Loving You Secretly
Chapter 3: Day One
"Get up. Get up! GET UP!" a rude hand kept pushing Ginny.
"Go away, Ron. I want to sleep" Ginny grumbled.
"GET UP!" and before Ginny knew it, she was hurled onto the floor.
"Ouch! What happened? What's going on? Is it an earthquake?" Ginny raved.
"I'm suppose to take you to the great hall for breakfast, it's customary. I definitely do not want to be late for my classes, so you'd better hurry. You have 10 minutes" Draco's cold and unfeeling voice boomed in her ears. Ginny nodded and got up and ran into the toilet to wash up.
"9 minutes. One more minute left" Ginny thought as she pulled up her uniform pants and zipped up. Then just as she stepped out of the toilet, she heard the alarm on Draco's watch go off.
Draco eyed his roommate. "The little imp left his fiery red hair in disarray, just like Harry, and he's so petite I'd think he was a girl if I hadn't known better, but I gotta admit, he's pretty cute the way he is," thought Draco as he shook his head, "I am so not going to swing that way"
"Do something about your hair" Draco said coldly before exiting the room. Ginny's hand immediately shot up to press down her messy hair as she followed his lead.
"Yo, mate. How's your roommate like? Annoying?" Harry Potter called out as he watched his best friend descend the stairs followed by a scruffy little red head that almost looked like a girl if he hadn't known better. "Cute" thought Harry before he attempted to shake the thoughts out of his head.
"Hey, mate. Everyone of them are annoying, pesky little things, we'd just have to put up with them until we graduate" Draco drawled as he walk towards his best friend.
"And what's your name?" Harry asked Ginny.
"Um..Gin...I mean Xavier Weasley" Ginny replied. "That was close. I should stop getting all flustered around Draco, he'd think I'm weird" Ginny made a mental note to herself.
"Xavier. Hmm, a unique name. I'm Harry by the way, Harry Potter" Harry grinned at her.
"I know, I saw you on the wizavision. You're a great keeper" Ginny said, glad that Harry was willing to talk to her.
"Nobody asked your opinion, kid" Draco said coldly.
"Awww, don't do that, Draco. You'd scare him" Harry cooed, earning a smirk from his blonde friend.
"Don't do that either, mate, he'd fall in love with you. Haha" Harry joked, earning a punch in the shoulder from his blonde friend, while Ginny just blushed and turned away.
"Come on. I'm starving" Draco declared then he led Harry, Ginny and Harry's roommate who incidentally happened to be Thanos towards the great hall.
"Hey, Xavier. Remember me? I didn't know Draco Malfoy was your roommate, must be great having him as a roommate eh? His father is Lucius Malfoy. Our headmaster" Thanos said as he tapped Ginny on the shoulder.
"Hey Thanos" Ginny said then shrugging at the rest of his statement.
"Welcome to your first day of school. You will be receiving your timetables in a short while and there are a few people I would like to meet. Will Xavier Weasley and Draco Malfoy see me in my office after breakfast? That would be all" Lucius Malfoy announced.
Ginny glanced at Draco, unsure of what's going to happen. "They didn't find out that I'm a girl, did they?" thought Ginny, "No, it can't be"
Breakfast ended with a nice chocolate muffin and Ginny started off for the headmaster's office. But being there for the first time, she got totally lost. Just as she was about to give up and cry, she heard a familiar voice call out to her.
"Where do you think you're trying to go all by yourself? You don't even know how to get to the classrooms, for Merlin's sake" Draco drawled. Ginny turned and ran towards her roommate.
"I...I...I thought..." started Ginny.
"Be quiet and follow me" Draco muttered.
"Enter" the headmaster's voice boomed through the heavy metal doors.
Draco stepped into the office, closely followed by Ginny.
"Ah, Draco and Xavier. I was expecting you. Now, if you'd just take a seat, I'd begin explaining my reason for seeing the both of you" Lucius said.
"Xavier, I do hope that you are aware that you are the top student among all who have taken the entrance examination. No? Well, besides being the top student, you have scored full marks in the entrance examination, and the paper contained questions that are catered for students who are in their 3rd and 4th years and you've gotten them all correct. It is the most amazing scores Durmstrang has ever seen. That is why I have a proposal. I wish to advance you to 2nd year. Honestly, you'd be wasting your time on all the basics that are taught in 1st year. What do you say, Xavier?" Lucius grinned as he spoke.
"Well...I...I...I don't know if I'm up to it" Ginny stammered, still attempting to calm herself down from shock.
"Stop acting so modest. If the school thinks you can, just go for it" Draco scowled, prompting Ginny to drop her head in shame.
"Now, now, Draco, be nice. You'd have to help Xavier along the way, and you two would have to work together a lot" Lucius chided.
"Alright, I'll do it. I'll accept your proposal" Ginny said with all the courage she could muster.
"An excellent choice, Xavier. Here's your timetable, I've arranged for all your books to be changed to cater to your classes in 2nd year. You'll proceed to your first class with Draco. Run along now" Lucius said.
"I can't believe it. I'm a 2nd year. Professor Malfoy is really nice. Is he your father? You've got a really great father" Ginny chirped happily.
"You talk too much. Being in the same year as me still doesn't give you the permission to talk too much" Draco said coldly.
Ginny immediately piped down and followed Draco to her first class. Transfiguration.
Transfiguration was taught by the Centaur house teacher, Professor Mirabel Mcgonagall. According to Ron, Professor Mcgonagall had an older sister, Minerva, who was teaching at Hogwarts. Professor Mirabel was a really pretty lady and she taught well too. They were taught to transfigure animals into goblets. But Ginny hadn't got a pet of her own, by the time they were done buying her books, her family really couldn't afford to get her a pet to take along, so Ginny could only watch as Draco attempted to transfigure his falcon into a goblet, but it kept spouting feathers, causing Ginny to giggle a little before she could control herself at Draco's glare. But he kept making the same mistakes over and over again, finally, he couldn't take it anymore.
"Well, if you're so smart, why don't you do it?" Draco scowled.
"Can I?" Ginny exclaimed before she approached the falcon and muttered the magic words. Suddenly, the falcon that was standing so proudly before Ginny, was now a beautiful silver goblet.
"Oh, look class. Mr Weasley has managed the spell, well done, one merit point to Pegasus" Professor Mcgonagall grinned at Ginny.
(Did I mention that in my Durmstrang, merit points were awarded for good deeds done and demerit points were given for bad things done? At the end of the school term, the house with the most number of merit points after subtracting the demerit points would be given money to improve their dormitories. Houses with the most demerit points would be made to clean up their dormitories and the great hall)
Draco on the other hand was scowling at the younger boy. He was thoroughly embarrassed that someone younger than him was doing better, and to think he'd top the school in the examinations last year. This year, this scruffy little guy might just beat him to it.
"That was way cool Xavier. You were amazing. Draco here was so jealous, did you see that look on his face" Harry said as he hooked his arms across Draco and Ginny's shoulders.
"Shut it" Draco scowled as he punched his best friend lightly.
"Hey Xavier, we're having our very first quidditch practise this afternoon. I heard that you can play, wanna come and watch us" Harry offered.
"Yeah, sure" Ginny smiled brightly.
"Maybe you could play with us" Harry continued, earning himself a deadly glare from the blonde.
Ginny entered the quidditch pitch and sat at a corner. The Eagles had already started playing, and Ginny watched as Draco swooped around the pitch like an eagle looking for it's pray, so graceful and swift at the same time.
"Hey Xavier, wanna play? Keitaro (from Japan) here could let you take the place of chaser" Harry called out.
"Really? Thanks" Ginny exclaimed before taking a broom from the school cupboard and running into the pitch. Kicking off, she flew swiftly into the sky beside Harry.
"All ready? Let's go" Harry shouted.
Draco watched as his roommate flew around the pitch, catching the red quaffle and tossing them through the hoops with perfection. He can't help but wonder who this amazing genius is and where he came from. Not only could he study, he could play well too. A strange feeling pricked through him, it wasn't totally jealousy, it was something else he felt towards this new acquaintance, but he just couldn't put a finger on it.
By the time they had finished, Ginny had scored 80 points all by herself before Draco caught the snitch. Everyone on the team were shocked at her performance.
"Hey Xavier, mind if we talked?" the team captain, Tai Ho (from China), called out to Ginny.
"Sure" Ginny said with a smile, satisfied with her playing.
"Well, you see, I've never seen such wonderful performance from a 1st year chaser before and I'd really liked it if you'd join our team as chaser. Keitaro would be graduating next year and he really doesn't want to play anymore, as he has to concentrate on his preparation for the final N.E.W.Ts. So, what do you say?" Tai Ho explained as he watched the scruffy looking boy.
"That'd be great, really. I've always wanted to be on your team" Ginny exclaimed excitedly.
"Right, welcome to the Eagles" Tai Ho said with a grin.
"Eagles, Eagles, could you come over for a moment? I have something to announce. As we all know, Keitaro will be leaving the team to prepare for the N.E.W.Ts, so we would need a new chaser, and Xavier here has agreed to join us. Any objections?" Tai Ho announced.
"Nope, Xavier's a good player. We'd be winning the inter-schools championships for the next four years ahead" Harry chirped, prompting the other players to nod their heads in agreement, all except Draco, who was still deep in taughts.
"Right then, let's go take our baths then boys" Tai Ho announced as he took the lead towards the bathroom.
"Erm, sorry guys, I left my stuffs up in the dormitory. I won't be joining you guys. Go ahead without me" with that, Ginny started off towards her dormitory before anyone could ask any questions.
"Phew, that was close" thought Ginny, "but what an eventful first day of school"