After Ginny and Draco had taken their turns in the bathrooms changing into muggle clothing, the Knight Bus came to a screeching halt. It had been a very uncomfortable, not to mention silent, half an hour bus ride. Ginny had sat looking out the window, not wanting to look at Draco. He repulsed her. She simply could not stand him! Dumbledore's voice came over a loud intercom,
"I assume all students have changed into muggle clothing, so will everyone please make their way to the front of the bus. We will now be flying out of muggle London to the Bahamas. Thank you!"
Ginny and Draco slowly stood, he ushered her in front of him and she flat out refused. He rolled his eyes and kept walking. "I don't get what's going on, why is he being so nice to me?!" Ginny thought. They made their way off the bus and, though it was late and mostly deserted, Dumbledore warned them to split up. He gave them directions to the airport and informed them that they would meet up there. He also told them to group up with someone of the opposite sex, for safety. Ginny groaned. "Great, now I'm stuck with Malfoy again!" The thought repulsed her.
They started walking on what Dumbledore had told them, would be a ten-minute trip to the airport. "Wonderful, I'm stuck in muggle land, at night, with a totally dis-respectful guy, what else could go wrong?" Ginny thought. Just then Draco stopped, looking as though he was checking the streets.
"What's the matter?" Ginny said, a little alarmed.
"Umm...Nothing, it's fine." Draco said as he turned and nodded to the street in front of him, walking on.
"You aren't getting us lost, are you?" Ginny said, even more alarmed.
"Of course I'm not!" Draco hissed, trying to keep his attention on where he was going.
"We better not be lost, if I miss that flight, I'll never
for-"
"Would you shut up for your own safety?" Draco scolded her quietly.
"Why does my safety depend on me being quiet?" Ginny growled.
"Because the directions Dumbledore gave us aren't adding up, that's why, so would you be quiet?" Draco growled back. Ginny gasped, automatically moving towards him.
~*~*~
Noticing her action and thinking maybe she wanted reassurance he slowly put his arm around her. She didn't seem to like it, but she also didn't seem to mind that much, and she didn't move away.
"Ok, I think we just turn left here and it will be up on the next block." Draco said in her ear. "Oh God, I hope I'm right!" Draco thought.
Fortunately enough, he was. When they reached the airport he saw a bunch of their classmates standing around, as though looking for someone.
"What's going on?" Draco asked Ernie.
"We're still waiting for Dumbledore." Ernie replied.
"Oh, when was he supposed to be here?" Draco asked.
"With the end of our line, it was the group after you." Ernie said motioning towards Draco and Ginny.
"Is McGonagall here?" Draco asked.
"Yeah, she's checking to make sure our flight's on time." Ernie replied.
"Oh, ok." Draco said quietly.
He noticed his arm was still around Ginny and she no longer seemed to care. She'd even leaned into his side a little bit. "Maybe she's getting more comfortable with me..." Draco thought, then wondering why it would matter if she were in fact getting comfortable. A few minutes later Dumbledore along with Lavender and Padma appeared. He looked a little frazzled. McGonagall came back and told them that their plane was on time and it was time to board. It's pilot was a wizard and they were going to be the only guests on it.
They walked through the airport, trying to go undetected. There were a few people who were obviously wizards, they kept pointing at Dumbledore and talking behind their hands, some even openly waved to him. As they boarded the plane Draco saw that there were rows of four seats, along with rows of two. He had let Ginny on the plane first, and she, amazingly (in Draco's opinion), chose one of the rows of two seats.
She had sat down and he'd remained standing, not sure if she wanted him to sit with her, or Blaise. She looked up at him questioningly and he immediately sat down.
"Why---" Draco began.
"I figured I'd let Blaise have her fun with Ernie on the plane ride." Ginny said shortly. Draco nodded in understanding.
~*~*~
"Ok, he obviously likes me, and I think I like him, but it just feels so...wrong…" Ginny thought. She looked out the window, trying to sort all of it out in her mind, trying to consider why he would've put his arm around her and helped her out of the carriage if he didn't like her, it just didn't make sense, he'd always teased her and Ron, it just didn't make sense!
"Have you ever flown before?" Draco asked, looking a bit nervous.
"No, have you?" She responded.
"No, my parents don't trust anything that has to do with muggles, unlike your parents." Draco said, edging his voice back to it's frosty self.
"Well, my dad can be a nut, but my mum hates muggle inventions, she says that they don't know what they're doing." Ginny said, trying to not get too upset.
"Father says that your dad has a tiny office and its stuffed plum full of anything that he could get his hands on." Draco said, though not really teasing her anymore.
"Well, yes, he's a bit---"
"Obsessed?" Draco inserted the word loudly.
"Look, you said you wanted to get to know me, well if you want to, you might consider starting off on the right bloody foot so I even consider talking to you!" Ginny half yelled, half spat.
Draco looked away; he obviously was unable to have real
conversations. "This is going to be a long flight." Ginny reminded herself
for the millionth time.
~*~*~
"This is going to be a long flight." Draco thought. He hadn't been trying to get her angry, just a bit of a rise, she was so...uncomfortable all the time. When the plane started off it shook like it was about to explode. He glanced at Ginny and saw she was shaking almost as much as it was. He slowly eased his arm back around her. She stiffened up, but after a few minutes looked a little less uncomfortable.
"Why did he have such an unexplainable compelling urge to touch her?" Draco wondered. (A/N, thanks for the wording Tina, couldn't have stated it better myself!)
~*~*~
Ginny edged slightly toward him, why did she want him to touch her so much? He made her feel so...wanted, comfortable, loved…almost. She quickly took the hand that had been hanging over her shoulder in hers. She wondered what he thought but she was too scared to look at him so she kept her gaze on the lights now soaring by below them.
She slowly nodded off into dreamland.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*IN HER DREAM*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
She was sitting on the beach; he was swimming in the water.
She kept looking at him, though he didn't seem to notice her.
Swiftly, his head turned toward her and he motioned for her to come to him.
She giggled but immediately did so.
He was out pretty deep but she swam to him.
He took her in his arms and just as he leaned in to kiss her he turned into Harry!
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*BACK IN REALITY*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
She jumped in her sleep and then woke with a start. Draco's arm was still around her, and she was leaning into his side. She looked up and apologized, he just gave her a smirk. Not the usual "I'm the devil" smirk, this one was just about a smile, and it almost reached his eyes. She quickly looked up to see if the seat belt light was off, noticed it was, and made an excuse to get up. She quickly located Blaise who, unfortunately, was yet again snogging Ernie. She went to the bathroom and came back to find that they had separated for a minute or so, Blaise was now drinking a bottle of water. Ginny seized the chance; she ran over to Blaise, grabbed her, and pulled her into the direction of the staircase (it was a cruise plane so it had two floors).
When they reached it she sat down on a step, Blaise immediately following her lead, and she launched into her story. She told her of the dream, what had been going on between them, and how she was feeling. When she was done Blaise just laughed.
"Gin, you are so daft that it's almost funny, you two obviously like each other. I got up to go to the bathroom about an hour ago and you were leaning on him, asleep, he had his arm around you and was playing with your hair, and he was watching you with something...foreign to any look I've ever seen on his face. It almost looked like...anyway, it's completely stupid, even if you two do care about each other, it won't work, he's a Slytherin, Ginny! Come on!" Blaise said all this very quickly.
"Don't say that you think he loves me or I will scream, and even if he is a Slytherin, that doesn't mean that he's incapable of feelings." Ginny said back.
"You know you'd be happy if he did. He's only the hottest guy in school!" Blaise said, suppressing a laugh and beginning to return to her cold, distant manner.
"He may be drop dead gorgeous, but that doesn't mean that I'd automatically have feelings for him!" Ginny said in a whisper.
"Well, glad to see we've gotten THAT settled." Blaise said, attempting to stand up.
"Wait a second, I want to know what's going on with you and Ernie!" Ginny said, giggling.
"Well, we'll just have to wait and see!" Blaise said, openly laughing at Ginny's glare.
Ginny followed Blaise back down and found Draco looking out the window. She tapped him on the shoulder and started to climb over him. In the process she tripped and fell into his lap. He looked like he was going to laugh and when she began giggling, he let out a small laugh, the first she'd ever heard from him.
When she made it back safely to her seat he put his arm back around her and started to lean in to kiss her. She looked taken aback and then reached up and slapped him as hard as she could. He let out a squeal of pain and she turned back to the window, throwing his arm off of her.
A/N, hehehehe, that one was fun! I hope you all liked it! jeez! It's not that hard! I'll keep writing, u better let me know that it's being read though!
