A little Respect

I tried to discover a little something to make me sweeter
Oh baby refrain from breaking my heart
I'm so in love with you
I'll be forever blue
That you give me no reason, you know you're making me work so hard
That you give me no . . . Soul
I hear you calling
Oh baby please give a little respect to me.

And if I should falter, would you open your arms out to me?
We can make love not war, and live in peace with our hearts
I'm so in love with you, I'll be forever blue


What religion or reason could drive a man to forsake his lover?
Don't you tell me no. . . Soul.
I hear you calling
Oh baby please, give a little respect to me.

I'm so in love with you
I'll be forever blue
That you give me no reason
You know you're making me work so hard
That you give me no. Soul.
I hear you calling.
Oh baby, please give a little respect to me.
Oh baby, please give a little respect to me.

- Wheatus

"Ginny!" Colin turned around first, Luna's suitcase in his hand. Ginny took her time turning to look around. Luna was already smiling smugly.

"Jake." Ginny stated as a form of greeting.

He drew up in front of her, his dark hair tousled all over his good naturedly handsome face, his hazel eyes glinting with pleasure.

"I forgot to give you my Christmas present." He smiled shyly, holding out a small box wrapped in blue paper.

It would have been decent enough for her two friends to leave but they insisted on standing there at the landing of the stairs leading up to the dorm. Ginny chose to ignore them.

"Thank you." Ginny smiled politely at the cute boy in front of her that try as she much could not feel excited about in that way.

She found him handsome, no doubt there, but he was not attractive to her. There was no chemistry or flying of sparks. Sadly, only she seemed to notice.

"Aren't you going to open it?" He asked her.

Ginny smiled and pulled at the white ribbon on the top of the box.

"My Mom did the ribbon for me." Jake said.

She tore the blue paper away from the black velvet box. Carefully she held it in her palm once the paper was off.

"Open it." He urged.

"I'm scared." Ginny let out a nervous laugh. He smiled a handsome one, bemused.

"Don't be," he reassured her.

Putting her hand on his forearm, she expected to feel some rush or jolt at his touch but nothing except a faint tingling.

Her pulse though was increasing. Perhaps. He would do for now, till her knight in shining armour came along, later.

What the box held was typical or miraculous depending on the eye.

It was typical because he was a seventeen-year-old boy or it was miraculous.

He had given her half a heart. It was gold and from inside his cloak, he pulled out the other side. It hung around his neck on a rawhide cord.

 Ginny flushed. She could hear Luna gasp dreamily beside her. 

She looked up at his anticipating eager face. Students were moving beside them, slowly as if to catch what was going on but Ginny barely noticed. She leaned towards him, meaning to kiss him.

"Move along, don't block the stairs." Malfoy's clear authoritative voice filled the air as he swept by them, his dark robes billowing about him.

This was the first time Ginny was seeing him since that night, two days ago.

Ginny drew away startled, Jake mildly disappointed. Luna was incredulous while Colin grinning sheepishly.

They took off at the furious look Ginny shot them.

She turned to Jake, her smile gentle, almost tender. He was sweet, wanting nothing more than to be with her.

"Thank you." She said again.

"Next Hogsmead weekend, will you go with me?" He asked, pleadingly.

Ginny nodded, not having the heart to refuse.

"We'll manage." Colin made a mock anguished face. Luna just shook her head.

"Go on. Have fun Gin." Luna called out as Ginny raced down the stairs to meet Jake who was meeting patiently at the foot of staircase. She was five minutes late.

"Hey." She breathed, coming up beside him.

His face broke into one of those smiles that made most of the girls in the school go wild, the one that revealed all his pearly whites.

"You look beautiful." He said, admiring her brand new periwinkle robes.

Ginny could not help blushing. With that he helped into the carriage and they went to Hogsmead.

As the got off the carriage, a group of Slytherin girls walked by them murmuring and glancing in their direction.

Ginny ignored them, her chin raised as she looked away.

She was used to all this taunting, having observed Harry suffer them through his years at school.

"How do you do that?" Jake asked, a hint of admiration in his voice.

"Do what?" Ginny asked, puzzled.

"Act as if you don't care if those girls are talking about you or not."

"That's because I don't care." She answered, simply.

He led the way to Three Broomsticks for which Ginny was thankful, hating the stuffiness of Madame Pudiffoot.

As they sat a table near the front door, after ordering their butterbeer, they made awkward conversation.

The loud clanking of the open door filled the noisy air as Malfoy stepped inside.

Ginny paled slightly, having suffered from the intent piercing looks he had been giving her the past week as if he knew that she was the one who had been out there, that Christmas night.

Jake noticed the look on her face and turned around to see Malfoy standing at the entrance, scanning the place with his cold gray eyes.

His eye met Ginny's for a fraction of a second before flitting away as he turned around and left.

"He seems to have mellowed a bit hasn't he?" Jake pointed out casually. Ginny nodded, relieved that she had not been the only to notice.

Her first date with Jake went relatively well. They kissed at the end, outside the gryffindor dormitory. 

It was not breathtakingly romantic. It had been disappointingly like all her other first dates, giving her a great sense of déjà vu.

"I would never want to get married."  Luna stated that night, staring ahead up at the starless sky.

"Why?" Ginny asked, softly, sitting beside her.

They were up in the astronomy tower. It was deserted at this late hour.

Her invisibility cloak which was being put to good use lay between them.

They were having one of  their 'girl talk' sessions so Colin had known better than to join them.

He was last seen asleep like a dead log in the couch by the fireplace in the common room.

He had to open the door for her to slip out. The Fat Lady had become suspicious of late of Ginny's invisible comings and goings ever since she realized Harry had left school.

"We'd get bored of each other."

"Not unless you fell in love after marriage." Ginny pointed out.

"How is that possible?" Luna asked.

"Now everyone marries because of choice." She pointed out.

"Well then I guess you have to fill your marriage with surprises and twists and turns." Ginny suggested. Luna nodded, approvingly.

"Truth or Dare?" To which Ginny nodded, even though wary. It was a game they played often together.

"I'll go first." Luna said.

"Truth or dare?"

"Truth." Ginny replied.

"Out of Jake's gift and the invisible cloak, which surprised you the most and which did you treasure the most?" Luna asked, her gaze fixated on the sky above.

"That's two questions in one!" Ginny protested, smiling.

She went on to answer the question at Luna's pointed look.

"Jake's gold heart surprised me but I treasure the invisibility cloak." She glanced fondly

down at the cloak. It was truly useful.

"Truth or Dare?"

"Truth." Luna replied, calmly.

"Do you like Colin as more than a friend?" Ginny's question did not seem to surprise Luna who continued staring into the distance dreamily before replying,

"No, not at this moment." Ginny nodded, a smile quirking the ends of her lips. Luna was pretty honest.

"Truth or Dare?" Luna asked.

"Dare." Ginny replied, impulsively.   Luna cocked an eyebrow at her, a wicked grin on her face.

"Well, well let's see." Luna looked thoughtful, the wicked grin still on her face scaring Ginny more than ever.

"I know!" Luna looked as if she had discovered the Elixir of Life.

Pausing for dramatic effect, "Ask Malfoy if he was the one who gave you the invisibility cloak," Luna stated, a triumphant grin on her face.

Ginny gasped, disbelieving. She could not believe her best friend would do this to her.

Colin must have told her about her about his stupid suspicion.

"I can't do that, Lu! Don't be ridiculous! He's our professor!" Ginny pointed out, feeling near hysterics.

"Well, he doesn't seem to treat you as just a student." Luna pointed out, smiling smugly.

Ginny gaped at her like a fish opening and closing her mouth.

"By tomorrow night." Luna stated as an ultimatum.

"And if I don't?"

Luna grinned even more evilly, "We'll tell everyone that you and Professor Malfoy are having a torrid affair." She said in a sickly sweet voice dripping with malice.

 Ginny shook her head, "I don't believe this," she murmured.

"You're the one who accepted the dare." Luna pointed out as they got up and slipped the damned cloak over them.

Ginny nodded in surrender. She had no choice.

A/n-

Heloo my people…here goes the author;s note

Thank you dear darling beta reader Kat..

Sorry that the dare was not Ginny kissing Draco but you must see what will unfold from this dare…hehe..

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"Wow." Luna looked in awe at her best friend's still shocked face as Colin finished telling her what had happened.

"You're telling me." Colin murmured, looking at Ginny worriedly.

She had not said a word since they had left the dungeon which was a good half hour ago.

She was not even eating her lunch just shifting her food around the plate absent-mindedly.

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