Chapter 10 - Annoyed, irritated and amused

A/N: I know I know I know I know I know I know! ::beats herself up:: It's been ages since I last updated! O.O And I'm soooooooo sorry about that! I can't really promise .. but I'll work on the updating-process! If I have some inspiration left ... See bottom for more details.

Little rewind: Draco is invisible. Ginny has a punishment and has to make Draco visible again. Ginny thinks, after visiting her brothers, that the Valentine Stone is still a piece of crap. Now she is covered in pink and red hearts, dancing on her skin. Valentine day is coming next week. And Ginny is slightly going insane, or is it something else?

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Under the worn out blankets, lay a sleeping redhead. Next to the bed, stood an irritated brunette.

"Ginny, you know you have to do your homework today! So get up!" Hermione told the sleeping redhead. You can tell she was irritated. By the time Hermione tried to get the blankets away, Ginny was awake.

"One day I'll make a spell that gets you up so fast, you'll be begging to me to do it the old way." she threatend. Ginny squeezed her eyes shut, covered up her ears and curled up in a ball.

All Ginny wanted to do was sleep. Sleep all day long, and nobody could see her pink and red hearts. She was annoyed by the little things, dancing on her skin. If this thing was supposed to bring her in a Valentine mood, well, then it didn't work. The effect was the opposite, and now Ginny started to hate Valentine's day even more. To hell with all the mushy couple's! her mind screamed.

"That's it!" Hermione grasped the blankets away from Ginny, only to see her covered with moving pink and red hearts.

"'Mione! I was going to get up!" Ginny yelled at her. She quickly stood up, marched up to Hermione, snatched the blankets from her, marched back to the bed, threw herself on it and snuggled under the blankets.

Hermione sighed and shook her head. "You are a hopeless human being." she said and walked out of the dormitory.

"I am not placing one foot in that room. I am not placing one foot in that room." Ginny repeated serveral times. But it wasn't really working. Her feet carried her to the Room of Requirement. I hate this. Why did it have to be an invisible potion? Why for Merlin's sake?

She knocked on the door and entered the room. Ginny looked around the familiar place. No sign of Malfoy. "Malfoy? Are you there? It's 7 already, so get your butt back here!"

Still no sign of Malfoy. Ginny shrugged and sat on the sofa. Where has he gone off to? Maybe terrorizing the first years. Yeah, that's a thing Malfoy would do.

Ginny shrieked as she saw Malfoy's head floating right in front of her. "Malfoy?!" she squealed. Malfoy was smirking, amused that Ginny was scared of him. Ginny frowned and glared at Malfoy.

"You almost gave me a heart attack! And when did you got your head back?" Ginny said, angry and surprised. She looked into his grey eyes. Not until now she realized she had missed looking in them.

"Really Weasley, that face you made! Priceless!" Malfoy smirked, moving closer to her level. He was so close, that Ginny could feel his breath on her face. Why was her heart racing the minute she saw his face? Why did his grey eyes made her feel she was looking in heaven? Why did she stopped breathing?

Ginny could only look in his eyes. She knew she wasn't breathing anymore, and above all, she knew she wanted to kiss him. Malfoy's lips were very close, if only she could move and crash her lips on his. Ginny felt her world disappear as his lips brushed against hers. She gasped for air and finally moved to set her lips on his.

"GINNY! Stop pretending you're asleep!" a voice screamed in her ear. Ginny's eyes fluttered open and looked right into Hermione's eyes.

"AAh!" she shrieked, and fell out of her bed. "Ouch." she let out, crawling off the floor. Ginny looked around, she was back in her dormitory. It was all just a dream. Slowly she touched her lips, how could she have dreamed this?

Ginny blushed a fine colour of red and ran to the bathroom. She didn't come out of it.

Ginny threw some water in her face and looked herself in the mirror. Her mirror self winked at her and smiled. "Someone here is in love!" the mirror cooed. Ginny widened her eyes and turned around, smashing her back against the mirror. She quickly stumbled out of the bathroom, away from the crazy mirror.

I'm just losing my mind, that's all. Ginny thought and dressed herself. Quickly, she left the dormitory and headed towards the Great Hall for breakfast.

Ginny let her hair fell in her face, wrapped her robe around her and opened the doors. The Great Hall was a really big blur to Ginny. People were whispering, others were screaming, some were huffing, one table was laughing and one person didn't understand all of it. Ginny took her seat by the Gryffindor table and raised her eyebrows at the huffing Gryffindors. Ginny searched for the trio, but couldn't find them. Where is everybody? Ginny listened carefully to the whispering. She could hear a couple of words; snogging, gay and Gryffindor.

She sighed when she couldn't place to words and started eating her breakfast. But once the whispering became louder, she could hear more complete sentence's.

One person behind her was whispering in a high tone. "Really, I never would have thought it! The Boy Who Lived with the Boy Who Adored Him!"

Ginny felt her spoon slip right out of her hand, her eyes were wide open and she didn't knew what to do; to laugh or to join the gossipers. She choose for the first and laughed, hard. It wasn't really funny for Harry and Colin. And at first she was shocked too, but now she just laughed. Really, Malfoy does has a sense of humor, in a weird way, but still worth to laugh about.

She left the Great Hall early, the rumors were driving her insane. Really, who would believe that Harry and Colin had children? Right, no one on this planet. Ginny sighed and wandered aimlessly through the corridors, passing students that were looking at her strangely. Ginny blushed and buried her face further in her robe. Stupid, stupid hearts. Stupid, stupid twins.

After a while, Ginny stopped her trip through Hogwart's corridors and turned around. There was nothing to do, besides homework, but homework was the last thing on her mind. She grinned and walked towards the Room of Requirements, she felt like arguing with Malfoy.

As she made her way down to the Room of Requirements, more and more students were whispering and looking at her hearts. All Ginny said;

"What are YOU looking at!?"

Finally she was at the stupid room. Ginny gently knocked on the door, yanked it open and quickly stumbled inside. With all the stumbling, Ginny tripped over a carpet and fell flat on her face.

"Not my day." she murmured, cursed the carpet and ungracefully stood up again.

"I've seen elephants with more manners than you." came the sneering voice of Malfoy. "Really, was that you or one of those stupid oafs of yours?" Ginny sneered back, averting her eyes at the spot she heard his voice.

"I hope you're wearing your clothes." Ginny said disgusted and skipped to the sofa. "Well, actually-" Malfoy begun but Ginny cut him off.

"That was a threat, not a question." she pointed out and slid down on the sofa. Suddenly, Malfoy's voice was very close to her ear. "Is a Weasley threatening me? A Malfoy?" he said in a low voice.

The dream Ginny had suddenly came rushing back. She quickly scooted over a big measure, uncomfortable with Malfoy so close.

There was a long pause. Ginny shifted on her place, not used to this silence. "What are you doing here?" he finally asked, breaking the silence. His voice rang in her ears, but Ginny was a bit distant.

"Cat caught the weasel's tongue?" Malfoy smirked. Ginny's head snapped up, "Oh, I was just bored ... " she said a little nervous. Why is she being to weird around him? That's it, she had to get out. "I'm going, you're just as boring as the history teacher." she lied and left a confused Malfoy behind.

Ginny didn't know what made her left so quickly, but she had to get away. The lake was a good start. Once she was outside she saw it was snowing. She frowned but started to walk to the lake anyway. Snowing in February ...

She reached the lake and plumped down, looking at the beautiful lake. It was very quiet, because everyone was still in the castle, safe and warm. Not that Ginny didn't feel safe or cold, just an expression. Her eyelids started to fall down, thinking was all she could do.

Why is she feeling so strange around Malfoy? Has it something to do with the dreams she is having? Well, what is was, it is making her change of view on him. She is even starting to like him. This can't be happening, I don't like Malfoy! Even if I would like him, I would say his first name and not Malfoy! her mind screamed. She was angry at herself for even thinking of him that way.

"I'm losing my mind." she muttered to herself.

"Well, people do say that talking to yourself is the first thing from going insane." the know-it-all voice said. Ginny's eyes shot up and turned around. She saw Hermione standing next to her, smiling meekly.

"What are you doing here?" Ginny asked, what she wanted to be friendly but came out quite rude. Hermione slowly sat next to her, watching the lake. "Ginny, what is wrong with you? I know I shouldn't be meddling with your life, but something's up and it's nagging me till no end." said Hermione and she looked at Ginny.

"Why is something wrong with me?" she asked confused, not knowing what in the world Hermione was talking about.

"Well, it really isn't that hard to notice. You sleep longer than normally, you sneak out of your dormitory around 7, you come back a few hours later, but something has changed about you when you return. But I just can't place my finger on it." Hermione said annoyed, thinking hard what it was.

"Um, 'Mione, I'm right here." Ginny said bluntly. Hermione looked up and smiled meekly, again. "Just tell me Ginny, has this something to do with Malfoy?"

She wouldn't know about that right? No, I haven't even mentioned Malfoy when he was turned invisible! Ginny shook her head firmly. "Why would you think that?" she asked as polite as she could.

"Well, today when you were sleeping, you kind of said his name." Hermione blushed. "And I don't mean in a way like you want to kill him."

Ginny raised her eyebrows and her heart started to speed up. "I said his name?"

"Not only that, you even said Draco ... Ginny please tell me what's wrong." Hermione nudged on. But Ginny wasn't even listening anymore. She had said his name in her sleep? Not Malfoy, but Draco? Oh Merlin she thought desperately. Hermione had just proven her that she liked him. But it wasn't possible, how could she like him when she had hated him all her life? She doesn't even know the bloke that well.

"Argh!" she let out in anger and confusedness. Ginny stood up and rushed back to the castle.

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Okay, it wasn't that long, and I'm so sorry for letting you all wait that long. This chapter is one that really sucks, but right now I'm on vacation and ... erhm ... forgot about VS ehehhhe .... but I swear I'm not abandoning this story! When I return home I'm going to work every single day on VS until I finally completed it ... although now I have changed the ending ... I'm weird, I know.