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Chapter 15: Shooting Stars

Ginny had spent Sunday alone in bed the curtains closed around her so that no one would interrupt her. She spent the day working on school work that she had to turn in that week. Monday rolled around and Ginny wasn't too excited about having Potions with Draco, luckily they weren't having their tutoring session that night though. He had Quidditch practice and she was all to happy to skip potions considering that there was to be a meteor shower that she didn't want to miss.

Ginny dragged through the day, not speaking up in any of her classes. When lunch rolled around she noticed Hermione giving her worried looks, so she didn't stay for too long. Ginny glanced at the Slytherin table as she was leaving and immediately wanted to kick herself for it. Pansy was all over Draco as usual. Ginny didn't understand why she tortured herself like that.

She wandered up to the Gryffindor Common room. The common room was totally deserted on account of nearly everyone being in lunch so Ginny threw herself on the couch and promptly fell asleep.

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Pansy hadn't stopped talking about the great time she had at the ball. Draco was ready to pull his hair out from frustration. There was only so much of Pansy he could stand and since the ball it had been about 5 times what he could handle and still stay sane. Thankfully in just a couple of hours he would be at Quidditch practice and she would be only Merlin knows where.

"Draco." Pansy whined at him when she noticed he wasn't listening.

"What?" Draco asked impatiently.

"I was just wondering which you liked more?" Pansy asked him.

"The first one. " Draco replied, he had no idea what she was going on about. He just noticed Ginny come into the Great Hall. She didn't look like she was doing to good, then two minutes later she left.

"Pansy, could you just stop talking?" Draco barked at her, losing his patience. He was trying to think. About what he wasn't quite sure. He couldn't concentrate when Pansy kept blabbering on and on.

"Fine." Pansy replied getting up from the table and stalking out of the Great Hall.

"If I had known it was that easy." Draco said quietly to himself as he watched her walk away from him. Finally giving him some peace and quiet.

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Ginny was sitting on the roof, wrapped up in a blanked with pillows and blankets all around her. She was counting all the meteors she saw, she planned on making that many wishes later. Of course they would be the same wish over and over again but still. She was up to 22 when she heard the door to the roof open. She had been lucky no students had been up there, she had kind of hoped to be alone. So much for that.

"They say that this is one of the most amazing shows that we have had in years." Draco said from the door. Draco didn't know what he was doing here. He had gotten done with Quidditch practice and instead of going back to his room he had found himself standing in front of the door to the roof.

"What do you want?" Ginny asked not turning from the night sky.

"To apologize for being the biggest ass ever." Draco replied moving a little farther from the door, scared that if he got to close she would tell him to leave.

"So apologize." Ginny said not looking at him.

"Look, I'm really sorry, I don't know what was going on with me, what is going on with me." Draco replied, he had never been so sincere in his entire life.

"That's lovely are you done?" Ginny replied silently counting the meteors in her head.

"Come on Virginia don't be like that." Draco replied moving a little bit closer.

"That's funny coming from you. King of mood swings." Ginny said sarcastically.

Draco didn't know what to do, he hadn't ever apologized before.

"You're right." Draco replied.

"I know." Ginny told him, finally looking at him.

"Can I join you?" Draco asked.

"You're selfish remember take what ever you want." Ginny replied looking back up at the sky.

"What will it take for you to forgive me?" Draco asked her.

"Little Red Riding Hood." Ginny replied cryptically.

"There once was a girl, named Little Red Riding Hood," Draco started. "A rather foolish name if you ask me, but hey it isn't my story. So Little Red was taking a basket of food to her grandmother, and her mother warned her don't leave the trail, if you do you might get eaten by a wolf. So off Little Red went to her Grandmothers."

"Seriously who lets their kid go off in the woods along where there are wolves." Draco interjected into his version of the story. "Well Little Red didn't listen to her mother and left the trail where she met the big bad wolf, amazingly he could talk. Little Red told him how she was going to visit her grandmother, The evil wolf suggested she pick some flowers for her grandmother, Little Red thought that was a wonderful idea so she started picking flowers. While she did that the wolf ran ahead to her grandmothers house and at the grandmother."

"When did you learn this story?" Ginny asked him interrupting him.

"After you told me about it I decided to see what you were talking about." Draco replied. "You were right I did enjoy the story, in fact I enjoyed quite a few of the Fairy Tales."

Draco looked at her nervously. "Do you forgive me?"

Ginny didn't respond, she just shifted over to give him some room to sit down.

"Here." She said lifting up the blanket as he sat down so he could get underneath. "How did you know I would be up here?"

"Are you kidding me? How could I not. Ms. Stargazer miss the meteor shower?" Draco replied laughing gently.

Ginny turned her head back up to the sky and started counting again, quietly saying each number.

She was finally up to 55 when Draco interrupted her.

"Why are you counting them?" Draco asked her.

"You are suppose to wish on shooting stars." Ginny replied. "These go by too quickly, so insead you count them and later you make your wishes."

"How many wishes so far?" Draco asked her.

"I just hit 60." Ginny replied still counting in her head.

"What are you going to wish for?" Draco asked her.

"That's a secret, if you tell then your wishes won't come true." Ginny replied. "Didn't anyone ever to teach you to wish on stars?"

"Malfoy's don't wish on stars." Draco laughed bitterly. "That would be foolish, and that isn't allowed.

"You should try it. Wish on that one." Ginny said pointing to a streak in the sky.

"Ok, I wish-" Draco started.

"Shh, you have to close your eyes, and you can't say it out loud remember." Ginny told him.

Ginny watched him close his eyes and make his wish, he looked so peaceful. She was still watching him when he opened his eyes again.

"So, what do you think? Is wishing on stars foolish?" Ginny asked.

"Yes and I love it." Draco said smiling.

"Good."Ginny replied looking back up at the sky and counting.

"So how long is this being nice to me going to last?" Ginny asked finally. "How long until you decide to yell at me, a day, a week, a month?"

"I don't plan on being mean to you." Draco said counting his own stars.

"Did you plan on being mean to me before/" Ginny asked him.

"I don't think I did." Draco replied.

"Exactly." Ginny said looking at him. "I don't want to get in another big fight, with you, with anyone. I don't think I will be able to handle it right now."

"Don't worry, I won't start anything." Draco replied looking at her. "I've never apologized to anyone before and meant it, before tonight. I don't plan on having to do it again anytime soon."

"Why are you apologizing now? Why not before, or later? Why now?" Ginny asked. "What changed?"

"You looked so sad at the ball." Draco replied. "You have looked sad for a while now, and although I didn't know you that well, I liked seeing you smile."

"I wasn't sad the whole time." Ginny replied quietly. "Just at the unmasking. My date deserted me."

"He didn't desert you. He just had to attend to other business." Draco replied with out thinking.

"What are you talking about?" Ginny asked him.

"What?" Draco asked realizing he said something he wasn't suppose to.

"About my date, do you know who he is?" Ginny asked him.

Draco closed his eyes, he didn't know what to do, if he told the truth she would probably just be mad at him.

"Will you be my Cinderella, meet me at the ball. So that we can together, celebrate the season of fall. Will you be my sleeping Beauty, and dance away the nigh. Meet me at eight, I'll be your Mr. Right. You're admirer" Draco recieted from memory, scared to open his eyes, that if he would do she would be looking at him with her eyes on fire for not telling her it was him. Instead he got quite a different reaction.

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Ginny didn't know what to say, she didn't know how he did it, but she knew that it had to have been him.

She leaned towards him and touched his cheek. She looked at him and smiled, then she leaned in and kissed him, not actually believing she was doing it as she did it.

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The kiss wasn't one of those kisses where spit is swapped, and Draco was still happy. She was a better kisser than Pansy, her kiss didn't feel so desperate.

It was sweet and simple, it was perfect.

Draco reached his arm around her and pulled her closer. After a moment she pulled away from him and just like that it was over.

"How did you do it?" she asked him smiling, "Why?"

"Do you want the long version or the short version?" Draco asked her, his arm still around her.

"I want it all." Ginny replied leaning against him.

"Well first off I would like to say that House Elves make the greatest of friends." Draco said looking at her in the moonlight. Noticing how beautiful she was. "Well it was two weeks before the ball, and I was looking through the library when I ran across a book of Fairy Tales. I looked up Little Red Riding Hood and sure enough there it was so I read it and I like it so I decided to check out the other stories. Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretal, Aladdin. It was then the idea came to me, I must admit Cinderella was the most helpful. Then I had a talk with Dobby, since he helped with the laundry he knew you sizes to then it was very simple to get you the dress and the shoes and the necklace. It was even easier to get them in your room, you know considering that Dobby and I are very close. I must say though, I am not the best at poems."

"Ok so how did you go to the ball with me, when Pansy thought you were with her the whole time." Ginny asked him.

"Well that was a bit of mastery on my part. See Jacob has quite a big crush on her, so all I had to do was walk her to the ball, and then Jacob wearing exactly what I was wearing for the most part would come and pretend to be me. Except for the unmasking, which I had to be back with Pansy so that she wouldn't be any the wiser." Draco said smiling at his brilliance.

"Don't you feel bad for lying to Pansy?" Ginny asked him.

"No, not at all, she just can't understand that I don't like her. She had a fun time it just turned out to be a fun time with Jacob and not me. She is only interested in me because of my wealth anyway." Draco said pulling Ginny closer to him.

"Oh, is that bad because that's why I like you." Ginny said with a smirk.

"Considering that after this year of school I'm never going home again and will therefore be more poor than you, yeah." Draco told her.

"What do you mean you aren't going home?"Ginny asked him. "When did you decide this?"

"Before I got on the school train at the beginning of the term. I don't ever want to be like my father, and if I go home then I will become him." Draco said getting quiet.

"Is he really that bad?" Ginny asked him pulling away from him so that she could turn to see him.

"He worships Voldermort, of course he is that bad." Draco replied back.

"Oh, it's just you know, sometimes the bark is worse than the bite." Ginny said looking at him.

"Well considering his bark is deadly on its own, he doesn't even need to bite." Draco replied darkly.

"I'm sorry Draco that it has to be like that for you." Ginny said touching his arm.

"Right now nothing is bad." Draco said grabbing Ginny's hand and pulling her back into him. "Count the meteors, you never know when you will need a wish."

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Ginny sat there in Draco's arms trying to figure out how she got from not talking to him in a month to leaning against him comfortably all in one night. There was only one explanation, her wish had come true.

She didn't even realize that she had fallen asleep till she woke up the next morning, Draco laying beside her. He had been watching her sleep, twirling her hair around his fingers. She looked like an angel when she slept, and he couldn't figure out how in Merlin he was blessed enough to be there with her. If he had died at that moment he would have died a happy man.

"Good morning." he whispered to her.

"Good morning." she whispered back smiling.

"I never told you this but you were beautiful at the ball." Draco said removing his hand from her hair and moving it to her cheek. "You were beautiful last night too."

"My brother's going to kill you." Ginny said cuddling into him trying to hide her eyes from the sun. "Oh is he going to kill you."

"What are you talking about?" Draco asked her.

"You kiss his baby sister and then you keep her out at all night, needless to say that you are who you are. Yeah you're dead." Ginny replied looking up at him.

"You kissed me," Draco replied defensively.

"I didn't see you complaining." Ginny replied blushing.

"We'll he will just have to kill me then." Draco replied leaning towards her and giving her a quick kiss on the lips. "But I warn you it won't be easy."

"It doesn't matter, you're as good as dead." Ginny replied laughing.

"Come on then, we better get back downstairs before people realize that we are both missing. I can only imagine the tawdry that will start going around." Draco said getting up, pulling Ginny up after him.

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(A/N I hope you guys liked this chapter, the kiss finally happened. Read and Review. If you can guess where I got the meteor shower idea from then 5 brownie points for you.)