Romeo and Juliet - Chapter 2

"Draco Malfoy!" Pansy shrieked, "Where have you been? You promised us that you'd meet us at Diagon Alley five hours ago and now I find you sitting here, staring off into space at home."

Draco simply sat still.

"Draco! Are you even listening to me? I swear, I try my hardest but all that you do is sit there and talk to yourself!" she exclaimed.

"There was a Deatheater raid," Draco said before swiveling around to face the setting sun.

"Oh..., well...," Pansy was speechless. While she did know that Draco was a Deatheater, she also knew that his father had forced him to become one and despite his reputation, he actually favored the beauty of love over the destruction of hate.

"That didn't keep me away," Draco said looking over his shoulder at Pansy, " I saw Courtney."

Pansy sighed. Draco had had an infatuation with this Courtney, an ex-Slytherin who had graduated two years before, but Courtney had sworn off all evil and unholy things, which had unfortunately included Draco.

"You know Courtney isn't life. There are so many other things to life than a girl," Pansy said after a moment.

"Yes, I know that there is more to life...there is love. But what type of life is there when yours is like mine, loveless and only a mockery. There is no life without love, yet I have no life without my father, who bans love from my life. I simply lead a shallow puppet like existence," Draco said suddenly and emotionally.

Pansy looked at Draco with a questioning look upon her face.

Draco sighed, "What I mean is that my life is essentially over. I'm doomed to serving my father and Lord Voldemort for the rest of my life."

Pansy still only looked at Draco; she had never known that he had truly felt this strongly about love. She knew that he had always given out a feeling of coldness to the world, but she hadn't known that it was all fake and that he had really felt this way. Pansy went over and sat down next to Draco, giving him a big hug.

"Come on, school starts in two days and that means that we only have two more night's of getting truly fucked up. Blaise's having a little get together...shall we go?" she asked after a few minutes of silence.

"Of course," Draco said with a smile, " While I might not be able to love life, I still can certainly love a pill."

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"Ginny!" Mrs. Weasley cried, " Ginny! Where are you?"

"Oh Hermione, my little baby's growing up! She already turning fifteen!" Mrs. Weasley sobbed into Hermione's shoulder as they both looked for Ginny.

"Mum. Hermione. I'm right here," Ginny said from the second floor railing.

"Oh! It's the birthday girl!" Mrs. Weasley cried running up to Ginny and hugging her," And look how pretty you've turned out! My little baby's going to be knocking all of those Hogwart's boys hearts dead!"

"Mum!" Ginny cried as she tried to get out of Mrs. Weasley's bear-hug.

"Mrs. Weasley, why don't you go downstairs and finish baking the cake while I help Ginny get ready for her birthday party?" Hermione volunteered, much to the relief of Ginny.

"Why what a good idea!" Mrs. Weasley said as she made her way downstairs, whispering into Hermione's ear, "Just make sure that you don't let the surprise party slip!"

Hermione laughed while walking up the stairs. Poor Ginny thought that they were having a family sized birthday party for her, including Harry and herself, but in reality, they were throwing a surprise costume party at George and Fred's new mansion (after their joke shop had exploded into business, knocking out nearly every other competitor and making millions in its first weeks alone. Hermione hadn't thought it to be such a good idea especially when Ginny had come back from Michael's house two weeks before completely silent except to tell them that she and him had broken up once again and the news about Charlie's death had come only a week earlier, but Fred and George had insisted on it, saying that it would brighten everyone's mood and proceeded to invite nearly the whole school (except the Slytherins). Hermione looked at Ginny and decided that she would have to help make Ginny be as pretty as possible...after all, one didn't get a surprise birthday party with the whole school there everyday.

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Mrs. Weasley started humming to herself as she walked down the steps to the kitchen. She was so excited for tonight, and she was certain that Ginny had no clue of what was going on behind her back. After Fred and George's business had taken off, they had given the whole family roughly a million galleons (they had said for punitive damages for the past seventeen years) which had allowed them to buy new robes and schoolbooks for both Ron and Ginny. Mrs. Weasley smiled as she went into the living room and sat down feeling, for the first time in weeks actually good.

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"Where's Blaise?" Draco asked as he and Pansy walked into Zambini Manor.

"We don't know," said Crabbe who was standing over the coffee table where four large packages where sitting, "he left a note though."

"Did you read it?" Draco demanded.

"Oh, guess we could have done that Goyle," Crabbe said sheepishly.

"Give it to me," Draco said as he snatched the note from Crabbe.

To my dearest Draco, Pansy, Crabbe and Goyle:

Take these packages and put them on. Be dressed by

8:30. I'll explain everything when I get there.

Lovey and dovey

Blaise

"Ten galleons says he was high when he wrote this note," Draco said smirking.

"Well, it's 8:20. We'd better go get dressed," Pansy said as she took the package marked with her name.

"You mean you're going to actually listen to the note?" Draco asked awe struck.

"Well....I don't see you with any better ideas," Pansy shot back.

Draco growled as he grabbed the package with his name on it. This had better be worth his time.

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Ginny Weasley came down the steps with her prettiest robes on. They were quite lovely in all actuality. They were made of a fine iridescent silky material and were fit just to her body, making her feel like a princess. Hermione had also done her make-up, making her feel even more lovely than usual.

"Ginny!" Mrs. Weasley called.

"Yes mum?" Ginny answered looking around at the empty room.

"Would you come with me...," Mrs. Weasley started, but Ginny interrupted.

"Where is everyone?"

"They're all getting ready. Now if you would have let me finish, will you please come with me to Fred and George's? I need to pick up some cook books and I'll need someone to help me," Mrs. Weasley said.

"But mum...," Ginny started.

"But nothing missy. Now put on your cloak and come with me," Mrs. Weasley said as she grabbed some Floo powder and said "Fred and George's Palace of Kinkiness" into the fire.

Ginny giggled at their house's name.

"Now don't you laugh at that. I'm making them change as soon as possible! Now let's go," Mrs. Weasley said pushing Ginny through the fire.

Mrs. Weasley waited a few moments until she was sure that Ginny was through and then went through the fireplace herself.

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Ginny felt the whooshing feeling oh flying through the Floo network before she crash landed at Fred and George's. Brushing off the dirt, she looked up and almost passed out. There before her was almost all of Hogwarts.

"SURPRISE!" they screamed.

Ginny squealed with joy as her family, Harry and Hermione came over to her.

"Happy birthday!" Hermione said, "It was so hard to keep this to myself!"

"Happy birthday little squirt," Ron said giving her a half hug.

Ginny laughed, looking around at everyone. It was only then that she realized that everyone was all dressed up, even her family. Ron was a Quidditch player, dressed in the Chudley Cannon's all orange robes, Hermione was an elf and Harry was...well Harry looked like a mix between Santa Clause and a drag queen. Ginny made a mental note to ask Harry what he was later.

"And here's your costume, Ginny," Hermione said as she placed some white wings in the folds of Ginny's robes, making Ginny look like an angel.

"Now go and have some fun pumpkin," Mr. Weasley said to Ginny from behind as she ran into the dancing crowd, followed by Hermione, Ron and Harry, laughing all the way.

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Draco came down the steps trying to adjust his dress: he was wearing a set of black robes with a half set of armor, like a knight. * Looking around at Pansy and the others, he was thankful that he didn't have to wear what they were wearing. Pansy was a mermaid, complete with with the one legged fin, forcing her to hop about the room while Crabbe was a viking and Goyle was a boulder.

Suddenly the door opened and Blaise came in dressed completely like a drag queen including the red lipstick.

"Oh my God, my best mate is gay. I knew it!" Draco cried as he started to walk towards the fire.

"Halt my dearest friend!" Blaise cried, "You aren't going any where, but with me."

"And where would that be?" Draco asked warily. Blaise was clearly off his rocker.

"Ahh, but first we must ask ourselves what today is? Is today not a most glorious day and therefore something to celebrate?" Blaise asked poetically.

"Oh yes, let's celebrate being completely ignored by Courtney," Draco said, still brooding on the subject.

"Ahh, but maybe you weren't," Blaise said.

"Tell me, how many pills did you take to end up like this?" Draco asked.

"No drugs. Love. I took love," he said holding up a heart shaped pill in Draco's face, "Love my dearest comes in many different forms...including the convenient, easy to swallow kind too."

Draco snatched the pill from Blaise's hand.

"What do you mean that maybe Courtney didn't ignore me?" Draco asked.

"Take it first," Blaise said smiling.

Draco sat still for a moment before popping the pill into his mouth.

"Now, where are we going?" Draco said.

"You remember Ginny Weasley? She's having a big costume party tonight. And a little birdie told me that Courtney would be there. "

Draco was already feeling woozy.

"But...but how are we going to get in?" Draco said.

"Never fear," Blaise said holding up an invitation, "Remember, I have a cousin in Hufflepuff. She was invited. I just stole her invitation."

Draco laughed.

"So we're going to Weasley's birthday party. How cute."

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AN: OK, I know that Draco's acting majorly OCC, but my basic premise for this comes from the theory that maybe he is truly passionate about life, but we just don't know. Some of the funniest, most passionate people I now can be true bitches to others, if they don't like them (i.e. Draco hates Harry and Co.) . We just don't know enough about cannon Draco, without the presence of Harry... to truly make a real decision about him. Wheww...that being said, let me move on to my one other point: Draco's drug use. Well, if we are to believe that he's a troubled kid then one of his obvious escapes could be drugs and seeing as how they are everywhere these days, who's to say that they haven't penetrated into the wizarding world? OK, well that being said (I just don't wanna get flamed!) thanks for reading and all your reviews! lots of luv! 3

* think of Draco's costume like Leoardo DeCaprio's in Romeo and Juliet ~~ pretty pretty!!!