..:AN: I'm so sorry about how long this is taking me! I mean i wrote this VERY short bit ages ago and i haven't added to it since, its driving me mad! I'm so sorry but please bare with me:..

Draco tossed an armful of expensive brooms onto the floor in front of Zambini, who jumped surprisingly from his sleep.

"Take them." Draco said, his eyes livid and his tone colder then usual. Zambini looked on the ground to see several Firebolts, Nimbus 2000's, and Nimbus 2001's. Obviously a collection more expensive then he had ever owned himself.

"So you lost the bet then?" Blaise asked, picking up a sleek broom and running his hand down it admiringly.

"Whatever, I realized my fathers already planning my wedding to Pansy so you have no bargaining tool anymore Zambini. You win. I don't care." he said walking out of the common room.

"Realized the Weasel was too good for you did you? That she was too disgusted with a bloke like you to ever think of you as anything Malfoy?" Zambini shouted after him. It was then that Draco stopped in his tracks, went back to where Zambini was sitting, picked him up by the collar and hurled him across the room in a fit of rage.

Ginny sighed, walking with her arm linked to Luna's who was talking merrily about her new horoscope. It was a cold spring morning, the morning fog still hung low on the ground and the small breeze was chilly.

Ginny shivered as the wind whipped at her skirt, she was so sick of wearing skirts, she couldn't think of one good thing about them. Besides the fact the white cloth wrapping around her leg stood out even more against the dark robes. She wrapped the cloak tighter around her as her and Luna went into The Three Broomsticks.

"Is your leg hurting?" Luna asked as Ginny winced as she sat down at one the tables. Ginny shrugged and made sure her cloak was covering her legs.

"Just the cold makes it sting." she said, Luna nodded and went to go get the drinks.

Ginny leaned back in her chair, watching people going about their business. She saw Harry, Hermione and Ron enter and they all waved at her with a smile, she smiled and waved back. When Luna came back Ginny took her hot chocolate gratefully and let it warm her fingers.

"Ginny, look." Luna whispered gesturing slightly to the counter. Ginny looked and saw the back of Malfoy's head, when he turned to leave she saw there were several scratches on his cheek and it was severely bruised. He had a large paper bag in his hand, which was also scratched up on the knuckles. He cast a glance at her and she looked down at her drink, wishing him to leave since it was taking all of her will to not throw her steaming drink in his face.

"I heard he got in a huge fight with Blaise Zambini." Luna said in a whisper. Ginny looked at her and shrugged.

"Why?" she asked curiously. Luna shrugged, her eyes twinkling like usual.

"I heard the Slytherins talking, they said he gave Zambini his broom collection and Zambini made some smart remark and Malfoy went mad. He tossed Zambini across the room and they got into a huge fight, they didn't even use their wands it was just fists. Neither of them got in trouble though, Snape didn't really do anything about it." Luna shrugged. Ginny nodded watching the whipped cream melt and turn the hot chocolate a lighter brown colour.

"I wish Zambini would have cracked Malfoy's skull open." Ginny said a little louder then she intended, she then noticed Draco leaving quickly, his posture rigid, the door slamming behind him.

"I think he heard you." Luna said. Ginny looked to the door and pulled a bit of hair behind her ear.

"I don't care." she replied, taking a large sip of her drink. Luna smirked and laughed a little.

"You idiot, yes you do. You knew there was a reason behind his little pact the entire time, and now you know. You knew there was something fishy about it but you still dove into it. Honestly did it really surprise you that much Ginny?"

"I don't know, the fact he thought he could make me fall in love with him is just so stupid. Who is honestly that egotistical? Its ridiculous! The bet itself didn't really surprise me." she confessed. Luna was giving her the most ridiculous look she had ever seen and it was making her angry.

"Ginny everyone knows, you most of all that Malfoy does what he wants, why would he take a bet that seriously. Did he really act like he was trying to make you fall for him the time you spent with him?" she asked. Ginny sighed and shook her head.

"I guess not." Ginny confessed. Luna laughed and shook her head. "What now?"

"Your so naive!" Luna laughed. "You said it was like you two were becoming friends, did you even think for a second that's why he went through with the bet? From what you've told me it doesn't sound like he has any friends at all."

Ginny sat in her chair, feeling more dense at every suggestion Luna had made since they had gotten there. She tried to prove to herself that Luna was wrong but it really wasn't working. Her eyes widened as she realized that the bet must have had something to do with Pansy.

"But his father is already arranging his wedding to Pansy!" she thought to herself. "And if that was all that Zambini was holding against him he could have ended the pact with me at any time after he got the letter. But he hadn't wanted to see me that day too." Ginny groaned and let her head fall onto the table. It turned out that it wouldn't be Malfoy, but Luna that made a fool out of her.

Ginny sighed settling into one of the large arm chairs in the Gryffindor Common Room, as close to the fire as she dared. She folded her legs under her, wincing slightly and pulling her homework out of her new bag. She glared at it, it was a ugly brown, worn sac that had belonged to her brother.

Opening her textbook she began to take her notes pledging herself not to get dragged down into the bore that was potions homework. The strange thing was one of the younger teachers was filling in for Snape for a while now and he seemed to have no idea what he was doing.

As much as Ginny detested Snape she was wondering where he was. Dumbledore hadn't really said much about why their potions teacher was gone but as par usual at Hogwarts rumors where running wild. Ginny's favourite had to be the one where he had finally met someone and he was off in the Bahamas on a romantic get away.

Trying not to laugh at the thought Ginny continued her homework quietly looking up briefly as the fire made a loud cracking noise but then returned her glance to her sheet of parchment trying to figure out the tricky formulas.