Draco and Ginny began searching for Karissa in Blossom and Gordon's hideout. They looked in all the nooks and crannies before they finally found her hiding in the room where Kelsey had been held for awhile. (It later turned out that Kari had hoped to find Kelsey in there.)

"Mommy!" she screeched, running into Ginny's arms. Ginny scooped her up happily, and planted a kiss on top of her head. "Mommy, that was scary. Don't do it again, please?" Kari said sweetly. Ginny felt her heart melt.

"I won't, sweetie." Ginny promised, and walked to where Draco was. He was watching them both proudly.

"Shall we?" Draco said, motioning for her to walk in front of him.

She smiled and walked into his arms. He hugged both of them closely to him.

"We shall…" she whispered.

They Apparated to their manor. Draco took Kari out of Ginny's arms and said,

"Were Aunt Blossom and Uncle Gordon mean to you, Kari?"

"They wouldn't let me come home!" Kari said. "They said I could go see Auntie Luna but never let me!"

Ginny and Draco looked at each other, shocked. And then they both started to laugh.

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Later that night, Ginny stood looking out the window. She heard Draco come up behind her and looked toward him.

"Draco." She said stiffly. She still hadn't really forgiven him for losing Kari.

"Ginny." He sighed. "I just wanted to say I'm sorry. I've been a bit of a jerk."

"Yes." Ginny snapped. "You have."

"All right, I suppose I deserved that." Draco said graciously. In truth, he was starting to get angry. He didn't apologize every day, and it took a lot out of him to do it now.

"Yes." She snapped. "You did."

"Isn't the point where you're supposed to apologize too, and forgive me?" Draco asked in exasperation.

When he saw her face he thought to himself, Ooh, bad move, buddy.

"Why should I apologize?" Ginny snapped, glaring at him. He gave her a look.

"You little…" Draco started. They glared at one another and Draco looked away first.

"Fine. I can see there's nothing keeping me here. I'm going tonight, and I'm taking Kari with me. You can come back when school's over for the year. If you don't want to come home, go to your parent's house. I don't care." Draco snapped. In truth, he really did, but he could see the barbs going under her skin.

Ginny watched him, openmouthed. He marched into Kari's room. She heard Kari's stuff being packed furiously. Still she did nothing to stop him. She didn't believe he'd carry out his threat.

So she was shocked when he walked out of Kari's room, holding her suitcase in one hand and her hand in the other.

"Say goodbye to Mommy. She needs to have some time alone." Draco ordered Kari. She didn't suspect anything odd—after all, she was only five. So she said,

"Bye bye, Mommy. I'll see you later." She gave Ginny a winning smile.

Ginny watched in sadness as they Flooed out through the fireplace.

"But I still love you." She whispered into the empty fireplace, tears falling from her eyes.

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Ginny spent the rest of the year hoping Draco would come back, but she knew he wouldn't. When he did something, he did it for a reason. Coming back would completely defeat his purpose, so she knew he wouldn't do it. But still she could hope.

Ginny envied the happy couples that she saw. If only she was a part of one of them! They didn't have any cares, or any fights to worry about. They just had each other, and Ginny envied that.

She missed Draco. She knew that she might have forever ruined her chance with Draco, and part of her wanted to go to him and apologize. The stubborn and proud part of her, however, would not do such a thing as admit she was wrong. So she was miserable.

She moped about, and soon Cat decided that Ginny was in desperate need of something to cheer her up. So she consulted with some of Ginny's friends and family back in England. And together they came up with a plan so great that Ginny would be forced to fall back in love with Draco. So great that she would forgive him, and he would forgive her.

So Ginny moped around, but Cat and her other friends schemed. Ginny was miserable, but she didn't know that her friends and family had no intention of letting her stay that way.

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So… yes I did change this chapter, because it didn't really work out with how the next chapter goes. And I'm too lazy to change the whole chapter. If I had sent this to my beta originally, as I'm supposed to, I would seriously hope that she wouldn't have allowed me to post that chapter (or would have strongly recommended quite a few changes). Or a lot of those chapters that I did post. I feel sorry for the poor girl, as I'm going to be dumping quite a few chapters in her lap to correct. And I hope that she can help me out . But, then again, she isn't God…

Hehe…

Lili