Unadulterated Bliss

Chapter 18: Title

When he felt her sobs secede, he slowly pulled away and looked into her eyes. "Am I right in supposing you aren't in the mood for dancing anymore?" She nodded, "Then, would you care to take a walk with me?" She nodded again. It was really uncanny how he seemed to instinctively know that when she felt stifled needed air.

He grabbed his coat, and slung it over his shoulder. He grasped her hand very lightly, just so that the tips of her fingers were on his palm, and reeled her in, and put his arm around her waist. When she froze, he released her instantly. "I'm sorry" he said quickly, "I just thought you might want some reassurance."

"No, no… I'm being stupid. I'm sorry, I must be ruining your night. You can go back and finish your dance with Pansy, and I'll just go back to my room."

"And leave my date all alone? I don't know what you've heard, but I'm a much better date than that." He draped his arm comfortably over her shoulder. "Anyways, I'm pretty sure Pansy doesn't miss me; and I don't want you to sit all alone, while everyone else has a great time."

He smiled warmly down at her, and she returned it. They walked all over the grounds, Draco made sure that whatever they talked about was light and frivolous. He didn't want her to dwell on any bad feeling. They chatted and laughed about classes, classmates, and anything else that came to mind. While they were passing the quidditch field, they ran into Crabbe and Goyle, huffing and puffing as if they had just ran a marathon.

"There you are, Draco! We've been all over the place looking for you" said either Crabbe or Goyle, she couldn't really tell which. "Yeh, we've got a message for you from Pansy."

Draco crossed his arms and quirked a brow at them. "Alright, let's have it."

"Uh..errmmmm.." They looked at each other. "errrr"

Draco's lips twitched upwards. "Well?"

They silently mouthed 'do you remember?' to each other, before turning around and muttering, "We forgot…sorry Draco" "But, do you..er…want us to..you know…stick around?" His eye flicked over to Ginny, and she heard the other mutter something strangely like 'gryffindor'.

Draco's eyebrow lifted even higher. "No thanks," he looked highly amused. "I think I can protect myself from this mere, little, slip of a girl."

Ginny turned to face him. "Really?" she said in a mock challenging tone, "well then obviously you haven't been on the receiving end of one of my bat-bogey hexes. If you saw it you'd be running away in fear." She added an adorable, arrogant lift of her chin, as Draco thought.

"Obviously not. Is it any good?" He smirked and lifted his eyebrow, if possible, a little higher.

"Very"

"Well then, let's see it."

"What?" She looked a little confused. "You want me to do it on you?"

He laughed, "No, no" he gestured to Crabbe and Goyle still standing there with their mouths open. "Crabbe, go stand over there" he gestured roughly five feet in front of him, "and uh…close your eyes." He threw a questioning look at Ginny. She nodded. Crabbe lumbered over, and closed his eyes obediantly.

She snorted at their slavish obedience to him, muttered the incantation, and produced an elaborate gesturing to go along with it. A beam of light blue emanated from her wand and then produced the bogeys coming out of Crabbe's face.

"ahh…AARRGH!" he covered his face with his hands. Draco, laughingly went up to him.

"Wait..take your hands off your face. I want to see!" He lifted his arm off, and caught the full sight of his face popping over with bogeys and fell over laughing beating the ground with his fists. "Goyle" he choked out between laughs, "take him to the hospital wing!" and then fell over into another peal of laughter.

Goyle gingerly walked Crabbe back to the hospital wing, afraid the hex might somehow be contagious…and leaving them alone, again.

A/N: I am SO out of ideas (as you can probably tell) so I'm putting it up to the readers to tell me what to do next! (if there are any of you left! I know I take forever…like every five months to update! Hehe) Anyways, whatever you want, I shall write! My fingers await your command! A.K.