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Chapter Five

"A kiss that's never tasted Is forever and ever wasted....." -"For All We Know"(Billie Holiday song )

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"Ginny, what exactly were you thinking?" Ron asked angrily when Ginny entered the Gryffindor common room a few hours later. She had been walking around outside, trying to clear her head.

"Ron...just leave me alone." Ginny told him. She walked over to a chair and threw herself onto it, her legs over one arm, her head hanging over the other.

"No, I will not leave you alone! I want to know why you allowed Malfoy to...to...KISS you!" Ron yelled.

"Ron...maybe you should calm down." Hermione told him quietly. A crowd was beginning to form to watch the two of them fight.

"I won't calm down!" He looked at the people watching. "Don't you people have lives? Go and live them!" The crowd broke apart and they all went their separate ways. Most of them just sat around the common room, waiting for the next outburst to come.

And come it did.

"I didn't just LET him kiss me, Ron! I had no warning! He just leaned in and did it!" Ginny yelled.

"Well you shouldn't have gone following him! Weasley's don't follow Malfoy's! Weasley's don't talk nicely to Malfoy's! WEASLEY'S HIT MALFOY'S!"

"Well not this one!" Ginny screamed, "What if I like him, Ron? Huh?"

"You'd better not like him Ginny Weasley..."

"What if I do? Are you going to say that I can't see him? Because you have this rivalry? Well I think it's stupid, Ron! Just plain stupid!"

Ron stood rooted to the spot, anger showing clearly on his face. "If...wha...why...Why would you like him?!" He finally managed to get out.

Ginny shrugged and sat up straight in her chair. "Because he's sweet. And he cares about me..." She answered.

"No he's not! No he doesn't!"

"Ron, I think that maybe he does..." Hermione told Ron quietly.

"Why?! Because he hit Harry? And said that it was 'for Ginny?'" Ron snorted, "That's bullshit!"

"Why is it bullshit, Ron? Maybe he does like me! He did kiss me, you know!" Ginny reminded her brother.

As if he needed reminding.

"I'm going to kill him, Ginny. I'm going to kill him!"

"Ron, shut up." Hermione told him, "Ginny, why don't you go down to the Great Hall? I'll keep Ron here for a while and try to calm him down."

"Yeah, Ginny," Cheralynn said, standing up. She had been watching from across the room with Collin and a few others, "Let's go eat...It'll get you away from your psycho brother."

Ron glared at her, but held himself back. He was tired of yelling. He just wanted things to go back to normal. And he didn't want his sister with anyone like Malfoy.

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Draco walked from the Slytherin common room to the Great Hall alone. No one wanted to be around him. Not even Crabbe and Goyle. Draco was a traitor to all of Slytherin. And it was all because of Ginny. He'd let himself go too far. He'd become weak because of her. Malfoy's are not weak...They don't let their guard down around woman.

"Draco."

Draco turned when he heard his name being said, and he automatically wished he hadn't. Ginny was standing behind him with another girl. A girl he didn't know.

"Um...can we talk?" Ginny asked him. Her friend walked past him and into the Great Hall, leaving Draco alone with Ginny.

"No." Draco turned back around. He didn't want to talk to Ginny. He couldn't talk to Ginny anymore. He didn't need anything else happening that would ruin him even more.

"Draco!" Ginny grabbed his shoulder and turned him around, "I need to talk to you about...earlier."

"Just forget about it, Weasley." Draco said quietly as a 6th year Ravenclaw girl walked by, watching the two of them.

"I can't forget about it..." Ginny said, her voice matching his, "When you kissed me, I...I think I might have fallen for you."

"Well get back up," Draco told her, backing away, "Because it's never going to happen."

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Authors Note: Not one of my better chapters, but review anyway. I did like the Ron/Ginny fighting though because I based it off of me and my stupid brother. LOL! He's in college now so I only have to deal with him during the holidays! Review and I'll give you a cookie!