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Chapter 4: Hard-hearted Adamant

Draco and Ginny had been going out for a week now. Gryffindors hated Draco and Slytherins were jealous of Ginny. It was a bad mixture, but people stayed pretty quiet about it, especially when they saw how head over heels for Ginny the proclaimed Slytherin Prince was. He followed her around like a spaniel, whether spurned, struck, neglected or lost, he only stayed closer. (A/N: name that play!)

Everyday he seemed to love her more. The way she talked, the way she moved, her jokes, her laugh, everything made his little black heart go pitter patter pitter patter. One day while the two were sitting by the lake, Draco reminisced on his life before Ginny. He seemed to forget that had only been a week ago, but he reminisced nonetheless. He remembered his evil plot to seduce, then dump Ginny. The very thought of that now made him laugh out loud. Which he did. Ginny eyed him questioningly as his manic laughter continued.

"Draco, what are you laughing at? You're starting to freak me out."

He immediately stopped at the thought of displeasing his only love. He looked up adoringly at her freckled face, marveling at the beauty in its gentle curves. He ran a finger along her jaw and unable to restrain himself from telling her everything, he preceded to spill his whole plot.

"Ginny-baby, you're going to think this very unlikely, but at one point, before I met you of course, I was an evil, unlovable, diabolical prick. I had decided to play my, then, favorite game and pick a girl out of the crowd, seduce her, and then dump her in front of the entire school just to humiliate her. Isn't that terrible?"

Ginny nodded slightly and mumbled thoughtfully, allowing him to go on with his pathetic display of affection.

"And I don't know if you knew but you were the girl I picked and I was going to do that terrible thing to you! It wouldn't have been the first time I had done it either. I was just awful. But then when I tried to get you to fall in love me you already were and then I fell in love with you and now I don't know what I could ever do without you! I think I might die! I wouldn't be able, I couldn't, I would just..."

Ginny cut off his frantic ramblings with a soft finger on his lips and rubbed his back in small circles to calm him, the way you would a child. Draco sighed in contentment and cuddled into Ginny's slim frame. Ginny decided it was time to end the charade.

"Draco, I'm hungry. We're going to the Great Hall for food."

"OK Ginny! Here, let me help you up, and I'll carry your bag for you, don't you lift a finger."

Draco trailed Ginny to the Hall. Once there he grabbed her a plate, piled it high with all her favorite foods and placed it in front of her at her usual spot at the Gryffindor table. While she ate in silence, completely ignoring him, he sat close by, ready to obey her every whim. It was truly disgusting. When she had her fill, Ginny stood up, turned to Draco, and in a voice loud enough for most of the room to hear, she announced:

"Draco, I'm breaking up with you. I don't love you, I've never loved you, and I never will love you. This whole thing has been a sham, a fake. I just wanted to give you a taste of your own medicine. You have done this to so many other girls that I couldn't wait for a chance to do the same to you. Oh, and thank you for the idea of announcing this to the entire school, I might have done it in a hallway or something, but during the middle of lunch was a fabulous idea. Good-bye Draco. Never talk to me again, never try to get back together with me. It will not work. Every time you see me, turn the other direction and remember this phrase, the player got played."

And with that she left the Hall and went to the Gryffindor House, ignoring the heartbroken, quivering mass behind her. Draco was crushed. He looked around the Hall at the hundreds of leering and jeering faces, the laughing echoed in his ears as well as the "serves him right!" from the many girls that had been in this same position. Tears started down his cheeks as he ran out of the Hall.

Draco was found three hours later, in a dark corner crying his eyes out over his lost love, by none other than Hermione Granger. Hermione joined him on the floor, wrapped her arms around him protectively and whispered comforting words in ears. Draco turned into her shoulder and cried even harder, holding her like a beloved security blanket. Hermione rubbed his back in small circles, calming him down, like you would a child. And as she murmured:

"It will be OK Draco. She didn't deserve you. Only a cold hearted bitch would dump you like that. Don't worry, I'm here for you,"

her amber eyes flashed in victory and she silently congratulated Ginny. She was so proud of her little actress.

A/N: huh, huh, what do you think? Are all the little clues I left falling into place? The 'amber eyes' that were everywhere? did it make you go, 'wait, what?!" Tell me tell me! I want to know if it is as good on paper or if it should have stayed in my head. And can anyone name the play I mentioned at the beginning? OK, enough chatter from me, thank you for reading and thank you Jack Robinson, purus.flere, Sharap'n Princess, some unknown girl, Cinder2004, and Felton118 for reviewing!!!! I luv you all!!!

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