A/N: hey yall! sorry it took me so long to update. i've been really busy and i've got band camp this week (yes i'm in band...it seems that alotta ppl on this site have band camp shrugs shoulders lol) so i'm still going to be busy but i have been able to post chapitre douze. i think this is the longest chapter i have written. haha! that makes up for it being so late :). thanx to my loyal reviewers:

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Chapter 12: Jade

Ginny stopped in front of the Great Hall's doors. She put on a face and walked in. She slowly walked towards the Gryffindor table and could feel Draco staring at her. She didn't look up. She sat down next to Hermione who looked up from the Daily Prophet.

"Ginny? Are you alright? You look terrible."

"I feel terrible….." She swiped her nose with the back of her hand and silently patted herself on the back for the wonderful face she'd put on. 'At least all this lying has really helped me improve my acting skills,' Ginny thought to herself.

Ron looked up from his food and looked at Ginny. "Oi Ginny! You look like you ate a fungus flavored Bernie Blott's Every Flavor Bean."

Ginny slowly turned her head from Hermione to Ron across the table where Harry was sitting next to him. He stared down at his plate and ate his food silently as Ron rambled on how Ginny should be more careful and blah blah blah. Ginny couldn't help but feel worried for Harry. 'Is he okay? He's the one who looks sick.'

"I thought I might be able to eat some food but I realized now that I can't," Ginny said cutting off Ron and sniffling. "I think I'll just go back to bed." With that said she began to turn around.

"Wait Ginny! Today we're going to Hogsmead. Don't you want to come?" Ron asked.

"Ron," Hermione hissed, "she needs sleep! Don't encourage her to go out in the cold when she looks so sick." She gave him that close-your-mouth-or-you'll-regret-it look and Ron quickly shut his mouth.

"No I don't think I could handle it really. I think I just need some rest." Ginny began to turn away. "No disturbances please," she said putting out a hand to them. With that she slowly began to leave the Great Hall.

'What is wrong with her?' Draco thought. 'She looks awful.' Draco simply shrugged off his worries, fearing that his worries would get the better of him and he'd approach Ginny and he knew she wouldn't be happy to see him since he'd been ignoring her. Ginny turned towards him and he saw those eyes that reminded him of something but he couldn't remember what it was until recently.

Ginny saw that Draco was watching her and shot him a dirty look.

'Yea she's definitely not happy with me at all.' He turned back to his plate.

As soon as Ginny was out the Great Hall she broke into a run. Breakfast was nearly over. She stopped in front of the portrait in a huff.

"Why are you in such a hurry?" the Fat Lady asked.

Ginny told her the password still huffing and puffing. (A/N: I couldn't think of a password :( sorry)

"Nobody ever wants to chat with me anymore! I swear I was telling Cecilia from the portrait over there-"

Ginny cut her off and yelled the password.

"Fine! If you must ignore me once again then go ahead! I get it from everyone else-" She continued to talk as if someone was listening as the portrait swung open. Ginny hurriedly scrambled through.

She ran up the steps to the girl's dormitories taking two at a time and when she got to the top she tripped- she wasn't the tallest person, she did have pretty short legs- but had no time to worry about her knee which throbbed in pain. She hopped up and hobbled towards her trunk. She opened it and pushed everything aside until she saw the bottom of it. She bent down and knocked on the bottom three times. A knob appeared and she pulled on it. A tiny door was attached to the knob and a secret storage space was underneath it. Inside was Harry's Invisibility Cloak. She quickly grabbed it, slammed her trunk shut, which made the little door snap closed, and rushed out.

Before running out the common room Ginny pulled the Cloak over her. She didn't want to have another little "chat" with the Fat Lady again. She made sure her feet weren't visible and pushed open the portrait. She climbed out and shut it.

"Who is it? Who's there?" the Fat Lady began to question, glancing around looking for someone to be there.

Ginny could still here her questions as she turned the corner and headed towards the front doors to the castle. She wasn't running incase she accidentally bumped into someone who might pop out at her but she was walking at a quick pace.

As she neared the front door she saw everyone else heading from the opposite direction which was the direction of the Great Hall. 'Breakfast must've just ended,' Ginny thought to herself. She waited for the last person to walk through, quickly grabbed the door before it shut closed behind them, and slipped out.

She searched the tops of everyone and looked for Draco's blonde hair but it was hard to tell since his hair was so near white it would've blended with the surrounding snow. She began to search harder when she heard the doors screech open behind her.

Ginny quickly ducked out of the person's way falling into a bush. She stood up and brushed herself off, making sure the Cloak still covered her and cursed the person that made her fall. She looked to see who that very person was and saw who she'd been looking for. The only person in Hogwarts who had hair like that.

She quickly caught up to him and walked behind him trying to hide the sound of her footsteps. Few people were around but lucky for her, enough people to drown out the sound of her footsteps with their voices. She carefully observed Draco at a good distance away trying not to touch him. She noticed he had his hand in his pocket and could tell that he was clutching something about the size of his palm.

Ginny wondered what it could be and was staring at it so hard that she didn't notice Draco stop and she nearly plowed into him. He turned and looked around and behind him. After awhile he slowly turned forward and continued towards his destination.

'I could've sworn I heard a twig snap behind me,' Draco thought.

Ginny walked behind him further then she had earlier and went into alert mode incase he suddenly, as he'd just done, stop again.

They reached Hogsmeade and Draco headed in the opposite direction of which all the other students were heading. There still were people around but just not that many students. He was heading towards the Hog's Head. He walked over to the door but didn't go inside. He leaned against the wall and waited.

Ginny crouched down a good ways away so that she wasn't standing in the path of anyone. She watched to see what Draco was up to and who this mystery girl Blaise had told her about was. Out of nowhere she sees someone wearing a cloak with its hood up walk towards Draco. Ginny realized she was out of earshot so she scooted closer to hear.

Ginny expected a long talk and maybe possibly a bit of snuggling because Ginny could tell by the person's figure it was indeed a female. At the thought of Draco snuggling with anyone other than her made Ginny grow furious with him. She could feel her fists tightening as she saw the person approach quite close to Draco. She expected her to kiss him but was shocked to see what happened next.

"Meet me outside the Shrieking Shack in about thirty minutes." Draco nodded his head and she turned away and dashed off.

Ginny would've thought they would spend more time together, thinking they were together, but then realized why they hadn't.'Of course.' Ginny slapped herself in the head. 'They wouldn't do anything out in public.' She'd barely heard what the girl had said to him but she did hear it.

Draco waited a little while and then stood straight and headed off.

She tried to squeeze by the many people without touching them to follow Draco. To get around all the people without bumping into them was hopeless so Ginny simply waited for the people to pass. She knew where Draco was heading. She'd catch up as soon as she could.

Finally Ginny found a break in the crowd that she could fit through undetected. She started to go at a fast walk and began to pick up her pace. She was nearly there and could see Draco sitting on a tree stump waiting for the girl. She slowed down and moved closer to him. She was within their talking range so she could hear what this girl had to say.

They waited and waited until a hooded figure emerged from the woods. She came closer and when she was within about a foot of Draco she stopped.

"It's nice to see you again Draco," a cool, collected, angelic, but yet sinister voice said that just seemed to taunt Ginny. As she said this she removed her hood. She was beautiful. Even Ginny couldn't deny that. She had long, brown, large and perfect curls for hair that sat on her shoulders. Her skin was a bit white like Draco's but also, like Draco, she made it work for her. It made her look delicate. She had deep blue colored eyes but yet they weren't blue. They looked kind of grayish maybe even green but Ginny knew they were blue. Her nose was the perfect size for her face and her lips were rather large but not too large. She looked as if she were a year or two older than Draco. (A/N: Draco's in his 7th year so she's not in school anymore. I don't think I've once mentioned that.) She carried a large bag on her side.

"Nice to see you too, Jade. It's been along time." Draco looked at her and pulled out the box that was in his pocket. "What you've been waiting for," Draco said referring to the contents in the small box. She gasped and took it from him. She opened it and her eyes grew wide. Ginny moved so that she could see its contents.

In it were two oval shaped earrings that matched the girl named Jade's eyes perfectly. They too were blue but yet also grey and maybe even a bit green. Jade gasped and looked at Draco who smiled at the girl. She lunged herself at him and grabbed him in a large embrace.

"Thank you so much Draco! I don't know how I can ever repay you!" She continued to hug him until she finally let go.

"I know how you can and I know that you know too," he said that with that snake-like smirk of his.

"Indeed I do know." Jade looked at the ground and shuffled her feet in the snow for awhile a grin spread on her face. She reached in her bag and pulled out another box that was larger by about an inch from the box that Draco'd given her but Ginny hadn't seen this. After seeing Draco smirk back at the girl Ginny couldn't handle it anymore. She quietly backed up and then turned and ran as fast as she could, trying as hard as she could to sob silently so that they couldn't hear her.

Ginny was about 200 feet away from them when the Cloak slipped from her shoulders and fell to the ground. She quickly scrambled to get it and cover herself once again. She hurried away hoping that they hadn't seen her. She ran into the crowd of people knocking a few out of the way. People's faces began to twist in fear because they couldn't find an explanation for what the thing was forcing them to move.

Ginny didn't care. She ran all the way to the castle. She reached the Portrait Hole and pulled off her the Invisibility Cloak and screamed the password in rage and hurt at the Fat Lady. The Fat Lady didn't dare hold her back so that she could have another "chat" with her this time and immediately swung open. Ginny quickly hurried in and was about to reach the foot of the staircase to the girl's dormitories when she heard her name.

She spun around and saw nobody in the room but she couldn't see well because her eyes were filled with tears. She quickly wiped them away and looked around to see who was there. She could barely make out a figure sitting in a chair next to the fire. The person stood up and walked towards Ginny and with every step they came more and more into focus. He stopped about three feet away from her and by then he was completely recognizable. It was Harry Potter.

A/N: well that's that! check back for chapitre treize! it'll be up as soon as i can get it up! luv yalls!