Only Twelve Days till Valentines.
Chapter 4: February 5—To be saved by a Twinkle.
Frustration had won over and Ginny was definitely ready to reorganize anyone's body parts if they dared enter her presence. Here she was supposed to put on this marvelous production for this ridiculous holiday and she couldn't find a single person to join the ensemble. Apparently this would be a lot harder than she had ever dreamed. Letting out a sigh she plopped down on the nearest window ledge and to the best of her ability, stifled a groan.
"Something troubling you Miss Weasley," came a voice with an obvious hint of humor. Here was the cause of all of Ginny's unearned frustration.
"Well, Professor Dumbledore, you see… I've run into a bit of a hitch. Finding talent for the performance should have been easy, however, everyone has already found there so called special someone and are not interested in helping me out at all," replied Ginny through her teeth. Merlin love this old man, because at the moment she could have hexed him to kingdom come.
"Ah, yes of course. I suppose I should have given you this earlier but I thought perhaps you might find a bit to overbearing. You see, I had the head of each house submit a list of musically inclined students. As you can imagine, the list is quite extensive, but I'm sure you pull through."
"Oh well, goodness me, why didn't I think of that," smiled Ginny as tyhough the world reamining on its axis depended on it. To say it was forced would be a vast understatement. If the sound of her voice gave any indication, the apocalypse was set to detonate in three point five seconds. As she reached to snatch the list from his hands she made the mistake of glancing up in to his face and catching the twinkle in his eye. Bugger had planned this all along.
"You're lucky I'm soft when it comes to twinkles,"growled Ginny as she brushed past Dumbledore to make her way towards the Great Hall for lunch.
"Strange girl. You sure you know what your dealing with?" Dumbledore questioned the conspirators.
"Absolutely not. Off her rocker that one is."
"Those words right there, my dear, is why I'm in charge."
"Wait a minute... who said YOU were in charge."
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Draco Malfoy had come to the conclusion that Ginny was completely off her rocker and Blaise wasn't too far behind her. To think he actually called these too lunatics friends. Here he was standing outside the Great Hall looking completely ridiculous carrying a boquet of bright red roses and looking incredibly cheesy. His wonderful companions decided it would be best their ploy to make himself and Ginny appear to be a couple began today at lunch. Oh how he would have loved to help them by removing one limb at a time. Naturally his lovely companions conveniently forgot what was planned and here he was standing for all of Hogwarts to see. And as if the day could possibly get any worse, the nightmare that plagued him at night came flouncing forward.
"Oh, Drakie, what would I ever do without such a wonderful boyfriend like you?" squealed Pansy as she launched herself on to Draco's terrified arm.
"Find someone else to stalk to the point of one requiring a restraining order?" taunted Draco hoping to get some kind of reaction.
"Oh Snookums, I was just thinking about our costumes too! We will be going as Prince Charming and Cinderella! How amazing is that?" giggled Pansy, eyes glowing in a way that would make that muggle moron Richard Simmons look like high society.
"How original."
The gushing continued for nearly twenty minutes when Draco tossed Pansy the flowers and preceded down the hall towards the dormitories. He thought perhaps if he left she would stop but by the continuous squeaking he heard this obviously not the case.
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As the day slowly came to a close, Draco found himself wandering around unfamiliar passages in the overly large school. Finding a some what secluded area he made his way to perch on a nearby window ledge and began to star out on to the school grounds. Beauty wasn't the right word to describe what he saw in the pale moonlight. Breath taking, enchanting, and a power that seemed to dwell just below the surface of the landscape that spread far and wide. Draco had always appreciated the power that nature its self could harness. Just simply enjoying the natural occurrence of things was enough relieve the stress he's missing in action partners had brought upon him.
Blaise Zambini could kiss his stupid blue and pink fluffy blanket goodbye. Stupid thing was annoying any way. What kind of man kept that sort of thing? And seeing as how he couldn't blame Ginny for her absence seeing as how she had a lunch detention, Blaise was his obvious target.
"A frown is not a good look for you," came a soft feminine voice from the shadowed corner of his retreat. Slightly startled by the sudden awareness that someone had been watching him, he glanced in the sounds general direction and saw Ginny making her way to sit on the end of the edge opposite him. By the look of he could tell she'd had a long day. Her normally bright face was rather pale and her long locks of hair had been thrown into what he would assumed is what they called a messy bun. The hair itself was enough to tell him everything he needed to know.
"Long day?" Previous concerns for himself dissipating.
"Yes. If I said I had a body of a very old man who's in charge of this blasted institution to bury, would you help me?" came the weary reply as she began to slide down on the ledge drifting slowly in to sleep.
"As you wish, as you wish," sighed Draco, giving in to his own exhaustion and leaning back against the wall.
As the night progressed, the two slowly but surely ended up along side one another curled against the window pain. If the wrong person had crossed their path that night, everything could have been ruined but luckily only the right ones came across the two.
"Aww, how sweet is that?"
"Don't make me hurl, I agreed to help because he's an idiot who doesn't know when something good is in front of him but I'm not into this lovey dovey crap."
"Oh don't sound so harsh love, there is someone out there for you!"
"If we didn't need you both, I would have hit the eject button at "sweet"!"
"Stop it, you're all acting like children."
"Yes mother."
"You agree with me don't you?"
"Of course I do sweetie!"
"I need a drink."
AN: IM SO SORRY this is so late coming. I won't go into the details but life happened and this story had to be delayed. Rather than lose what quality there is in this story, I will update as inspiration comes. I do hope you understand. I love all my reviewers. You're the only reason this story is alive. I hope you enjoyed the newest installment! Ciao.
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