Finding Cinderella
Risa Moon
Disclaimer: I own nothing! Nothing owns me, let's leave it at that.
Summary:WANTED: A real beauty, with red long hair, pale skin with shoes size 6, aka Cinderella. He found her, they did it, and all that was left of her was her scent and a shoe. He wants her back, even if he doesn't know her, and that's what he'll get, because Malfoys always get what they want. Of course that's what he thinks.
Chapter 6: Dinner Manners at its Worst
"Harry, I really think you should go back. This is a really bad idea," Ginny warned through a fake smile. They had just entered Haven Deluxe and Ginny had insisted that Harry not go through with joining her and the Malfoys for dinner.
But Harry acted as if he didn't hear any of this. Instead he smiled charmingly at the people who were waiting in line and even said hi to those he knew. It took minutes before they reached the front. But fortunately for Ginny, both Walter and Colin were there. It seems that they had just finished sorting out some misunderstanding.
"Ah! Colin! How are you? I haven't seen you in quite some years. You've definitely grown since I last saw you!" Harry said, shaking Colin's hand and patting his shoulder.
Colin shot Ginny a quick 'what is happening look' so Harry wouldn't notice.
"Harry! I've been great. As you can see I own this place!" Colin said, automatically and touched his nose and pulled his right ear as casually as possibly. Walter understood the signal and turned his attention to Harry, not giving any expression of noticing Ginny.
"Are you meeting someone?" Walter asked.
"Yes, the Malfoys and Ginny, here, have some business matters to discuss," Harry said with a professional voice.
"The Malfoy's table, yes it table number 24. I'll be taking you there. Please follow me," Walter said.
Colin walked next to Ginny and Walter, on the other side. "Malfoy, you're having dinner with the Malfoys with Harry?" he asked in a hysterical whisper and a calm smile on his face.
"Your glasses Ms. Weasley, you forgot you glasses!" Walter whispered by her side.
Ginny fumbled to with her purse and got out her glasses as she said, "I didn't want him to come, but he insisted. What am I suppose to do! You two have got to help me."
"I'll be here for the rest of the night and if there's any tension pull on your right ear and we'll have a waiter interrupt you. Walter and I will be keeping your table under surveillance," Colin whispered while Ginny put on her glasses hastily.
Harry was not noticing what was going on because he had turned away from the odd group to say hi to one of his college mates. As they reached the Malfoys table, Colin eventually walked away, as Walter remain by Ginny's side. "You smell like strawberries," he added before the Malfoys noticed their presence.
Ginny panicked and remembered that she forgot to switch shampoo. But somehow Harry appeared by her side.
"Malfoy," he acknowledged with a stiff smile.
"Ginny!" Mrs. Malfoy smiled at Ginny as she ignored Harry. But Draco remained cool and chose to acknowledge Harry with a cold smile, "Potter."
"Sorry I'm late," Ginny said nervously, "Harry didn't want to stay home and our anniversary dinner has been delayed for too long."
To Ginny's slight relief, the table was big and round. She was about to sit next to Draco but Harry led her to the seat next to Mrs. Malfoy. "Thanks Harry," she said. Her problem was solved, but she waited nervously for another one.
"I took the liberty to order some food and got us a bottle of red wine," Narcissa said as the waiter poured out two more cup of wine for Harry and Ginny, "Why don't you get us one more plate setting, dear," she said to the waiter.
"So, Ginny dear, how long have you and Harry been together?" Narcissa asked with interest. Draco leaned in to listen and turned his attention to Ginny.
But before Ginny could answer, Harry's voice came before hers. "Four years, and two year back at Hogwarts. I'm sure… he remembers," Harry said, gesturing to Draco. He took hold of Ginny's hand on the table and squeezed it.
Ginny looked at it oddly. Harry had never done that before. Not in public that is. But what really shocked her was what he said next.
Harry turned to Ginny and smiled, "Actually, I was going to ask her to marry me at our anniversary dinner. But I guess now would be a good time too."
He took out a ring box out of his pocket and opened it for her. Inside was a diamond engagement ring with a silver band and smaller rubies surrounding it like a rose, he put it on the table as if to show it off than propose to Ginny.
"Ginny Weasley, will you marry me?"
Ginny was, least to say, shocked. But no sound came from her. Her previous smile froze, and her eyes were not concentrated on the ring, but on Harry's face. He was not looking at her at first but at Draco. Who she just noticed looked quite frozen, also like he got slapped. She saw at the corner of her eyes, a very curiously and amuse looking Mrs. Malfoy. Narcissa, who also was a fellow woman, knows what really was going on in Ginny's head.
Yet, so did Walter and Colin. "This is going to be Hell on Earth to pay later," Colin said, quite shocked yet amused.
"We shouldn't worry about later, sir. We need to do something NOW," Walter said, snapping to action. But then something caught his eyes.
"You think this is bad? Look whose walking towards the table?" Walter said.
Back at the table, Ginny's thoughts were broken by a certain blond.
"Look father, Harry Potter just asked a redheaded Weasley to marry him!" a mocking voice came from behind.
Laura Wellington and her father appeared in front of Ginny.
"Hello Narcissa. I see you have gotten yourself a happy couple to watch," Mr. Wellington said. He gestured to a waiter to add two place settings.
Laura settled herself between Draco and Harry. Mr. Wellington intended to sit in between Narcissa and Draco, but Mrs. Malfoy had a different idea. She quickly took Draco by the hand and leaned towards him so Richard couldn't sit there, instead, had to settle between Ginny and Narcissa.
"How nice to have you here tonight Richard, was there something you wanted to talk about tonight?" Narcissa said with an icy smile.
"Oh, I thought you should talk with Laura about wedding plans," he stated. Like Harry, he had a triumph attitude about him. But Harry wasn't as confident as he was before, but what he was feeling was confusion and anger. Ginny had took the distraction of Laura sitting next to Draco, to tell Harry to put the ring away and that they'll talk about it when they get back.
Harry felt publicly humiliated, but he couldn't leave now, it would only add on. He could also fell Draco's smug smirk. But Ginny's face fell. She suddenly remembered the importance of her finding 'Cinderella' for Draco. What was she going to do?
Then the food came from different directions; wine from Laura and Harry's direction, Whiskey for Mr. Wellington and water disguised as Martini for Mrs. Malfoy, Raspberry Cocktail for Ginny; Fish, chicken, steak, and some more foreign dishes appearing all over the place. Waiters and waitresses organized themselves around the ones sitting at the table.
Somehow Walter seemed to be by her side while the others were distracted.
"How are you hanging on miss?" Walter asked privately.
"I'm hanging on by a thread," Ginny said with a smile. Walter smiled back.
"We're handling it right now. Remember if there's any tension we haven't noticed yet, pull on your ear."
"Remind me to give you a raise," Ginny whispered back.
"Just doing my job," he said with a wink. With that, the waiters seem to retreat as if on cue.
As they crowd cleared, there seemed to be another guess that had joined their table without anyone noticing.
Blaise Zabini sat between Draco and Laura, grinning ear to ear at the rest of the table. "Sorry I was a little late…" He said giving Ginny the 'backup-is-here' wink that, fortunately, Harry didn't catch.
-15 seconds ago-
"We need someone in there to help Ginny, sir," Walter said with interest.
"Yes, I can see that. But who'd you think can fit in as if they were invited. How do we slip that person in period?" Colin said, deep in thought.
"You can leave the slipping in up to me. You find someone that we can slip in," Walter said as he slipped into the kitchen.
Colin ran his fingers through his hair and looked around. Someone near the entrance caught his attention. There talking to the hostess was Blaise Zabini, with a cute blonde behind him.
-15 seconds after-
"Blaise!" Ginny, Draco and Mrs. Malfoy shouted with joy simultaneously.
"Draco! I wanted to sit next to you!" whined Laura. Seemed she was already drunk before she walked in. She started taking big gulps of the wine and Blaise kept refilling for her.
"So about the wedding-"Mr. Wellington started.
"Someone's getting married? Congratulations Potter! You and Laura will live a happy live," he said with a cheery voice. Draco was trying to hold of his giggling.
"No-"again Mr. Wellington was cut off.
"Oh! My mistake! Congrats Draco! I didn't know you went that way! I'm sure you and Potter will make a fine couple. Just don't invite me to the Bachelor party," Blaise said shaking Draco's hand with a huge grin on his face.
Draco in turn patted Blaise on the back hard, with a fake smile on his face. It was Ginny's turn to hold her giggle.
"No!" Mr. Wellington bellowed. "Will you let me finish my sentence?"
"Sorry old chap."
"Draco and my Laura are getting married," Mr. Wellington said with beaming eyes. 'My Laura?' thought the rest of the table. Of course, Laura was too drunk to think.
"Oh." He said with a bored voice and added with an equal tone, "Don't you mean engaged?"
Mr. Wellington was just about to burst into anger when Mrs. Malfoy's voice popped out of no where.
"The champagne has arrived." More champagne was poured into Mr. Wellington's cup. But as quick as it was poured, it disappeared down Mr. Wellington's throat.
Ginny could tell that the man in the suit was determined to have his darling daughter get what she wants. This made her shiver just a bit before she reached for her Raspberry Cocktail.
"This has turned into a family event. I think we should excuse ourselves for dinner," Harry whispered to Ginny.
Draco has been preoccupying himself with the view of Ginny and had guessed what Harry was saying and smirked. "Can't take the heat Potter?" he said, not minding the rest of the table.
Ginny felt rather uncomfortable in the position she was in and decided that Harry was right.
"Let's go," she said to Harry and turned to Mrs. Malfoy and apologize her for leave and could tell the elder Malfoy wouldn't wait to leave also.
Draco was… feeling what a little boy watching his best friend leaving his side would feel, disappointed. But he couldn't quite show it. Cause he'd never felt disappoint before and the feeling was bothering and wouldn't leave. Not even a while after Ginny and Harry left their table and things turn back to one of those horrible dinners that no one would every want to be at.
Walter and Colin had left the table alone and supervised by one of the waiters. But when Walter went back to check on them, a certain blond was missing.
"Harry, can we please not do this tonight?"
"Why not tonight Ginny? You blew me off in front of everyone in that restaurant especially in front of Malfoy tonight! Why not talk about it tonight?" Harry shouted, pacing. (Not his best look by the way ")
"I don't want to talk about it right now. I'm tired Harry. I had to throw out half the red heads in Great Britain out of my office today! We'll talk about in the morning!" she said, getting herself angry. She walked into her room and slammed the door. Leaving a frustrated Harry outside, but she heard him slam his door just a few seconds later.
"Why not tonight Ginny?" she asked herself, "Why not?"
The real reason she didn't talk about it tonight because she thought by tomorrow she'd know. The reason why she didn't want to talk about it tonight was because she was just as confused and frustrated as Harry was, maybe even more.
Ginny stepped into her bathroom and undressed herself for another bath. She took out a candle, strawberry scented, to help her think.
Her thoughts always started at the dinner when Harry proposed to her and her telling him to put it away. The question: 'Why not?', stuck out to her.
Everyone had always thought of them as a couple.
Harry and Ginny: as boyfriends and girlfriends.
Harry and Ginny: living together.
Harry and Ginny: getting married.
Harry and Ginny: having a baby.
Harry and Ginny: happily ever after.
Harry and Ginny-
Ginny had lost her thoughts as she heard a constant clunk on her window. She stepped out into her robe and poked her head outside her window. 'Low and behold, appeared the handsome blond outside her window. Ginny smiled.
"What are you doing here? Did you get lost?" Ginny teased, "Why don't you try next door? I hear they had a princess over there. Throw rocks on her window."
"I am not lost Weasley and I'm astonished that you'd think I'd really throw rocks at people's windows," explained Draco.
"What about my window?" Ginny asked.
"Well…" Draco said, trying to find an excuse but came up with none. "That's not quite the point of why I'm here."
"Why are you here Malfoy?" she asked.
"I'd like to talk, why don't you come down for a bit?"
Ginny was surprised that she said yes with no hesitation. She grabbed her jeans and a white sweater and her brooms. She finished dressing and flew out her window.
"Alright, can we talk now, Malfoy?" she said, staying on her broom and leveling to Draco's pace.
Draco was having a problem trying to tell Ginny why he wanted to talk to her, because he didn't know why he came.
"I don't know really. When you left, I didn't… like it," Draco said. He wasn't even notice that he sounded like a whiny brat.
"So you made me come out at twelve in the morning, because you didn't like it that I left dinner early," Ginny said, finding every bit of it hard to believe.
"Malfoy, I really don't have time for this. I'm heading back to sleep," she said and turned away but to her bedroom and left an awkward Draco standing there.
'You just did what I really didn't want you to do. You left, again Weasley.'
But back at Ginny's bedroom, she still didn't know why she didn't say yes to Harry's proposal. But she knew why she had the talk with Draco, because she wanted to.
A/N: I give all you people who reads this fanfic a FULL ON APOLOGY! I'm so sorry. School started and I've been packed with homework and test!
I'm sure you are all wondering why no one really bring up the first day of the story in the hotel room. And I decided that the flashback about the dinner Ginny, Colin and Luna that I promised will come in later in the story. Sorry BeaumontRulz, but you'll have to wait a chapter or two.
Thanks to:
I love Draco: strawberry mountains is a type of shampoo scent sorry about that confusion.
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OnerousOrangutang- Thank you for review with your spear time! I'm sure you need time to write your story too! Thx!
bootyful77- I'm mourning for him right now. Thx for reviewing!
youngwriter56- I'm just writing along to way. I really hope you like this chapter!
angel- I am so SORRY I just keep forgetting that some people haven't read but, who would read fanfic if they haven't read the real thing first? Thx for reviewing!
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Channy- What JK Rowling did was unbelievable. Everyone will die someday, but why now and in such a terrible way and for a sad reason.
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Thank you for reviewing everyone. Now if you could just do it one more time.
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