Read the chapter first and my bullshits at the bottom. You know the usual, I don't own HP or the characters. I suck, I just use them. ^_^
Chapter 8
First Date?
"What am I going to wear?"
Ginny was searching her closet for something "reasonable" to wear to dinner.
*I hate to say it, but ferret boy has a point… my clothes are a bit, well, old.* She sighed.
*I guess I'll just make due.*
She looked through the closet for a few more minutes, till she noticed a small green box next high-top red converse sneakers (love those shoes ^_^). She kneeled down by it for a moment before picking it up and opening it.
*Oh my…*
Inside was a white sleeveless tee with a red, sequined, rose in the center and something about "Rosey's Diner" scrolled above it. Ginny then took the shirt out of the box and held it up to look at it better. As she picked it up a note fell out.
*What's this?*
Ginny then picked up the note, unfolded it and read.
Weasel,
I figured you might not have anything dressy so I took a chance on your size. Since you are so petite and flat chested,
*BASTARD!*
I chose a small. I didn't bother guessing your dress size so hopefully you have an acceptable skirt to wear for a bottom. Remember 7 o'clock sharp. I hate tardiness.
Signed,
Draco Malfoy
After she finished reading the note she quickly tore it up and threw it away.
"You are an ass Draco Malfoy, I hope you rot in hell!"
*But the shirt is pretty, so thank you* She sighed again and continued her search for a nice skirt.
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Draco just got done showering and went to take a nap till he heard Ginny screaming his name and multiple profanities.
*Guess she found the box… and the note.* He smirked to himself.
*I did get it as a present for her, but she does not need to know that. I enjoy it when she's anger.*
He laughed a little before flopping onto his bed for a quick nap.
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Ginny couldn't take it anymore. Yes, the shirt was nice, but she couldn't find anything to go with it.
*Augh, can't guys do anything right? Only buying half an outfit… And then calling me flat chested on top of that! STUPID GIT!*
She stomped out of her room and up to his.
*Give him a piece of my mind I will! Damn it!*
She threw the door open, "Malfoy! I have a beef to pick with yo…" She stopped midway upon seeing Draco sleeping on his bed, half naked, wearing only a towel.
*Oh Merlin, I swear someone hates me.*
She stood in the doorway not knowing what to do next. She continued to stare at his sleeping form.
*I should go…but…* She smiled. *He's so cute when he's sleeping, no evil smirking. He looks almost like a happy little kid.*
*Ginny stop it! This is Malfoy! Don't forget that!* As Ginny fought with herself, Draco started to stir. Ginny heard the rustling of him moving and stood, unmoving, like a deer in headlights.
Her eyes went wide when she noticed that Draco's towel had moved up a little exposing his thigh.
*Oh sweet Merlin!*
She knew she shouldn't be looking, but it was one of those moments when you can peal your eyes away. As she stared he began to move around again. Ever time he moved another inch of flesh would show.
Ginny began turning redder and redder until the towel moved a little too high and..
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
Ginny screamed her head off, it was the only thing she could think of to do.
Draco woke with a start and then saw Ginny standing in his doorway, "What the….Weasley what's wrong?"
He then noticed the state she was in and then looked down at himself. He was a mere 3 inches away from being indecent. He quickly pulled the sheets over himself and then looked at Ginny with a sneer on his face, "Weasley what do you want?"
It took Ginny a moment to recover her breathing and a state of sanity before she could answer him.
Draco then smirked, seeing the state she was in, "You know Weasley, if you wanted to see me starkers so badly, you could have just asked." He held back a laugh. Oh, he knew this was going to make her mad.
Ginny was now red out of anger, "I just came up here to tell you Ferret, that next time you either buy the whole outfit or nothing at all. You men know nothing about buying clothes! With that said she left slamming the door behind her and ran back to her room.
Draco just stared at the door, dumfounded beyond belief, *Girls are weird. One moment they are all quiet and blushy, next they want to rip you head off…*
He then smirked, *But I must admit, Weasley is pretty fun to aggravate*
He then looked at his clock which read 6:00pm and decided he'd get ready for dinner.
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After calming down for a few moments, Ginny then decided to go back to finding a skirt to match the shirt Draco had given to her.
After searching for a good twenty minutes she found two to choose from. One was a 50's style red poodle skirt with a matching red cardigan. On the skirt was a pirate's skull and crossbones ((Yah Stupid Armada!))
The second skirt was denim with sparkles all over it. Up the sides were two slits, mostly there for mobility purposes ((Hmmm wonder which one she picks?)).
She was fussing over which one to wear when she heard a knock on her door, "Hey Weasley it 6:45, you better be almost done in there."
Ginny began to panic and quickly chose the red skirt with the cardigan and threw it all on. The only shoes she had to match her attire were her red Chuck's which she casted a quick cleaning charm on and put on. Ginny was never one for make up so she just applied some cherry lip gloss to her lips, stuck it in her purse and walked out of her room.
"I'm ready when you are Ferret." She looked around for a moment not seeing Draco.
"No bad Weasley, with a mere 3 minutes to spare." He was leaning against the main door to the house, "you know if you weren't ready on time I would have just left without you."
Ginny glared at him and then walked towards him, "If that's supposed to hurt my feelings Ferret it didn't. I'd be quite happy just cooking for me you know." She walked past him and out the door, "Can we go now I'm hungry?" She stopped at turned towards him waiting for him to close and lock the door.
Draco was about it return a comment when he saw her in her get up. He was torn between laughter and amazement. Laughter because of her fashion sense, she was wearing the shirt he bought her with this cute little poodle skirt. The icing on the cake was the red sneakers she was wearing. *Who in Merlin's name wears sneakers with a skirt?*
He was also amazed because some how she pulled it off quite nicely, "You clean up pretty good Weasley, nice shoes by the way." He couldn't help it and he chuckled a little.
*Did Ferret just chuckle?* Ginny though to herself and blushed. She looked at him in a moment in disbelief and then turned away, "Can we just go eat already please?"
With that said Draco just smirked and made his way to the car, yes car, and opened the door for Ginny. Before Ginny entered the car she looked at him then the car. Then at him, and then back at the car.
Draco rolled his eyes, "Merlin Weasley, yes I know it's a car and muggle made, but I do not want to stick out like a sore thumb and fly in on a broom or appreate, now get in." He said getting a bit annoyed.
Ginny just glared at him and quickly got in the car not looking or talking to him. The ride to the restaurant went by pretty much like this, adding in the glares and 'hmphs'.
When they arrived at the restaurant, Draco helped Ginny out of the car and then handed the keys to the Valet. Ginny looked about in awe, and then noticed the name of the restaurant was "Carolina's".
Draco smirked at seeing Ginny's awe struck face, "It's an Italian restaurant, nothing to fancy, but they make good food."
Ginny then turned to Draco in disbelief, "Not to fancy? Not to fancy? Draco look at this place it's huge." She then looked down at her attire and blushed, "I can't go in there like this. I stick out like a sore thumb."
Draco snickered, "Yes you do, but I don't think change you're outfit will help that." He then walked closer to her and tugged on a piece of hair, gently enough not to hurt her, to get his point across.
Ginny turned to face him when he tugged on her hair and glared at him, "Why you little" "Now now Weasley not here, wouldn't want to embarrass yourself, now would you?" He then offered his arm to her.
Ginny pouted and reluctantly took his arm and walked inside.
Once inside they were quickly shown to a table and given menus. Ginny looked over the menu as was instantly at a lose. She looked up at Draco who was just smirking at her knowing what was on her mind, "You know Ferret, if you're doing this because you find it amusing I'm just gonna leave and walk back, I don't care how long it will take me."
Draco looked at her wide eyed for a moment and then laughed, "Weasley you are very entertaining you know that." He smirked, "Just calm down, I had foresight and figured the only Italian you've ever eaten was spaghetti and meatballs, if that even. I figured you'd want to try something new, so just relax I'll do the ordering for tonight."
Ginny just continued to glare at him as he smirked, "Weasley I'm not going to poison you, just trust me on this alright, it's not a life or death situation."
"Trust you a Malfoy? HA! You'll probably try to feed me squid or something."
"It's called calamari."
Ginny raised an eyebrow, "What?"
Draco smirked, "Cooked squid is called calamari." He pointed to it on the menu you, "See?"
Ginny rolled her eyes and just gave up, "Whatever, just order I'm going to the ladies room."
Draco watched her leave and just smiled. *It's too easy.* Just then the waitress came by and took the order.
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Once Ginny calm her nerves a bit she exited the bathroom to return to there table. When she spotted the table she saw the waitress serving what she guessed was wine. She also noticed Draco eyeing the girl up and she giggled at something Draco must have said.
*Why that no good git, he's suppose to be here with me and what is he doing flirting with that girl? Wait, why do I care what he does, I just want my food, that's it!*
Finally decideding that all she wanted was food she made her way over to the table calmly and sat down, having to listen to the conversation going on between Draco and the waitress.
"So you get off at ten then?"
"Yes, we close around then and then I have to clean up." The waitress then saw Ginny sitting there looking kinda pissed.
Ginny looked at the waitress and smiled, "Don't mind me sweetheart, I'm just here for the food, you can take the Ferret if you want, just make sure I have the keys to the car to get me home." With that she picked up her wine glass and chugged it.
The waitress held back a laugh, *guess they got into an argument, new couples are so cute.*and then left to go get their food.
Draco watched the waitress leave and then looked back at Ginny who was pouring herself another drink, "Jealous much Weasley?"
Ginny rolled her eyes, "Oh please Ferret give me a break. I'm not jealous, I just feel sorry for the poor girl for falling for a git like you and you're stupid act you pulled." She drank more wine.
Draco smirked, "Do you usually down expensive wine when you pity people?" Yah he had her now, no way to talk her way out of it. Well, that's what he thought, but as soon as she was about to say something the food arrived and the conversation was dropped.
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They were threw with dinner and sat around to have a few more drinks. Draco was fine as they got to the car, but Ginny was another story. Not only was the girl a light weight, but she never really drank before in her life. She yelled at Draco that she could handle on her own, but he still took her by the arm insisting that she was being an idiot and almost tripped over her own two feet.
When the Valet pulled the car around Draco practically dumped Ginny in the car and drove away as fast as possible. As soon as they left the parking lot Ginny was out cold.
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Draco turned off the car once in the driveway and looked over at the totally unconscious Weasley girl in the passenger seat of his car, "Merlin Weasley, you have no tact you know that? Now I'm going to have to carry your Weasley self and get all contaminated." There really was no malice behind his words, but he did shake his head and smiled ruefully while getting out of the car to grab Ginny.
Once he got her door open he put one hand under her knees and the other on her back. He then lifted her up and closed the door with his hip. To his surprise Ginny was extremely light "Oi Weasley don't they feed you?" He knew he wasn't going to get an answer, but he asked it anyway.
By the grace of some god he managed to open the front door without waking Ginny and deposited her on her bed. He quickly took off her shoes and her cardigan, before she woke up and thought he was trying to do something perverted. Once they were off he pulled the covers up over her and tucked her in. She moved around a bit and began mumbling something, "What did you say Weasley?"
She came around a bit and said, "I…" and she mumbled some more. Draco drew his head closer to her trying to hear her better. "One more time Weasley."
"I had…" More mumbles. He drew closer that his face was uncomfortable close to hers'.
"One more time."
"I had fun…"
Out of nowhere Ginny raised her hand to his face and pulled his lips to her giving him a kiss.
Before he even had a chance to register what just happened, Ginny pulled away and was once again totally asleep.
Draco left the room quickly, closing the door behind him and went to his room. *Why in Merlin's name did she…That's it, no more alcohol for her for the duration of this vacation.* Before he could think about what just happened anymore, he quickly got undressed and went to bed figuring he could get a better handle on the situation after a good nights' rest.
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That's it for now, so Happy Thanksgiving!! ^_^ To be honest I probably won't write another chapter till X-mas. Between finals and my sheer laziness, that's about when I'll get around to doing another chapter. I'm also sorry about how long it took me to write this. I actually had this chapter written out like two months ago, hehe I'm bad. I also wanna thank Nicole "The Captain" for helping me with dress ideas. She'll probably never read this cause she's not into Harry Potter, but I'd figure I'd give her a shout out. Also I want to thank all of you who yelled at me to write more. Thanks for not giving up on me and my lazy ass, and hopefully you won't ever give up on me till this story is complete…which may never happen.
On another note I was thinking about adding some visitors to the story, mainly Colin Creevey and Blaise Zabini (as a male) to the story. I'm really sorry but I'm a fan of Colin/Blaise ships. I usually don't dig slash, but I don't know, I like it. So since I want people to read my story I don't wanna upset anybody. So if anyone has any super hardcore objections to Colin/Blaise stuff let me know, I really don't wanna offend anyone.