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Rating: R for language and sexual scenes

'thoughts' and "speaking"

Half an hour later, after having a water fight with Draco and Arriana, Ginny got out of the pool and walked over to one of the lawn chairs. She laid down, put on her sunglasses and stayed there for a while, drying herself underneath the heated sun. She was tired already and the day had just started. Her eyes fluttered closed involuntarily and set her under a deep sleep.

Draco sat at the stairs of the pool, watching Ginny lounging on the chair. She hasn't moved for a while and he wondered if she had fallen asleep. She looked so beautiful there, with glittering water making its way down slowly from her neck to underneath her bikini top. His eyes had stopped momentarily in the valley of her full, slightly freckled chest. It looked creamy and soft, which made Draco lick his lips unconsciously. Merlin knew how he had wanted so badly to feel her body fully against his, joined at the middle, while he had her breasts cupped in his large hands, squeezing, licking and sucking on the peaks. He wanted to kiss every freckle and every inch of her body. He wanted to hear her moan his name as they made love and most of all, he wanted her to feel the love he had for her that couldn't be described by words.

Draco felt that even though he tells her rather frequently that he loves her, it just wasn't enough to satisfy him. The overwhelming love he felt for Ginny would make his heart burst if he wasn't able to show her instead of only telling her that he loved her. But he knew that this was asking too much from her. Ginny didn't believe in sex before marriage because she wanted to save her virginity for her future husband. Draco knew that and he respected her decision even if it was hard for him. It has been nearly two and a half years since he got a good lay. Despite the need of feeling release, he never once forced or even asked Ginny to grant his wish. The bet he had made with her today was just for fun and he knew that if he did win, he wouldn't receive his prize and that was okay with him. He wasn't expecting anything in return. He just wanted to have a good time with his girlfriend and that was all he asked. Besides, he already had the most wonderful prize he could ever get in his whole life; the love of his sister and his caring girlfriend.

Making his way out of the pool, Draco slowly approached Ginny, careful not to wake her. She looked so angelic and peaceful and innocent that of like an angel. Once he arrived by her side, he crouched down and kissed her forehead while playing with her hair a little bit. He smiled when he heard her sigh contentedly and remembered that ever since they were in school, she loved it whenever he played with her hair.

Flashback

(Takes place when Draco and Ginny were just friends)

Draco watched from the Slytherin Table as the two Weasleys fought once again at the Dinner Table. He couldn't exactly hear out what they were arguing about, but from the looks of their red faces, it had to be something really serious. He frowned as he saw a tear sparkle in Ginny's eyes, and he immediately stood up. His hands clenched and unclenched into fists every now and then while his face was turning redder by the second. Draco hated it when Ginny cried. It hurt him so much to see her cry yet he still didn't know why. He knew he had feelings for his best friend, but he wasn't clear yet if it was just 'like' or something more than that.

Draco snapped out of his thoughts when he heard the Great Hall's doors slammed closed. He looked at the Gryffindor Table and noticed that Ginny was gone, leaving Ron there massaging his temples while Harry and Hermione were comforting him. 'Fucking jerk!' Draco thought, enraged. He waited a little while before, leaving the Great Hall in search of Ginny. He knew one place that she could possibly be at. The Esoteric Chamber.

Ginny was lying on the couch, with her face stuffed hard against the pillow. ' Ugghh! I hate Ron so much right now!' she thought, as she sniffled once again. She lifted her face and started pounding on the now wet pillow, pretending that it was Ron's face. But her little outburst was cut off when someone knocked on the door. Ginny immediately stopped what she was doing and lied back down with her back towards the door. She knew who it was, because there was only one person other than her that knew of this place but she wanted to be alone and she didn't feel like talking to anyone right now.

Draco stood outside for a few seconds before entering. He saw Ginny on the couch curled up into a ball, while hugging a pillow close to her chest. He sat at the end of the couch by her foot and looked at her sadly. There were tears rolling down Ginny's cheeks, overlapping the dried up tears that glittered slightly. It broke Draco's heart to see her like this, so vulnerable and in pain. He gingerly wiped her tears away while caressing her cheeks tenderly.

"Ginny…" Draco whispered. Ginny didn't reply and continued to pretend she was asleep. "Ginny what's wrong?" he urged.

Ginny cracked an eye open, and slowly let her other eye open as well. She saw hurt and pity in his grey eyes, and she didn't like it at all.

"I don't want to talk about it and I most certainly don't want your pity." Ginny snapped, closing her eyes again and turning away from Draco.

Draco sighed. "Ginny, I'm not pitying you. I just want to help you."

"Why?"

"Why? Because I'm your friend."

"My friend?"

"Yes. Your friend. A friend that you need right now."

"I don't need anyone right now. What I need is for you to leave me alone!" Ginny yelled, looking at Draco. Draco's face reddened in anger again.

"Dammit Ginny! I came her to comfort and help you because you're obviously in pain. I came here to listen to the problem that's bothering you. I came here so that you can have a shoulder to cry on. But most of all, I came here because I care about you!" Draco retorted angrily. "And this is how you repay me?"

Tears were scrolling faster down Ginny's face as her anger was quickly replaced in her heart by guilt. She felt guilty for taking out her anger on Draco when she knew he only meant well. Ginny looked into Draco's silver eyes before turning her head away. She sat there quietly sobbing while trying to calm down. 'You are so stupid Ginny. He was only trying to help and then here you are yelling at him,' she scolded herself. Ginny slowly averted her eyes from her hands that were on her lap, to look at Draco again. She scooted closer to him a bit, stopped, as if contemplating on what to do, and then moved closer to him once more. She repeated this until she was right beside Draco with absolutely no space between them left. Ginny looked at him again and saw that Draco wasn't even paying attention. He had his hand over his forehead that shielded his eyes. From what she could see, Draco was tiredly rubbing his eyes. Ginny sighed guiltily. 'I probably gave him a headache with my incessant chattering. I mean, who wouldn't?' she thought. Moving even closer, Ginny put her leg on top of Draco's leg and entangled them together. Draco jerked in surprise and looked at Ginny. She was her bottom lip stuck out into a pout and her chin was sitting upon his shoulder. She started poking his side to try and get him to say something but she only managed to tickle him, making him make these weird noises.

"Stop it Ginny." Draco demanded in what he thought was a mad tone, but came out differently.

"I'm sorry Draco," she said softly, placing an arm around his torso and giving it a light squeeze.

"Whatever." He said coldly, trying to appear furious and hurt. However, inside Draco was ecstatic that Ginny was cuddling and hugging him close. He was happy that she was comfortable with him, enough for her to act this way around him. He knew he wasn't mad at her anymore, but he didn't want the closeness of their bodies to end, so he pretended that he was still upset. Draco made a move to stand up, but Ginny knocked him back down by jumping on his lap and straddled him with her arms tight around his weight.

"I'm sorry Draco! I'm really am sorry! I didn't mean what I said. Honest!" Ginny pleaded through her sobs.

To say that Draco was surprised was an understatement. His eyes were wide with shock, happiness and a bit of guilt for letting her act like this. Relishing this moment, Draco took a deep breath before enclosing Ginny tightly in his arms.

"It's okay Ginny." Draco said quietly.

"No it's not okay! I'm sorry for leashing my anger out on you. It's just… Ron… argh he infuriates me so much!"

"I know Ginny, I know. I understand."

"H-He said t-that …" Ginny choked out the words, having difficulty explaining herself in between her sobs and hiccups.

"Don't worry Ginny. You don't have to tell me right now. Tell me when you're ready okay? Just stop crying."

Ginny's sobs quieted after a while, until it fully stopped. As of right now, she was still on Draco's lap with her arms around his waist and her head buried in his chest. While Draco was waiting for Ginny to calm down, he stroked her hair gently, playing with the fine baby hair she had on her forehead. This action obviously relaxed her, so he continued doing so. He sat there quietly until Ginny lifted her head and looked at him.

"I'm ready now…" Draco nodded and dropped his hand from her head, ready to listen intently to her story.

"No, Draco. Please don't stop what you were doing." Ginny reached for his hand and placed it on her forehead. "I love the way it feels… Please…?"

Draco smiled and continued playing with her hair while Ginny told him the whole story. Apparently, the argument between siblings was about him. Ron didn't approve of Ginny's friendship with Draco and insisted she stopped seeing him. Ginny of course didn't listen to him and started arguing with him. The rest of the family approved of it, so why couldn't Ron? Besides, it's been months already and he still couldn't understand that? And of course, Ron being Ron, stupidity was in his criteria. He blurted out that she would no longer be a friend of the Dream Team's if she continued on being friends with Draco. Harry and Hermione had disagreed with Ron, but they decided to be quiet during that moment. It was a fight between siblings only and it wouldn't have been right to get in the way of it.

"He's giving me an ultimatum. He's making me choose between you or the dream team. I don't know what to do Draco. I don't want to lose any of you."

Draco pulled Ginny close into an embrace once again. "Ginny it doesn't matter what Weasley thinks. He can't stop us from being friends ever. If I have to, I will go and talk some sense into him.

Ginny only nodded and snuggled deeper into Draco's chest. "Draco?"

"Hmm…?"

"Can you wait till I'm asleep before you stop playing with my hair?" she asked sleepily.

Draco smirked. "Of course."

"Thank you Draco. For listening to me and, and for everything." Ginny kissed Draco on the cheek before closing her eyes and falling asleep. Draco flushed as tingles of warmth rushed through his body when Ginny's lip came in contact with his cheek.

'I'll do this anytime for you Ginny. As long as you need it… As long as I can help you…'

In that position, they woke to the next morning. Cuddled up together on the couch

Flashback ends

Draco stood up from his crouched position and walked over to Arriana who was sitting on the stairs of the pool, playing with her little boat and rubber ducky. She was making these cute noises that were supposed to represent the items she was holding.

"Arriana, come on let's have lunch."

"But Dwaco! I want to stay in the pool.." she whined.

"Rianna, if you stay in the pool any longer, your hands will stay pruny for a long time!" Draco joked.

His little sister lifted her hands from the water and took a good look at them. "Eww! It's all winkly and pwuny!" (Wrinkly and Pruny) she shrieked.

"I told you so. Now come on. We can have lunch at the restaurant!"

"Okay! Can we have skeddi!" she cried.

Draco laughed. "Okay we will have spaghetti. But before that, let's get you showered and changed." He picked her up and went upstairs into Arriana's bedroom. He decided that Ginny should get some more sleep, so he left her there for a little while. After about 40 minutes, Draco and Arriana came to wake Ginny up. Draco had changed into beige shorts that reached past his knees, a black sleeveless shirt that hugged his body, showing his muscles, and a pair of sunglasses. He decided to wear slippers since it was way to hot to wear sneakers. His hair was sprawled in a messy yet sexy way on top of his head.

Arriana on the other hand decided to wear a little yellow sundress with flowers on it and a pair of strapped sandals. Her hair was left down, because Draco thought that Ginny should be the one fixing it and not him. Besides, he doesn't know how to do a girl's hair. It was not manly to know how to do so anyway.

"Ginny! Wake up, wake up!" the little girl yelled excitedly.

"Gin? Wake up darling…" Draco said gently, kissing her on the cheek. Ginny squirmed a bit and lazily opened her eyes.

"What's going on?" Ginny asked sleepily.

"Let's have lunch at Diagon Alley. Arriana and I are already ready."

"Alright." Ginny smiled at them before standing up and wrapping a towel around herself. "I'll be down in a minute. I'm gonna get ready."

"Ginny… can you do my haiw please?" (hair)

"Sure Arriana. I'll fix it once I get back okay?" Arriana answered the question with a nod and smiled sweetly at Ginny before heading back inside with Draco.

After a quick 10 minutes, Ginny came back downstairs all set and ready to go. She decided to wear a shirt of greenish-yellow colour and a denim skirt that went well with her long slender legs. On her feet, she wore flip-flops and an ankle bracelet that was set on her right foot. Her hair was put up into a ponytail with bits of it framing her face that held very little make up. After all, she didn't need it. She was beautiful without the use of make-up anyway. She believed that natural beauty was the way to go.

"Come on Arriana, let me fix your hair so that we can leave. I'm famished after all that swimming." Ginny grinned as she pulled the little girl on to her lap and began fidgeting with her hair. She loved doing Arriana's hair. It was so soft and silky, very much like Draco's. "Okay all done!" Ginny exclaimed. Arriana hopped off of her lap and Ginny stood up as well.

"Thank you Ginny," Arriana cutely gushed, hugging Ginny's legs tightly. Ginny just smiled in return. She had put Arriana's hair in simple pigtails for she looked absolutely adorable in them.

"Now, now stop with all of that girlishness and lets have lunch," Draco smirked while watching the two. "Ginny you apparate first. I'll follow with Arriana." Ginny just nodded and with a 'pop' she disappeared.

He picked Arriana up and held her to him tightly. "Hold on tight Arriana, we're going to apparate." She quickly clutched onto Draco's neck tightly and closed her eyes. Draco gasped as the air was knocked out of him. "N-not dat tigh-t. Can't b-breathe." He choked out while trying to pry her arms off of his neck.

Arriana cracked an eye open and looked at Draco. "We're here?"

"N-no" Draco was able to say. His face was turning redder by the second. Arriana's eyes widened. "Dwaco is you okay?" He shook his head, pointing to her arms. She looked down at her arms and instantly let go of Draco's neck. Air rushed out of him as he exhaled greedily.

"Arriana! You nearly suffocated me to death!" Draco yelled, panting as he tried to recollect air.

"I'm sowwy Dwaco! I'm just scawed." (scared) Arriana played with her little hands, trying not to look at Draco's angry face.

Draco's eyes soften when he saw his little sister's head down, fidgeting "Don't be. I won't drop you, or let you go okay? I'm just right here and I'm here to protect you," he murmured while patting her in the head.

"Like my pwince in shining awmouw?" (Like my prince in shining armour?) She yelled excitedly whilst face brightened instantly.

"Yes, like your knight in shining armour." Draco smirked at his sister's mix up of words.

"You're my hewo!" (You're my hero!) She giggled before throwing her arms around his neck again but tenderly as to not hurt her big brother anymore.

"Okay are we ready to go?"

"Yes!"

Ginny was waiting patiently for Draco and Arriana to arrive by the fountain in Hogsmeade. She looked down at her muggle watch that her father had gotten her for her birthday a few years back before looking around once again. She knew that it would take a little time for them to apparate with Arriana's fear of getting lost or dropped on the way. Arriana had found it odd that they could just appear and disappear out of nowhere. When Draco and Ginny had explained to her how it worked, many questions flooded her little brain, causing many doubts in her mind about apparation. At times they did just floo in to where ever they wanted to go, but the floo network was far from The Leakey Cauldron, where they had decided to eat. Ginny snapped out of her thoughts as the familiar 'pop' sound was heard.

"There you are! I was worried it would take the whole day before you could get here." Ginny teased.

"Well this little one here was scared to leave, just like before." Draco brushed his hand against Arriana's cheek playfully. She was still in Draco's arms, blushing lightly as she looked at Ginny.

"Not anymowe! Dwaco is my pwince in shining awmouw." Ginny laughed and Draco joined her as well.

Arriana did her famous I-don't-get-it-look with her hands on her hips and a small frown on her cute little face. "What's so funny?"

Draco choked back another laugh and sealed his lips tightly together. "Nothing Angel, lets just have lunch now. You must be hungry after all of the playing." He smirked.

The couple and child ate lunch while happily listening to Arriana speak of random things about her days when she spent time alone with the house elves and the toys that she wanted to possess desperately. Of course, the smart little girl was trying to make a point to Draco and Ginny indirectly but it eventually evolved into continuous begging when they showed no signs of understanding of what she was trying to imply. Her plan for them to hear what she wanted dearly so that they could buy it for her. But to the little girl, the nods and the no talking sign wasn't enough assurance for her. Besides, it was her birthday and presents were a mandatory fact during birthdays. Was it possible that they forgot her birthday? 'Did they fowget?' the little blonde thought forlornly.

After her continuous bickering without any response from the two, Arriana picked up her fork and started playing around with her food.

"Arriana honey, please don't play around with your food." Ginny said while slicing her roast beef into smaller bite size pieces.

Arriana dropped her fork with a clatter and hastily picked up her goblet of pumpkin juice and took a quick sip before setting it sloppily back on the table. Her pumpkin juice washed over her goblet and made a splash as it landed on the table. Draco looked at his little sister and then averted his eyes to Ginny who was looking back at him. He inclined his head towards Arriana and mouthed, "She thinks we forgot her birthday." Ginny nodded understandingly and hid back the smile that was coming to her lips.

Draco and Ginny had decided quite a long time ago that for Arriana's 5th birthday, they would have a surprise party for her. And at this surprise party, she was to finally meet Ginny's family. The curious girl had always asked Ginny about her family. She was so interested to meet them as well as the nephews and nieces that Ginny had. Because Arriana mostly stayed in the manor, she wasn't able to communicate much with other people unless she was out with her brother and Ginny. Everywhere they went, Arriana would make friends with a bunch of strangers, some kids and some were even adults. She really was just a friendly little girl with such a big heart. There was no doubt that she would get along well with her family.

"Don't give us that attitude young lady. You know very well that that is unacceptable." Draco reprimanded in an even tone as he got out his wand and muttered a spell to clean off the sticky liquid on the table.

Arriana huffed a big sigh. She didn't like it when Draco used that tone on her. It scared her a little bit. She knew that he only used that tone when he was upset, disappointed or mad at her for acting in an inappwopwiate behavior.

"I'm sowwy…." She whispered, looking at Draco and then at Ginny. After apologizing, she jumped off her seat and walked away.

"Arria - "

"Don't. Just let her cool off for a while. She needs to be alone to think about that attitude of hers. She does this every time she knows she did something wrong, but hasn't quite figured out what it exactly is. She'll come back when she's got the idea.

"We shouldn't let her go off on her own Draco. We're in Hogsmeade."

"Don't worry. I can see her from here. She won't get out. She'll just continue walking around in circles, like she is doing now." Draco replied, as he watched Arriana pass by their table again.

Arriana walked around slowly with her eyes on the floor and her hands behind her back. She was mumbling to herself, trying to figure out what she had done. 'All I did was eat and dwink!' She thought. 'Okay and maybe I kinda acted rude to Gin -' Her thoughts were interrupted when she bumped hard against something, causing her to lose balance and fall on her bottom hard. Arriana looked up at the man she bumped into, sniffed a little, before breaking out into tears.

"Oh dear my!" The man gasped. He picked up the little child and rubbed her back, trying to soothe her. "I'm sorry little one. I didn't see you there."

"Oh my gosh. Arriana!" Ginny yelled, standing up and running towards her with Draco hot on her tail. She took Arriana out of the arms of the stranger and hugged her tightly. "Are you okay?" she asked worriedly, as she patted her lightly on the back to calm her down.

Arriana nodded in reply against her shoulder. She sniffled once again, looking at Draco sadly. She then leaned back and opened her arms out to Draco who immediately held her to him He kissed her on the cheek and wiped away the fountain of tears leaking out.

Ginny averted her eyes from the siblings to the man before her.

"I'm terribly sorry miss. My eyes failed to see your daughter in front of me," The man with brown hair and blue eyes said.

"It's quite alright." Ginny replied, not even bothering to correct the man before her. She was too transfixed on the face of this familiar looking man. Inclining her head to the side, she tried remembering where she had met him before. After a few side-glances and squinting of the eyes, Ginny finally gave up and just decided to ask the man who he really was.

"Um… Do I know you from somewhere?" she asked unsurely.

"Well, have you heard of the name Colin Creevey before?" Colin grinned, flashing his pearl white teeth.

"COLIN!" Ginny squeaked. Her hand flew up to her mouth, eyes wide as she looked him up and down.

Draco bolted his head up at the sound of that awful name. 'Colin? He's here?'

He looked at the man in front of his girlfriend and narrowed his eyes. 'That retarded piece of sod. What the hell is he doing here?'

Everyone knew that Malfoy loathed Creevey. And no one ever found out the reason why, but now it seems as if the reason is about to unfold.

Heyy! I'm back! I'm sorry it's been almost 2 months, since I updated. I know, I know I have a lot of excuses and all, but I really do have a good explanation. Well, the motherboard of my computer crashed and we had to get it fixed. It took about 2 weeks. And then it took another week to install the new CPU to the computer with all of the firewall and anti-virus stuff. And then, since the motherboard crashed, my old chapter 3 was deleted, and so I had to start all over again! Not only that, I didn't get to spend much time on the computer because I've been out most of the time with my friends and I usually don't get home till like 12 at night. SO I'm terribly sorry if I kept all of you waiting for a far too long of a time. Though, at least I updated right?

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