"Okay, Ginny, what do you want to do for your pre-birthday party celebration extravaganza?" Lara asked, glad the Alex was gone.
"Um"
"Don't know?"
Ginny nodded
"How about we go shopping, swimming-the works, I give you an early birthday present, and then tonight we go clubbing?"
Ginny nodded her eyes bright. "Oooooh, and can we do the bungee-ballet thingy you do, when you hang from the ceiling?"
"Anything for you, luv" She told Ginny, with a quick kiss to her head, before she headed off to get ready.
Several hours later, after the girls had gone shopping and went swimming. They were getting ready to do the bungee ballet, and strapping themselves into the ceiling in the mansion. Both Lara and Ginny leapt off the balcony at the same time. They did flips and spins in the air.
Ginny discovered why her cousin did this so often, it really cleared the mind. The redhead just pushed all her other thoughts aside and enjoyed the moment. Ginny saw Lara do this one of her first nights there and immediately wanted to try it. Lara was happy to show her, finally having someone to do it with. She didn't mind sharing all these aspects of her life with Ginny, it was nice. Lara did a spin in the air, directly over Ginny, and Ginny squeaked. Lara guffawed.
"Lara?"
"Yes, Ginny" She replied after she had finished laughing.
"What is going on with you and Alex?" Ginny said "I mean that was him today, wasn't it?" she continued "The one you told me about..........."
"We are friends; we have always remained friends... We were something before but I don't know what's between us or what lies ahead in the future." Lara said with a smile.
"Oh" Ginny replied
Lara's expression turned more serious
"Ginny, I want you to be careful around him"
Ginny looked at her, curiosity written all over her face.
"He has a lot of charm- charm that he would use on an innocent girl like you."
Ginny just continued looking at her curiously. Lara sighed, and pulled Ginny with her on top of the chandelier, and they both sat down on it.
"I saw the way he was looking at you, and it wasn't purely platonic." Lara pleaded looking into Ginny's eyes.
Realization dawned on Ginny, her eyes widened, almost comically.
"I'm not saying this because Alex and I had something, I'm saying this because I care about you and I don't want to see you get hurt." Lara said honestly, seriousness written all over her face.
Ginny nodded, looking down, feeling guilty for thinking he looked like a Greek god.
"Ok, Gin, now, I'm going to give you your early birthday gift" Lara said, her seriousness melting away.
They both unhooked themselves from the ceiling and jumped down.
She walked Ginny to her storage room, where she kept all her machinery and vehicles.
Lara paused.
"Ginny, I know that ever since I taught you how to ride a motorcycle, you've been practicing on one of the many in here...." She said pointing to the vast variety of motorcycles
"So, I decided to get you one of your own" Lara said and handed Ginny keys, pointing to an obviously new motorcycle. It was a Harley that was a dark plum in color with leather seats. It was a gorgeous bike, and it looked like a great ride.
"Wow" was Ginny's response
"Mind you, that I'm totally forgetting the part that you don't even have a driver's license" Lara said with a smirk.
Ginny hugged her and squealed her thanks.
"Now, that we have that all done, we should be able to go to the club now. Considering it is dark out already." Lara commented
"Ok, I need to go get ready"
-Ginny let her hair down, doing a spell that put in long spirals down her back. She put on light gold shadow, and matching lipstick. Next, she put on a short gold dress with matching shoes and she was ready to go.
She met Lara downstairs. It was one of those rare times when Lara wore her hair down. Lara had on a short black dress that Ginny had picked out for her earlier that day (that she otherwise would not wear) and was wearing shoes to match. Lara put on her sunglasses.
"Let's party"-
They drove to an underground nightclub that Ginny had never heard of. They walked inside and all eyes turned to them. It wasn't surprising, really, two beautiful girls, one raven-haired, and the other with hair the color of fire. Unfortunately, Ginny was not used to the attention, and wasn't sure how to handle it. Lara, on the other hand, was, and noticed how uncomfortable Ginny seemed.
"Loosen up, Gin, people are naturally going to look your way- you're gorgeous, you know that. Don't let them see that you're nervous." Lara whispered in her ear, and Ginny followed her instructions.
Later on that night, Ginny was having a blast; she and Lara had danced the night away. Lara was off having a drink whilst she was still on the dance floor. The next thing she knew there was someone's arms around her waist. She turned around and came face to face with Alex, who had in turn, pulled her closer to him.
My, we are close, Ginny thought nervously. He started dancing and rubbing up against her. She felt warm tingles all over her body. Oh, this is bad she thought.
"So, what is Lara's sweet, little cousin doing in a place like this?" He asked with and all-to-charming smile.
His smile reminded her of the cat that ate the canary.
a/n ok, just a note, this story will be D/G, I'm just gonna have a little A(Alex)/G mixed in.
