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chapter 5

Ginny was lying on her side, she was awake, but she still had her eyes shut. It was one of those cold mornings where the tip of her nose was freezing. She pulled the covers over it. The fabric was not soft and puffy like the duvet but coarse and scratchy like a blanket. Ginny opened her eyes. She came face to face with a sleeping angel. She looked again. It was sleeping but it was no angel, Draco Malfoy's face was inches from her own. An angel? She nearly burst out laughing. In the night they both seemed to have snuggled into the middle of the bed to keep warm. They were both covered by the blanket and the bottom half of their legs was covered by the duvet. Ginny smiled, she liked him like this all peaceful and innocent looking, he looked happy. She pulled the duvet over her shoulders and drifted back to sleep.

Someone was prodding Ginny in the eye. She kept trying to swat the hand away but the hand kept returning. Then finally she heard a giggle and felt someone jumped onto the bed. There was an,

"OOF!" as Draco Malfoy had the wind knocked out of him. And an,

"OW!" as a foot hit Ginny across the face.

Ginny sat up. Ellen was seated in Draco's lap begging for mercy.

"Peas Draco!" she squealed as he tickled her, "pea, no, stop it, peas. S'not my fault Daddy and Mummy told me to come and wake you up!"

Draco put Ellen down and swung his legs off the bed. Getting up he said, "Right, sorry Ellie. Could you do me a big favour could you go and get them up now? It's very late now isn't it?"

Ginny looked at the clock it was half past six in the morning.

"Draco Malfoy that was wicked!" she grinned as Ellen scampered off to wake up Ron and Hermione.

The two rushed to the door and peeked out. Suddenly there was a loud BUMP! A little giggle and…

"OW, Ellen what the hell are you doing?"

Pause while Ellen spoke.

"GINNY WEASLEY! YOU'LL BE THE DEATH OF ME!"

Ginny bent over with laughter, Draco simply grinned.

"Come on," she said while gasping for breath, "laugh a bit more, that was really funny."

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It was the wedding day but surprisingly everyone was very calm. Professional French caterers were dealing with the food so Molly wasn't running around like a headless chicken and Fleur had gone for her hair and make-up session with some French stylist. Ginny reflected on the day so far as she slipped into her floor-length dress of a lovely powder blue. She walked to the mirror and out a little makeup on.

"You'll do." Ginny said to her reflection. She walked out the bathroom and found Draco standing in front of her without his shirt on.

"Er…sorry." Ginny gulped looking everywhere apart from Draco and his rather nice chest.

"That's ok." Draco replied finding Ginny's discomfort humorous. Finally he released her from her pain and put a shirt on. The same one Ginny had worn to bed, it wasn't creased but smelt of her in some way, which made him less nervous about the rest of the day he had ahead of him. Yes, strangely the smell was defiantly comforting. When the two were finally ready, Draco in a suit and Ginny looking elegant in her dress they descended down the stairs. Draco looked faintly green when confronted with the Weasley boys. Penelope- Percy's wife and Alicia and Angelina, Fred and George's girlfriends all smiled sympathetically at Ginny ands the guys looked ready to pounce on Draco. Ginny touched his arm lightly and smiled up at him.

"Remind me why I'm doing this." He whispered out the corner of his mouth.

"Because deep down you really do like me." She smiled.

Draco did the unexpected, he smiled back.

Ginny took his hand and the crowd filed out into the garden and into their seats. It had been Bill's idea to have the wedding outside and the archway covered in ivy and various beautiful flowers where Bill and Phlegm stood making their vows. It looked wonderful. Ginny smiled and Mrs Weasley was nearly in tears Arthur had his arm around he shoulder, both were obviously very proud of their son. Te rest of the ceremony passed without much interest to Ginny. Her eyes kept wandering to the man sitting next to her. Stop it, Ginny thought, he'll start to think you quite like him.

What if you do? A little voice said at the back of Ginny's head.

I don't.

Do.

Don't.

I can't believe it, I'm actually having this conversation with myself! Ginny groaned mentally.

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After the photos Draco had told Ginny Harry wanted to speak to her in he bathroom. Ginny had entered only to find Harry having a pee. She squealed and ran out as fast as she could out the room extremely red faced while Draco rolled around laughing.

"That was hilarious!" he gasped.

"Oooh, you arse. I'll get you. You just wait."

He didn't have to wait long. While Draco was getting drinks Ellen came over to Ginny.

"Ellen," Ginny said slyly, "Go ask nice uncle Draco where babies come from." Ellen nodded and scampered off.

"And don't leave until he explains it fully!" she called after her.

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Ginny was staying away from dink for now, seeing as she now had to introduce Draco to her horrid grandmother.

"Nana," she said smiling at the old woman, who smelt faintly of cabbage. "This is my boyfriend Draco Malfoy."

"Really? A Malfoy. Good they're a good strong family, it's nice to meet you Master Malfoy."

Draco forced a polite smile as Ginny edged away.

"What are you doing?" Draco mouthed to Ginny as she stood behind her grandmother pointing her wand at her Nana's head.

"Who are you talking to young man?" Nana Weasley asked.

"Oh umm…no one." Draco side hiding a smirk in his wine glass as Ginny turned her grandmother's hair a violent shade of green with her wand.

"Ah, Ginerva there you are." She said as Ginny reappeared, "Where are your brothers Fredrick and Gregory? I need to give them a good whack with my stick, I turned into a canary earlier."

"It's George."

"Fine. Where are George and Gregory the useless lumps?"

Ginny told the batty old woman she didn't know and Draco and she found an empty table.

"Vile woman, I can't stand her." Ginny said in disgust as Draco pulled her chair out for her.

"Really?" Draco said as he sat down, "I couldn't tell."

Ginny laughed.

"Come we better dance, my mothers looking suspicious." She said.

Draco nodded.

The two walked to the dance floor after an obviously uncomfortable moment them getting into the right dance position they began to dance properly. Things were going fine until as slow song came on. Ginny tried to pull him off the floor but he saw Molly and Mrs Delacour looking at them suspiciously and pulled her closer. She was rigid at first but slowly relaxed. She rested her head on his chest as she couldn't reach his shoulder and put her arms around his waist. He held her had in his and placed the other around her waist as they rocked slowly in a circle. Ginny could hear the beating of his heart, slow and rhythmic unlike her own. She dare not look at him; she didn't know what she might do. Finally curiosity got the better of her and she finally looked up at him he'd been staring down at her. He gave her a smile that made him look slightly drowsy. She looked back up at him and returned an equally sleepy smile back; the gap between their faces was small when Ginny was pulled backwards.

"Don't be gross auntie Winny! Anyway S'my turn to dance with Uncle Draco now. " A small Ellen squeaked.

She turned to Draco and he picked her up and began to dance. He gave Ginny a sympathetic look and then turned back to Ellen. Ginny stood at the edge o the floor watching and laughing as Draco swung Ellie round and nearly killed her grandmother green hair and all, it appeared no one had told her about her new hair-do yet. He was nice really; she didn't understand why he wasn't like that all the time she guessed he never used to let his guard down around anyone. As soon as the song ended she rushed back to the floor and grabbed his hand.

"Where are we going?" he asked as she dragged him across he garden.

"Shh!" She replied, obviously he didn't understand the concept of sneaking off. The two crept around the tall rose bushes. As soon as they were out of sight Draco said.

"What's all the fuss about Weasley, it's just a rose garden, mean why are we-" he didn't get to finish his sentence because he was cut off by Ginny who threw herself at him and began to kiss him passionately.

They finally came up for air once they had become too breathless.

"Nice garden." Draco commented grinning, Ginny replied by kissing him harder.

"Defiantly not frigid." Draco added as Ginny kissed her way down his neck and tried to unbutton his shirt. "Not out here." He said grabbing her hands.

"Yes, of course you're right." Ginny said breathlessly.

"How does sneaking off sound?" he asked. Ginny nodded.
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Draco emerged from the back of the rose garden carrying Ginny, who appeared to have fainted. Molly rushed over,

"What happened? Is Ginny OK?"

"She's fine Molly. She just had a little too much to drink. I'm going to take her up to bed."

Molly nodded. "Ok, goodnight love." She said kissing him on the cheek.

"Goodnight Molly." He replied.

Draco carried Ginny all the way up the stairs and put her down.

"Do you realise how Bloody Heavy you are?" he asked.

Ginny kissed him and said, "Shall I make it worth your while?"

AN: what will happen upstairs? will ginny make it worth draco's while? does draco mess up big time and make the biggest mistake of his life? or will they live happily ever after in a four bed semi with nine kids and a dog call Jim? find out in the next installments of 'Things can only get better!'

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