Ginny awoke to the feeling that she was not alone. It was still dark inside the room, but she could see a dark figure right in front of her.  She was about to scream, but the figure quickly covered her mouth.

"Its all right. It's just me.  We need to talk."  She knew who it was and though that it wasn't ok. "I'm going to take away my hand.  If you scream then we'll both get in trouble and I know you don't want that. Ok?"

She nodded yes and as soon as his hand let go she gave him a hard slap.  "How could you do that to me! I should of known that you didn't want to be together after the way after the way you acted last night.  And right after you were with me?? How dare you come up here and tell me it's all right!  You-"

"Ginny, that's not what happened. And that's not why. " She was whispering, but really fast and he was afraid that if she kept going, the entire dormitory would wake up. "And there is nothing going on between me and Pansy."

"My ass there isn't" She tried to act calm, but she all ready felt the tears filling her eyes.

This is going to be hard. "Ginny, listen. Please?"  When she didn't say any thing he took a deep breath and told her what had really happened.

  "Pansy's grandmother died around lunch time.  When I was heading back to the common room last night, after we… met, I found her in a classroom, bawling her eyes out.  I went inside to see why she was crying, and she showed me the letter that her parents had written her.  I felt bad for her, so I comforted her." At this Ginny gave a snort of disbelief.

"Nothing happened though. We ended up falling asleep there, and when we went to the common room in the morning I went strait to my room and she stayed behind to talk to her friends.  I swear I didn't do anything with her! Honest.  I didn't even know the rumor, which she started, was flying around.  I swear nothing happened and I would never hurt you, Ginny.  I love you."  The words were out of his mouth before he could even think about what he said.  But he had ment it and he looked into Ginny's eyes, begging her to believe. 

She stared at him opened mouth.  He did NOT just say that…  She said the only thing that came to mind.  "I love you too."  She smiled and put her hand on his face. He put his hand over hers, and she leaned in to kiss him. But when she remembered he hadn't explained why he hadn't been going along with her last night, she pulled back.  "Draco?"

"Hmm?" What was going on? He thought that everything was okay now. Why did she pull away? "What is it?"

"Why didn't you feel the same I did last night?"

He thought about this long and hard, but it all came back to the same thing. "Because I didn't know if you loved me.  I was worried that you went forward in the heat of the moment. I didn't want to do something you were going to regret later. But now I know I was wrong."

She gave another smile at his words. Who would have thought that Draco Malfoy would worry about a woman's virtue? She leaned in again, intent on finishing her task, when she was interrupted by a very loud voice.

"Malfoy get your dirty Hands off of my sister!"