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(Recap: "Wait, before you go," Draco started, his throat burning like hell, "Promise me not to tell anyone about this-"

"I promise." He heard Ginny say and then she must had Floo Powdered back to The Leaky Cauldron because he heard a loud POP and then silence...)

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Chapter 4: No Brighter Side...or is There?

After he knew Ginny had left for sure, Draco lay hopelessly on the floor for about an hour just thinking. Not one thing in particular, but many things. Many things, having to do with his past, present, and future. Just thinking and thinking, cheerful things and unpleasant things, until he swayed into a sleep, and then a dream.

It had to be the worst dream he ever had. His father screaming and screaming at him and Draco was just laying on the floor whimpering, but Draco was a grown man in this picture and he wasn't a boy anymore. At first he couldn't understand anything Lucius was screaming about until he picked up a child, an infant to be precise.

Lucius was dangling it by it's small ankle and he clearly heard the child cry and wail desperately for Draco's help, but Draco was frozen, he wanted to save it because he realized...this was his child. His father was abusing Draco's newborn child. Anger rose in him, how dare he, it was his child, not Lucius, he had no right to touch it, and suddenly Draco sprang up and hit his father in the chest.

As Lucius lost his balance, he let go of the infant's ankle and Draco just watched it fall in slow motion...closer and closer and closer to the ground every second. And then-

"Draco?" a soft female voice said from besides him.

Draco sat up quickly, gasping for a breath of air. The child died, it was hit fault, if he hadn't hit his father it wouldn't of happened. At the moment he didn't know where he was or who he was with, he only cared about the dream he just experienced.

"Draco?" the voice repeated. "I found you on the floor screaming in your sleep are you okay?" It was Ginny. He felt a bit relieved knowing that it was her and not his mother, but then, why would his mother make sure Draco wasn't dead, or not in his room?

"Uh, yeah." Draco said yawning slightly. "Just a bad dream." He looked around, he was still on the floor in the clothes he worse yesterday. "What time is it?" He asked rubbing his eyes.

"I think it's about one in the afternoon." Ginny said quietly. God, he was asleep for more then twelve hours. "Do you want to talk about the nightmare you just had-"

"No." Draco said quickly standing up. He wanted to forget this dream, never even think about it again. He looked at the window, the bright radiant sun shining though it and onto Ginny who was sitting on the floor where he was once sleeping staring up at him with an expressionless look on her face. She looked like an angel.

"Do you want to talk about anything else then?" Ginny asked also standing up herself.

"Not anything in particular-"

"Well I have all day, I told my mum I was going to be at Luna Lovegood's. We could talk about school, what your going to do after school ends, childhood, anything."

"I dunno, you pick." Draco mumbled sitting on the edge of his king-size bed.

"What about love?" questioned Ginny.

There was a long silence between the two of them just both of them staring at each other

"Why love?" Draco asked breaking the speechless moment. It was a girl thing, girls always wanted to talk about dating, crushes, and relationships twenty-four seven.

"I don't know, do you want to talk about it or not?" She asked putting her hand on her hip. He didn't know, he thought he was already being a bit harsh on her already, not wanting to tell her about the dream he had.

"Sure." Sighed Draco. "Grab a seat and start." Ginny walked over to Draco's bed and sat down on it next to him. She looked as if she wasn't that convertible sitting there with Draco but she did anyway.

"So, do you have a crush on anyone?" Ginny asked looking at her feet dangling off the bed.

"No."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

"Positive." She grinned.

"YES." Draco huffed, getting annoyed at Ginny.

"Positively su-"

"YES! I AM POSITIVLY SURE I DON'T HAVE A CRUSH!" Draco shrieked leaping up from his bed and glaring coldly at Ginny. She stared back at him with a panicked look on her face.

"I was just trying to have some fun." Ginny whispered sadly looking away from Draco and back at the ground. Crap, he couldn't do this, just have a girl in his room talking about love with him, a girl he barley even knew. But heck, what did he have to look forward to this summer, he had nothing else better to do.

"Fine, do you have a crush?" Draco asked sitting back down on the bed next to Ginny.

"Yes." She said polity.

"Is it Potter?"

"No." He swore it had to be him.

"Finnigan?"

"No."

"Creevy?"

"Nope."

"Is it Granger?" Draco said smirking at Ginny. Ginny gave Draco an 'oh- please-do-grow-up' look.

"Who is it?" Draco asked, seriously having no clue about who she liked.

"I'm not telling you!" She smiled giggling. She looked so adorable like that. This seemed a bit lame, Draco asking Ginny who her crush was...it seemed like a ten-year-old girl slumber party. It made him smile...the first time he smiled in a while.

"OH!" Ginny squealed.

"What?" Draco asked.

"You look so cute when you smile!" She said happily. He looked cute? A girl just called him cute...a girl besides Pansy Parkinson who called everyone cute, just thought he looked charming when he smiled...he felt himself grin wider with pure happiness.

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July came as abrupt as ever and surprisingly, Ginny and him became friends, or maybe more like acquaintances, he didn't really want to think about him and a Weasley being friends. But it seemed as Ginny and him became comfortable around each other and he could just spill his whole mind to her.

And things just seemed to lighten up a bit during those few weeks, his father hadn't touched him since that day after he got back home and he was beginning to feel more content at his house. But of course, he spent the days up in his room staring out at the garden below his window, and sometimes we would venture outside into the yard of the Malfoy Manor and walk around the house admiring the summer day. And of course, talking to Ginny who came to visit him for about a few hours in the early afternoon every day or so.

He was thankful that Ginny had came to see him every day, because if she hadn't, he'd probably just die of boredom.

It was July the twelfth at 1:40 in the afternoon when Draco heard a loud pop from his fireplace in his room, he was lying on his bed on his stomach, reading the magazine "Witch Weekly" that Ginny had lent him yesterday.

"Hey Ginny." Draco automatically said not looking up from his magazine. "I'm almost done with your magazine."

"Already?" he heard Ginny ask.

"Yeah, I was reading it last night, really bored." Draco said pushing his self up from the bed and sitting up.

"I imagine, poor you, why don't you go somewhere?" Ginny questioned plopping herself down on Draco's bed and kicking off her sandals.

He felt like screaming at Ginny, the only reason Draco didn't go anywhere because if Draco made the slightest move he knew that his father would yell at him and beat him. He looked at her a bit offended.

"Oh, right, sorry." She said quickly noticing Draco's face.

"It's okay."

"Well maybe we could sneak out and do-"

"Ginny," huffed Draco, "I'm not sneaking out again, my father will get even more angry at me then he always is. I don't want to get hurt again." Ginny looked at Draco sympathetically.

"I wish I could do something to help you feel better." Ginny said still staring sadly at Draco.

"Yeah, get me away from here." Draco mumbled. Sometimes just hated his life so much, he had the sudden urge to just grab his broomstick out of the closet and fly away.

"Oh come on Draco, you only have this summer to survive and then your last year of Hogwarts and then you're free!" Ginny said.

"I can only hope." Said Draco quietly.

"Draco! Look at the better side of things!" Ginny said loudly trying her best to make Draco maybe smile for her. But how could Draco look on the brighter side of this situation...there was no brighter side. Either he locked himself in his room and die of boredom, or try to have fun and get killed by is father in the process.

"Maybe we should talk about something else." Ginny sighed swinging her legs around on the bed and sitting Indian-style. "So did you do your homework for school?"

"Yeah, how about you?"

"No, I always save it for the end of summer." Ginny said shrugging.

"Want me to help you with it?" Draco asked, knowing he would still have nothing else better to do.

"Oh could you!" Ginny said, her face lightening. "I was looking at my assignments and I don't understand that stupid essay Snape gave us."

"Yeah, the essay question is a bit confusing, but it's very simple if you look in the right book, I can lend it to you."

"THANK YOU! You're the best!" Ginny squeaked throwing herself at Draco and wrapping her arms around him in a hug. It felt wonderful to be hugged. Warmth filled his body.

And then Ginny gave Draco a small kiss on the cheek. And his world seemed to just dissolve there. All his troubles seemed to slip his mind and it he felt the same way now as when he did when he first saw Ginny this summer in the Leaky Cauldron, as if they were the only two in the world. She still had her arms wrapped around him but she had her head cocked back a bit to look at Draco.

"Ginny..." Draco heard himself whisper, staring at her "I think I love you."

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MWAHAHAHAHA! CLIFF HANGER! Kinda.

HOW WILL GINNY RE ACT?!

WHAT WILL HAPPEN?!

(dun dun dun)

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