Estoy loca enamorada de ti
It seemed to be like the perfect thing for you and me
It's so ironic you're what I had pictured you to be
But there are facts in our lives we can never change
Just tell me that you understand and feel the same
This perfect romance that I've created in my mind
I'd live a thousand lives each one with you right by my side
But yet we find ourselves in a less than perfect circumstance
And so it seems like we'll never have the chance
1 - Ain't it funny how some feelings you just can't
deny
And you can't move on even though you try
Ain't it strange when you're feeling things you
shouldn't feel
Oh I wish this could be real
Ain't it funny how a moment could just change your
life
And you don't want to face what's wrong or right
Ain't it strange how fate can play a part
In the story of your heart
Sometimes I think that a true love can never be
I just believe that somehow it wasn't meant to me
Life can be cruel in a way that I can't explain
And I don't think that I could face it all again
I barely know you but somehow I know what you're about
A deeper love I've found in you, and I no longer doubt
You've touched my heart and it altered every plan I've made
And now I feel that I don't have to be afraid
I locked away my heart
But you just set it free
Emotions I felt held me back from what my life should be
I pushed you far away
And yet you stayed with me
I guess this means
That you and me were meant to be
- J. Lo
"Now," Colin rubbed his hands in glee before giving Ginny a shove forward towards the table up front where Malfoy was busy arranging the bottles the class had just submitted.
Their potions class had just ended and Colin well aware of the dare had been urging Ginny to get it over and done especially since this was the only time that they would be seeing Malfoy today. Ginny, not surprisingly, was reluctant to do so.
Ginny shuffled forward, knowing that Colin was right, but nevertheless turning around and shooting him dirty looks.
He simply grinned back, a tad reassuring. He would wait for her, having to stand there and act as a witness to the whole thing.
"Mal-Professor?" Ginny squeaked then cleared her parch dry throat, running her tongue over her dry lips.
Malfoy looked up at her, a look of amusement and wariness.
"Yes, Miss. Weasley?" He asked his tone unfamiliar and strange. Ginny realized why immediately. He sounded kind.
"Eh-Uh-I- Oh," She stammered, nervous beyond belief, every part of her aching to turn around and walk out, to just give up.
After all Luna would not be that mean to make her life miserable by spreading such rumors about her right?
She turned her head a bit and out of the corner of her eye saw Colin's nodding at her, urging her to get on.
She had to do it. She had to.
She realized not only because of the dare but also because of her own curiosity.
She herself had been wondering if it was Malfoy since he was, despite what she told Luna and Colin, the most possible candidate.
Thus, a paramount desire to put to rest all Luna's and her own doubts about Malfoy giving her presents and doing all those things, overwhelmed her.
She turned back to Malfoy who was smirking at the flustered red head in front of him as it gave him much delight that he suspected it was due to him that she was in such a state.
She hated that smirk. It was made her Weasley temper rise and thus, provided her the recklessness that she so very badly needed now.
"Professor, I need to ask you." She spoke clearly, looking into his eyes, not daring to look anywhere else.
He nodded, an indication for her to go on, even he seemed to be getting curious as to what could be making the youngest Weasley this nervous.
"DidyougivemetheinvisibilitycloakforChristmas?" She asked, in an incoherent rush, her fear returning.
Malfoy stared at her as if she was speaking gobeldegook which was what it must have sounded like.
She could hear Colin stifle a laugh from behind.
She took a deep breath to calm herself and the fluttering butterflies in her stomach.
"Did you give me the invisibility cloak for Christmas?" She asked.
Malfoy's reaction, though she would never forget for a long time. As Colin would say when he narrated it to Luna later, it was classic.
Malfoy's eyes widened, pupils constricting in surprise his jaw dropped slightly, an unsightly sight for the normally icy, cool, held-together-at-all-times Malfoy.
His hand holding the glass bottle tightened till his already pale skin seemed even whiter than his paling face. Ginny was afraid the bottle would crack.
He stared at Ginny for what seemed to be eternity.
At first Ginny thought that he was angry that she could suggest such a thing but then she realized with a pounding heart that he was looking at her more with shock then anything else.
Ginny was too scared to speak. Her heart seemed to be fluttering in her chest and she felt very close to a heart attack.
"Yes." He murmured, still staring at her, his gray eyes piercing right into her soul.
Colin did not even bother to stifle his gasp. Despite all his speculations, he had not really believed in it wholeheartedly. After all this was Big Bad Malfoy.
Ginny was way beyond shock to even react.
She felt strangely light hearted and was sure she was experiencing one of those out-of –body experiences for she felt incredibly numb and felt as if she was observing all this as somebody else, not Ginny.
She nodded, knowing that the dare was over and she could turn around but not doing so.
"Why?" She asked, amazed that she could think straight at such a time.
She still felt as if somebody else was doing all the talking and thinking for her.
He watched her face, pale yet strangely blank or someone like her, someone who wore her heart on her sleeve and was proud of it.
"I thought you might find it useful." He stated, seemingly back to himself, calm and composed.
He had been terribly surprised by the fact that she had suspected him in the first place.
He had underestimated her intelligence, something he would never do again. With a hint of pride, he realized how smart she was to have figured out that it was him.
Though he knew for a fact that her friends had to have put her up to asking him, she would never have done such a thing.
He did no wait for her response, choosing to stand up and sweep out of the room, leaving her in her mind boggling thoughts and flip flopping heart.
"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.
"Reciprocation is a powerful stimulant to the imagination." Luna commented, nodding towards Ginny as she spoke to Colin.
"No it isn't." Ginny snapped at her, finally coming out of her reverie.
She looked terribly peeved at Luna's knowing look on her face.
"There is no reciprocation." She argued, standing up, food forgotten.
Grabbing her books, she stormed out of the Grand Hall.
Colin was about to rise and follow her but Luna put her hand on his, stopping him. At his questioning look, "She has to sort it out herself." Luna explained.
Sure enough she turned up for all her lessons and sat with them for dinner, eating normally. When Luna finally broached the subject, Ginny did nothing but stiffen.
"I'm surprised he even admitted it, aren't you?" Luna asked, assuming that detached scientific air that she always used with the last things a normal person would use it with – matters of the heart.
Ginny nodded the flip-flopping of her heart beginning.
She glanced up at the Grand Table. Malfoy was sitting all alone, eating his dinner, hunched over. He was obviously reading something at the same time, his pale arched eyebrows knit together in concentration. Her heart flipped some more.
"Hullo! How was today?" Jake greeted them, sliding in to sit beside her.
He leaned over and kissed her on her cheek, something that Ginny did not mind.
In fact his presence was a welcome distraction from the other matter at hand that she did not want to think about at all.
She went for a walk with him around the lake after dinner, talking casually about school, quidditch, their families and life after Hogwarts. He wanted to be a quidditch player.
Then later they brought their homework up to the astronomy tower where they attempted to complete it but ended up misting the lenses of the telescopes that lined the edge when Jake leaned over and covered her mouth with his unexpectedly.
He was incredibly sweet, walking her back to the Gryffindor tower before heading back to his.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
So how was it???
I shortened the spacings…so that it is easier to read..thanks for the critiscm.
I wanted to reply to you each individual review but since I am using my school computer and am, in school, if I did that I would be late for my hot date with the teacher (Note the palpable sarcasm) Unlike Ginny I dun fraternize with the professors..hehe..
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She glanced out at the long rectangular windows admiring the bright spring sunshine filtering in.
They had been holed up in here the whole of today, a Sunday meant to be spent out in the brilliant sunshine.
Almost as if the powers that be had read her thoughts, two strong muscular arms wrapped themselves around her, kisses raining on the patch of freckled skin that joined her shoulder blades to her neck.
She stiffened for a moment before relaxing, her face breaking into a smile.
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