Authors Notes: This is the first thing i've posted in a loong time because of a writer's block that is finally disappearing. This was supposed to be a one-shot but if i get enough reviews : D hint hint then there will be more chapters. This was actually a homework assignment for english, so if your wondering why some words are in bold and underlined, those are the vocab words i had to use. lol. Well hope you like this and pleasee review

Disclaimer: sadly, it is not mine. :(

Pain is nothing, love is something


Ginny ran towards the lake, desperately trying to run away from Harry. He's been trying to get her alone with him so he could have a "talk" with her. Ginny was pretty sure it was about the effect she had on him because of her new appearance. Over the summer Ginny changed and that's when her annoying brother, Ron, realized all the boys in Hogwarts were drooling over her. Unfortunately for Ginny, Harry was one of them. She was completely over him since third year and now she was in sixth, but it appeared to be that Harry was three years late.

When Ginny arrived to the edge of the lake near Hogwarts she spotted a familiar blonde Slytherin gazing into the afternoon sky.


Draco was resting near the lake after a long run from Pansy and watching Harry run around the whole castle. There were rumors that Harry liked Ginny but Draco knew too well that he was too late. She wasn't bad either, she had spunk and her amazingly red hair always caught his attention.

Draco glanced up to see a skittish red head near the opposite side of the lake.


Ginny squinted her eyes to make sure she saw the right person. And alas, she did, it was Draco Malfoy. She just simply ignored him knowing that he would do the same to her, which he did.

About thirty minutes passed and Ginny was starting to get cold, but it appeared as though Draco was perfectly fine in his "expensive" robes. She started to quiver and careen in an odd way with a couple of coughs in between. Now she was certain that she had caught a cold.

Draco noticed too and before he knew it he was merely a couple of feet away from her. He took off his robes and wrapped them around her shoulder casually, as if it were normal for a Slytherin to help a Gryffindor. Ginny suddenly turned around from shock and dropped the robes onto the ground.

"I thought you were cold but I guess you're not," Draco said nonchalantly.

Ginny gaped at him until she finally got back her senses and picked up the robes. She handed them back to him but he just glided one foot back.

"Don't you want them?"

"As I am in the position of a gentleman who needs to help a lady I assume this is the part where you gratefully take the robe and give the gentleman a thankful kiss." Draco said smugly.

Ginny just rolled her eyes but reluctantly took the robes and swung them around her shoulders. "I'll think about the kiss but I'll gratefully take the robes and allow the gentleman a seat near the lady."

Draco just smirked but sat down next to Ginny near the lake. There was an awkward silence for about ten minutes until Draco unexpectedly threw a pebble across the lake causing many ripples to form. Ginny looked up once again in shock while Draco skitted another pebble across the lake.

"I've always wanted to know how to do that!" Ginny exclaimed while intently watching the pebble dance around the lake. "At home I only got to watch my brothers do that all summer at our little pond while I pathetically watched because they wouldn't teach me."

Ginny picked up a pebble and tried to mimic Draco but it plopped right into the lake on the first hit of water. Ginny frowned as she saw the failure in her try.

Draco handed Ginny another pebble and held her hand is his and helped her position the right way to throw. He pulled back her arm a bit and lowered her body. "Close your eyes and erase your mind of all thoughts and just focus on the thought of the rock flowing across the lake," whispered Draco into Ginny's ears as Ginny shivered from his breath near her neck. She did what he told and before she knew it she could hear the pebble skid across the lake. Ginny smiled, speechless that it worked.

Draco couldn't help but smile along with her as he saw the delight and happiness in her eyes. But out of no where someone ran right in between them breaking the mood.

To Draco and Ginny's pain it was Harry who looked extremely infuriated.

"What are you doing here, Malfoy!" Harry yelled, confused.

"Well I thought I could take a break from all of your hysteric yelling and come out here to get away from it but I guess my plan didn't work." Draco said calmly.

"What did you do to Ginny, Malfoy? Were you bothering her?" Harry turned around to Ginny and asked, "Ginny, was Malfoy bothering you?"

Ginny rolled her eyes, "No Harry, Draco was simply coincidently out here at the same time and place. Coincidences can happen you know."

"Malfoy, I swear, if you even laid one finger on Ginny I'll crush every single bone of yours." Harry said threateningly.

"And what if I did Potter?"

Harry's face turned red out of anger and started thrashing at Draco, until he was on the ground. He kicked him as hard as he could as Draco didn't even raised one finger at Harry. It was chaotic even though Harry was the only one charging about which was unusual. If Draco wanted to he could knock out Harry in one blow but he just laid there like a helpless puppy. Ginny ignored the thought and stepped in front of Draco protectively.

"Ginny, move!" Harry furiously yelled probably thinking of trampling all over Draco.

"I can't, because Draco didn't do anything and you're the one that's making a big deal out of nothing."

"He said he touched you!"

"So what if he did!"

Harry just stared at her speechless.

"Harry, there's nothing between us so it's none of your business! Besides nothing happened."

Harry was so confused and surprised that he just left an annoyed Ginny and half-conscious Draco sprawling on the ground.

Ginny hurriedly helped Draco sit up and lean against tree. She took out her wand and tried her best to clean all the blood and cuts but the bruises were more complicated so she just left them for now.

Draco hadn't said anything so Ginny spoke first. "How come you didn't do anything? I know for a fact that you could've sent Harry to the Hospital Wing but you just let him do whatever he wanted."

There was a pause before Draco answered in a soft voice. "Just this summer I vowed to never give in to my father and become a Death Eater or any sort of it but it was hard. So I thought of a way to stop myself from doing anything violent no matter what happened."

Ginny could tell that this was something hard for him to confess so she just nodded in understanding. "How? It would be too hard to just simply try from your own free will to stop yourself from doing anything violent."

Draco pulled out something from inside his shirt which Ginny knew right away was a necklace. It was grotesquely shaped in a form of a snake and looked oddly familiar. Ginny gave Draco a curious look having no idea what the necklace had to with the subject.

"It's a rare stone that will prevent the wearer to feel great pain if any sort of violent were done by the wearer. These were used to prevent prisoners of Voldemort to do anything violent to protect themselves."

Ginny didn't flinch at the name of Voldemort but was surprised that he didn't care he said it. She didn't either but she was glad he had some common sense to not care of saying a name. "It's dark magic isn't it?"

"Yes, but this was the only way I could think of to follow my vow."

Ginny tentatively reached out toward the necklace and held it, but the second she touched it something punctured right into Ginny's heart. Ginny let go and gasped breathing extremely fast. There were tears in her eyes as she lifted her hand again and placed it on Draco's chest. "Does it hurt?... your heart?"


Authors notes: Hope ya'll liked it and the vocab words helped you too! LoL. Also, pleasee review or else i will go back into my writers block which is just horrible. so review and i don't care even if their ONE word reviews. thanks,

steph