Chapter 9

Ginny looked at them all, glad to be back. She was going to have to write a thanks to Rosmera and Tom for finally finding her. The nurse came out of the office to another bed who was just now occupied with Blaise Zabini, and Draco malfoy on the other side of him. They both were moaning in angony, holding a arm or leg in spite of all the orders the nurse was giving them. "Please let me roll up your sleeve." she urged Draco, he refused.

"No way! it would hurt and its too horrible to see!" he complained. He didn't let her roll it up, for the Dark mark was supposed to be on that side. She mananged to roll it up and Draco started blurting things out, "I'm sorry, I was forced and all then it hurt so much I couldn't bare the thing!" he said.

"What thing, Mr. Malfoy?" Promfrey asked him and finally Draco looked down, seeing nothing.

"The muscles in my arm or something, it hurt so much." he lied, looking over at Blaise who gave a confused look with a shrug.

"Well, let me go check on the other patients and I'll come back to you two." she said before running back to Ginny, "And how is you head, Ms. Weasley?" Ginny gave a kind of shrug to her, "Kind of hurts with the movement, other than that, I'm fine." Madem Promfrey nodded and waddled over to the next serious patient.

"Um, guys can you excuse me for a moment, I need to talk to Harry." Ginny said blushing. Ron and Hermione nodded, leaving them to their biseness. Harry looked concerned at Ginny, who gave a reasurring smile.

"So, are you still taking me to the ball?" Ginny asked, while Madem Promfrey gave her her clothes so she could walk around for a while. The nurse shook her head at Ginny, seeing her leave in this condition; but it was under Dumbledore's orders. Harry looked away as Ginny got herself dressed safely as she could and then she looked over at him, "well?"

"Uh, well there's something I need to tell you about that..." Harry said uneasily before turning around to face her. He noticed her face changed from smiling brightly to a frown.

"Oh" was the only answer he got. Harry sighed stressfully and continued.

"I ain't going exactly going with you now since you disappeared, cause when you did Vannessa blackmailed me kind of by saying that if I didn't go with her, she would let Voldemort kill you. Of course I didn't know you ran away from him, so I said yes. Now I can't cause she will kidnap you again if I cancel the date." Harry explained, looking down to not see Ginnys reaction.

Ginny looked angrily at him and stomped out of the Hospital Wing, not giving him a single word. Harry shook his head sadly before going to walk out himself. He went up to the common room, knowing he was going to have the worst date to the ball tonight.

Ginny of couse, ran the other way towards the grounds. Her red hair flew behind her then she went to sit under a shady tree, where there was no light for it was cloudy and looking about to rain. She put her head in her hands and cried quietly as she could, hoping that this was all a dream and never will happen. "I can't believe him!" she sobbed to herself repeatedly.

Harry made it to the common room, to see Ron beating Hermione as usual and Hermione looking like she would throw something. "Hey Harry, so where's Ginny?" Ron said not looking up at him once.

"I'm not sure anymore." Harry said before sitting down beside Ron.

"Okay, what happened?" Hermione asked him, seeing his face she knew something had gone real wrong.

"I told Ginny about the ball thing with Vannessa, then she just ran out, not saying anything." he said simply.

"Oh, she'll understand before the ball Harry." Ron said, "She can't keep herself away from you for long." Harry chuckled, "I guess, I just hope she will."

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Ginny looked up to a figure with blonde hair and grey eyes. "What do you want!" she said annoyingly.

"Well, this is what I get for a greeting? Gosh, Weasley some harsh words there." Draco Malfoy said smirking. Then Blaise Zabini appeared behind him for a minute then walked beside him.

"Great, can't be alone now?" Ginny said, "What happened to the dumb ones?"

"Somewhere, you don't need to know about that anyways." he said, "Anyways, I'm not the one you need to be talking to, you should be talkng to Blaise." He turned around and walked back to the castle.

"..." Ginny just stared up at the 7th year Slytherin boy. She had seen him sometimes around Malfoy, staring at her friends and her but rarely anymore. That job was taken by Malfoy afterwards.

"I was wondering if your friend, Jessica, was going to the ball with anyone yet..." he said to her, emotionless.

"Um, no, she was going to go with Micheal, but broke it off." Ginny said as he handed a note to her.

"Give that to her if you see her, but don't forget." Blaise said glaring down at her, giving a warning and walked off. To Ginnys displeasure, Malfoy came back over at Blaise left to go to the common room, "So, still don't have a date Weaslette?" he said smirking.

"Yes, and no I'm definetly not going with you." Ginny responded, her turn to glare at him.

"Well, then this won't work out. See, Vannessa is going with Potty with some stupid unknown reason, and you wanted to go with him for some more dumber reason than her." he said.

"Well, if mine's dumber than hers, your wrong. We both like him. She blackmailed him telling him if he didn't go with her, Voldemort would kill me...but I escaped." Ginny replied, smirking, Malfoy holding a stunned look on his pale face.

"Well, then we might want to go together. That might make them jelous and then we can go our separate ways." Draco said crossing his arms, "Even if we don't agree on it, we'll just act it till they come running to us." Ginny pouted ignoratly and nodded, "Alright, if it gets Vannessa away from Harry."

"And Harry away from Vaneesa." Draco said before walking off as it started to rain hevily. Ginny heaved a sigh as she ran towards the school, trying to not get very wet. She rushed to the common room, knowing the ball would be a few hours away. She stopped in front of the Fat lady, panting, "Quid agis" she said and the potrait swung forward, and she ran passed the trio quickly, unnoticed if you didn't count Hermione. She rushed up the girls stairs as queitly as she could, but noticed her steps weren't the only ones. She looked behind her to see Hermione following.

Ginny opened the dorm door to the room for 6th years and Hermione walked in behind her. "Whats wrong? You seem in a rush..." she said to GInny, who was rumaging through her dressor then started in her trunk.

"Nothing, just that the ball is in two hours." Ginny complained, searching through the closet to find her dress hung up with the other girls dresses that slept in the same dorm. She placed it on her four poster bed and then looked under her bed for her dress shoes.

"But didn't Harry tell yo--" Hermione started but was cut off.

"Yes, but I was asked by someone else, alright?" Ginny said, "I don't even want to talk to Harry right now, or talk about him if you don't mind."

"who are you going with? Dean? Seamus? neville?" Hermione asked, guessing a few names, Ginny shaking her head at all three.

"He isn't in Gryffindor." Ginny said, giving a hint.

"Micheal?"

"Nope."

"Then who?"

"If I tell you, will you not tell harry or Ron? Cause if you do, I will not be happy." Ginny said, looking at her seriously.

"Is he that bad?" Ginny nodded, "Alright, i won't tell a soul."

"Okay..." Ginny said hesitating, "It's Draco Malfoy." She turned to look over her shoulder at Hermione she find her mouth hanging and eyes wide as she could get them, "Hermione, you alright?"

"Your kidding right?" Hermione said after a few minutes, "Please tell me you are."

"I'm sorry, but no I'm not."

"Why are you going with him" Hermione asked.

"Cause he said he wanted to go with Vannessa, but is going with harry. And I want to go with harry." Ginny said, "We think that they will go with us after they go through jelousy, but he will still pick on me afterwards."

"If he still does..." Hermione said.

"Srill, don't tell them yet...i want them to find out when they look for me." Hermione nodded before going back downstairs.

"Hey, I'm going to get ready for the ball, so see ya!" she called before turning around only to be stopped.

"It's in two hours!" Ron said.

"No, it's in one hour." Hermione said, watching the boys gasped and go up stairs. She ran to her dorm to go find the dress her mom bought her a few weeks ago. She found it and got dressed in it, smoothing out the small wrinkles softly. She grabbed her wand and cast a spell to put her hair up nicely beofre going to GInnys dorm to go see how she was doing. SHe grabbed her makeup and walked over, opening the door. She saw that she was already in her dress and putting on a bit of makup here and there.

"Hey mione, you done?" Ginny, looking over at her through the mirror.

"No, I need to put some makeup on too." hermione said walking into the bathroom to use the mirror in there. She saw Ginny nod softly, trying to not mess up. This is like the only time I see her put makeup on this year. She barely puts any on, she thought while applying eyeliner.

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Harry looke din the mirror, adjusting his tie normally, so it was hanging loosely like it was a few moments ago. He saw Ron walk into view, surprisingly wearing a different outfit then his 4 year. Ron looked at him, as though reading his mind.

"Got too small thank god." Ron said fixing his black robes so they hung comfortably on his shoulders.

Harry nodded, this year he was wearing dark blue robes, not black. He didn't try to fix his untidy black hair and walked downstairs to see it was 10 minutes till the ball. He saw Ron decending and knew he had to wait for hermione. He gave a wave before going out into the hall to go down the steps, coming face to face with Vannessa.

Ginny walked down with Hermione, who was wearing a light purple and white dressthat went to her ankles. Ginny was wearing a light blue dress that went to her ankles too, the one her mom wore to her ball, it was a tradition in her family, luckily not like Rons. SHe waved to ron who was looking at her for wearing a dress like that. "Now where did you get the money for that?"

"No where. It's the family tradition for girls like me in the family." Ginny said before smiling and exiting to go down the flight of steps to see Malfoy walking towards the entrance as well. He was wearing black dress robes, his long blond hair hanging down neatly. Ginny avoided harry, who was with Vannessa and stood by the Slytherin. "Your late, I've been waiting." he said.

"If I am, you are too. You entered the same time as me. Though i was wearing heels." Ginny said pointing towards her white heels. Those now were Hermiones. He just gave up and entered the hall, Hermione and n standing behind them with Harry and Vannessa following.

Harry didn't notice Ginny and Malfoy while Vannessa was saying stuff on how he looked, and he kept saying she looked great too. She was wearing a red dress that had black shoulder straps and red heels. He soon was dragged by vannessa to the dance floor. SHe wrapped her arms around his neck and he just put his around her waist, making her blush. Ginny wouldn't blush if I did that, she's not that girly he thought.

Malfoy held his hand out to Ginny and she took it and was led to the floor too. She slowly put her arms around his neck, and he just lightly put his around her waist. They danced uncomfortably, but normaly. Over in the far corner, Ron kept stepping on hermione's feet, who was doing the same, but on purpose. "You don't know how to dance?" she asked, giving a small ouch as he stepped in her toes again.

GInny and Malfoy soon sat down, and talked about the plan and how to get them jelous, but wasn't going well. They kept saying stuff they didn't want to do, but it seemed the only many ways on how. Harry wlaked away to go get drinks and kept looking around for GInny, but it was hard trying to dodge dancers while holding drinks and looking for her at the same time. He gave up and walked towards Vannessa, who thanked him and drank some. Once they were done, she grabbed his hand and led him out of the hall after seeing Draco with GInny. That filthy blood traitor, she thought looking at Ginny before leading Harry outside.

"So, what do you wnat to do?" Vannessa asked and harry just shrugged. She smiled and pulled Harry into a kiss passionatly, bu twas pulled away from Harry. Harry was backing up and looked at her, "I'm not ready for that." he said then walked back inside. Vannessa sat on the bench nearby and looked at the stars for a moment before standing back up and going inside.

"Listen, I'm sorry. But I need to show you something." Vannessa said as she pointed to Draco and GInny who were dancing uneasily again. Harry looked over and gasped, seeing the two dancing, especially Ginny and Malfoy together. His anger grew in his chest as he slowly pushed people out of his way to get to his destination and goal: To punch Malfoy out.

-----------------------Authors note----------------------------------

Okay, thats the end of that one. I'm having writors block at the moment. And i cna't belive all the school work these days! And the MAP((Missouri somethn somethin)) test being 6 weeks away! You should know what it means, its jsut mines called map, californias is called cap, texas is calle dtap, you know that stuff. OS there, and thanks for being patient. I won't be writing for a wekk for my school has gone on strike for our pricipals, the best and funnest ones in the whole area, are being fired, so yeah. Please Review!

Goddes Michelle