Chapter Four
Kiss the girl.
It was lunch the next day and Blaise decided that Draco's goal in life must be to embarrass her in as many ways as possible. Cho Chang was sitting at their table and Draco seemed to have told his new girlfriend about her fixation with Ginny Weasley, because she was also joining in the Get-Blaise-With-Ginny-Or-At-Least-Terminally-Embarrass-Her campaign.
"Come on, Blaise. What's the worse that'll happen? I had to sing a gushy girly song, but I got what I wanted didn't I?"
"I already professed my undying love."
"Yeah, Blaise darling," Pansy broke in. "The problem with that is she has to hear you."
Blaise stared at Draco open mouthed. "You told her?"
"No," Goyle broke in. "You just make it pretty obvious."
"So who doesn't know?" Blaise demanded.
Draco pretended to think. "Potter, Granger, a couple Hufflepuffs and oh yeah, Ginny."
"Don't be too sure." Cho whispered, looking pointedly behind them at the Gryffindor tables.
Three sets of eyes (Blaise, Draco and Pansy) turned to see a red haired prefect watching them. She flushed as her eyes caught Blaise's and turned back around. "See?" Blaise muttered. "I intimidate her. It'll never work."
"Would you rather her with that Terry prat?"
Blaise's amber eyes darkened and Draco made a mental note not to bother Blaise when it came to dating.
Suddenly Cho got a positively evil twinkle in her eyes and Blaise was glad she was her friend. Cho rounded the table and sat in the empty seat by Blaise, putting an arm around her friend and pointing to the back of Ginny Weasley.
"There you see her," Cho sang. "Sitting there across the room."
"She don't got a lot to say," Draco broke in.
Though she wasn't under the same spell, Pansy knew the words and helped out. "But there's something about her."
"And you don't know why," Cho continued. "But you're dying to try, go on and..."
The entire Slytherin table filled in the blank. "Kiss the girl!"
Draco circled around and sat on Cho's lap, pointing to the red head in question. "Yes, you want her!"
"Look at her, you know you do." Draco serenaded
"Possible she wants you too," Pansy began before Crabbe broke in.
"There is one way to ask her."
Every one stared at Crabbe for a moment. He had a really good tenor voice for a six foot giant.
Mulicent Blustrode recovered first and added her clear alto to the mix. "It don't take a word,"
"Not a single word," Continued a first year.
"Go on and..." Cho resumed, before the entire table finished with "Kiss the girl!"
Several girls got on the table and began to dance as the others sang.
"Sha la la la la la my oh my
Look like the girl too shy
Ain't gonna kiss the girl.
Sha la la la la la ain't that sad
Ain't that a shame, too bad
She gonna miss the girl."
By now the entire hall was looking at the furiously blushing Blaise and the Slytherin table. Cho jumped off the table, on which she had been doing double pirouettes and grabbed Blaise by the shoulders.
"Now's your moment
Standing here across the hall
Girl, you better do it soon,
No time will be better."
Ron and Draco pulled Ginny to her feet and steered her towards Blaise.
"She don't say a word
And she won't say a word
Until you kiss the girl." Draco and Ron sang in almost perfect unison.
Ginny and Blaise were left standing a few feet apart as the whole hall seemed to hold its breath and sing at the same time.
"Sha la la la la la don't be scared
You got the mood prepared
Go on and kiss the girl!"
Blaise looked up and met the chocolate eyes of the girl she had long worshipped from afar. Ginny held tight to the thought of her boy friend as she felt herself get lost in the amber depths of the only girl she had or could ever love.
"Sha la la la la la don't stop now
Don't try to hide it how
You wanna kiss the girl!"
Blaise smiled at Ginny. "I think they want us to get together."
Ginny looked away. "I don't know."
"Sha la la la la la Float along
And listen to the song
The song say kiss the Girl!"
Blaise stepped closer. "Don't know what?"
Ginny refused to meet the older girl's eyes. "If this is really what I want. If I want to give up something that could be more just to satisfy my curiosity."
"Sha la la la la la the music play
Do what the music say
You gotta kiss the girl!"
"Ginny, I know what I want. I will wait forever. But eventually all Syltherins get what they want."
Ginny looked up into her eyes. "What do you want?" she asked quietly.
"You've gotta kiss the girl!"
Blaise put her hand to the red's cheek. "You."
"Oh, don't you wanna kiss the girl!"
Ginny stared at Blaise for a beat. "Really?"
Blaise nodded.
"You've gotta kiss the girl!"
"But, I will wait. Forever if need be. I won't rush you."
"Go on and Kiss the girl!"
Blaise leaned in and gently kissed Ginny's freckled cheek. "Think of me fondly, Little Red. When time seems to hold nothing but waiting, fall. And I'll catch you."
With that Blaise left the Great Hall under dead silence.
Ginny stopped writing and touched her cheek, where Blaise had kissed it. She smiled. Ever since the scene in the Great Hall at lunch, she couldn't quite get the other girl out of her head.
She looked up as someone else entered the empty classroom and gasped at the sight of his face.