A/N: don't own so don't bother suing
The lyrics at the beginning are from 'Extraordinary Girl' by Green day
It's not the most interesting of chapters but there is a little bit of fluff in there for you and thank you to all my lovely reviewers who take the time to give me some feedback I love you guys!
Chapter Thirteen – Extraordinary Girl
She's an Extraordinary girl
In an ordinary world
And she cant seem to get away
He lacks the courage in his mind
Like a child left behind
Like a pet left in the rain
She's all alone again
Wiping the tears from her eyes
Some days he feels like dying
She gets so sick of crying
She sees the mirror of herself
An image she wants to sell
To anyone willing to buy
He steals the image in her kiss
From her hearts apocalypse
From the one called whatsername
She's all alone again
Wiping the tears from her eyes
Some days he feels like dying
She gets so sick of crying
She's all alone again
Wiping the tears from her eyes
Some days he feels like dying
Some days it's not worth trying
Now that they both are finding
She gets so sick of crying
She's an Extraordinary girl
An Extraordinary girl
An Extraordinary girl
An Extraordinary girl
"Why is it awkward?"
Draco froze in the process of taking a sip of wine, slowly replacing his glass onto the low wooden table and looking up at her.
"I don't know, is it?"
Ginny raised an eyebrow at him before looking back down at their dinner; her chopsticks were shaking slightly as she dug around the bottom of the Chinese take-away box.
"I don't know why it is; it shouldn't be, should it?"
Ginny didn't lift her head from where she was bent slightly over the table but she did raise her gaze from under her lashes to look at him through the strands of hair escaping the messy loose ponytail it was confined to.
"No it shouldn't."
He dropped his chopsticks and pushed his hands back through his hair in frustration, shifting slightly he moved his weight from off his legs until he was sat cross-legged on the floor besides the table.
"It's like being back at school with those idiot boys on a first date."
Although it was slightly insulting Draco found himself laughing along with her anyway, they were still laughing long after it wasn't even funny anymore. Eventually they moved onto the subject Ginny had inadvertently raised; high school dating.
"No honestly I'm not joking he was more turned on by his grades than me it was quite embarrassing."
Draco took a heavy sip of wine to try and control his laughter as Ginny dug around in the fridge looking for more alcohol, finding two more bottles of red wine and a bottle of vodka she decided on the wine first and carried it over to where Draco was clearing the table with a flick of his wand. The pair moved over to sit on the couch, one at either end as Draco topped up their glasses and continued their conversation.
"Pansy was much worse trust me, she insisted we went to see some reading of a piece of literature she'd never even heard of just to try and make herself look more upper-class and then she fell asleep and snored all the way through it. I however found the entire thing hilarious."
Ginny grinned and took another sip of her wine before leaning over rather unsteadily to place her glass on the table so she could retie her hair back away from her face;
"What was it you went to hear?"
Draco shrugged and took a slug of his wine, wrestling with his memory until the name resurfaced.
"Dante's Commedia I think."
Ginny burst out laughing and Draco furrowed his brows over the rim of his glass at her as she struggled to regain her composure.
"OK so you win on the worst first date score but I can't believe that Dante's Commedia was the first piece of serious literature that actually made you laugh."
Draco smirked and once again refilled their glasses with the fast dwindling wine as Ginny went around the room lighting candles with the tip of her wand and dimming the lights that had turned harsher to their eyes with each glass of wine.
"Wait one minute I didn't say it was the first that made me laugh but Pansy's accompanying snores make it stick in my mind the most. But if we're going to the first good literature I remember ever then I'd have to admit to having a rather shadowy teenage enthusiasm for Henry Miller."
Ginny rolled her eyes and settled back onto her end of the couch, swilling the glass around lightly in her hand as she spoke, her gaze fixed on the swirling depths of the wine and the sweet scent it cast off.
"Oh please, growing up with six brothers try showing me a schoolboy that secretly hasn't. And I was talking about first laughs, who brought up first erections?"
Ginny drained her almost empty glass and topped it up, filling Draco's up as he spoke while trying to remember how many glasses she had drunk; she couldn't which was definitely not a good thing.
"Ah well here we are you see, it may come as a bit of a shock to hear that my first erection didn't come from anything to do with Henry Miller but in fact everything to do with…"
Ginny could practically see what was happening in his mind and she leant forward, clapping her free hand over his mouth to stop him and somehow ending up sprawled over his lap in her half drunken state.
"No, don't please it's gonna be something totally stupid like Roald Dahl or Beatrix Potter or something…"
"Merlin not you as well! That bloody Peter Rabbit got to me every time I read it, I was terrified I was gay until it was explained to me that he was an animal then I knew I was definitely in deep shit."
Ginny could hardly breathe she was laughing so hard as he dropped his head into his hands before lifting it up and smirking at her, draining his glass and reaching across for hers. She giggled madly and swiped at his hand as it neared her drink;
"Don't you dare, that's mine boy!"
Draco gave her an adorable pout before shrugging and leaning over to grab the almost empty bottle to fill their glasses up again with a not entirely steady hand.
"I think we need some mood music."
Ginny lurched over to grab her wand, landing once more in his lap and almost falling off the couch entirely as she flicked her wand at the ceiling. Instantly Vanessa Carlton filtered into the room and Ginny leaned back against the back of the couch. She felt the sofa move as Draco left it and when she finally opened her slightly unfocused eyes he was waving the bottle of vodka before her.
Once they had worked their way in shots halfway down the litre bottle they were both in the mood to dance and a few minutes later they were raving around the room, albeit with wobbling legs, until a much slower song came on. Suddenly shy and much too clumsy for her own good Ginny moved backwards away from him and banged into the table, propelled forwards she landed against his chest and his arms steadied her as they caught at her.
Shifting uneasily in his arms she was too drunk to resist him so instead she gave in and swayed to the beat that was curling playfully around the two of them. Eventually she eased up and her hands drifted to his shoulders so his own could shift to her hips as the beat turned to a much sexier one.
What the hell I don't care was exactly what was running through Ginny's, admittedly slightly hazy, mind as she lost herself in the music, grinding against him and using all her skills as the talented dancer she was to tease him without appearing to do so. The song ended and both were too out of it to bother carrying on as they collapsed back onto the sofa in a tangle of limbs.
"Will you two just bugger off and go to sleep! Even ghosts need to sleep you know!"
Jillian's bellowing from Draco's study which she had made her own make-shift space had the pair of them giggling again until exhaustion overtook them and Ginny felt her heavy eyelids dropping closed.
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Ginny awoke only a few hours later with a blinding headache and she promptly tried to burrow back under the covers to try and find sleep again. Suddenly realising she was actually in the bed and not on the floor as she'd expected to be she hesitantly lowered the sheet to see Draco looking as perfect as ever and perched on the end of the bed.
His gaze was focused on something deep in the distance out of the floor to ceiling picture window at the end of the bed, his elbows were resting on his spread knees and his hands were clasped loosely. Tilting her head to the side Ginny ignored the rising pain in her head and crawled across the bed towards where he was sitting, leaning onto her side slightly she reached out a tentative hand to touch his shoulder.
"Draco?"
She felt his muscles stiffen slightly under her hand and she edged closer until she could see the side of his face, determinedly facing towards the window.
"What is it?"
He shook his head and sighed, leaning back and wiping his palms along his thighs and then over his face. Biting her lip Ginny gave up and moved back over to hide under the covers again.
"Ginny?"
She froze and turned slowly on her haunches to look at him, he was facing her now; leaning back on one arm to look at her.
"Do you want to go somewhere with me?"
Ginny wrinkled her brow and stared at him, confused.
"Where?"
He shook his head again slightly and there was a sparkle in his eye as he continued.
"Just somewhere, you'll like it I promise."
Ginny looked down at her thighs consideringly, should she go? He hadn't given her any reason to doubt his motives and he had been so incredibly kind and patient with her. Sighing she looked up at him, a slow smile curving her lips as she nodded.
"Excellent go get ready."
Ginny was halfway to her feet when she realised what time it must be, not to mention the pain in her head that had just returned with a vengeance.
"Now?"
He nodded, already stripping off his rumpled shirt and pulling on a black cashmere turtle-neck sweater as she gaped at him for a moment before shrugging and wandering over to his wardrobe to dig through the boxes of clothes she had bought the day before. Pulling out a black Chinese dress patterned with deep purple embroidery she tugged it on and debated with herself for a moment before tugging on a pair of matching purple three-quarter length leggings and a simple pair of flat black dolly-shoes.
She ran a brush through her hair and quickly tied it back in messy bun at the crown of her head; cleaning a pair of the chopsticks from earlier with her wand she stuck them through the bun and grabbed her black leather biker jacket.
"Ready?"
She nodded and Draco held open the door for her before following her out and tapping it with his wand to lock it.
A car was waiting for them as they reached the front steps of the apartment block and Ginny sat quietly in the back of the plush Mercedes wondering where he was taking her and how he knew she'd like it. She didn't have to wait long to find out as they pulled up in the middle of an apparently deserted field.
Feeling slightly nervous Ginny allowed him to take her arm and lead her across the field towards something she couldn't quite make out in the dark. Realising it was a large basket she cast him a confused look as he helped her up and into it.
Following his lead she slumped down in the corner of the basket and huddled into her jacket, wishing fervently that she had stayed at the apartment asleep; her headache was worse than ever. She was halfway through cursing every type of alcohol ever made when she heard a roar and the basket shuddered underneath her.
"Look."
Ginny took Draco's outstretched hand and raised herself unsteadily to her feet, she felt distinctly unnerved as the basket shifted off the ground and she clutched at the edge of it. She felt Draco's arms on either side of her and she looked down to see his hands just brushing the edges of hers comfortingly, she edged her fingers over ever so slightly until hers overlapped with his.
Glancing up she caught her breath and he smiled to himself, he turned a little until he could see her enraptured face. She threw her head back to see a huge black balloon carrying them higher and higher. The view was amazing; she could see the entire city and the surrounding countryside all of it made even better by the colourful hue the rising sun was casting over them.
Suddenly Ginny could feel every place where they were touching; his perfectly carved chest against her back, their fingers brushing against each other, his breath stirring her hair, their lower bodies pressed against each other and her breath caught once more. She moved to turn and face him but one of his hands clamped at her waist to hold her in place while his other rested on her neck to make sure she was still watching the sunrise.
His thumb was gently caressing her neck inside the collar of her dress in time to her furiously pounding heart as the sun eased up ever so slowly, colouring the sky with heavy pinks and purples; it was beautiful.
Eventually it was over and Ginny gave a sigh of pleasure, leaning back against Draco as the chill morning air whipped stray strands of hair into her face. She leaned further back and looked up at him, he was watching her and she had the feeling he had been all morning.
He smiled when he realised she was looking at him but Ginny didn't notice his gaze shifting over her face; her eyes were locked onto his lips and a hungry look had seeped into the brilliant orbs. His face shut down almost instantly, a primeval look of desire darkening his features as he watched her edge up slowly to press her lips against his.
The position wasn't the most comfortable one for a passionate kiss but it sufficed as neither felt inclined to move, in fact the position gave Ginny a rather odd rush of adrenaline at the feel of the cold air whipping about her front while her back were quite warm against Draco's body.
They finally pulled apart and Draco turned to nod at the person who was operating the balloon. They slowly began to descend back to where the driver of the car was sleeping peacefully at the wheel.
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