Hullo all!! I am SO sorry it took so long to get this chapter done! So, so sorry. I've been in school and I have homework and project ( projects…. Already?!) and I have Colonial Day coming on Thursday… god… it's all a mess and I have dinner theater and cross country… Argh! Oh well… I took little bits of my days to work on this… sorry if it didn't make your guy's expectations or something….. Hopefully the next chapter will be out much more shortly than this one. I already know what I want happening so… ya. I don't have to figure out a bunch of stuff. That's good…

I did this chapter while I was listening to my Papa Roach CD and that's why I came up with this title. I'm not sure if it has much to do with the chapter though.  Awesome song by the way, and even better CD. If none of you guys have heard it, I suggest you do (unless you're not into that type of music……)

Chapter next: Love, Hate, Tragedy

Draco leaned back in the lounge chair, his feet propped up on the table in front of him. The common room was quiet and empty. Just how he like it. Especially right now, at times like these. Time's he felt he had just made the worst mistake in his life…and he had. Kissing her was a mistake…. wasn't it?

Draco shrugged and reached for his copy of the 'Daily Prophet' lying next to him. He flipped through the pages lazily.

"Ministry of Magic had to rush out to retrieve Muggle girl taken hostage by Death Eater…." he muttered reading some of the articles. "BORING…"

"New Honeydukes sweets… no don't want those…" he scanned through and stopped on a page that said 'NEW! TAZER!' declaring a new make of broomstick which was even faster than the Firebolt Three Ninety.

"Pfft! I've already GOT one of those…." He said to himself, just as someone started coming down the stairs from the girl's dormitory. He didn't look up. He could just tell by the footsteps who it was.

"Hullo Pansy…" he sighed as she appeared in front of him.

"Draco, I needed to know which dress to wear to the ball. The red one with the silver sandals or the black one with the green? What do you think?" she asked.

He didn't look up and kept scrolling through the paper. "It doesn't really matter to me," he said. He couldn't almost feel her frowning; thinking about what he had said.

"But, don't you want me to look good for you," her voice sounded wounded. Typical girl, Draco thought.

"Yes, that is, if I were going with you," he said smoothly, trying to keep his normal tone and not be sarcastic, like always. After last night, he couldn't be with Pansy. Even if he didn't think anything had really happened he realized just how much he didn't like Pansy.

"What do you mean? Then who would I be going with?" she asked stupidly.

'Obviously someone else, you blond..…' he thought but instead said,

"Why don't you go with Blaise? He's open, last time I checked..…"

"But…..I'm supposed to show up with my boyfriend, what are people going to think if I don't?" she asked slowly, clearly not getting his point.

"They won't think anything because you don't have a boyfriend to go with..…" he said, still not looking up from the paper.

There was a short moment of pregnant silence.

"Draco?" she spoke up finally. He raised his eyebrows to show he was listening.

"Are…..are you trying to tell me that….."

"That's exactly what I'm trying to tell you, Pansy. As of this moment, you're single. And so am I," he said, finally looking up. 'And now I'm wide open for Ginny…..' someone in the back of his head said. Draco frowned, where had that come from? 'Wide open for Ginny…..' yeah right!

Pansy was staring at him in shock.

"I think you'll need your privacy now….." he said, smirking. He got up from his chair and carefully made his way up to the boy's dormitories, making sure that he didn't make eye contact with Pansy who seemed about ready to burst into tears.

Back in the boy's dormitories Draco sat back in his bed, still holding his copy of 'The Daily Prohpet'.

He couldn't really see why had had just broken up with Pansy….. there wasn't really a reason except…..

"Gods Ginny….. what did you do to me? You stupid girl," he asked to himself in the dark of the soft candlelight. How was he supposed to act around her? Should he ignore it and pretend it didn't happen? Should he pretend it was all a big mistake and shouldn't be paid attention to? Draco laughed slightly when he realized that that was a 'pretend' he had been thinking of. How was he supposed to pretend, even to himself, that he didn't like it?

~*~

"We decided that it's becoming a hassle to tell you of your detention assignments every day so we made a planned out schedule for the next two weeks," Professor McGonagall looked at the two students in front of her; both eerily quiet. She handed Ginny a piece of parchment and did the same to Draco, who was standing right next to her.

"If either of you have any questions just come to Professor Snape or myself," she continued. Ginny nodded and saw Draco do the same. She looked over at him and, although she knew that he could feel her eyes on him, he didn't return her gaze. He stood rather stiffly and seemed very uncomfortable.

Good, Ginny thought. He doesn't deserve to be comfortable. He had no right to do what he did last night….. (A/N: lol…..)

But what had possessed him to do it? Arg! Ginny could barely bring herself to look at him (although she had done so just a few seconds ago). Stupid, stupid Draco.

It was so….. there was only one word for it….. disgusting –

And nasty, repulsive, gross, perverted, sickening, gut wrenching…..

Okay, so maybe there was more than one word for it. Ginny could think of a whole string of adjectives to describe what it was. And nice definitely wasn't among them.

But really it was so….. eww! She was just kissed by Malfoy. Draco Malfoy.

But why didn't she like it? Didn't everygirl want to get kissed by Malfoy? Didn't every girl in the school want to be kissed by him at least once? Ginny knew that even Hermione felt that way. Although, the bushy haired girl would never admit that as long as she lived.

Ginny stopped thinking for a minute. Did that mean there was something wrong with her?

She was still staring at Draco. He seemed extremely uncomfortable now and appeared to want to get out of there as soon as possible.

It was bad enough that he had kissed her but he had to go and pin her to a wall in a dark hallway. That made it worse. At least he didn't seem to be teasing her as much today, so that was a plus.

Well, he wasn't exactly talking to her at all. Either he was just as horrified at what had happened…..or it was something else that was keeping him from speaking. But Ginny didn't even want to think about that.

~*~

Draco scanned the hall. It seemed that every student's spirits were high, especially because of the upcoming ball that next week. Draco couldn't even see why there was going to be one, it wasn't as if it were the TriWizard tournament or anything. One of the prefects must have talked Dumbledore into it.

His eyes fell on Ginny for about the hundredth time that day. She was sitting next to Ron and, other than looking a bit shaken, seemed perfectly fine. Draco rested his cheek in his palm and muttered something inaudible.

Why did I have to go kiss her? he asked himself. Why? Why? Why? Why? WHY?

A small battle seemed to be erupting in his thoughts at that very moment…..

'Because you wanted to…." a tiny voice said.

*I most certainly did not!*

'….you liked it…'

*No way!….never…..*

'….because you like her…'

*I-*

He stopped. Did he?

Of course not. It must have been one of those 'heat-of-the-moment' types of things. Were you don't really know what your doing and don't have any mental control of your actions. And you usually regret it afterward. Like he did…..

Or did he…..?

His thoughts still seemed out to get him.

'You know it felt good…'

*It didn't feel good. It felt nasty and gross and wrong and…..*

'And don't kid yourself…'

*Listen. Just because I like her, and just because I liked kissing her, doesn't mean that-*

'Aha! Caught you off guard! You just said you liked it. You KNOW you liked it! She must've tasted just like sugar. Sweet, pure, innocent, su-'

"Argh!"

Draco furiously shook his head, trying to get the voices to stop. He looked around the table quickly to make sure no one noticed. As luck would have it; some one did. Pansy raised her eyebrows in his direction. She had been watching him and followed his gaze to the Gryffindor table and a certain red haired Weasley. Her eye's widened as she put two and two together.

"It's her isn't it?! She's the reason you've been acting odd…..she's the reason you're not taking me to the ball! S-she's the reason you broke up with me!" she yelled, her voice quivering.

"Oh, yes. Yes, of course," he said, not hearing a word that had come out of her mouth because his little voices were, at the moment, trying to assure him that he was in, well, something that started with a 'L' that Draco didn't even want to think about. Stupid voices…..he needed to get those taken care of……maybe he'd ask his father if…..

Pansy gave a yelp and stood up quickly. This got his attention.

"I can't believe you!" she said, turning red. Draco looked up at her from his sitting position confused, obviously not knowing what she was talking about. Pansy turned around and stomped out of the hall before saying anything else.

"What? Was it something I said?!" he yelled after her. Half of the people at his table had turned to stare at him now but soon went back to their dinners.

"Whatever."

~*~

Ginny sat at the crowded table. Ron was chattering away next to her with Harry and Hermione.

At the moment, they were talking about candy.

"Ooh, ooh!" Ron exclaimed, cutting into Harry's last sentence about chocolate frogs. "Have you guys tried any of Honeydukes new merchandise? Earwig Popsicles….they're the best one's of the lot, I'd say. I don't usually like anything containing bugs but the earwigs are….."

"Did you know that earwigs have two male organs?" Hermione blurted out and blushed the second she realized that she had really said that.

All three of them turned to stare at her.

"Male organs…..you mean like….a penis? They have two of them? Really?" Harry asked surprised. Hermione nodded shyly, Ron glared at her.

"Were did you learn that?"

"Well…..I saw it on television once….."

"Oh, well. I guess two dicks are better than one….." Ron said, smiling; almost laughing. Although, he did seem a little bit confused about what a television was. Hermione's mouth flew open.

"Ron!" she shouted.

"What? What did I say…..you brought it up,"

It was Ginny's turn to give them some more odd information.

"She's right you know. And scientists and stuff have even found bits of 'male organs' in the females' intestines and stomach. Apparently, they've eaten them. No wonder they need two….."

Ron looked completely disgusted now.

"Ugh! I can't believe I ate that stuff…..much less liked it!" he said, sticking his tongue out and wiping it off with his hand furiously.

Ginny laughed and turned back to her food which, although she hadn't touched it for over ten minutes, was still hot.

"I can't believe you!" someone shouted from across the hall. Ginny dropped her fork and looked around to find who had said it. Pansy had just stood up looking furious at Draco who didn't seem to know what she was talking about.

All faces turned to stare at them. The extremely loud chatting had stopped and if it had been nighttime they most likely would have heard crickets.

Pansy quickly stormed away from the table , passing Ginny on her way out of the hall. The Slytherin stopped in front of her and gave Ginny a cold glare. Ginny looked at her, confused.

"You'll pay Weasley….. when you least expect it," she said, before exiting the Great Hall in a blink of an eye.

~*~

Four days had passed since their 'incident' in the hall. Draco didn't seem like his old self lately. However, he did find time to still pick and nag at Ginny. Which she found utterly annoying. And, Ginny looked down at her watch; they had another detention coming up in about and hour and a half.

What were they supposed to be doing today?

Her parchment read:

'6:00pm. - dinner hall duty. Meet caretaker Filch at 5:45pm in the entrance of the Great Hall.'

Great. The last person she wanted to serve her detention with. Filch.

~*~

"Another patrol duty? This is getting ridiculous. They just need to call this whole thing off….." Draco said to himself as he headed toward the Great Hall.

'But then you wouldn't be getting the punishment that was necessary. Besides….. you get to see Ginny.'

*What the……..*

Oh, great. Those little voices were back yet again. They had seemed to be invading Draco's thought's a lot more lately.

*Hello, stupid little voices coming from somewhere inside me…..* He continued.

'Howdy'

Draco frowned…. 'Howdy'… who said that these days?

*I don't need punishment. I didn't do anything.*

'Whatever…..'

Draco kept walking. He didn't notice that his thoughts were being heard by those odd little voices. He REALLY needed to get that taken care of……..

*I wonder if I should still go to the ball….. I'd be alone…..* he frowned.

'Yes you should go. Take Ginny, it'll be perfect.'

*Why would I want to take her? Why would I want to take some poor, pathetic…..* he stopped suddenly but continued……

*Do you really think she'd go with me?*

'Yes, yes. And watch out, you're…..'

Too late.

"Oomph!" Draco ran into something and was knocked backwards.  He hit the ground with a soft 'thump', he stared up at his 'attacker'. They were bending down to help him.

"I'm so sorry, I was in a hurry and….. oh, it's only you Malfoy,"

Draco looked up at Ginny. Why did it appear that she was showing up everywhere?

"Well, it's nice to see you Virginia. Would you care helping me up?" he asked, trying to sound nice.

"No."

He raised an eyebrow but got up by himself. Stupid Ginny.

"Patrol duty again, eh?" he asked, brushing himself off with his hands. "You think they're getting a bit desperate?" he looked over at her as they made their way closer to where they were supposed to meet Filch. She didn't answer. She actually didn't even look at him. 

"Er….. alright then,"

~*~

Patrol. Was. So. Boring.

'Is it me, or do you find everything boring?'

Draco scowled. He must be going crazy. That was the only explanation.

*I think it's just you. And will you quit talking to me already?*

'We'll think about it…..'

*Good…. Wait a minute…. WE'LL?*

'Yes, there are more than one of us, if you haven't noticed…..'

"Oh. My. God….."

"What?" Ginny asked, turning to him. Draco stared at her.

"You heard me?" he gave her a surprised look.

"Well….. ya. You were only talking,"

"Oh." Draco continued strolling down the hall, he put his hands in his pockets and started whistling. Not many people knew that they had detention and were supposed to be handing out MORE detentions to people not obeying hall rules. Because of this, people were giving them very odd stares. And every once and a while Draco would catch a part of someone's conversation.

"What are Weasley and Malfoy doing together?"

"Isn't that Ron's sister?"

"Why's he whistling?"

"Do you think something's going on between them?"

"Maybe he's forcing her to stay with him, or else he'll do something bad to her….."

"Why is he whistling?"

Draco ignored all of the curious glares. But, he couldn't deny that all the attention being on him was quite fun. He also had to resist the urge to throw his arm around her and have a good laugh at all the shocked and angry expressions he would see on the other students' faces.

Minutes passed and they hadn't given out one single detention. This was just another useless detention he had to serve. Yippy.

~*~

Ten more minutes passed and nothing.

~*~

Thirty more minutes passed and, lo and behold, still nothing. There were very few students out now, many were going back to their common rooms to retire for the night. Professor McGonagall had probably checked on them about twenty times, each visit getting the same answer. 'No, no one's broken any rules yet…..'

~*~

Forty minutes….. they were still walking. Coming down the hall were footsteps. Draco stopped (so did Ginny) to listen, hoping beyond hope that it was a troublemaker. The footsteps rounded the corner and…..

No. It was wonder boy and his stupid Mudblood girlfriend. Like they would break the rules…..

They didn't appear to see Draco and Ginny and were talking in hushed voices. Draco felt Ginny go tense at the site of them.

*God, she needs to get over him already…..*

'I totally agree with you there, mate! 'Cause then you can go for it,'

*Shut up.* he thought sharply.

'Alright, alright….. ooh look it…..'

 Ginny gave a small whimper as Harry led Hermione into a tiny broom closet. Draco, on the other hand shuddered at the thought of two of his worst enemies snogging in close quarters.

"Absolutely, positively, disgusting. Revolting, I'd say," he said faintly. Ginny, however, couldn't help but give a small sob.

"Shut up Draco,"  she said under her breath. He turned to glare at her.

"And why would I do that? Still in love with the Potty boy, are you Virginia?"

"I told you to shut up about it….."

Draco put his hands behind his head. She wanted another round to the 'Annoy Ginny Weasley Game' then? Alright, he could play this.

"You know, he doesn't really like you….. never has. There's only one reason he ever talked to you. He had to be nice to you because you're the Weasel's sister. That's really all there is to it. I'd have thought even You would have seen it by now…."

"Will you drop it, you stupid little ferret?" she nearly screeched, her emotions getting the better of her.

Draco had earned another point.

"God, what a bitch….." he said, glaring over at her. Ginny gasped and her eyes widened.

"How dare you?" she said, shaking her head slightly. Ten points….

"How dare I what? Call you a bitch? Bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch!" he said in a sing-song voice. "I can call you what I like because you're a poor, dirty, pathetic, little..…bitch," he said, watching with triumph, as her face grew ever redder.  More points for me! he thought. "You're worth nothing more than a Mudblood, and we all know how much that is….. their worth no more than shit….."

Ginny looked absolutely ready to burst. Draco smirked at this but couldn't help noticing that her stupid hands were balling up into tight fist again. And those fist inflicted pain, no matter how much he didn't want to admit it.

And, with that, she slapped him. And it probably hurt more then when she punched him. Because he had been punched before….. but never full-out slapped. And he had never realized how much it could hurt, especially if your attacker had rings on…

Draco Malfoy: 107. Ginny Weasley: 2

"What is wrong with you? First…..you kiss me. And then you try and act like nothing happened and you insult me. And you're constantly insulting me. Over and over, time and time again!  You never stop. You are such a….. pig! I can't believe I ever thought I'd get through this month without hitting you again. You were actually being normal for a while! What ever happened to that, eh? What ever happened to being civil?!"

Draco Malfoy: 200

As she yelled at him Draco just stood back, shocked. He gulped and leaned away from Ginny as a small child would do while getting punished. He had never imagined that Ginny could ever look so intimidating. Ever.

Ginny Weasley: 30

"You just don't know when to quit do you?! You just keep…..picking on me. Like…..like I haven't got feelings or something. Like I'm no more than some horrible, unwanted dog! I…..I hate you Draco Malfoy!"

Damn. 50 more points onto her score….

Draco just simply glared at her. And then he noticed something that made his stomach dropped. Her eyes were whelming with tears and she was shaking uncontrollably.

Ginny Weasley…. 1,034. Draco Malfoy: -3

Why did he feel so…..bad all of a sudden?

Slowly, he reached his hand out towards her. She didn't really seem to notice, she was still staring at him with a look that held pure hatred.

"Oh, Ginny…..oh, god," he said softly (which surprised him), grabbing her hand, not noticing the tiny electric shocks he was getting. "I…..I'm so….."

"Don't touch me!" she said, flinging her hand out of his grasp. The tears were streaming down her face now. She took one last look at him and suddenly took off in the other direction and out of his site.

Draco just stared down the hall, not moving. He didn't even care that his face was tingling with the impact of her hit.

"You're wrong Virginia…... you're not unwanted….." Draco said quietly, he himself not knowing what it meant.

~*~

Ginny buried her face in her deep red pillows; her shoulders heaving up and down from her sobs.

Ginny couldn't understand why she was getting so worked up about this, but she couldn't stop crying.

She sat in her bed for hours. By the end of the night her pillow was soaking wet; her eyes red and puffy. She was surprised no one had asked what was wrong yet. Maybe they thought that she needed her privacy because she hadn't heard anyone enter the dormitory either.

She started to get up and wiped her eyes dry, planning on going back to the common room so people wouldn't start wondering where she was.

She felt something hard under her and reached under the blankets to pull out a small pink tube. She had worn that the night that he…..

"God, I HATE him!" she said, furiously throwing the small bottle of strawberry lip glass across her bed. It hit the thick curtains surrounding her four-poster and bounced back on to the mattress. She broke into tears again but before she could fling herself into the pillows once more she heard a loud tapping at her window. She looked up.

A large eagle-looking bird was perched on the seal, a letter clutched in its claws. Frowning, tears still rolling down her cheeks, Ginny opened the window letting it fly in.

It sat on her bed and looked curiously at her as she opened the dark green envelope. Her eyes scrolled over it and her faced to bright red with furry.

'Ginny,

I really sorry about what I said. I'd like to apologize. Do you think we could meet somewhere? Please…..just come to hear me out….

-D.T.M'

"Stupid Malfoy. Who does he think he is?" she asked herself as she grabbed a quill of her nightstand and scribbled down a few words on the paper right under his initials.

'Go shallow a toad Malfoy!'

She folded up the letter and sent it on its way.

Barely five minutes passed before she got a reply. Written right under hers.

'Fine. I will if it proves that I'm sorry.'

She laughed slightly before remembering who the letter was from. Her anger switched back on, she hurriedly scribbled:

'SOD OFF MALFOY!'

Again, several minutes passed before she heard another 'whoosh' of wings. Draco's owl sat on her bed and seemed to be becoming very irritated.

'Hmmm…. I wonder if Longbottom's toad will do. He's about the right size. Could choke me though, I hope you know. If I don't show up for class tomorrow…. Expect to find me up in my bed, red hand print on my face, frog legs sticking out of my throat with a big sign saying. 'It's Virginia's fault'. How's that?

Well, in he goes…

Toads are nasty creatures I tell you…. horribly disgusting. They taste like wet, mildewy rubber. With a hint of slime. Yuck…

See you…. I can already feel my self turning blue…..'

Ginny glared at the letter. What an idiot. A complete, stupid idiot. God, he was dumb. Did he really think anything was going to come out of sending her those letters?

Because it wasn't.

Okay, so maybe he made her laugh slightly. But only a little.

'You do know how stupid you are, right? I don't want to talk to you. I already told you….. I HATE YOU. Okay? Get that through your lazy, conceded head. Stop. Writing. To. Me. Got that? If you do, I won't be answering it, just to warn you. I won't even read it. LEAVE ME ALONE!

-G. W.'

There. That was good wasn't it? Ginny sent the letter away and sat on her bed, staring out the window. If she hadn't punched him in the first place, she wouldn't be in this mess. She needed some anger management.

Ginny decided that she'd better get down to the common room. Being around people would help her take her mind off of things. Especially things concerning Draco.

Making sure that her face wasn't red anymore, Ginny headed down the stairs.

Harry and Hermione were on one of the couches. Hermione seemed to have been helping him try to study (she had a large Divination book in her lap) but by the looks at it, Harry had fallen asleep while she was reading. She was now staring at him with an odd look on her face. Ron was next to them at a small table and was glaring down at his chess board intently and seemed to be doing a great deal of thinking.

Ginny walked closer to him and noticed that he was muttering to himself and she caught the words 'knight', 'king', and 'e-4'. She had no idea what he was doing.

"Erm….. Ron?"

Ron shook his head and looked up at her. "Wha?"

"What are you doing?"

He glared at her for a bit and didn't appear to have heard what she said.

"Oh. Oh, nothing," pause. "Wanna play?"

"Sure," she said, sitting down next to him. "But I'm warning you, I'm not very good. You should know that."

"Alright, alright. You wanna be white?"

"Yeah,"

Just then someone stumbled into then common room. They all looked up (even Harry) to see who it was, since the portrait had banged against the hole, causing the person to sound like they were in a hurry.

Neville was standing in front of them and appeared to be panting. He clutched his side.

"You guys….. gotta help me….. I was down by the dungeons because I had that detention with Snape," he shuddered. "and I ran into Malfoy. He….. said he'd been looking for me….. said he needed something. And now's he's ran off with Trevor and said it was important. When he was walking away….. he mentioned something about how toads tasted….." Neville's eyes had started watering now. Ginny looked up at him and bit her lip.

Uh-oh.

~*~

Neville took the loss of Trevor very hardly. Draco, on the other hand, found it horribly amusing.

"He was quite yummy you know….." he said, rubbing his stomach in a satisfied way. "I think he mighta been a bit better fried, not raw."

Neville squeaked slightly. Ginny, who was near by, gave a very annoyed looked and turned to Neville.

"Don't worry. Draco doesn't care about other people's pet much. But he would never eat a toad. He thinks himself too highly for that. Trevor will show up in a few days, I promise." Neville seemed slightly relieved about what she had just said.

Why was she still calling him Draco?

Draco smirked. The truth of the matter was that he actually had eaten that stupid toad (he had cooked it of course…..) And….. it was actually quite good. Once you got over the fact that it tasted rubbery, you found out that they had actual taste. He should have them more often….

He stopped taunting Longbottom as someone rushed passed him. He turned to see who it was.

Professor Vexsta.

He had completely forgotten about her. He had let Ginny get in the way of solving his mystery. Well, that certainly wasn't going to happen again.

Suddenly, Draco's brain was screaming at him. He was about to tell it to shut up when something came to his attention.

Didn't he hear her talking about something she was going to do on Friday? Her…..plan? And what was coming up just six days from now? This very Friday…..

The ball.

Where almost every student in the school would be in one major room. Not paying attention to their surroundings and dancing the night away….

It seemed like the perfect time to plan something.

Great….. how was he, Draco Malfoy, supposed to save everyone in the entire school. Not like he really wanted to but…..

Why did he want to? It wasn't as if he was Potter or something.

'Ginny…..'

*Ginny? What's she got to do with it?*

'She influencing you, with her goodness'

*Her goodness….?  HA! That's a joke. The woman's hit me for God's sake….. more than once!*

His brain shrugged. 'Fine. Don't believe me. Then what is it? Are you going soft on us?'

*No! I'm still perfectly evil.* he crossed his arms  *I'm not talking to you anymore!*

Draco's eyes widened. Did he just think that? Maybe he really ought to get those pills from his dad. He was arguing with himself. That wasn't a sign of sanity…. More like something you'd find with someone who was suffering major insanity.

~*~

Another day, another detention. And what was today's detention?

Cleaning up the lake. De-weeding it, de-trashing it, and de-mucking it. Yay…..

Draco slowly walked out onto the grounds. Very slowly. He still had about another week of detentions to do. How was he Ever supposed to live through that without Ginny killing him first? What was she going to do next….. kick him? And where exactly did that girl learn all that stuff. Most likely her brothers…..

How many brothers did she actually have? Draco knew about the twins, and Weasel. And there was also that one….. Parce or….. something. Draco shrugged, it wasn't as if he needed to know.

Did she have any more though? Now it was starting to bug him. He had to know.

Quietly he approached her. She was already by the lake waiting for him and Hagrid. Draco walked up to the edge of the water.

"Er….. Virginia? How many brother's do you have?" he asked, trying to sound interested but was failing miserably. She shot him a side glance and turned back to the waters.

"Six. There's Ron of course. And Fred and George. And then there's Percy….."

So that's what his name was…..

"After him are Charlie and Bill." Pause….. "Why?"

He shrugged. "Dunno…. I was just wondering why your family was so poor other than the lack of money….. your parents have a bloody zoo to look after. If you asked me, I would have stopped having kids after the first one. That's all you need, you know, to keep the blood line and name going. Well, it's gotta be a boy of course….."

He realized that she had stopped listening to him. No wonder her family was so indecent. He was practically giving her tips on what you should do with your family and she was just letting him waste his breath on nothing.

Fine, be that way, Virginia.

"It doesn't look like Hagrid's coming," she said finally. "We should get working just incase they send out a teacher to check up on us,"

"Yeah, yeah. Alright," he agreed.

So, they started working. Since they weren't allowed to use magic, it was very hard and very dirty.

This isn't fair, Draco thought. This is the stupidest detention I've ever had.

So, they worked all through part of the night, not saying a word.

At the moment, Draco was tackling a particularly stubborn bush that seemed to be growing too big.

"Stupid….. bush. I'm never going to be able to finish this….." he paused as he heard something in front of him.

"Ginny…..?" he asked slowly. Her voice came.

"What?" it was behind him. Then what was in the bushes…..

"Did you hear something?"

She didn't answer him for quite some time, then –

"Yes. I keep hearing something coming from the forest….. I thought it was you."

Draco stopped and stood up. He turned around slowly to look at her. Her eyes locked on him, a large soggy weed protruding from her hand.

"W-was it you?" He shook his head from side to side.

"No." he answered.

"D-do you think we should go see what it was?" she asked, getting up too. She walked over to him and stood just three inches from his side. He could tell she was seemed scared. He looked over at her.

"I will. You stay her just in case it really is something," he said finally.

Did he really just say that?? What was he trying to do, protect her? Great. What was the world coming to? A Malfoy protecting a Weasley?

He shook it off and slowly started heading in the direction the noises had been coming from. Ginny watched him apprehensively. He disappeared into the forest leaving Ginny alone by the lake. He didn't see anything moving. And he was no longer hearing things. He stopped in a small clearing. Propped up against the tree was a broomstick.

He frowned and slowly made his way over to it. From the looks of it, it was a Tazer. Not many people were able to afford those, so whose was it? Coming closer to the broom he noticed something was etched on the perfectly shined handle. He looked down at the letters shocked.

'Property of Draco T. Malfoy'

"What in the….."

What was his broomstick doing out here. And who had brought it?

'Ooh, bad sign. Not good, not good at all…..' his brain started.

*What do you know? I could have accidentally left it here…..*

'No. You locked it up in that small case under your bed that nobody knows how to get into. Only your father…..'

*Don't try to tell me you think FATHER came all the way to Hogwarts, went under my bed, took out my broomstick, and went romping around the grounds on it. That's rubbish.*

'That's not what I'm trying to say. But it could be a trap, don't touch…..'

Too late. Those voices sure needed better timing.

Draco reached out and grabbed his broom. Nothing happened. He shrugged and started heading back out of the forest to Ginny.

'Fine. But if the next time you fly it, it throws you off and you die well….. don't say I didn't warn you.'

"Shut up," he said out loud. Ginny, who had just come into few, looked at him oddly.

"What?..... Where did you get that broom. What did you find?"

"I found my broom. Some one must have brought it out here….." he said, throwing his leg over the side of it. She ran up to him.

"Draco what are you doing?" she asked, quickly looking down at the handle of his Tazer. "I thought you said you found it out there."

"Yeah, I have to test it out now….. make sure it still works," he replied stubbornly.

"But what if someone did something to it?"

"Do you know what kind of broom this is Virginia? No one, I repeat, no one could do anything to a Tazer," he said, taking off.

"But Draco….."

He didn't listen to her. He sat on his Tazer, making circles around the lake, letting the wind blow past him. He loved flying. Loved it probably more than anything in the world. It was just a wonderful sensation, flying was. You were separate from the whole world, no troubles or anything (that is unless you fell off). Draco was barely aware that Ginny was calling him.

"Draco….."

He still didn't listen.

"Draco….." she said again, her voice holding a warning in it. He didn't pay attention to her, just kept riding around in circles.

"Draco Tempest Malfoy!" she yelled. He turned around this time and sat backwards on his broom.

"What?!" he yelled back so she could hear him.

"Get down here this instant!" she said, sounding much like a mother.

"Why…..?" he asked slowly, still not looking where he was going, he had been going straight for some time now since he wasn't steering.  He saw her put her hands on her hips indignantly. Did she look…..scared?

"Just do it," Ginny said, her voice shaking slightly. Something was in the bushes behind her, she knew it…… and this wasn't funny. Not one bit.

"Hmmm…..let me think about it," he put his hand to his chin and tapped it thoughtfully.

"No," he said quickly. She didn't answer him for a few seconds but suddenly her eyes grew extremely wide. For a moment Draco thought he had ticked her off again, something he was doing a lot more lately. But when she talked, she didn't sound angry. She sounded frightened…..urgent.

"Draco, watch out!" she yelled pointing over his shoulder. He rolled his eyes.

"Virginia, what is it now?" he asked, turning around to see what had alarmed her. He froze as he seemed to be getting extremely close to the whomping willow; its branches were flailing.  But he couldn't move his broom, he couldn't even move his body. He just stared. He heard Ginny yelling something just before…..

SMACK!

…..he collided with the mad tree. Its branches and roots entangling him. He felt himself being tossed around. The branches were smashing into his body. He felt one come in contact with his face. His hands, his back, his arms and legs…..

And, oh it hurt.

'I told you…..'

*Oh, shut up will you…..*

He fell down to the ground and landed in a heap next to his Tazer which lay unharmed thanks to the new manufacturing it had. Ginny sprinted towards him.

She knelt down next to him and gently put her hands on the side of his face, looking him in the eyes. A very nice gesture for someone who was supposed to hate him.

She brought his head in her lap at started searching for wounds. And there were many.

"Draco…..I'm sorry….."

He wanted to ask what she was sorry for but his voice didn't seem to be working properly. Ginny wrapped her arms around him to pull him up so she could see him better. Draco loosely shut his eyes. He didn't care how much her touching him actually hurt him. In an odd sort of way he liked it. He just wanted her to hold him like this forever. Draco mentally kicked himself for thinking that (which, for some reason, hurt a lot) what, was he an idiot? Besides, by the next day she was probably going to hit him again. She was only acting like this because she felt guilty..…

"I should never have distracted you….." she said, looking down at him.

"Oh, gods. It's all my fault….." she brought her hand to his face in order to search for more wounds.

She just wouldn't quit touching him; trying to make sure that he was okay. Now he wanted her to stop. Did she even have a clue what she was doing to him? Every time her hand came in contact with his face or arm small shivers ran throughout his body, riding on his nerves like they were some sort of roller coaster. And he. Wanted. Her. To. STOP.

And then again, he didn't.

And, with that thought, Draco blacked out.

A/N: 17 pages you guys… 17 pages in word!!! 17 pages of total CRAP.  That's the most I've ever written in a story. WOW! Of total NOTHING! Did any of you actually LIKE this chapter?! Please tell me if you did…Anywayz…..

This should be the 'majorly OOC chapter' huh? Well, I'm not really going for in character stuff. I'm writing this story for me…..well, and you guys…… and I wanted this to happen. So I don't want to hear a single "Draco was OOC" because I KNOW.

Sorry if I was a little harsh with the language in that one part of the story….. I'm in an awkward mood today…. don't ask…..

But I also wanted to show that even though Draco likes her… he's still not even going to be willing to be nice to her or anything and he's still the stupid bastard that he once was.

And that Ginny's still sweet and kind, no matter how horrible Draco is.