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A/N: Hello everyone! Im sooo very sry about the extremely long wait and leaving off the way I did! I hope everyone enjoyed HBP. I know I did! Well heres the thing, my beta hasn't e-mailed me bak with my edited chapter so...again im sry but this chap will have a lot of grammical errors..(It's not my strength). She has things to do this summer and I waited for a couple of weeks but then I decided that I cannot keep you waiting any longer. I have some other good news as well...well at least I think it is good news...I have written chapters 9 and 10 already so they will be posted up in the next week or so, and my other good news is that I am thinking about doing a one-shot about someones feelings after HBP. Nothing specific yet just incase some of you havent read it yet...but ill get back to you later on that one. Well I'll let you get to the long awaited chapter so...Here it is Chapter 8. Enjoy!

Tortured Souls

Chapter 8: Arguments, Friendships and Long Days, Oh My!

Draco slowly pulled away from the kiss and pulled his hand away from Ginny's chin. The kiss was sweet and simple. At first he was a bit taken aback by his actions but then his famous Slytherin Prince smirk appeared on his face as he notice that he actually liked it. 'Not that bad for a weasel. Although next time it probably wouldn't hurt her to kiss me back.' He thought as he tried ever so hard not to laugh at her dumbfounded expression.

Ginny's heart was pounding so hard that she thought that it would come right out of her chest. It took her mind a moment to register what was really going on until Draco ended the kiss. All she could do was stand there in shock. It was like her brain couldn't comprehend what he had just done.

Draco was still extremely close to Ginny. She could still smell him and the taste of him was still lingering on her lips. 'Damn. He tastes as good as he smells.' 'NO! Don't fall for it. He's just trying to use me for his little "flavor of the week" shit. I will not be apart of it. And how dare he smirk after what he did?' She argued to herself.

With those thoughts in her mind she was getting angrier and angrier. She wanted to do nothing more then to slap his charming, sexy smirk right off his face, and she did just that. With one swift move of her right hand, a red mark now replaced his smirk.

"What the hell was that for?" Draco asked while rubbing the left his cheek.

"WHAT THE BLODDY HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?" Ginny yelled in a shrill voice and pushed him away from her, which took quite an enormous amount of strength comparing his size to hers, muscle wise.

"What made you think that you can just kiss me? You're an arrogant, pompous, evil; Death Eaters son and I will NOT be one of your little whores! Never! Nor will I ever associate with people like you!" She yelled and emphasized the word "you" just like he did before. With that she stomped away and out of Draco's sight before he could even get a word in.

Draco decided against going after her, for the sake of not getting slapped again. So he turned around and looked into the sparkling lake, which was still. Some of the stuff she said had cut him, but it was nothing he hadn't heard before.

'Great. Having Lucius as a father always seems to come back and bite me in the ass.' He silently thought, still rubbing his cheek.

"Damn she slaps hard," he mumbled to himself while taking one last look into the lake, drawing in a deep breath as he did and walked back to the castle for some breakfast.

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Ginny walked into the Gryffindor common room fuming.

'Who does he think he is? Kissing me? How dare he put his filthy lips on mine? I can't believe the nerve of him. That arrogant, selfish, ignorant, conceited, egotistical, sexy, cunning, son of a bitch!'

Ginny was in no mood for breakfast at the moment. She didn't want to stay in the common room or go up to her room, or walk outside either, so she chose to go to the library and read for the whole day, and maybe at some point she would find Luna and ask her a question that she had been wondering about after her and Luna had their little talk.

Ginny went straight to her room and retrieved a couple of her favorite page turners and set of towards the library.

No matter how hard Ginny tried she couldn't get Malfoy out of her mind. His lips were so soft and his body was so warm and welcoming. Quite unlike what she imagined, and this intrigued her. She couldn't help but think that maybe she was falling for the Slytherin ferret.

Draco made his way over to the Slytherin table, which was almost empty but for a couple of 5th years talking adamantly to each other. He couldn't stop thinking about the littlest Weasley. The way she looked and the way she smelt and even the way she tasted was still fresh in his memory and he had a feeling it would be for a long time.

He sat down at the middle of the table and filled his plate with some food. He was sort of glad that no one was there so he could think in peace. He started to wonder if she would come down for breakfast but he knew better than that.

'She's obviously not going to come down. You know the way she always is. She would rather be anywhere then where you are because she is still thinking about it. And so are you.' The voice in his head so obviously pointed out.

Now Draco started to regret what he did for the fact that it kind of seemed like he was desperate. And Malfoys are never desperate. He knew what he should do. Give her, her space and within time she will come back. He knows she will.

But it would be a bit hard to do that since he had a detention with her tomorrow night. Oh, how he loved challenges.

Ginny sat at her favorite table in the library and was absolutely consumed by her book, until someone sat across from her and ruined her concentration. She was about to lash out at the person until she looked up from her book and saw who it was.

"Hey, Ginny."

"Oh, hey Luna." Ginny greeted with a warm smile. "Your just the person I wanted to talk to." She added folding the corner of the page she was reading and closed her book.

"Oh really? Well I'm flattered. What would you like to talk about?" Luna said with a smile as her blue eyes lit up.

"Well, it's more of a question really."

"Ok then. Ask away." She said leaning back in her chair making it squeak.

"Well you know how you found me outside in the forest last night, right?"

"Right."

"Well… I was just wondering, why were you out there in the first place?" Ginny asked a bit hesitantly.

"Well, if you must know the truth. I was out there because I too have my own problems and I just felt like I needed to get away from everyone for a bit." She said simply as if it were nothing out of the ordinary.

"Is everything ok?" Ginny asked, with a concerned look on her face.

"Don't worry about me, I'll be fine. The question is how are you?" Luna said quickly changing the subject and Ginny noticed that but decided against mentioning anything.

'She'll tell me when she's ready'

"I'm fine." Ginny lied. She wasn't exactly ready for anyone to know what happened today. But then she remembered something that got her nervous and mad at the same time.

'Only one person can cause me to feel like that at the same time.'

" Well, come to think of it, I'm not fine." She stated as she decided to tell Luna something.

"Uh-oh, what's wrong?" It was Luna's turn to be concerned.

" Malfoy found me walking back to my common room last night and since it was past 9 he gave me a detention…with him." She told Luna and then gulped.

'I can't be alone in a room with Malfoy. Who knows what he will do, or what I will do. Look at me, I can't even trust myself.'

"Malfoy is such a prat. Don't let him bother you. At least he gave you only one detention so it's not that bad. When do you have to go?"

"It's tomorrow at 7, in the Potions classroom."

" Lucky you." She replied sarcastically with a slight smile. "Look Ginny do you want to go outside for a walk? Madame Pince keeps giving us dirty looks." She asked as she glanced over at the librarian who was not to far away putting back some very large books back into their proper places.

"Sure." Ginny agreed and picked up her books. "Can we go back to the Gryffindor tower, before we go, so I can put my books away?"

"Yah, sure."

While walking to the tower, they received so many stares that they stopped counting after twenty. It was something that people needed to get used to because they grew used to both of them being alone and never talking to anyone, in Ginny's case, talking politely to someone. This was, and they had to admit, an unusual pair. There was one who people made fun of because she was different and believed in things that no one else would dream of. And the other one people were scared to even talk to for fear of their lives. None of this bothered either of the girls. They already knew what people thought of them and they didn't really care.

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Draco had yet again, nothing planned for the day. He didn't really know what to do. Then again, he was a teenage boy with raging hormones and could get any girl that he wanted in the whole entire school.

Now the options were endless.

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Ginny and Luna both had to agree that they had a lot in common. They understood each other. Luna had opened up quite a bit to Ginny and gained her trust. That was something very hard to do considering the way Ginny was. Ginny felt like she could tell her anything and felt like maybe just maybe, one day she will tell Luna one of her most darkest secrets.

The two girls seemed to talk for hours on end and felt like they could go on for more. Ginny knew more about Luna then anyone could ever know. And the same went for Luna. I guess you could say this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Ginny woke up at 7-o-clock the next morning and prayed that everything that happened yesterday was just some sick twisted dream. But she knew better then to think that simply because God never seemed to answer her prayers. Not when she was 5 years old when she prayed that she would get a dolly with cute little pink bows for Christmas but ended up getting a pair of new robes. Or even when she was 8 and she prayed that Fred and George would let her down when they hung her upside down with magic. Or when she was 13 and she prayed that Harry would ask her to be his girlfriend. None of that came true.

She got up from her bed and stared out of her window and looked straight out onto the quidditch pitch. Oh how she wished she could be flying on her broomstick that her parents got her for doing so well on her OWLs, instead of having to go to class and listen to the professors drone on and on and on. Again she new better then to wish because they never came true for her either.

Ginny quickly took a shower and dressed into her school robes. She was debating whether to skip breakfast or not but her stomach got the best of her.

As she walked to the Gryffindor table she noticed the way Harry was looking at her. She couldn't help but squirm under his gaze as she met his eyes and he quickly turned away.

'How could I have not notice before? He was just goggling at me like I was some kind of broomstick'

She walked all the way to the front of the table where she usually sat and started to pile her plate with food, since she hadn't eaten at all yesterday. While taking a bite of her bacon she could feel someone's eyes on her. 'Two guess who that could be'

She looked up from her plate only to meet a pair of steel grey eyes staring straight into her warm brown ones. Unlike Harry's stare, Malfoy's made her grow nervous and tense. She swiftly broke the eye connection by looking back down in her plate. ' This is gonna be a long day' She groaned.

A/N: Well there you have it. Chapter 8 has come and gone and I must say that it wasn't as good as it could have been. I know, I know...your all probably disappointed in me and I send my apologies. But if you feel like expressing what you think of this chapter then why dont you send me a review? It's really not that hard. I speak from experience. So go ahead and tell me what you think of it and why not tell me what you think about me writing a one-shot. Who knows you guys/girls might just convince me to go ahead and write it. I would also like to thank everyone for reviewing my story and I'm glad that you all are liking it so far! I think I'm gonna start to reply to peoples reviews next chapter so..yeah. lol Well until next chapter,

-Scarlet Blood :o)