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Previous: 'He kissed me,' she thought to herself. 'The famous Harry Potter actually kissed me. Right after I had finally gotten over him! Why does he have to do this! Could he really have seen? Maybe he's jealous?' Ginny Weasley groaned and buried herself in the cushions.
Ginny slid down to sit on the floor. With her knees up to her chest, she put her hands over her face and cried. The same silent tears the night Harry rejected her, but this time no one was coming to help her.
Chapter Two: Coming Home
When Draco got back on Friday the first person he wanted to see was Ginny. The problem was, though, he couldn't seem to find her. No one even knew where she was! So he sat and waited for her in the one place she would go as soon as she realized he was back. The lake.
As Draco approached the dark, glistening water he heard a sound somewhere nearby. His first thought was that it was Ginny. His second thought was that Ginny didn't sound anything like that, and she wouldn't be hiding, especially from him. So he chose the natural Slytherin action, he ignored it.
While Draco waited, he made a picture in the dirt. It was a picture of him and Ginny, a small "Welcome Back!" banner in the corner. He had a word bubble coming from his own mouth that finally said the words Ginny wanted to hear. "I love you, Virginia Weasley!" Next to that picture he made another one, one he didn't want Ginny to see just yet if she happened to come along. Draco Malfoy was not the type of person to think this was even possible, but he felt so sure it would happen. The picture was of the day he would propose to Ginny. It even had a word bubble of him asking, and her saying yes. Of course, it wouldn't be too long after she graduates from Hogwarts. Maybe it would even be before then.
Draco heard hushed footsteps coming his way and covered the pictures up. He turned around and saw it was Ginny. He smiled and stood up, walking towards her. She had a dried river on her face; her face was tearstained. "What's wrong, Ginny?" he asked, the most concern showing in his voice.
"I... he... you..." she tried to speak, but every time she would stop after the first word. Then she just started crying again. Draco immediately pulled her into a hug, a tight hug.
"Ginny, whatever happened... it's going to be okay. Trust me..." he whispered softly in her ear, causing butterflies in her stomach. It still didn't make the tears go away, though.
"D-Draco... I do trust you, I love you. How can I not trust you? But I don't want to hurt you. And I didn't mean for this to happen. He just... he just..." She didn't want to tell him. It hurt her to think about his reaction. She didn't want to lose him, the one person that she loved with all of her heart. She thought she had felt this way for Harry five weeks ago, even before then. And suddenly, she realized, just five weeks ago, it was just a little thing called infatuation. But she really loved Draco.
"Who's he? What'd 'he' do to you?" Draco now had hold of her hands and was stroking the back with his thumb, staring into her eyes. He didn't know what she had to tell him, but it seemed like it wasn't going to be good if it involved a 'he'.
"Harry... he told me that he's sorry for hurting me. He said he wants me back... He kissed me, Draco!" Ginny was crying so hard now. "And I don't want to lose you... I didn't mean for it to happen, I just thought he wanted to talk and... and... he told me to think about it, and I have... a lot... and every time I cried. I thought about what you would say when I would tell you, and my thoughts of your reaction never fit what I wanted to see."
Draco had turned his head away when he heard Harry's name. 'First it was Potter this, and Potter that. And now Potter's trying to steal my girlfriend from me! He's always been a jealous little jackass! He made her cry, he hurt her! HE KISSED HER! Oh, I'm gonna kill him, I am!' He looked back at Ginny, hurt coming into his eyes a little. "Ginny, I want to show you something," he said, acting as if he hadn't heard the news yet.
Draco only meant to show Ginny the first picture he drew in the dirt. Now, he wanted to show her both of them. Maybe it would make a difference.
Draco uncovered the first picture he had drawn, scribbled into the dirt a little sloppy. As it was a little dark out, he cast the lighting spell ("Lumos!") so it was able to read. "This is what I was kind of hoping for today, Ginny..." he said, looking at her. She looked so beautiful. Like an angel. He didn't want to lose the only angel that would ever pass him to his worst enemy, to her ex-crush.
Ginny looked up at Draco, hope in her eyes. She had that look on her face, the look that said 'You do?' without having to ask the question. "I love you, Ginny, and I'm not going to let you go," he whispered to her. He kissed her softly on the lips before showing her the other dirt-sketched picture.
"I'm not sure if this is going to happen anymore, but I'm hoping it still will. I hope you're heart hasn't changed any since I've left," Draco explained. Before he had even totally uncovered it she had gasped. He stole a glance at her. He'd remember that face forever. It matched the one he had drawn.
Ginny's wet trail of sadness and possible-heartache had now been replaced by happiness and the sureness that there would be no heartache. She stared at the pictures with a wide grin spread on her face, and as Draco sat next to her, admiring her, he couldn't help but think that there was a face in the window, hating Draco Malfoy with every inch of his being.
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Harry felt great all week, waiting for Ginny's answer on whether she still liked him or not, whether she would break up with Draco. He hadn't asked her about it again, but smiled at her every chance he got. Then came Friday evening, the day Draco would be back at Hogwarts. Of course, the only reason he had known this was because on that Monday evening when he kissed her soft lips, when he had come back early to the common room, he took her letter from him and read it.
As Harry got back from dinner he noticed Draco wandering near the Gryffindor common room. He was probably looking for Ginny. Harry ignored him, thinking that Malfoy couldn't possibly think that he would still have Ginny after what had happened on Monday. Or maybe he didn't know yet. Harry just shrugged. Whenever Ginny would tell him he would surely break it off if she hasn't already.
Ron was in the common room with Hermione, making out, but as they heard the portrait hole slide open the detached their lips from each other. Hermione pretended to have been reading her book the whole time, while Ron just stared at Harry. As soon as he had processed who it was, he smiled. "Hello, Harry!"
"Hey, Ron, have you seen Ginny?" Harry asked. He looked at Hermione, too, for help.
"No, Draco's looking for her, too, though. I suppose he wants to inform her that he's back," Hermione said, not looking up from her book. "They really do make such a cute couple."
Harry stared at the back of Hermione's head, his jaw dropped, eyes bulged. Had she just said that Ginny Weasley and Draco Malfoy looked cute together? He shook it off, surely he was just hallucinating. "So what've you guys been up to?" He sat down in an armchair across from the couch they were sitting on. He preferred not touching that particular couch around this time. Hopefully the house elves would clean it!
"Oh, you know the usual..." Ron said, looking at Hermione. "Talking, thinking, looking..." Hermione looked back up at Ron with a strange expression on her face, but smiled as she finished his words. "...kissing..." They both leaned in and went back to what they were doing before Harry came along.
"Right! Well, I guess I'm going to be going!" Harry got up from his chair and, without the slightest glance back at the couple, ran up the spiral staircase to the boys dormitories.
He sat there on his four-poster bed, thinking of Ginny. Why had she chosen to be with Draco in the first place? He hated her family, he hated all Gryffindors! "Obviously not all Gryffindors if he's dating Ginny!" a voice said in the back of his head.
Harry ignored the voice and walked to the window, looking out onto the lake. There was Ginny and Malfoy, talking. Malfoy made her cry! 'He's gonna pay for that!' Malfoy kissed her. Then he showed her something. She smiled. Maybe he hadn't hurt her after all.
Harry then realized exactly what he was witnessing. Ginny really didn't want him anymore, she wanted Malfoy and that's all. He kicked the wall. Malfoy was gonna pay one way or another, he'd be sure of that. 'Draco Malfoy always gets his way? Ha, no. Harry Potter always gets his way!' Then the pain came to Harry. He dropped to the floor and started rubbing his foot.
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The next morning when Draco woke up he was surprised to see himself lying next to an angelic-looking red-head by the lake. His arms were wrapped around her and his chest was being her pillow. He shivered when the reality of how cold it was reached his skin. Then he looked down at the beautiful girl lying on him. He stroked her hair slowly, it was soft. A few minutes went by when Ginny finally moved, looking up at Draco. She smiled, and his heart did a flip as butterflies filled his stomach.
"Good morning, Draco," Ginny whispered, kissing him lightly on the cheek.
"Good morning, sunshine," Draco whispered back, kissing her softly on the lips. Ginny looked at Draco as if he was crazy. "Well, you need a name that only I call you by, one that can really stand for you. The only one I could think of besides angel was sunshine!" He looked at her open her mouth to say something, but before she could get a sound out, he added, "And lots of guys call their girlfriend an angel..."
Ginny smiled. Draco always knew just what to say. "Well, Draco... I think I'd better get back up to my dorm. It's cold out here and I'm sure Hermione's already told Ron I wasn't up in my bed last night. He's probably really worried about me."
"Alright, but Ginny?" Draco watched as Ginny turned around to look at him again. "I love you..." he said in a soft tone. She smiled and slowly walked back to him, kissing him. Then she hugged him and whispered, "I love you, too... and I always will."
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As Ginny reached the Gryffindor common room she saw Ron sitting with Hermione on a couch by the fire. Of course, why wouldn't she be right on that? As soon as the portrait hole closed, Ron looked up at Ginny.
"Where were you last night?" he asked, anger reaching his voice. "Oh, let me guess, out celebrating with Malfoy about him being back?"
Ginny opened her mouth to say "Uh, duh!" but before she could say anything someone answered for her, telling the whole truth, though. Not what she expected.
"She was out with Malfoy by the lake all night, talking, staring at... God- knows-what! They fell asleep out there." Ginny turned her head to the speaker. It was Harry. Oh great, he probably hated her now. But after taking a good look at him, Ginny came to realize he didn't hate her, but he was extremely hurt by her choice.
"Yeah, well... I've got to get ready for class. I'm going, later!" Ginny rolled her eyes and made her way up the spiral staircase to the girls' dormitories. Halfway up, she could hear Ron's voice yelling, "We don't have classes on a Saturday, Gin!"
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As Ginny made her way to dinner that night, she heard her name down the corridor. The voice sounded exhausted, like they had been running for awhile or something. She thought she'd be nice and give the person a break, so as she turned around and noticed who it was she closed her eyes tight. Why couldn't it be a dream?
"Yes, Harry?" Ginny asked, opening her eyes and trying, but not succeeding, to take the annoyed look off of her face.
"I'm sorry," he said, looking down at her. "I'm so sorry, and I feel so stupid. I should have realized that you love him." She could hear him mutter "...that jackass..." under his breath. "And I'm sorry for making this past week hard on you, I just was hoping..."
"It's okay, Harry. I've just never felt anything such as this before, and I'm not about to leave it just because of a silly crush from the past. No offense or anything, but it was just ridiculous for me to like you and think I really had a chance." Ginny smiled up at Harry, giving him a small hug. As she walked into the Great Hall doors, she couldn't help but think something bad was going to happen, or someone, maybe not necessarily her, had made the wrong choice.
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A/N: Ok, that's the end of this chappie! Sorry, it's short, too! I had planned on making it longer, but I really needed to post it on up so that I can warn you guys that there won't be another chapter for awhile! I'll be at my mom's with my laptop writing the next chapter or two for you, but the internet wouldn't work and I don't have a disk drive, so I'll send ya a late Christmas present when I get back from there! Oh, and I wanted to tell you all, also, that I've got the whole story planned out in my head now, finally! Whoa, amazing, huh? And I've had some saved files concerning this story! I think this one may turn out better than the other DG fic will! I've so much preparation in this one rather than the other one... anyways, better stop babbling, huh? Please Review; keep checkin', just in case, I love you all so much for reviewing! Bunches of love! rEnAe17
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, got it? Good!
Previous: 'He kissed me,' she thought to herself. 'The famous Harry Potter actually kissed me. Right after I had finally gotten over him! Why does he have to do this! Could he really have seen? Maybe he's jealous?' Ginny Weasley groaned and buried herself in the cushions.
Ginny slid down to sit on the floor. With her knees up to her chest, she put her hands over her face and cried. The same silent tears the night Harry rejected her, but this time no one was coming to help her.
Chapter Two: Coming Home
When Draco got back on Friday the first person he wanted to see was Ginny. The problem was, though, he couldn't seem to find her. No one even knew where she was! So he sat and waited for her in the one place she would go as soon as she realized he was back. The lake.
As Draco approached the dark, glistening water he heard a sound somewhere nearby. His first thought was that it was Ginny. His second thought was that Ginny didn't sound anything like that, and she wouldn't be hiding, especially from him. So he chose the natural Slytherin action, he ignored it.
While Draco waited, he made a picture in the dirt. It was a picture of him and Ginny, a small "Welcome Back!" banner in the corner. He had a word bubble coming from his own mouth that finally said the words Ginny wanted to hear. "I love you, Virginia Weasley!" Next to that picture he made another one, one he didn't want Ginny to see just yet if she happened to come along. Draco Malfoy was not the type of person to think this was even possible, but he felt so sure it would happen. The picture was of the day he would propose to Ginny. It even had a word bubble of him asking, and her saying yes. Of course, it wouldn't be too long after she graduates from Hogwarts. Maybe it would even be before then.
Draco heard hushed footsteps coming his way and covered the pictures up. He turned around and saw it was Ginny. He smiled and stood up, walking towards her. She had a dried river on her face; her face was tearstained. "What's wrong, Ginny?" he asked, the most concern showing in his voice.
"I... he... you..." she tried to speak, but every time she would stop after the first word. Then she just started crying again. Draco immediately pulled her into a hug, a tight hug.
"Ginny, whatever happened... it's going to be okay. Trust me..." he whispered softly in her ear, causing butterflies in her stomach. It still didn't make the tears go away, though.
"D-Draco... I do trust you, I love you. How can I not trust you? But I don't want to hurt you. And I didn't mean for this to happen. He just... he just..." She didn't want to tell him. It hurt her to think about his reaction. She didn't want to lose him, the one person that she loved with all of her heart. She thought she had felt this way for Harry five weeks ago, even before then. And suddenly, she realized, just five weeks ago, it was just a little thing called infatuation. But she really loved Draco.
"Who's he? What'd 'he' do to you?" Draco now had hold of her hands and was stroking the back with his thumb, staring into her eyes. He didn't know what she had to tell him, but it seemed like it wasn't going to be good if it involved a 'he'.
"Harry... he told me that he's sorry for hurting me. He said he wants me back... He kissed me, Draco!" Ginny was crying so hard now. "And I don't want to lose you... I didn't mean for it to happen, I just thought he wanted to talk and... and... he told me to think about it, and I have... a lot... and every time I cried. I thought about what you would say when I would tell you, and my thoughts of your reaction never fit what I wanted to see."
Draco had turned his head away when he heard Harry's name. 'First it was Potter this, and Potter that. And now Potter's trying to steal my girlfriend from me! He's always been a jealous little jackass! He made her cry, he hurt her! HE KISSED HER! Oh, I'm gonna kill him, I am!' He looked back at Ginny, hurt coming into his eyes a little. "Ginny, I want to show you something," he said, acting as if he hadn't heard the news yet.
Draco only meant to show Ginny the first picture he drew in the dirt. Now, he wanted to show her both of them. Maybe it would make a difference.
Draco uncovered the first picture he had drawn, scribbled into the dirt a little sloppy. As it was a little dark out, he cast the lighting spell ("Lumos!") so it was able to read. "This is what I was kind of hoping for today, Ginny..." he said, looking at her. She looked so beautiful. Like an angel. He didn't want to lose the only angel that would ever pass him to his worst enemy, to her ex-crush.
Ginny looked up at Draco, hope in her eyes. She had that look on her face, the look that said 'You do?' without having to ask the question. "I love you, Ginny, and I'm not going to let you go," he whispered to her. He kissed her softly on the lips before showing her the other dirt-sketched picture.
"I'm not sure if this is going to happen anymore, but I'm hoping it still will. I hope you're heart hasn't changed any since I've left," Draco explained. Before he had even totally uncovered it she had gasped. He stole a glance at her. He'd remember that face forever. It matched the one he had drawn.
Ginny's wet trail of sadness and possible-heartache had now been replaced by happiness and the sureness that there would be no heartache. She stared at the pictures with a wide grin spread on her face, and as Draco sat next to her, admiring her, he couldn't help but think that there was a face in the window, hating Draco Malfoy with every inch of his being.
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Harry felt great all week, waiting for Ginny's answer on whether she still liked him or not, whether she would break up with Draco. He hadn't asked her about it again, but smiled at her every chance he got. Then came Friday evening, the day Draco would be back at Hogwarts. Of course, the only reason he had known this was because on that Monday evening when he kissed her soft lips, when he had come back early to the common room, he took her letter from him and read it.
As Harry got back from dinner he noticed Draco wandering near the Gryffindor common room. He was probably looking for Ginny. Harry ignored him, thinking that Malfoy couldn't possibly think that he would still have Ginny after what had happened on Monday. Or maybe he didn't know yet. Harry just shrugged. Whenever Ginny would tell him he would surely break it off if she hasn't already.
Ron was in the common room with Hermione, making out, but as they heard the portrait hole slide open the detached their lips from each other. Hermione pretended to have been reading her book the whole time, while Ron just stared at Harry. As soon as he had processed who it was, he smiled. "Hello, Harry!"
"Hey, Ron, have you seen Ginny?" Harry asked. He looked at Hermione, too, for help.
"No, Draco's looking for her, too, though. I suppose he wants to inform her that he's back," Hermione said, not looking up from her book. "They really do make such a cute couple."
Harry stared at the back of Hermione's head, his jaw dropped, eyes bulged. Had she just said that Ginny Weasley and Draco Malfoy looked cute together? He shook it off, surely he was just hallucinating. "So what've you guys been up to?" He sat down in an armchair across from the couch they were sitting on. He preferred not touching that particular couch around this time. Hopefully the house elves would clean it!
"Oh, you know the usual..." Ron said, looking at Hermione. "Talking, thinking, looking..." Hermione looked back up at Ron with a strange expression on her face, but smiled as she finished his words. "...kissing..." They both leaned in and went back to what they were doing before Harry came along.
"Right! Well, I guess I'm going to be going!" Harry got up from his chair and, without the slightest glance back at the couple, ran up the spiral staircase to the boys dormitories.
He sat there on his four-poster bed, thinking of Ginny. Why had she chosen to be with Draco in the first place? He hated her family, he hated all Gryffindors! "Obviously not all Gryffindors if he's dating Ginny!" a voice said in the back of his head.
Harry ignored the voice and walked to the window, looking out onto the lake. There was Ginny and Malfoy, talking. Malfoy made her cry! 'He's gonna pay for that!' Malfoy kissed her. Then he showed her something. She smiled. Maybe he hadn't hurt her after all.
Harry then realized exactly what he was witnessing. Ginny really didn't want him anymore, she wanted Malfoy and that's all. He kicked the wall. Malfoy was gonna pay one way or another, he'd be sure of that. 'Draco Malfoy always gets his way? Ha, no. Harry Potter always gets his way!' Then the pain came to Harry. He dropped to the floor and started rubbing his foot.
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The next morning when Draco woke up he was surprised to see himself lying next to an angelic-looking red-head by the lake. His arms were wrapped around her and his chest was being her pillow. He shivered when the reality of how cold it was reached his skin. Then he looked down at the beautiful girl lying on him. He stroked her hair slowly, it was soft. A few minutes went by when Ginny finally moved, looking up at Draco. She smiled, and his heart did a flip as butterflies filled his stomach.
"Good morning, Draco," Ginny whispered, kissing him lightly on the cheek.
"Good morning, sunshine," Draco whispered back, kissing her softly on the lips. Ginny looked at Draco as if he was crazy. "Well, you need a name that only I call you by, one that can really stand for you. The only one I could think of besides angel was sunshine!" He looked at her open her mouth to say something, but before she could get a sound out, he added, "And lots of guys call their girlfriend an angel..."
Ginny smiled. Draco always knew just what to say. "Well, Draco... I think I'd better get back up to my dorm. It's cold out here and I'm sure Hermione's already told Ron I wasn't up in my bed last night. He's probably really worried about me."
"Alright, but Ginny?" Draco watched as Ginny turned around to look at him again. "I love you..." he said in a soft tone. She smiled and slowly walked back to him, kissing him. Then she hugged him and whispered, "I love you, too... and I always will."
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As Ginny reached the Gryffindor common room she saw Ron sitting with Hermione on a couch by the fire. Of course, why wouldn't she be right on that? As soon as the portrait hole closed, Ron looked up at Ginny.
"Where were you last night?" he asked, anger reaching his voice. "Oh, let me guess, out celebrating with Malfoy about him being back?"
Ginny opened her mouth to say "Uh, duh!" but before she could say anything someone answered for her, telling the whole truth, though. Not what she expected.
"She was out with Malfoy by the lake all night, talking, staring at... God- knows-what! They fell asleep out there." Ginny turned her head to the speaker. It was Harry. Oh great, he probably hated her now. But after taking a good look at him, Ginny came to realize he didn't hate her, but he was extremely hurt by her choice.
"Yeah, well... I've got to get ready for class. I'm going, later!" Ginny rolled her eyes and made her way up the spiral staircase to the girls' dormitories. Halfway up, she could hear Ron's voice yelling, "We don't have classes on a Saturday, Gin!"
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As Ginny made her way to dinner that night, she heard her name down the corridor. The voice sounded exhausted, like they had been running for awhile or something. She thought she'd be nice and give the person a break, so as she turned around and noticed who it was she closed her eyes tight. Why couldn't it be a dream?
"Yes, Harry?" Ginny asked, opening her eyes and trying, but not succeeding, to take the annoyed look off of her face.
"I'm sorry," he said, looking down at her. "I'm so sorry, and I feel so stupid. I should have realized that you love him." She could hear him mutter "...that jackass..." under his breath. "And I'm sorry for making this past week hard on you, I just was hoping..."
"It's okay, Harry. I've just never felt anything such as this before, and I'm not about to leave it just because of a silly crush from the past. No offense or anything, but it was just ridiculous for me to like you and think I really had a chance." Ginny smiled up at Harry, giving him a small hug. As she walked into the Great Hall doors, she couldn't help but think something bad was going to happen, or someone, maybe not necessarily her, had made the wrong choice.
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A/N: Ok, that's the end of this chappie! Sorry, it's short, too! I had planned on making it longer, but I really needed to post it on up so that I can warn you guys that there won't be another chapter for awhile! I'll be at my mom's with my laptop writing the next chapter or two for you, but the internet wouldn't work and I don't have a disk drive, so I'll send ya a late Christmas present when I get back from there! Oh, and I wanted to tell you all, also, that I've got the whole story planned out in my head now, finally! Whoa, amazing, huh? And I've had some saved files concerning this story! I think this one may turn out better than the other DG fic will! I've so much preparation in this one rather than the other one... anyways, better stop babbling, huh? Please Review; keep checkin', just in case, I love you all so much for reviewing! Bunches of love! rEnAe17