A/N: Big shocker in this story! You'll be shocked, thrilled, surprised, dumbstruck, ect.! Really! Hope you like it.
Disclaimer: We do not own any rights to Harry Potter. No, that was not the shock. The shock is not the boring disclaimer either.
September 1, Fourth Year
Stupid: Stupid! Stupid! Yes, I like the repetitive word stupid. I am so bloody stupid: And your stupid for not stopping me from doing the stupid thing. And Draco's stupid, and Ginny's stupid. Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!
Your probably wondering what I was going on about.
So, I was sitting in the compartment, as I usually do at the beginning of the year. I was reading, of course, when the door opened and Draco entered.
Strangely enough, Greg, and Vince were no where in sight. He looked rather nervous. I nodded my head toward the seat across from me, and he sat down.
"Hey, Draco. How was your summer?" I asked.
He looked better, as if he was feeling more comfortable. He replied. "It was fine, I wrote letters to friends mostly. We went on vacation to the Caribbean. You?"
"I can't complain." I smiled at the thought of the many letters I had received from Ginny. Stupid, stupid...
"Well, remember when I told you that you owed me one for the Yule Ball?"
"Yeah," I replied, a knot growing in my stomach.
"Well, I've come to ask you for it," he said slowly. I could basically see his confidence growing. "What I say cannot leave this room," he commanded.
"Sure," I agreed, smiling. This is when I realized that while he may be playing the cool guy, he was not feeling to good inside.
"You see, I got a girlfriend."
"Why can't this leave the room?"
"Well...she's not exactly the type of girlfriend you would expect me to have. More accurately, the kind of girlfriend my father wouldn't expect me to have."
"Ahh," I said, understanding. "She's Gryffindor." It wasn't a question.
"Shhh!" he hissed. "Keep it down."
"A muggleborn," I continued. "Granger?"
"No! I mean...no. Not far off though."
My heart caught in my throat. "It's not...I mean...is it...Potter?"
"What? No! Pritchard, I am not like that!" Methinks the man doth protest too much, but that's not the point. The point was that I was being blind. Blind and Stupid. "You see the person is...Well, I'll just be blunt...It's Ginny Weasley."
Yeah. I bet you feel the utter shock now. Just sitting, there, staring, saying to yourself, "That can't be right." But it was. The sinking feeling in my gut pulled me down lower and lower, until I realized that Draco had been talking to me the whole time. I think he was explaining exactly what happened to pull the two of them together, but I wasn't really listening.
"So, Ginny and I were thinking..." This phrase brought me back to the present. Ginny and I...Ginny and I...Ginny and I. The phrase echoed through my brain. Not Ginny and me, but Ginny and him.
"You could pretend to date her..."
"What?" I exclaimed, not believing what he just said. But no, he said it. Then I listened to their plan. It was not a plan that would benefit me as much.
You see, what I have to do is pretend to date Ginny Weasley. Apparently, Draco thinks Ron will like me dating her better then him. That way, no one else will ask her out, and she has excuses to visit the Slytherin Common Room and eat at the Slytherin table. Needless to say, I do not want to do this.
But do I have a choice? Apparently not. I agreed. (Stupid, stupid, stupid...) At least I'll be closer to Ginny. Maybe she'll change her mind. Right?
A/N: Did this shock you? I know, it's a crazy plan, but it will make more sense once we get into it. Poor Jeremy. This fic is most likely going to move to angst,( once I can convince Ruth, at least) Don't you all think this is angsty?