YELLOW
Look at the stars,
Look how they shine for you,
And everything you do,
Yeah, they were all yellow.
I came along,
I wrote a song for you,
And all the things you do,
And it was called "Yellow."
So then I took my turn,
Oh what a thing to have done,
And it was all "Yellow."
Your skin
Oh yeah, your skin and bones,
Turn into something beautiful,
You know, you know I love you so,
You know I love you so.
I swam across,
I jumped across for you,
Oh what a thing to do.
Cos you were all "Yellow,"
I drew a line,
I drew a line for you,
Oh what a thing to do,
And it was all "Yellow."
Your skin,
Oh yeah your skin and bones,
Turn into something beautiful,
And you know for you,
I'd bleed myself dry for you,
I'd bleed myself dry.
It's true, look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine for,
Look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine.
Look at the stars,
Look how they shine for you,
And all the things that you do.
- Coldplay
Ginny spend that night replying to Harry and all her brothers, denying Ron's claim flatly.
In her letter to Ron, she stated that she must have left her shawl behind during one of her detention sessions with him and that it was ridiculous for him to even suggest something so unbelievable.
She hated lying but had no choice. Either that or her brothers would hunt Draco down till his dying days while keeping her locked in the room with a chastity belt on.
Ginny woke up early, the next day, before even the sun had peeked out from behind the horizon. She slipped on her invisibility cloak and headed out of the castle. Whipping the cloak off, she breathed in the dewy scent of dawn breaking as the chilled morning breeze whipped her red hair off her face.
She strolled along the field, the grass a plush carpet of moisture beneath her bare feet, her shoes discarded, miniaturized and in the pocket of her robes.
She had needed to clear her head, be by herself before the day took its toll on her. It was a week till she set foot in the outside world, as a fully-grown wizard.
She watched the giant squid rising from the lake and waving its tentacles. She raised her hand, impulsively and waved back.
"Talking to squids?"
Ginny spun around, startled.
Wide sensuous lips spread into a knowing smile, there stood Jake Hamilton. His mean streak had not marred his boyish good looks.
"What do you want?" Ginny asked, wearily, her hand reaching up to stroke her forehead – a gesture of pure weariness. He had obviously come to blackmail her.
"I came to say sorry." Ginny's head snapped up to meet his remorse filled aquamarine blue eyes. He looked sheepish. Either he was guilty or was a really good actor. With Jake, she could not tell.
Ginny just stared at him expectantly.
"I don't know what got into me. I never not get what I want, you know, and suddenly you wanted to break up with me. I knew you didn't like me the moment you started behaving so distractedly and I just couldn't deal with it, I was doing and saying things I normally never do. I suspected there was someone else but when I found out it was…" His voice trailed off before continuing.
"I always fancied you, Gin. That was true. I really liked you. Not for myself. Though I can be an egoistical bastard sometimes but I just wanted you to know that I am not lying when I tell you that I was attracted to you and I still do care about you. I always have." He took a deep shaky breath at the end of his confession.
Ginny was touched but simply nodded. There was nothing else she could say to him or offer him. Her heart no longer belonged to her. It was in Draco's hands.
"We can be friends then?" Ginny smiled, indicating acceptance of his apology.
He looked a trifle taken aback by her swift acceptance of his apology.
"How do you do it, Gin?" His use of her nickname, a suggestion of intimacy did not unnerve her, as it should. Seeing the puzzled look on her face, he continued,
"Forgive so easily, give people second chances. You truly have a big heart." He said it so sincerely, so earnestly that Ginny melted, smiling at him. He took a step towards her, enveloping her in a warm unexpected hug, which she retuned without hesitation.
Draco sat up in his bed, a smile on his face, as sunlight flooded the room. For the first time, in a long time, he truly felt there was a reason to live and that reason was Virginia Weasley - the light at the end of his dark tunnel.
The whole world could be against them being together but as long as she looked at him, and spoke to him, he would want to live. As long as he could touch her, feel her satin skin beneath his own fingers, he would be hopeful.
He stood, walking towards the window where he pulled the curtains away in one swift movement, closing his eyes as he bathed in the brilliant sunshine. The smile could not seem to come off his lips as he opened his eyes and gazed out at the school grounds.
His gaze stopped momentarily as the sight of a familiar flash of vivid red against the green of the trees.
Something caught in his throat at the sight that met his eyes. His Virginia embracing the stupid hufflepuff git she used to date. Jealousy flashed through him, ice pick, cold, needle sharp and piercing.
He watched them, with perverse morbid fascination, as they stood there for a good few minutes, in each other's arms. He could even see Ginny laughing into that stupid boy's chest as he touched her hair, hair that only he had the right to stroke and caress.
Draco let out a loud growl of frustration that came from the pit of his stomach before he turned away from the torturous sight. He had to start thinking with his head.
Draco had spent his life thinking out worst-case scenarios when anything was to happen but he had not considered the possibility that after last night, Ginny would change her mind.
It had seemed too remote to even think about it and now he was paying the price for trusting, trusting completely as he had never done before. For Ginny obviously did not want him, with his dark past and horrid family background.
She did not want him even though he wanted her, needed her.
What would he do? Now that the only possible source of light was fading, dimming by the minute.
Colin nearly fell off his seat at the sight of Ginny walking into the hall, her arm linked with Jake's; both of them wearing identical contented smiles.
He nudged at Luna who was poring over the seating arrangements one last time before submission.
She looked up, taking in the pair making their way towards them with piqued interest and curiosity. Now that even she had not seen coming.
Their friendly camaraderie with each other seemed to have set the Hall abuzz. People were glancing towards Jake's ravenclaw girlfriend who looked surprisingly nonchalant.
"Hullo, how's it going?" Ginny chirped, slipping into the seat across form her best friends after Jake gave her a friendly peck on the cheek before heading off to his house table.
Colin looked as if he were about to burst with curiosity.
Luna was more direct.
"I was about to ask you about that." Luna nodded towards Jake at the hufflepuff table.
So Ginny told them about their earlier exchange.
"Sounds like he wants you baad." Colin murmured, shooting a dark look at the boy's back.
"How about Malfoy?" Luna asked. Ginny shot Luna a puzzled look.
"Me and Jake are just friends. Jakes knows that." She replied.
"So you're romantically involved with ferret boy?" Colin looked even more annoyed. It was obvious he would rather his friend date Jake than Malfoy.
Ginny shrugged, averting Colin's gaze.
"Speak of the devil." Ginny looked up at Colin's words to see Draco striding purposefully down the hall towards the Grand Table.
He did not greet her, smile at her or even glance in her direction. Ginny, intuitively, felt something amiss.
That feeling followed her around for the rest of the day as she tried to think of ways to eradicate it.
Jake seemed to be everywhere though, walking her from one class to another, bringing her food when she skipped lunch to sit out by the lake with Colin, even confiding in her his hopes of being accepted by Puddlemere United. He insisted that he had nothing else to do because his girlfriend was busy with Auror interviews.
"You could have applied to other quidditch teams right?" Colin asked, frowning, his nerves frayed by the constant presence of Jake, like a persistent mosquito.
"No, Puddlemere's the only one nearest to my home." Jack flashed a sheepish smile at Ginny, for his home happened to be near The Burrow. Colin began to cough violently in a bid to hide his laughter.
"Why Jake, I never knew you flew that broom! So which one of my brothers is it?" Ginny teased, grinning.
Jake look horrified.
"No, I-"
"If you're looking for Gin, she won't be there after summer. She's sharing a flat with Luna." Colin explained.
"Ginny!" Luna came running towards them.
Ginny exchanged worried looks with Colin. Now, Luna never ran. She hated hurrying. She believed in taking life at a slow pace and pondering over every moment. Something had to have happened.
Ginny stood up as Luna approached, breathless, her flushed face framed by her blonde hair in unruly waves.
"What is it?" Ginny asked.
Luna, glancing at Jake, pulled Ginny by her elbow some distance away.
"It's Malfoy. He's leaving."
"What do you mean leaving?" Ginny felt the horrible feeling this morning double into a numbing sense of dread.
"He tendered his resignation. He's leaving. I heard him telling Professor Paulo." Ginny stared at her friend, an uncontrollable feeling of loss sweeping over her.
"I have to go to him."
"Go then!" Luna said, almost commanding.
Ginny need not have been told twice. She took off for the dungeons.
He could not leave. Why would he leave? Leave her?
She walked into his room. He was standing at his desk, throwing things into a black leather bag.
He did not look up at her.
"Draco, why are you leaving?" She asked, softly, moving towards him.
"The same reason why you're back with Hamilton." He spat out looking at her with the disdain of a Nordic Prince. She stepped back, startled.
"I'm not with him. I'm yours. You should know that." She said it so simply and so matter-of –factly that Draco was bowled over, his anger dissipating instantly.
"I-I-"
"Yes, you made a mistake Draco and I think you'd better think about how much you trust me and how well you know me."
With that she stomped off, livid with indignant anger.
Draco knew how wrong he had been in judging her. He was deeply touched by her frank profession of her feelings but his pride, stubborn hard masochistic Malfoy pride kept him from going to her and apologizing.
Thus he kept his distance from her.
It was best for both of them.
She was too dangerous for him, made him too vulnerable for his liking.
Ginny was deigned to think that she was forever destined to go for the wrong men.
She had a fatally bad judgment about the opposite sex.
After two days of the cold shoulder from Malfoy, she was certain that things had cooled off between them.
A certain resignation enveloped her about her life. An air that would plague her till the day before her graduation day. The day Draco came to his senses.
Ron was going to be arriving that morning with his fiancé Hermione and Harry. Her parents and the rest of her brothers would arrive later.
Ginny was sitting in her usual place in the Grand Hall, with her two friends eating breakfast for what would be the last time. A heaviness seemed to shadow her perspective of what should be the happiest and biggest day of her life as a student.
"What time are Ron and all coming?" Colin asked, between mouthfuls of scrambled eggs. Some things never changed.
"Half past twelve." Ginny replied, glancing over at Luna who was busy penning a letter.
"Who's that to?"
"Oh, no one." Luna looked extremely dodgy.
Ginny suspected that this was the American muggle penpal that Luna was especially fond of. He had sent a picture of himself once. He had dark brown hair and bright hazel eyes. Colin thought he looked a bit to slick and smarmy.
Just then one of the school owls landed on the table in front of Ginny.
Ignoring the questioning glances her friends were shooting her, she unfurled the rolled up parchment and read it.
Virginia,
Meet me at the lake. I want to give you something.
Love
Draco.
Her breath caught in her throat at the sigh of his elegant cursive handwriting, penning the words she had so desired to hear from him, despite all statements of otherwise.
She stood, forgetting her breakfast. Luna looked up at her, her brow knitted in confusion.
"What is it?"
"I have to see Draco." Ginny murmured, before striding towards the Grand Entrance, before either of her friends could stop her.
Author's note..
As for the change in tone in the last two chapters – Love is filled with both light hearted and serious moments is it not? Don't lovers laugh and cry together?
I just want to give you an inkling of what this story will be like, specifically what Draco and Ginny's relationship will be like – bliss, tears, anger, laughter – every emotion possible…
I am SO SORRY I named the great hall as grand hall or whatever…
But seriously WHO GIVES TWO HOOTS..
Yeah well, let's talk about more fun stuff – lemme see – this chapter can probably be considered the calm before the storm – yes, babes and mates, next chappie IS the storm of their affair together – not the end, do not worry..far from it actually..but it is when their love calumniates and moves a notch up, full speed ahead…a sort of compensation for the meanderings of their love affair in the earlier chappies….
Watched POA…its okay..i dun now why but I felt cheated out when it ended..
Perharps its cos of lupin..not AT all what I imagined him to be
Or maybe it was cos the twins actually looked HOT but there had little screen time
Someone tell me how old those actors are PLEASE?? Hopefully they're older than me..am eighteen..
And Ron was funny but like some ditz..when he isn't
Or maybe lack of Ginny…
One thing I am SUPER pleased about – Ron and Hermione tension – LOVED IT
And Draco actually looked kinda cute as the smarmy bloke..Not forgetting FRED AND GEORGE were HOT!!!!!!!!
My love life has reached a peak, I think…At the moment it is sooo complex that I think I beat Ginny and Draco hands down..
So here goes – I'm still very much in love with the guy who behaves like a jerk to me but he's been even more mean to me recently..but I still want him..how sad am I??..I'm also infatuated with this super cute and smart guy in my school whom I got to know through this seminar we attended during June hols..(He's more a distraction from the guy that I'm still besotted over) ..he's got a really nice jaw, is super intellectual and has the sweetest smile EVER…unfortunately, his friend has the hots for me (This guy is really dodgy..he stares at me across the room and doesn't even know me personally but talks about me to his friends)...talk about a mutated love triangle of sorts…the worst of it is that my best guy friend is friends with the both of them and shares a room with the guy who likes me, and he's trying to get me to like that guy…confused? So am i…lol
Enjoyed the story? Have been really busy with exams..next update will be sooner..don't worry..and next chapter is action packed and super looong..
Sneakie peekie BOOOO!
"What's going on?" Harry came down the stairs, looking taken back by the sight that met his eyes. Ginny sobbing uncontrollably, Ron red faced and fists clenched by his side, obviously seething in anger, Hermione looking thoroughly distressed.
"Harry!" Ginny threw herself upon him, nearly knocking him off balance. Her whole body shook with sobs as she buried her face onto his chest, effectively soaking his robes.
"What happened?" Harry asked, sternly, putting an arm protectively around Ginny. Ron shook his head and moved towards the window. It was Hermione who spoke.
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