Chapter 9

A Twisted Love Triangle

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It was time for Ginny's no-so-favorite class - Sex Ed. Today they would be learning about some of the STD's that were contracted each year. Oh what fun.

Ginny woke up to find her hair was a disaster. She was slumped over the lyrics to her chosen song and had her headphones on; she noticed that the song that she was to sing was still playing in them. Obviously she had fallen asleep trying to memorize the song.

Ginny thought hard about the lyrics as she was performing a curling charm on her hair. They were embedded into her brain. She guessed that this was because she had slpet with the song on repeat all night long. Ginny began humming it as she dressed.

The redhead took her time getting to the Health classroom that day as she was extraordinarily early, especially for a Weasley. She was one of the first to get to class. Ginny took out her role play script and read it over, reminiscing about that night with Draco in detention.

DRACO!

She would have to confront him today. What would she say? Would it be awkward? Would he tell her that he hates her and was just using her for a joy ride? Any way that she looked at it, she would just have to act normally.

Ginny looked around to so that Harry, Hermione, Ron and Lavender had all arrived and taken their seats as well. Harry sat next to Pansy as assigned; but he looked all too happy to be there. He turned to Pansy and smiled at her, his green eyes almost lit up. Ginny found this very odd but paid no mind as a tall blonde Slytherin entered the room.

Draco noted that a pair of chocolate brown eyes were upon him as he came in. He walked toward the desk that they shared and took his seat quietly, maybe she wouldn't say anything about the kiss. If she didn't then he'd never have to tell her how he felt and he'd never get the chance to say something stupid like 'I like you Ginny' or worse, 'I *love* you Ginny!' because he sure wasn't going to bring it up. Not now anyways.

Ginny and Draco just sat there, not looking at each other for the longest time. Neither wanted to discuss detention. Soon, Ginny started humming her song again and hoped that Draco didn't think that she was like the absolute worst singer in Hogwarts.

"Hello, Virginia." Draco said quietly, staring at her. She did have a very good voice, as good of a voice as you can have when you're humming anyway.

"Hello, Draco." She said looking at him for a second before going back to her humming, obviously she wasn't too bad or he would have said something by this time.

Draco continued to listen to her humming and found himself smiling and watching her as she diligently picked the polish off her fingernails. She looked as innocent as a small child.

Just as the bell rang, Professor Stufflebean waltzed into the room holding a thick packet of papers.

"Today class, we will be studying several types of STDs which stand for sexually transmitted diseases as I'm sure you all know." Stufflebean began, "The person next to you will be your partner for this lovely little project." Ginny and Draco exchanged a secret glance. "I have here in my hand, a single packet for each pair. The packet includes a picture of each disease as well as a ton of information on each one. Every pair will need one or I'm sure that they will not get this assignment done in time. I will set them down here on his desk and you may come up and get one when it's needed. Now- the task that you face is that you need to discover a way to tell me what you've learned about all of these STDs, collectively and separately. You may interpret this how you like as long as it's *appropriate* and educational, I'll leave it to your imagination. You'll find all of the extra criteria inside the envelope. Let's get started!" Professor Stufflebean said as she sat down, signaling that they should begin.

"Accio Packet." Draco said, lazily. The package of papers flew toward Ginny and Draco's shared table. Amazingly, the packet fell right into Ginny's hands.

"Let's get started then, shall we?" Draco said hastily. Ginny handed him the brown packet with a small smile. "We can start by looking at some of the pictures." Draco suggested.

"Okay, you can flip through them and I'll read to you about them. By the way, I think we should video tape our presentation." Ginny said.

"Sure, what's a video tape?" Draco asked her.

"Hermione's got one. It's a sort of Muggle contraption. It records everything that you say or do so you can watch it over and over again." She explained.

"But is it electronical or whatever it's called?" Draco asked.

"You mean, does it require electricity?" Ginny asked, receiving a nod. "Yes."

"But it won't work in Hogwarts! Haven't you ever read Hogwarts A History?" Draco asked Ginny, sounding remarkably like Hermione.

"Yeah! Do you have a CD player?" Ginny asked.

"Of course, who doesn't?" Draco replied.

"Well, those require electricity, too. But I'll be that it's enchanted or charmed to where it will work. Only harmless things may be charmed to work, that's what this video recorder is."

"Okay, that's sounds pretty cool then. Anyways, let's get on with this." The Slytherin and Gryffindor began to go through each picture one by one and by the time they were through there were papers scattered everywhere.

"Hey Virginia, have you see the Herpes anywere?" Draco asked looking around.

"I gave it to you just a minute ago! How could you forget where you put it?" Ginny said also looked for it.

"I don't see it anywhere!" Draco protested.

"Oh! There it is, in your lap!" Ginny exclaimed triumphantly. It was then that the pair noticed that the whole class had gotten quiet and had been listening.

Draco leaned over to Ginny as the class burst out laughing.

"Do you even know how bad that just sounded to them?" He whispered. Ginny blushed violently and nodded. Everyone continued to chuckle but moved on with their work.

Meanwhile..

Harry was working with Pansy on the STD project. There was some sort of attraction that he felt around her. Pansy noticed it, thankfully for Harry. But unfortunately someone else did too.

"Harry, can I have a word with you?" Hermione asked from behind Harry.

"Well, Herms, I'm kind of busy." Harry began.

"Harry, it's important." Hermione said, sounding as if she were on the verge of tears.

"Alright. Be right back Pansy." Harry said before hurrying off after his girlfriend.

"Harry, do you like me anymore?" Hermione asked seriously. "Or is Pansy more your type?"

"Of course I like you Herms!" Harry said.

"Well, you sure have a very funny way of showing it. You've been goggling at Pansy for days. What's going on?" Hermione asked with tears forming in her eyes. She loved Harry and he had said that he loved her, too. But he wasn't showing it.

"Pansy. I don't know, she's just new. We've grown kind of boring. I mean there's nothing new and exciting between us anymore." Harry tried to explain.

"So do you want to stop dating me?" Hermione asked. Receiving no answer, she grew angry. "Harry James Potter! It's me or here; not both. Choose." She said whimpering.

"Harry couldn't think. He had to weigh his options. On one side there was a possibility of an exciting new fling that would last perhaps two days with some girl that he just found attractive. On the other side of the fence was a love that's deeper than anything that he could have hoped for, she was the only one who really loved him. Plus, he could always make a much bigger effort to make things exciting, if he really tried and really cared. It was a love that could potentially last a lifetime. He looked into Hermione's blissful eyes that were now leaking tears and he knew what he had to do.

"I choose you, Hermione Granger. I will do anything that it takes to make you happy and to make our relationship exciting, if you'll forgive me for my stupidity." Harry said soulfully.

"You'll have to prove it." Hermione said before she marched off.

"What have I just done?' Harry asked himself returning to his awkward desk.

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Draco eyed Ginny as she studied the text about something called Genital Warts which did not look good at all. He decided that now was the time, hopefully it wouldn't sound to desperate.

"Gin, I need to talk to you. Alone." Draco said.

Ginny winced at the nickname. That's what Colin had called her. "Please call me Ginny." She said.

He nodded and took this as an 'I accept'.

"Meet me tonight after our detention in the classroom next door." Draco said.

"Alright." Ginny agreed while she watched him go, wondering what on earth he wanted to talk to her about.

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