Chapter 6: Surprises

Ginny sat on the edge of her king size bed holding the note Draco had written her last night. It was a present from her parents for skipping a grade. Ginny had her own private room since the middle of her second year.

At the beginning of her second year she would awake screaming from nightmares. Around Halloween she got her private room and has had it ever since. Even though her nightmares stopped in the summer after her 2nd year.

"Am I really going to do this?" said aloud after rereading his note again for the hundredth time. "Ron is going to kill me if he finds out I'm meeting him alone tonight." she sighed and went over to her walk-in closet.

"What to wear." Ginny said as she looked through the many clothes that hung inside. First she pulled out a pair of low rider jeans and a form fitting tee shirt and put it on. Standing in front of her mirror she shook her head no and quickly took off the outfit and put it back into her closet. Next outfit she tried on was a pair of tight black pants and a dark red top. After looking at herself in the mirror she decided this wasn't the outfit to wear tonight and took it off.

After 15 minutes of trying on outfits and taking them back off, Ginny was finally standing in front of her mirror smiling. "This is it." she said looking at her reflection. She was wearing a denim skirt, a form fitting red tank top with a jacket that matched her skirt over it.

Ginny walked over to her nightstand and grabbed her wand. And with one final look in the mirror she was off on her way to meet Draco with 15 minutes to spare.

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Ginny was a couple corridors from the steps that would lead her up to where Draco was waiting for her. She smiled as she walked down the corridor wondering what Draco had in mind to surprise her with.

"Hey Gin, where are you heading?" came a voice from behind her that made Ginny stop dead in her tracks.

Ginny sighed then turned around with a fake smile on her face. "Hello Harry."

Harry was a prefect and was probably on patrol right now looking for students breaking school rules. Which was exactly what Ginny was doing. "So where are you heading?" Harry asked as he eyed her suspiciously.

"Oh, Uh I can't seem to find one of my quills and was looking to see if maybe I dropped it up here." She quickly answered hoping that Harry would buy it and leave her alone.

"Couldn't that have waited until the morning, Gin?" Harry asked a little skeptical of what she said.

"Harry this quill was a present from my parents. It was an expensive one." she faked a sigh. "Mum and dad will be so disappointed if I lose it." Ginny really did have an expensive quill from her parents, but it wasn't missing. In fact it was sitting on her desk in her dorm.

Harry nodded his head obviously believing her story. "Well what does it look like, Gin?" He asked walking over to her.

"Umm, its just a plain black quill. But it is engraved with my initials G.W. on it." she lied.

"Alright, well lets go look for it then. You won't get into any trouble with me with you." Harry stated and started walking down the corridor in search of Ginny's supposedly lost quill.

"Ok, thanks Harry." Ginny rolled her eyes when Harry had walked away in front of her. She could not have except his help because then Harry would get suspicious and run to tell Ron. So she had no choice but to follow him and pray that Draco would still be waiting for her whenever she got away from Harry.

"No problem, Gin. Tonight was a slow night anyway. This will give me something to do." He smiled back at her then returned to looking for her quill.

For the next hour Harry and Ginny looked for her "missing" quill in silence. They barely talked to each other. But when they ended up back at the same place Ginny just wanted to get rid of him and go find Draco. "Let's call it a night Harry. If we haven't found it by now I'm sure someone else picked it up." she sighed and hoped that Harry would leave and return to his prefect duties.

"Well alright, Gin. But I'm going to have to leave you here. I'm cannot walk you back to the common room because my shift isn't over for another couple of hours." Harry said sadly.

"That's alright. Thanks for all your help tonight." She smiled then walked off down the hallway to head for the Astronomy tower.

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When Ginny finally arrived at the Astronomy tower Draco was no where in site. "Damn Harry." she thought to herself then walked out of the Astronomy tower to head back to Gryffindor Tower.

Ginny decided to take an indirect path back to Gryffindor Tower. She really wasn't in the mood to go to bed yet. She was very disappointed that she never got to see Draco and was even more angry at Harry for ruining her chances. "God I hate him!" she said aloud as she rounded a corner to only come face to face with Draco Malfoy.

"Well I hope your not talking about me." He said slyly to her. Draco was wearing black pants, a gray shirt and looking devastatingly good. Ginny inhaled deeply as she looked over his body.

"I was talking about Harry fucking Potter." She said looking into his eyes. "Your not even going to believe what happened to me." She shook her head then remembered that she hadn't apologized for not showing up tonight. "Oh, I'm really sorry about standing you up tonight." She put her hands on her lips. "It was all Potter's fault."

Draco was surprised by the way she was talking about Harry and couldn't wait to hear what had happened to her. "What did he do?" He asked leaning up against a nearby wall.

"Well I was almost to the Astronomy tower when Harry comes up behind me and starts questioning me as to where I was going." She started and moved over so she was standing in front of him.

"What did you say?" He asked while looking over what she was wearing and suddenly had to restrain himself from snogging her right here in the empty corridor.

"I told him this story about me losing an expensive quill that had been a present from my parents. And that if I didn't find it they would be so sad and disappointed." she put her hands on her hips. "And do you know what that moron did, Malfoy?" she asked obviously annoyed.

Draco shrugged his shoulders. "What?"

"The moron actually offered to help me look for it." she sighed. "So to make a long story short, he had me all over this bloody castle looking for a quill that wasn't even lost!" she threw her hands up in the air.

Draco let a small laugh escape from his lips.

"And what is so funny, Malfoy?" she asked with her hands on her hips looking at him confused.

"Nothing. Its just that you went to all that trouble to get rid of him and it only ended up making matters worse. You had to spend god knows how long looking for some imaginary thing." He laughed again.

Ginny smiled. "Well I guess it is kind of funny when you think about it." She quickly changed bit her lip. "But I'm still mad as hell at him."

Draco nodded his head. "That's understandable, but what do you say I walk you back to your common room before Potter comes around again and ruins everything." He grinned and waited for her response.

"Alright." Ginny simply responded.

Draco began walking and looked next to him to find Ginny walking beside him. "So did you give our part of the essay to Hermione?" Draco asked trying to make conversation.

Ginny looked over at him and noticed how close they were walking to each other. "I gave it to her this morning. She said she would do it tonight and hand it in tomorrow."

"Ok, good." He said as he kept on walking.

After walking for a good 10 minutes they rounded the corner that had her common room at the other end of the corridor. Draco looked around and decided to stop here.

"You alright?" Ginny asked when she noticed that Draco had stopped walking.

"Yea, I just think maybe it would be better for me to leave you here rather than risk anyone coming out or going into the common room and seeing us together." He answered with his hands in his pockets.

Ginny bit her lip and nodded. "I suppose you are right, because if Ron happened to be one of those people he would kill you then probably yell at me till morning." she smiled over at him.

Draco just nodded his head. "Well I will see you around, Red." He said softly. He turned to walk away, but instead walked closer to her and kissed her softly on her mouth. After a couple seconds Draco pulled away. "Night." He whispered to her then walked off briskly down the corridor toward the Slytherin Common room.

Ginny stood there watching him walk away from her. It wasn't until he rounded the corner that she started walking again.

Ginny quietly walked through the portrait hole of the Gryffindor Common room to be met by her brother Ron. "Where have you been? Harry came in over an hour ago and said he had helped you look for a quill you had lost tonight. But he said that you should have been back hours before he came in." His face was full of brotherly concern.

"I just went down to the library to do some research on one of my papers, Ron. That's all. Sorry I'm so late. I kind of lost track of time." She lied. Ginny obviously wasn't going to tell him the truth, that his worst enemy had just kissed her and that she couldn't wait until she could kiss him again.

Ron gave out a sigh of relief. "Oh, alright. You had me so worried." He walked over and hugged his sister. "Well I'm off to bed then. Good night, Gin. See you in the morning."

"Night, Ron." She said hugging him back then walked up the stairs to her room to go to sleep. It took her a long time to go to sleep that night, because every time she closed her eyes she relived her kiss with Draco.

To Be Continued….

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