Chapter 24:
Chloe's Crazy Antics
The Girl All The Bad Guys Want By: Dracoscutie
Rating: PG-13
A/N: This chapter will be a large disappointment for some of you because it's going to be fairly short and uneventful. It's pretty much just a bridge to the next chapter! Thanks everyone for reading!
Enjoy!
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Ginny tried to stay out of Chloe's path for the next few days as Chloe was on the warpath. Andrew wasn't speaking to her and she hadn't received the money for the Hogsmeade trip the next day. Regrettably, she found Ginny on Thursday night in the common room.
"Gin! Can you believe that Andrew has not uttered a single word to me for weeks? Right before the last and most important dance! Well, other than the ball of course but still! And even worse, my parents still haven't owled me the money for our shopping trip tomorrow!" Chloe said dramatically, falling into the large cushioned chair next to Ginny's.
The redhead had been reading a book that Hermione had lent her about a forbidden relationship when Chloe ran in. Romeo and Juliet it was called. Ginny looked up from her book at her distressed best friend.
"I'm sure the money will come tomorrow. And I'm fairly certain that Andrew is just nervous about his talent thing, he hasn't talked to anyone in days. Just calm down." She said comfortingly.
Chloe was the biggest drama queen that Ginny had ever met, which made things really fun and humorous. Chloe was a fairly good student like most kids in her class. The one thing she hardly EVER worried about was her grades. If her clothes didn't match and she got the first A she'd ever gotten in Transfiguration she'd be totally depressed about her clothes and totally uncaring about her grade until somebody took her shopping.
On the flip side of that, if she'd gotten a huge compliment on her outfit or hair or boyfriend, she'd smile all day without even taking notice of the F she'd received on her Potions essay. Everything was a big deal to her, that was just Chloe.
"I hope so Gin or I'm not going to the stupid dance. I can't go without a date and I most certainly can't go being an outfit repeater! (A/N: That 'outfit repeater' things was from the Lizzie McGuire movie, not mine)" Chloe said nearly in tears.
"Don't' worry it'll all come together tomorrow." Ginny knew for a fact that Andrew had bought her a really nice Christmas present that Chloe would love and that would always make her happy.
"Good!" Chloe said, believing Ginny entirely. She always believed everything, sometimes that was good but sometimes she's just too dang gullible.
Chloe got up and walked upstairs to her and Ginny's room to get her beauty sleep and left Ginny to go back to reading her book again.
'Romeo says such sweet things to Juliet' Ginny thought, 'why doesn't anyone ever say that kind of thing to me?' The girl read on and found a few lines she really loved.
O' she doth teach the torches to burn bright
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear
Beauty too rich for use for earth too dear
So shows the snowy dove trooping with the crows
As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows
So as I sit and watch her place of stand
And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand
Did my heart love till now, forswear it sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty until this night.
It was absolutely beautiful if you understood it. And that was what Ginny was taking so much time to try to do. It was hard to decipher what exactly was being said so it was taking her forever to figure it out.
'Some day my Romeo will come.' Ginny thought to herself, closing the book and trudging upstairs for a night of wonderful rest.
* * *
The next day Dumbledore had given them a half a day off for shopping in Hogsmeade. Ginny reckoned that her and Chloe were the only people in the whole school who have bought a new outfit for each dance.
A lot of people would ask, 'How can Ginny WEASLEY afford this?' but the answer was simple really she'd been saving up all the money she'd been getting for a while in hopes that someday she could buy some cool new clothes. She just had to meet Chloe to do that. The Weasleys had also won a fair amount of money in a prize-drawing thing once more.
When Ginny and Chloe opened their eyes in the morning they remembered it was Christmas Day and they hopped out of bed and rushed to the foot of their beds to their presents.
Ginny saw loads of presents in front of her and she ripped them apart to find that she had received:
A Midsummer Night's Dream from Hermione. She read the back to see that it was another story by the same guy that wrote Romeo and Juliet.
A box of Chocolate Frogs from Harry. How thoughtful, more chocolate to eat! Of course, there was never such a thing as too much chocolate.
A wooden flute from Ron that looked much like Harry's from Hagrid. It was a really nice gift because Ginny used to have one as a small child but Fred and George broke it.
A box of Fred and George's favorite pranks, compliments of whom else but the mischievous twins themselves. Fred and George had now opened their own store and had gotten married to Angelina and Katie Bell (Fred and Angelina and George and Katie Bell). Angelina was pregnant.
She'd gotten some sort of new type of cauldron from Percy, which she noticed had obviously had great thought put into the thickness of the bottom.
Bill and his wife Amy and their son Luke had given Ginny a quilt that had each of her family member's names in the separate squares, each square had the personality of the member that occupied it.
Charlie and his wife Elisabeth and their twin daughters Amelia and Dabria had gotten Ginny a beautiful trunk that was to be used to keep precious things in.
Her parents gave her a Weasley sweater (of course), a box of homemade snacks (another given) and a very nice diary.
Chloe gave her a day free at the beauty salon, which was suiting as Chloe had also given herself one too.
Finally, Ginny got the present she had been waiting for. It was from Draco. She saw that it was a small box that didn't look that magnificent. She was just about to open in up when she saw a note on it that read:
Virginia,
I know that it is Christmas and you should open presents on Christmas Day but I would like it if you saved this one. I want to be there when you open it so maybe at the dance tonight or at the ball.
Happy Christmas,
Draco
P.S. Don't even try it; I put a spell on it!
"DANG IT!" Ginny said loudly enough for the whole room to hear and turn towards her.
"What is it Gin?" Chloe asked, admiring her new mounds of clothes that she had received from home. Her parents were very wealthy and they always made sure that Chloe was happy. If Chloe ain't happy ain't nobody happy.
"Nothing, I just got a present that I'm not allowed to open yet." She grumbled looking at the box suspiciously.
"Draco, huh?' Chloe asked knowingly.
"Yeah. So what'd you get? Besides clothes, shoes and makeup that is." Ginny asked, shoving the box in the pocket of her robes and turning towards Chloe.
Ginny eyed the parchment and quills that she had given Chloe for Christmas, laying neatly on the floor in front of her.
They were really nice things. The parchment and quills had been charmed so you could write notes during class without being caught. It made the paper invisible and the ink was readable only by the intended recipient.
"Thanks so much for the quills and parchment Gin! Those will come in rather handy!" Chloe chuckled. "I'm just about to open my present from Andrew." Chloe said pulling out a box that was a little bit bigger than Ginny's. On the front of the box it read: SEMPER DUM TIBI SOLUS ANGELA.
"Do you know what that means Chloe?" Ginny asked her.
"Not a clue." Chloe said, proceeding to open the box.
"Well, I do. I'll tell you after you open it." Ginny said.
"Okay." Chloe agreed, pulling the lid off the small box to reveal a beautiful gold necklace. "Oh gosh!" Chloe gasped. She turned it over in her hand. SEMPER DUM TIBI SOLUS ANGELA was inscribed on the inside of the necklace.
"It's beautiful isn't it Chloe?" Ginny asked. Chloe nodded.
"What's it mean Ginny?"
"It's Latin, it means Always For You Only, Angel." Ginny said.
"It's great Gin. Let's go eat now." Chloe said softly.
Andrew had definitely made up for his not talking to her.
* * *
Thankfully for the whole school, Chloe's money had come by owl that morning at breakfast with an apologetic note from her parents.
"Let's go shopping!" Chloe said loudly.
"We have to go to Care of Magical Creatures first." Ginny reminded the blonde.
"Oh yeah." She sulked.
After a long lesson on Kneezles Ginny and Chloe ran back up to the dormitory to change and then they left for the wizarding community.
Once at the mall they went into a Muggle clothing store called Gadzooks. Here Ginny picked out a jean micro mini-skirt and a very unique tube top. It was gold. There was a strip of very gold material that went around only the necessary parts that needed to be covered, like a strapless bra and then a shimmering, sheer fabric covered that and also went over her stomach.
She had to admit that she didn't look like she was wearing much but it was a very pretty top and a bottom that she had never tried before. Hopefully she didn't drop anything or she would have an awfully hard time getting it. Ginny also opted to wear her dreaded cork sandals once more.
Chloe walked out of the store also with a jean micro miniskirt but she had an off the shoulder silvery top. She also found a pair of strappy heels that happened to go with it perfect.
Once back at Hogwarts. Ginny did Chloe's hair in a style where the front part of her head had small cornrows about an inch long. Where the cornrows stopped her hair flowed down her back. Ginny performed a charm that made her hair glitter and then called it good as Chloe did her own makeup before doing Ginny's hair.
Ginny's long red hair was pulled up into a ponytail that was high on her head, not too high of course but chunks of her hair were twisted cornrows leading to her pony tail which was done in spirals.
They were definitely going to be the prettiest girls in the room tonight. And little did they know, it would be a night to remember for both of them.
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See, it's uneventful, but now you know what everyone's wearing and you know a little bit more about Chloe and her antics. You also have found out what the presents were and I hope that you try to guess what Ginny got from Draco. Please review!
The Girl All The Bad Guys Want By: Dracoscutie
Rating: PG-13
A/N: This chapter will be a large disappointment for some of you because it's going to be fairly short and uneventful. It's pretty much just a bridge to the next chapter! Thanks everyone for reading!
Enjoy!
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Ginny tried to stay out of Chloe's path for the next few days as Chloe was on the warpath. Andrew wasn't speaking to her and she hadn't received the money for the Hogsmeade trip the next day. Regrettably, she found Ginny on Thursday night in the common room.
"Gin! Can you believe that Andrew has not uttered a single word to me for weeks? Right before the last and most important dance! Well, other than the ball of course but still! And even worse, my parents still haven't owled me the money for our shopping trip tomorrow!" Chloe said dramatically, falling into the large cushioned chair next to Ginny's.
The redhead had been reading a book that Hermione had lent her about a forbidden relationship when Chloe ran in. Romeo and Juliet it was called. Ginny looked up from her book at her distressed best friend.
"I'm sure the money will come tomorrow. And I'm fairly certain that Andrew is just nervous about his talent thing, he hasn't talked to anyone in days. Just calm down." She said comfortingly.
Chloe was the biggest drama queen that Ginny had ever met, which made things really fun and humorous. Chloe was a fairly good student like most kids in her class. The one thing she hardly EVER worried about was her grades. If her clothes didn't match and she got the first A she'd ever gotten in Transfiguration she'd be totally depressed about her clothes and totally uncaring about her grade until somebody took her shopping.
On the flip side of that, if she'd gotten a huge compliment on her outfit or hair or boyfriend, she'd smile all day without even taking notice of the F she'd received on her Potions essay. Everything was a big deal to her, that was just Chloe.
"I hope so Gin or I'm not going to the stupid dance. I can't go without a date and I most certainly can't go being an outfit repeater! (A/N: That 'outfit repeater' things was from the Lizzie McGuire movie, not mine)" Chloe said nearly in tears.
"Don't' worry it'll all come together tomorrow." Ginny knew for a fact that Andrew had bought her a really nice Christmas present that Chloe would love and that would always make her happy.
"Good!" Chloe said, believing Ginny entirely. She always believed everything, sometimes that was good but sometimes she's just too dang gullible.
Chloe got up and walked upstairs to her and Ginny's room to get her beauty sleep and left Ginny to go back to reading her book again.
'Romeo says such sweet things to Juliet' Ginny thought, 'why doesn't anyone ever say that kind of thing to me?' The girl read on and found a few lines she really loved.
O' she doth teach the torches to burn bright
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear
Beauty too rich for use for earth too dear
So shows the snowy dove trooping with the crows
As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows
So as I sit and watch her place of stand
And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand
Did my heart love till now, forswear it sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty until this night.
It was absolutely beautiful if you understood it. And that was what Ginny was taking so much time to try to do. It was hard to decipher what exactly was being said so it was taking her forever to figure it out.
'Some day my Romeo will come.' Ginny thought to herself, closing the book and trudging upstairs for a night of wonderful rest.
* * *
The next day Dumbledore had given them a half a day off for shopping in Hogsmeade. Ginny reckoned that her and Chloe were the only people in the whole school who have bought a new outfit for each dance.
A lot of people would ask, 'How can Ginny WEASLEY afford this?' but the answer was simple really she'd been saving up all the money she'd been getting for a while in hopes that someday she could buy some cool new clothes. She just had to meet Chloe to do that. The Weasleys had also won a fair amount of money in a prize-drawing thing once more.
When Ginny and Chloe opened their eyes in the morning they remembered it was Christmas Day and they hopped out of bed and rushed to the foot of their beds to their presents.
Ginny saw loads of presents in front of her and she ripped them apart to find that she had received:
A Midsummer Night's Dream from Hermione. She read the back to see that it was another story by the same guy that wrote Romeo and Juliet.
A box of Chocolate Frogs from Harry. How thoughtful, more chocolate to eat! Of course, there was never such a thing as too much chocolate.
A wooden flute from Ron that looked much like Harry's from Hagrid. It was a really nice gift because Ginny used to have one as a small child but Fred and George broke it.
A box of Fred and George's favorite pranks, compliments of whom else but the mischievous twins themselves. Fred and George had now opened their own store and had gotten married to Angelina and Katie Bell (Fred and Angelina and George and Katie Bell). Angelina was pregnant.
She'd gotten some sort of new type of cauldron from Percy, which she noticed had obviously had great thought put into the thickness of the bottom.
Bill and his wife Amy and their son Luke had given Ginny a quilt that had each of her family member's names in the separate squares, each square had the personality of the member that occupied it.
Charlie and his wife Elisabeth and their twin daughters Amelia and Dabria had gotten Ginny a beautiful trunk that was to be used to keep precious things in.
Her parents gave her a Weasley sweater (of course), a box of homemade snacks (another given) and a very nice diary.
Chloe gave her a day free at the beauty salon, which was suiting as Chloe had also given herself one too.
Finally, Ginny got the present she had been waiting for. It was from Draco. She saw that it was a small box that didn't look that magnificent. She was just about to open in up when she saw a note on it that read:
Virginia,
I know that it is Christmas and you should open presents on Christmas Day but I would like it if you saved this one. I want to be there when you open it so maybe at the dance tonight or at the ball.
Happy Christmas,
Draco
P.S. Don't even try it; I put a spell on it!
"DANG IT!" Ginny said loudly enough for the whole room to hear and turn towards her.
"What is it Gin?" Chloe asked, admiring her new mounds of clothes that she had received from home. Her parents were very wealthy and they always made sure that Chloe was happy. If Chloe ain't happy ain't nobody happy.
"Nothing, I just got a present that I'm not allowed to open yet." She grumbled looking at the box suspiciously.
"Draco, huh?' Chloe asked knowingly.
"Yeah. So what'd you get? Besides clothes, shoes and makeup that is." Ginny asked, shoving the box in the pocket of her robes and turning towards Chloe.
Ginny eyed the parchment and quills that she had given Chloe for Christmas, laying neatly on the floor in front of her.
They were really nice things. The parchment and quills had been charmed so you could write notes during class without being caught. It made the paper invisible and the ink was readable only by the intended recipient.
"Thanks so much for the quills and parchment Gin! Those will come in rather handy!" Chloe chuckled. "I'm just about to open my present from Andrew." Chloe said pulling out a box that was a little bit bigger than Ginny's. On the front of the box it read: SEMPER DUM TIBI SOLUS ANGELA.
"Do you know what that means Chloe?" Ginny asked her.
"Not a clue." Chloe said, proceeding to open the box.
"Well, I do. I'll tell you after you open it." Ginny said.
"Okay." Chloe agreed, pulling the lid off the small box to reveal a beautiful gold necklace. "Oh gosh!" Chloe gasped. She turned it over in her hand. SEMPER DUM TIBI SOLUS ANGELA was inscribed on the inside of the necklace.
"It's beautiful isn't it Chloe?" Ginny asked. Chloe nodded.
"What's it mean Ginny?"
"It's Latin, it means Always For You Only, Angel." Ginny said.
"It's great Gin. Let's go eat now." Chloe said softly.
Andrew had definitely made up for his not talking to her.
* * *
Thankfully for the whole school, Chloe's money had come by owl that morning at breakfast with an apologetic note from her parents.
"Let's go shopping!" Chloe said loudly.
"We have to go to Care of Magical Creatures first." Ginny reminded the blonde.
"Oh yeah." She sulked.
After a long lesson on Kneezles Ginny and Chloe ran back up to the dormitory to change and then they left for the wizarding community.
Once at the mall they went into a Muggle clothing store called Gadzooks. Here Ginny picked out a jean micro mini-skirt and a very unique tube top. It was gold. There was a strip of very gold material that went around only the necessary parts that needed to be covered, like a strapless bra and then a shimmering, sheer fabric covered that and also went over her stomach.
She had to admit that she didn't look like she was wearing much but it was a very pretty top and a bottom that she had never tried before. Hopefully she didn't drop anything or she would have an awfully hard time getting it. Ginny also opted to wear her dreaded cork sandals once more.
Chloe walked out of the store also with a jean micro miniskirt but she had an off the shoulder silvery top. She also found a pair of strappy heels that happened to go with it perfect.
Once back at Hogwarts. Ginny did Chloe's hair in a style where the front part of her head had small cornrows about an inch long. Where the cornrows stopped her hair flowed down her back. Ginny performed a charm that made her hair glitter and then called it good as Chloe did her own makeup before doing Ginny's hair.
Ginny's long red hair was pulled up into a ponytail that was high on her head, not too high of course but chunks of her hair were twisted cornrows leading to her pony tail which was done in spirals.
They were definitely going to be the prettiest girls in the room tonight. And little did they know, it would be a night to remember for both of them.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
See, it's uneventful, but now you know what everyone's wearing and you know a little bit more about Chloe and her antics. You also have found out what the presents were and I hope that you try to guess what Ginny got from Draco. Please review!
