A/N: This is a good one!
Disclaimer: I disclaim all the characters and anything else you would recognize as the wonderful and talented J.K. Rowling.
Rated: PG-13 – there's a lot of cursing…I have a potty mouth!
Summery: Ginny gets a job at Draco's magazine. What happens when two rivals start having feeling for one another and one makes a mistake that could tear everything they have apart.
Fluff-o-meter: Yeah fluff!
Dedicated to Kiki Pryde for her very encouraging words. Thank you so much. This one's for you!
Out in the Rain
That week couldn't have gone slower and Friday couldn't have taken forever to come for Ginny and Draco. The deadline came and gone on Wednesday.
Ginny must have gone over the magazine layout a million times and read each article a million times to make sure everything was the way she wanted it. When she was finally happy with it she sent it off to publishing. Now all she had to do was pray that the magazine's readers loved the idea and they didn't loss money.
----------
Draco walked down the hallway to Ginny's flat. He told her that he would pick her up at her flat and then they would walk to the restaurant, Phoenix, a Friday or Chili type of restaurant, together. He stopped in front of her door and knocked. He looked down at what he was wearing as he waited.
He was wearing dark blue jeans with a black leather belt in the loops. He also had on a white short sleeve shirt under a long sleeve blue striped button up shirt that he left unbuttoned. Around his neck was a silver chained necklace that matched his silver chained bracelet. He was wearing white sneakers on his feet and he let his hair fall loosely in his eyes with just a little bit of gel in it.
The door opened slowly and it revealed an amazing looking Ginny.
Her hair fell in long soft curls around her face, which only had some eyeliner and gloss on it. She wore a tight bright pink short sleeve v-neck shirt. Around her neck, hanging in the middle of the neckline, was a delicate silver daisy necklace. She also wore a denim skirt that came down to the middle of her thigh, showing off her never-ending legs. In the belt loops of the skirt was a pink, white, pink horizontally striped belt. On her feet were white flip-flops with a silver anklet above her left foot. She also had on small silver hoop earrings, a silver watch and silver heart bracelet on either wrist.
Draco stared at her with slight hazed over eyes. "You look great" he was able to get out.
Ginny smiled and looked away as her cheeks started to flame. "Thanks" she said.
Draco smiled at Ginny and her red cheeks. "You ready?" he asked.
"Yeah" Ginny nodded. "Let me just get my purse" she said. She disappeared in the flat for a second and came back out with a white purse hanging off her shoulder. "Let's go," she said. She shut the door then locked it with the key.
Then they made their way down stairs and out onto the streets of Diagon Ally. They walked to the restaurant talking about what a lovely evening it was and the magazine.
Ginny enjoyed how easily she was able to talk with Draco. It was like they had been best friends for years.
Draco too enjoyed the easiness of conversation between himself and Ginny. But all he wanted to do was grab her hand and hold it. Hopefully there would be an opportunity to do that.
When they got to Phoenix they realized that on Friday nights it was packed. Finding his opportunity Draco took Ginny's hand and led her through the crowd of people to the front. Once at the hostess he asked how long the wait would be for a table of 2.
"An hour and a half" the hostess answered.
Draco sighed and turned to look at Ginny. "We have to wait an hour and a half," he told her. Ginny made a face. "I know. Wanna just go down to the coffee shop and get some coffee and dessert?" he offered.
Ginny nodded her head. Draco turned back to the hostess and told her not to bother putting his name down. Then once again he led Ginny through the mass of people by her hand that he had never let go of. They walked a few shops down to the little coffee shop. They went in and found a table close to the back. They sat down across from each other.
A waiter came over right away and asked what they would like to have.
"Just a coffee for me. Cream and one sugar" Draco told the waiter.
The waiter nodded and wrote Draco's order down. Then he looked up at Ginny.
"Um…can I have a Caramel Macchiato (A/N: That's a drink from Starbucks that I'm craving right now) and a piece of cheesecake please" Ginny told the waiter.
The waiter nodded as he wrote down Ginny's order. "I'll be back in a few minutes" he said then left Ginny and Draco to talk to each other.
Draco watched Ginny play with a piece of hair before he spoke. "What's New York like?" he asked. He had wanted to ask her for a while but he never found the time to ask her.
Ginny looked up from staring down at the table. "Well muggle New York is…crazy," she told him. "I didn't spend any time in wizarding New York. I wanted to get away from all the magic," she told Draco.
Draco shook his head. "I would never be able to live without magic," he said.
Ginny chuckled. "It's not that bad" she said. The waiter came back and placed the drinks and cake on their table. "Thank you" Ginny said.
"Thanks" Draco said to the waiter. The waiter nodded then left again.
"Anyway" Ginny said taking a sip of her drink. "It's just amazing over there. You go to work, and then go out to dinner with your friends. And on weekends you wake up at noon then go out partying until 3 in the morning. Then wake up at noon the next day and do it again," she said smiling as she remembered.
"Wow Ginny Weasley partying" Draco said smiling and chuckling. He put the cup to his lips and took a sip of coffee.
Ginny giggled. "I did a lot more then partying over there," she told him raising her eyebrow suggestively.
Both of Draco's eyebrows shot up. Ginny Weasley doing a lot more then partying…well she grew up. "Oh really?" he asked lowering one eyebrow so now only one was raised. He had a very satisfied smirk on his face.
Ginny shrugged and made a 'come on' face as she took a sip of her drink. She put it down. "I was a 20 year old girl in a big new city with new people. Of coarse I did a lot more then partying" she told Draco as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Draco nodded his head agreeing. "Your right…I know I wouldn't just sit around if I was in New York," he said taking a sip of coffee. "But how did you live…where did you live?"
Ginny put her cup down after taking a sip and laughed remembering her apartment in the city. "It was a dump," she laughed. "When I moved in it was a guy's bachelor pad!"
"You lived with guys?" Draco asked then took a sip of his coffee.
Ginny shook her head and took a sip of her drink. "My friend, Liz, and I bought it from her brother and his friend" she explained. "They moved into an apartment over us and we took theirs. It was so gross" she took a sip from her cup. "But Liz studied interior design so she fixed it up"
Draco nodded. "Sounds like a fun time" he said.
Ginny nodded, looking into her cup. "It was," she said. "And people are crazy over there!" she exclaimed. "You see the weirdest thing. Piercings in the weirdest places and tattoos all over the place." She said.
Draco laughed. "Really?" Ginny nodded and giggled a little. "Do you have any?"
Ginny sighed and stood up. She took the bottom of her shirt and pulled it up revealing a very cute bellybutton ring.
Draco pushed his coffee aside and leaned over the table to get a closer look. He looked up at her. "Any tattoos?" He asked.
Again Ginny sighed. She pulled her shirt down to cover her belly and took hold of the top of her skirt. She pulled her skirt down just enough to show her hipbone. On her hipbone was a small yellow shooting star.
Draco examined it for a bit then looked back up at Ginny. "Very nice" he said then sat back down in his chair.
Ginny let go of her skirt and sat down. "Yeah…I didn't wanna go to crazy, but I like them" she said. Draco smiled up at her. "So what about you?" She asked. She pulled her cheesecake over, finished with her drink now.
"Me?" Draco asked pointing to himself. Ginny nodded and took a bite of cake. Draco shrugged one shoulder up. "I graduated Hogwarts, and about…" he thought for a moment. "4 and a half years later started the magazine"
Ginny face dropped. "Something else had to happened!" she cried her mouth full of cheesecake as she threw her hand, with the fork in it, towards Draco.
Draco chuckled and took the fork from Ginny. He stuck it in the cake and took a big bite earning a 'hey' from Ginny. He chewed the cake watching Ginny with dancing eyes, as she shook her head at him.
"But seriously" Ginny said taking the fork back from Draco. "Something had to happen in those 4 and a half years," she said.
Draco nodded. "Your right" he said. "In those 4 and a half years I did a lot of career searching. I actually trained to become an Auror, but I never finished. That took about 2 years and for the last 2 and a half I did a lot of studying to figure out what I wanted to do," he said.
Ginny took another bite of cheesecake. "So how did you end up owning and working for a women's magazine?" she asked. She took another bite.
"Well my mother always reads them and leaves piles of them around. And she was always complaining that something was missing in the magazine or the magazine never had good articles or advice so I started my own" he said.
Ginny stared at Draco. "So you started the magazine for your mother?" She asked. That was so sweet!
Draco nodded. "I guess so," he said smiling.
They just stared at each other for a minute until their waiter came and told them that the shop was closing. Draco and Ginny hadn't even realized it was that late.
They got up paid the waiter and walked to the door. They peeked outside and noticed it was raining, hard.
"Why don't we just apperate," Draco suggested reaching for his wand in his pocket.
Ginny turned and looked at Draco confused. "Why would we do that?" she asked.
Draco looked down at her like she was mad. "Because it's raining outside!" he exclaimed.
Ginny rolled her eyes. "So?" she asked. She pushed the door opened and ran out into the rain. She loved the rain. And she loved to play in the rain. She danced, and jumped, and spun around. She tilted her head back and caught some rain in her mouth.
Draco held the door opened and watched Ginny. She was soaked from head to toe, obviously, and she didn't care. She looked like a little kid. No, a beautiful little woman.
"Have you gone mad?" he yelled out to her.
Ginny giggled and looked over at Draco. "Come on!" she yelled motioning her arms for him to join her.
Draco again looked at her as if she was nutters. "But I'll get wet!" he yelled.
Ginny tutted her tongue and rolled her eyes. "That's the point silly!" she yelled. She put her arms out and started spinning around.
Draco looked at her for another second then walked out in the rain. She did look like she was having fun. And she was radiating this energy that he just had to have. Ginny stopped spinning when she saw Draco come over.
She could see his chest through his shirt now that he was soaked. She let her eyes linger there for a second then moved up to his face. He was smiling at her and she smiled back.
"You came out!" she laughed.
Draco nodded and stopped walking. He was so close to Ginny that when she took each breath in and out her chest rubbed against his. He looked into Ginny's eyes.
He had never noticed how rich her brown eye color was. It was like a pool of melted chocolate that he could drown in.
Ginny looked deep into Draco's eyes. They were so silvery and bright. If she looked hard enough she could see her reflection in them. She took a deep trembling breath.
Draco smirked slightly as he felt her breath. He took two pieces of Ginny's long fiery hair that was stuck to her face and pushed them behind her ear. He cupped her face and caressed the apple of her cheek with the pads of his thumbs. He lowered his head down and captured her lips in a wonderful kiss.
Okay, the kiss wasn't just wonderful but it was breath taking. Ginny had never felt a kiss like this, and she had received some pretty damn good kisses. But this kiss made time go haywire. The rain had seemed to slow down, but her and Draco were rapidly spinning through time. She lost herself and when she felt Draco's warm tongue graze her bottom lip she opened and let him take all of her.
Draco was also in total bliss. Now he kissed many girls in his day but a kiss from a girl had never affected him as much as this one was. He was on cloud 9. And when Ginny granted him access to her mouth he had died and gone to heaven. He kissed her slow and passionately still holding her face still. He now moved his hands into her hair tangling his fingers in her long tresses and he felt Ginny take hold of his shoulders. He explored every hollow inch of her mouth and massaged her tongue with his.
After a while air was needed and they both pulled away slowly. Draco rested his forehead against Ginny's. He opened his eyes, which he had closed, and looked at her. Ginny on the other hand kept her eyes closed. She was trembling as she tried to catch her breath.
The rain pounded on and around them, but neither of them still cared. It made their first kiss, their first real kiss, perfect.
Ginny reached up and took Draco hands. She pulled them out of her hair and dropped them. "Thank you for a lovely evening Draco. I had a wonderful time," she whispered. Then she stepped back from him, turned, and jogged away leaving Draco watching.
She really had no idea why she had just walked away like that. Okay she knew a few reasons. He was her boss for one and she didn't want things to get awkward for them. Oh fuck it! She just had experience the most amazing kiss she ever had and she just walked away from him. And for Merlin's sake why would she say something like that! Oh she was such a dork!
Finally at her street Ginny stopped jogging and started walking. She tilted her head back to catch some raindrops in her mouth. The rain soothed and helped her think and find answers. Without even realizing it she was at her flat. She went inside and started pacing around her living room still drenched from head to toe.
Draco didn't know what happened. One minute he's experiencing a kiss of a lifetime and the next Ginny's thanking him for a 'lovely' evening then leaving. What happened? He watched Ginny until she was completely out of sight. He then went back to the kiss. Thinking about the kiss he broke out in a run. He had to kiss her again. He had to feel her pressed against him again.
He ran all the way to her street, then to her building, and up the stairs to her flat. He stopped right in front of her door. He held himself up by placing a hand on either side of the doorframe and caught his breath. Once he could breath somewhat normally he knocked on the door.
Ginny walked over to her door upon hearing the knock. She grabbed the knob then turned it and opened the door. Standing in front of her was Draco. Rain dripping off his face, clothes, and hair, but it wasn't like she looked any better. She just looked at him expressionlessly.
Draco looked right back at her. Then, just like in a movie, he swooped inside, dipped his head, grabbing her face and kissed her as passionately has he could.
Ginny responded quickly, her fingers going to his hair to tangle them in. Now why did she walk away from him the first time? Oh yes it was the awkwardness that could come. Fuck the awkwardness, fuck work, fuck everything. She was in total and complete bliss right now because of Draco and she didn't want it to end. She didn't want it to ever end.
Draco put everything into this kiss. Every longing emotion that he ever had for her he put into this kiss. He wanted her to know that he wanted her for himself.
Passion was radiating from the two of them and Ginny was putting in her share. She had never felt like she wanted something so much in her life. But she wanted Draco and she was telling him.
Again the pulled away for lack of air. Ginny looked up at Draco and let her hands fall from his head to around his neck. She smiled at him.
Draco looked down at Ginny and smiled back at her. He ran the pads of his thumbs over her temple. "I didn't get enough from that last kiss," he told her.
Ginny's smile widened and she giggled. She covered his hands with hers again and took them down. "Let's get dry," she said. She closed the door, which was still opened, and led him back into her bedroom.
In there Ginny dug through her overstuffed closet and pulled out a pair of guy's gray sweat pants and a guy's white shirt. She handed them to Draco. Draco took the clothes but wore a questioning look.
Ginny sighed and rolled her eyes. "Okay so I buy guy's clothing and wear it sometimes!" she cried. "You learned my dirty little secret," she said.
Draco laughed at her then gave her a kiss on the cheek. Ginny smiled and blushed at the gesture. "Where should I change?" he asked.
"Um…you can change in the bathroom," Ginny said. Draco nodded and left for the bathroom.
Ginny dug through her dresser drawers and pulled out a pair of baggy gray pajama pants and white tank top. She changed quickly, put her hair up in a wet messy bun, not bothering to use a drying charm and walked out of her bedroom with her wet clothes in hand.
She met Draco out in the hallway as he was on his way out of the bathroom.
"We'll lay these out in the kitchen and dry them," she told him. They walked into the kitchen and spread their clothes out on the table. Then Draco dried them with the simple charm.
While Draco did that Ginny went into the freezer and pulled out a pint of double fudge chocolate ice cream. She then took out two spoons. She walked up behind Draco. "Let's sit on the couch," she said. She walked over and sat on the couch facing the television with Draco close behind her.
Ginny sat down with her feet under her and Draco sat beside her. She opened the ice cream and handed Draco a spoon. They both dug into the pint of ice cream and started eating.
"So Draco does this mean we're seeing each other?" Ginny asked. She knew she wanted to, but she didn't know about his feelings. If she were judging from the kisses then she would think he wanted the same thing. She just wanted to make sure.
Draco looked over at her. He took her by the waist and pulled her onto his lap. He softly kissed her lips. "I hope so," he said looking down at her.
Ginny smiled and touched his face. "Me too" she said.
Draco smiled and leaned down and gave Ginny a quick kiss.
That's how they stayed for the rest of the night until dawn. Ginny lying across Draco's lap and the both of them eating out of a pint of ice cream. They talked about everything and anything to just get to know each other better.
A/N: Well it's exactly 2 AM on July 25th, and I finished this chapter. I loved writing this chapter! I had so much fun writing it! I really hope you like this chapter. It packed full of fluff and your gonna be getting a ton of fluff in some future chapters so get used to it! I'm a fluff maniac! Don't forget to review!
Hunni07 – I am so glad that you liked my story! Harry is annoying but I've never liked Harry so I always make him a butthead in my stories. I hope you like this chapter!
Karamel06 – Jenni I am so happy you liked the chapter! You could scream! You could scream 'this is the best fic ever!' lol j/k
Daphne-Enchanted – I'm so glad you like my story. Thanks for the review.
Malerie – I'm so glad you liked the chapter. You get a shit load of fluff from my fics!
Rednight-rider – Thanks so much for your review! I hope you liked this chapter!
Slytherin Queen – I'm so glad you like the story so far! Did you like Ginny's outfit? Kiki Pryde – Wow where do I start? Your review made me cry! It was so encouraging and so…I don't know. But thank you so much for the review. You encouraged me to write and to keep writing in the future.Abby – I'm so glad you like my story! Thanks for the review and I hope you liked this chapter.
TickleBoom76 – I'm so glad you like the story! Thanks for the review and I hope you like this chapter.
DuskTilDawn – Draco is so right for Ginny! That's why they make the best couple. Draco should never ever ever be with anyone else.
Princess cythera – Thanks for your review, I hope you liked this chapter.
Hart-break – I'm so glad you like the story. How was the date?
Lithui – I did that for you! I'm so glad you liked it and I don't care if it was biased!
