Hey guys! Sorry I've been busy lately, adding a lot to my schedule lately. Next, Don't expect constant updates, I'm working as hard as I can, but my teachers think its cute to load me down with tests and I also am out for about an hour and a half everyday after school
But enough excuses, lets get on with it. This chapter is full of decisions and revelations. So here it is: free of preservatives, pre-packaged and ready for your dispense!
A couple of notes to go on now: DJ Timmie is not in this chapter, nor will she be appearing in this story…I got half way into this chapter and realized I had way to many contending characters to deal with. If there are some radical changes I'm super sorry, I'm trying to revamp a little here and there, if anything gets too out of proportion tell me and I'll fix it best as I can. And if you wanted D/G action you got it.
Disclaimer – I do not own Harry Potter or any of its characters, situations, settings all that good crap. However I do own Lirit Ruana, and all the other characters that you don't know, it would take too long to list them all.
Chapter Five
~ She doesn't own a dress
Her hair is always a mess
If you catch her stealin' she won't confess
She's beautiful
She smokes a pack a day
Oh, wait, that's me, but anyways
She doesn't care a thing about that hair
She thinks I'm beautiful
She never compromises
Loves babies and surprises
Wear high heels when she exercises
Ain't that beautiful?
Meet Virginia
Well she wants to be the Queen
Then she thinks about her scene
Pulls her hair back as she screams
I don't really wanna be the queen
Her daddy wrestles alligators
Mamma works on carburetors
Her brother is a fine mediator for the President
Well here she is again on the phone
Just like me, hates to be alone
We just like to sit at home and rip on the President
Meet Virginia
Well she wants to live her life
Then she thinks about her life
Pulls her hair back as she screams
I don't really wanna live this life
She only drinks coffee at midnight
When the moment is not right
Her timing is quite unusual
You see her confidence is tragic
But her intuition magic
And the shape of her body - unusual
Meet Virginia-I can't wait to
Meet Virginia-Yea
Well she wants to be the Queen
Then she thinks about her scene
Pulls her hair back as she screams
I don't really wanna be the queen
Well she wants to live her life
Then she thinks about her life
Pulls her hair back as she screams
I don't really wanna live this life
Draco smirked as the words streamed from his stereo, how pitifully ironic. His eyes were peering out his living room window, focused on the last person he knew he shouldn't love. He hadn't meant for it to happen, it just sort of did. His grandfather told him that you couldn't help who you fell in love with. Of course his grandfather didn't know that the one person Draco's heart decided to love, was the last person any one would have thought of. Draco Malfoy in love with Ginny Weasley. The simple prospect not only amused him, but also plagued him, because that nasty little voice in the back of his head told him it was true. He reached over and flicked the switch on his stereo turning the CD off.
"You're losing your touch," He murmured.
"No I am not." He snapped back, his eyes got wide and he fell back onto his couch, head in his hands. "That's it, I'm going to see the shrink. Talking to myself is bad enough, but answering myself is drawing the line." He muttered in a hopeless tone, as if someone could hear him. He sat like that for quite some time, not thinking of his current mental state, but instead thinking of her. His mind roamed to her face and hair, her body and attitude. The sudden feeling made his fingers itch to touch her and feel her body under his.
"This is ridiculous, boyfriend or no, I have to do something" He snapped at himself and ambled into the kitchen to get a glass of orange juice.
***
Ginny sighed dispassionately. He was watching her again. Through that damned window of his. Even when she wasn't in her room he had his eyes on her. Waiting for her to return, so he could size her up, look her over, stalk her, or whatever. Of course the idea of him watching her from a lover's glance was absurd.
"As much as your guilty conscience wants it, you can't get it." She told herself sternly. "Thinking such thoughts, I have a boyfriend for the love of God, its like cheating almost. And it's Draco, he would never love me, not in a million years."
She cursed darkly to herself as she continued sweeping her floors. Yet, Draco wasn't the only thing on her mind. It had been a week and a half, a very long week and a half. With Tristian, Jackson and Tracy gone Ginny was on edge. Aidan and Seth were handful enough, but throw Draco and a smitten Lana in the mix and hell broke loose. She found herself in the middle of Lana trying to snag Draco, and Draco trying to stay away from Lana. Aidan was on the girl hunt again and Seth was still trying to figure out how to pronounce 'contradiction' right. She laughed to herself, poor Seth, the American needed all the help he could get.
The fact of the matter was that she was completely zoned out and everyone knew it. Every since she had dinner with Bill she was faced with a very comprising situation. She knew that it was right to go home for a while, and with the break between albums, now was the perfect time. But Ginny didn't know if she could bring herself to go home. Now, she doubted she could even perform a simple switching spell, she hadn't done magic in ages. Not, of course, that they would expect to her to know any magic right? Her decision had to be made by the end of the week, she had already skipped out on a visit with Ron, being still shocked at the news of his marriage.
"I don't know what to do." She mumbled and leaned against her broom to brush her hair from her face. The doorbell rang. Scrambling to get it, she hit her head with the broom and slipped on the sleek wood floor. Opening the door she was faced with a bright sleepy blued eyed man.
"Seth, what are you doing here?" She asked, and opened the door wider for him to come in. Wordlessly he obliged and promptly fell flat on the floor. "SETH!" Ginny screamed and dropped to her knees next to him. With trembling hands she turned him over and felt his forehead.
"Came so ask you if you had some sugar I could borrow." He mumbled through blue lips.
"Jesus Seth what were you thinking coming out in this freezing weather, your burning up with a fever!" She exclaimed and slid her arms under his shoulders, taking great care not to bump him, Ginny dragged him across the floor.
"I was making a cake for your birthday, which is tomorrow remember?" He murmured faintly. She was in the process of hauling his frame onto her couch. "But I feel really kinda sleepy so I think I'll take a nap." He whispered and his head fell back onto the armrest of her sofa with a plop.
"No, Seth, you've got to wake up!" Ginny yelled frantically. "Seth you've got to get up, I need you to stay awake." She said, tears forming in her eyes. "Shit, I need my phone and a coat. I'm taking you to the hospital." She told him, as if he could hear her.
Tripping over her own feet, Ginny scrambled into her room, and grabbed her coat throwing it over her shaking shoulders. Next, she began tearing apart her room for the phone. The phone was nowhere to be found. She was down to the last wire, in complete hysterics. "Cell phone." She muttered and ran to the living room, she began letting Seth down onto the floor. He was too heavy for her though, no matter how hard she tried, Ginny simply could not lift him. She finally sank to the floor, her forehead touching Seth's own burning one.
"I can't do this alone." She said, through her tears.
"Now stop crying, and help me out here." A voice said from the end of the couch. She looked up and met two gray eyes. Draco was standing expectantly, hands grasping Seth's ankles. Shaking her head clear she slipped her arms back under his shoulders. Together the two of them, managed to get Seth down to Ginny's car. In moments they were flying down the highway to the nearest hospital. With Ginny driving, she taught Draco how to use a cell phone so he could call Aidan whom would call the boys in America and Lana.
"What happened?" Draco asked Ginny, whom was now calm enough to respond in full sentences.
"I was sweeping, and the doorbell rang. When I opened it I found Seth leaning against my frame. The hall was so dark I couldn't see he was pale and sweating. As I opened the door further to let him in, he just walked a few steps and collapsed on the floor. He told me he was asking for some sugar, because he was making me a cake for my birthday which is tomorrow. Next thing I know, he was unconscious and I was making a mad dash for the phone." She explained and sighed with relief as they pulled up to the emergency center.
"We'll take it from here miss." The paramedic said quietly, and began assessing Seth as she and two other nurses wheeled him down the hall. Ginny stood, looking after him shaking her head in disbelief.
"Its so strange, Seth has never gotten sick before, ever." She murmured. Draco raised an eyebrow and made a mental note. It was odd, such sudden sickness to strike at an odd time.
"I'm sure he'll be fine." Draco murmured and led her to a small empty hallway. "Sit." He ordered and firmly, but gently pushed her to the floor. Kneeling in front of her, he grasped his shoulders. Ginny shook her head silently and sighed.
"Thank you." She said, not taking her eyes off her knees.
"For what?"
"For helping me move Seth, I never could have done it with out your help. How'd you figure out?"
"I saw you panicking in your room, so I figured I'd apparate and see what was going on." He told her, running his fingers through his hair. She stood back up and suddenly wrapped her arms around him in a hug.
"Maybe you are human after all." She whispered. Sudden emotion flooded her entire body and her fingers tousled his hair at the back of his neck. His arms slid around her waist like that had always been there. His gaze bore into her, with a searching glint.
"This is wrong." He, murmured in her ear. Shivering slightly as her fingers trailed down his cheek. "You have a boyfriend, it would be cheating."
"Yeah," She whispered huskily. "But consider it a thank you, and what he doesn't know, won't hurt him." With her words, he bent slightly and pressed his lips on hers. Nothing less than the sweetest sensation flooded her senses and she felt the kiss get deeper and deeper as Draco's tongue egged her on. They heard crashing footsteps and broke apart. Ginny falling to the floor and Draco skidding to the other side of the hall, both blushing bright red. The door slammed open and Aidan fell through, tripping over his own shoelaces.
"Hey guys, sorry I didn't get here sooner, mom called and held me up. Going on with that 'you never call, are you avoiding me. Cause your shouldn't I'm your mother and one day I won't be here to call you' crap. Not that I don't love her, but Seth is way more important, considering the fact that my mom still has a while to go." He huffed, sounding as if he had run all the way from his flat.
Ginny looked up and smiled, almost thankfully. Any longer with Draco and she would have more than likely combusted. "It's cool, they took Seth away and we're waiting for the results. Med said it would be a while, so we came here to get away from all the wheezing and coughing and the broken bones and blood and"-
"We get the picture Gin, stop grossing us out please." Draco snapped, the only thing he could do was bite her head off. Too many emotions were swimming around in his head. He had just kissed Ginny Weasley. The most prominent thought in his mind was: What the hell was I doing and why the hell did I like it so much? He shook his head to clear his thoughts and sighed. It was going to be a long next few hours.
"So anyway, Seth's talking and fainting made me totally realize that I turn 21 tomorrow. I've been so busy lately and plagued by Bill's visit and proposition that I totally forgot about it and didn't even plan on doing anything. After all it is 21 kind of a big step in life don't you think?" She was talking to Aidan in a soft voice, running her left index finger over the silver right on her right finger.
"Don't worry bout it Gin, we're sporadic people, we can figure something out." Aidan reassured her and stood. "I'm going out to get something to eat, any takers?"
"Sure, I'll go." Draco said.
"I'll just stay here and wait for the doctors." Ginny murmured, thankful for Aidan. The further away from Draco she was, the easier it would be to suppress her tangle of growing feelings and bad thoughts.
***
Draco and Aidan sat comfortably in the corner at a small café, not too far from the hospital. Both had just finished a soup and sandwich and had now moved on to café lattes. Aidan, as always when he was thinking hard, looked as if he was in a stupor with glazed eyes and limp reflexes.
"So what do you think? I figured we'd let you in on the party thing, since your almost like one of us now." The brown eyed man suggested to Draco, whom leaned back in his chair grinning lazily.
"Yeah I'll go in on it. After all it would seem rude not to take part in it. I am one of her friends after all. But what to get her, what to get her." He muttered to himself. Aidan waved his hand as a gesture to forget Draco's sudden problem.
"We're getting her a new guitar as a group sort of thing, we really couldn't think of anything else, she has enough clothes to sink a ship, enough makeup to paint the Buckingham Palace, and enough CD's to beat out Big Ben in height." Aidan explained. Draco let a chuckle escape his still tingling lips.
"Nice comparisons, what about jewelry?" He asked unconsciously. The sudden thought sounded weird coming from him, but if Aidan noticed he said nothing.
"Nah, she has enough of that too. Yet her guitar is getting a tad worn, she's had it forever, it was her dad's he took it apart and put it back together. Of course it was old and beat up then, but all the work to the remove the different spells, hard playing and traveling have really beat it up."
Draco simply nodded and stood. "We'd best be getting back, wouldn't want to miss any important news."
Aidan followed his lead and followed him out the door, briskly walking. The two men crossed the street and walked up the sidewalk, to the hospital. Once there they were met with a smiling Ginny. "Doctors say he'll be fine, they're keeping him over night but he should be out by tomorrow afternoon."
They all breathed sighs of relief. At least Lirit Ruana wasn't in any grave danger of losing a band member in the near future.
***
"Aidan I don't understand why your taking me here. After all, I've been to your place a thousand times." Ginny muttered darkly as a rather excited Aidan led her to his door.
"So I want you to come in, there's something you have to see." He told her, hardly able to contain his gales of laughter, threatening to spill out at any moment. Shoving her in front of him, he reached around and opened the door.
As Ginny almost expected she was confronted by the loud shout of "SURPRISE!!" She acted surprised, not wanting to ruin the boy's hard work and planning. Yet, they did this every year and nothing ever changed, each year they got her something very Ginny like, from music to clothing. Something strange was going on here tonight though, the band mates and crew friends stood clustered around something.
"What's that?" She asked curiously. They moved aside, revealing a shiny red, brand new, Fender. Her jaw dropped, she wasn't expecting this. "I don't know what to say." She said, dumbfounded.
"Then don't say anything, just play!" Felecia, a crew member said grinning widely. "Aidan tuned it himself and refused to let anyone else touch it, not even Seth!" The group around her laughed and shook their heads in agreement. With trembling fingers, Ginny reached out for the new guitar. She nearly shrieked when she almost dropped it, but regained herself and slid the strap over her shoulder and began gently strumming. After about seven minutes she looked up to Seth and Aidan whom had hopeful expressions.
"So?" They asked.
"So what?" She shot back, seeing their downcast faces she grinned. "What is there to say? This is the best present I've ever gotten." She cried, throwing her arms around them.
"Well Draco put in a little as well." Seth murmured, still feeling pretty sick. Her eyes scanned the room, till they fell on Draco, in his true fashion leaning against the wall in the corner of the room. She nodded her head and he nodded back in understanding. Music began to play and as people were dancing, she made her way to him.
"Thank you." She murmured.
"You know you've been saying that a lot." He muttered and smiled sardonically at her.
"Ha ha." She snapped. "Why do you always bite my head off when I say something nice? I thought we were friends." She said looking away genuinely hurt. His heart melted again and he was puddle on the floor.
"No, no its not that. I'm its just my nature you know that surely." He replied, his voice softer than she had ever heard. "And we are friends, unless you wanted to take it somewhere else that is of course." He said looking her dead on in the eyes.
"I don't know, that's a lot to think about, I mean I have Tristian. I'm a happy person with what I have." She replied, following him as he walked into the kitchen, telling the others she was helping him get some stuff.
He leaned casually against the counter and sighed. "But what if you could have better? I see how you looked at him before he left. It was doubt, maybe he wasn't and isn't what you need. Maybe something or in particular someone is what you need."
Her breath was ragged as she spoke. This was all too much! "And who would that someone be?" Draco crossed the space between them in three steps, they were very close. Almost too close. His arms seized around her body and the only thing she could do was hold to him for support.
"Me." Was all he said before sweeping down on her in a kiss so perfect, so sweet. If she forgot every thing she had ever experienced or felt, the one thing she would always remember was this kiss.
"Draco?" She asked, when they had parted.
"hmm?" He asked, while resting his forehead in the crook her neck.
"I'm going back to the wizarding world to visit my family, I want you and the boys to come with me for support." She whispered.
"Under one condition." He said, looking back up at her.
She giggled. "What?"
"Let me kiss you again." He didn't need an answer, the gleam in her eyes was all the 'yes' he needed.
-Whew. This was really hard for me to write, it took me forever to get it right and start it. Sorry it's a little shorter than usual, but next one will be longer. Seth's sickness may not seem so special now, in fact it started out as a corner stone to get Draco and Ginny to light the fire, but now it shows some unseen significance. Next chapter has a little bit of other characters, floo powder, but mainly more development on Draco and Ginny and their little fiasco they're about to dive into. More to come, may be a while though. Till then toodles. Brose-
But enough excuses, lets get on with it. This chapter is full of decisions and revelations. So here it is: free of preservatives, pre-packaged and ready for your dispense!
A couple of notes to go on now: DJ Timmie is not in this chapter, nor will she be appearing in this story…I got half way into this chapter and realized I had way to many contending characters to deal with. If there are some radical changes I'm super sorry, I'm trying to revamp a little here and there, if anything gets too out of proportion tell me and I'll fix it best as I can. And if you wanted D/G action you got it.
Disclaimer – I do not own Harry Potter or any of its characters, situations, settings all that good crap. However I do own Lirit Ruana, and all the other characters that you don't know, it would take too long to list them all.
Chapter Five
~ She doesn't own a dress
Her hair is always a mess
If you catch her stealin' she won't confess
She's beautiful
She smokes a pack a day
Oh, wait, that's me, but anyways
She doesn't care a thing about that hair
She thinks I'm beautiful
She never compromises
Loves babies and surprises
Wear high heels when she exercises
Ain't that beautiful?
Meet Virginia
Well she wants to be the Queen
Then she thinks about her scene
Pulls her hair back as she screams
I don't really wanna be the queen
Her daddy wrestles alligators
Mamma works on carburetors
Her brother is a fine mediator for the President
Well here she is again on the phone
Just like me, hates to be alone
We just like to sit at home and rip on the President
Meet Virginia
Well she wants to live her life
Then she thinks about her life
Pulls her hair back as she screams
I don't really wanna live this life
She only drinks coffee at midnight
When the moment is not right
Her timing is quite unusual
You see her confidence is tragic
But her intuition magic
And the shape of her body - unusual
Meet Virginia-I can't wait to
Meet Virginia-Yea
Well she wants to be the Queen
Then she thinks about her scene
Pulls her hair back as she screams
I don't really wanna be the queen
Well she wants to live her life
Then she thinks about her life
Pulls her hair back as she screams
I don't really wanna live this life
Draco smirked as the words streamed from his stereo, how pitifully ironic. His eyes were peering out his living room window, focused on the last person he knew he shouldn't love. He hadn't meant for it to happen, it just sort of did. His grandfather told him that you couldn't help who you fell in love with. Of course his grandfather didn't know that the one person Draco's heart decided to love, was the last person any one would have thought of. Draco Malfoy in love with Ginny Weasley. The simple prospect not only amused him, but also plagued him, because that nasty little voice in the back of his head told him it was true. He reached over and flicked the switch on his stereo turning the CD off.
"You're losing your touch," He murmured.
"No I am not." He snapped back, his eyes got wide and he fell back onto his couch, head in his hands. "That's it, I'm going to see the shrink. Talking to myself is bad enough, but answering myself is drawing the line." He muttered in a hopeless tone, as if someone could hear him. He sat like that for quite some time, not thinking of his current mental state, but instead thinking of her. His mind roamed to her face and hair, her body and attitude. The sudden feeling made his fingers itch to touch her and feel her body under his.
"This is ridiculous, boyfriend or no, I have to do something" He snapped at himself and ambled into the kitchen to get a glass of orange juice.
***
Ginny sighed dispassionately. He was watching her again. Through that damned window of his. Even when she wasn't in her room he had his eyes on her. Waiting for her to return, so he could size her up, look her over, stalk her, or whatever. Of course the idea of him watching her from a lover's glance was absurd.
"As much as your guilty conscience wants it, you can't get it." She told herself sternly. "Thinking such thoughts, I have a boyfriend for the love of God, its like cheating almost. And it's Draco, he would never love me, not in a million years."
She cursed darkly to herself as she continued sweeping her floors. Yet, Draco wasn't the only thing on her mind. It had been a week and a half, a very long week and a half. With Tristian, Jackson and Tracy gone Ginny was on edge. Aidan and Seth were handful enough, but throw Draco and a smitten Lana in the mix and hell broke loose. She found herself in the middle of Lana trying to snag Draco, and Draco trying to stay away from Lana. Aidan was on the girl hunt again and Seth was still trying to figure out how to pronounce 'contradiction' right. She laughed to herself, poor Seth, the American needed all the help he could get.
The fact of the matter was that she was completely zoned out and everyone knew it. Every since she had dinner with Bill she was faced with a very comprising situation. She knew that it was right to go home for a while, and with the break between albums, now was the perfect time. But Ginny didn't know if she could bring herself to go home. Now, she doubted she could even perform a simple switching spell, she hadn't done magic in ages. Not, of course, that they would expect to her to know any magic right? Her decision had to be made by the end of the week, she had already skipped out on a visit with Ron, being still shocked at the news of his marriage.
"I don't know what to do." She mumbled and leaned against her broom to brush her hair from her face. The doorbell rang. Scrambling to get it, she hit her head with the broom and slipped on the sleek wood floor. Opening the door she was faced with a bright sleepy blued eyed man.
"Seth, what are you doing here?" She asked, and opened the door wider for him to come in. Wordlessly he obliged and promptly fell flat on the floor. "SETH!" Ginny screamed and dropped to her knees next to him. With trembling hands she turned him over and felt his forehead.
"Came so ask you if you had some sugar I could borrow." He mumbled through blue lips.
"Jesus Seth what were you thinking coming out in this freezing weather, your burning up with a fever!" She exclaimed and slid her arms under his shoulders, taking great care not to bump him, Ginny dragged him across the floor.
"I was making a cake for your birthday, which is tomorrow remember?" He murmured faintly. She was in the process of hauling his frame onto her couch. "But I feel really kinda sleepy so I think I'll take a nap." He whispered and his head fell back onto the armrest of her sofa with a plop.
"No, Seth, you've got to wake up!" Ginny yelled frantically. "Seth you've got to get up, I need you to stay awake." She said, tears forming in her eyes. "Shit, I need my phone and a coat. I'm taking you to the hospital." She told him, as if he could hear her.
Tripping over her own feet, Ginny scrambled into her room, and grabbed her coat throwing it over her shaking shoulders. Next, she began tearing apart her room for the phone. The phone was nowhere to be found. She was down to the last wire, in complete hysterics. "Cell phone." She muttered and ran to the living room, she began letting Seth down onto the floor. He was too heavy for her though, no matter how hard she tried, Ginny simply could not lift him. She finally sank to the floor, her forehead touching Seth's own burning one.
"I can't do this alone." She said, through her tears.
"Now stop crying, and help me out here." A voice said from the end of the couch. She looked up and met two gray eyes. Draco was standing expectantly, hands grasping Seth's ankles. Shaking her head clear she slipped her arms back under his shoulders. Together the two of them, managed to get Seth down to Ginny's car. In moments they were flying down the highway to the nearest hospital. With Ginny driving, she taught Draco how to use a cell phone so he could call Aidan whom would call the boys in America and Lana.
"What happened?" Draco asked Ginny, whom was now calm enough to respond in full sentences.
"I was sweeping, and the doorbell rang. When I opened it I found Seth leaning against my frame. The hall was so dark I couldn't see he was pale and sweating. As I opened the door further to let him in, he just walked a few steps and collapsed on the floor. He told me he was asking for some sugar, because he was making me a cake for my birthday which is tomorrow. Next thing I know, he was unconscious and I was making a mad dash for the phone." She explained and sighed with relief as they pulled up to the emergency center.
"We'll take it from here miss." The paramedic said quietly, and began assessing Seth as she and two other nurses wheeled him down the hall. Ginny stood, looking after him shaking her head in disbelief.
"Its so strange, Seth has never gotten sick before, ever." She murmured. Draco raised an eyebrow and made a mental note. It was odd, such sudden sickness to strike at an odd time.
"I'm sure he'll be fine." Draco murmured and led her to a small empty hallway. "Sit." He ordered and firmly, but gently pushed her to the floor. Kneeling in front of her, he grasped his shoulders. Ginny shook her head silently and sighed.
"Thank you." She said, not taking her eyes off her knees.
"For what?"
"For helping me move Seth, I never could have done it with out your help. How'd you figure out?"
"I saw you panicking in your room, so I figured I'd apparate and see what was going on." He told her, running his fingers through his hair. She stood back up and suddenly wrapped her arms around him in a hug.
"Maybe you are human after all." She whispered. Sudden emotion flooded her entire body and her fingers tousled his hair at the back of his neck. His arms slid around her waist like that had always been there. His gaze bore into her, with a searching glint.
"This is wrong." He, murmured in her ear. Shivering slightly as her fingers trailed down his cheek. "You have a boyfriend, it would be cheating."
"Yeah," She whispered huskily. "But consider it a thank you, and what he doesn't know, won't hurt him." With her words, he bent slightly and pressed his lips on hers. Nothing less than the sweetest sensation flooded her senses and she felt the kiss get deeper and deeper as Draco's tongue egged her on. They heard crashing footsteps and broke apart. Ginny falling to the floor and Draco skidding to the other side of the hall, both blushing bright red. The door slammed open and Aidan fell through, tripping over his own shoelaces.
"Hey guys, sorry I didn't get here sooner, mom called and held me up. Going on with that 'you never call, are you avoiding me. Cause your shouldn't I'm your mother and one day I won't be here to call you' crap. Not that I don't love her, but Seth is way more important, considering the fact that my mom still has a while to go." He huffed, sounding as if he had run all the way from his flat.
Ginny looked up and smiled, almost thankfully. Any longer with Draco and she would have more than likely combusted. "It's cool, they took Seth away and we're waiting for the results. Med said it would be a while, so we came here to get away from all the wheezing and coughing and the broken bones and blood and"-
"We get the picture Gin, stop grossing us out please." Draco snapped, the only thing he could do was bite her head off. Too many emotions were swimming around in his head. He had just kissed Ginny Weasley. The most prominent thought in his mind was: What the hell was I doing and why the hell did I like it so much? He shook his head to clear his thoughts and sighed. It was going to be a long next few hours.
"So anyway, Seth's talking and fainting made me totally realize that I turn 21 tomorrow. I've been so busy lately and plagued by Bill's visit and proposition that I totally forgot about it and didn't even plan on doing anything. After all it is 21 kind of a big step in life don't you think?" She was talking to Aidan in a soft voice, running her left index finger over the silver right on her right finger.
"Don't worry bout it Gin, we're sporadic people, we can figure something out." Aidan reassured her and stood. "I'm going out to get something to eat, any takers?"
"Sure, I'll go." Draco said.
"I'll just stay here and wait for the doctors." Ginny murmured, thankful for Aidan. The further away from Draco she was, the easier it would be to suppress her tangle of growing feelings and bad thoughts.
***
Draco and Aidan sat comfortably in the corner at a small café, not too far from the hospital. Both had just finished a soup and sandwich and had now moved on to café lattes. Aidan, as always when he was thinking hard, looked as if he was in a stupor with glazed eyes and limp reflexes.
"So what do you think? I figured we'd let you in on the party thing, since your almost like one of us now." The brown eyed man suggested to Draco, whom leaned back in his chair grinning lazily.
"Yeah I'll go in on it. After all it would seem rude not to take part in it. I am one of her friends after all. But what to get her, what to get her." He muttered to himself. Aidan waved his hand as a gesture to forget Draco's sudden problem.
"We're getting her a new guitar as a group sort of thing, we really couldn't think of anything else, she has enough clothes to sink a ship, enough makeup to paint the Buckingham Palace, and enough CD's to beat out Big Ben in height." Aidan explained. Draco let a chuckle escape his still tingling lips.
"Nice comparisons, what about jewelry?" He asked unconsciously. The sudden thought sounded weird coming from him, but if Aidan noticed he said nothing.
"Nah, she has enough of that too. Yet her guitar is getting a tad worn, she's had it forever, it was her dad's he took it apart and put it back together. Of course it was old and beat up then, but all the work to the remove the different spells, hard playing and traveling have really beat it up."
Draco simply nodded and stood. "We'd best be getting back, wouldn't want to miss any important news."
Aidan followed his lead and followed him out the door, briskly walking. The two men crossed the street and walked up the sidewalk, to the hospital. Once there they were met with a smiling Ginny. "Doctors say he'll be fine, they're keeping him over night but he should be out by tomorrow afternoon."
They all breathed sighs of relief. At least Lirit Ruana wasn't in any grave danger of losing a band member in the near future.
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"Aidan I don't understand why your taking me here. After all, I've been to your place a thousand times." Ginny muttered darkly as a rather excited Aidan led her to his door.
"So I want you to come in, there's something you have to see." He told her, hardly able to contain his gales of laughter, threatening to spill out at any moment. Shoving her in front of him, he reached around and opened the door.
As Ginny almost expected she was confronted by the loud shout of "SURPRISE!!" She acted surprised, not wanting to ruin the boy's hard work and planning. Yet, they did this every year and nothing ever changed, each year they got her something very Ginny like, from music to clothing. Something strange was going on here tonight though, the band mates and crew friends stood clustered around something.
"What's that?" She asked curiously. They moved aside, revealing a shiny red, brand new, Fender. Her jaw dropped, she wasn't expecting this. "I don't know what to say." She said, dumbfounded.
"Then don't say anything, just play!" Felecia, a crew member said grinning widely. "Aidan tuned it himself and refused to let anyone else touch it, not even Seth!" The group around her laughed and shook their heads in agreement. With trembling fingers, Ginny reached out for the new guitar. She nearly shrieked when she almost dropped it, but regained herself and slid the strap over her shoulder and began gently strumming. After about seven minutes she looked up to Seth and Aidan whom had hopeful expressions.
"So?" They asked.
"So what?" She shot back, seeing their downcast faces she grinned. "What is there to say? This is the best present I've ever gotten." She cried, throwing her arms around them.
"Well Draco put in a little as well." Seth murmured, still feeling pretty sick. Her eyes scanned the room, till they fell on Draco, in his true fashion leaning against the wall in the corner of the room. She nodded her head and he nodded back in understanding. Music began to play and as people were dancing, she made her way to him.
"Thank you." She murmured.
"You know you've been saying that a lot." He muttered and smiled sardonically at her.
"Ha ha." She snapped. "Why do you always bite my head off when I say something nice? I thought we were friends." She said looking away genuinely hurt. His heart melted again and he was puddle on the floor.
"No, no its not that. I'm its just my nature you know that surely." He replied, his voice softer than she had ever heard. "And we are friends, unless you wanted to take it somewhere else that is of course." He said looking her dead on in the eyes.
"I don't know, that's a lot to think about, I mean I have Tristian. I'm a happy person with what I have." She replied, following him as he walked into the kitchen, telling the others she was helping him get some stuff.
He leaned casually against the counter and sighed. "But what if you could have better? I see how you looked at him before he left. It was doubt, maybe he wasn't and isn't what you need. Maybe something or in particular someone is what you need."
Her breath was ragged as she spoke. This was all too much! "And who would that someone be?" Draco crossed the space between them in three steps, they were very close. Almost too close. His arms seized around her body and the only thing she could do was hold to him for support.
"Me." Was all he said before sweeping down on her in a kiss so perfect, so sweet. If she forgot every thing she had ever experienced or felt, the one thing she would always remember was this kiss.
"Draco?" She asked, when they had parted.
"hmm?" He asked, while resting his forehead in the crook her neck.
"I'm going back to the wizarding world to visit my family, I want you and the boys to come with me for support." She whispered.
"Under one condition." He said, looking back up at her.
She giggled. "What?"
"Let me kiss you again." He didn't need an answer, the gleam in her eyes was all the 'yes' he needed.
-Whew. This was really hard for me to write, it took me forever to get it right and start it. Sorry it's a little shorter than usual, but next one will be longer. Seth's sickness may not seem so special now, in fact it started out as a corner stone to get Draco and Ginny to light the fire, but now it shows some unseen significance. Next chapter has a little bit of other characters, floo powder, but mainly more development on Draco and Ginny and their little fiasco they're about to dive into. More to come, may be a while though. Till then toodles. Brose-