A/N: Ok first off I would like to say a word of special thanks to a certain reviewer who goes by the name Cathy1227 thank you for your e-mails as well as your concern! I appreciate your feelings for my story more than you will ever know, and I hope you like this chapter! Secondly sorry for the long delay my computer was in the shop cause' the screen had broken and my battery was completely dead and when I took it in to be fixed they said it would take 4-6 weeks just to get in a new screen and then another 2-4 weeks to fix it, but now it's fixed and I'll do my best to update regularly and I'm always open to ideas for the story so send in a review or e-mail me your ideas, oh and flames are not greatly appreciated, lastly in regards to the use of the word "BIRD" in chapter 2 when I heard bird used the first time it was used derogatively, and secondly I never said that British people don't use the word bitch (A/N: one of my best friends is British and she uses both words to mean the same thing) so stop e-mailing me and saying it's wrong! Now on with the fic.

~*~*~*~*Another Piece Of Fabric*~*~*~*~

~*~*Chapter 5: A Ride and A Remedy*~*~

So far It had been a long ride home for Ginny, mostly because she was completely torn and couldn't see any way to fix it, she was torn because she was beginning to have feelings for her arch enemy, and she was more annoyed than in love with golden boy Harry Potter that and the fact that Neville was giving Colin the death stare for some reason unbeknownst to Ginny. Little did she know that her mental question was soon to be answered…

"Neville?" Colin said looking over at his boyfriend

"Colin I'm sure you can imagine that I'm more than angry with you right now, I mean kissing him… Letting him kiss you! right in front of me! I…l can't talk to you right now."

"Neville! It wasn't like that!" Colin pleaded, staring at Neville

"Oh really? I was watching it with my own two eyes and it certainly didn't look like nothing!"

"I can't believe you Neville! You are blowing this way out of proportion!"

"Well! Colin at least we still have something in common I can't believe you!" Neville said angrily looking away from Colin and Ginny

"Neville be reasonable! It's not like I asked him to do it!"

"Ginny?" Neville said ignoring Colin's comment and looking at Ginny who was (unfortunately for Neville) lying across the limo seat with her head in Colin's lap

"Neville?" Colin asked, cutting Ginny off before she could respond

"Colin?" Neville responded saying his "so-called" boyfriend's name with an edge of malice, causing a tear to fall down Colin's cheek and land on Ginny's exposed shoulder it was that act that caused Ginny to break her semi-silence

"That is it! Now I don't know exactly what happened but you two have to have to talk it out but not while I'm here, now for the time being could everyone forgive everyone else! So that I can get on with my pity party?" Ginny yelled

After a few seconds of silence only penetrated by the sound of the streets rushing by Colin was the first to speak…

"I know I speak for Neville when I say that this is a personal matter and that were' very sorry to have dragged you into when it was really not your battle to begin with, in other words were sorry." Colin said brushing a strand of hair out of Ginny's face

"It's alright Colin, Neville I'm not mad at you I'm… I'm mad at Harry because, because I want it to end, I mean our relationship ended long before now but you know Harry you have to pound certain ideas into his head a million times before he will except them… I just hope this isn't one of those things." Ginny said sighing and grasping Colin's hand in hers

"Well Gin…" this time it was Neville who spoke "When do you think you'll tell him that it's over? I mean it's best to get things like this done quickly but politely you know?"

"Yeah I know… I've been thinking about how to break the news to Harry for a while now but I've come to the conclusion that it'll be easier on both of us if we sit down talk and then go our separate ways"

"Yes Gin, darling that's very well thought out but when are you going to do it?"

"I never get that far Colin! I start thinking about how sad he'll be and I just can't ever bring myself to say no or he does something really romantic and I forget why I wanted to let him go in the first place!" Ginny said screaming

"Gin, calm down! All right, I think have the answer…. Just call him over for tea sit him down tell him your side, say good bye and shove him out the door before he even has a chance to object!" while Ginny pondered whether or not to take Colin's advice Neville spoke up and got ready to address the current situation and not those that would occur in the near future… 

"Ginny?" Neville asked looking over at his friend

"Yes, Nev?" Gin asked a pitiful note in her voice

"Are you going to be alright tonight? I mean by yourself and all?"

"Yeah, I'm just gonna go in and go to sleep, maybe things will be better in the morning" she said as she lifted her head and began to gather her things from the floor of the limo

 "Colin?"

"Yes Gin?"

"What do you think the rest of the guests will do when they realize I'm not there anymore?"

"Oh that's all been taken care of, Nev and I didn't know how long you would be knocked out so we set up a sign up board for anyone who wanted to talk fashion with you, I expect that you'll be getting a few owls at the office tomorrow from prospective buyers."

"That's good," Ginny said returning to her place in Colin's lap, and making herself more comfortable, then after yawning she continued, "Anyway do you know how much we've made thus far? I mean do you think that we'll still get the grant? Cause when Harry came up he started word bashing Draco, and when Draco left he'd gone back to his original cold as steel persona, you don't think that encounter will have an affect his decision do you? " Ginny said a little worry hidden behind her words

"Well I won't know until tomorrow when we speak with the representative board of F .B. I., but I'm pretty sure that we'll get the grant, and I really don't think that Draco would be so petty as to let an old School boy rivalry get in the way of business" as Colin finished his explanation the three felt the car slow to a halt the door magically open, and Ginny step out…

"Hey Gin?" Colin asked as she began to walk away from the vehicle

"Yeah?"

"Don't forget that your beautiful, and that tonight everything you did was beautiful"

"Even falling off the stage?" Ginny said giving a Colin a sweet but skeptical look

"Yes even falling off the stage." Colin said grinning

"Thanks Colin…." Ginny said feeling the tears coming on "I won't forget, and I promise I'll call you in the morning, have a good night… I mean morning." Ginny said looking down at her watch "Oh and Neville thanks for all your help!"

"No problem Gin" Neville said moving to sit closer to Colin so that they could begin their discussion upon her immediate departure.

"Alright then Gin!"  Colin Called back to her, and with that the door closed and the car drove off into the night…. when the car had finally disappeared from her sight Ginny began to vent and all of her thoughts began to surface…

"What the hell was I thinking?" Ginny asked herself as she began to walk up the steps to the entrance of her flat. "I mean I kissed Malfoy? I kissed Malfoy, and I... I liked it, Merlin I think I might retch." She said as she absentmindedly unlocked her door and entered her flat, after pulling off her shoes and laying her purse down she arapparated onto her bed and there she lay thinking about the night's past events…

"Good Merlin, what's happening to me? First I fall off of the stage in front of everyone, then I wake up in the arms of the one and only person whom my family despises, the one and only Draco Malfoy, and then I kissed him! And I didn't even try to push him off and not only did I kiss Draco Malfoy, I danced flirted and had a civilized conversation with him, and I was actually angry when Harry showed up and for some odd reason I felt like he had ruined it all!" Ginny said looking at the ceiling with a look of sheer horror, it was then that she heard a tiny meow and the mattress sag just a bit under it's new occupant's weight

"Hello Aquilus" Ginny said as her cat circled her body and finally rested his head on her chest purring at the sound of Ginny's heart beat "and how have you been my precious"

"Meow." Was all Aquilus had to say, for the moment that is…

"Oh really, " Ginny countered "That's absolutely fascinating

"Meow" Aquilus answered back

"Oh! So you think that you've had an eventful night? Wait till you hear what's happened to me!" and with that Ginny began to relate her entire story to her most trusted confidant

Meanwhile back at the lair…

"Draco!" you stop that this instant before you do something stupid, said Blaise who was sitting comfortably on one of their three black leather couches

"What do you mean before?"  Draco said fuming "I've already done something stupid! And Blaise, my dear Blaise do you have any idea what that was?"

"You wore that god awful tie with those shoes?" Blaise said making a face of disgust, while looking Draco up and down

"No Blaise! Try again!" Draco said now pacing in front of Blaise

"Oh, don't tell me…. I know!" Blaise said face alight with fake enthusiasm "You finally spoke to that witch down in public relations? Oh now Draco don't give me that look you know the Italian one?"

"No Blaise! You worthless sack of magpie droppings… I did the one thing that will completely sully my name as well as my status!"

"So you did talk to that Italian chick?"

"No, I…" Draco said pacing faster and looking at the floor

"You? What? Invented a new no-spill cauldron? Wand grips? Spray Cheese?" Blaise said supplying Draco with nonsense answers, all the while continuing to look genuinely puzzled 

"No, I… I… and then…" Draco stuttered out

"You, You, You What?" Blaise said copying Draco's stutter, "Come on man spit it out!" Blaise yelled eager to know what had Draco so irritated

"I kissed her." Draco said turning to face Blaise " I mean I, God Blaise! I kissed Virginia Weasley the one and only daughter of the one and only man my father ever truly hated, and you know what Blaise I'm having a very had time making myself feel sorry for doing it, in fact I believe I'm more worried about whether or not she got the rush I did, but at the same time I know I should be guilty and that knowledge is what is making me feel guilty." Draco said running his hands through his hair "Blaise why am I destined to go insane before I can blame it on a mid life crisis!?!" Draco yelled melodramatically as he fell to his knees

"Gasp!" Blaise said theatrically "You didn't… Look Draco it's not that bad, I mean really consider yourself lucky, I like you better with Weasley anyway, because she's nice and she complemented my jacket whereas, the Italian chick she said it clashed with my hair… I mean who asked her anyway, the uppity bitch!" Blaise said crossing his arms and managing to look thoroughly disgruntled from his resting place, at this comment Draco only paused to give Blaise a look of sheer horror

"Blaise you have to be joking, me and Weasley? It's only by the fault of the gods that we didn't scratch each others' eyes out!" Draco yelled throwing his arms up in the air as he continued to pace

"Have you even thought that, she felt drawn to you because you were actually dare I say it…. Being nice?"

"Yeah right, me nice?" Draco said the word as if just speaking it left a bad taste in his mouth as he continued to pace

"Draco sit down…You and I both know that there is only one solution to all of this… We have to get you thoroughly sloshed so that you can forget all your problems for awhile and then heave them up in the morning, because if your attitude carries over to tomorrow as bad as it is tonight there'll be no living with you, let alone working." Blaise said walking over to the liquor cabinet and pulling out a large bottle, along with a mixer and two glasses

"Draco?" Blaise called to Draco who was now draped over the couch

"Yes Blaise?" he said rubbing his forehead with his hand

"How many olives would you like in your martini?" Blaise asked pulling out a shaker and adding the gin to the shaker

"Blaise?  Draco said sitting up a bit

"Yes Draco?"

"How did you know that I would want a martini?" Draco asked with a slightly puzzled expression on his face

"Because I know you… You've always liked martini's because you love the sharpness of the gin, mixed with the sweetness of the vermouth." Blaise said adding the vermouth to the mixer and sloshing in a few ice cubes "So Draco?"

Blaise said snapping on the top and beginning to shake

"Just one. Thanks."  Draco holding an out-stretched hand over the edge of the couch

After another hour of talking and a few more than was necessary martini's, and a certain brown haired wizard passed out on the couch Draco finally made his way up the stairs and proceeded to take a shower to clear his somewhat shaken mind

" I just don't understand!" Draco said allowed as he stepped into the shower "I mean she's a Weasley and I'm a Malfoy, that should be enough reason for me to leave it alone but for some reason, I feel like it's not supposed to end yet, I wonder what mother will think when she hears about this, and father…. Oh father, if he's not already mad where he is then this will definitely push him over the edge…. Serves him right the smarmy bastard." Draco said as he stepped back out of the shower, muttered a dying spell, and tugged on a fresh pair of boxers,

"And Potter and his shocked expression when he saw us together, it was somehow not as gratifying as it used to be, an I can't for the life of me figure out why." Draco said as he walked to his bed and fell asleep almost instantly, and proceeded to have one of the most comfortable, nights he had had in some time.

Weather or not it was because he was dreaming of a certain red-head or if all those 007 had finally gotten to him, we'll just have to wait and see

A/N: First go listen to Jason Mraz "You and I both" because that is the song I was singing as I wrote this chapter, Secondly I must ask how was it? I decided to g a different route and so I didn't up the rating and I know it was shorter than usual it was exactly 7 pages, I'm really sorry guys but I'm getting tired and I have to go to sleep so I can stay up tomorrow night cause it's homecoming at my school, anyway thanks for reading please review!

P.S: I have nothing against Italians I just need the girl to be from some place that is know for having beautiful women so that things will better fall into place later on in the story