First off, thank you to all the people that reviewed! This is the first time I've ever gotten so many at once! I was going to take a break after the last chapter, but I've changed my mind.

Beware the drama in this chapter. It gets so warm and fuzzy that it's sickening here at the beginning, but that's it until you get to the Fluff.

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Ginny was trying to concentrate on her homework. She had to work on it in her dorm these past couple of weeks, mostly to get away from the evil stares the other Gryffindors sometimes gave her. She was done with her Charms homework and had just begun her long, uneventful Potions work when there was a soft knock at the door to her dorm.

Ginny looked up through her hair at the closed door and didn't move. She wondered if maybe if she didn't say anything they would go away. She kept staring at the door. The knock came again, this time more impatient. Ginny gave in.

"Yes?" she asked politely.

"It's Hermione. Can I come in?" she asked gently.

'No', Ginny thought.

"Yes," Ginny said.

Hermione opened the door and stepped hesitantly into the room. Ginny brought her face up and shook her hair to the side. Hermione closed to door behind her and sat on the edge of Ginny's bed.

"Ginny, what's going on?" she asked bluntly but gently.

Ginny set her quill down in her bottle of ink and stacked the differently shaped pieces of parchment and set them aside.

"What do you mean, Hermione?" she said with an almost invisible edge in her voice.

Hermione looked up to meet Ginny's gaze, then looked back down again.

"What I mean is… why this sudden thing with Draco? And why did you defend him earlier? Ginny, what is going on with you?" Hermione cried, the color rising in her face.

Ginny did not answer immediately. She stalled by looking anywhere but at Hermione.

"The Draco thing… I just owed him a favor, so he wanted me to pretend we were going out to get Valentine jealous. But that's over now, so you don't have to worry about it anymore," Ginny sputtered, trying to resist the sudden urge to cry. Why should she cry? It's not as if she liked Draco!

Then the tears breached the wall and they all came out at once. Ginny began crying hysterically. Hermione, out of habit, put her arms around Ginny and let her cry onto her chest.

"Shh, shh," she whispered. Then it slowly lit up for her.

"You like him don't you?" she asked gently.

Ginny just cried harder and pressed her face into Hermione's ugly sweater.

"I'm sorry," she said through her tears, "I'm so sorry. I don't want to like him, I just do. I can't help it!"

Hermione shushed her some more and rocked her back and forth. Ginny finally calmed down and stopped crying.

"I'm so sorry, Hermione," she said through sniffles, "I'm so sorry."

"It's okay, I know what it's like to like someone you thought you hated. Do you know that I used to think that your brother was the most annoying idiot on the planet?" Hermione said, lowering her voice as she said it.

"My brother is the most annoying idiot on the planet," Ginny stated truthfully.

They both giggled ever so slightly. Then they stopped and Ginny began staring at her lap.

"So, what are you going to do about Draco?" Hermione asked.

Ginny looked up and thought. What was she going to do about him? She looked back down at her lap.

"I don't know," she said, "I guess I'll just let him be for now."

Ginny looked up and smiled bravely. Hermione smiled curiously back. Ginny suddenly remembered something.

"Hermione, why were you attacking Valentine anyway?" she asked.

"Oh, she was just messing with me. I couldn't help it. I just really don't like that girl for some reason," she said with a frown.

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After going to Hogsmeade with Draco last weekend, it felt both strange and normal at the same time to Ginny to go with just her friends again.

The day was cold and dark; the clouds were completely enveloping the sun. December was approaching quickly and closing in on Hogwarts with its stinging wind and rain. There was definitely a promise for a storm that day.

Ginny, Hermione, and Luna stepped out of the carriage at the entrance to Hogsmeade, bundled their cloaks around themselves, and huddled together against the wind through the gateway.

First they went to Honeydukes to satisfy the sweet tooth they had developed from regular Hogsmeade trips. While the three of them nervously eyed a treat they hadn't seen before, a boy from Ravenclaw walked up to Luna.

"Hello," he said.

Luna looked up at the sound of his voice. She turned to him and smiled.

"Oh! Hello, Edmund!" she said excitedly, and then turned to Hermione and Ginny, who were staring, completely lost. "Erm… excuse me."

She walked away with the strange boy and talked in a different section of the store while Hermione and Ginny watched, not bothering to pretend they weren't. Then she and the boy walked out of the store, hand in hand, and Luna excused herself from their presence with a smile.

Ginny and Hermione exchanged an amused glance.

After buying too many treats to actually eat all at once, they walked aimlessly down the street, keeping an eye open for a bench that was out of reach of the wind. They spotted Harry and Ron walking a little way ahead and ran to catch up with them.

"Hello," they both said, then Harry gave Ron a pointed look and walked back the way Ginny and Hermione had just come.

Ron leaned over and whispered excitedly, "Harry's got a girlfriend!" in a singsong voice.

After walking for a minute more, they spotted a bench behind a wall that was blocking the wind. They went to sit down. Ron and Hermione began snuggling and were soon openly kissing. Ginny rolled her eyes.

"If you'll excuse me," she said, standing and leaving them. They took no notice.

Ginny wandered down the street without paying any attention to the people passing her, until a pair of people walked past her and one of them snickered an all-too-familiar snicker.

Ginny looked up to see Draco, with Valentine hanging off of him.

"Good afternoon," Draco said rudely.

"Well, it was, but now that I know that you're here…" she didn't need to finish.

She stalked away as it started to drizzle. The tears from this morning had spontaneously reappeared and she had to get away from that beautiful, wonderful-smelling boy before they breached the dam. She went toward the shrieking shack, where no one would be. She sat on the fence that surrounded it and watched the quiet house sit there and be a house.

Then the tears began to slowly leak from her eyes as the rain picked up a bit and she suddenly felt cold and alone. She rubbed her arms and shivered. She had taken her cloak off when she sat at the bench with Hermione and Ron, and she left it there when she walked away.

"What are you doing here?" said a voice.

Ginny started and fell backwards off of the fence. The person who had spoken was standing right behind her and she hit him on her way down, taking him with her.

"Oof," he said.

She rolled off of him, trying to wipe her eyes at the same time.

"What do you want, Draco?" she asked coldly.

He straightened up and stood right in front of her. She had to look up to see into his face.

"I came to give you your birthday present," he said matter-of-factly.

Ginny's jaw dropped. What was today? November twenty-ninth. She had almost forgotten that it was her birthday. She dropped her gaze from Draco's eyes to his knees and the tears came back. This time disbelieving tears.

Draco reached into his pocket and pulled out a small silvery box with a bow on it. He handed it to Ginny, who took it, but felt that she might drop it because she was so numb with confusion.

"How did you know it was my birthday?" she asked.

"I know everything," Draco explained.

Then she started sobbing. She fell to her knees as the rain began to really come down and sobbed like a baby.

Draco's eyes widened and for a moment he had no idea what to do. Then he kneeled too and lifted Ginny's face into his hands.

"Have I upset you?" he asked, worried.

"No," Ginny said, shaking her head, "I'm just so… happy…"

Her rich brown eyes gazed up at him with such endearment that he couldn't resist. He leaned on and kissed her. For a moment, neither of them moved; too caught up in the second, then Ginny pushed him away and began to cry and laugh at the same time.

Draco stared, completely confused. She saw his face and cried even harder, tears of laughter.

"This is so impossible," she admitted, "I don't understand."

Draco pulled her close to him.

"Ginny… I really like you…"

She continued coughing and sputtering out of laughter.

"Why are you laughing?" Draco said, chuckling nervously himself.

"It's just that… this is so unbelievably…"

She fell onto her back and continued laughing. Draco looked around uncertainly, then crawled on top of Ginny and kissed her again. She ran her fingers through his hair and Draco's hands slid from her face to her waist and her heart suddenly picked up its pace. Draco felt the same sudden heat and pushed her robes back over her body while he shrugged off his own with Ginny's help. Draco began to unbutton her top. Ginny slid her hands up his shirt and slid her arms over his warm back. Draco got about halfway down her shirt when it thundered.

They both jerked out of their stance and looked up at the darkening sky. It was time to go back to Hogwarts.

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Oh! So much fluff! I think the next chapter might be the last, depending on whether or not I can come up with some new plot line to carry on with. We'll see.