laughing matter, of how she was going to go and get taunted more by Mr. Malfoy.
"Now Gin, you promise me that you'll be fine in the midst of that slimy git Malfoy, okay?" Harry said as he gave her hand an affectionate squeeze, much in the way that Ron had always done for her, causing her to wince a bit.
"As if you have anything to worry about!" she giggled in an almost culpable tone as she laid an innocent kiss on his cheek.
"Aw, Gin! Do you two HAVE to do that in public?!" Ron complained loudly, winning himself a glowering look from his own girlfriend, Hermione. Ginny laughed as she looked at Harry's own wrist watch.
"Oh! I'm going to be late! Professor Perry's going to kill me! Bye guys!" she yelled as she got up from the couch with Harry and began to run out of the Common Room, but Harry grabbed her wrist and pulled her into him, giving her one of the most passionate kisses she had ever received by him. She pulled away to give him a quizzical look.
"Don't do anything that you're going to regret," was all that he said as he let go of her, causing her to become even more infuriatingly curious as she was before, but she left without another word and ran towards Professor Perry's room. She entered it curiously as she noticed that nobody was in the room yet, not even a sign of Professor Perry himself. She seated herself at a desk and began to open one of her books to read when she was startled by a bout of clapping entering the room. Looking up she noticed that it was Professor Perry entering his room.
"My, my. Ms. Weasley on time? Here before Mr. Malfoy? Since when have you become a punctual one?" he asked her. The tone he was using reminded her remarkably of Draco's causing her to smile. No! Wait. He didn't make her smile. She hit her head against the desk, winning herself a look of concern from Professor Perry.
"Er. Sorry, I'm just soo....tired lately...must have begun to doze of!" she lied unconvincingly as she watched Draco enter the room. She tried her best to avoid direct eye contact by staring admiringly at Professor Perry.
"Get to work, Ms. Weasley! Mr. Malfoy is here!" Professor Perry said in a hurried tone as he exited the room in a bit of a hurry. Draco scoffed at Ginny's attempt of trying to actually seduce their teacher into staying and watching them with just a look.
"Is the filthy little Muggle lover that desperate to be rid of me?" He asked her tauntingly. She threw him her most detestable glare that she owned, causing him to smirk.
"I need help with Chapter eight.." was all that she managed to choke out through her gritted teeth as she opened her own Defense Against the Dark Arts book.
"Only chapter eight? What happened to the first seven chapters before that? Did the Little Weasel actually teach herself something for a change?" He didn't seem at all surprised when Ginny launched a book in his direction. "Touchy, touchy," He glared as he sat down in front of her and opened his own book to help her. The only thing he seemed to be succeeding with, however, was helping Ginny to become more and more flustered with the book.
"I Don't understand it, I don't WANT to understand it, and I CAN'T understand it!" she yelled as she stood up from her desk and pulled at her hair. Draco seemed to be finding the sight of Ginny being so close to a nervous break-down amusing.
"That, Weasley, was apparent from the time I was forced into tutoring you," Draco drawled on casually as he yawned and leaned back in his chair.
"Tutoring me? It was under my impression that we hadn't done much 'tutoring'," she informed him as she plopped down back in front of him.
"Of course we hadn't, and do you know whos fault that is? I distinctly remember a certain Ms. Weasley running out from cowardice on our first tutoring session, and then giving herself a common Muggle Flu for the next two just so she didn't have to go to them!" He yelled, allowing his anger to get the best of him.
"AND THE REASON I DID THAT WAS BECAUSE I FOUND FEELINGS FOR YOU THAT I DIDN'T KNOW I HAD AND WAS SCARED THAT YOU WOULDN'T HAVE THEM BA-" she started blinded, then realized that she had allowed that dreaded Weasley temper and daftness to get the best of her. "Right, again I have just realized that there was this thing and this stuff that I had to get to and change before I failed Hogwarts," she said lamely, realizing it made no sense as she turned away and began to stalk towards the door.
"Do you always do that, Weasel?" He asked her as he, too, stood up from his chair rather haughtily.
"Always do what?" she asked him, the anger becoming more and more apparent in her voice.
"Always run away when you do something incredibly idiotic?" he asked her as he allowed his devilishly sexy smirk slide onto his face in a rather intoxicating way.
"Idiotic? I'll give you idiotic," she said as she approached him and wrapped her arms around his neck, her eyes smiling up into his. She pushed herself up on her tip-toes to kiss him when..
"I TOLD you it wouldn't work! Alright, get your FILTHY hands off of her, Malfoy, or I'll hex you into next millennium!" Ginny groaned as the all-too-familiar voice of her older brother, Ron, came into her earshot. His face was flushed with anger and his wand was pointed straight out in front of him. Barging in directly after him came Hermione and Harry, trying to pull him back.
"Ron you don't know what you are doing," and "this is absurd!" were the kinds of things that seemed to be escaping the two best friends' mouths. Ginny, feeling very unfaithful at that moment, hastily removed her arms from around Draco's neck, but didn't push his hand off of her waist.
"YOU-HEARD-WHAT-I-SAID-NOW-DO-IT!" Ron bellowed again as he pushed his wand out farther in front of him, but Ginny stood directly in front of Draco.
"Accio wand!" Hermione called and she watched as Ron's wand went flying from his own hand into Hermione's. Ginny's face began to turn a deep shade of violet as she realized how bad the situation that she had just been caught in was.
"Erm, guys I can explain..." started Ginny, but Hermione cleared her throat and took a step forward from her friends as Harry managed to keep the squirming Ron contained.
"Let me guess, you kissed Malfoy in the Hospital Wing, and feel some sort of uncontrollable attraction to him, right?" Hermione said matter-of-factly causing Ginny's jaw to drop.
"Have you been spying on me?" she asked suddenly, a wave of understanding glistened over her now cluttered brain.
"Oh Gin, we're sorry. We had to! We had to save you from that monstrosity!" Hermione began as she pointed at Draco.
"I, I don't get it," she looked at Harry who quickly looked away. A light switch seemed to turn on in her mind, "You tricked me. Tricked me into believing that I..." she fought back the tears as she leaned into Draco, who only seemed to take a step back.
"Ginny, we were protecting you! We felt that the only way we could get you away from that git Malfoy (he said this as if Draco wasn't standing right there) is if you could have the chance with the person of whom you've been lovestruck for years!" Ron said in his big brother tone of voice.
"PROTECTING ME? FROM WHAT? From something that could have been TRUE and throwing me into something completely and utterly false?! I'll Kiss whoever I want and I'll hate whoever I want, and there's nothing you can do about it! And you have nothing to worry about with Draco anyway because the bottom line is WE HATE EACH OTHER! But Right now I can say that in my eyes you guys have ALL sunk FAR below his level!" She screamed and she stormed out of the classroom, leaving behind four stunned seventh years.
Her head began to ache from all of the anger that was filling up inside of her. It emitted a red glow over her eyes, dimming her ability to see exactly where she was going.
'Miss me, Virginia?'
Ginny stopped abruptly and looked around for a sight of anyone who could be talking to her. She refused to let it be that familiar voice that had only haunted her in her dreams, and that she had feared would come back some day. She felt like screaming, but didn't want to call any attention to herself. She sighed and shook her head.
"Wake up, Ginny. WAKE UP!" she yelled at herself as she ran harder down the halls and up into the Gryffindor Tower. She hopped into bed and didn't say one word to answer Mariesii's many questions as she closed her eyes and tried to force herself to fall asleep.
'This will be fun, I promise...You have no idea how much I've missed you...'
She buried her head under her pillow in hopes of banishing the familiar, high-pitched cackle that belonged to none other than Tom Marvolo Riddle.
Everyone was surprised by Harry's new choice in a companion. Nobody ever thought that they'd see the day when Mr. Harry Potter would show notice to his trusty side-kick's kid sister, but now everyone was clearly proven wrong as they watched the sickeningly happy, new Hogwarts couple walk giddily down the halls together. Ron Weasley himself seemed utterly dismayed by the prospect of his best friend and his little sister becoming a couple and Hermione was constantly grabbing Ron by the collar as he went to strike out at Harry every time he went to give Ginny an innocent kiss. Ginny, however, seemed to be extremely caught up in the moment. She loved the attention she was receiving, not only from everyone in school, but from her long time crush Harry. She was wallowing in the attention of him, not wanting to ever let it go. And then there was Draco, of whom she hadn't spoken to since their confrontation in the hall, which had been only the week before. She wasn't particularly looking forward to the night coming up, either, since it was Thursday and she was coming onto three whole nights of tutoring sessions with Dr-er-Malfoy in Professor Perry's office. Harry didn't seem too happy about it either. Ginny didn't see him as the jealous boyfriend type, however he did seem to become awfully edgy every time she mentioned, even in a laughing matter, of how she was going to go and get taunted more by Mr. Malfoy.
"Now Gin, you promise me that you'll be fine in the midst of that slimy git Malfoy, okay?" Harry said as he gave her hand an affectionate squeeze, much in the way that Ron had always done for her, causing her to wince a bit.
"As if you have anything to worry about!" she giggled in an almost culpable tone as she laid an innocent kiss on his cheek.
"Aw, Gin! Do you two HAVE to do that in public?!" Ron complained loudly, winning himself a glowering look from his own girlfriend, Hermione. Ginny laughed as she looked at Harry's own wrist watch.
"Oh! I'm going to be late! Professor Perry's going to kill me! Bye guys!" she yelled as she got up from the couch with Harry and began to run out of the Common Room, but Harry grabbed her wrist and pulled her into him, giving her one of the most passionate kisses she had ever received by him. She pulled away to give him a quizzical look.
"Don't do anything that you're going to regret," was all that he said as he let go of her, causing her to become even more infuriatingly curious as she was before, but she left without another word and ran towards Professor Perry's room. She entered it curiously as she noticed that nobody was in the room yet, not even a sign of Professor Perry himself. She seated herself at a desk and began to open one of her books to read when she was startled by a bout of clapping entering the room. Looking up she noticed that it was Professor Perry entering his room.
"My, my. Ms. Weasley on time? Here before Mr. Malfoy? Since when have you become a punctual one?" he asked her. The tone he was using reminded her remarkably of Draco's causing her to smile. No! Wait. He didn't make her smile. She hit her head against the desk, winning herself a look of concern from Professor Perry.
"Er. Sorry, I'm just soo....tired lately...must have begun to doze of!" she lied unconvincingly as she watched Draco enter the room. She tried her best to avoid direct eye contact by staring admiringly at Professor Perry.
"Get to work, Ms. Weasley! Mr. Malfoy is here!" Professor Perry said in a hurried tone as he exited the room in a bit of a hurry. Draco scoffed at Ginny's attempt of trying to actually seduce their teacher into staying and watching them with just a look.
"Is the filthy little Muggle lover that desperate to be rid of me?" He asked her tauntingly. She threw him her most detestable glare that she owned, causing him to smirk.
"I need help with Chapter eight.." was all that she managed to choke out through her gritted teeth as she opened her own Defense Against the Dark Arts book.
"Only chapter eight? What happened to the first seven chapters before that? Did the Little Weasel actually teach herself something for a change?" He didn't seem at all surprised when Ginny launched a book in his direction. "Touchy, touchy," He glared as he sat down in front of her and opened his own book to help her. The only thing he seemed to be succeeding with, however, was helping Ginny to become more and more flustered with the book.
"I Don't understand it, I don't WANT to understand it, and I CAN'T understand it!" she yelled as she stood up from her desk and pulled at her hair. Draco seemed to be finding the sight of Ginny being so close to a nervous break-down amusing.
"That, Weasley, was apparent from the time I was forced into tutoring you," Draco drawled on casually as he yawned and leaned back in his chair.
"Tutoring me? It was under my impression that we hadn't done much 'tutoring'," she informed him as she plopped down back in front of him.
"Of course we hadn't, and do you know whos fault that is? I distinctly remember a certain Ms. Weasley running out from cowardice on our first tutoring session, and then giving herself a common Muggle Flu for the next two just so she didn't have to go to them!" He yelled, allowing his anger to get the best of him.
"AND THE REASON I DID THAT WAS BECAUSE I FOUND FEELINGS FOR YOU THAT I DIDN'T KNOW I HAD AND WAS SCARED THAT YOU WOULDN'T HAVE THEM BA-" she started blinded, then realized that she had allowed that dreaded Weasley temper and daftness to get the best of her. "Right, again I have just realized that there was this thing and this stuff that I had to get to and change before I failed Hogwarts," she said lamely, realizing it made no sense as she turned away and began to stalk towards the door.
"Do you always do that, Weasel?" He asked her as he, too, stood up from his chair rather haughtily.
"Always do what?" she asked him, the anger becoming more and more apparent in her voice.
"Always run away when you do something incredibly idiotic?" he asked her as he allowed his devilishly sexy smirk slide onto his face in a rather intoxicating way.
"Idiotic? I'll give you idiotic," she said as she approached him and wrapped her arms around his neck, her eyes smiling up into his. She pushed herself up on her tip-toes to kiss him when..
"I TOLD you it wouldn't work! Alright, get your FILTHY hands off of her, Malfoy, or I'll hex you into next millennium!" Ginny groaned as the all-too-familiar voice of her older brother, Ron, came into her earshot. His face was flushed with anger and his wand was pointed straight out in front of him. Barging in directly after him came Hermione and Harry, trying to pull him back.
"Ron you don't know what you are doing," and "this is absurd!" were the kinds of things that seemed to be escaping the two best friends' mouths. Ginny, feeling very unfaithful at that moment, hastily removed her arms from around Draco's neck, but didn't push his hand off of her waist.
"YOU-HEARD-WHAT-I-SAID-NOW-DO-IT!" Ron bellowed again as he pushed his wand out farther in front of him, but Ginny stood directly in front of Draco.
"Accio wand!" Hermione called and she watched as Ron's wand went flying from his own hand into Hermione's. Ginny's face began to turn a deep shade of violet as she realized how bad the situation that she had just been caught in was.
"Erm, guys I can explain..." started Ginny, but Hermione cleared her throat and took a step forward from her friends as Harry managed to keep the squirming Ron contained.
"Let me guess, you kissed Malfoy in the Hospital Wing, and feel some sort of uncontrollable attraction to him, right?" Hermione said matter-of-factly causing Ginny's jaw to drop.
"Have you been spying on me?" she asked suddenly, a wave of understanding glistened over her now cluttered brain.
"Oh Gin, we're sorry. We had to! We had to save you from that monstrosity!" Hermione began as she pointed at Draco.
"I, I don't get it," she looked at Harry who quickly looked away. A light switch seemed to turn on in her mind, "You tricked me. Tricked me into believing that I..." she fought back the tears as she leaned into Draco, who only seemed to take a step back.
"Ginny, we were protecting you! We felt that the only way we could get you away from that git Malfoy (he said this as if Draco wasn't standing right there) is if you could have the chance with the person of whom you've been lovestruck for years!" Ron said in his big brother tone of voice.
"PROTECTING ME? FROM WHAT? From something that could have been TRUE and throwing me into something completely and utterly false?! I'll Kiss whoever I want and I'll hate whoever I want, and there's nothing you can do about it! And you have nothing to worry about with Draco anyway because the bottom line is WE HATE EACH OTHER! But Right now I can say that in my eyes you guys have ALL sunk FAR below his level!" She screamed and she stormed out of the classroom, leaving behind four stunned seventh years.
Her head began to ache from all of the anger that was filling up inside of her. It emitted a red glow over her eyes, dimming her ability to see exactly where she was going.
'Miss me, Virginia?'
Ginny stopped abruptly and looked around for a sight of anyone who could be talking to her. She refused to let it be that familiar voice that had only haunted her in her dreams, and that she had feared would come back some day. She felt like screaming, but didn't want to call any attention to herself. She sighed and shook her head.
"Wake up, Ginny. WAKE UP!" she yelled at herself as she ran harder down the halls and up into the Gryffindor Tower. She hopped into bed and didn't say one word to answer Mariesii's many questions as she closed her eyes and tried to force herself to fall asleep.
'This will be fun, I promise...You have no idea how much I've missed you...'
She buried her head under her pillow in hopes of banishing the familiar, high-pitched cackle that belonged to none other than Tom Marvolo Riddle.