Dumbledore walked up to the Slytherin table and tapped Draco Malfoy on the shoulder. " Mr. Malfoy if you could please come with me, I would like to have a word with you." The headmaster said with a small smile playing a crossed his lips. His eyes were twinkling also so Draco knew that whatever he had to say was going to be something Draco would hate.
"Of course Headmaster." Draco said kindly, though he secretly wanted to curse Albus for making him leave.
"Thank you, Please go ahead of me Mr. Malfoy I need to talk to another student before heading up. The password is 'soda pop'." With that he turned and started to head towards another table. Draco turned and walked up to Dumbledore's office and took a seat in a chair that was placed in front of his desk.
Back in the Great Hall Dumbledore had walked over to the Gryffindor table and tapped Virginia Weasley on the shoulder. Ginny turned around and gave the Headmaster a questioning look. "Miss. Weasley would you please come up to my office in 30 minutes, I have something important I would like to tell you?"
Ginny, still staring at his face saw the smile on his face and the twinkle in his eyes but unlike Malfoy she knew by this look that the news was going to bring her great joy. "Of course Headmaster." Ginny said, smiling up at him.
"Thank you Miss. Weasley, see you then. The password is 'soda pop'." He said, smiling back at her. He turned from the table and exited the Great Hall.
As Dumbledore walked towards his office he had the biggest grin on his face. He was hoping that making these two students go on a trip to Rome together would make them fall in love. If they did do this then they would solve the entire problem for the school… at least that's what he hoped it would do. He hoped it would stop all of the rivalry between the houses and also that it might bring two wonderful people together.
Dumbledore entered his office and saw Draco Malfoy sitting in the chair. The grin on his face got wider just thinking about the possibilities this trip might bring. "Mr. Malfoy I would like for you to go on a trip to Rome for me." Dumbledore said sitting a crossed from Draco.
"Why would you want me to go on this trip Headmaster?" Draco asked trying to hide the sneer that wanted to creep on to his lips.
"I would like you to go on this trip because I think you are on of my best students and I would like to reward you for this." Albus told him.
"Then I take it the other person that I'm going to be going with is Gran… I mean Miss. Granger." Draco said still trying to hide his sneer.
"Oh no, not this time Mr. Malfoy. The other student that will be joining you is not Miss. Granger. As a matter of fact you will not find out whom this other person is until the day of the trip arrives. If you are wondering why Miss. Granger was not picked to go on this trip with you it is she because she is helping out the Professors and myself with some of the problems we are having at this school." Dumbledore told Malfoy and rose to his feet. "Mr. Malfoy I would like to see you at the front entrance in 3 days at 9:00 am, that is the day and time you will leave."
"Yes Headmaster." Draco said rising to his feet. Draco walked to the door and down the steps. "That loony man will do anything to ruin my school year." Draco mumbled to himself as he walked to his common room.
Ginny got up from her table and headed to Dumbledore's office. When she got there she said the password and headed up to his room. "Hello Headmaster." Ginny said taking a seat a crossed from him that was not to long ago occupied by Draco Malfoy.
"Hello Miss. Weasley. I asked you to come up here because I would like you to go on a trip to Rom for me. I would like you to take this trip because you are one of my best students and I would like to reward you for this." Dumbledore told her.
"Is there anyone else going on this trip with me?" She asked him with a smile on her lips.
"Yes there is, but you will not find out who this person is until the day of the trip." He told her standing from his desk.
"Ok Headmaster." Ginny said giving him a weird look.
"Meet me at the front entrance in the 3 days at 9:00 am, that is when your trip begins." Dumbledore walked her down the steps and out into the hallway.
"Thank you Headmaster. See you then." Ginny said.
"Yes see you then Miss. Weasley, now if you will excuse me I have some business to attend to." With that he turned and walked down to another corridor.
"I wonder who else is going on this trip?" Ginny asked herself as he walked to her common room.
Three days passed by fast for the two of them. To fast for Draco, but not fast enough for Ginny. When it reached 9:00 Draco Malfoy was already standing at the entrance all but the other person going on the trip was not. 'I can't believe that they are making me wait.' Draco thought to himself.
Ginny came running down the hall and crashed into a person standing next to the doors. "Ahhhh…" She screamed as she crashed to the ground. "Oh, I'm so sorry." She said, scrambling to her feet. "Oh god." She whispered looking down at the disheveled Malfoy are her feet. She held her hand out to help him to his feet, but he pushed it aside and got up on his own.
"Thanks a lot Weasley. Now you've messed up my clothes and my hair." Draco spat at her.
"Oh god…Dear me, how could I have ever done such a thing. Bad Ginny bad." She said with a sarcastic tone. "Yeah right like I really care, I mean geez Malfoy get over your self."
"Oh shut up Weasley, its not like you would know how expensive every thing I wear is. The gel I put in my hair probably cost more then your whole outfit." He said trying to straighten his hair back in to place.
"Oh and yet it wont even hold you hair when you get knocked to the ground. I wouldn't spend over 5 cents on something like that." Ginny said picking her thing up off the ground and setting them neatly by the doors.
Dumbledore showed up not to long after this little exchange of words, he had one of the biggest grins on his face that anyone had ever seen. "I see you two have finally found out who the other person is that is going on the trip with you. Now Mr. Malfoy and Miss. Weasley please do not be upset by this little arrangement, I would hope that two of my best students would be mature enough to get along for a few months." Dumbledore said to them.
"Of course we can Headmaster." Ginny told him, grabbing her things; she headed to the horseless carriage that was going to take them to the train station.
"Of course we can Headmaster." Malfoy whispered under his breather mimicking Ginny. He grabbed his things and followed behind Ginny.
Dumbledore smiled to himself and followed his two students to the carriage. 'Miss. Granger does have some brilliant ideas.' Albus thought, his smile becoming a grin. 'I mean who would have thought, other then her, to put these two together so that we could stop the rivalry between the houses. I knew she would be the one to stop our problems just like I explained to Mr. Malfoy.'
While in the carriage Dumbledore explained to them that while they where in Rome they would not have to do any of their schoolwork. "This trip is a reward, it is so you can go and relax and have fun, so spend your time there wisely." He said. He also explained to them that they would have to spend there time their together.
The two got on the train after telling the headmaster good-bye and went to go and find some seats. They found some towards the back of the train and took their seats right as the train lurched to a start.
"Ok Weasley, lets get one thing straight, I don't want to ha…" Draco began but he was cut off when Ginny placed her fingers to his lips and said in very soft, yet threatening tone…
"Malfoy, I don't like it that I have to take this trip with you any more then you like having to take this trip with me, but I'll be damned if you ruin it for me. So listen up, I'll be civil to you if you're civil to me. I will try my hardest not to hex you into next year and I will also try my hardest to hold my tongue around you. But you do one thing to piss me off and I swear to you, you will regret it. I may be a year younger then you, but do not think that that gives you an advantage in anything… for I am a Weasley, as you know, and we have quite the temper." Ginny said this and removed her fingers, taking the seat a crossed from him she gave him a look that told him she was serious and turned to stare out the window.
Malfoy just looked at her hatred on his face. Yet on the inside he was amazed that a Weasley had the courage to stand up to a Malfoy like that. 'How dare she talk to me like that! I can't believe a Weasley would have the nerve to say such things to me and to place her fingers on my lips. I don't know where her fingers have been or when the last time she washed her hands was.' These thoughts and many more where running though the 17 year olds head.
Over the years the two of them had grow up, appearance wise. Draco now did not gel his hair back as he had up in till his 5th year and had taken to running his fingers through it whenever he was thinking. He had grown to an amazing height of 6'3" and his face had become more defined in the jaw and cheeks. Ginny had let her hair grow out to the middle of her back. It hung loosely around her face most of the time but when she was hard at work she would throw it back in a messy ponytail. It curled slightly and was not as red as it was in her first few years at Hogwarts. He body had filled out in all the right places and she now stood at the height of 5'7".
Draco looked her over noticing how much she had grown up. Her body was different and her attitude was one that told people she was not to be messed with. Draco then realized why many of the Slytherin left her alone; her temper was worse then all of her brothers. Draco had never experienced her full temper before that day or so he thought, what he didn't know was that was not even close to how mad she could get.
Ginny was sitting there thinking about what she had said to Malfoy and she was very happy with herself. 'I will not let Malfoy push me around on this trip. I hope he really pisses me off so I can really blow up at him, he wouldn't even know what hit him.' Ginny let a small smirk creep on to her lips as she laughed quietly to herself, imagining the look on Malfoy's face when he really made her mad.
They got off the train and headed for the place they where going to be staying at, it was a very large and expensive hotel by the name of 'Roma Cavalieri Hilton.' When Ginny reached her room she picked up a piece of paper that was lying in her huge room. It told her…
This hotel has swimming pools that are open to everyone at all times, a dining room that serves light snakes and other thing threw out the day, it has 35 suites (two of which were being occupied by Draco and Ginny) which come with sound proof doors and many other wonderful things. This hotel is a 5 star and will be able to give you anything you need…including a spa treatment in our lovely Spa. You can come down when ever you like a take a little break from the hectic life that you live in ('Hectic right… having to live with Malfoy, what a drag' Ginny thought.) …Enjoy your stay at the ROMA CAVALIERI HILTON…
It also had many other great things she couldn't wait to try out. Ginny looked around her and finally noticed how large her room was. She dropped all her bags and flung herself on to the very comfortable bed. "Ahhh… this is going to be great." She thought out loud.
"Not if I have to listen to you talking to your self all the time." Draco called from his joining room. There was a door that leads from her room into his.
"Oh shut it Malfoy, you know you can close the doors… they are soundproof." Ginny said, still lying on her bed. Not to soon after she said this did she hear the door shut. "That's good now I don't have to listen to him, praising himself on how good he thinks he looks, since he knows no one around here's going to tell him he's good looking."
"Ouch, that hurts Weasley, I didn't know you thought I was good looking though." Draco drawled from his spot at the door.
"What the bloody hell are you doing in MY room?" Ginny screamed at him as she bolted up into a sitting position.
"Just thought I'd ask you what you wanted to do first." Draco said, walking over to her bed and taking a seat.
"Who said you could seat down?" Ginny said giving him a giant shove and making him fall for the second time that day. "And what I want to do first is get some sleep… so get out because I need to change."
"That bloody hurt you know. I was just trying to be nice like you asked." He picked himself off the floor and walked over to the door. "Geez…women." He mumbled to himself.
"It's not women Draco, its just me… and if you where really trying to be nice you would have told me you where in the room." Ginny told him as she walked in to the bathroom to change. When she got out of the bathroom Draco was gone, she went to lie down on here bed but there was something in the way. "What the hell is this?" Ginny asked herself picking it up. A note fell to the ground; Ginny leaned over and picked it up. The note read as follows…
Dear Miss. Weasley,
This laptop has been sent up to your room, compliments of the hotel and Albus Dumbledore. Here you can document what you have done on your trip, you can also get on a program called AIM and talked to people. Your name on this program is MoonGzr97. I hope you enjoy this and have a wonderful time here.
The establishment
"Hmmm," Ginny got into bed and placed the laptop on to her…well lap. She opened it up and looked on the screen. Off to the right side was a box that said Buddy List on top but no one listed. "Well this is useless." Ginny mumbled to herself. She was closing it back up when a box popped up on her screen…
Meanwhile in Draco's room he had found the same thing, but his letter was a little different. It read…
Dear Mr. Malfoy,
This laptop has been sent up to your room, compliments of the hotel and Albus Dumbledore. Here you can document what you have done on your trip, you can also get on a program called AIM and talked to people. Your name on this program is Dragonkeeper95, someone with the name MoonGzr97 is waiting for you Instant Message (IM).
The establishment
Draco placed the laptop on the table in front of him and opened it up as he took a seat. He looked to the right of his screen and saw the name MoonGzr97 and clicked on it. Doing this made a box open up, in this box Draco typed a message that read…
DragonKeeper95: Hello? Who is this?
MoonGzr97: I might ask you the same question Mr. Dragonkeeper.
DragonKeeper95: My name is Draco Malfoy, I received a paper saying that you where waiting for my IM.
'Oh so it's Malfoy, Time to have a little fun.' Ginny thought to herself, a grin on her face.
MoonGzr97: Oh yes, Why hello Draco…I forgot about you… My name is Sam McKenzie. Don't you remember me?
Draco thought hard, but could not remember a Sam McKenzie. 'Oh well, I'll just tell her I do.' He thought.
DragonKeeper95: Oh yes, Of course I remember you, How could I forget?
MoonGzr97: Oh well that's good to hear, how have you been?
DragonKeeper95: I've been good Thanks, and yourself?
MoonGzr97: I've been good too. So you find anybody else to please you like I did?
"What the hell… I don't remember that, plus I'm a virgin so I think I would remember if anything had happened." Draco wondered out loud.
DragonKeeper95: Umm…No, because no one has every done anything to me…I'm a virgin so I know that your lying. Who the hell is this really?
"WHAT!" Ginny shouted, 'Malfoy's a virgin? Wow would have though.'
MoonGzr97: I was just kidding; my name really is Sam McKenzie though… I never thought you would be a virgin, from what I hear you've got a rep for being a bad boy.
DragonKeeper95: I Got that rep. For my attitude, but for some reason some people came up with rumors about me sleeping with people, manly this girl Pansy. She didn't help much, she actually kept them going with her lies, she made me seem like I was easy or something and I'm not. I'm waiting for the right person.
'Why did I tell her that? I don't even remember this person.' Draco thought to himself, running a hand through his soft, white blond hair.
'Wow, I can't believe Draco actually believes in the right person, or that he has waited this long.' Ginny though.
MoonGzr97: Wow, that's amazing. I'm happy to see that some guys do have some respect for women.
DragonKeeper95: Yes, well I better be going, I have to go wake up my friend. Bye!
MoonGzr97: Bye!
Ginny quickly closed the laptop and set it on the nightstand beside her. 'WAIT A MINUTE, did Draco Malfoy just say he had to wake up A FRIEND?' Ginny asked herself right as the door opened and Draco came strutting in.
"Weasley, are you awake, can we please go somewhere? I'm hungry." Draco told her trying to wake her from her sleep.
Ginny sat up in bed and looked him straight in the eyes. "Did you Draco Malfoy, leader of all Slytherin's, most feared person of the school, just say please or was I still half asleep?" Ginny asked him.
"You really think I'm the most feared? Oh and yes I said please, but you better not tell anyone it will ruin my reputation."
"Oh great now I've gone and given you a big head and an even bigger ego." Ginny mumbled to herself.
"What was that Weasley?"
"Nothing Malfoy, Nothing at all." Ginny pulled the covers off her legs showing them briefly before she jumped off the bed and ran to the bathroom to change.
'Wow, she's got some nice legs…hold on, rewind, I didn't not just think that about a Weasley.' Draco told himself. 'Oh but you did.' He admitted.
Ginny walked out of the bathroom in a pair of sand blasted, hip hugger jeans and a black shirt that said 'cute but psycho things even out' it had a little bunny in one of those jackets you see crazy people wearing. Her belly button was showing and Draco noticed a little glimmer of silver.
"What's that Weasley?" Draco asked getting up and pointing at her flat, very toned stomach.
"It's a belly button ring, why Malfoy never seen one before?" Ginny asked grabbing a light coat out of her bag and throwing it around her body.
"Of course I have I just didn't think little Weasel would be allowed to get one." Draco told her grabbing a jacket and putting it on.
"Call me Weasel again Malfoy and you won't be able to talk for a week, and what nobody know won't hurt them." Ginny said opening her door and walking out.
"You mean nobody knows that you have your belly button pierced?" Draco asked, running out the door after her.
"That's what I said Malfoy, why got a problem with that?" She asked him pressing the down button on the elevator.
"No, I don't have a problem with it. I'm just a little surprised, I thought you where Miss. Good girl." Draco said stepping into the elevator.
"Yeah well Malfoy, you don't really know me now do you." Ginny said stepping off the elevator as the doors opened up to the first floor.
Ginny was walking down the street ahead of Malfoy when she felt and strong pull and her arm and she was being whipped around so fast she almost lost her balance. Stumbling forward Draco caught her at the hips and held her close to him chest. "What in the bloody freakin hell is going on?" Ginny asked angrily noticing Draco still had his hands on her hips.
Draco leaned down to where he's mouth almost covered her and parts his lips just enough to mumble the words… "Just go with it." Right before he leaned down and kissed her full on the mouth.
Now even though Draco had told her to go with it, there was no way in hell that was going to happen…Ginny began to struggle to pull away but he help her tightly. She opened her eyes to look at the expression on his face; it surprised her to see him staring right back at her. He pulled away and moved one of his hands slowly from her waist, up her side, and up her arm that had someone made its way around his neck and placed his hand into her hand. He stepped out from in front of her and stepped beside her, his hand still on her waist. He took the hand that he was holding in his and pulled it around so it was resting on him hip, if anyone where to see them now they would look like they where walking down the street with there hands on each others waist having a wonderful time, when what was really happening was Ginny was wondering what the hell was going on.
Draco opened his mouth slightly again and whispered out to her… "Just keep walking we are almost there."
Ginny just looked up at him like he was insane and kept walking. They walked on for awhile and when they reached the place they where going to eat Draco pulled his hand away and step sideways, to get her hand to fall. "What the hell was that all about Malfoy?" Ginny asked.
Draco looked at her and looked out the window. "That Ginny was me being nice to you, you see those men that just passed, well they were looking at you and one of them was walking over and he was going to hurt you?"
"How would you know that?" She asked looking at him.
"Well first off, he whispered something to his friend, then he got this evil glint in his eye, and as he was walking towards us I saw a knife in his hand." Draco said looking at the menu.
"WHAT!?!?!" Ginny shouted.
"I'm sorry it's the only thing I could think of doing…" Draco dropped the menu and ordered his food.
"I'm leaving…I'll get food at the Hotel…Good-bye Malfoy." She spat leaving.
Ginny was walking along thinking to herself… 'Why the hell would Malfoy do that, what the hell…he didn't have to kiss me to protect me, god I didn't want my first kiss to be like that, and I sure the hell didn't want it to be with a Malfoy.' Now Ginny wasn't really mad at Malfoy, she was madder at the fact that she had enjoyed this kiss. 'What am I going to do…I'll just go home and lay down for a bit, and when Malfoy comes in I'll talk to him about it more."
"My, my, my…what do we have here, this little girl looks a little lost…" Said the man Draco had pointed out.
Ginny looked around her, there was no place to run, no pace to go. Where was Draco when you need him? 'Screw him, I can handle this on my own' She thought.
"How bout we give her a little ride in our little car." The man said.
Ginny looked at him… "Why do you keep saying 'little'? I'm not a little girl, I'm not a little lost, I'm sure the ride you want to take me on isn't little…" She paused and looked over at the mans car. "…and that's doesn't look like a little car."
The man looked at her with anger in his eyes and spoke to her through gritted teeth… "Your making me a lit…mad girl, so I suggest you shut your mouth."
"Oh but I don't want to, I want to do this." Ginny said and looked at the man. The man looked back at her waiting for her to do something and as he watched she turned and ran as fast as she could in the opposite direction. She looked back to see him chasing after her, as she went to turn around again, she ran into someone. With an audible "oof" She feel to the ground. She looked up and saw Malfoy…Of course he would be there.
"Oh look her boyfriends back, now I can kill both of them." The man said.
"I have a question…" Ginny said getting up and dusting off her behind. "…Why do you want to kill us?"
"I want to kill you because I was told to." The man said taking a threatening step towards them.
"So what your saying is you cant think for yourself?" Ginny questioned.
The man just looked at her with a weird look on his face. Ginny turned to Malfoy and nodded her head once…this was a good enough signal for him to know…. it was time to run. They ran all the way to their hotel room and up into Draco's room. Draco feels backwards on to his bed and Ginny feel backwards next to him. Laying completely a crossed the bed they tried to catch there breathe. Ginny went to turn over on her stomach so she could see Draco but right as she went to turn over so did he so they ended up in a very bad looking situation.
Draco being much stronger then Ginny had rolled on top of her and now was holding himself up from suffocating her with his hands planted on either side of her head. Ginny turned to look at him hand and she could see the well defined muscle and the veins popping out all over his arm…she quickly looked away, because veins was a weak point for her…that and guys with lip piercing but no body would ever know that.