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A/N: Just to let you know there are a few Ootp spoilers in this chapter, not anything major but I thought you might like to know, now on with the story!

The next week passed quickly. Ginny and Agatha played games all day and had loads of fun. Agatha seemed very attached to Draco although they didn't see him very often during the day, but when they did see him Agatha would run to Draco screaming his name at the top of her voice. He would pick her up and talk to her for a few minutes but then he would say that he needed to do something and he would disappear into his room again.

The only time the really saw him was at meals. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner were always spent with Mr. and Mrs. Connor along with Draco, and of course Agatha and Ginny.

"Ginny and Draco, can I see you for a moment?" Caroline called them into her sitting room leaving Agatha to play with Mr. Connor. It was Sunday, exactly a week since Ginny had come to stay at the Connor's house.

"Mr. Connor and I are going on a business trip," Caroline began, "You two will be here alone with Agatha for a week. Of course the servants will be here though," she added as an afterthought. "I wanted to tell you that there is a muggle carnival coming into town about twenty miles from here and I am sure that Agatha would love to go. You can take your grandfather's car," she said, talking to only Draco now.

"You mean I have to drive that piece of shi-junk?" he changed his words at the last minute seeing that Agatha was standing in the doorway.

"Yes you must, Draco, I already told Agatha about it so you are going to take her whether you like it or not. And if you don't take her," she added in an undertone, "I will find out, and you don't want that to happen."

"Of course we'll take Agatha, I think I'll like the change of scenery as much as she will," Ginny added hoping to ease the tension between Caroline and her grandson.

"Thank you Ginny, Greg and I will be leaving in the early morning so I'll say good-bye to Agatha tonight."

"You're leaving me grandma?" Agatha asked hurt evident in her voice.

"Only for a week baby girl," Caroline tried to console her but to no avail, she started crying. It was getting late after all.

"Why don't I take her to bed," Ginny said after five minutes of soggy good-byes from Caroline and Agatha.

"I want Draco!" she wailed.

"I guess I'll be taking her to bed," Draco said while picking her up.

"I want Ginny too!" she wailed yet again.

"I'm right here doll."

"Alright," she sniffled.

They began the trek up the stairs to Agatha's room and consequently to Ginny and Draco's rooms too since all three rooms were side by side.

They entered the pink room and Draco layed Agatha carefully on the white sheet and covered the tired girl with the blankets.

"G-night Draco," she murmured sleepily as Draco tucked her in.

Ginny sat on the bedside and kissed the girl's forehead.

"Night Ginny," she said as she drifted off into the blissful world of dreams.

Ginny and Draco tip-toed out of her room and shut the door. They both stood outside her room for a minute trying to figure out what to say.

"How are you doing on those chords I showed you?" Draco asked genuinely interested.

"Actually, I wanted to talk to you about that. I think I have the chords down and I was wondering if you could show me a few more," 

"Meet me in the library in five minutes," he said and then went into his room.

Ginny stared at his door for a few seconds before she got her guitar from her room.

"Can I learn a song?"

"I don't know can you?" it bothered Draco very much when people used incorrect grammar.

Ginny rolled her eyes, "Will you please teach me a song almighty Draco?"

He looked at her for a moment before simply saying, "Yes."

He picked up his guitar and started playing as he sang,

"When I find myself in times of trouble

Mother Mary comes to me

Speaking words of wisdom

Let it be

Let it be, let it be

Let it be, let it be

Speaking words of wisdom

Let it be, let it be"

Ginny stared at him in awe, letting his beautiful bass voice roll over her like waves. She could sing tolerably well but nothing like that.

Draco was waiting for her to say something. He surprised himself because he was actually nervous.

'Why am I nervous," he thought to himself. 'It's just because I never play in front of people,' he decided.

"That was beautiful," Ginny said truthfully. "What song was that?"

"It's a muggle song by an old group called The Beatles.

"Oh," Ginny said, surprised that Draco Malfoy would know a muggle song. She chose not to comment on her surprise fearing that it might make Draco mad and then he would stop acting so nice. It still puzzled her that he was acting halfway decent.

"You already know G so the other chords you need are F, C. and Aminor."

He showed her the chords and then got up to leave. Ginny put her hand on his arm. He turned swiftly around. She quickly removed her hand.

"Thanks"

He nodded and walked off.

Agatha was asleep on the couch with Ginny standing over her wondering what to do. The first day with Caroline absent had gone well. Agatha had cried for a few minutes at dinner saying "I want grandma!" over and over again but she calmed down quickly when Ginny reminded her of the carnival the next day.

It was eight thirty, a half an hour past Agatha's bedtime but Ginny had caved when Agatha asked if she could stay up. Now Ginny was faced with a dilemma. If she woke Agatha up she would have a really hard time getting her back to sleep, but it seemed that was the only option, Ginny wasn't strong enough to carry Agatha's dead weight up all those stairs to her room. Ginny was about to wake Agatha up when Draco walked into the room.

"What are you doing? She's asleep don't wake her up!" He cried condescendingly.

"What would you like me to do, I can't carry her up all of those stairs," anger was evident in her voice.

Without a word Draco moved to Agatha and picked her up. She murmured softly in her sleep but she didn't wake up. He then made his way to her bedroom. Ginny chose not to follow. He could handle Agatha if she woke up.

She sat on the sofa and closed her eyes, realizing for the first time how exhausted she was.

Just then an owl tapped at the window. She opened the window and untied a letter. Finally! It was Hermione's return letter!

Ginny,

How are you going to live with Malfoy? That must be really odd. The house sounds wonderful! You'll have to describe it in detail when I see you next. Our trip is going wonderfully. I'm sorry I can't really tell you what we're doing here but I can tell you something that will interest you very much. Ron kissed me! I've been waiting for it forever, I didn't think it would come, the day when Ron actually admitted he had feelings for me but it came and I am so happy! I know that you will be thrilled since Ron finally came to his senses. Don't make fun of me but I can't stop smiling! Everything is working out perfectly. Oh and Harry met this girl here in Egypt, she's American and he is quite taken with her. He still needs to get up the courage to ask her out though. I really do hope it's not too awful with Malfoy, keep me informed.

Hermione

P.S don't give Malfoy my love! (hee hee hee)

She didn't know how long she sat there after she read the letter but she knew it must have been a while, probably an hour. She thought about everything, her family and friends in Egypt, Ron and Hermione finally dating, Harry finding a girlfriend, Agatha, Draco, He-who-must-not-be-named… she laughed slightly as she remembered the group that was started in her fourth year, Dumbledore's army, it had been so much fun. All of her life she had wanted to be a part of The Dream Team. She had wanted to be the fourth member and in her fourth year they had kind of let her in, but just as the door was being opened it swung shut again. In her fifth year they started excluding her again. All three of them became members of the Order in their sixth year and the Order wouldn't let her in. They had made an exception for Ron, Harry, and Hermione given their backgrounds but they wouldn't let Ginny in. So once again she was the youngest Weasley, feisty but nothing special, kind of a loner, shy. That was what everyone knew her as. She wanted to be so much more but people wouldn't accept her any other way. She was now fighting back tears although an obstinate one made its way down her cheek. Sure she had friends but no one special. She didn't have a best friend, she didn't have a boyfriend. She was happy for Harry, Ron, and Hermione, she wanted the best for them but it was kind of hard having all of their dreams fulfilled while she was stuck here with a five year old girl and a Malfoy. Hermione was the closest thing she had to a best friend but she was only close with Hermione when Hermione needed a girlfriend instead of Harry and Ron. Sure they talked but never like best friends, she was always Ron's little sister and she was treated accordingly. Now the one tear on her cheek had turned into a flood of tears.

Draco walked into the sitting room to find Ginny sitting on the sofa with her eyes closed, tears pouring down her delicate face. He didn't really know how to handle the situation. He sat down beside her causing her to look up.

"What's wrong? Still pining after Potter? Wondering when he'll love you back?" he asked with a sneer.

She stood up, tears still coursing down her face. She took a step, her fatigue making her stumble and fall… into the arms of Draco who had stood up quickly when he saw her stumble. She was looking into his silver eyes, breathing deeply of his intoxicating cologne.

"I'm not in love with him," she said with conviction as she pushed his arms away refusing to succumb to his cologne which was making her heart leap into her throat.

'Or was it the cologne?' she asked herself. 'Of course it was, what else could it be,' she answered her own thoughts.

He let his arms drop. "Or are you crying because you have no friends?" he sneered at her again.

She looked at him for a moment and then started to silently walk to the door.

"I thought Gryffindors were supposed to be brave," he called after her.

She whirled around and walked back to him. "We are," as she said it she gave him a kiss on the cheek. He looked at her dumfounded and speechless for once.

"What the hell?"

"That took a lot more bravery than say… this," she said this as she slapped him across the face.

"What was that for? You can't kiss me and then slap me! Why are you doing this? Are you insane?"

Ginny was back to her fiery self once again and she felt stupid for all of the angst only moments before. "The kiss was to show you that I am indeed brave," she thought for a moment, "and also a thank you for catching me. The slap was for your insults before. So you see it all evens out in the end."

She started walking towards the door and turned around just as she was leaving the room, and said, "and about being insane, I think I actually might be." She then headed off to her room.

"We're going to the carnival, we're going to the carnival!" Agatha said in a sing-song voice. They were headed for the garage in the mansion. Ginny hadn't even known that there was a garage. It just proves how big this house is Ginny thought to herself.

"I can't believe grandmother is making me drive a muggle car," Draco said with disgust as he climbed into the driver's seat.

"There's always a first time for everything," Ginny said cheerily, she was almost as excited as Agatha about going to the carnival.

The car ride was relatively short, only about fifteen minutes, but it seemed exceedingly long due to the fact that Draco kept mumbling under his breath, "piece of junk, can't believe I have to drive this," and other broken phrases such as that.

"I see it! I see it!" Agatha yelled excitedly as she spotted a rollercoaster rising high above the ground.

Draco parked the car and payed the fee. Caroline had left them some muggle money before she had departed for her business trip.

They walked onto the fair grounds and Agatha started pointing out all of the things that she wanted to do.

"Let's go on the carousel and then ride the rollercoaster and then go on the swings and then I want to ride the pony and then I want to…" Agatha continued on in this way for another minute before Ginny told her that they would get to everything eventually.

It was getting late and Agatha was tired.

"Maybe it's time to go home," Ginny said to Agatha.

"One more ride, please?"

"I suppose we could do one more."

"Yay! Let's go on the Ferris Wheel, we haven't been on that yet."

They walked to the Ferris Wheel.

"I'll let the two of you ride, I'll just stay down here," Draco told Agatha.

"No, I want to ride alone!"

"Okay then I'll stay down here with Draco," Ginny told Agatha.

"But I want you guys to be on the ride too,"

Draco and Ginny entered the ride. As they started to go up Draco's shoulders became tense.

Ginny looked at him with laughter in her eyes. "Are you afraid of heights?"

"No, don't be ridiculous," he said as he surreptisiously looked over the edge with fear.

"You are! You are afraid of heights!"

"Don't make fun of me," he sneered.

Ginny smiled at him and said, "Everyone's afraid of something, it's nothing to be ashamed of."

"Oh, really, what are you afraid of?" Draco mocked her.

Ginny looked down and said, "I don't think you really want to know."

Draco looked at her with interest. "Now I do."

"I'm afraid of-not going anywhere."

"What?"

"I'm afraid of not being anything, not going anywhere, not doing anything important with my life."

Ginny looked into his eyes to see if he was laughing at her, but he wasn't.

"I don't think that will happen," Draco said sincerely.

"Really?"

"No."

"Thanks."

Ginny looked at him with gentle astonishment. She thought he'd laugh at her.

"You know, your not as unpleasant as you think you are."

"What makes you say that? My father and I have tortured you and your family for years."

"You aren't your father."

"I might as well be, everyone thinks that I am."

"I don't."

She put her hand over his. Her mind was yelling at her, 'Why are you touching a Malfoy!" it screamed at her. She ignored it.

He put a lock of her hair behind her ear. His lips were moving slowly towards hers. Then the ride stopped, the moment was broken. Draco and Ginny got off of the ride more confused than they had ever been.

"What was I thinking?" Draco and Ginny both thought to themselves.

"He's a Malfoy!"

"She's a Weasley!"

They were driving home. Ginny and Draco were in the front seat and Agatha was in the backseat asleep. Neither of them wanted to mention what had almost happened so they chose not to say anything.

When they got home Draco carried Agatha to her room. Ginny watched Draco's retreating back as he went to put Agatha to bed. She couldn't help but let her mind revert back to what had happened earlier. He had smelled so good, like a chilly autumn day. She mentally slapped herself. 'I can't think about Malfoy like this.' She thought to herself.

She went to her room and slowly shut the door thoughts of Draco and the almost kiss, still swirling through her head as she drifted off into a much needed sleep.

A/N: What do you think, I need you're input! And I would like to thank Moween for being the only person to review every chapter! You rock Moween!