"I HATE HIM! I HATE HIM!" I shouted as I paced back and forth in my dorm room. The door opened, Aiden came walking in with concern written on her face and sat at the end of the bed in front of me.
"Let me guess; Malfoy?" I snapped my head around to glare at her, and she raised her eyebrows at me. "He gave you detention didn't he?" My pace quickened as I walked back and forth in front of her; her eyes following me as I did. "What did you do Ginny? I told you to try to stay on his good side and not to make him mad."
"I didn't do anything." I said throwing my arms up in the air. "I didn't say or do anything, yet he still gave me detention. I didn't deserve it."
"Well you had to have done something. I mean, I know he's horrible, but I don't think he would have just given you detention for no reason."
"No, but apparently it's against the rules to think."
"Think?" She said unsure. "What do you mean thing?"
"That stupid git read my mind. There has to be some rule against it somewhere or something. I mean he can't just get away with reading my mind any time he wants to."
"He gave you detention because you thought something? Wow, I didn't know that Draco was a master in Occlumency."
"What?" I shot at her. "Draco reads my mind and gives me detention, and all you can think about is how he's good at Occlumency. Whose side are you on Aiden?"
"Yours, I'm always on yours. I just didn't know Draco could do that."
"Well he can, and he didn't use it right." I sat down on the bed beside her, and rested my chin in my hand.
"Alright, alright Gin. Just go to McGonagall. Tell her that he read your thoughts without permission, and get yourself out of detention. I mean, you just thought what you thought right, you didn't say it out loud."
"Right, all I did was think something. I mean, nothing was said, so really it's his word against mine right."
"Right. Let's go find McGonagall." She stood up and started for the door.
"Ugh." I groaned.
"What?" Aiden asked turning around to look at me still sitting on the bed.
"If I go to McGonagall and get my detention revoked, then Malfoy will be after me even more. He'll find any reason he can to get me into detention, and then he'll make it last longer. Right now I only have detention for a week. If I argue with him, then he could make it last a month or even longer. I'm better off serving the detention I don't deserve, then getting myself into a worse detention."
"Well, you have a point. I guess telling McGonagall wouldn't be a good idea." She placed her hand on the doorknob. "Anyways, it's time for dinner, are you coming?"
"I'll be down in a bit. I just need some time right now."
"Alright, Collin and I will save you a seat. See you in a bit." She left, and I was stuck all alone with my thoughts and my newly forming headache which I thanked Malfoy silently for.
After dinner, I stalked off towards the dungeons as the rest of the school headed off to their dorm rooms. Once I approached the room, I noticed that it was empty. The light was on, but no one was present. I walked in up to the desk at the head of the room, and stood beside it waiting for Malfoy to show up.
As I was waiting I looked around the room and noticed a photo sticking out from under a piece of parchment on Malfoy's desk. I moved the other papers out of the way so I could get a clearer look at the picture. There was a long blonde haired woman holding a small child in her arms, and a man also with long blonde hair had his arm around her shoulders. I recognized right away who the people were: Mr. and Mrs. Lucius Malfoy. Some of the hatred returned to me as I stared at the smirking man in the picture. He didn't move like the woman did who was bouncing the baby in her arms apparently trying to calm him. The family looked happy; a different mood from what they were now. Well, what was left of them that is.
I heard a noise behind me and quickly put the papers back into their places to turn and see Malfoy emerging from the door to my left. He closed it quietly behind him, and then turned to look at me suspiciously.
"Right on time I see. That's great. The sooner you get her, the sooner you can get your detentions over with."
"What would you like me to do sir?" I said with forced sincerity.
He raised an eyebrow at me. "I have some artifacts that need sorted. You can work on that until you get it finished then you may leave." I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.
"Where are these artifacts?" I asked, and he pointed to a corner of the room where a door was. I walked to it and took the doorknob in my hand, turning it. Once the door was open I peered inside. The room had a bunch of artifacts piled on the floor and strew all over the shelves that lined the walls. I sighed deeply then headed into the room. This was going to be a long night.
Three hours later, my neck was killing me, along with my arm where there was a bruise I received from a cursed artifact that tried to attack me. Malfoy had quickly taken out his wand and stunned it. It dropped to the floor immediately so I picked it up and placed it on the shelve, muttering a quiet thanks to Malfoy as he placed his wand back into his pocket.
I picked the last artifact up off the floor, looked it over and couldn't find a name for it so I turned to Malfoy to ask him.
"Would I file this under U for Ugly Hairy Thing, or what?"
He looked up from the pile of papers he was grading and focused his eyes on the artifact that I had in my hand. "I think that would be filed under W for Werewolves arm."
I stared at him disgusted. "You have a werewolves arm? Why do you have a Werewolves arm?"
Draco rolled his eyes, knowing that one of the close family friends was a werewolf and said "It was here when I came here ok. I didn't bring it. Most of that stuff in there is some of the old professor's stuff. So don't yell at me about it."
"Oh, well, it's still gross. You should get rid of it. I mean, not because it's a werewolf arm, but because it's just plain gross." I threw the arm on the respected shelve then stepped out of the room, shutting the door behind me. "I'm finished, can I go now."
He looked up at me and flicked his eyes toward the door. "You sorted through all of it right?"
"Yes."
"Then you may go. I want you back here tomorrow night after dinner again, is that clear."
"Right, after dinner, got it." I ran to the door and left. I didn't stop running until I was all the way up to the Gryffindor common room and in my bed. Aiden was already asleep, which I found great because I didn't feel like talking to her about my detention. I pulled my pajamas on and hoped into bed. Detention wasn't that bad, although I did come out a little sore, but I figured Malfoy would be harder on me than he was. Guess I was wrong; however, that was only the first day of detention. Maybe he was just taking it easy on me, and then he was going to start assigning the hard work later on. Ugh, why did I have to be the one to serve detention with Malfoy. It was so not fair. What did I do?
I decided to stop this chapter there because I thought it was a good ending for the chapter. So I hope you like it, oh and review please.
