What's Love?
A/N: Oh my GOSH!!! I already started this chapter and it was a really good start too, and them my floppy disk deletes it!!!! Can you believe that!!!??? ARGH!!! The author is pissed... But if you review, she just might cheer up!!! :)
Chapter 12
"I SAID 'GET AWAY FROM HIM!'" Ron shouted once more.
Ginny spun around, almost making Malfoy fall.
"DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!" she screamed in a voice more threatening that Ron's bellow. "YOU'RE NOT MY FATHER!"
Ron couldn't find anything to say and just stood there, speechless as his sister and his worst enemy walked off.
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Malfoy watched the Weasley curiously in the hospital wing, trying to read what she was thinking through her eyes...but there was nothing there. She was just blankly staring out the window, watching nothing in particular.
As he watched her, he couldn't help but wonder about what she had done for him. Why did she defend him? Why did she help him? And what bothered him the most was why she didn't hate him because of what his father had done. And what her brother had said about him being like his father and wanting to destroy the Weasley bloodline bothered him the most.
"Hey Weasley?" he called to her.
She turned her head.
"Yes?"
Malfoy didn't know why he called out to her, and now he didn't know what to say.
"Er..."
Ginny raised her eyebrows.
"Well?"
He thought quickly and said the first thing that came to his mind.
"Why did you help me?"
"Because Ron was beating you to death."
"I know," he said, brushing it aside, "but why didn't you let him?"
Ginny didn't reply, seeming to not know what to say.
Malfoy continued on.
"You could've just let him kill me and take on his point of view of me," he said, "but you didn't. Why?"
Ginny looked away from him.
"You're not your father."
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Ginny stared at the blank piece of paper in front of her eyes.
'What can I say?' she thought. 'How would Mum respond to my friendship with Malfoy? Would she reject it like Ron?'
Then another thought came upon her. Were they friends? Or was she merely there to occupy his time when he was bored?
Dear Mum,
A lot of things have been happening at school lately, and
Ginny stopped, crumpled up the piece of paper and threw it aside.
'I need to consider her feelings about...' she chose not to finish that thought. 'How in the world would I be able to speak about that?'
Dear Mum,
We've heard the news of
She crumpled up that paper too.
"I'll never find a way to write the letter," she sighed and decided to go outside under the beech tree by the lake.
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Malfoy leaned against the palm tree, now in full health.
He smiled as he remembered the time they were stuck in the carriage at the beginning of the school year. He shook his head and chuckled.
"What're you laughing about?" came a voice.
Malfoy jumped and looked around the tree.
"You didn't need to sneak up on me like that," he snapped.
"Well sorry," she said sarcastically and took her usual spot next to the lake. "So what was so funny?"
"Nothing," Malfoy shrugged, "just remembering the first day of school."
Ginny smiled.
"Oh yeah, you were running away from Pansy Parkinson."
"So are you ready for the Quidditch match?" asked Malfoy, changing the subject.
"Don't know," she shrugged, "maybe..."
"Ginny!" Hermione called.
The young girl turned her head towards the direction of the voice.
"I'm over here!" she replied.
Hermione walked over to where she was but didn't see Malfoy leaning against the beech tree.
"Quidditch practice starts at six o'clock. Ron didn't want to tell you but kept complaining you were fraternizing with--" she stopped when she saw Malfoy stand up straight. "Oh, I'll, uh, come back later."
"No, it's ok Hermione. What is it?" Ginny asked.
"Quidditch practice is at six o'clock." She replied. "Er...Ron didn't seem to want to talk to you..."
Ginny shrugged.
"So?"
"So...I wanted to know what was going on..." Hermione asked hesitantly.
"Nothing's happening," she replied smoothly. "Tell Ron to shut his mouth and mind his own business."
"Er, ok..." and Hermione walked away.
Ginny turned to look at Malfoy but he was already walking away.
"Where are you going?" she called.
"I'm going back to my common room. You wouldn't want to be caught fraternizing with me, would you?"
Ginny was surprised. She had defended him, hadn't she?
"Malfoy, wait!"
But he had already entered through the castle doors.
A/N: OK, I know, short chapter... So sue me, I was trying to finish the chapter with no ideas whatsoever! Next chapter's going to be the Quidditch match, if I can find a way to make it descriptive. I'm not good at describing sports, someone please give me ideas!!!