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Chapter 16: Freckles
Ginny hadn't ever kissed a boy, sure she had been kissed, but she had never initiated the kiss. She was truly shocked by her actions of the previous night. Draco and her had decided to keep their relationship a secret at the time. As Ginny said Ron would kill him, plus as Draco pointed out he had to deal with Pansy. So there Ginny was sitting at Breakfast lost in her thoughts, staring at Draco with out ever realizing it.
"Ginny!" Hermione said, waving her hand in front of Ginny's face.
"Huh?" Ginny asked jumping a little, at the hand in her face.
"I was just wondering how you were doing?" Hermione asked her. "You seem a little out of it."
"Oh I'm fine." Ginny replied smiling.
"Are you sure, just skipping a year in potions and having to spend so much time with Malfoy." Hermione started.
"I'm doing great in potions." Ginny interrupted her a little more harshly than she meant to be. "2nd best in the class after Draco, which he and I get along fine. We have finally reached an understanding."
"Ok, I was just checking." Hermione replied a little hurt by Ginny's harshness.
"Hermione I didn't mean to snap at you." Ginny apologized, "I'm just really tired. Anyways I have herbology so I better get going."
"Er, okay." Hermione replied. "Bye."
Ginny got up and left the great hall, truth was she was exhausted, she hadn't gotten enough sleep last night. She sighed as she headed to the greenhouse.
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Draco had been watching Ginny all through breakfast, she had been lost in thought, what she was thinking of he couldn't even begin to fathom. He realized that he liked that about her. She was so smart, she kept him on his toes, whenever he was around her she taught him something new. Even if it is about muggles, Draco thought to himself.
Draco hid his smile behind a piece of toast as he started to think about last night. He had never felt so comfortable with anyone before, he had never woken up with someone beside him before. He had to admit that there was something about watching her sleep that just made the whole world seem better. She was so peaceful. Draco groaned to himself. He was becoming one of those boys. Those boys who are cheesy and sappy.
"What is she doing to me?" he whispered to himself.
"Draco," Pansy started to whine at him.
"Am I not giving you enough attention?" Draco asked sarcastically.
"Draco don't be like that." Pansy whined at him.
"Pansy I can't see you anymore." Draco replied getting up from the table.
"What?" Pansy shrieked at him, gaining more than a few glances from the other school tables.
"I can't see you anymore." Draco repeated. "It isn't working out."
"You'll regret this." Pansy warned him, "When you get lonely in the middle of the night you will have to fix that problem by yourself."
"Considering we never slept together, I think I will manage." Draco replied sarcastically as he walked out of the Great Hall.
Draco grinned he was free of that twit.
"Thank Merlin." he laughed. "I'm free."
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Ginny didn't want to have some tawdry affair, even though she knew that that is what he was best known for. What she didn't realize is that those were just rumors and Draco being a typical boy didn't bother to dispute them. Truth was Draco wasn't very experienced at all. He had never gone all the way, not because of any special morals or anything. He just hadn't found anyone he would want to go that far with. Ginny however had never gone that far because she wasn't that type of girl. She wanted to wait until she was married, as cliche as that was. She thought that it was more romantic that way.
That's what Ginny and Draco found themselves talking about at their tutor session the next night.
"You want to wait till you're married?" Draco asked her shocked.
"Well yeah." Ginny replied blushing.
"What if you never get married?" Draco asked her.
"I like to think positively but if that never happens then I don't know." Ginny replied.
"Why not just do it?" Draco asked her, he had never heard of anyone waiting till they were married, but then he had only dealt with Slytherin girls.
"Why haven't you?" Ginny asked him in return.
Draco couldn't think of a truly good answer to that one. "So have you added the Pegasus feathers yet?" he asked changing the subject.
"Yes." Ginny replied looking at him. "You haven't answered the question, the whole school already thinks you have done it, so what's stopping you?"
"I haven't found the right girl." Draco replied back to her. "You wanna try out for the position?"
"You'd have to wait a long time for me." Ginny replied laughing at him.
"You're worth the wait." Draco replied. He hadn't meant to say that. Lately he had been saying a lot of things he hadn't meant to say.
"Whenever you say something, and you didn't mean to your eyes get a little bigger and you start to blush." Ginny told him as she was stirring the cauldron. "It's very entertaining.
"I'm sure." Draco replied throwing some more ingredients into the pot.
"Which, when you do that, I'm guess that means you are embarrassed." Ginny continued.
"So what's it to you?" Draco asked her.
"Oh nothing, I just didn't think the great Draco Malfoy could get embarrassed. That's all" Ginny replied laughing at him as his cheeks got a little redder. "It's cute."
"I'm sure. What every guy longs to hear, 'it's cute'." Draco replied.
"What's wrong with cute?" Ginny asked defensively.
"Babies are cute, puppies are cute, teenage boys don't usually like to be told that they are cute." Draco replied.
"Babies are not cute they look like gnomes, puppies are annoying, and that's just too bad because you are cute when you blush." Ginny told him as she stuck out her tongue at him.
"I'm sure." Draco replied pulling her to him. He tilted her head up to him, he was nearly a whole head taller than her. He leaned down and kisser her, after a moment she pulled away from him.
"Draco, the potion." she reminded him.
He groaned. "Damn potion." he said as he turned back to the potion.
Ginny flopped down in a chair as she watched him tend to the potion which had started overflowing. "You missed a spot." she said as he was wiping up the spilled potion.
"Then why don't you come over here and get it?" Draco asked her.
"It's more fun watching you clean it up." she replied to him.
"I'm sure." Draco said as he turned to her. "This is tutoring for you so why am I doing all the work while you sit there?"
"Actually Snape and I spoke today, you aren't my tutor anymore, I've caught up. Now he is going to start us on projects to work on." Ginny told him. "I assumed he told you first."
"No he didn't." Draco replied. "But I'm guessing in this partnership I clean, is that it."
"Yep." Ginny replied smiling.
"You, Virginia, are an absolute brat." Draco said looking at her.
"I am the youngest of 7 kids and the only daughter, of course I am." Ginny replied getting up from her chair to help him with the potion.
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Friday night rolled around. Draco walked into their potions room to find Ginny sitting up on the table surrounded by books.
"What are you doing?" Draco asked her as he walked over to the table and picked up a book.
"Snape wants us to make a potion to alter someones appearance, not a permanent change, just temporary." Ginny replied looking up from her book. "Do you never talk to Snape?"
"Apparently not." Draco replied. "What are we going to alter?"
"Freckles." Ginny replied snippily.
"Why freckles?" Draco asked her looking at her.
"I hate my freckles." Ginny replied flipping through one of the books.
"I love your freckles." Draco said sliding her to the edge of the table so that he could kiss her. "Besides they are cute." he added right before he kissed her.
Ginny couldn't respond to that considering at that moment his mouth locked onto hers. She closed her eyes, letting herself be totally consumed by his kiss, that's what he did to her. His presence totally consumed her and enveloped her until she felt like there was no one else in the world besides him. She loved that feeling.
"I thought cute was a bad thing." Ginny told him after they had stopped kissing.
"Nothing is bad when it comes to you." Draco said quietly, and immediately he started to blush.
Ginny kissed him again before she hopped off the table. "None the less we are doing the freckle potion, I've already figured out what ingredients to use." she said as she handed him a scroll.
"This seems kind of easy." Draco said disappointedly.
"Well technically it isn't a potion, more like a face lotion, but Snape said it was ok." Ginny replied looking at the scroll.
"A freckle remover, are you sure?" Draco asked her sighing.
"It's only temporary." Ginny replied."I promise."
"How temporary?" Draco asked suspiciously.
"I should be without freckles for 8 hours. Well if it works correctly anyway." Ginny added.
"Can't we try this out on your smarmy brother instead?" Draco asked her trying to look pitiful.
"Draco you can't pull off the puppy dog eyes." Ginny said laughing. "Plus Ron doesn't have that many freckles. Don't worry it will be fine."
"I just think that you are perfect as you are." Draco said kissing her on the forehead.
Ginny blushed, she still wasn't use to hearing such wonderful compliments, especially out of her former enemy.
"So while my brother is part of the topic, when do you want me to tell him?" Ginny asked. "Because if I told him now I wouldn't have to get you a Christmas present on account of him killing you." Ginny added laughing.
"I think you should tell him as soon as possible, I don't like knowing I am going to die, and then having to wait for it.." Draco replied back laughing a little.
"If it's any consolation, I think you might be able to take him." Ginny told him. "If Harry isn't around when he finds you. Otherwise you will have to deal with both of them. I should sell tickets or something. The fight to end all fights. I can see it now: Malfoy vs. Potter and Weasley, showdown to the death."
"You are so morbid." Draco said playfully pushing her. "It won't be that bad, some words will be exchanged. Malfoy if you touch her I'll kill you! Well Bully for you! I'll shout back at him. Ron will lunge for me, Hermione will grab his arm and hold him back. Harry will come after me, I'll say something and end up being a huge ass as usual. Really nothing different than usual, except your involvement that is."
"What am I going to do?" Ginny asked him.
"Stand up for me, try not to get me pounded into the ground." Draco replied back. "Maybe we should make this a public affair that way I have witnesses to my death."
"Now who is being morbid?" Ginny asked him as she hugged him. "I'll talk to Ron this weekend."