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Ginny was reading in her room when she heard a sound like something hitting a wall and

falling to the ground. She had tried to fall asleep about an hour ago and failed miserably, so she

had sat up in bed and began to read on of her books.

Ginny looked up from her book as she heard the quiet sound again. Getting out of bed

she looked for her bath robe. Growling quietly as she looked through her closet, without it she

made her way into the living room. It was then she saw something small hit her screen door and

fall onto the balcony. Carefully she turned on the balcony light and saw there were several small

pebbles on the floor of the balcony, and to her surprise, a large plastic grey wastebin that would

have reached her middle.

Ginny opened the door and peered over the edge of the rod iron balcony to see Draco,

with another stone in hand, on the sidewalk looking up at her. She crossed her arms that her

white tank top didn't cover, her cotton pajama pants blowing slightly around her legs in the

breeze.

"What are you doing?" she yelled down at him. She jumped a bit but sighed of relief

when she remembered that because of the amphitheater down the road, the building was

magically sound proofed.

"Something I should have done the night of the party." he said back. "So go on hit me."

he ordered holding his arms out. Ginny was only on the third floor but she narrowed her eyes

like he was far away.

"Your drunk aren't you? What are you going on about? Or better idea..GO AWAY."

she said angrily, just seeing him made her want to start crying.

"Look in the bin." he said slowly. Ginny looked into the waste bin, seeing it was full of

perfectly sized, red and green water balloons.

"You've gone mad!" Ginny shot down to him. He shook his head.

"I have to know! Hit me as many times and as hard as I hurt you." he said up to her.

Ginny gritted her teeth, reaching in her pocket she tossed down something at him which he

caught instantly.

Draco uncurled his fingers to see a large iron key in his hands. Feeling his heart being

ripped apart again he turned and started to walk away, there was nothing more he could do.

It was then something hit the back of his head, and splashed water all over him and

down his back and neck. "You insensitive.." He heard Ginny yell, he turned and got a red balloon square in the

forehead. "Stupid.." SPLASH, another on the chest. Before he knew it he was being pelted

with balloons faster then he could blink. Then several at a time as she threw the several

remaining ones at the same time. Once the water cleared out of his eyes he looked up at her,

she was crying heavily now.

"There wasn't enough balloons for how badly you hurt me Draco.." she cried. She

threw the bin down too, which luckily missed him.

"I know but if there were that many balloons I'd get them for you." he pleaded up to

her. "I thought I knew you and you go and do a Jekyll-Hyde personality change on me!"

"I know but..Ginny remember when I played Quidditch against you in my last year?

And your captain said you had to stop scoring on the left hoop first all the time because then my

team would notice and block that goal each time?" he said, Ginny could hear the desperate tone

in his voice.

"If your trying to change the subject I'm not going to..."

"You still do it sometimes don't you? You practiced every free hour you had for four

weeks to stop that! Because you used to turn around so abruptly it would usually be the hoop

closest to you! But you still do it don't you?"

"Yes but what does that have to do with anything?" she yelled back, she tried not to

sound how touched she was the he remembered how she used to play chaser.

"It has to do with everything Ginny. Because no matter how much time I had to change,

old habits still die hard! I cant change who I was, but I have changed who I am! You helped me

with that, but its hard sometimes to just be how you like me sometimes! It's a habit that I had

gotten rid of since I graduated, but seeing your brother brought it back!" he yelled up to her.

Ginny felt a pang, closing her eyes to try and think.

But next thing she knew Draco had apparated onto the balcony, even with her eyes

closed she could smell the scent of his cologne, the slight smell of whisky that smell of him that

blurred her senses.

"I..I can't.." she stammered reaching for the screen door with her eyes closed. Draco

grabbed her by the shoulders and made her face him.

"Why not? I cant just keep going on as though everything is OK wondering if all the

time we spent together meant nothing to you." he said quietly. Ginny looked at him firmly.

"Of course it didn't! I loved every minute I had with you, but there was always a part of

me that wondered if it was just an act. It was tiny, minuscule even but after seeing how you

acted with Ron it brought every tormenting memory you caused me at Hogwarts rushing back."

she said firmly.

"Well how am I supposed to help that? I said I was sorry about Ron and you know I'm

terrible with the whole feelings bit but do you want me to erase your memory or something?"

"No I just..it makes me think that we weren't supposed to be together." she said

quietly, she hung her head.

"That's not what my grandmother believes." he said simply.

"What?" she asked, not even bothering to look up. But he raised her chin with the side

of his finger.

"The thing that she wanted the most was to be loved, if someone loved me like she

wanted my grandfather to love her the garden would have come back to life. That's why it

came to life." he paused. "Do you love me?" he asked quietly.

Ginny squirmed out of his grip opening the door and trying to shut it but Draco caught it

and forced it back open.

"Answer me Ginny please!" he pleaded. Ginny sobbed throwing her hands up

desperately.

"What does it matter anymore Draco? Can you imagine what we'd have to go through

if we were really together..we couldn't hide it anymore! I still have five other brothers! Plus

Harry..I don't want to see your 'habit' come back with all of them..I couldn't even take seeing

it the first time." she cried.

"It DOES matter because I don't care what we'd have to go through because I'd do it

anyway! I'm not going to act like I did with your brother, not ever, because I know how badly

it hurts you!" he said.

Water was still rolling off of him and was starting to pool on the carpet. Ginny turned

away from him, she had one hand over her forehead, the other crossed across her stomach.

She stood like that for several minutes, till the point where Draco felt like he was going to

explode. But then Draco heard her mutter something he couldn't make out.

"What?"

"I love you alright!" she yelled turning to face him again, her face was already tear

stained, but more continued to roll out of her eyes. "But I don't think it means anything

anymore.." she whispered.

"It means everything Ginny. If I didn't think I loved you then I wouldn't be here, I

would have given up ages ago. I just would have stopped the interview from the moment I

realized I had deeper feelings for you." he said, trying desperately to convince her. "What can I

do to make it up to you?"

Ginny shook her head and he began to feel entirely hollow as she looked away from

him. But that feeling melted away when she ran to him, wrapped her arms around his neck and

buried her face in the crook of his shoulder.

It took every brain cell he had not to yell out triumphantly as he hugged her back,

kissing the top of her head.

"Are you going to move back to the manor?" he asked.

"No I'm not." she said firmly. He looked at her, obviously stunned.

"What..why the hell not?" he asked looking down at her. Ginny swallowed hard, smiling

lightly as he wiped the last remaining tears away with his thumb gently.

"Because if this happens aga..."

"Its not going to."

"I know but IF. If it does, I don't think I can handle leaving it and you again. But I will

be a guest there if you'd like." Ginny's mind was made up, she had her independence still, and

she knew that if she had to leave the manor again she would probably break down completely.

"I understand, but I'd rather you stayed there every night..with me." he smirked, Ginny

laughed quietly. She had to admit, she missed that cocky and snide version of a smile.

She embraced him again, sighing a little as she looked at the clock. She was beginning

to feel how tired she really was. She kissed him briefly before going and closing the screen door

properly and using her wand to dry him and the carpet off.

"Are you staying the night?" she yawned.

"I don't know am I?"

"I'd like it if you did..." Ginny shrugged, going into the kitchen to get herself some

water.

"Alright then I guess I am." He took of his shoes by the door, and hung his cloak up

beside one of Ginny's jackets. Leaning against the doorway to the kitchen her surveyed Ginny's

new flat.

"Nice place."

"Thank you. I love it here so far." she handed him a glass of water which he accepted

gratefully, wondering how being hit with many water balloons could a make someone so thirsty.

He followed her into the bedroom, looking around at it impressively. But when he saw the book

half open on her bed he remembered what he had found at the manor, got it out of his cloak

and brought it to her.

"Sometimes I think Granger's rubbed off on you." he smirked. She smiled and placed it

on a small bookshelf that was groaning with different texts, taking that as a compliment.

The sun was shining brightly into the garden, with a cool breeze coming now and then.

Draco and Ginny were sitting close together while letting their feet and legs cool off in the part

of the stream that entered the far part of the garden that ran into a thicker mass of trees.

"Energy bar or super chocolate brownie Sunday?" Draco asked. Ginny screwed up her

face thinking a little, they were playing a game quite like twenty questions but with not limits and

the questions so far were pretty timid.

"Depends what kind of energy bar. I love the chocolate chip ones that are covered in

chocolate too..their just as good as ice cream. Except I can eat like five and then I get all hyper

because of the sugar." she laughed.

"Fair enough." Draco nodded.

"Hmm.. Why do you lean on stuff so much?" Ginny smiled deviously as she looked to

him for an answer. He looked at her queerly.

"I lean on things?" he asked obliviously. Ginny laughed looking at him with surprise.

"You lean on everything! Every time you enter a room or are just talking you lean on

things..all the time!" she accused. Draco put his forehead against hers smirking deviously.

"It's a very sexy lean though isn't it?" he asked huskily. Ginny snorted a little.

"Er...sure? I mean yes..yes it is." she stammered, trying to keep a straight face. That

plan failed as Draco scooped his hand into the water and bombarded Ginny with water.

Ginny pushed him into the stream which he landed in face first and stood up sopping

wet.

"You never told me what happened at the rest of the party." Ginny said, screaming as

Draco grabbed her around the middle and tossed her in the stream with him.

"Well.."he started, shaking the water out of his hair. "I gave my speech, I guess I won

quite a few people over but your brother remained unchanged. But I tried to talk to him once

the party slowed down, then I left." he shrugged.

Ginny's face went a little white "You talked to my brother?"

"Er...yes?" he said unsurely, wondering if she was upset. Ginny stood up impatiently.

"Well go on with it! What'd he say? What did you say? You didn't tell him we..oh my

goodness.." she ran a hand through her hair nervously, about to embark on a ramblefest but

Draco cut her off.

"I apologized for what I did but it tell him he sort of came out of nowhere and didn't

really give you a chance to explain yourself. Hermione must have calmed down a bit, he still

didn't seem happy with it but he said he'd try to talk to you." Draco told. Ginny smiled happily

but then it fell as she remembered all the unanswered owls she had gotten so far.

"Oh shit! He's going to think I'm dead or something.." she cursed. She saw the odd

look on Draco's face and tried to not smirk. "He's sent be about sixty letters I haven't bothered

opening yet, I was so mad at him and I thought they'd all be about how I shouldn't have

anything to do with you."

"I'm so flattered about how fondly you think of my people skills." he drawled, after

getting a sharp smack in the stomach he learned the hard way when he should shut up.