A/N HERE IT IS! The long awaited chapter. Sorry I didn't post earlier.
FFNET was being a bitch and wouldn't let me update on my basement computer
so I had to update it on my laptop in my room.
**Note: The middle to the end of the chapter is more exciting than the beginning, tho I think you should read the beginning of it anyway or else I wouldn't have written it! SO READ IT! There are a few comments about Britney Spears, and they arent good, so if ur a fan, dont sue me.
Disclaimer about time I had one. I dont own any Harry Potter or A Walk To Remember stuff. They're all owned by JK Rowling, Nicholas Sparks, and Warner Bros. If you dont recognize anything from those, then they're mine, all mine!!! unless I say so....
A Walk To Remember
Christmas Break - Part 1
The play was a huge success. The audience loved it so much the cast went through four curtain calls. It was just that great. Ginny beamed as she joined hands with Draco and Mrs. Rauh and bowed. The clapping, cheering, stomping, and whistling from the six thousand people was a roar like nothing she had ever heard. She only hoped her parents were there to see her. "Oh they'll see it," Leslie once told her, "we're taping it." Ginny didn't know what that meant--taping a play? How can you tape a play?--but she owled her parents about it anyway. Dad must know what that means.
It was the first day of Christmas break. SAWWA was practically empty-- everyone went home for the holiday. Ginny was with the Crofts and her friends she was boarding with, gathering up school things and anything they should take home. Leslie was elected as Tobblestodson President earlier in the year. She worked with the other team presidents and the Student Body President to make sure the floors for each team was clean and ready for next semester, and list who was staying behind for Christmas.
Once she was done, they headed back home. It was already snowing, light and fluffy, the sticky kind that can be packed together really well. That gave Ginny and idea.
"Hey, Lez?"
"Yup?" She turned around from her spot in the front seat of the van.
"What do you usually do at Christmas?" Ginny asked curiously.
"Well," Leslie tilted her head, thinking, "we make cookies and go to church, then in the morning we open presents and family comes over. Then we have a huge Christmas dinner. The day after Tony and I invite a few friends over and have a snowball fight."
Ginny nodded.
"What do you do?" Leslie put on a 'listening face' and listened to what Ginny had to say.
"Our Christmas is a bit like yours. My family's HUGE! Six brothers. When I was little and they were still at home, we did what you do--Christmas feast, snowball fight, etc. But then when I stared going to Hogwarts, I stayed at the school over break with my brothers." Ginny shrugged.
Leslie just stared at her. After a long pause, she said slowly, "You stayed at school for Christmas?" Ginny nodded. "Wow that must SUCK!"
Hermione shook her head. "No, sometimes it was quite fun, although you could miss your family once in a while."
"I'd imagine," Leslie agreed. "So, what do you do?"
Each girl shared what they did on Christmas, and found out there were many similarities as well as differences. Take Parvati and Hermione for example. Parvati received lots of make-up and jewelry and clothes--Hermione would get books and quills and chocolate.
Ginny liked how Leslie mentioned a snowball fight. Snowball fights were her favorite!
FLASHBACK: Ginny is 5 years old
A snowball flew by Ginny's ear. She squealed at the coldness that brushed it. She turned to the person who aimed the snow at her: George. She threw a handful of snow at his back.
Bill and Charlie were in Hogwarts, and returned home. Christmas was the only time during the school year they could come home. Ginny was on Bill and Charlie's team, while Ron was with Fred and George. Being the weird one he was and is, Percy decided to sit out and keep track of time or tattle to Mum when someone hurt another person.
Ginny dove behind a tree and giggled. After she threw the ball at George, he spun around. No one could stand behind this tree and not be seen except for her. She was so small.
"BOO!" Someone grabbed her by the waist and picked her up.
"Charlie!!"
Charlie laughed. "Are you gong to help Bill and me or not? You know we chose you because you're the best player." He poked Ginny's frozen red nose. She smiled and nodded. Charlie put her down and helped her pack snow. Ginny made a big hard one and looked around.
"Who should I throw it at?" Her eyes scanned the red blotches which stood out well in the white scenery.
Charlie leaned over and whispered in her ear. A devilish grin appeared on the 5 year old's face. She snuck around snow walls and forts and snowmen, until she got close to her victim...
-SMACK!-
"GIIIIIIINNY!!!!!!!" Percy, half white from snow, chased the little girl around the yard, the other Weasleys doubling over from laughter.
END FLASHBACK
***
Just as Leslie said, the Croft family was very festive. Lights, garlands, wreaths, tinsel, dancing Santas, and a huge Christmas tree in the home decked off their Christmas spirit.
Leslie's older brothers, Jacob and Andy, came home from college for the holiday. Elizabeth bounced around the house in and out of nowhere, singing Deck The Halls at the top of her lungs, as Christmas Day was coming closer. Baby Dan fussed at all the commotion she made.
Ginny and the girls were put right to work after the present opening Christmas morning. Clean, cook the turkey, bake the pie, make cookies, entertain the little ones, make sure the men don't take any cookies..."Typical Christmas morning," Leslie said as she was changing Dan's diaper.
Ginny was putting Elizabeth in a red plaid jumper. She was thinking about how Tony hosted a snowball fight every year.. That led her to remember when Leslie showed the girls around the house on the first day. "Tony Gohsler lives over there. He's a bad-boy-turned-good. Still bad, but he's nice. You'll like him." Leslie smirked. "Just watch out in the winter." Ginny furrowed her brows in thought.
"What did you mean on our first day here to watch out for Tony in the winter?"
Leslie smiled and went over to the sink to wash her hands. "You know that snowball fight tomorrow?"
"Yes."
"Well we don't know what time it starts. Watch out, he'll sure as hell surprise us at any moment."
Ginny was confused. "What do you mean?"
Leslie chuckled (A/N hehe, chuckled). "You'll see tomorrow."
* Christmas Dinner *
Ginny put on a green knit sweater and long, soft black pants and black lace- up boots. The Croft grandparents and family would arrive at any moment. Her image to people had changed. She was just too confused with her life at the time. She put on some makeup and stroked the brush through her already silky hair.
Ding! Dong!
"Ginny, come on!" Hermione urged. They dashed down the stairs to greet the family.
"Nana!" Elizabeth squealed and ran to a short and skinny curly gray-haired woman.
"Little Beth!" She bent down and hugged her granddaughter.
Next walked in Grandpa, and bald, 6'3", and stern looking man. Obviously, he earned lots of respect from Jacob (Ginny giggled at Jacob's goodness). Next came Uncle Dave, tall like his father, nice like his sister (Mrs. Croft). Following him was Uncle Tim and Aunt Alaine with their daughters 2- year-old Olivia and 7-year-old Meg. Last came Uncle Brion, Aunt Catie, 18- year-old Joe, and 23-year-old Eric. Wow. Lots of people!
Everyone gathered in the living room and talked. The girls talked to Eric and Joe (who, by the way, were pretty hot) and played with the little ones. Soon Nana, Aunt Catie and Alaine, and Mrs. Croft were in the kitchen, fixing dinner. The men were discussing the Super Bowl (A/N I have no clue if England even watches football games like the Super Bowl, so if you dont know about it...yeah just go along with it, lol) a few weeks ago, and watching the recording Dave brought. The girls were left to baby-sit the kids. Olivia was small and blonde. She hadn't inherited the Croft brown spirals that Ginny adored so much, unlike her sister Meg. Meg and Elizabeth were off together playing dolls. That left Olivia and Dan. Simple enough.
"The turkey was wonderful, Lydia. I don't know how you manage," Alaine commented. She looks so young Ginny thought.
"Thank you." Mrs. Croft blushed. "Girls, can you help me with these?" Ginny picked up some plates and cups, delivered them to the kitchen, and came back to the room with pie. 'Mmmm' rippled through the room as she entered.
"Hey! Where's the cookies?!" Joe asked impatiently. That caused some laughter. Leslie rolled her eyes, waved her wand, and a tray of cookies floated over to her hand.
"Happy?" She asked irritably.
"Much. Thank you, Lez!" He said, remembering his manners as the tray was passed to him.
Once Ginny sat down and everyone had their pie (or cookies...), Nana asked the British girls some questions. Some were about how they like SAWWA, how they deal with homesickness, how they like America so far, where they were from, things like that. Then Nana turned her attention to Ginny.
"Ginny, dear, do you have any siblings?"
"Yes," she nodded, "six brothers. They're all older than me."
Nana widened her eyes. "Oh my! That's quite a lot. Weasley, Weasley, where have I heard that name?? Oh yes, your father's mother was a friend of mine from college. Your grandmother is a wonderful lady."
Ginny blushed. "Oh, thank you."
"Did any of your brothers come along with you to America?" Aunt Catie asked.
"Ron." Ginny looked out the window. "He's living with Tony."
"Oh, okay."
"You were wonderful in the play!" Aunt Alaine exclaimed. Others murmured in agreement. Ginny thanked them, growing hot. Time passed and soon the family who traveled to the house had to leave and drive or catch a flight home. They filed out the door with 'good-byes' traveling behind them.
* The next day *
Ginny's eyes fluttered open. She stuck out an arm out from under the blankets and immediately put it back in. It was freezing! She heard Hermione's bed blankets rustle.
"Are you awake, Hermione?" She called out softly.
"Yes."
"How long?"
"A while." There was a pause, and Hermione spoke again. "I won't get up because the bars on the ladder are cold and it's freezing in this room. No way would you expect me to get out of bed now."
Trying not to mind the cold air, Ginny pulled her arm back out and reached under her bed to grab the clothes she laid out the night before. Ah, last night. Christmas was wonderful for her. But the presents...where were the Weasley gifts? There was nothing from her parents and nothing from Ron. What happened? Ginny decided she would write later.
She changed under the warmth of the blankets. She had a difficult time putting on the jeans, put the blue short sleeved shirt with a logo (the logo of some camp Ginny went to) over a white long sleeve shirt was easy. She hopped out of bed and put on her socks and slippers. With a wave of her wand, she made her bed, did her hair, and warmed up the room.
The other girls, who were apparently awake but didn't get up, felt the warmth circulate the room and thought it okay to get up.
Ginny went downstairs to the kitchen. Leslie was up, still in her pajamas, eating cereal and reading an owl post. Ginny sat down across from her and grabbed the cereal box. "What do you have there?"
Leslie put down the post and pushed it across the table. "Tony," was all she said. Ginny picked up the letter.
Another one is coming. Make sure everyone is up.
"It doesn't say when the snowball fight starts."
"Yeah, Tony's that way." Leslie took another spoonful and swallowed. Ginny didn't realize it was silent for a while until Leslie spoke again. "Are the other's
up?"
"We're right here." Parvati said as she was coming down the stairs. Hermione and Carrie followed behind.
"Good." Leslie summoned some bowls and pushed the cereal box their direction. "Eat up."
* About three hours later *
(Ginny's POV)
They haven't sent us a letter yet! What do we do? Here we are, lounging in the living room doing absolutely nothing, the other Crofts are God knows where, and I've probably flipped through this magazine so much I don't even care how that damned Britney Spears concert was ruined. I hate Britney. To Hell with her! Her initials fit her well...
Whoa, now here's some excitement. An owl just vaporized into the chip bowl. Now how'd it do that?
"Lez, what does it say?" Carrie asked. She got pretty spooked I guess, cause she's in the farthest corner of the couch now, away from the bowl.
Leslie took the letter out of the owl's beak and read out loud. "All it says is 'Your girls, my boys. Another message coming soon. Trust me, you'll be able
to hear it all right.'" Leslie looked up. "Get your snow boots, winter coat, and gloves, now."
Geez woman! We aren't going off to war! When we grabbed our stuff I had to stifle a laugh. Why so serious, Lez? It's just a snowball fight. We put our snow stuff on and sat, listening to the rules we've already heard over and over from Leslie. Now we were in for the same speech again.
"Tony will come at any moment and hit the house. We run out and the snowball fight begins. It can go on forever, so Tony and I decided that in the end we will go to the loser's house at eight and have cocoa. The
object of the game is not just to hit people, but to play till someone is tired and capture them. They are now the prisoners and no they can't escape. They can also sneak up on you, so watch out. We're playing against Tony, so some rules may bend a bit with him. Also, watch out for really hard snowballs. Those are his."
We nodded.
"Alright then." Leslie sat down. "Get ready."
One minute...
Five minutes...
Almost seven minutes...
-BAM!-
"Back door!" Leslie yelled.
-BAM!-
We jumped and -BOOM! BAM!- climbed over furniture to the -BAM!- back door. We ran out into the glittery white world and through the yard. I never realized how big her yard was till now--it was like four backyards put together! Add Tony's yard along with his pool and it made an enormous "battle" ground.
-POW!- We were getting close to them. We grabbed some snow and turned the corner. There they are!
***
(3rd person POV) Ginny threw the snowball she held along with the others. The guys weren't ready for this. Seeing their shocked faces made her laugh. Tony, Ron, Draco, Harry and Blaise ran back to Tony's yard. The girls followed, making snowballs along the way. The fight would be played along the property line.
The snow was 1 1/2 feet high, and some drifts were up to four feet because of the wind. It was good hard packing snow, but you sunk in it pretty quickly.
Tony popped up from behind a drift and threw a snowball at Leslie. You could her a -pff- when it hit her coat. It was a really hard ball.
-POW!-
Ginny's coat and hair was caked with snow. She spun around and saw Ron. He was red from the cold and smiling. Ginny grinned and dashed after him. When she got close, she stuffed the unfinished snowball down his back. She ran back to the safety of Leslie's yard, glancing at the hysterical Ron hopping up and down.
"Nice one!" Carrie high-fived Ginny as she came running back.
"Thanks. What happened so far?" Ginny bent down to make some more snowballs to either stuff down people's backs or to throw at them.
"Well Harry through one at Hermione. Parvati bombed Blaise. I threw some at Tony and Harry, and Les--"
"What about Draco?" Ginny looked up at Carrie.
Carrie stopped. She looked down at Ginny, surprised by the question. "I...I don't know where he is."
"I do," came a drawling voice from behind. A fist came out from behind a tree and hit Ginny with snow.
Draco.
Ginny chased after him, both making and throwing snowballs along the way.
* Earlier, before attacking the Croft home *
(Draco's POV) We already sent off the second letter. Tony put this wicked spell on his owl to make it sort of Apparate to the Croft house. "It'll scare the hell out of them," he said.
I miss Ginny. I'd hate to admit it, but I really do. I tried talking to her last week at school, but every time I saw her in the hallway, she'd disappear back into the crowd again. The other Slytherin and Kanzord guys teased her again, and for some reason it pissed me off. What's wrong with me?
"Ok boys, time for the fight." We put on our snow stuff and stepped outside.
Another thing I'd hate to admit is that Blaise and I actually have had more than one civil conversation with Scarhead and Weasel. I guess that's what happens when you're cooped up, especially with Tony or all people. Don't get me wrong though, we still bicker and hex eachother. It's happening less and less. Damn, that was always the high point of my day!
We snuck over to one hidden side of the Croft house. Blaise, who had been practicing this on the girls' locker room in SAWWA, performed a spell on the wall. Soon, we were looking into the house. There they were, all five of them.
"Look! The owl vaporized into the chip bowl." Harry pointed at the disheveled owl. Nice detecting, Sherlock.
We watched Leslie order the girls. Too bad we couldn't hear anything. I was watching Ginny put on her coat when Blaise's spell was wearing off. In a few seconds flat, it was back as a solid white wall.
Tony turned to us. "On my go, throw snow at the house."
A few minutes later, we were bombarding the house with snowballs, and the girls were running out the back door. I saw Ginny's red hair and beautiful face. I ran to Tony's property and started working on my plan. That leads to now. I was standing behind a tree, close to where Ginny was down in the snow talking to another girl...I heard my name!
"Where's Draco?" Ginny looked up.
The other girl looked down at her. "I...I don't know where he is."
I spoke, "I do," and threw a snowball at Ginny's back. She turned around. Her cheeks were pink from the cold. I put on my famous Malfoy smirk and ran off.
Ginny followed--good-- and we were throwing snow at eachother. I ran to a darkly lit area of Tony's house, the side with more trees and pine bushes. I turned around. Ginny was still farther behind.
I turned the corner, and waited.
***
(3rd person POV) Damn he runs fast, Ginny panted. The yards seemed even bigger than four now that she was running. She looked up and saw Draco's foot from behind a corner, and sped up.
Ginny turned the corner and came to a halt, expecting to see Draco still running between the trees and bushes like before. But...there was no Draco. She sulked--Where the hell did that boy go? She decided to walk through the yard. The game of throwing snow had now turned to the game of hide-and-go- seek. Oooh how I hate this game, she thought.
The snow had gotten higher and more packed. Ginny looked around and saw no flat area; it was all snow banks. Where is he?! If she was inside, she would've stomped on the floor.
There she is. Ha ha I'm right behind her and she's oblivious to it. Draco thought. He looked around and saw that Ginny was facing another snow bank. Perfect.
Being the sly Slytherin he is, Draco snuck up quietly behind the red head. In one slick movement, he spun her around to face him, causing them to fall to the ground, right in the middle of the snow back, Draco on top of Ginny. Her eyes were wide.
He smirked. Excellent.
A/N here it is! finally. well the next chapter has already started, so hopefully it'll come out soon. What is Draco going to do? and NOOOO he's not gonna rape her, draco would never do that in my stories. *shudder* What is going to happen next? Please review! Sorry about not posting for like 2 months. :( No time. Anyways, I hope you liked it!
**Note: The middle to the end of the chapter is more exciting than the beginning, tho I think you should read the beginning of it anyway or else I wouldn't have written it! SO READ IT! There are a few comments about Britney Spears, and they arent good, so if ur a fan, dont sue me.
Disclaimer about time I had one. I dont own any Harry Potter or A Walk To Remember stuff. They're all owned by JK Rowling, Nicholas Sparks, and Warner Bros. If you dont recognize anything from those, then they're mine, all mine!!! unless I say so....
A Walk To Remember
Christmas Break - Part 1
The play was a huge success. The audience loved it so much the cast went through four curtain calls. It was just that great. Ginny beamed as she joined hands with Draco and Mrs. Rauh and bowed. The clapping, cheering, stomping, and whistling from the six thousand people was a roar like nothing she had ever heard. She only hoped her parents were there to see her. "Oh they'll see it," Leslie once told her, "we're taping it." Ginny didn't know what that meant--taping a play? How can you tape a play?--but she owled her parents about it anyway. Dad must know what that means.
It was the first day of Christmas break. SAWWA was practically empty-- everyone went home for the holiday. Ginny was with the Crofts and her friends she was boarding with, gathering up school things and anything they should take home. Leslie was elected as Tobblestodson President earlier in the year. She worked with the other team presidents and the Student Body President to make sure the floors for each team was clean and ready for next semester, and list who was staying behind for Christmas.
Once she was done, they headed back home. It was already snowing, light and fluffy, the sticky kind that can be packed together really well. That gave Ginny and idea.
"Hey, Lez?"
"Yup?" She turned around from her spot in the front seat of the van.
"What do you usually do at Christmas?" Ginny asked curiously.
"Well," Leslie tilted her head, thinking, "we make cookies and go to church, then in the morning we open presents and family comes over. Then we have a huge Christmas dinner. The day after Tony and I invite a few friends over and have a snowball fight."
Ginny nodded.
"What do you do?" Leslie put on a 'listening face' and listened to what Ginny had to say.
"Our Christmas is a bit like yours. My family's HUGE! Six brothers. When I was little and they were still at home, we did what you do--Christmas feast, snowball fight, etc. But then when I stared going to Hogwarts, I stayed at the school over break with my brothers." Ginny shrugged.
Leslie just stared at her. After a long pause, she said slowly, "You stayed at school for Christmas?" Ginny nodded. "Wow that must SUCK!"
Hermione shook her head. "No, sometimes it was quite fun, although you could miss your family once in a while."
"I'd imagine," Leslie agreed. "So, what do you do?"
Each girl shared what they did on Christmas, and found out there were many similarities as well as differences. Take Parvati and Hermione for example. Parvati received lots of make-up and jewelry and clothes--Hermione would get books and quills and chocolate.
Ginny liked how Leslie mentioned a snowball fight. Snowball fights were her favorite!
FLASHBACK: Ginny is 5 years old
A snowball flew by Ginny's ear. She squealed at the coldness that brushed it. She turned to the person who aimed the snow at her: George. She threw a handful of snow at his back.
Bill and Charlie were in Hogwarts, and returned home. Christmas was the only time during the school year they could come home. Ginny was on Bill and Charlie's team, while Ron was with Fred and George. Being the weird one he was and is, Percy decided to sit out and keep track of time or tattle to Mum when someone hurt another person.
Ginny dove behind a tree and giggled. After she threw the ball at George, he spun around. No one could stand behind this tree and not be seen except for her. She was so small.
"BOO!" Someone grabbed her by the waist and picked her up.
"Charlie!!"
Charlie laughed. "Are you gong to help Bill and me or not? You know we chose you because you're the best player." He poked Ginny's frozen red nose. She smiled and nodded. Charlie put her down and helped her pack snow. Ginny made a big hard one and looked around.
"Who should I throw it at?" Her eyes scanned the red blotches which stood out well in the white scenery.
Charlie leaned over and whispered in her ear. A devilish grin appeared on the 5 year old's face. She snuck around snow walls and forts and snowmen, until she got close to her victim...
-SMACK!-
"GIIIIIIINNY!!!!!!!" Percy, half white from snow, chased the little girl around the yard, the other Weasleys doubling over from laughter.
END FLASHBACK
***
Just as Leslie said, the Croft family was very festive. Lights, garlands, wreaths, tinsel, dancing Santas, and a huge Christmas tree in the home decked off their Christmas spirit.
Leslie's older brothers, Jacob and Andy, came home from college for the holiday. Elizabeth bounced around the house in and out of nowhere, singing Deck The Halls at the top of her lungs, as Christmas Day was coming closer. Baby Dan fussed at all the commotion she made.
Ginny and the girls were put right to work after the present opening Christmas morning. Clean, cook the turkey, bake the pie, make cookies, entertain the little ones, make sure the men don't take any cookies..."Typical Christmas morning," Leslie said as she was changing Dan's diaper.
Ginny was putting Elizabeth in a red plaid jumper. She was thinking about how Tony hosted a snowball fight every year.. That led her to remember when Leslie showed the girls around the house on the first day. "Tony Gohsler lives over there. He's a bad-boy-turned-good. Still bad, but he's nice. You'll like him." Leslie smirked. "Just watch out in the winter." Ginny furrowed her brows in thought.
"What did you mean on our first day here to watch out for Tony in the winter?"
Leslie smiled and went over to the sink to wash her hands. "You know that snowball fight tomorrow?"
"Yes."
"Well we don't know what time it starts. Watch out, he'll sure as hell surprise us at any moment."
Ginny was confused. "What do you mean?"
Leslie chuckled (A/N hehe, chuckled). "You'll see tomorrow."
* Christmas Dinner *
Ginny put on a green knit sweater and long, soft black pants and black lace- up boots. The Croft grandparents and family would arrive at any moment. Her image to people had changed. She was just too confused with her life at the time. She put on some makeup and stroked the brush through her already silky hair.
Ding! Dong!
"Ginny, come on!" Hermione urged. They dashed down the stairs to greet the family.
"Nana!" Elizabeth squealed and ran to a short and skinny curly gray-haired woman.
"Little Beth!" She bent down and hugged her granddaughter.
Next walked in Grandpa, and bald, 6'3", and stern looking man. Obviously, he earned lots of respect from Jacob (Ginny giggled at Jacob's goodness). Next came Uncle Dave, tall like his father, nice like his sister (Mrs. Croft). Following him was Uncle Tim and Aunt Alaine with their daughters 2- year-old Olivia and 7-year-old Meg. Last came Uncle Brion, Aunt Catie, 18- year-old Joe, and 23-year-old Eric. Wow. Lots of people!
Everyone gathered in the living room and talked. The girls talked to Eric and Joe (who, by the way, were pretty hot) and played with the little ones. Soon Nana, Aunt Catie and Alaine, and Mrs. Croft were in the kitchen, fixing dinner. The men were discussing the Super Bowl (A/N I have no clue if England even watches football games like the Super Bowl, so if you dont know about it...yeah just go along with it, lol) a few weeks ago, and watching the recording Dave brought. The girls were left to baby-sit the kids. Olivia was small and blonde. She hadn't inherited the Croft brown spirals that Ginny adored so much, unlike her sister Meg. Meg and Elizabeth were off together playing dolls. That left Olivia and Dan. Simple enough.
"The turkey was wonderful, Lydia. I don't know how you manage," Alaine commented. She looks so young Ginny thought.
"Thank you." Mrs. Croft blushed. "Girls, can you help me with these?" Ginny picked up some plates and cups, delivered them to the kitchen, and came back to the room with pie. 'Mmmm' rippled through the room as she entered.
"Hey! Where's the cookies?!" Joe asked impatiently. That caused some laughter. Leslie rolled her eyes, waved her wand, and a tray of cookies floated over to her hand.
"Happy?" She asked irritably.
"Much. Thank you, Lez!" He said, remembering his manners as the tray was passed to him.
Once Ginny sat down and everyone had their pie (or cookies...), Nana asked the British girls some questions. Some were about how they like SAWWA, how they deal with homesickness, how they like America so far, where they were from, things like that. Then Nana turned her attention to Ginny.
"Ginny, dear, do you have any siblings?"
"Yes," she nodded, "six brothers. They're all older than me."
Nana widened her eyes. "Oh my! That's quite a lot. Weasley, Weasley, where have I heard that name?? Oh yes, your father's mother was a friend of mine from college. Your grandmother is a wonderful lady."
Ginny blushed. "Oh, thank you."
"Did any of your brothers come along with you to America?" Aunt Catie asked.
"Ron." Ginny looked out the window. "He's living with Tony."
"Oh, okay."
"You were wonderful in the play!" Aunt Alaine exclaimed. Others murmured in agreement. Ginny thanked them, growing hot. Time passed and soon the family who traveled to the house had to leave and drive or catch a flight home. They filed out the door with 'good-byes' traveling behind them.
* The next day *
Ginny's eyes fluttered open. She stuck out an arm out from under the blankets and immediately put it back in. It was freezing! She heard Hermione's bed blankets rustle.
"Are you awake, Hermione?" She called out softly.
"Yes."
"How long?"
"A while." There was a pause, and Hermione spoke again. "I won't get up because the bars on the ladder are cold and it's freezing in this room. No way would you expect me to get out of bed now."
Trying not to mind the cold air, Ginny pulled her arm back out and reached under her bed to grab the clothes she laid out the night before. Ah, last night. Christmas was wonderful for her. But the presents...where were the Weasley gifts? There was nothing from her parents and nothing from Ron. What happened? Ginny decided she would write later.
She changed under the warmth of the blankets. She had a difficult time putting on the jeans, put the blue short sleeved shirt with a logo (the logo of some camp Ginny went to) over a white long sleeve shirt was easy. She hopped out of bed and put on her socks and slippers. With a wave of her wand, she made her bed, did her hair, and warmed up the room.
The other girls, who were apparently awake but didn't get up, felt the warmth circulate the room and thought it okay to get up.
Ginny went downstairs to the kitchen. Leslie was up, still in her pajamas, eating cereal and reading an owl post. Ginny sat down across from her and grabbed the cereal box. "What do you have there?"
Leslie put down the post and pushed it across the table. "Tony," was all she said. Ginny picked up the letter.
Another one is coming. Make sure everyone is up.
"It doesn't say when the snowball fight starts."
"Yeah, Tony's that way." Leslie took another spoonful and swallowed. Ginny didn't realize it was silent for a while until Leslie spoke again. "Are the other's
up?"
"We're right here." Parvati said as she was coming down the stairs. Hermione and Carrie followed behind.
"Good." Leslie summoned some bowls and pushed the cereal box their direction. "Eat up."
* About three hours later *
(Ginny's POV)
They haven't sent us a letter yet! What do we do? Here we are, lounging in the living room doing absolutely nothing, the other Crofts are God knows where, and I've probably flipped through this magazine so much I don't even care how that damned Britney Spears concert was ruined. I hate Britney. To Hell with her! Her initials fit her well...
Whoa, now here's some excitement. An owl just vaporized into the chip bowl. Now how'd it do that?
"Lez, what does it say?" Carrie asked. She got pretty spooked I guess, cause she's in the farthest corner of the couch now, away from the bowl.
Leslie took the letter out of the owl's beak and read out loud. "All it says is 'Your girls, my boys. Another message coming soon. Trust me, you'll be able
to hear it all right.'" Leslie looked up. "Get your snow boots, winter coat, and gloves, now."
Geez woman! We aren't going off to war! When we grabbed our stuff I had to stifle a laugh. Why so serious, Lez? It's just a snowball fight. We put our snow stuff on and sat, listening to the rules we've already heard over and over from Leslie. Now we were in for the same speech again.
"Tony will come at any moment and hit the house. We run out and the snowball fight begins. It can go on forever, so Tony and I decided that in the end we will go to the loser's house at eight and have cocoa. The
object of the game is not just to hit people, but to play till someone is tired and capture them. They are now the prisoners and no they can't escape. They can also sneak up on you, so watch out. We're playing against Tony, so some rules may bend a bit with him. Also, watch out for really hard snowballs. Those are his."
We nodded.
"Alright then." Leslie sat down. "Get ready."
One minute...
Five minutes...
Almost seven minutes...
-BAM!-
"Back door!" Leslie yelled.
-BAM!-
We jumped and -BOOM! BAM!- climbed over furniture to the -BAM!- back door. We ran out into the glittery white world and through the yard. I never realized how big her yard was till now--it was like four backyards put together! Add Tony's yard along with his pool and it made an enormous "battle" ground.
-POW!- We were getting close to them. We grabbed some snow and turned the corner. There they are!
***
(3rd person POV) Ginny threw the snowball she held along with the others. The guys weren't ready for this. Seeing their shocked faces made her laugh. Tony, Ron, Draco, Harry and Blaise ran back to Tony's yard. The girls followed, making snowballs along the way. The fight would be played along the property line.
The snow was 1 1/2 feet high, and some drifts were up to four feet because of the wind. It was good hard packing snow, but you sunk in it pretty quickly.
Tony popped up from behind a drift and threw a snowball at Leslie. You could her a -pff- when it hit her coat. It was a really hard ball.
-POW!-
Ginny's coat and hair was caked with snow. She spun around and saw Ron. He was red from the cold and smiling. Ginny grinned and dashed after him. When she got close, she stuffed the unfinished snowball down his back. She ran back to the safety of Leslie's yard, glancing at the hysterical Ron hopping up and down.
"Nice one!" Carrie high-fived Ginny as she came running back.
"Thanks. What happened so far?" Ginny bent down to make some more snowballs to either stuff down people's backs or to throw at them.
"Well Harry through one at Hermione. Parvati bombed Blaise. I threw some at Tony and Harry, and Les--"
"What about Draco?" Ginny looked up at Carrie.
Carrie stopped. She looked down at Ginny, surprised by the question. "I...I don't know where he is."
"I do," came a drawling voice from behind. A fist came out from behind a tree and hit Ginny with snow.
Draco.
Ginny chased after him, both making and throwing snowballs along the way.
* Earlier, before attacking the Croft home *
(Draco's POV) We already sent off the second letter. Tony put this wicked spell on his owl to make it sort of Apparate to the Croft house. "It'll scare the hell out of them," he said.
I miss Ginny. I'd hate to admit it, but I really do. I tried talking to her last week at school, but every time I saw her in the hallway, she'd disappear back into the crowd again. The other Slytherin and Kanzord guys teased her again, and for some reason it pissed me off. What's wrong with me?
"Ok boys, time for the fight." We put on our snow stuff and stepped outside.
Another thing I'd hate to admit is that Blaise and I actually have had more than one civil conversation with Scarhead and Weasel. I guess that's what happens when you're cooped up, especially with Tony or all people. Don't get me wrong though, we still bicker and hex eachother. It's happening less and less. Damn, that was always the high point of my day!
We snuck over to one hidden side of the Croft house. Blaise, who had been practicing this on the girls' locker room in SAWWA, performed a spell on the wall. Soon, we were looking into the house. There they were, all five of them.
"Look! The owl vaporized into the chip bowl." Harry pointed at the disheveled owl. Nice detecting, Sherlock.
We watched Leslie order the girls. Too bad we couldn't hear anything. I was watching Ginny put on her coat when Blaise's spell was wearing off. In a few seconds flat, it was back as a solid white wall.
Tony turned to us. "On my go, throw snow at the house."
A few minutes later, we were bombarding the house with snowballs, and the girls were running out the back door. I saw Ginny's red hair and beautiful face. I ran to Tony's property and started working on my plan. That leads to now. I was standing behind a tree, close to where Ginny was down in the snow talking to another girl...I heard my name!
"Where's Draco?" Ginny looked up.
The other girl looked down at her. "I...I don't know where he is."
I spoke, "I do," and threw a snowball at Ginny's back. She turned around. Her cheeks were pink from the cold. I put on my famous Malfoy smirk and ran off.
Ginny followed--good-- and we were throwing snow at eachother. I ran to a darkly lit area of Tony's house, the side with more trees and pine bushes. I turned around. Ginny was still farther behind.
I turned the corner, and waited.
***
(3rd person POV) Damn he runs fast, Ginny panted. The yards seemed even bigger than four now that she was running. She looked up and saw Draco's foot from behind a corner, and sped up.
Ginny turned the corner and came to a halt, expecting to see Draco still running between the trees and bushes like before. But...there was no Draco. She sulked--Where the hell did that boy go? She decided to walk through the yard. The game of throwing snow had now turned to the game of hide-and-go- seek. Oooh how I hate this game, she thought.
The snow had gotten higher and more packed. Ginny looked around and saw no flat area; it was all snow banks. Where is he?! If she was inside, she would've stomped on the floor.
There she is. Ha ha I'm right behind her and she's oblivious to it. Draco thought. He looked around and saw that Ginny was facing another snow bank. Perfect.
Being the sly Slytherin he is, Draco snuck up quietly behind the red head. In one slick movement, he spun her around to face him, causing them to fall to the ground, right in the middle of the snow back, Draco on top of Ginny. Her eyes were wide.
He smirked. Excellent.
A/N here it is! finally. well the next chapter has already started, so hopefully it'll come out soon. What is Draco going to do? and NOOOO he's not gonna rape her, draco would never do that in my stories. *shudder* What is going to happen next? Please review! Sorry about not posting for like 2 months. :( No time. Anyways, I hope you liked it!