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From dusk 'till dawn
Apology

"Finish up your potions and put them in the vials that are on my desk. After that you may leave" said professor Malfoy and he went after Ginny.

"Weasel?!? Virginia where are you?!?" he shouted.

Nothing. He heard nothing. He decided to go to the place he recognized in the pictures from the cauldron just minutes before: the lake.

Arriving there he didn't see her. 'She shall be in her dorm.' He sat himself down next to a tree. 'Merlin, what have I done to here to cause her so much grief?' Draco stared at the lake until he heard something. He stood up and went to take a look from where the noise was coming.

Ginny ran straight to the lake. She always goes there after a fight with Malfoy. She went behind a bush and then behind some trees and other bushes. There was her secret spot. A nice place totally shielded from view by the bushes.

She sat down and let her tears run free. 'Why those pictures? Why did he have to see them?' Ginny cried. She cried because Draco Malfoy has seen her crying over things he did to her and she has sworn never let Malfoy see her crying again.

The bushes made noise as someone stepped trough them. She turned around and she saw Malfoy standing there with a strange look upon his face. Was it sympathy, pity? No, it was guilt and sorry. He sat down next to her and ran his thumb under her eyes taking away her tears. Looking in her puff and red eyes, starring at her he said truthfully: "I'm so sorry I did those things to you. I'm sorry I made you cry." "It's okay" she said, surprised that the Draco Malfoy apologised" I forg." "No!" he stopped her "I don't deserve your forgiveness" He stood up, turned around and went back to the castle leaving her alone yet again.

'Why does he do that, first he's a total prick and now he comes and apologise. I don't understand him.'

That evening

"Gin, are you okay?" Colin said the moment she walked trough the portrait hole. "Yeah sure I am Colin" "So? What did Malfoy say?" "Huh?" "When you ran away he did came after you, didn't he?" "Oh, yes he did" "And?" "He apologised" "." "He apologised" "C'mon Gin don't lie to me" "I'm not lying, he apologised to me" "Merlin! He has it worse than I thought." "Has what worse than you thought?" "Love" "Love?" "Well yeah, it's obvious that Draco Malfoy, Slytherin Prince, is in love with you Virginia Weasley, fairest of them all" "Merlin no, that's not possible I shall say even more that's impossible, never to happen, there's not one hair in Dumbledore his beard that thinks of that such a thing is possible." "Well I believe otherwise " "Yeah sure Colin, I'm going to bed. G'night." "G'night Gin, sweet dreams... about Malfoy" He added quietly but she heard and answered "I will not steal him away from your dreams Colin, you may have him" and she entered her dorm. 'I wish' Colin thought sadly and went to also to bed.

Ginny, meanwhile, was thinking about what happened these last few days. First the bet with Colin which she definitely had won, the kiss which had and still made her feel squishy, the pictures from the cauldron and Malfoy his apology. 'That kiss, it made me feel so warm and good inside.' "Merlin, I'm falling in love with him" she said aloud realising her feelings that the kiss brought forward. 'Damn, I can't fall in love with Drac-Malfoy. I just can't.' She fell asleep dreaming of a silver-grey eyed, blond haired professor kissing her over and over again.

TBC