..::AN: Woo soooo many comments! luv you all for em! But..i think theres people who are reading but not commenting..that hurts :( if ur reading u should be telling me what u think so i get more motivation! lol anywhoo...heh hope u likes this one not going to say what happens cause well im not::..
Ginny paced a little in her room, her white pumps making quiet, gentle noises on the
floor. She wrung her hands together nervously, the white halter dress with a flared skirt
she had picked out made quiet noises as well as she moved.
"Alright so I fancy my boss..and that boss is Malfoy and I'm so beyond being
screwed." Ginny muttered to herself, she licked her lips nervously as she glanced at the
clock on the wall. He would be back any minute and she was so flustered she felt like
locking herself in the wardrobe and never coming out again.
"Well that's a problem, and I'll try to overcome it. But I need a plan." she ran a
finger through her hair nervously, racking her brain for any ideas. "I don't have a plan,
but you wanted to get along with him and you've sort of got that. So keep thinking about
how bad he is for you so you don't fancy him anymore, but try and get this interview
thing done and then you can get on with your life"
Ginny sighed stepping out of her room, closing the door quietly behind her. She
was excited for him to come back so she could continue her work and show him the
garden. But another part of her just wanted him to stay where he was so she didn't have to
deal with her feelings for him. She grimaced a little, the thought of feelings for him she
never thought she would say or admit.
Sighing again as she heard the main door open and some house elves run towards
it she started down the stairs.
"Don't you look happy to see me." Draco smirked handing his bags to one of the
ghost servants. Ginny smiled lightly stepping onto the main floor.
"I'm not pelting you with Dungbombs so I must be." she smiled playing with the
three stone silver necklace she was wearing. "Welcome home."
Draco nodded looking over her a little. "Went shopping while I was gone?" he
asked. Ginny felt her cheeks turn a light pink.
"Er..yah I did. Marissa also let me splurge in the 'Freebie Room.'" she shrugged.
He nodded again and called out for a house elf to serve tea in his study. Ginny looked out
the still open door, and stepped outside looking at the weather.
Summer had definitely started, the dull clouds were no where to be seen and the
sun was shining warmly in a bright blue sky. She rubbed her bare arms, there was a cool
breeze but it died down every once and a while but it was still very nice out.
"Certainly warmed up didn't it?" he asked, Ginny turned her head to see him
leaning with his arms crossed against the door frame. She nodded and looked back up at
the tree tops wondering when she should show him what she really did while he was
away.
They drank their tea rather silently, the fire crackling at a low level warming up
his study. Once the tea was finished Ginny stood up taking a deep breath.
"I have something to show you." she said nervously. But as she said it she felt the
excitement rising and grabbed onto his wrist dragging him out of the room.
"Where are we going?" he asked, a little startled at how soft her hand felt even
though she had a death grip on his wrist. She led him down the stairs and stopped briefly.
"Do you trust me?" she asked with a smile. He raised an eyebrow wondering what
she was getting at.
"Should I?" he asked. Ginny bit her lip a little taking a deep breath.
"I did something wrong, but I think I did something right at the same time and I
don't want you to be mad at me." she started. "But I want it to be a surprise." she covered
his eyes with her hand and continued to lead him somewhere he couldn't guess.
Draco closed his eyes wondering what she did. He had a fierce temper, but he
knew she did too. He heard something crunch underneath his feet and began to be lead
downwards. He heard a dull click and he began to smell lavender.
"What did you light incenses? What are you getting at?" he smirked. Ginny
laughed quietly.
"Oh you wish." she laughed. Ginny looked down at the stone steps and carefully
began to lead him down.
"Are you locking me in a nice smelling dungeon?" he suggested. "Kinky shackles
and all that?" he would have winked but her hand was still gently clasped over his eyes. It
was soft and smelled delicately of vanilla.
Ginny sighed, she had been in the garden early that morning and she had been
beyond ecstatic to see how splendid the garden looked, but she knew now she would have
to tell him about her snooping.
"Draco, I have to tell you something." she said quietly. Draco nodded a little, his
eyes starting to get a little twitchy under her hand. "I know about..." she paused pursing
her lips nervously. "Well I know about your Grandmother Sherise. I know everything."
she closed her eyes expecting to be hexed into oblivion. But Draco was silent.
Draco's brain was going miles an hour, he wondered if she was having him
followed or something. But he felt that she trusted him more then that. "How?" he asked
quietly.
"There were letters in the drawer in the vanity..I found the key under my bed. I
read them. Draco I'm so sorry I felt so terrible because my curiosity got the best of me
and I..I went into her wing." she said quietly "but before you kick me out I want to show
you what else I did.." she let her hand fall of his eyes and the other slip off his wrist.
Draco's eyes flickered a little before opening, but as they did they widened and his
jaw fell open a little. He was taken aback at the sight he saw before him, a place he had
been told about since he could remember, a place that had haunted his dreams for so long.
It was exactly how his grandmother had explained it, with more colours then he
knew existed and smells that could make anyone content and drowsy. The tall stone
pillars had ivy and roses crawling up them. Large opening roses of many colours and
shapes. The pillars flowed into archways that lined the center area of the garden they were
now inside, but small paths branched out underneath the stone entrances.
In the center stood an angel statue, that was so lifelike Draco swore he just saw
her blink or her wings stir in the light breeze. Beneath and around her was a small pond,
where white water lilies and green lily pads floated on the surface of the shallow waters.
Draco moved a little farther onto the path looking at the flowers on the ground,
tulips, daffodils, bluebells, dragon snaps, violets, lily of the valley's..so many plants and
flowers he couldn't even recognize. He had never seen so many plants in one place
"How did.." he started to ask, but he was so speechless he couldn't seem to finish
his sentence. He turned to see her sitting on a stone bench with her head in her hands.
"I'm sorry..I didn't know how to stop myself I just.." she sighed sitting upright,
little black splotches from where her mascara smudged from a few tears. Draco watched
one trickle down her creamy coloured cheek before she wiped it away quickly with the
back of her hand. "Cant you just start yelling at me already?" she pleaded quietly.
"I'm not mad Ginny, I'm just shocked that's all. I mean all my life I wondered
about this place, had the manor torn apart to find the key..even try to get the key remade
but nothing ever worked. Where did you find it?" he asked. Ginny blinked standing up
slowly.
"Really? Your not mad?" she asked quietly, a tint of hope in her voice. Draco
shook his head.
"Course not. You must think I'm some unsufferable bastard for me to be mad
when you've found the one thing I've been trying to get open since I was six. Jealous
maybe, questioning my ability to find things I'm looking for definitely..and my prides a
little punctured by the fact you found the key and I couldn't..but not mad. If I was mad,
you wouldn't have a head right about now." he smirked shoving his hands in his pocket.
Ginny laughed a little, wiping under her eyes to get rid of the black patches.
"Well, to be honest you probably would have done a quicker job of some of the magic roots with a grudge for things that walk. She moved one side of the halter top a
little showing one of the deep scratches along her collarbone. Draco winced a little, she
smiled lightly and fixed her dress strap.
She lowered her head a little taking her shoes off, Draco glanced at them
wondering how she could walk in them at all, then carrying them in her hand she sat on
the edge of the pond looking into the water.
Draco watched her for a little while, as she ran her hand through the water,
smiling gently as a small fish she had boughten and put in the pond tried to see if her
finger was a large worm. She looked over at Draco who was sitting on one of the stone
benches leaning back on his long arms.
"Are you ready for that company party thing?" she asked. He shrugged looking up
at the sky lazily.
"I guess so. I mean the suit thing isn't too hard since I have more then I need, and
I've got an idea of who my dates going to be." he said. Ginny nodded quietly.
"So who's the date going to be?" she asked, trying to hide the jealousy that was
rising inside of her. Draco looked at her with a smile, Ginny's eyes widened, he was
actually smiling.
"Are you always this dense?" he asked. Ginny laughed tossing a small pebble at
him.
"If your asking me to go with you should probably try it without questioning my
brain power." she teased.
"Who said anything about questioning?" he laughed. Ginny's jaw dropped as she
sprung after him after he got to his feet and started running down one of the paths.
Ginny smirked as she saw him hiding behind the trunk of a small tree. Before he
noticed she was even there she had pounced and tackled him to the ground in the long
grass. He gave a small 'Ack!' as he fell to the ground. Ginny stood up quickly raising her
arms in triumph.
"You have to remember I grew up six brothers, I can play the roughest game of
hide and seek you've ever seen." she laughed. She screamed as he grabbed her ankle
tightly and pulled, he was hoping she'd fall away from him but she ended up falling on
top of his stomach, winding him a bit.
Ginny laughed as their bodies made a X in the grass, she sat up slowly sitting on
her knees. "That was your fault!" she said tossing a handful of grass in his face. He
blinked blowing a few blades off his thin lips.
"Well I didn't think you couldn't figure out which way to fall." he shot back
tossing some grass back at her. She smirked brushing it off her top.
"So your happy about the garden? I mean didn't disappoint you because you
wanted to deal with weeds and large slime leeches?" she asked. He sat up a little, leaning
on his arms again.
"Do I look disappointed?"
"Well no..but you know your really hard to read sometimes." she admitted,
shrugging a little. He reached up slowly, gently touching her hair with his fingers. Ginny
held her breath, feeling her skin tingling, she forced herself to smile lightly as he pulled a
piece of grass out of her hair and tossing it away.
"Well so are you." He shrugged laying back down, his arms behind his head.
Ginny felt extremely happy yet troubled at the same time. On one hand she had
just had a lovely day with Draco, and was now in his dimly lighted study with a roaring
fire, sipping wine while Ginny was making notes on her article and Draco was sitting
across from her making notes for the company party.
On the other hand, Ginny sighed quietly thinking about it, she was falling harder
for her boss and even being in the same room as him was beginning to be difficult. How
was she supposed to convince herself she just wanted this relationship to be strictly
professional when they had just had an awesome day together? She put the end of her
quill to her lips thinking about that woman's voice she had heard. She also thought about
the fact that now she was going to the party with Draco. Did that mean anything really?
After all she was the only one that knew he was the owner and creator of Vraleish,
so wouldn't going with someone else just risk him being exposed? In the corner of her
piece of parchment that she had resting on an old book she scribbled: "Secret
Romances?"
"Draco can I ask you a question?" Ginny asked looking up, Draco looked up from
his desk to where she was lounging on a velvet chaise. "Why are you taking me to the
party instead of some..I don't know..gorgeous vixen you could find is it because I know
you own Vraleish?" she asked, she hid her apprehension well by taking a small sip of her
wine.
"Are you saying you don't want to come with me? Am I too devilishly good
looking for you?" he smirked, leaning back in his chair. Ginny gave him a queer look that
turned a little stern, he sighed stretching his arms above his head. "I suppose it had
something to do with that, besides we're getting along quite well and I didn't see anything
wrong with the idea."
Draco heard a little voice inside his head, that he had heard so many times while
being in Ireland as though whispering in his ear. "When you find what I wanted to have
so desperately..." Draco ran a hand through his hair, as he watched Ginny nod and turn
back to her work.
Ever since he returned home he realized that the woman in his dreams that was
driving him insane had been standing right in front of him, wearing a cute yet sexy white
sun dress and a pensive smile. When he heard her welcome him home, it sounded strange
yet comforting to him, the thought of how good it made him feel unnerved Draco.
He watched her curl a strand of her satiny hair around her finger while taking
another sip of her wine with her delicate lips. His heart seemed to stop as she set her glass
down and began to gather up her things.
Draco cleared his throat, trying to push away those thoughts but they seemed to be
streaming into his head faster then he could possibly shut them out.
"Where are you going?" he asked, standing up. She brushed her hair off her
shoulders, holding onto the lightly folded parchment.
"Its getting late." she shrugged heading towards the door, she stopped briefly.
About to thank him for a lovely evening when her grasp loosened on the parchment and
glided down to Draco's feet. Horrified Ginny turned around to see Draco picking it up
and reading the part of her notes she wished he wouldn't see the most.
"Secret Romances?" he read aloud, looking at Ginny curiously. Ginny averted her
gaze to the fire, her curiosity about weather her note was true completely overwhelming
the tinge of embarrassment she felt.
"What's all this about?" he asked, he was a little stunned. What kind of person did
she think he was? He watched her cross her arms firmly, still not looking at him.
"Well can you blame me? You must think I'm really stupid if you expected me to
believe that meeting junk you tried to feed me. And after hearing that woman when you
were in Ireland talking to me in the fire..."
Draco held up a hand narrowing her eyes at her. "Wait a minute. What woman?"
he asked, completely clueless. Ginny looked up at him her eyes looking a little furious.
"What do you mean what woman? Miss throaty sluty 'Mister Malfoy we're ready
for you now" tramp..its pretty sad I could determine that from her voice alone." she
snapped attempting to snatch her parchment out of his hands but failed as he held it out of
her reach. He smirked a bit.
"That would be the maid I got fired because I told her boss she was hitting on me
and felt my ass when I was turning a corner. Who I, by the way, had no interest in what-
so-ever." he explained. But suddenly his smirk grew a little more devious. "Wait..are you
jealous?" he asked lowering the paper.
Ginny's eyes widened, how had he seen that so easily? She snatched the paper
turning and opening the door.
"Im going to bed." she shot coldly. To her surprise as she was stepping out of the
door, Draco snuck around her putting one arm on each side of the doorframe blocking her
exit. Ginny sighed angrily, wanting nothing more then to dig a hole and crawl into it.
"Answer the question." he asked, his voice a little huskier then usual. Ginny felt
her throat tighten a little and forced herself to swallow, she could smell his cologne and it
was driving her insane to have him this close to her.
"Why do you care?" she asked coldly looking him in the eyes fiercely. Draco
leaned a little closer, still staring back into her chocolatey eyes he wanted to get lost in
just as fiercely.
"Why? There's a few too many reasons.." his forehead was barely a centimeter
away from hers, the sides of their noses almost touching.
Ginny's heart seemed to stop, she dreaded the thought of him pulling some trick
to make her feel even worse but somehow managed to find her voice.
"Try me." she dared quietly. He smirked a little trailing his finger from her
shoulder and down her arm. Ginny's mind was racing but it seemed like she was about to
faint.
"Well maybe there is another reason I invited you to come to the party with me.."
he whispered so quietly Ginny could only just hear him.
"Why?" she asked just as quietly. He leaned a little closer to her ear making her
shiver slightly.
"Because I was hoping to do this.." he rested his hand on the side of her cheek and
brought his lips to hers, kissing her tenderly. When Ginny began to kiss him back his
gentleness started to fade away as he began to kiss her passionately. Ginny responded by
snaking her arms around his neck and letting herself be taken into his arms.
Draco pulled her against him pushing her slowly towards the large desk and lifting
her onto the edge using one hand to shove everything off and letting it fall carelessly to
the floor. He was a little surprised when Ginny grabbed a hold of his tie and pulled him
down with her, but he had no objections at all.