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Chapter 4: Infatuation

I am full blood boricua

Read the tattoo in his arm

He tells me mami I need ya

And my heart beat pumps so strong

Getting lost in el ritmo

He whispers te quiero

I begin to give in with no hesitation

Can't help my infatuation

It's pure infatuation

-Christina Aguilera

Ginny was woken the next morning by a small tawny owl, which was holding a newspaper. It dropped the paper onto her bed. Thinking that she would need to pay it, she reached over to her draw to retract some coins for the bird. Only when she turned back to pay the fee, it had gone. Thinking how odd it was that she was not receiving her mail at breakfast, she unrolled the paper and saw a quickly scribbled note on a torn piece of parchment. It read:

Turn to page 3.

Doing as she was instructed to do, she quietly turned the paper open to page three, and spotted two separate photos, one of herself, smiling in a modest way, and the other of Draco Malfoy, leering out at her. She darted her eyes to the article:

CLEARED OF ALL CHARGES

Recent evidence has come to see that Ginny Weasley, a 6th year student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is in fact an innocent, normal girl, writes Rita Skeeter, Special Correspondent. A recent article viewing Miss Weasley to be the crusher of boys' hearts seems to have gone terribly astray to the truth.

All the boys whose names were featured in the article printed in the Prophet four days ago have given exclusive interviews to clear their 'un-lovers' name.

'I have never done anything with her.' Says Seamus Finnagan, while four of the other boys nod in agreement around him.

'I will admit that I have been out with her,' says Dean Thomas, a good-looking Gryffindor 7th year, 'but Ginny isn't manipulative or mean, she is a kind and sweet girl who should be treated with respect, unlike how the latest article from the Daily Prophet has.'

Evidence has also been given from an anonymous source that young Miss Weasley received a howler, from an angry flame that had read the article. It has now been confirmed from the same source that Draco Malfoy was the sender of that howler, a 7th year Slytherin at the school. Apparently, he was just trying to stir trouble and torment the young girl.

It seems that Hogwarts boys may now be safe, but with Mr Malfoy loose in the castle, girls may be the ones who are in trouble.

Ginny read it over and over again, just to make sure she had read it correctly. After yesterday's sequence of events, she was sure that no one would ever talk to her again. And now, she was free to wander the grounds, go to lessons and eat in the Great Hall without feeling like the scum of the earth.

She leapt out of bed with enthusiasm and raced down the dormitory stairs after she had dressed at top speed. Being Saturday, the Great Hall would not be full this early in the morning, yet she felt she needed to get there early, ready to greet all the boys and thank them for setting her free from Rita Skeeter's shackles.

She sat there in the semi-deserted hall when, Dean and Seamus came through the door at the same time as the delivery owls. She ran up to them and gave them both one-armed hugs. When she pulled away, they both looked rather shocked, and waited for her to explain herself.

"Thank you so much," Ginny said smiling fondly at them both, "How did you contact Rita anyway? How do you know her?"

"What?" Seamus exclaimed, while Dean just stood there with his mouth wide open in a confused sort of way.

"The interview?" Ginny inquired. "How did you convince Rita to write it? And how did you know about Malfoy?"

"We didn't jack up the interview." Seamus explained, with a dawning comprehension on his face. "We were all just asked to meet her. We didn't even know it was Malfoy who did all that until that Skeeter woman told us. We don't know who set up the interview."

Once he had finished talking, Ginny turned her head in the direction of the Slytherin House table. Malfoy spotted her looking at him, and hastily placed his knife and fork onto the table and strode out of the hall. Many pairs of eyes followed him – the Prophet had been passed around to almost every person in the hall by now. Then, she realised who it must have been. But why would he do that? He was a Malfoy, I mean, the spawn of Satan isn't supposed to be going around doing nice things for people. And even so, he didn't have to land himself in all of this, he could have just told Rita Skeeter that Ginny wasn't the Hogwarts whore, and left it at that.

It was at least a minute until she realised she was still standing in silence in front of Dean and Seamus. They both apologised for thinking that it was a possibility that she was what Rita Skeeter made her out to be, and left to get some breakfast.

She made her way out of the hall and into the grounds to find him, she had to know why he had done what he had. On the way, many people looked her way, waving and smiling when they saw her, some apologising and others stating how foul Draco Malfoy was. She waved back in a dismissive kind of way and searched for his white blonde head in the sea of green grass. She finally spotted him, lying in the very spot where all of this nonsense between them had started. As fast as she could, she paced across to the edge of the lake and saw him turn at the sound of her strides.

"Why?" she blurted out, sounding ruder than she had intended to. " Why did you do it?" She asked again, in a sweeter and calmer tone than before. It took him a while to answer, he seemed to be thinking long and hard about the words he was going to use.

"I couldn't let you live with that." He said, not meeting her eyes and standing up to leave.

"But you didn't have to turn it against you, clearing it all up for me was all you had to do." She said, grabbing hold of his arm to make sure he didn't leave before he had explained himself.

Draco looked down on the hand that had held him back, and forced a gaze up at her face that he couldn't dare look at, in case she had looked at him in that loathsome way that he dreaded. But to his delight and surprise, she was looking at him questioningly, almost in a concerned way, and at this, he answered: "Now it's even. And I don't care how many enemies I have - " Ginny opened her mouth to speak, but he put his fingers against it to silence her. " – just as long as you aren't one of them." He took his hand of her mouth and she stood there, in silence, her hand still gently holding his wrist.

He pulled away – yet longing to pull her closer – and started back up towards the castle. He was about ten feet away when he heard her voice again.

"Thank you, Draco."

He turned back and smiled at her. "Any time."

In all the commotion of Ginny trying to find thank the people who gave interviews at breakfast, she realised that she hadn't actually eaten a bite from when she entered and left the hall. Checking her watch and realising that it was almost lunchtime, she felt a pang in her stomach and went to get some food.

The strange squirming feeling in her stomach did not subside however once she had eaten. She couldn't get the picture of a smiling Draco out of her head. And she had actually called him Draco? Since when was she on first name terms with him? And did he not want her as one of his enemies because she was a danger to him or he wanted her to like him? But all she really cared about right now was that he had done something genuinely nice for her. And when he smiled, he looked so good (even better than usual that is). All she wanted to do now was see him again, talk to him and get to know him. But then she felt the squirming feeling increase in her stomach when she realised that he most definitely would not want to get to know her. But hadn't he replied "Any time" when she had thanked him? Surely that showed that he wanted to see her again.

She strode down the hallway where Moaning Myrtle's bathroom was positioned. Her feet seemed to have leaded her on the very familiar path to the Gryffindor tower as her mind swam of thoughts of the Slytherin prince. She only realised that the corridor was flooded when she slipped over almost hitting the ground, but something warm and soft had caught her.

"Careful now, don't want you joining Myrtle in that bathroom do we?" Draco smiled, and lifted her up to a standing position.

"Thanks." She said suppressing a giggle. His hair, which was normally slicked back and perfect, was once again ruffled and natural.

Draco had been wandering the castle, hoping that he would bump into a certain Gryffindor. And to his delight, his wish had been granted. But as he looked at her, she was smiling, and laughter danced in her eyes.

"What?" he asked.

"Nothing." She answered, totally aware of the fact that he had not let go of her, and that she had actually started laughing quietly aloud.

"Well it obviously wasn't nothing, otherwise you wouldn't be blatantly laughing at me, unless that's something that Gryffindor's do to torment people, laughing at them…"

Draco continued to babble like this for quite a while, which made Ginny laugh even more than what she already was.

"…STOP LAUGHING!" he said, now laughing himself at how stupid he must sound.

"Make me!" She said in a daringly flirty tone, standing on her tip-toes so she could make herself look like more of a threat.

Yet to her surprise, he did, the only way that seemed right.

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