Loving You Secretly
Chapter 10: Quidditch Inter-schools"Okay Eagles, you've understood the plan, now execute it" Tai Ho said as he kicked off into the air followed by his team members. The team has been training for the Quidditch Inter-schools championships for a couple of weeks in a row now. Ginny was still keeping her title as star Chaser of the team. The Eagles would be up against Hogwart's Gryffindor team, which incidentally happens to be the team Ginny's brothers are on. If they manage to beat the Gryffindors, they'd have to compete with the Beauxbaton team. Up till this point in time, Ginny is beginning to feel the pressure to win.
"Tomorrow's the big game against the Gryffindor team, I don't want any of you to be wandering about till past midnight. Lights out at 11 for all Eagles, understood" Tai Ho warned the team before he dismissed them. Ginny nodded silently, feeling very nervous about the match on the following day.
"Hey Xav, wait up" Harry called out. Turning around, Ginny saw Harry and Draco walking towards her. Draco was looking exceptionally unhappy.
"Hey, aren't you going to join the rest for the usual communal bath? What's up with you anyway, Draco?" Ginny asked.
"Nah, we decided to head back to the dormitory to have some time to ourselves. Draco's just brooding over what to say when he sees his dear Pansy tomorrow" Harry grinned, earning himself a light punch in the stomach from his blonde friend.
"Who's Pansy?" Ginny asked suspiciously, half wishing she wouldn't know the answer.
"Pansy Parkinson is Draco's first ever girlfriend. They've been together since they were 13, but they broke up just before we came to Durmstrang. She's coming as a supporter with Hogwart's tomorrow, and our dear friend here doesn't know what to do when he sees her" Harry explained as he inched away from the blonde to prevent from being hit.
"Oh, I see. Then I guess there's no need for us to worry about him. He'd be fine. He's always fine around girls" Ginny said without looking at the blonde, feeling a distinct pinch in her heart. They trio made their way back to their dormitory in complete silence. Even Harry could sense that something was not right between his two best friends, so he decided to keep his mouth shut.
Draco let Ginny take her bath first, and when she emerged, she walked out of the room without even speaking to him. Running down to the common room in the dormitory, Ginny sat on the sofa nearest to the fireplace and tears started pouring down her face. She was lucky that the sofa was in such an angle that nobody could see her face.
"His girlfriend is coming. Tomorrow. He's feeling weird about it. What am I suppose to say?" thought Ginny as she wiped the tears away with her hands "What can I say? I'm a boy, and he doesn't even like me in the first place"
"Xav, what's wrong?" Harry emerged from behind her and sat next to her.
"Harry, you scared me" Ginny said as she tried to wipe off any traces of tears on her face.
"You were crying, Xav. What happened? Is this about Pansy and Draco?" Harry asked.
"No, no, I'm fine. Really. What are you doing down here? You're suppose to be in bed" Ginny asked.
"So are you. But I saw you running out of your room while I was going to look for you, so I came down here. Now, will you tell me what's wrong?" Harry asked.
"I don't know. I just felt like crying. Maybe it's nerves" Ginny lied.
"Xav, don't try to lie, you know you'll start blushing when you lie. So, this is about Pansy and Draco. You like Draco, right?" Harry asked.
"I...I..."Ginny attempted to reply, but realized she didn't know what to say.
"Listen to me, Xav. What happened between Draco and Pansy was many years ago. They gave up on each other just before we came to Durmstrang. Nothing is going to happen tomorrow. They met each other last year, but they never said a single word to each other" Harry explained.
"Really" Ginny asked as she looked at her friend.
"Really" Harry nodded, "Now, you'd better wash up a little and go to bed, if Tai Ho makes his rounds to check on us, you'd be scolded again" Harry said as he lifted Ginny from the sofa and guiding her up the stairs to her room.
"There. In you go. Don't bother about Draco, he's probably asleep" Harry said as he opened the door to her room and pushed her in.
Ginny got into bed and fell asleep straight away, without even uttering a word to the blonde.
"Welcome to Durmstrang. We hope you have a nice stay, and all the best for the matches" Lucius Malfoy greeted the Professors of Beauxbaton and Hogwarts.
"Hey Gin" Ron called out to his little sister, prompting Ginny to hold out a finger on her lips and the twins to hit him in the head.
"What were you thinking? Are you daft? Nobody knows Gin's called Ginny in this ruddy place" Fred chided.
Ron blushed and kept apologizing to his sister.
"Hey Xav, those are your brothers? I played against them last year, they're really good" Harry grinned.
"Draco" a distant voice called out, causing the trio (Draco, Ginny and Harry) to turn towards the source. A blonde girl with huge, out of proportion eyes, full lips and a body to die for appeared out of the midst.
"Pansy Parkinson" gasped Harry. Ginny's eyes widened when she realized who this goddess was.
"That's what I'm up against? Why do I have the feeling I'm going to be one big loser" Ginny thought to herself as Pansy approached Draco and circled her arms round him.
"Hi Pansy. I gotta go now. My match would start in half an hour. My friends and I would have to be ready" Draco pushed the blonde woman aside as he dragged his two best friends by the hand all the way to the changing rooms near the quidditch pitch.
"Well, at least I know I've got a 40 chance" Ginny thought with a grin as the image of Draco pushing Pansy away flashed through her mind again.
"See what I mean, Xav. There's nothing to worry about. He doesn't even care about her" Harry teased as he grabbed his quidditch robes from the locker.
"Not so loud, Harry. He might hear you" Ginny whispered.
"Who might hear what?" Draco said as he came over to where his two friends were.
"Um, nothing" Ginny muttered.
"Harry, were you going on about me and Pansy again? This is about the millionth time I'm telling you this, it's over between me and her" Draco said as he walked towards the changing room.
"And, they're off. The Eagles still have a very strong team this year, although their star Chaser Keitaro has left the team, the Eagles have found a strong replacement. Xavier Weasley. Weasley has shown great potential, according to the Eagles captain, Tai Ho. Spectators should also be aware that in today's match, Xavier Weasley would be playing against his brothers from Hogwarts, Ron, Fred and George Weasley. This is going to be an interesting of siblings against each other. And it's he scores, ten points to Eagles" said the announcer who happened to be Thanos.
Ginny swooped around swiftly on her Nimbus 2001, taking the quaffles and scoring through the hoops, causing Ron to glare at her.
"Hey, give your brother some lee way over here please, Mione's watching you know" Ron blurted out in frustration as Ginny scored her 50th point.
"Sorry brother, can't show you any mercy or my team would kill me" Ginny grinned as she zoomed after the quaffle again. Fred and George were so worried about her they'd even stopped a bludger from knocking her off the broom, earning a glare from their captain Angelina Johnson.
"And Xavier Weasley scores again. That's 70 points for the Eagles and 10 for the Gryffindor team. What's this, it seems that the seekers have spotted the snitch, who would get to it first? The Eagle's Draco Malfoy or Gryffindor's Seamus Finnigan?" announced Thanos.
All eyes were on the two seekers as they headed for the snitch. "Please let Draco catch the snitch" Ginny pleaded as she headed for the hoops with the quaffle held tightly in her hand.
"Just as the Eagle's Chaser, Xavier Weasley, scores the 80th point for the Eagles, Draco Malfoy catches the snitch. The Eagles wins with 230 to 10" Thanos announced, causing the entire school to cheer.
"We did it" Tai Ho yelled as he flew to the middle of the pitch, followed by his team. They landed and hugged each other.
"Good job, Xav" everyone took turns to ruffle Ginny's hair as they knew she didn't like being hugged. Which made sense to her because she was a girl.
"Good job. You were great" Draco said as he ruffled her hair harder than usual.
"Thanks, so were you" Ginny grinned.
"Draco. Oh Draco, you were simply amazing. I'll tell you what, I'm going to cook up something real nice and we can have supper together, be in my room by 10 okay?" Pansy hugged the blonde before turning around and walking away, swaying her hips in a provocative way.
"Whoa, mate, looks like she's on hunting mode again, and you're the target. Better be careful" Harry said as he slapped his best friend on the shoulder.
"I'm not going" Draco mumbled before heading back towards the dormitory, but Ginny did not hear him for she had ran off in fury the moment the blonde female arrived.
That night, Durmstrang held an extravagant dinner party. Everyone had their fill and the Eagles were given a special table to themselves.
"Today's match was great. Tomorrow, we'd be up against Beauxbaton, I don't want anyone to sleep late. Lights out..." Tai Ho started but was interrupted when his team completed his sentence for him.
"At 11. We know" said the team. Causing the entire Eagles to burst out in laughter.
"It's 10 already, and Draco's still not back. He must be with Pansy" thought Ginny as she sat on her bed.
"I'm going out to look for him. I'll say that lights out would be in an hours time and he has to be back" Ginny muttered as she got out of bed and left the dormitory. However, she wasn't aware that the blonde was actually following some distance behind her.
"What's she doing out at this hour? I'd better follow her just in case she gets into some sort of trouble" Draco thought as he followed the little red head.
Walking on the corridor, Ginny opened every classroom door to check if Draco was in there.
Opening on of the classroom doors, she came face to face with a burly looking boy from Hogwarts, who appeared to be drunk.
"You're late, come on in" said the boy.
"Who are you? I'm looking for my friend" Ginny asked as she was being pulled into the classroom.
"Aren't you the girl who owled me this morning? Don't be shy" said the boy as he dragged her and pinned her down onto the table.
"No, get away from me. I'm not a girl" Ginny yelped.
"You're kidding. You may be a little short of some assets, but anyone could tell you're a girl just by smelling you" sneered the boy as he lifted Ginny's shirt.
"What's this? I knew there's something wrong with you, you can't be a boy" sneered the boy as he began tugging on the zipper to Ginny's vest, slowly revealing her breast which she had tried in vain to conceal.
"No, don't. Please. Let me go. I'm not the girl who owled you. I don't even know who you are" Ginny pleaded.
"I don't care if you are the girl or not. Just so long as I get my enjoyment out of you" sneered the boy as he bent lower to lick the skin on Ginny's neck.
Ginny closed her eyes, "This is the end. There's no way I can fight him. I'm sorry Draco" Just as she was about to give up, the weight of her attacker seemed to leave her body all of a sudden. Ginny's eyes snapped open and she saw Draco punching the boy on the face. Taking the chance, Ginny zipped up her vest and pulled down her shirt.
"Don't you dare touch him, ever again" Draco yelled as he delivered another punch across the boy's face.
"What are you talking about? She's..." started the boy, but Draco punched him again.
"Get out of here" Draco yelled as he got up and kicked the boy hard on his behind, sending the big burly boy running out of the classroom yelping for help.
Ginny huddled at a corner, startled by the attack, and praying that Draco didn't sense anything suspicious about her gender.
"Are you alright?" Draco asked as he came over to her. Ginny nodded quietly. Picking her up, Draco carried her all the way back to their room. Placing her gently on her bed, Draco pulled her covers around her and was about to walk back to his bed when Ginny started thrashing about in her sleep, "Get away from me. No, please don't" she yelled.
"It's alright, he's gone. You're safe now, Xav" Draco comforted her as he cradled her in his arms. It was then did Ginny quiet down and went back to sleep.
"I can't let her sleep by herself, she'd start having nightmares again" thought Draco as he gently lie down next to her, cradling her in his arms. Feeling her tension ease out, Draco too drifted off to sleep with Ginny in his arms.